Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1930-04-11

kNOLLOWlNG several hours of dis
cussion, the house by a vote of 421
to 1853 approved of a special rule to
send the tariff bill to conference. The
rule made no mention of the verbal
understanding that before final action
is taken by the conferees separate
votes will be asked in the house on
sugar, cement, lumber and shingles.
The conferees appointed by Vice
President Curtis and Speaker Long
worth were the ranking members of
the senate committee and of the
house ways and means committee.
They include none of the so-called
radicals.
G ENATOR NORRIS Of Nebraska.
~ sponsor of the pending resolution
for government operation of the Mus
Gle Shoals project, in a speech in the
senate demanded that the American
Farm Bureau federation repud;ate
Chester Gray, its Washington lobby
list, asserting that Gray had been ex-
posed by the lobby investigating COM
mittee as a traitor to the farmers
cause. The Nebraska senator re-
viewed Gray's cooperation with the
Tennessee River Improvement asso-
citation, lobby in behalf Of the cyanam-
ide bid for Muscle Shoals formerly
headed by c. 81. Huston, now Repub-
lican national committee chairman.
CONGRESSMAN SMELLS resolu-
~ tion calling for the appointment
of a joint congressional and executive
commission to study the question of
giving the President power to draft
man power and capital in event of
war was passed by the house without
record vote.
Approval of the measure after five
hours of acrimonious debate was fea-
tured by signal victory for labor
interests opposed to the conscripting
of workingmen for industrial pur-
poses in wartime. In its original form
the Smell measure provided for a
study of labor CONSUMPTION as well as
the drafting of industry and man
power in event of war. So much op-
position developed to the labor phase
of the inquiry that an amendment was
finally adopted STIMULATING that the
commission should not consider and
should not report upon the ACCESSIBILITY
of conscripting labor"
nVER production of wheat in the
~ Northwest may be checked if the
farmers take kindly to the plan put
forward by Chairman Legge of the
farm board at the suggestion Of DR..
J. L. Coulter, chief economist of the
tariff commission. The plan is for
the farmers to exchange part of their
seed wheat to the farm board for flax,
barley, rye and oats for planting this
year. Coulter, loaned to the farm
board, started on a two weeks tour
of the wheat belt to try to put the
scheme into effect. He hopes to cut
the wheat acreage in Minnesota and
the Dakotas by two million acres.
1t is forecast by the Millers' Ma
tional federation that the United
States carry-over of the present crop
into the new crop year on July / will
be close to that of year ago. The
carry-over this year is estimated at
243, 100000 bushels, compared to 245,-
100000 bushels on hand last July /,
the forecast states.
WHATEVER else comes out of the
w London naval conference, there
is to be three-power limitation
agreement. 1t was officially announced
at American delegation headquarters
Thursday that the American, British
and Japanese were in complete accord.
The Americans and British, at a
meeting with the Japanese at st.
James palace, indicated acceptance of
the Japanese reservations. The only
points to be settled are details relat-
ing to Japanese reservations on the
scrapping and replacing of ships in
order to keep their dockyards work
ing. 1t was said there would be no
factor of difficulty in any of the Jap
anese reservations, The Reed-Mat-
sudaira formula had previously been
accepted by the Japanese government
with four reservations which were
considered merely technical.
With this highly encouraging basis
to go on, the delegates went ahead