Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-12-17

and Hitchcock, when they gain ad'
mittance to his sick chamber, to be in
full possession of his mental faculties
But he is physically very weak, and
will presumably remain an invalid
during the remainder of his stay in
the White House. 1t was because OF
his physical weakness, and in the hope
of so resting his mind as to strength
en- his body, that Doctor Grayson kept
Secretary of State Lansing from men
tiOning the Mexican affair to Mr.. Will
son during the critical weeks leading
up to what looked like the verge OF
war.
One thing is determined by the re.
port of the two senators-there will
be no action in the senate to declare
the presidency vacant and thereby
place Mr.. Marshall in the post of chief
executive of the nation. If Senator
Fall, who is perhaps the most i'm.
placable of all the political foes OF
Mr.. Wilson, finds the president fully
competent to make decisions on for
eign policy no other Republican will
raise the issue.
CRISIS FOR SECRETARY OF
LABOR
A curious situation is created, by
the Hitchcock.Fall visit, for the sec.
rotary of labor. That member of the
cabinet has for weeks past been con.
sidering whether or not he should re.
sign. His reason for staying in the
presidents official family, even TEN.
porarily, is that he does not believe
that the sick man knows what the ma
jority in the cabinet and Fuel Admin
lstrator Garfield have been doing in
their refusal to end the coal strike by
granting the miners the 81 per cent
raise in pay which Secretary Wilson
told the miners the government would
approve
Now the secretary of labor is ex.
pected by the coal miners, whose
general secretary-treasurer he for
merly Was, to call upon tie president
just as the two senators called upon
the president, and to lay before the
invalid the facts in the coal strike
in order that the president may de-
clare himself either for or against
the action of the cabinet majority and
fuel administrator.
If the president does not repudiate
the action of the cabinet majority and
OF Doctor Garfield, and if the president
does not announce his willingness tC
make good the pledge of 81 per cent
increase in pay, in order to bring the
100000 coal miners back to work, then
Secretary of Labor Wilson will be in
a position to step gracefully out.
His friends say, with every indica
ton of confidence, that he will no,
hesitate to make his appeal and abide
by the result
IOWA HONORs PLUMB
Glenn E. Plumb, author of the plan
OF public ownership and efficient dem
ocratic control of the railroads that
has been adopted as their own by the
l,oOO,OOO organized employees on the
railroads of this country, is a native
OF Iowa. In the current issue of La
Dor, the weekly paper published here
by the Plumb Plan league, is given
an account of the triumphal reception
which r9r and Mrs. Plumb received
at Des Aloines when he spoke there
recently under the auspices of the la
Dor movement of the city,
James NJ. Pierce. publisher of the
Pierce farm weeklies, was one Of the
;ol,
famous lawyer at the station and due
largely to the advice of Mr.. Pierce
there were thousands of Iowa farmers
present at the meeting where the
railroad plan was discussed for more
than two hours.
Mr.. Plumb is a native of Iowa, was
born in log cabin and attended dis.
trlct school there, and in spite of their
evident hostility to his economic
ideas the Des Moines papers felt com
PEELED to give his arrival and his re.
ception-the dinner given in his honor
by Oberlin college alumni and the big
massmeeting at which he spoke-as
much space as though he were a stand.
pat candidate for governor.
iowa congressman are reaDing the
harvest of that meeting in great mum.
becs of letters and kilograms demand.
ing that they stop the return of the
railroads to private operation, and
that they see that the house does not
agree to any conference report en-.
bodying the Cummins or Esch bills
PARCELS POST SUCCESS
Remember how the old boys in con.
gress kicked when the farmers insisted
that they pass parcels post law?
Postmaster General Burleson, in
MS annual report to congress this past
week, shows that the number of par
cells carried has grown from 331,394,.
500 in 1913 to 2,25O,OOO00O in 1919.
1t is impossible to say just what profit
the service is earning at present, due
to the war conditions which interfered
with the making of a complete esti.
mate. For the year 1916, which was
the last year calculated, the profit was
about Sl0,000,000.
On March Is, 1918, the weight limit
u parcels was further increased from