HE battle for reorganization of
government bureaus and agencies
and for a general reduction in ex-
penditures developed into a partisan
struggle in congress
with President Hoo-
ver's proposals under
attack, The President
led off with a special
message to CONgress,
in which he said that
while a further reduc-
tion of $200.000,000 in
expenditures, In ad-
dition to the billion
dollars of new taxes,
would be required to
balance the budget,
an even greater sav-
ing could be accom-
plished by consolidation of bureaus
and boards, by reform of administra-
tive methods, by abolition of “less
necessary functions,” and by temporary
suspension of other activities.
Inasmuch far
economy program would
repeal and amendment
tude of existing
hat the preparation of a compre
give plan be assigned 1o a
sion composed of
men and representatives of the Execu-
tive.
The President's proposals met with
immediate opposition the part of
Democrats in both and a de
mand that the Executive submit spe-
cific recommendations for the reduc
tion of expenditures. Speaker Garner
declared that it was too late to create
new commissions and assured the
President that any specific recom-
mendations he has to cut expenses will
get quick action in the house.
In reply to the
against his message, the
a Iater statement
“What 1 asked for in
was organized, nonpartisar
tion by all forces to reduce
ment expenses in the n
gency which insistently
lief for the taxpayer.”
“What 1 have asked for Is not a
commission, but that the and
house delegate representatives to sit
from the
administration and endeavor to draft a
pational economy bill"
Continuing. he sald that without
guch action he saw no way by which
here can be a
espenditu
The comeback to this was that if
the President failed to present definite
proposals for a reduction In expenses
the Democratic leaders would present
a plan of their own.
Senator Jones, Washington, Repub-
Hean, acting on the President's pro-
posals, Introduced a joint resolution In
the senate to create a commission of
three senators, three representatives
and three officials of the administration
to draft an economy program and re-
port within thirty days. It would not
only suggest where appropriations
should be slashed, but also recommend
consolidation and elimination of gov-
ernment bureaus and agencies. The
resolution met instant opposition in
the senate.
The major senate contest over the
billion dollar tax bill, now the subject
of hearings before the senate finance
committee, will probably develop with
the move already started by Inde
pendent members of both parties to
boost the surtax rates on the higher
incomes to a figure above the 40 per
cent maximum voted by the house,
That a determined effort will be made
to restore the manufacturers’ sales tax
to the revenue bill is a certainty. That
ft will be accomplished is a foregone
conclusion,
The importance of government sal
ary cuts in the economy scheme has
been emphasized In support given the
idea by Senator Robinson, the Demo-
cratic leader, and Senator Harrison,
Democrat, Mississippl. The latter fore.
cast with regret, that a general slash
was likely to materialize.
The house special economy commit.
tee has approved bills to dispense with
the army and navy transport service,
with an assorted annual reduction In
expenditures; to postpone indefinitely
part of the government's big construe
tion program In the Capital at a saving
of £750,000, and to establish the inter.
national water commission, This Is
all the consoliduting and dispensing
yet recommended by the committee,
Both the house and senate appropri.
ation committees continue to trim each
bill down to the bone,
President
Hoover
as so reaching an
require the
of a multi
propose d
laws, he
hen-
commis
senators, cong
on
houses,
voiced
President in
opposit ion
said:
my message
co-opera-
govern-
ational emer-
re
senate
down with representatives
maximum reduction in
NDEPENDENCE for the Philippines,
an agitated Issne for three decades,
is made possible by a bill which passe
the House by a vote of 300 to 47, giving
freedom to the islands. Not a Demo
eratie vote was cast against the bill,
and only two Democrats were paired
in the negative. And on the Repub
fican side the 47 who voted “no” were
more than doubly matched by 118 who
voted “yes,” The Democratic total for
the bill was 186 and the single Farmer.
Labor vote was In the affirmative,
The bill agreed to provides for com-
plete freedom for the Philippines aft.
er the islands have adopted a suitable
eonstitntion and undergone a proba.
tionary and semiautonomous period
of eight years, during which tariff ex
ports to the United States shall be
limited to present levels and lmmigra-
tion restricted to 50 persons annually.
On the Fourth of July following the
conclusion of the eight-year period,
American sovereignty is to be with-
drawn without any native plebiscite as
provided In other measures. The
United States will reserve only the
right to retain certain naval and mil-
itary bases.
