UNITED STATES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 19 May 1924, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

MOVE TO MINIMISE AVAR PROFITEERING.

SOLDIER BONUS BILL.

BY CAJfyE-PBESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT *v j- WASHINGTON, May 17. ' +v discussion which is proceeding throughout the country on means to nunimise war profiteering, in which Messrs Hoover (Secretary of Commerce) and Wilbur (Secretary for the Navy) participated, has reached: an early legislative stage. ** The military affairs, committee of the House of Representatives has reported a resolution designed to take the profit out of war. The resolution would create a commission comoosejd of four Congressmen, two Senators and three presidential appointees, representing irespectmJ 6 J thQ Publ «> labour and industry, lhese, with the Secretaries for War the rsavy, and Commerce, would be empowered to, draft a plan for pooling the national resources and governmental machinery in order to operate without profit, any private interest in the case of war..

The House of Representatives passed the Soldier Bonus Bill over President Loohdges veto. The measure now goes to the Senate.