The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-06-01
DAUGHERTY AFTER
WAR PR0F|TEEf5
ATTORNEY GENERAL PROMISES
THEY WILL BE INDICTED
AND PROSECUTED.
BIG MEN" TO BE UNDER FIRE
Proceedings Against These Characters
VIII Have Considerable Effect on
the Legislation to Pay a Bonus to
Those Who Fought.
BY EDWARD 8. CLARK

Oh the passage OF Dill for an audi-
tional grand jury for the District of Co.
Iumbia cases which have been pre-
pared against alleged wartime prof.
tCers will be taken up for indictment
and for the prosecution OF tie IN
dicted.
For weeks charges were made free
~ that the Department OF Justice was
laggard in its attempts to get ut the
proiteers. The matter was taken up
in congress and direct charges against
the department were made by some
Republican representatives., and Of
course the Democrats have been max
ing Capitar out Of the controversy.
a promise of prosecution and n
statement of what has been done were
made by the attorney general in let
ter to the President. The direct word
is that some Of the big ones of earth
will be under the fire of the courts be-
fore much time has elapsed.
The fate Of the bill for bonus for
the former service men is perhaps In
some measure dependent upon what
happens 20 the protiteers or to the men
alleged to be such. Ii there had
been no profiteering during the war,
there probably would have been no
demand for Il bonus from veterans of
the World war The majority in the
senate today is trying to figure out
some means of providing what is
cuIlvalent TO n cash bonus and doing
If i'm such q way that If will receive
the Presidential sanction. If develop
mrnts nrove that men IN business life
most active in opposition to the bonus
nroGtnd largely M the eypepse of the
government during the war, it seems
likely that oupOsition to the cash pay
mcnfs 10 tbe veterans will melt away
like q snow on a southern slope under
spring sun.
Mo Politics in the Bonus.
OF course the fact that some men
nroftnerpd during the war. did" their
government out of money and en-
ricbed themselves nj the pypense of
the toynovcrs does not in itself form
an excuse fer the calling upon the tax
payers to pay more money, but it sup
n,ins the human reason for the de-
mond of the ey-seryice men that they
oet q bonus and if also supplies a rea-
SON WHY the men asking for the bonus
ret considerable sympathy from the
neople for their demand.
NIamhers of the lower house who
votad in favor of the bonus have told
vnir correspondent that they 60 not
hoIinve tbot vote for or against the
bonus will have any political effect
onn ,vov ar fine other These members
soid thew Thought men who voted
oooinst tbe measure will get as much
votino honeft NJ the polls from their
action rs would come to men who
v,ted FOR the measure.
ora oP those representatives has
told ma thot no was moved to vote
for fine bonus Inv the comparatively re-
cont oction Of certain great business
denominations of the country which
came out in hitter oDpositon to the
noyrc,t nf ANYTHING to the former
service men.
This man said that a study of the
personnel Of the business organiza-
lions showed him that a large number
of the memberships are held by men
uho rcaped financial hurvests from
the war, although he would not say
whether or not he thought all these
men actually were intentional prof
tacrs The representative ADDED that
opposition to the payment Of compara-
tlynIv small sums of money to the
men who served did not come with
ppod grace from men who did not
serve and who made large sums Of
money as o result of their business
activities during the war.
MANY Charges by Both Parties.
The prodteering charges have been
provocative of all kinds of charges
against individuals and corporations IN
priynte life and against officials of gov
arpmnnt Democrats and some Repub-
urons with them have charged that the
rroscnt administration has endeayored
through it's Department; Of Justice to
cover I'M some of the proiiteering
u,ny pannbljcans have declared, on
''''''' t.ln,. thot tbe Department of