HE senate finance committee pre-
sided over by Chairman Smoot,
has opened its hearings on the billion
dollar revenue bill passed by the
house, A veritable
avalanche of applica-
tions for hearings
have been received by
the committee.
Secretary of the
Treasury Mills was
the first witness at the
hearing. He offered
suggestions to elim-
inate defects and dis
criminations In
house measure.
Reed
Pennsylvania,
lican member of the committee, began
the
Senato of
Reed Smoot senator G
Repub-
a drive to line up support for a general
manufacturers’ tax In the
revenue bill,
After informal discussions with Re-
publicans and Democrats, Reed an-
nounced prospects for inserting a sales
levy, similar to that rejected by the
house, were by no means ag unfavor-
able as forecast,
He will offer the sales tax amend-
ment to the finance committee, of
which he is a member, If he finds the
proposal has a chance to pass. Ex
cise taxes substituted by the house for
the sales levy were described as
eyed sales taxes.” The sales tax,
held, is equitable and fair.
sales new
“cook.
he
ANTEW YORK STATE'S primary was
+ a walkaway for the R¢
and the Hoover tickets in the
Democratic and the Republican
tests,
wsevelt
jone
con-
In the Democratic contest, in the
Forty-first congressional district In
Buffalo, supporters of Gov. Franklin
D. Roosevelt swamped a ticket favor-
able to former Gov. Alfred E. Smit
by better than 2 to lL
The Republican contests were In
New York city and in Brooklyn. Dele
gates favorable to the renomination
of President Hoover won by spproxi
mately 18 to 1 in one and by about
4 to 1 In the other district over sup
porters of Joseph L France of Mary
land,
There was no opposition to the
regular tickets anywhere else In the
state. The Republican delegates to
the national convention will sapport
the President. Most of the upstate
Democratic delegates are Roosevelt
supporters, but the powerful Tam
many bloc has not announced Its
stand.
ENATOR ALBEN W. BARKLEY of
Kentucky will deliver the keynote
address for the Democratic party
when the national convention meets
in Chicago on June
27. His selection was
made by a subcom
mittee of 23 national
committeemen In an
all-day session in Chi
cago. Jouett Shouse
of Kansas City, who
was Senator Barkley's
chief rival for the
honor, Is to be rec
ommended for perma-
nent chairman of the
convention. Mr
Shouse, who 18 execu. A.W. Barkley
tive chairman of the national commit.
tee, issued the following statement
at the close of the meeting:
“By unanimows action of the com-
mittee It was decided to recommend
to the natignal committee, to be in
turn recommended to the convention,
the selection of Senator Barkley for
temporary chairman and the selection
of Mr. Shouse as permanent chalrman
of the convention.
“Our conference was one
most harmonious ever held.”
of the
NFURIATED by months of distress
from unemployment and dissatis-
faction with the government policy,
a mob of 10,000 stormed the house of
assembly at St. John's, Newfoundland,
and forced the resignation of the gov-
ernment, Windows were smashed and
publie documents strewn in the streets,
onstration. World war veterans then
took charge of the situation and suc
ceeded In partially restoring order.
Citizens obeyed only the World war
officers and the veterans under them
on the streets of the capital, while
most of the police were bottled up
in the assembly building by the irate
mob which milled outside,
The war veterans closely guarded
the residence of Premier Bir Richard
Squires, who narrowly escaped seri
ous injury In the riot when he was
aided to his home by three clergymen,
who quieted a small portion of the
mob which recognized the premier as
he was hurried away.
"THERE will be no “discussion or
negotiation” on the question of
European debts by Secretary of State
Stimson during his visit to Geneva,
was the emphatic
declaration of Presi.
dent Hoover,
Stimson's visit is
solely In the interest
of securing concrete
and definite results
from the general dis-
armament conference,
even though those
results may not be
revolutionary in char-
acter, the President
said,
“The world needs,
both economically and
spiritually, the relief that can
from some degree of successful issue
by the disarmament conference,” the
President sald.
“Some two months ago I presented
fdeas which 1 belleved would con-
tribute to a solution of some of the
problems, and which were fncorpo-
rated In the general program.
