New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1918, Page 5

FEBRUALRTY 22,1918 SATURDAY, NEW BRITAIN B LTIV VX CERAATR U RAILROAD MEASURE PASSES SENATE Administration Forces Win Every | Point Under Dispute Washington, Feb. —~With ad- ministration forces victorious on every contested point, the bill for government control of railroads passed the senate last night without roll call. Determined efforts to pre- scribe limitations beyond which the president or the director general might not go in managing the rail- rcads failed when senators of both partiex rallied strongly behind Sen- atos Smith of South Carolina, admin- istration spokesman on this measure. So generous was the senate that the president is to be* untrammeled b¥ any existing law that he deems will handicap or hinder effective govern- mental control and management of the transportation systems. By al vote of 46 to 25, the senate expressly provided that the president need not have any specific legal authority for his orders. And a moment later, by viva voce vote, it swept aside a pro- posal by Senator Smith of Georgia to require him to abide by all exist- ing laws regulating railroads. These two votes clearly afirmed the senate’s determination to give the administration the broadest possible powers. Time and again, during the spirited debate preceding the final vote, the majority expressed itself overwhelmingly in the same strain. In one important particular the bill was amended. Upon motion of Sena- tore Cummins of Towa every competi- tive skort line railroad in the country was brought within Federal control, whether Director General McAdoo has designated it or not. Senator Cum- mins was backed in his plea for the small roads by Senator Smith af South Carolina and many other proponents of the measure, even though the policy involved is the direct opposito of that announced by Director Gen- eral McAdoo as the one he intended 10 follow. When appearing before the Inter- state Commerce committee in hearings on the bill Director General McAdoo stated that he planned to include only thase short line railroads needed for government use. The others, he said, must be content to accept whatever business they managed to pick up, making whatever sacrifice was in- e MOTHER GRAY'S POWDE! BENEFIT MANY CHILDREN Thousands of mothers have found Mother Gray's Sweet Powders an excellent remedy for children complaining of headache, colds, feverishness, stomach troubles and bowel ir- regularities from which children suffer. They are easy and pleasant to take and excellent resuits are accomplished by their use. Used by mothers for 30 vears. Sold by Druggists Put Your Starting Battery Problem Up to Us We have the solution. ~ Ask us about our free ' testing service—it’s insurance against many battery volved cheerfully as their part to- ward winning the war. But this idea counter ran to the Sen- ate’'s view Senators Smith of South Carolina, Simmons, Cummins, and others held that the small roads were vital ta the prosperity of many dis- i tricts throughout the country They | run through small towns and cities, which depend on them to connect them with great trunk lines. A ser- fous hurt would be done the country by allowing the small roads to face insolvency through failure of the gov- | ernment to look after them. Senators Accordingly, the Cummins | insisted. e amendment adopted, 58 to 14. Several other efforts by Senator Cummins to amend the bill failed as decisively as his short line amendment succeeded. His effort to take from the president power of imitiating rates and passenger fares, subject to review { by the Interstate Commerce commis sion, was defcated, 45 to 24, An amendment to limit the return to be d to any railroad to a sum not oxceeding 5 per cent. on its capital stock lost, 46 to 19, and similar amendments placing the rate at 6 and 7 per cent. also were rejected. In the same manner Senator Cum- mins's provisian for a railway direc- torate of five to take control of the railroads the minute the war ends, and run them during the remainder of | the period of government control, Wns‘ rejected. | One other effort to take the rate- | the president | making control from and allow it to Temain in the hands of the Interstate Commerce commis- sion, as now, was made by Senator | Sterling of South Dakota. It failed. Senator Lodge lined up republican | senators in behalf of his amendment shortening the period of government | control after the war from eighteen months. The Lodge amendment lost, | 47 to 28. Immedidtely thereafter Fen- | ator King of Utah offered one fixing the perfod of one year. It was swamped. | Senator Kirby of Arkansas tried to | withhold from the president authority | to buy railroad securities, on the ground that unwise purchases might load the government treasury with the worthless securities of bankrupt rafl- roads. The senate agreed to trust the president’'s discretion and judgment in this matter by a vote of 58 to 11. ! GERARD OPERATED ON. | Former Ambassador Believed to Have Passed Crisis. New York, Feb. 23-—James W. Ger- | ard, ex-ambassador to Germany, was operated on last Tuesday for a chronic sinus disease, due to inflam- | mation in a cavity of the bone in the | frontal part of the head. This was made known yesterday at the Ritz- Carlton, where Mr. Gerard is now convalescent. For a day or two aft- er the operation there was consider- able anxiety as to his recovery, but it was said yesterday that the crisis had been passed and there was no danger of any further complications. Mr. Gerard bad a cavity of the type known as a sinus in the bone between | his right eye and nose, which had | given him trouble from time to time. The present difficulty, however, is be- lieved to be traceable to a cold caught while visiting prison camps in Ger- many. The inflammation contracted | at that time continued with varying degrees of intensity until another | cold, contracted recently, made it acute and led to the decision that an operation was necessary. The operation was performed on Tuesday by Dr. T.e M. Hurd of 15 East Forty-cighth street, and close care of the patient was necessary aft- erward. The possibility of serious consequences, however, did not ma- | terialize, and from yesterday on it | was said that the course of Mr. Gers | troubles. A. G. 