The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 11, 1916, Page 8

W The Leader’s Washington Bureau ; 802 Riggs Building ‘Washington, May 9.—For still an- other week the senate has been wind- jamming over the. good roads bill.and the Hollis rural credit fraud, time being about equally divided between these measures. It may not be generally known what a debate in the senate of the United States in these days is like, so I will give a sample. 5k noon, heard the chaplain offer prayer, i went through some short ‘routine business and plunged into the good roads bill, which, it must be remem- i bered, has now been under debate for Bt a month. Senator Pomerene offered an amendment providing that the road projects to which the United States treasury is to contribute funds shall be of a “permanent” character. This was enough. The next minute they were all off. Senator Bankhead attacked that word “permanent” and made it look pretty sick. He said that nothing in the world was “per- manent” or could be. .Even moun- tains are not permanent. Such a word ought not to be used. Senator Pomerene said it was a ver‘i' good word. Senator Bankhead said it wasn’t. Senator Pomerene said it was. Senator Bankhead said it wasn’t. ; Then Senator Bankhead said that the correct word to use was: “good.” Senator Shafroth said “good” was a & bum word in this connection. Sen- ator Bankhead said it wasn’t. Sen- ator Vardaman suggested the word o . “durable.” Senator. Pomerene scout- ed the word. Senator -Gallinger sug- gested the word “substantial.” Sen- ator Pomerene said “substantial” was a better word than “good” but not so good a word as “permanent.” Sen- ator Swanson said they were all bum words, .and the language of the bill ‘ought to be allowed to stay as it was, % A MIGHTY DEBATE i 0 "ENDS IN A DRAW . At this-stage of. the engagement, Senator Gallinger -brought up his big -guns in the shape‘of a dictionary and ‘read to the senate a definition of the word “substantial.” But Senator Pomerene wheeled up his own battery : of howitzers in the shape of two dic- g R tionaries from which he read defini- B tions of the word “permanent” and showed that it was one of the grand- est words in the language. At this point the hour of 2 o’clock arived, the bill was laid aside for the day and the “National Debating club” began to consider something else. Sone senators are very fond of sending to their rural constituents copies of speeches in which they josh the farmers with a lot of fat, juicy : phrases. The senators that engaged 2 -in this mighty debate ought to send v around pages of this day’s Record to show how nobly they battled for one hour and forty minutes for a correct definition of “permanent.” - T .. were consumed in splitting hairs over the constitutionality of one phrase, Senator Cummins of Iowa making i H H heard in the senate or anywhere else. When he finally droned to an end, make much difference whether the bill was constitutional or not, since it would . never ‘work, anyway. Which was the only reasonable remark made by anybody in the entire-debate. Numerous substitutes for this dis- honest and -worthless measure were offered as it was being dragooned through, and any one of them would have been vastly better than the Hol- lis-Wall street scheme, but every one was thrown out unconsidered, - SIMPLE REMEDY GIVEN NO SHOW They would work and would take the farmer out of the clutches of Wall street and the loan sharks. There- fore not-one of them had a ghost of a show. ' - - ; One of the sane, simple and easily workable substitutes was -offered by Senator - Norris. ‘It would put into practice the perfectly working system in all the states of Australia and in incalculable benefit to farmers; there, It sought to create "a i national bureau of farm loans, which would bring together men that have money to lend on first class security - and i were to.be made at 4 per cent on first PAGE EIGHT -were to be issued to provide On Monday the senate assembled at - ““who_ violated his #pl The rural credits debate was as : sickening, if less childish. - Two days : one of the dreariest arguments ever . Senator Clapp said it didn’t seem to . ! * instance. that has been tested so many years New Zealand and has been of such farmers that want to borrow. Loans - ‘mortgage on cultivated land payable | Trivial Debates' Senate Makes Great Fuss Ovef afiWord, Gore Grading Bill is Favored by Millers to the bureau and the machifi_ery' of; the post office department and the de- . partment of justice would be used to. examine and verify . the security. Government bonds at 3% per cent e funds to be lent. s No objections was urged to such a plan and none could be as a matter of fact, but it went down with.the rest. Senator McCumber’s = excellent sub- stitute, described in’ this correspond- ence last week; was rejected also. _Senator. Gronna made an earnest. ef- fort to amend the bill so as to give the farmer somé show- of a chance un- der it, but his sane and temperate suggestions were defeated and the bill finally passed. . It is one of the biggest swindles on record. * £ LEVER WAREHOUSE BILL PASSES HOUSE The passage by the house of the agricultural appropriation bill with the Lever warehouse bill attached as a rider is one of the important events of the week and of the session. The Lever bill has been fully de- scribed in this correspondence. If it shall be enforced and carried out it is likely to have far reaching effects on the grain business. Grave. doubts are entertained as to whether it will ever Repudiate be carried out in accordance with its design. ; GRONNA OPPOSES -~ 1 GORE GRADING BILL Senator Gronna this week an- nounced his opposition to the Gore. grain grading bill, which is now be- fore the senate. He fears that when the - agricultural “appropriation bill .comes along, the senate may strike out the Lever warehouse feature and substitute this Gore bill, which he re- gards as a grave blunder. S “I have served notice on Senator Gore that I will oppose his bill,” said Gronna. “It is not a federal inspec- tion and grading bill, but a federal supervision bill—that is, it authorizes - private grading and then places fed- eral inspectors on the job to see that the farmers comply with the grades thus fixed. These grades will be fixed by the milling interests. It is note- worthy that all the millers .in the country