Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-11-28


appointiye capacity make reports,
send thousands of specimens of their
handiWork in printed form to their
constituents, and occasionally they do
not limit the production to the fields
OF their immediate districts.
Change Will Be Unpopular.
Thls change in the old free-for.a,J
mailing system probably will he on.
ceedingly unpopular, and it seems
likely that quiet attempts will be
made to induce the party members
VINO are responsible for it's sugges-
ton, and the party leaders who have
given it their sanction, to change
their minds and to prevent the pro
vision from coming to a vote. It ia
virtually certain, however. that if the
proponents of the plan stick to their
intention there will be few members
or congress, Democrats, Republicans
or Progressives, who will care, OF
mayhap dare, to vote against it.
1t will be put forward by the com
mlttee with the sanction of the post.
master general, who it is understood
In his annual report, and with such
endorsement, coupled with the word
that 1t is in line with the Democratic
policy of economy, it probably will be
enacted into law
To Cut Printing Bills.
Side by side with this plan to abol-
ish the ranking privilege, it is the
intention to introduce a bill which will
cut the printing expenses of the gov
eminent. The joint committee on
printing Of house and senate will rec.
ommend that a rule or law, which
ever is necessary to accomplish the
end, shall be enacted which shall for
bid the wholesale printing of docu-
ments for which there is likely to be
little demand. There are thousands
of government reports turned out by
the departments every year to say
nothing of the thousands of congress
sional reports and documents.
1t is never known in advance how
great demand there may be for the
publications, and so in the absence Of
definite knowledge on the subject it
has been the custom to print large
numbers of everything which the off,
cial pens produce. Hereafter it is
the intention to have an estimate
made of the probable popularity of
written reports, and the orders for
printing them will be shortened or
heightened accordingly.
Will Debate Naval Holiday"
Shortly after congress meets in
regular session it will have brought
before it for debate and perhaps for
passage a resolution introduced by
Representative Hensley of Missou-
ri declaring readiness to cooperate
with Winston Churchill, lord of
Great Britains admiralty, in an at
tempt to get the great powers of the
world to agree to stop all warship
building for one year. If this resolu-
ton shall be sanctioned and if other
governments join with the United
States and Great Britain, the Ameri-
can administrations plan for three
battleships this year will be kept on
the shelf for another twelve months
at least.
national peace, known to the f1ippant
as the Peace trust" because it DOM
mates the peace endeavor organization
of the world, will say about the Hens
ley resolution no one yet knows It
seems as if so simple method of saw
ing money and at the same time pre-
venting one nation from getting ahead
of another in armament ought to. ap-
peal to the proponents CT the cause
of the dove and the plowfhare. Since
this matter of calling Of the big ar
morers and the big gua makers for
one year was brough! before the
house the members have been interest
ed in looking UP the armament budget
figures. Mr.. Taft's economy and ell
cheney commission, whith was legis-
lated out of existence last year, made
a report and it is now being consulted
by congressman who thought the COM
mission was of no particular service
Nearly Half for Defense.
The members of the commission fig
ured out on the basis of che estimates
for the year 1913 that the total gov
eminent expenses were 1888, 1921
and that of this sum $4G2,918,347 was
voted for purposes of national defense,
leaving $436, 686.961 for the civil func-
lions of the government. 1t will be
seen from these figures that the ex-
penditures for preparations for war
fall little short of the sums needed
for the activities OF government along
the lines of the coH.mot welfare
which run at right angles to those
leading to war.
If the Hensley resolution does not
mass and If the plan of Winston
Churchill shall fail, the expenditures
by the United States next year for
national defense purposes will be far
larger than those which were voted to
meet the requirements of the last
GEAR. There seems to be justlfication
in the figures for the blunt words OF
Speaker Champ Clark when In sup
- 20 l,;o fo1low MiSSourian'S naval