The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
Harrison Serves Notice Politics. Will Not Be
 Tolerated
TWO WEEKS GIVEN
 TO END HEARINGS
No Provision Made For Appearance Of Alabama
 Power Company
lWashinston Bureaul


 ing stage in the Muscle Shoals fight has been reached. Senator Pat Har- rison of Mississippi, leading for the Henry Ford offer before the Senate committee on agriculture, served notice today that if the committee indicated an intention to play politics. he would move for the discharge of the com mittee.
 The committee this afternoon adopted the resolution of Senator Harrison, as amended by Senator Harreld of Okla homa, providing that hearings on the various offers be closed Wednesday two weeks If practicable"
 The joker" in the Harreld amend ment is Eff practicable" To counter act the effect of the joker. Senator Harrison served notice that if the com mittee Wednesday two weeks did not close hearings, he would move before the committee that hearings be closed and that if the committee voted his motion down, he would move, before the Senate, that the committee be dis charged from further consideration of the problem, and that it be transferred to the floor.
 Those To Be Heard
 The Harrison resolution, as amended, provided that hearings should be accord ed those desiring to be heard as fol- lows:
 The Union Carbide company, Wednes- day and Thursday the E. H. Hooker company, Friday and Saturday; the conservationists, including Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Monday and Tuesday.
 The conservationists will appear in behalf of the bill of Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, providing for government ownership. Pinchot, it is anticipated, will compare the intention to lease Muscle Shoals to Ford with to Harry F. Sinclair and associates,
 The struggle before the committee today was on the amendment to the Harrison resolution offered by Senator Harreld. The friends of Ford voted against any hearing on the ground that hearings were Intended by ths enemies delay. The Herrcld amendmNnt, pro budb hEdElAkS WOutu sDC CAOSCO within one week if practicable, was adopted by a vote, of 8 to '. With the opposition voted Senator Ransdell of Louisiana, southern democrat, and Sen ator Capper of Kansas. editor of va rious farm journals which had printed many statements and editorials advocat- ing the Ford offer.
 Could Have Baked Delay
 Had these two stood firm with the friends of Ford, no hearings and no delay would have been possible. There is doubt as to their future conduct. Ford adherents contend that Ransdell and Capper will be back in the fold before the final vote is taken. Enemies of the Ford proposal contend that Rans- dell and Capper are permanently aligned with the Ford opposition.
 While the problematical attitude of the committee is of importance, Senator Underwood called attention tonight to the fact that the fight, after all. will necessarily come upon the floor of the Senate. There will be majority and minority report made by the committee, and, according to Senator Underwood, it will not be of transcendent impor- tance whether the Ford offer is in the ma jority or the minority report.
 Senator Harrison tonight declared that despite the ability of Senator liar reid to amend his resolution, the Ford proponents had made progress in that it was more or less definitely concluded that prolonged hearings would not be in order, and that no provision was made for the appearance of the Alabama Power company, the main obstacle in the way of the success of the Ford proposition. It is understood that J. W. Worthington, who represents Ford in Washington, in course of consul tation tonight with Senator Under wood, expressed satisfaction with the action. While it was not a cut and dried victory, he held. it is said, that the result was symptomatic of the effect of the farmers clamOr for the Ford offer