Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-08-08 | Page 1 | Wilson to Give Views on Problem of Prices

GLENN E. PLUMB (at top) of Chicago, counsel for the railroad rail-road brotherhoods, originator of the j plan embodied in a. hill introduced ' in congress by Representative The- i tus W. Sims of Tennessee (below), J which provides for the purchase and operation of the railroads by the government. 1 - 1) i v V President Concludes His Work on Speech to Congress Dealing With High Cost of Living. Big Five to Be Proceeded Against Under Criminal Crim-inal and Civil Sections of the Antitrust Law. WASHINGTON, Aug-. 7. President Wilson put the finishing touches on his high cost of living address to congress tonight and prepared to deliver it in person tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. One possibility loomed up to threaten the president's plans. It was that the leaders might not be able to round up a quorum in the house and that some member insisting on parliamentary par-liamentary rule, by raising the. point, might forestall the joint session of house and senate. Representative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, served notice on Republican Leader Mondell that he, for one, would insist on a legal quorum. Republican and Democratic leaders both, accordingly, made the telegraph wires hot tonight with messages order- ing absentees back in time for tomorrow afternoon. j The address will be confined to laying j before congress what measures, in the ! opinion of the president and of the subcommittee sub-committee appointed by Attorney General Palmer, should be enacted at once to bring relief to the public from the existing ex-isting high prices. ALL ELEMENTS TO HAVE CONSIDERATION. All the elements that have helped create cre-ate the condition the country finds itself in today, in the view of these men, will be dealt with. These include, It was learned authoritatively, labor problems and strikes resulting from them, and production which would be interfered with by strikes. To this extent, the matter of railroad wages will be included in the address, but a solution of the entire railroad problem prob-lem will not be suggested beyond the suggestion already m;ile to congress by the president in his letter to the chairmen chair-men of the senate and house interstate commerce committees. No recommendations will be made for a license system of producers, manufacturers manu-facturers or dealers. No recommendation will be made for (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) WILSON 10 SPEAK 01 PRISE PROBLEM (Continued Prom Page One.) a law limiting the margin of profit on comm .nlities. N j ti-ii- reie law clearly defining hoarding hoard-ing or profiteering wui ie askeu, though recommendations will be made for laws d-s gned to blister up the txist.ng laws I under which the attorney geitt-r.il ex- I pects to rej.'.ii price guugers and j hoarders. The president will ask for an extension exten-sion of the hfver food control act to make it applicable as a peaee-un.e measure mea-sure and to include ail coinmod.tics, shoes, clothing and life necesaru-s, as wed as food. leve lop meats today in tho government's govern-ment's efforts to reuuee the n:gh h .ng costs included : Anno ;nc-uient that the action ag.iinst five big meat packing firms ia ouid be 1 ro-jght under the criminal and civil s-m--tions of the Sr.erm.i n aniitru.-t law and undr the section of the food control a t 1 making unlawful the hoarding of food. Keiorts from d. strict attor: -s ov-r , til? country that th'-y wer proceeding I with Investigations of profiteering and ; hoarding, and woind make arrests where ever facts warranted. Introduction of a Joint resolution in ror.grtss prupo?:rig a reduction of one billion dollars In f.d-rnl tax.-s i;xt year by reducing government exponu:ture j.