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VOLUME NIX
NEW RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT FACING CRISIS
SENATE REFUSES TO CHECK FOOD SPECULATION
POLITICAL SITUATION
IN HUI IS CAUSING
ALLILS MUCH WORRY
New Government Shows Signs!
of Breaking Up Under Har
assing Course of Radical
Elements in Petrograd
NEW Y« RK. May 14. <By ’ oreign .
Cable- From European Capitals.*—;
While military interest continues to
<tw;tr In ’ne great battle on the French
r ont. where the British are continuing
-iow' . b*' stt.-.dily to press the Ger
many i--■< k. the polities! situation in
• t .'«.j :« demanding increasing atten-
tto • him fausmg added concern among
at; the na.ions.
i’a «er the « ontinaed harrassiug courze
•»f the radical elements in Petrograd, the
prov.atonal government which has ncid
t.. «sra ogetner since the overthrow ot
in*- o>d regime. now shows signs of
i«re&at<ng up
toe nrs gap .n lite government ranks|
was reateu yesterday when M. Guch-■
koff. >he minister of war and marine,
handed in his resignation. Goaded by
interference with the army and navy to
an extent which he declares threatens
"the defense, the liberty and even the
existence of Russia.” ne felt it nnpossi
bie to share longer the responsibility
"for the grave sin being committed
against the country.”
ENCOURAGING NEWS.
Simultaneously there comes from Pe
•rograd news of a more encouraging
< nara ter in a denial of a report that
■he council of workmen's and soldiers'
delegate- was favoring an armistice. On
the contrary, it is declared, it has never
raised such a question and. in fact, is
about to appeal to the men at the front
not to fraternize with the enemy and
pointing out to them the inadvisability
nt a separate peace. In the recent crisis
iietwaen the provisional government and .
tne council of workmen s and soldiers'
delegates over the government's foreign
policy the entire ministry threatened to
resign. The council at that time gave
•n. nominally at least, but continued to
enforce its ciaim to direct affairs of
state by sitting as a censor over the
< sbinet "and virtually holding the reins
over the nation's armed forces.
By a recent close vote in the executive
committee of the council the radical j
-tody refused to co-operate in the
formation of a coalition ministry. The
entire significance of M Guchkoffs res-1
ignation has not yet developed but it
may prove tha nis step was taken with
the acquiescence of the provisional gov
ernment in an effort to compel the radi-j
• ais either to take their share of the
• esponbibility for the <-onduct of the
government, or cease interference with
governmental functions.
In the face of biasing oil. liquid fire,
poison gas and every other horror known
.o modern war the British are slowly
and stubbornly fighting their way 1.0
ihe Drocourt-Queant line, the gate to
L»ouai and Cambrai. and the principal
link in the fetters welded on northern
•Franc* by the Hermans. General Haig
is hammering all along the line, but
it ts around Queant. at the southern
extremity, that his auccess has been
nOst marked and the corresponding
menace to the «S»mnans greatest.
Queant is virtually To tiie
east, weat and south the road is clear,
to the British, as far as natural bar-.
rters are concerned, except for part of.
he village of Buliecourt. After some
of th* grimmest fighting on the west-* J
ent front the British have driven their ■
foes from one-half of BullecoUTt and
unless the tide is promptly turned the
villam* is lost to the Germans and the |
rushing in of the southern end of the
nroc »ur:-Queant line is inevitable.
ZEEBRUGGE bAMAGBU
A ray of sunshine has also fallen
on British arms at sea. The great Ger
man submarine base at Zeebrugge and
the naval stronghold at Wilhelmshaven
cave been assaulted from sea and air. I
apparently with notable success Zee
hrugge la an absolutely artificial har- I
bor. called into existence on the flat
sandy .--oast of Belgium by the exigen
cies of submarine warfare and practical
ly depending on its being on a great
mole. This mole is said to have’been
reached by the British guns and the
■Germans must quickly repair the gaps
or the silting sands will complete the
work of destruction commenced by the
British gunners.
