Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. FOOD FIGHT IN THE SENATE Speculation and Prohibition Are tho Points of Contest. Washington, D. C., May 21. —The senate today took up the administration bill, providing for a federal survey of food supplies, stimulation of production, prevention of hoarding, licensing of dealers and authorizing mixing of flours. Chances were that consideration would develop strong fights over the question of prohibiting use of grains for liquor during the war, to be proposed in an amendment by prohibition senators, and the amendment which Senator Gore, chairman of the agricultural committee, offered to give the President power to promulgate regulations preventing gambling in foods.