Secretary
timson
LEAR signals were visible during
March that important results were
of public agencies and private finance
to bring about basic improvement In
the condition of business, the Ameri
enn Bankers’ Association Journal says
in its monthly review.
It notes that, mithough
stimulations in current commercial and
industrial activity were Incking and
favorable trends in standard trade in-
dexes not
immediate
were apparent, growth In
and de
definite to
rease In
fear he
on anything
foal
ied
were “ton
but solid facts and
ght than formal
ster
greater we
te expression of a return of
€
jal co was given for a
period during March In the bond mar.
ket, which evidenced a relaxation in
the pressure of financial distress an
fear, and a turn in the of
safety and confidence, the Journal says
*The most
ness betterment
spread return
direction
important aspect of busi
has been the
the banks to
wide
of more
normal conditions,” it says,
attributing this to
Finance corporation
operating
the Reconstruction
and other co-oper-
ative arrangements for assisting both
that
desired effects
closed and operating are
“clearly having the "
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GEN-
eral Seth Richardson, in a report
to the senate, described police admin.
y Honolulu as “impotent,
neglectful and
was in answer to a sen
ate res calling for
on law enforcement in Hawall t fol
lowed the wave of
and over the
reign of terror in ti ds, and par-
ticularly in Honolulu, brought to light
by the attack and assault by five na
tives upon Mra Tralia Massie.
Mr. Richardson re mended the
appolr by the President of a ter
rial police head for the
i aa 108
ritory, with full power of control
lution information
criticistu In navy
congressional
y iment
rito entire ter
and
organization, and similar appointment
of an attorney general to be the put
prosecutor,
Regarding
R rdson
ie
conditions In
reported:
general,
“We found no organized crim
important criminal
criminal rackets
substantial
no
no
find
crime
class, and
We did not
evidence that a
wave-—so-called—was in existence in
Honolulu, We did find, however,
ample evidence of extreme laxity in
the administraton of law enforcement
agencies,
“We belleve that a continuation of
guch laxity is fraught with much so
cial and political danger.”
HE pinch of national economy
prompted Senator Pat Harrison of
Mississippl, ranking Democrat on the
finance committee, to Issue a dec
laration against full
payment of the vel
erang’ bonus certifi
cates, Citing the
£2,000,000,000 deficit in
prospect for the gov-
ernment this year and
the pending bill to
raise new taxes, the
senator in a letter to
veterans of his state
said:
“1 regret that exist
ing conditions impel
me, In the interest of
the country, to oppose the legislation
at this time.”
The stand taken by Senator Harri
gon, coupled with the known view of
other senate leaders, Is believed to
doom any prospect of enaétment into
law of the bonus payment measure.
In his statement the Democratic
financial leader of the senate pointed
ont that $1.000,000,000 of the $4,000.
000,000 government budget now goes
to the relief of war veterans,
Pia
Pat Harrison
DECISION which brought to a
stop the congressional career of
Peter C. Granata of Chicago gave the
Democrats of the house a full ten.
vote lead over thelr Republican op
ponents,
Granata was voted out and Stanley
H. Kunz was voted in by the house
members. It was a decision on an
election contest brought by the lat
r, the Democratic congressional ean
Idate In the Eighth Illinois district,
against the Republican who had been
sented nt the outset of the session on
the strength of his certificate of elec
tion,
The standing of the parties In the
house now Ix: Democrats, 221: Re
publicans, 211; farmerdabor, 1; vacan
cles, 2.
(0. 1922, Western Newspaper Union.)
Ways of Cutting
Production Costs
Colorado Expert Suggests
Ideas for Obtaining
Best Results.
Ways of cutting live stock and crop
costs of production were discussed be-
fore farmers attending the feeders’
at the government experiment
ant director of the Colorado Agricul-
tural college extension gervice.
Suggestions for reducing production
costs Included:
1. Culling unprofitable live stock
and replacing it with good individuals,
2. Feeding balanced rations,
8. Keeping premises sanitary and
stock healthy,
4. Keeping
duction,
5. Using only good seed of adapted
records of costs of pro-
8. Controlling plant diseases.
7. Destroying pests, Insects nd
“We should not be afraid to inves-
“This is no time to take a
“What live stock pays for feed de
on the feed and live stock
markets, skill in management and
equipment to permit handling at low
Cost,
“Live
the sta-
stock contributes to
of farming, and® makes
danced farm business by
nighir an throughout
year, by distributing
ly from season to season, and
nishing a for products
the market will not 1
either because
oversupply.