The only incident of moment In the
other war theaters is a fresh Austrian
report nt a great artiilerv bombardment
by the Italians on the Isonzo front-1
Thia may mean that the long inactivity
of Genera! Cadorna is about to be
broken. The Italian situation has been
wrapped in considerable obscurity and
there have been uncomfortable rumors
that the chaos in Russia was inspiring
the central powers to mass forces for '
a great drive against Italy. These ru- ■
mors have been somewhat offset by th*
•<-, umuiating evidence that Austria is
seeking in every direction a path to
peace and is willing to make great con
cessions toward that end
In this connection the announced visit
of chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg to
Vienna assumes considerable impor
tance. The fury of the German junkers
against the Austrian attitude is ob
viously increased by their conviction
i-iat the chancellor has gone over to
tha moderate party, with its program
of peace without annexation or indem
nity. There seems little doubt that the
demand for peace is steadily growing in
volume tn Germany and the hysteria of
the Junkers, as displayed through theft
newspapers and through the utterances
of their leaders is significant in this
respect
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The Ihstrlhnting <_’otnp«ny of I*2o
Grand •venue. Knnna* City. M«.. wants every
suffering from chronic leg mres tn write
for ■ free sample of Antt-Flamma Poultice
Plaster It ntnps the Itching •muiwt mre and
heals while you work. Write tuday.—(Adrt.»j
GEN. WOOD INTIMATES
ATUNTA WILL BE BIG
MONLIZITION CAMP
lit Will Go to City of Atlanta's
Size and Railroad Facilities,
Commander of Southeast
Declares
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
CHARLESTON, S. C-. May 14. —Atlan-
ta will get the big southeastern concen
tration camp, according to .Major Gen
eral Wood, who arriven in
Charleston Saturday to take chatge of
the Southeastern depar>nient of the
United tSates army.
'General Wood did not announce this
but he state.! that the camp
rryist go to a c4tj with Atlanta's size
and Atlanta 1 *- railroad facilities, and
with this statement, he leaves little
room for doubt that Atlanta will win.
”1 have not made iny official deci-
■ sion yet. buy you can state that for
what it’s worth.” he told a representa
tive of The Journal, on his arrival Sat
urday night.
"Men. munitions ana food crops.” was
General Wood’s answer to the question,
"How can the United States win the
Huge sums of money must be spent
by the government, increased numbers
of men must be trained, more food crops
must be planted than the country nas
ever known, he said. "I would say
to the young men of this country that
their country needs them now, not later,
when the battle may be half lost; I
would say- to the man behind the plow
that in him lies the strength of the
nation.’
General Wood outlined other plans of
the government for the southeast,
among them the establishment of vol
unteer training camps and conscription
camps, and of more training camps for
officers to take care of the overflow from
Fort McPherson and Fort Oglethorpe
He considers the sand hills around
Augusta and ideal site for training
■ camps for young men between the ages
of eighteen and twenty I years and nine
i months, who are exempt from conscrip
tion. but who will volunteeer for short-,
term enlistments. Augusta and Co- 1
luntbia. S. C.. he considered suited to,
such camps because the sanitary con- ■
ditions are of the best. He mentioned
Macon. Ga.. and Montgomery. Ala., as
favorable sites for conscription camps.
He also stated that he will recommend
the establishment of an additional re
serve officers’ training camp at Fort
Moultrie. Sullivan's Island. S. C.
“We need men. lots of men. and of
ficers.” he declared. "Where we are
to get them, is the question that is
puzzling the army staff. We must make
every effort to get as many men as
we can into these training camps, as
soon as we can. In three years the al
lies and the United States can win 'he
war. if the United States puts into the
fight every ounce of strength she can
muster.”
. General Wood will open at once
. twelve camps where nten under the
.conscript age can obtain nine months
of training to better fit them for service
I when they reach the liability age.
Since the department was opened'
, here on May* 1 General Wood has been '
actually in command, although not ati
headquarters in person, so that his ar-i
rival did not alter the staff routine.
One of hie first acts today wa« to I
appoint Lieutenant Colonel W. B. Ladue,
corps of engineers, and Captain J. C. H.
Lee. corps of engineers, to the duty
of making an inspection of possible
camp sites in this territory, for thei
i selection of twelve places, where that’
many divisions of abput 30.000 men each I
selected under the conscription act, are'
to ro iirto training.
These two officers will leave in the
next few days on their tour of inspec
tion. and among places under considera
tion are Columbia. S. C.. Greenville, g.
C.. Macon. Ga.. and Augusta. Ga. It
is likely that all of the nine states in,
this department will be visited on t"he
♦our. The recommendations of these of- j
fleers will be forwarded to the war de-j
partment, and until action Is taken on I
them, no announcement of selections
will be forthcoming.
| The sites will be chosen strictly be
cause of their the
of the men being th* first consideration,
and healtbfulness of environment will
be a cardinal requisite At this time
♦here Is absolutely nothing definite to
Bay about locations of the/se’big train
ing camps. a« th* reeomrrtendntJona
following th* tour of inspections must
be awaited.
