The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 23, 1916, Page 8

The Leader’s Washington Bureau, 302 Riggs Building, Washington, D. C. ASHINGTON, March 20.— We heard on Monday the first guns in the big fight between Privil- ege and the Farmers over the Hollis rural credit bill, and the sound was not in all respects reassuring. There was a sharp skirmish in the senate over the matter that revealed clearly what influences are behind this vicious measure and the kind of means they are willing to use to put it over. The thing came up- when Senator Meyers -wanted to have his water. power bill taken up by the senate. All of a sudden, the most reactionary members of the senate, led by Senator Underwood of Alabama, made a move to have the Hollis bill rushed to the front with the evident idea of passing it quickly. Senator Underwood, known also_as “Smooth Oscar,” is closer to Wall street than any other man in the sen- ate, so you can see what this meant. McCumber met the move with. a quick protest in which he referred to the American Society of Equity and Grant S. Youmans, its representa- tive. L HOLLIS MAKES ATTACK ON GRANT YOUMANS. This brought out Senator Hollis, the sponsor for the bill, and in about three minutes it was plain where we were at. Hollis made a dirty attack on Youmans, insinuating first that he was not accredited by the Society of Equity and represented only himself. McCumber instantly disproved this. Hollis then shifted his ground and at- tacked Mr. Youmans’ argument against the bill, denouncing it as a fraud. I want to show you the kind of tac- tics that Wall street employs, so that there need be no misunderstanding as to the nature of this fight. Mr. You- mans’ argument had been prepared with the expectation that it would be delivered before the house committee on currency and bankmg It was a ‘reasonable expectation, for Mr. You- mans had every right to be heard there. ‘When the time came, however, the committee, through 1ts chairman, Glass of Virginia, whe is one of the biggest reactionaries in Congress, as- tonished everybody by arbitrarily re- fusing to allow Mr. Youmans to be heard. This was not only a gross and wanton discourtesy, but it violated all precedent. GLASS DENOUNCES YOUMAKS . BECAUSE OF PRINTING ERROR. When the argument was printed it ; still bore the statement that it had been delivered before the committe. Those in charge intended to correct this to read that it had been handed to the committee, but by an-error the change in the wording was not made. It was a perfectly innocent oversight and of no consequence, since the ar- gument was as sound no matter whe- _.ther it was delivered or handed in. But now observe. Hollis came to the senate armed with a letter from Chairman_Glass, the reactionary, de- nouncing Youmans, and read this let- ter with a great flourish:to the senate. G“%%?u:”?“ g the Y b meaning e oumans argu- ment) is a barefaced fraud. This man never delivered a speech before the banking and currency committee of the house. He has never appeared before the committee. Mr. Youmans on Saturday, I believe, left with me a typewritten criticism, ratheri rude and largely ignorant, of house bill 6838, (meaning the Hollis fraud) now bemg perfected, which seems to be to some extent, a reproduction of an an- onymous pamphlet recently issued. That is all there is to this alleged ; ‘speech’ before the house banking and currency committee.” ] In other words, not being able to refute Mr. Youmans’ powerful attack on the bill, Privilege resorted to' its usual vile trick of trying to discredit the man that opposesit. GLASS OPPOSED TO ALL FARM CREDIT PLANS. Since it is well known in Washing- ton that Glass is opposed to all gen- uine’ rural credit legislation, and that the majority of the committee, whom he controls, privately regard the whole = subject as a '‘good I_ioke, you can see what' this move by Hollis really meant. As a matter o , "Mr. Youmans never pretended that he had made any. speech before the committee, the ~word “speech’” appearing on his docu- ment by the error I have explained.. Technically it is true that in person he did not request-to be heard, but no one knew: better than Glass that such a request had been made for hxm ; rlvwlege‘ Starts Flght for HO“IS By WILLIS J.. RUTLEDGE Special Representative of the Leader at Washing'ton - by Mr. Farrer, Senator McCumber’s secretary, and had been refused.. The committee even refused to Mr. You- mans the. courtesy of . printing his statement so that it could be read by the committee members and it was only by resorting to the extraordin- ary procedure of having it printed as a senate document that it could be brought to the attention of con- gress. This indicates plainly enough what are the influences back of this bill and what we may expect them to re- sort to. Senator McCumber replied to Hollis and beat him to pieces. He told the story exactly as it happened and left not a doubt of the animus of the dirty tactics that had been attempted. ' As . to Chairman Glass, McCumber said: “If the gentleman whose letter has just been read had given half as much attention to the requests that were made for hearings and to the men that I sent to him with such a request, Mr, Youmans might have had a hear- ing.” . The Youmans statement is a gov- ernment publication and known as senate document 349. Copies are now ready for distribution by this bureau. SOFT JOB FOR HOLLIS TO BE HIS REWARD. It is currently reported in Wash- ington that Hollis’ reward for his ef- forts to put across this disreputable bill is to be a place as one of the com- missioners that the bill creates. He is a Democrat from New Hampshire and was elected as an accident that could not happen again in twenty years. As he has no chance of coming back to the senate he will be a “lame duck” looking for a job and there will be no job in the world softer than this. Sa- lary $10,000 a year and nothing to do but sign his own pay check. TOO MUCH FOR SOME; TOO LITTLE FOR OTHERS. The agricultural appropriation bill, now beforé the house, carries a total of $24,501,093, which is little enough consxdermg the work the department has in hand. It appropriates $2,500,000 for the eradication of the foot.-and-mouth dis- do don't h;vo travel Get M Prlce—FlRST Freight Prepald—sn Days’ Free Trial N Iwant eoqnotonmumoomtmu cause you to it ease, $40,000 for demonstrations of re- clamation projects, $105,000 for the prosecution of the war on destructive insects, (an amount far too small) and $75,000 for the work of the fed- eral horticultural board. =Other items’ of interest are $541,960 for the work of the office of markets and rural or- ganization, $599,820 for the work of the office of pui)hc roads and rural engineering, and $316,436 for the work of the bureau of crop estimates. 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