Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-31 | Page 35 | Hoover Favors the Metals Control Bill

HOOVER FAVORS THE METALS CONTROL- BILL WASHINGTON", March 30. The administration's ad-ministration's bill to stimulate and control con-trol production and distribution of minerals min-erals neaded in the war was approved before the house mines committee today bv Food Administrator Hoover, who is a mining engineer. Outlining his difficulties difficul-ties in .exercising control over food, the food administrator advocated provisions to Rive the president power to fix the price of minerals. Hoover declared profiteering was going on in the mineral trades generally. The food administration, he said, had requisitioned - probably ?lU0.O00,000 worth of food under the alternative of paying 75 per cent of the value and testing the balance in the courts and that there had never been a complaint or a case taken into the courts. He favored the same 7o per cent system In controlling minerals min-erals and advocated putting all Imports in the hands of one buyer. Mr. Hoover testified he had not taken over any food plants for government operation, op-eration, "but added, "we may have to." The government would repay Itself a hundred-fold for any expense it goes to in stimulating mineral production, Mr. Hoover told the committee.