Four Killed, Three Hurt
In Battle as Result of
Bandit Raid on Bank
PITTSBURG. Pa. May 14. Four
persons are dead and three others are
wounded as th* result of the robbing
today of the First National bank of
Shannon Castle, a suburb, by three
bandits. The dead are: Frank Erbe, as
sistant cashier; Nick Yost, a street rail
way dispatcher; Magistrate George
Beltzhoover. and one of the bandits.
Cashier D. L. McLean and two bandits
were wounded.
Erbe and Mcl<ean were shot In the
bank and Yost and Beltzhoover were
shot down a sth* bandits were running
from th* hank to an automobile with
loot from th* bank. The bandits .wore
shot by a posse which pursued and took
j them
Full Associated Press Service
iIHOLLWEG TRIUMPHS
!| OVER HINDENBURG IN
ROW OVER REFORMS
Kaiser Sides With Chancellor
and Refuses to End Reich
stag Sitting and Block Re-:
form Move as General Urged
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LONDON. May It. —Chancellor von
Bethtnan-Hollwkg will probably make
announcement of the central powers' |
p>ace terms in a speech to the reich
stag tomorrow, an Exchange Telegraph
’ dispatch from Amsterdam asserted to
day. The German chancellor has just
returned to Berlin from a series of con- '
ferences with officials in Vienna. Prior
i to this ne went to German great head- J
quarters for conference with the kaiser, i
Other information from Germany, re- ;
reived via Holland today, indicated that
the chancellor on Tuesday would make
a speech ir. the reichstag. outlining the
• general military and political situation,
but not covering Germany's peace aims.
Such a statement will be withheld until
July, when the reichstag is to be re
convened, according to German news- j
papers.
That section of the German press
which is hostile to von Bethmann-Holl
weg declared today that the chancellor
, j recently went to the front to present his
. resignation to the kaiser. The most
! circumstantial of these stories insist
ed that Field Marshal von Hindenburg
raised a storm of objection to the re
form recommended by the constitution !
committee which woulc grant the reich
stag control over the army and that i
he and his junker fi ends conceived j
the plan of nullifying the committee's |
recommendations by terminating t lie I
reichstag sitting rather than recessing
that body until later in the summer or
fall. Such procedure would mean auto
matic death of the constitution com
mittee. necessity for reappointment and
repetition of ita work--which would
avert another issue between the reich
stag and the army for several months.
Holla eg flatly refused to take such
a course, insisting German liberals
could not be held in check if such a
trick were played upon them. He was
said to have announced an ultimatum
to the kaiser that he would resign if
such a scheme were attempted, and to
i have won out over Hindenburg.
The very fact that he did succeed in
triumphing over Hindenburg was believ
l ed by Holland observers to have made
; his position even more insecure, since
Hindenburg's advocates are now defi
nitely -aligned against him.
Hollweg returned from German head
quarters Saturday and left the same
evening for Vienna. On Sunday night
he started the return trip to Berlin
CONFEBERIIf REUNION
WILL BE BIGGEST EVER
I.
Southern Railway Is Planning
’’ to Haul Large Numbers of
Veterans to Capital
H That the annual reunion of the United
Confederate veterans to he held at
Washington. D. C.. on June 4 to 8, in
clusive. will be the largest and most
,j successful event of its kind ever held,
! and that the war activities will not
■ tn any way interfere with the program
(already arranged, is the view expressed
I by H. F. Cary, general passenger agent
' of the Southern railway system and
chairman of the finance committee ar
ranging for the reunion, who is in At
lanta Monday attending a conference of
the operating and passenged traffic of-
■ tic la Is of the Southern for lines, both
'' east and west.
The Southern officials are here to ar-
I range details for the handling of the
thousand of visitors from the south
' who will attend the reunion. Plans
were perfected for the operation of be
tween forty and fifty special trains to
Washington, in addition to extra equip
ment and extra sections of the regu
lar trains *
For the reunion a special organiza
tion will be formed by the Southern
\at Washington to assist the veterans
and their friends in making arrange
-1 ments for return trips. A large num
ber of expert passenger men will >e
j assigned for this purpose while spe
cial operating and mechanical forces
will be detailed to assure the prornp'!
movement of trains, and special police'
protection will be provided.
