Show I lEGISlATION PlANNED I TO lii OUTPUT r w WASHINGTON April 20 Secretary O. Secretary Lanes Lane's nes ne's recommendations for Cor legislation to encourage encourage production of minerals now Im- Im ported from Europe and South America were wro dl discussed cussed by hy the tho senate mines and antI mining committee but action de deferred Ic- Ic Senator Henderson of or Nevada chairman chairman chair chair- man and other members of oC the committee commit commit- tee aro are understood to be bo In favor tavor of the of-the tho general principles of tho the secretary's pro pro- Under the present plan pInn tho the bill will bo ho Introduced b by Senator Henderson and hearings on the tho measure will be held at which Secret Secretary r Lane and prominent mining min min- lag ing In men will bo ho called Claims of ot mineral ral Importers that mineral mineral mineral min min- eral commo commodities occupy no space except that usually given over to ballast and therefore should not bo be restricted to entrance entrance en en- entrance en- en trance to this country have been Investigated investigated b by the shipping boards board's committee on minerals which reported tolla today that thc development of water ballast tank construction has been so teo great cat that there now are few feu ships afloat that require stone sand or solid Bollet ballast Tho The rare exceptions c are very old ships which have havo been put Into trans-Atlantic trans Tho Time committee concluded from its Investigation that the Importers claim that large unused space Is available for Cor carrying minerals was not borne out by bythe bytho bytho tho the facts acts |