The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-11
SIMILAR MEASURE WAS SPONSORED BY
 DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Announcement Received With Regret by Alabama Delega- tion-FoIloWed Heflin's
 Attack Upon Kahn
By HUGH ". ROBERTS

800 Davidson Building.
 Washington, March 10.-(SpeeiaL) Senator Norris of Nebraska, chair man of the Senate committee on az riculture, declared today in the Sen ate that he would introduce a bill providing for the operation of Muscle Shoals plants by a corpora ton to be organized and owned by the government.
 A similar bill was sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson administration. Senator Underwood, after brilliant fight. put it through the Senate. It perished in the House. If the Norris bill is sponsored by the Harding ad ministration. 1t will receive powerful backing. Even without the repubii- can support it would appear danger ous to the aspirations of Henry Ford. The announcement of Senator Nor ris was received with regret by Ala bama members of Congress who are ardent in their support of the Ford offer. It was their hope that Nor riS, the head of the agricultural com
  and an independent republican. would De persuaded by the chiefs of farm CTS organizations to advocate the F'crd offer That he is not inclined to support the Ford offer, is re- garded as serious handicap to those endeavoring to put the Ford offer into effect.
 Followed Hefiip Attack
 The announcement of Norris fol-
 
 lin of Alabama, against Chairman on military affairs. Alabamians in the House have, in recognition of the power of Kahn, endeavored to handle him with gloves. The attack of Sen ator Hefln may upset the plans of House Alabamians and array the chairman of the military committee actively against the Ford offer.
 Senator Heflin proceeded against the scheme of Kahn to refer the Muscle Shoals question to Secret sry Weeks. Mellon and Wallace. He charged that Kahn wss epdeaver;ra to delay action on the Ford ofses, and thus to defeat it. Indirectly he attacked the sincerity of the chair man of the committee. and intimated that he was moved through political and antagonistic considerations. The speech of Senator Heflin precipitated a warm debate.
 Ford's Profits
 Senator McNary of Oregon sug- gested that despite the excellence of the Ford proposition it would be folly for the Senate to proceed to ac- cept 1t before that offer or any other had received the attention of the agricultural committee. Incidentally, he spoke of the great profits which Ford in other enterprises had ac- quired. This prompted Senator Mo Kellar of Tennessee, to declare that at Muscle Shoals, Ford had bound himself to limit his profits to per cent. The Tennessee senator was referring of course, to Ford's agree ment respecting the production of fertilizer, and not to any other enter prises in which Ford might become engaged.
 Senator Heflin resuming the at tacks against Kahn, declared that he was opposed to the operation of Mus cle Shoals by the government. It was then that Senator Norris declared that he favored such operation, and to cap the climax, added that he would later introduce bill provid- ing for such operation.
 Tn the House. the sole development was the testimony of Colonel Joyce before the military committee re- specting the methods followed by the government in entering into con tracts with the Alabama Power com pany, and the Air Nitrates corpora tion. The testimony was a repeti- tion of what had proceeded.