From Atlanta and contiguous terri
tory, plans are being made for lite op-1
erat lon of seven special trains, as fol- 1
lows:
June 3, an Atlanta special, to be op-|
'i erated ah second section of train 34;
the Texas Confederate veterans' special |
from Houston, with Dowling and Al
bert Sidney Johnston camps, io be op-1
derated as second section of train 3’l. i
' carrying Governor Nat E. Harris and
' staff, sons of veterans, sponsors an !
the Old Guard; a special from Colum
bus, leaving Atlanta at 8:15 p tn., ami
carrying Camp Benning Confederate
veterans, sons of veterans and sponsors;
n special from Macon. Dublin and south
1 Georgia points, leaving Atlanta at 8:30
■ p. m., and carrying General Thomas,
commander of the south Georgia divi
sion U. C. V., and party; a special from
Selma and Alabama points, leaving At
lanta about 8;30 p. in.
ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1917
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Details of
Liberty Loan Bond Issue
Local Federal Reserve Bank |
Receives 2,200-Word Tele-j
gram Giving Complete In
formation
Full details of the government’s plan
for marketing the first $2,000,000,000
of the liberty loan of $7,000,000,000
were received Surida? by Joseph A. Mc-
Cord and M. B. Wellborn, of the Fed
eral Reserve bank of Atlanta, from
William G. McAdoo, secretary of the
treasury.
The information came in the form of
a telegram. 2.2.00 words in length, and
contained minute • directions for the
marketing of the bonds. A similar tele
gram went to each of the other eleven
reserve banks over the country.
The Federal Reserve bank of Atlanta
will transmit the information to the
national and state hanks, trust com
panies. savings hanks, bond dealers and
private bankets in this district, and the
other reserve batiks will do the same
in their respective districts. •
Subscriptions for the bond-; must be
in by June Id. The bonds run for thirty
years, with the privilege of betns taken
up in fifteen years. They bear ‘nterest at
3 1-2 per cent, payable semi-annually
on June IS and December 15. They are
issued in denominations ranging from i
SSO to SI,OOO in coupon form, and in de
nominations ranging from SIOO to SIOO.-
000 in registered form
Banks will act as distributing agents
for the government in the marketing,
of the bonds. Large employers will be I
asked to co-operate with the govern
ment in placing small bonds In the:
hands of small Investors. The plan Ist
for a large concern to organize a “liber-1
ty loan savings club” among its em
ployes. The firm will buy small bonds]
and list them tn its assets. It will I
sei] these bonds to employes on weekly
or monthly installments to suit thetrl
convenience
For the benefit of wage and salary!
earners, whose concerns do not employ j
a sufficient number of people to organ-!
ize a club, the bank* will be asked to!
form clubs In their savings depart
ments. Any person can join one of]
these dubs and buy a bond on the in
stallment plan.
Large investors can obtain full In-|
formation from their banks.
COM MITTEE NA M ED.
M. B. Wellborn, chairman of the
board of directors of the federal reserve I
bank of Atlanta and federal reserve
agent in this district, on Monday ap- !
pointed a central advisory committee to
push the sale of the bonds.
On this committee he appointed Mell
R. Wilkinson, Frederic .1. Taxon. Ivan
E. Allen, J. Epps Brown and W. 'C.
Wardlaw. These will serve with the
officers and directors of the bank as a
central advisory committee in the At
lanta district. Their first meeting will
be held Monday afternoon.
Discussing the bonds Monday. Chair
man Wellborn said:
"Secretary McAdoo is very anxious
that the Sixth federal reserve district,
comprising tlie states of Alabama, Geor
gia, Florida and parta of Ixtulaiana,
GENERAL WOOD TO
PRESIDE AT FLAG
! RAISING SATURDAY
Ceremonies Will Be Held at
Five Points At Four o’Clock
Saturday Afternoon Instead
of Friday
A I elegram was received Monday
from Genera'. Leonard A. Wood, com
mander of the department of the south
east at Charleston, that he probably
would not be able to reach Atlanta un
til Saturday, and. accordingly, the pro
: gram for the raising of the flag at
Five Points, over which General Wood
will preside, has been changed from Fri
day .until Saturday. «
A meeting of the program commit
tee was held Monday morning in the
office of Mayor Candler, and arrange
ments were outlined for a great pa
triotic demonstration in which all At
lanta will unite to pay honor to Gen
eral Wood, the senior major general
of tne army, considered by many as
the army’s most progressive officer, and
I frequently called the father of pre
! parednese tn America.
