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Show mm BY JULY 1 House Rejects Important Impor-tant Ame ndments Which Promised to Delay De-lay Final Action, and Senate Leaders Tentatively Tenta-tively Agree to Certain Cer-tain Compromises. GOOD PROGRESS IS BEING MADE Sherman of Illinois Makes Bitter Attack Upon the Administration Administra-tion in Upper Branch of Congress; View Taken Ta-ken by Gillette of Massachusetts. WASHINGTON, Juno 21. Prospect for passage of tho administration food coutrol bill by July 1, as earnestly do-sired do-sired by President Wilson, appeared brighter tonight after the house had rejected . important amendments which promised to delay final action and senate sen-ate leaders had tentatively agreed t" compromises designed to expedite consideration. con-sideration. Rejection in- the house on a point of order of proposals to include shoes, clothing, farm machinery and cotton under the regulatory food provisions cleared the way to passage- to such an extent that a final vote is expected some time Saturday. Prohibition proposals pro-posals and Representative Den root 's amendment to atrike out tho licensing feature of the bill constitute the only apparent obstacles to a final voto at that time. Important to Start Soon. To pass the measure with as few additions ad-ditions to the original draft as possible in order to expedite conference consideration consid-eration is the plan of Representative Lever, in charge of the measure. 11 o told the house today that minor changes could be made at leisure, while it now is of the utmost importance that tho big control machinery be started. JIouso Republicans are rallying generally to support the bill, one of tho speeches today in its behalf being delivered by Representative Gillette of Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, acting Republican leader. While jierfunetory debate wan proceeding proceed-ing In the senate, suhstuntlal progress toward to-ward compromising differences was nmdu by the leaders at Informal conferences. Changes in Senate. The changes tentatively agreed to Included: In-cluded: mi nation of the section authorizing the food adinlnlstruior to requisition fH(:-tories, fH(:-tories, mines and other plants when ho UndH it necessary. t'llminatlon of provisions a nt liorizing fixing of wages, including tho.se of farm laborers. Kllmination of specific authorization to regulate consumption by rationing or control con-trol of Individual meals. .Exemption of foodstuffs stored hy producers pro-ducers from the null-hoarding penalties. provision for control of foodstuffs purchases pur-chases in this country to prevent competition compe-tition in buying between the allies and the United States, imd further provisions' to prevent boarding or spe-ul;i t Ion In foodstuffs. Situation Clearing. "With These tentative agreements, senators sena-tors belle vo t I.e. clinot 1c condit ion In t bo senate is clearing, with a prosptvt of an nil i ma I e complete conipmtnl.-c e:c;pt on a few basic points. Senate leaders plan to W't geneial debato drift almiK, probably until next week, a f ler the house passed the bill. Arrangement for Herbert '. Hoover to appear a train tomorrow before the nenu agriculture committee in .-:. pla nut ion of the bill was abandoned lute today. s"-tors s"-tors on both sides agreed that any fur-, tlier examination of Mr. Hoover was un-jicrfFsry, un-jicrfFsry, thoui;h he may continue Informal In-formal conferences with committeemen. H'-ria'or Heed plans to ',ouk virtually all day tomorrow in opposition to tho bill, and a dozen other senators are preparing pre-paring s pc e ' b es which will Insure continuance con-tinuance of gim era 1 discussion until tho middle of nel week. Much of the time tnda y was In it en tw by Senator Sherman in an attack on tb i dininist rat Ion. Gillette's Conclusion. Represent :i t Ivp CillcMc told t he hous today that when be first read the bill ho was stai:u-ered by i's provision. "I l, lonw to a school which Iihs believed be-lieved In the l-iw of Hupplv and demand." he mild "jhit it now is obvious th:tt (Continued on Page Four J MJULVl . . I (Continued from Page One.) j the law of supplv and demand will no" meet this sil'iution. Tile demand Is far greater than tiie supply, and the demand will continue. Hoarders can command any price t hev please. Tiw-re is a new situation to winch my old beliefs do not apply." RepresptUalh e 1 humeri of Iowa ard for- n.er Sreaker Cannon led the iiht for the irciusion of thoes, (.-loildny. farm machin-j machin-j ery and cotton seed in tiie list of controllable con-trollable articles. I An attempt by Representative Scott of I Iowa to inject a gasoline and fuel oil I amendment into the bill failed, but liepre-I liepre-I sentative I-evur said one would be put In later. Cue amendment by Representative Webb of .North Carolina proposes to empower em-power tiie president lo commandeer all stocks of liquor, so as to extract from it such properties as may be needed for war purposes or to use it in hospitals or as otherwise needed. Another proposal, fathered by Representative Repre-sentative Randall, Is to deny the use of grain lor beverage purposes and also to commandeer liquor now in bond. Foss Draws Picture. A picture of Knland reduced to submission sub-mission by starvation, Germany taking over the British fleet as her peace demand, de-mand, the United States fleet swept from the sea In a week by the combined navy, and this country defending Invasion from Canada and the sea, was drawn by Representative Rep-resentative Foss of Ohio in supporting i the bill. He insisted that feeding England En-gland was the greatest problem confronting confront-ing this country, and that it could only be accomplished by defeating the -submarine and keeping a ship lane open between be-tween the United States and .England. "Wo are in a long war," he said. "Don't make the mistake of thinking tiiis war is going to be a summer excursion. Ger- i many is not in a state ef revolution, nor j is she on the verge of starvation. She! has taken over rich fields with fifty million more population and has three million prisoners working in the factories, mines and fields to aid in production." Moved tor a Vote. When the senate took up the food bill today no senators seemed ready to debate de-bate It. so Senator Chamberlain, in charge of the measure, moved for a vote. Senator Sena-tor Sherman then led oft in opposition to the bill, charging that It is especially aimed at farmers. City dwellers and labor la-bor unions, he declared, are its principal advocates. "The senate and house will pass 'anything 'any-thing that any labor union indorses and endeavors to thrust upon them, right or wrong," he shouted. "Organized labor controls legislation in this administration and the last. It dictates to senators, while tiie farmers are unorganized." Senator. Sherman said he would vote for legislation to prohibit manufacture of foodstuffs into intoxicating beverages, but would vote against the bill unless Us "blank" powers are eliminated. Attacks Administration. Referring to the bill's provision to "coordinate "co-ordinate activities" of production. Senator Sherman said: "That's what is the matter with the man with St. Vitus dance, he can't; that's what is the matter with this administration. ad-ministration. It has slumbered for four or five years. It was asleep when my neighbors were slaughtered in Mexico, when Belgium's women were driven Into exile or worse, when treaties were held to be scraps of paper, when our men and women by hundreds were sent to the bottom bot-tom of the seas, when our neutrality was shamelessly violated by our present allies- still the slumber proceeded, with , International outrages unrebuked and un- , checked. '""Why, this administration reminds" me j of a balky horse lax', apathetic, IndirTer- ent and unsympathetic with murder un- j speakable and outrage Infinite. When It , wakes up It is worse scared and doesn't have equine sense. We have now passed from apathy to hysteria, from individual , liberty to food dictatorship.-" |