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Rankin Reps
Record of Murroy
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AOOtltAiiLtQ lloiil dye L
gressional investigation shows that
73 per cent of RuSsia's rubber is
synthetic as also is most of Ger
manyS. Synthetic rubber has been
produced in Germany since 1880
and in Russia since 1915.
Poland with an area of about the
size of Montana had 1000 plants
making alcohol from potatoes for
rubber prior to the war. The COM
mittee found that coal, agricultural
products and petroleum products
lcan be used to make rubber. Mon
tana produces all of the necessary
ingredients, he said. AT the pres
ent time. we should have a great
many plants making alcohol for
rubber production.
"Inasmuch as Senator Murray
signed on the dotted line when he
/ filed his petition for nomination
with the secretary of state pledg-
ing unflinching support of all New
Deal policies of President Roose-
Welt he should have been able to
get war industries for Montana or
at least see that the state was treat
ed the same as others similarly sit
uated, Mr. Rankin said.
The Small Business Man
In mentioning the Murray Pat
man small business bill. he quoted
Senator Murray as saying on the
floor of the Senate on April |, 1912.
The object of the bill is not to
reduce casualties in small business.
it is not intended as relief for
small business, the object is to uti-
lie the small plants of the country
lin war production And again, be-
fore the banking and currency com
mittee of the House, April g. 1912.
4 he stated that his bill is not de-
signed to aid small retail or whole
sale merchants and concerns of that
kind and if that was necessary it
would have to be done by some
other legislation.
The New Republic, an administra-
ton paper, Mr.. Rankin said, on Sep
TENDER IA, 1912, said the small
business man is as much entitled to
help and relief as anybody else in
the community, yet he is not get
ting it. 1t further stated that the
small business committee of the
Senate, headed by Senator Murray
of Montana, has accomplished moth
II ing that has been discovered and If
Senator Murray does not intend to
hire able men to help run the COM
mittee and do good job, he should
step aside and let somebody else
have try, the speaker read from
the aforementioned article.
Murray Votes for Pensions for
Senators
He called attention to the fact
that Senator Murray voted for pen
sions for senator's but voted against
the amendment proposed by Sena-
tor Byrd of Virginia to require
elective officers to contribute 5 pei
cent Of the salaries for five years
preceding their retirement. The
Congressional Record shows that
Senator Murray was present for de-
bate on the Senate floor, January
l6, 1912, and can not plead ignor-
ance of the provision of the bill as
it was fully debated in the Senate
at that time, Mr.. Rankin said
/ Thus it was evident that Senator
Murray was in favor of pensions
for senators but did not think they
should be required to pay into the
retirement fund per cent of their
salaries for the five years preced-
ing their retirement said Mr.. Ran
kin.
Mr. Rankin closed with express
ing his firm conviction that the
Allied Nations will most assuredly
win this war He said America
would win because American boys
had already shown they were made
of the same blood and iron as their
forefathers who founded this ma
ton. And furthermore. said Mr.
Rankin, there is a supreme law OF
the universe that forever makes
impossible the ultimate victory Of
evil