The Omaha morning bee., 1923-11-04
Bureau Opposes
Sale Of Shoals
State Secretary Of Farm Body
to Send Wire to Wash
ington Tonight.
Special Dispatch to The Omaha Bee.


Lincoln, Nov. sc. B. Steward
secretary of the Nebraska Farm
Bureau federation. following a con
ference last night with Chester A
Gray, member Of the legislative bu
reau of the national federation, will
tonight telegraph Secretary to the
President slemp that his organization
is unalterably opposed to further
division and sale of Muscle Shoals.
we want congress to decide what
shall become of Muscle Shoals" Mr..
Steward said this morning. and we
want no more sales such as the one
recently concluded with the Alabama
Power company. We will stand or
fall on congressional action"
The bureau is not opposed to the
Henry Ford purchase plan. because
his proposal calls for holding the ma
tural resources that the bureau feels
are the property of the people in the
name of the people.
The bureau further wants an inves-
tigation by an army engineer VINO
viii report what it will cost to mod
ernie the plant.
Advocate Four Measures.
The Nebraska federation will advo-
cate. at the coming session of con-
gress. four measures. Mr.. Stewart
said. and they Will be put before Sill
yer Gray. chief of the National bu.
reau's legislative board, by Chester
Gray, who is making a tour Of ths
various farm bureau federations to
learn their opinions on proposed leg.
islatiye enactments.
The first Will be a revision OF the
immigration law. The bureau feels
that under the present measure too
many aliens of an undesirable type
are being admitted and TO eliminate
this will propose that the figures
On which immigration quotas are
fixed be the census of 1890 and not
the census of 1910 as the present law
provides.
1T has been conclusively shown"
Mr. Steward declared. That the
Latin races are difficult Of assimila-
ton and we want the old Anglo-Sax.
On and Nordic stocks that originally
helped to build up this country.
Under the 1890 census We will get
that. as the great influx Of Latins
came after that time"
Issue ON Price Fixing.
The bureau takes sharp issues with
Minnesota senator on price fixing,
tie bureau being opposed on the
~.=fTI - limit
to what prices shall be fixed The
third measure. which Will not be
stressed by the bureau unless il hap
pens TO come before congress. Is that
OF crop insurance. The bureau feels
that legislative action IN this re-
spect is not so important as in 9TH
ers. bm should the measure be
brought up it will advocate the pay
ment Of claims on the replacement
value OF the property DESTROYED and
not on the Speculative value.
The National Farm Bureau fedora
ton. according TO Mr.. Steward, viii
demand a modification Of paragraph
IA Of the Esch-Cummins law. and
viii fight any attempt to repeal the
Canper-Tincher bill. the intermediate
credit bill and the federal warehouse
licensing bill.
The national bureau believes that
while the railroads are entitled to .
f-r return on their investment. as
provided in the Esch- -Cummins law.
the valuation on which the rates are
being made is too high by $1,000, ,ooo.-
coo.
Claim Valuation Too High
ut has been proved TO our satis-
faction" Mr.. Steward said. That the
nresent valuation of $4,000, ,ooo.eoo
is too high and we want il down IN
the neighborhood Of $4,000. 900. 600.
When that IS done we viii have rail-
road rates based on a fair valuation.
We further think that the railroads
have been evading the requirement In
the bin to turn over all profits over
per cent"
Discussing the Capper.Tfncher bill.
Mr. Steward said: There has been
an organized drive TO get this nnea-
sure off the statute books. 1t has
been said that the farmers are op-
posed to It and that may be true In
certain isolated instances since the
field men OF the grain exchanges
have won some adherents TO their
cause. However, the great mass or
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