Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1916 — High Cost of Living Main Topic In Congress. [ARTICLE]

High Cost of Living Main Topic In Congress.

What to do about the high cost of living was the uppermost question in the minds of the congressmen when the sixty-.foui’th congress met for its final session Monday. In response to the outcries of the folks ba/!k home, the legislators introduced bills proposing various schemes for the bringing down of prices and discussed the causes of the present conditions and power of the government to provide remedies. With opinions of both houses overwhelmingly opposed to an embargo on the exportation of foodstuffs, the statesmen appeared to be floundering for a pancea. Sabbath, of Illinois, wants an invest’gation into the advances of of food, clothing, paper and coal and proposes monthly reports from cold storage warehouses.