As outlined by the program com
mittee tiie flag-raising exercises will
! be held at 4 o'clock Saturday after
! noon, the flag to be raised by General
j Wood.
Preceding this ceremony, there will
be a mammoth parade of military or
ganizations. students and upper grade
■ school children, including the Seven
-1 teenth Infantr. front Fort McPherson,
the Fifth regiment. Georgia national
i guard the Governor's Horse Guard; the
' Atlanta artillery; field hospital, coin-
■ party No 1 the Old Guard; Georgia Mil
itary academy and Marlst college ca
dets; the boy scouts, the students of
i Boys' High school. Tech High school
i and Georgia School of Technology, the
| upper grades of the public schools.
I Mississippi and Tennessee, make a good
I showing in the subscription to the Lib
i erty Loan war bonds.”
“It should be the duty of every citi
zen, especially those who cannot go to
the front and do their part, to purchase
and encourage the sale of these bonds.
It should be the aim of the south to
lead the nation in the Individual sub
scriptions to bonds. The sale of these
bonds is not strictly a banking matter,
but a matter of public welfare and one
that the citizen should enter Into cheer
fully.
“I stated to Secretary McAdoo in our
conference that he could rely on our dis
trict to subscribe more than its share.
To make the Liberty Loan a patriotic
success every citizen should own one or
mor* of chase bonds.
BRITISH EXPECTING
GREAT FIGHT WITH
GERMAN NAVY SOON
Naval Officials Believe Kaiser
Is Planning to Send His
Fleet Out to Give Them
‘ Battle
LONDON. May 11.—Whether Germa
ny may be making ready to pit her bat
tle Heel against England in the naval
engagement which all England and tht
world have looked for since the start
of the war, is a question recent destroy
er raids brought forward today.
The belief is strong among naval au
thorities that these frequent and ap
parently aimless destroyer raids on the
British coast may be “feelers out” for
such a great sea battle. There have
been a dozen or more destroyer and
cruiser raids of late on the British
coast.
Tiie way the British naval experts
look at it, Germany is certainly up to
some game in rushing her light cruiser
squadron out of Kiel and engaging in
apparently futile attacks against de
fenseless towms—maneuvers which have
invariably cost her more heavily than
the British.
The theory on which tiiis hypothesis
of Germany's plan for a great sea bat
' tie is based is evolved rrom the idea
i that Germany may be trying to draw the
j British watchdogs in the North sea off
J their guard and distract attention from
| a major operation which they intend to
spring as a surprise. Also the raids
may be merely a “testing out” of the
watchfulness of Britain’s patrols, seek
ing a weak spot in the naval armor.
One other view of the constant har
rassing of British coast towns
is that it is a new form of
' Teuton propaganda, emphasizing fright
fulness by bombarding defenseless wom
en and children and thus keeping con
stantly before England the fear of an
invasion from Germany.
Whatever their meaning, these raids
I are welcomed by the British fleet.
; which, powerless against submarines
and mines, has been chafing at its leash
since the Jutland fight
Frequent engagements of the past
two months have satisfied England that
in a naval battle, ship against ship, she
is easily Germany’* superior
i What the whole country is looking
: forward to now is a major naval en
i gageinent. with the first line ships nt
the kaiser’s long idle navy pitted against
the pride of the British empire.
In the coming battle, which naval au
•! thorities feel certain will take place be
fore Germany finally gives in, England
I is completely confident that her fleet
: will achieve a tremendous victory.
British War Mission
Back in Washington
WASHINGTON. May 14. —Arthur
James Balfour. British foreign secre
tary and most of the members of the
British mission, arrived in Washington
early toaay following their three-days’
welcome by New York City. They plan
to remrin here for several days longer
before leaving probably for Canada an i
England.
NUMBER 64
SENATE REJECTS IN
AMENDMENT CLOSING
\ ILL GRAIN EXCHANGES
'‘Pirates" and “Robbers" Are
Terms Applied to Food Spec
! ulators During Exciting De
bate by Senators
WASHINGTON. May 14.—The am-Old
ment to the administration espionage
bill proposed by Senator Thomaa to sus
pend stock exchanges and boards of
trade dealing In futures In foodstuffs
during the war, was rejected today
by the senate, 49 to 24.
