The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02
HOUSE ACTION TO
 ADJOURN SCORED
 BY SENATOR NORRIS
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 Norris. republican, Nebraska, for concurring in the House amendment to the army bill delaying until Oc- tober 1 next, beginning of new work on the Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals. In a brief speech he reminded the Senate that It's original proposal would have permitted 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 obtaining employment.
 The senate's original proposals, Senator Norris assorted also would have saved "a couple or more mil lion dollars for the tax payers" as we'll as preventing the great ferti- lizer trust from "hammering down for another year the Alabama far mers and continuing during that time the "domination over the down trodden farmers of America"
 Yields to Propaganda
 The Nebraska senator attributed the Senates action in yielding to the House to Q great propaganda" that carried 1t off its feet" and said 1t yielded because of combination of men who were afraid" Henry Ford's offer might be lost and be- cause of linen who did not want anything done. The Senate TO-, call. he said, showed the former group was "assisted by every millionaire in the Senate"
 .This is July l." Senator Norris continued. Tt is the day when, hnd it not been for the postponoment of tho preparation which was made by the Senate for the continuation of the work at Muscle Shoals, thou sand or more men who are now idle would have been put to work down in Alabama. I want to say just word to the people of Alabama.
 "I hope they will remember that those who were giving close at tention in tho Senate to the Muscle Shoals proposition and that the Senate when 1t passed tho appropri- ation of S7.500,000 would have start ed that great work today but that because of the great propaganda, which influenced tho honest and con scientious representatives from the great state of Alabama and some from great state of Michigan where an interested millionaire lives, those men are not working today. The Tennessee river Is low. The water of the stream is down 80 that they could do very effective and economi- cal work.
 Postpones Work
 The effect of the great propaganda that even carried the Senate off It's feet was to postpone that great work for a year and I want the far mers of Alabama, bowed down to the earth with the burdens of the ferti- lizer trust to know that through the efforts of their representatives In Congress that great fertilizer trusts have been given another year Of life to continue to hammer them down to the earth with toll and labor.
 "The Senate passed an amendment which would have put thousand men to work this morning at Muscle Shoals. They are Idle because in the interest of Mir. Ford-altheugh he may not be a ptroy to 1t at all. do not know and not state that that an appropriatioa was postponed until the river will be high when they cannot do economical work. As we here all know while postponement was only to October in effect 1t means a year more of domination of the fertilizer trust over the down trodden farmers of America and I only wanted the people of Alabama and of all tho southern states which Joined in their great fight which postponed this work to know who did It. e9
 Look At Roll Call
 'T wish they would look at the roll call when 1t came back to the Senate. do not question the motive Of any man, either In this body or the other because they were carried off their feet, they lost their judg- ment, but I wish the people of Ala bama, Mississippi, Georgia and the south and east would look over the roll call and see what the roll call means.
 T have it In my hand and while I am not an expert of the financial standing of the various members of this body; as nearly as am able to determine 1 feel that the action Of the House was confirmed here by a commission of men who were afraid 1t might be lost if we did not con- firm and by men who did not want anything done and while 1t was being done ostensibly from tho beginning In the interest of a great millionaire. 1t came to the Senate those who were frightened for fear they might lose it were assisted by every millionaire in the Senate who voted at all to give this great fertilizer trust anoth- CT year of life.
 T hope therefore that the people of Alabama in particular and of the balance of the country in general will look over that roll call and see how 1t Is that millionaires come to each others relief. sometimes in the name of the farmer, sometimes in the name of the downtrodden laborer.
 Remember, the laborers are idle in the south today because of that combination and that great work is postponed for year which means couple of more of millions of dol lars for the taxpayers of America to take upon their shoulders. no mat ter who gets 1t to carry on that great