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England, secretary to Mr. Kitchin who was driving the automobile, es- caped unhurt. The injured were taken to the Kitchin home where Mrs. Reilly has been staying as a guest of the Kitch- ins. Beyond saying that they wereo serious the extent of Mrs. Reilly injuries were not made known. Mrs, Kitchin is said to be suffering also | from nervous shock, but the bruises | sustained by Mr. Kitchin were re- | ported slight and he is expected to be ; out tomorrow. which they were riding was struck | | 1 WELLS—CANFTELD, ! . Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Canfield of 20 | McKinley street, Hartford, announce ! the engagement of their daughter, Miss Elsie Irene to Chester R. Wells of 72 Lincoln street, this city. No date | for the wedding has been set. Miss | Canfleld is a popular member of the | branch office of Traveler's Tnsurancel | | Co.’s staff. Mr. Wells is employed as a draftsman by the Pratt & Whitney Co. E SAILORS ARE HOME. Walter Andrus, with the Naval Re- | serve, is spending a short furlough at | his home on Warlock street. The H voung sailor has just returned from a trip to.England, where his boat was | laid up in dry dock for six weeks. Albert Wagner, son of Policeman | Fred Wagner, who has been home on | a lengthy furlough, will return to ac- | tive duty next Monday. He has bcon; | with the American destroyer flotilla in European waters. Hjalmar Malmfelat, with the Na- tional Army at Camp Devens where he is a candidate for a commission in the officers’ ining school, is spend- ing a short lough at lhis home on | Maple strect. [) | tor, who complained that tho nation age in the 'terlr; part of the country. \1"‘;{ ye‘al‘- THS | w falling far behind its schedule in | “Cordially you N rain be M Anflfl PR@MISES supplying the allied nations, ])ircctorl “W. G. McADOO. C‘fl]:l‘ch"’ 1i s General of Railroads McAdoo assert- | “Hon. Herbert Hoover, which i } cd that the railroads were not to | “Food Administrator.” O hstandll ARS Fi}R H“E]VFR blame. By inference, at least, he! The text of Mr. McAcoo's lr\ner":mr'm are st 4 placed the responsibilily upon pro- was transmitted to Mr. Hoover, who | 4o count ducers who were holding back their was out of town for te day. After a o . oaga e grains, and said he prepared to conference the Food Administratjon, | Beli meet any emergency. Mr. McAdoo's with the authorizaticn of Mr: Hoover, o elieves Poor Schedule Is Due to o5 Senas Wi WANTS: q . ! I While Mr. Hoover is out of town, | ! “You are, as I understand it, the ¢r Mr. McAdoo's statement very re- | EEE % sole purch in this country of food assuring, since it indic that fur- Washington, Teb. 23— Herbert C.!supplics for the allicd governments, ther cars will be furnished to West- crn terminals, and the shortage in Hoover, the food administrator, was You must, therefore, know the 10ca- gpivments from th Al s assured by the railroad administra- 'tion of the food supplies which You inals to Eastern territory will now be tion last night that all shipments of from time to timo purchase and the overcome. As the railway director- foodstuffs which he authorized would ate is evidently alive to the situation, it ‘will no doubt take all necessary ports in this country to which you de- | bo handled by tho railroads { sice such supplies shipped. If you : It is understood that Mr, Hoover is Will notify me from time to time of lier in the day Mr. McAdoo had |+ prepared to consult with officials of the location of the specific supPPlies < ;.4 this statemont: b the railroad adm ration and set and the port or ports in the United There has been now about two [ before them the very restrictions on Siates to which you wish to have such of moderately good weather, | o0 traffic which he feecls should be im- SuDplies transported, I wil] guarantee which an extraordinary effort | rjgh# posed to handle the situation. The the necessary transportation sudject yac bheon put forth by the railroads.! sl interchange of statements, it was felt alonc to interruptions from blizzardS ®or the weck ended Feb. 16 22,104, | minull generally, would result in closer co- . and floods 000 bushels of grain were received That operation and a solution of the many “T wish to re e the country by at Western primary markets, which problems of transportation and food saying that so far as transportation were the largest receipts for distribution involved. concerned there is no danger of week in two years, an 1mc e In a letter to the food administra- suffering from a sertous food short- week and per cent. over the previou Makers of the and Egyptian Grade Tarkish in the Werd RKISH CIGARETTE If they weren't GOOD— They wouldn't be good | enough for the Boys “Over | There.” : BT . "2 850