WASHINGTON, May 14. Suspension
' during the war of all stock exchanges,
boards of trade and chambers of com
merce which permit speculation in fu
tures on foodstuffs was proi»osed to
day by Senator Thomas. Democrat, of
Colorado, as an amendment to the ad
ministration espionage bill.
Senator Thomas said he had received
scores of demands that gambling in ne
cessities ol life be stopped by congress.
He cited the recent soaring of May and
July wheat futures in the Chicago mar
ket to show the need of immediate ac
tion to stop "food gambling.”
Opposing the amendment. Senator
Overman, of* North Carolina, in charge
of the bill, pleaded against ’’loading
down” the espionage measure with “Ir
relevant” amendments. Although, he
said, the Thomas amendment appealed
to him in many respects, it should be
considered later with the food control
bill.
A similar plea was made by Senator
Lewis, of Illinois, who said, however,
“some provision like this must be
made eventually.”
A violent debate immediately follow
ed, during which strong opposition de
veloped to considering the amendment
in connection with the espionage bill.
“Pirates” and “robbers” were terms ap
plied by senators to food speculators
during the debate. Lamp post hangings,
again were deferred to as a remedy.
NATURE OF OPPOSITION.
Senators who opposed the amendment
did so on the ground that the object
should be accomplished In another way,,
and some thought it would stifle com
merce. The great majority of opinion
favored some drastic action to stop food
gambling and speculation which makes
for artificial prices and threatens the
nation with the pinch of hunger.
Senator Lewis, Democrat, said he
thought legislation such as proposed by
Senator Thomas would work Injury to
mafty and should not be passed with
out deliberation.
•‘What is needed at this hour.” said
he. “is a provision of law authorizing
the president on the evidence satisfac
tory to him that food is being un
necessarily held, to seize such food and
order its distribution under the proper
branch of the government with compen
sation to the owner and a just market
price assured the people.”
“I think.” said Senator Reed. Demo
crat, of Missouri, “that means ought to
be taken to stop speculation in food
stuffs within the limits of the powers of
congress. There never has heen in the
history of the world- an agitation that
i parallels the present one. We are prac
tically told that the United States is
on the verge of starvation and that
the world without is starving. When
that information is put forward men are
astonished that the prices for foodstuffs
' mount. If a plan had been conceived
ito make them mount the one adopted
j could not have been improved upon by
the ingenuity of man or the devil him
self.
“The thing to teach the American peo
ple now is that America will not be
starved, that she can’t be starved and
the consequence will be to lessen the
condition that confronts us.”
Food speculators were denounced as
“robbers” by Senator Kenyon, of lowa,
who recommended, however, that the
food speculation measures be held over
to b* considered with the food bill.
“If congress can't stop this robbery—
and that is a mild term for it—the peo
ple will' find some way. if they have to
make use of the lamp post.”
Senator Kirby, of Arkansas, support
ing the Thomas amendment, denounced
food speculators as “parasites.”
Senator Smith, of South Carolina,
urged that action be withheld until the
food bill was taken up. He said the
Thomas amendment would paralyze
fixed commercial channels and might do
more harm than good.
REGULATT THE PIRATES.
“We should regulate these pirates.”
he said, “but not destroy the usual mar
ket places, which have a legitimate use.
Let us go after these men who are spec
ulating in food, but not destroy estab
lished means of disti’.bution."
Senator Kellogg, of Minnesota, offered
an amendment to the Thomas amend
ment providing that actual and legiti
mate future trading should not be pro
hibited when physical delivery of
products traded in was accomplished in
settlements.
Immedi?t“ action to check specula
tion was urged by Senator Vardaman,
of Mississippi.
“I never understood.” he said, “how
the people stand for being despoiled by
a lot of gamblers, in whose interests
the exchanges are run.” He said he
favored, but would not propose, extend
ing the Thomas amendment to suspdt-C
cotton as well as foodstuff exenanges.
Senator Smith, of Georgia, thought
the senate would take nP food control
legislation after it disposes of the
espionage bill and believed it better to
wait until then and have full consider
ation.
Senator Thomas replied he did not
doubt there was plenty of food in the
country, but that the pressing ques
tion was legislation to enable the or
dinary man to get his share.
Senator Overman, in charge of the ad
ministration espionage hill, announced
today an effort would be made to re
store the press censorship to the meas
ure before passage.