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Show Oregonian's Measure, Designed to Relieve Sugar Famine, Passes United States Senate. Filibuster by Louisiana Senators Collapses; ; Capper Hotly Denounces De-nounces the Profiteers. 'Chicago Tribune Special Service. YTA.SlirXGTOX. Deo. lii. The Louisiana Louisi-ana senator's filibuster againstthe Me-Xary Me-Xary bill relieve the sugar famine col- Inpsed today and the measure was passed by the senate without a roll call. There is considerable doubt, however, whether the measure, at this late date, will do much to bring down the price of sugar, although it is expected ' to go a long ways toward reliev ing the present pres-ent shortage by authorizing the purchase pur-chase of approximately tnroe million tons of Ci.it an sugar. The Cuban planters, Sonntor McNary i la tod today, have heard something about -j-cuut sugar in the United .States, and they ire no v. demanding as high as loj cents a pound, although last summer they were 'auious to sell their entire crop "to the United States at C;a cents a pouiid. n the debate preceding the passage of the sugar bill, Senator I-'omerenc of Ohio, Democrat, took the administration sharply sharp-ly to task for following the advice of "a professional economist" like Professor Profes-sor Taussig, insteadyof heeding the practical prac-tical suggestions of Che other seven members mem-bers cf the-sugpr equalization board. "If some of these professional economists econo-mists would take a course in practical business common sense," said Senator Pomerene, "it would be excellent for the public purse." PRESIDENT BLAMED BY KANSAS SENATOR. .Senator Capper, of Kansas, Republican, blamed the sugar shortage on President Wilson, and in an impressive speech strongly condemned the profiteering tendencies ten-dencies in many branches of business, mentioning sugar, oil, coal and clothing. He deduced it might be well to give the federal government authority to limit gross profits. . "The profiteers of big business and this includes a lot of coal operators are as great, or a greater, menace to us ( and our institutions than the Bolsheviks. the I. W. W.'s, and the radicals who are preaching the overthrow of government ; and let me pay, I will go the limit m supporting every measure which will si amp out Bolshevism and anarchy," said Senator Capper. "Because the operators wished to pocket pock-et their war profit while paying the miners vnges lower in buying power than they were receiving in lEUo, the people had to resort to fuel oil, and natural resources re-sources provided by the Almighty. A nd what happened? Why, the usual thing. EXPLOITING PEOPLE'S NEEDS, HE SAYS. ''The price of fuel oil lias been advanced ad-vanced 80') per cent in thirty days by a hunch of oil profiteers, not because of the increased cost of production that already has been well taken care of hut simply because the men in control of this product could get the money by exploiting the people's need. Unlike bandit Carlisle, they are willing to take it from old men and women and from soldiers and sa ilor.-j, as w ell as f ro rn schools, heating plants and hospitals. "I have filed charges direct with thp ; attorney general against the oil profiteers, in Kansas City and in Kansas who have taken advantage of the fuel shortage' period to line their pockets, and ha ve I demanded Immediate investigation, prosecution prose-cution and imprisonment of those found I guilty. I am glad to say to tho credit i or the attorney genera. that, he began his invest i gat ion the day following, and undoubtedly will get results, as this is profiteering of the rankest kind. WOULD CHECK HIGH COST OF PROFITS. ''Unless we speedily check price gouging, goug-ing, the high cost of profits fs soon to be translated into the excessive cost of existence. ex-istence. We are beginning to hear about $18 shoes. $8(1 hand-me-downs and ?l.i hats fur next spring, notwithstanding the people ha ve 1 'ought and paid for all the cotton and woolen mills in a single year, as during the war they bought and paid fur all the shoe factories, all the nig flour mills, a 11 the steel mills, the sawmills, the packing houses, the tanneries, tht i-oa! mines, and who knows what else, and yet do not own tht-m and are at their mercy. I do not concede that as "yet lahor troubles trou-bles and slack production are responsible, except in part, for the more and more excessive ex-cessive loll exacted of the consumer. "Willie the people made sa'-rifi'-es and fought during the war. and are slid fighting fight-ing a nd sacri-ieing, these industries have na id no pnrt in the cost of tiie national defense, nor have they contributed anything any-thing to help the country except at war prices and for them profits. "And now i.hey are collecting their war taxes from the people and exacting ex- (Continued on Page 10, Column 5.) I'll! BILL- IS ADOPTED BK ifffi (Continued From Page One.) ' ccssive toll besides by 'soaking' them Tor all they can get for their products. "What deep suffering shall we have to go through before every American can see clearly that, with to. world slowly and desperately beating back to normal conditions, condi-tions, we must ourselves pull together and stand together fpr the common good to achieve our own personal good. We shall none of us better our condition by stepping step-ping on t'ne ol her fellow's neck to gain greater profits or to win a brief increase of wage and, least of all, advance fortunes for traveling Russia's red road to ruin. Rut 1 want especially today to emphasize empha-size that the busines man who now seeks personal advantage at the expense of common com-mon good is In the same class as the red-flag red-flag demagogue, the black-flag profiteer and the war-profit patriot." |