“Ordinarily, with |
live stock will pay more
crops than the cash grain
for a
fur-
the
labor more equal
11
sure
income
market
Much Loss From Insect
Pests Is Preventable
When we fight insect pests we are
attempting to agricultural
ion rather necessarily
increase production,
conserve
than to
Ing to save ourselves 1
of ten cents on the d
extort. In norm
to more than
agricultural
large part
If nine cov
pests, wii
unprotects
tor th
cally
cow?
preventable i
saved with less effort and expense than
it takes
amount,
to actually prodoce that
If it were not so there would
he no excuse for the state and federal
departments to urge farmers to prac
tice farm {tation and out
san to carry
f insect
lossel
and
ac
the various other Ii con
trol work "ru insect
cannot be controlled omically,
such losses we must continpe to
cept until
A means
them. Missouri Farmer,
gome one perhaps devises
of effectively controlling
Storing Soybeans
Soybeans should have less than 15
to 16 per cent moisture before thes
are to be stored, according to J. C
fiackleman, University of Illinois
With thousands of bushels of beans
being harvested and stored it is im-
portant that these beans be put into
storage in proper condition to keep
without spoilage.
“In addition to the
tent, farmers can control three other
factors which determine the grade of
soybeans,” says Hackleman. “These
are conditions and appearance, broken
and split beans and foreign material
Ag for condition and appearance, soy
beans, lke corn, should ‘look good,
moisture oon
“The amount of damaged beans may
dry when threshed.”
Barley Smut Control
Effectiveness of organic mercury
by the Wisconsin university with a
great reduction In the losses sustained
from these diseases in Wisconsin,
Reed treatment plus new pedigree
gtrains No. 87 and 38, which are re
plstant to stripe, have given striking
results in control. Likewise the adop-
tion by growers of {reatments such as
formaldehyde dust are recognized by
the university as being standard effec
tive methods that are easy to apply
and less risky to use, They claim 100
per cent control of oat smut when
these dusts are used under practical
farm conditions. The treated seed
usnally yields enough more to amply
pay for the cost of material and labor.
~Wiscinsin Agriculturist,
Legume Helps Wheat
Marging of profit on wheat may be
widened as much as nine bushels an
acre when the crop follows a legume
rather than a nonlegume in the rota-
tion. This is shown hy a comparison
of wheat yields after legume hay and
after corn in a rotation of wheat, cor
wheat, legume hay, grown on an Ii
nole expériment station field, The
legume in the case of the experiments
wns a mixture of alfalfa, red clover
and alstke grown for hay and the sec
and crop plowed down for wheat.
Put Bees in Right
Section of Orchard
—
Point Discovered to Be of
Much Importance.
One virtue of honey bees, of finish-
Ing a job they start, may prove em-
barrassing to frult growers, Accord-
Ing to Prof. L. HH. McDanlels of the
New York State College of Agricul
ture, beekeepers call this character-
istic constancy, which means that
when bees start working on a
certain kind of blossoms in a certain
place they continue working there un-
til the supply of nectar or pollen is
exhausted,
once
bouquets, because the bees placed in
the apple orchard worked in a near-
by cherry orchard and did not visit
the apple hlossoms while the bouquets
were shedding pollen. Similar difficul-
ties have been experienced in the Pa-
cific Northwest where bees are like
ly to visit sagebrush blossoms on sur-
rounding hills rather than the apple
blossoms, unless the apple blossoms
are open when the bees are brought to
the orchard.
