Show IRE RE ATTACKS PRESIDENT ON 1 WHEAT ACTION i Vl 1 clares Outside Advice I Is IsI Isaie s sai I Cal C ai aie of f Veto Vet Claims F WIll Will W Lose t L B Bj By L' L i Washington July lS Senator Gore oklahoma attacked attack i the presidential f ry to of t wheat toda tOd today lf in the senAt senAt senAt sen- sen At the same time he be criticized S 4 senators for I refusing to hold t for tor a high rice although upon a a. high cotton otton price I natal Gore spoke of- of tho the Presidents President's i sons as given for tor vetoing the agri- agri i bill containing the wheat and said a aThe The principles Upon which the evident bases arguments have ha no nore jre re 10 application than the Draconian ode cide or tho the nebular hypothesis He drew the Inference th the President Id Id not make mako up his own mind on the heat helt price without the advice ad of oth- oth rs Farmers and agricultural cour- cour lens ler ho said swung incense before la e President and told him that this as as s the essence of or justness an and fairer fair fair- er s that the farmer tanner be given SO cents I IS s per bushel Cor his wheat than he uld get In the open market The They to him what pleased his ear car card eard eard d d did not tell teU him tho truth But Bute I e truth Is that North orth Dakota wheat to produce and Minnesota eat Icat eat costs 3 01 while the tho farmer rees rees re- re es ves but 05 or 10 S Senator Fletcher of oc Florida ted the criticism of ot cotton when hen he that a man from the north- north cst est had told him that an any amount or ore than 1 obtained on wheat is tH Gore turned and said Never r would the senator be be willing reduce the price of ot cotton from here it Is hOW now around 30 30 cents I ask askIm ask Im tin to apply that same principle to heat heat- eal Would he be willing to have at Z cents cents' No i I Later on Gore said There seems to be one code of ot morla mortis mor mor- jIs la for tor th the cotton cotlon men and packers rind id i d not for tor the wheat farmers Now No that the President has vetoed the whet t there then seems only one thing king to do and that Is to reduce b by 00 per cent from the 1917 1317 7 prices everything that tho the farmer buys bus This seems to be doubtful wisdom but Ittis HIls the only remedy Senator Senator Gores Gore's Idea that the Pre President ld l- l d dent nt did not use his own Judgment In Inthe Inthe Inthe the th-e wheat discussion found foun a sponsor in lift Senator Gronna of ot North Dakota who said BIf he had us use used l his own keen jud Judgment judgment Judg judg- ment and not depended upon the ad advice ad- ad vice vice- of ot others the situation now would h Have ie been different I Indorse every word that the senator from Crom Oklahoma h Has s said Figures Q d b by Senator Senator Reed of at Missouri were offered to prove that cotton cotlon has had a much more rapid price advance ance than wheat heat heatHe CHe He He p put in a table which read Year Tear Wheat heat Cotlon Cotton 1912 1812 76 76 I 1152 1913 79 7 10 1208 1914 98 36 10 98 6 10 1113 1916 1915 91 91 9 10 1014 1916 1816 19 16 1 60 3 31 3 10 1 0 14 1445 5 1317 1217 17 O 2639 2633 |