Show WAR AR COPPER PROFIT GRABIS GRAB IS CHARGED CloseSt Closes Barney Baruch Man Ian to President Wilson I Is Dragged Into Debate on ou Soldier Relief Measure leasure Bj- Bj Asso Associated Press W ASHINGTON May ruy 2 27 Ad 0 V 1 cates of or the soldier relief bill bil served sr notice i in the thc House today that tha beginning tomorrow they would seek seel to block all legislation until the measure is is brought up for passage Representative e Mason fason Republican Illinois made muc such an tIll announcement amid loud applause an and later Representative c Murphy Republican Ohio repeated it 4 We Wc rc arc are tired of this confidence game declared Mr r. Mason Inson referring to I o delay in iii bringing t I he hc bill before the louse House May Ia Jo o 0 Over Oer Week End n ru nep l L Michigan In charge of oC the measure said its passage c might ht he be attempted Sa Saturday a hut but some other leaders thought ht that It Il might go so over oer until next week week The Thc rules committee today todar ordered favorable report of or a resolution sUsPending suspending sus sUs- pending House rules for six days be beginning beginning be- be ginning Sa Saturday a the plan being to bring up Ull the iho relief bill during that t time I m C. C Prolonged debate on the bill though bitter hitter at times disclosed no opinion opposed to it Mr 11 Ii- Ii Mason answering affirmatively a question b by Representative laUc Henry T T. T Halney Bainey Democrat Illinois as to whether the tho former favored an SO per her cent war profits tax to finance the proposal charged ed that B M. M Baruch had hud stolen of war profits on all copper copper Would uin r Im lm willing to support such a pro pro- po al Mr Ir Mason Masson 1 lon said but I am afraid what you OU offer Is not to help but to defeat the le legislation that the thc I soldiers want Im I'm willing to vote ote to have your our attorney general bring suit against Barney Barne Baruch the chief man the closest man to the President of the thc United States Slates who stole In copper alone e Mason Iason did not nut elaborate clabo clabo- rato rate on hi his charge and his remarks passed without comment from froni the tho Democratic side His Ills a assertion trUon that the war profits tax was one of or the Democratic Demo cratic ci proposals to defeat lh the bill bUl however brought denials from Democrats Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- some SorTIe of whom announced their support of the measure During the debate senators and newspapers newspapers news news- papers opposed to the bill were e Frear lican Wisconsin called on Iho tho House to protest a against senators insertIng Insert Insert- Ing Into the congressional record anti anti- bonus articles which characterized tho the thole le legislation as a a raid on tho ho treasury treasur I |