Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-04-24 | Page 1 | Illinois Solon Flays Wilson, Baker Creel

jtLLlHOIS S&LI11 FLAYS if! LSI!, Senator Sherman Makes Bitter Attack in Debate on Powers Given by Overman Bill, PAYS RESPECTS TO CABINET MEMBERS Asserts President of Nonpartisan Non-partisan League Is Receiving Receiv-ing Pay From German Ger-man Government. WASHINGTON. April 23. A vehement attack upon President Wilson and some j of the members of his official family by : Senator Sherman of Illinois, Republican, marked the last day of unlimited debate in the senate on the Overman bill, which would give the president general powers for reorganizing government agencies during dur-ing the war. In a long speech opposing the measure, and asserting that the executive had not used properly authority already possessed the Illinois senator criticised particularly Secretaries Baker and Wilson, Postmaster General Burleson and George Creel, chairman chair-man of the committee on publication. He declared the president had surrounded himself with Socialists and that he should "scatter the bunch of economic fakirs and howling dervishes," now in office. Advocate Bill. Senator Itansdell of Louisiana, ami Stc-Kellar Stc-Kellar of Tennessee, Democrats, spoke for the bill, urging that many departments are working at cross purposes under the present piece-time system and that "red tape" must be eliminated if maximum results are to be obtained. Since the president will be held responsible for success suc-cess of the nation's war effort, said Sen-I Sen-I a tor Ransdell, he should ne given the authority ho thinks necessary. In an effort to hasten action, after 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon each senator will be limited by agreement to thirty miuutes' discussion of the bill itself and to twenty minutes on each amendment offered . Flays Cabinet. Senator Sherman said today Secretary Baker is "half Socialist and the other half pacifist," and that Secretary Wilson and Postmaster General Burleson are state Socialists. He also paid his respects to Assistant Secretary of Labor Post, Assistant As-sistant Secretary of Agriculture Vrooman, and inveighed against what he called the spread of Bolshevik propaganda in this country. Attacking the Non-Partisan league, the Illinois senator said its president, A. C. Townley, represents German influence and has got pro-German money some place. Referring to the council of national defense de-fense as a "nondescript'' organization. Senator McKellar, who is a member of the military committee, said the presl- (Continued on Pase Thirteen.) ILLINOIS SENATOR FLAYS WILSON, BAKER (Continued from Page One.) dent had been given power to eliminate the Sl-a-year men on that body, and to select those who are efficient and put them to work at reasonable salaries. If tli is government had a centralized system sys-tem for the purchase of supplies, he declared, de-clared, $1,000,000,000 could be saved annually an-nually during the war.