FOLLOWING NEWS AT THE CAPITAL
Following News At the Capital More Hoover Defeats Fish's Red Herring The McCormick Quiz Lower Power Rates. By RADFORD E. MOBILEY WASHINGTON, D. Cv—The La Follette victory in Wisconsin, which...
...I have kept the paper ? the last ten years and will never without it as long as I'm able to p for It...
...The employment of tactics vaguely reminiscent of the Harding administration will not aid Mrs...
...Until the senate began its investigation of the power commission King's reconTmendatior.s were largely disregarded...
...wish success for the paper anci hop...
...ha&, also been informed that certain charges which it has entered against the cost of a Kawishiwi river development are not supported by the records...
...head the power boar' by public utility* magnates themselves...
...The secretary of agriculture, Arthur Hyde, has just discovered that Russia, apparently the target of this administration, has been seeking to undermine the price of grain and thus ruin the American farmer...
...At any rate, the whole controversy furnishes a lead at last for the Fish-Red Herring Commitee...
...Observers here have watched with Increasing interest the Progressive triumphs in the midwest...
...It is surely wcrth the money...
...How the secretary can deduce responsibility for the American wheat farmer's plight out of a short sale of only 5,000.000 bushels on a single exchange which transacts ten times that amount of business each day is a matter of conjecture...
...Ruth Hanna McCormick spent in obtaining the Republican nomination to the senate in Illinois...
...Fish, of New York, has sprung tc arms and plans to invade the Chicago Exchange at ence in a determined effort to uncover and punish the -'dirty Reds...
...McCormick when and if she appears before the Senate bar...
...The committee has been subjected to particularly obnoxious espionage...
...of Minnesota, loosely aligned with the Progressive group, soundly defeated the Hoover candidate in his state...
...It heavily underscored the fact that voters over the country are turning against the administration which takes credit for prosperity but disclaims responsibility for depression...
...which has beer ambling about all summer seeking tc flits commission of red-baiting to dra» attention from the coming elections Rep...
...Senator Mc-Master of South Dakota led the way when he put down the strongest opposition the state's Old Guard couid offer in the primary...
...Mrs...
...to see Phil and all the rest, of our ticket elected.—William Gili...
...Power Commission Acts THE persistent Progressive hammering on the Federal Power Commission and its hand-picked executive secretary has finally brought some results...
...His plea for strict accounting in the interest of the general public now carries more weight...
...McCormick has admitted already the expenditure of enormous sums in her campaign, and the general opinion exists here that more will be uncovered...
...Chairman Nye himself being shadowed over the country by gum-shoe artists in search of his "biography" in true "operative" style...
...Discrediting A Committee PRIVATE detectives and hostile newspapers have considerably hindered the Nye Campaign committee in its effort to find how much Mrs...
...The Minnesota Power and Light Co...
...King has been at odds with Executive Secretary Bonner, who was selected to...
...WORTH THE MONEY [Sheboygan...
...Sept, 20j—Enclosed find post office money order for a: other year...
...The commission, however, continues to be directed by the old personnel, with Bonner still at the helm, despite the fact that congress ordered a reorganization last session...
...He also apparently overlooks the fact that Russia is a heavy seller cf grain and would therefore scarcely seek to beat down the price of the commodity...
...It is probable no action will be taken toward appointing the new- members until the Senate meets again...
...Although the efforts of the McCormick supporters to discredit and hinder the commitee in every way possible maybe effective for the time, they may possibly react against their candidate if she wins in November...
...that it will disallow more than $775,000...
...As proof, Mr...
...All of the tricks the Hooverites could muster In Nebraska were not enough to snatch a substantial majority from Senator George Norris...
...Russian Wheat Sales FRANTIC measures are being taken to divert attention from the main issues until the November polls are passed...
...of a total of $920.-000...
...Hyde purports to show that a Russian government trading company made short sales of 5,000,000 bushels on the Chicago exchange...
...Senator Schall...
...By RADFORD E. MOBILEY WASHINGTON, D. Cv—The La Follette victory in Wisconsin, which aroused more interest in Washington than any other purely state contest in recent years, continues to be regarded with, great significance here as a cap to recent Progressive victories which have served to stimulate the Progressive fight and to spread considerable gloom among supporters of the Great Engineer...
...The commission has notified the Carolina Power Co...
...In their opinion the failure of the farm board will better explain the 50-cent decline of wheat...
...The victory of Phil La Follette by more than 100,000 votes over Governor Kohler, loyal Hoover supporter, was a fitting climax...
...These decisions on the part of tfca commission followed a savage onslaught by Chief Accountant William V. King on the companies for the methods they use in computing construction costs...
...Senators here who have had Hyde's statement called' to their attention characterize it as unwarranted...
...forth by the company as the cost of a North Carolina water power development, The commission's action, if finally upheld, will mean a cheaper rate to the power consumer in the Carolinas and will prevent tne issuance of watered stock...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 43