Gore bill. “In effect, by providing for govern- ment supervision, the Gore bill be- comes a pure food measure with a penalty for misbranding. It might be physically impossible for farmers to comply with the terms of the bill. For instance, volunteer rye often grows among wheat.” The rye, of course, is Quanbeck _ bill carries $75,000 for the treatment League Members of Seventeenth District Indorse Frederickson for the L The membership ' and-delegates - of- the Nonpartisan League .in Nelson ‘county, the seventeenth'. legislative district, have taken :prompt: achi the case of H. T. Quanbéck; ind by the League for tllzgk out in the gang -néwspap the fgrmérs’ organization; B Members of the Nelson district con- vention of the League called a special meeting and invited Mr. Quanbeck to be present. They read to him his purported statement in the Fargo Courier-News, in which he came out against the methods of the League, and asked him if he had made that . statement. He acknowledged he had, was given opportunity to vetract, re- fused the opportunity and was promptly denounced by the farmers, who named Lars Frederickson of Pe- kin to make the race for the legisla- ture in his place. Mr. Frederickson was second in the vote of the-district convention for the League indorsement at-the time Mr. Quanbeck got the indorsement. QUANBECK HARD PRESSED When called to face the farmers he had betrayed Mr. Quanbeck found ° himself in an embarrassing position. He was asked to show a single in- stance of: where ‘the League or its officers had broken a promise made to the membership and could ‘give ‘no " He was asked to prove his assertion that the League officers had attempted to dictate any indorsements and failed to do so. While being hard-pressed by the League members for reasons for his lending his aid as one farmer present . put it, “to papers that are the avowed -enemy of decent government and of the farmers of North. Dakota,” Mr. Quanbeck turned the discussion to the Leader. He said the Leader had been unfair when it answered in its columns:: a letter from 'a farmer asking who was responsible’ for the new personal property schedule. ““He said the Lead- re had said that the board. of equaliz- - -ation was responsible and had named iall: the meémbers of the board ‘“except Tom Hall, secretary of state.” He said Tom Hall: should -have 'been nam-' - ed by the Leadér as a member of the . board responsible for the unjust tax- . ing plan‘ and that in not doing so the Lem}' er was attempfing to protect un- .: fairly ‘one of the. Mr. Hall having the indorsement: of the League for reelection, . WHY HALL WAS MISSED ‘ot being, certain of the member- - ship of ‘the board of-equalization’ the League ~members present did 'not “call’”. Mr. Quanbeck on this state- ment. The truth is Mt.Mr.;%g‘lll i8 e’s candidates, not a member of the state board of L egislature nd" ha ut-is utterly unfamiliar: with the inery: of ‘government ~at Bis- marck, if his general knowledge of affairs is as faulty as his assumption that Mr. Hall is a member of the board of equalization. R Boiled down Mr.: Quanbeck’s objec- tion to the League as brought out at this meeting was simply that he did- not like the method of choosing. state :'delegates, who indorsed men for state office. It was pointed out to him that d’hundred different ways of choosing delegates to a state convention could .- have been employed, any one of which might have been as fair as the on selécted. The “members - present in- sisted was. fair, that their convention was fair' and that no influence whatever:. was brought-to bear on the delegates who-made the indorsements.. ARCHITECT A FIRE PROOF STORAGE ‘716 First Avenue :O...09,.0...’..0.,,2.0;0Q.l0...f"/ ?o"poo§oq0o0969: 3 . Fargo's Only Modern F’qéfidbf Hotel = i POWERS HOTEL : '$ Hot and Cold Running Water and Telephone in Every Room & " Representative Henry. T. Helgesen . Jlast: week appealed to- Secretary of ° are urging the passage of the . the - use this year, that the’selection of delegates . FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA - o:'oooooooo.ooooooq.oo.....“gro’o'opnoo_og'o‘oooqqp._....‘.:.'.,.c..'... EXPERT AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING .. THE LEAGUE USES _ SCHAS GARAGE Dealers in: O % : CHEVROLET CARS : S ' Badas : Yoyr pgtronage is solicited on the basis of fair dealing and prompt service. § ~ FIRST CLASS.GAFETERIA IN CONNECTION. * On Broadway, One Block South of ‘Great Northern Depot. gathered and threshed right in with the wheat.. Thus a farmer, selling such wheat as such-and-such a grade, - might be in. danger: of the penitenti-- y ground that he sold mixed wheat, although he did so innocently. - Wheat containing foreign ~seeds.or gther mPurmss cotulg be sold gfilly' 3 v sample: ‘and not by: grade, -5 Gore bifi, is purely a miller’s bill and s not a farmers’ bill. : “Those who believe that this bill i3 in the interests of the farmers are misguided. The ‘only solution is to - have the government itself do the grading and to establish grades - not according to the appearance: of the . garin but acording to its chemical and milling” tests, after the method pro- N osed by Professor Ladd of the North akota Experiment Station.” WOULD GET MONEY R TO FIGHT DOURINE : : ¥ _Agriculture Houston to provide emer- . gency funds to pay for the treatment of dourine at the annual round-ups . now beginning in western North Da- kota and Montana. Dourine is one of the most serious of horse diseases, and it is particularly prevalent in the . 2 > ranch country. The present appro-. - priation for the treatment of the dis- ease is now exhausted, and the round- up season will be over before the coming year’s appropriation will be available, Since the round-up season is the best time for fighting ~this scourge, Hegelsen believes that Hous- ton is justified in using emergency funds. Houston took the matter un- TR der advisement. ; S : The present appropriation, now ex-. haustu}: amounts to $100,000.: The pending .agricultural ~appropriation of dourine. Under-the law the secre- . = . . e tary of agriculture is authorized to use money from his general fund in an emergenc¥ up to 10 per cent of the usual annual appropriation. for any purpose. - This would give $10,000 for. “The North Dakota:live stock sanitary board, through W. F. 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