Pees are interested mainly in nectar
gathering, and not the problem of
cross-pollination, However, honey
bees by far the important
insect which transfer pollen
use deserves careful cor
Professor
fire most
sideration
orchardists MceDanlels ad-
viges
®
Soybeans Put Forward _
as Quick Legume Crop
What can I plant as a quick legun
crop? This qu
several different
recogni the
nized ns
but it car
wat be grown In one sea
place.
ans A8 a solu
or in
Wi
every Many are looking
oward
is no doubt
have
a warm-weather crop,
about the same
later. They
inches ¢
ike oats
the pods
the
hean
otation Proves Value
KX rotation including a
a cultivated crop has Increased
legume and
wheat yield on Stockion Brothers farm
in Polk county, 15
re,
5 bushels an
Legume “Bugs”
All other the
legume the
largest number of bacteria will be the
Abundance of bacteria
means just that many more for each
the inoculating bac
teria will dle anyway : some will never
reach the plants’ small roots; some
will be washed away; and the inoc-
glant containing the largest numbers
will have just that many more after
josses have thinned the ranks. Play
safe—be sure the Inoculant contains
a large number of efficient bacteria. —
Farmer's Journal,
It's Best to Thin
To many people it seems almost a
erime to pick off a part of the small
fruits on peach or apple trees which
are carrying a heavy load of fruit
However, experiments have proved
that the thinning of peaches to a dis
tance of 6 inches between fruits, and
apples to only one fruit on one-half
of the spurs on the tree, will reduce
the cost of thinning and will give fruit
of more value.—Kansas Farmer, "
things being equal,
fnoculant that contains
one (oo use
soed. Some of
A gricultural Notes
mil knives In the erszilage cutter In.
crease the power requirement about 50
per cent,
. - .
A total of 60,657 common barberry
bushes were eradicated In Wisconsin
last year, according to V. O. Taylor,
agent in charge.
* 8 »
It the garden is carefully planned
{wo vegetables a day will be provided
for summer use and two vegetables a
day can be canned or stored for win.
ter use.
® * »
More than one-fifth of the total erop
of broom corn produced In the United
States In 1081 was farmed in Ilinbls,
a » »
Two dollarg’ worth of superphos-
phate spread on an acre of pasture
this spring will pay returns this sea.
son and continue to pay for about four
more years,
. 8 =
A ten-year test hy the Ohlo agricul:
tural experiment station shows a loss
of one bushel of corn per acre for
each day of delay In planting corn aft:
er May 18
A NECESSITY
who
were
Two men,
| quaintances,
| ture,
“Are
one,
“Oh, yes,” was the reply.
“I'm not: it's bound to be most bor-
ing, I'm sure.”
“I'm sorry you think that way, but
I must attend. You see, I'm the lec-
turer.” Pearson's.
were bit nere
y t
discussing a
ne
lec
»
you going to attend?” asked
NO OTHER WAY
~
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{ vestigate the m
should
know anything unl
"
PETE.
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chief of
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«nid the magazine !}
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“In what way 4id it man
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life to your own
answered
| look after my affairs
They Freeze
“Yes, isn't it strange that when peo
| ple get frozen y rub their
snow until ulation is
| stored?”
Benevolent
limbs
{ with re
Old what do
they do with the poor people in sum
| mer?
An Example
“I say, old chap, what's
| ence between
{ crete’?
| “Well, when my wife promises to
| make a cake, that's abstract; when
{ she makes one it's concrete.”
differ.
‘con-
the
‘abstract’ and
MAY RESCUE HIM
Her—Yes, I've thrown Tom over
board.
Him—Then it is all over forever?
Her—Oh, no, not forever. 1 may
drop him a line at any time.
At His Leisure
Doctor—Give up smoking, captain,
and you will prolong your life by 20
years,
Captain—But Isn't it too late now?
Doctor—-It's pever too late.
Captain—Then I'll start in ten
year's time.—Passing Show.
Fugue in Seven Sharps
Blinks-—1 hear you and your neigh-
bor are on the outs. What happened?
Jinks-—Well, my kids are taking
music lessons, and the other day he
sent over an ax with a note saying,
“Try this on your piano !"—Cincinnatl
Enquirer.
Just What She Needs
Bore (at 11 p. m.)~] heard a ghost
story the other night—by Jove, it did
make me start!
She-I wish 1 knew itl
His Modest Bit
flousewife (to hobo)—You here
again? Well, I've nothing for you. |
don’t believe you've done a thing this
winter.
Hobo—Yer wrong, me lady. 1 just
done thirty days—Boston Transcript.
Specialists in Veracity
“1 like people who speak the truth”
“So do 1” replied Miss Cayenne;
“although 1 confess 1 am annoyed by
those who can't recognize it unless i
is something disagrecable”