Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1922-09-06

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IA good crowd and given most re-
spectacle hearing The people OF theI
country are at this time searching for
informant and want to hear all sides
discussed in q plain and sensible way, !,
without calling anyone such pet names
as "Freelovers, Socialists, Bolshevists,
radicals, and pro- Germans becauseI
we, have never had any one Of those
people in Clay county Country Press.
Mr.. Steenerson's Reply
III August %, 1922.
s. p. Bergh, Secretary, B.s
Minnesota Sound Government Assn,
Halstad, Minnesota.
Dear Mr.. Bergh: Il rs
Replying to your favor, with clip
ping from the Norman County Post
and credited to the Country. Press, 1
would say the article in question is
mostly false. The charge that Kellogg
passage Of the Federal Reserve Act is
without the slightest foundation. The
act was approved December g., 1913,
till November of 1916. Mr.. STEVENSON
the following extracts from the Con-
gressional Record: ... @: z....*.
{ 1st., Motion to make the bill, en-
titled "a Bill ito provide for the es-
adjustment for Federal Reserve
Banks, for, furnishing an elastic cur:
rency, affording means Of re-discount-
ing commercial paper and to establish
a more effective supervision of bank
ing in the United States and for other
purposes" privileged and to limit de-
I bate thereon agreed to in the House
(pp. 1888, ,4641, Vol. SO Cong. Record,
September 10, 1879. Mr.. Stevenson
voted NO. s:sr~-.zss = .s@2-
2nd On the passage of the bill in
the House opp. 500, 5127, 1920, Vol.
SO, Cong. Record, September IS, 1922.
Mr.. STEVENSON voted NO. - e..4 {
3rd. On agreeing to the conference,
report on the bill in the House Opp.
1854, Vol. 81, Cong. Record, December
j22, 1922 Mr.. STEVENSON voted NO.
On these same questions Mr.. Lind
bergh voted against the motion to
make the bill privileged and to limit
debate. On the passage of the bill,
las amended, in the House, Mr.. Lind
bergh voted YES. On agreeing to the
! conference report he voted NO. His
votes appear in the Congressional Rec
ord on the same pages indicated above.
Mr.. Lindbergh certainly owes me and
Senator Kellogg an apology g.. if the
above newspaper report Of his speech
! is true. - g, ....,. H., .s>.S y So ii
/ The Esch- Cummins Bill which is
now the law is revision of the Fed
eral railroad law passed during the
/ last thirty years, under which the in
i terstate railroads have been regulated
so as to insure fair and reasonable
rates and prevent discrimination be-
tween persons and places. Surely nc
sane person desires that whole act re
pealed. The valuation of the railroads
! was made by the Government itself
and this 100000, 900 story is%a fake
!; The labor provisions have been OBJ
jected to by some labor organizations
and by those now trying to tie up al
railway traffic by strike. 1t wa!
to prevent such thing as the stop
page of railway transportation by rea
son Of labor troubles that that section
was adopted. The purpose was goot
. and in the interest of the public, in
Guiding the farmers and the laborer
,, themselves. If it is not effective i
should be made so by amendment
: Surely some way should be found t
! remove the danger to which our peopl
are now subject of being frozen an,
, starved to death because of labor dis
+ putes on the railroads and resulting
strikes. Railway transportation is
special and public service upon whic]
! life and civilization depend, and tn
), time has come when it must be S
recognized. :. Yours very truly
Il 81 2 a.SsaG &: H.fsSteenersoI