Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-04
SHOALS DELAY LAID
TOMONEY INTERESTS

Norris, Republican, Nebraska, for
concurring in the house amendment
to the army bill delaying until DC.
tober 1, next, beginning Of new
work on the Wilson dam, at Mus.
| Gle Shoals, Ala. In a brief speech,
he reminded the senate that its
original proposal would have per-
n1itted 1000 or more men to have
begun work today, and declared its
confirmation of the house action
meant another years delay Of work
on the project and prevention of
| idle laborers in the south from OBJ
tanning employment.
| The senates original proposal,
Senator Norris asserted, also would
have saved couple or more mil
lion dollars for the taxpayers" as
well as preventing the ''great fer
tilizer trust from "hammering
| down for another year" the Ala
hama farmers and continuing dur
ing that time the dominating over
the down-trodden farmers of Amer
ica."
| The Nebraska senator attributed
the senate's action in yielding to the
house to great propaganda that
carried it off it's feet" and said it
yielded because of a combination OF
men who were afraid Henry Ford's
| offer might be lost and because OF
men who did not want anything
DONE" The senate roll call, he said
showed the former group was "as
sisted by every millionaire in the
| senate"
"This is the first of July" Sena
| tor Norris continued. cit is the day
when, had it not been for the post
ponement. of the proposition which
was made by the senate for the con
tinuation of the work at Muscle
| Shoals, a thousand or more mer
who are NOW idle would have been
put to work down in Alabama.
want to say just a word to the PEG
pie of Alabama:
81 hope they will remember thai
| those who were giving close atten
| ton in the senate to the Muscle
| Shoals proposition and that the sen
ate when it passed the appropriation
Of 100000 would have started thai
great work today but that because
| of the great propaganda which IT.
| f1uenced the honest and conSclen
| tious from the great state of Ala
bama and some from the great state
of Michigan where an interested
millionaire lives, these men are moi
working today. The Tennessee river
| is low. The water of the stream is
down so that they could do very eff
fective and economical work.
Propaganda Caused Delay
"The effect of the great propa
ganda that even carried the sen
ate off it's feet was to postpone thai
great work for a year and l want
the farmers of Alabama, bowed
down TO the earth with the burdens
of the fertilizer trust, to know thai
| through the efforts of their repre-
sentatives in congress that great
fertilizer trust has been given an
other year of life to continue t
hammer them down to the cart:
with toll and labor.
""The senate passed an amendment
! which would have put a thousand
men to work this morning at Muscle
Shoals. They are idle because ii
the interest of Mr.. Ford-althougl
do not know and do not state that
that appropriation was postponed
until the river will be high Wher
they cannot do economical work. Al
we here all know while pOstponemen
was only to October, in effect i
makes a year more of domination o.
the fertilizer trust over the down
trolden farmers of America and
only wanted the people of Alabama
and of all the southern states which
joined in their great fight which
postponed this work to know who die
it.
"I wish they would look at the
roll call when it came back to tn;
senate. l do not question the motive
Of any man, either in this body o.
the other because they were carried
off their feet, they lost their judg
ment, but I wish the people of Ala
hama, Mississippi, CT Georgia ant
the south and east would look owe,
the roll calls and see what that roI
call means.
BIames Millionaires
"I have it in my hand and Will,
I am not an expert of the financia
standing of the various members O.
this body, as nearly as 1 am able tt
deter mine I feel that the action O.
the house was confirmed here by {
| combination of men who were afraiC
it might be lost if we did not con
firm, and by men who did not wan
anything done, and while it was be
ing done ostensibly from the begin
ming in the interest of a great mil
lionaire, when it came to the senate
those who were frightened for feal
they might lose it were assisted By
every millionaire in the senate whC
voted at all to give this great ferti
lizer trust another year Of life.
IT hope, therefore, that the PEG
pie of Alabama in particular, and O.
the balance of the southern terri
tory in general, will look over tina
roll-call and see how it is that mil
lionaires come to each others re
lief, sometimes in the name of the
farmer, sometimes in the name o.
the doWn-trodden laborer.
Remember, the laborers arr
idle in the South today because o.
that combination and that grea
work is postponed for a year which
means a couple Of more millions o.
dollars for the taxpayers of Amer
lea to take upon their shoulders, NJ
matter who gets it, to carry on tina
great work"
Mistriial in Bombing
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