Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-12-10

preparations. The relation between the
current receipts and current expenditures
of the government during the present fs-
cal year, as well as during the last half
of the last fiscal year, has been disturbed
by the extraordinary burdens thrown
upon the treasury by the transportation
act, in connection with the return of the
railroads to private control. Over $780,,
000o00 has already been paid to the rail-
roads under this act-S250 100000 during
the present fiscal year-and it is estimated
that further payments aggregating pos
Sibly $3.50 600, 900 must still be made to the
railroads during the current year. 1t is
obvious that these large payments have
already seriously limited the governments
progress in retiring the floating debt.
Closely connected with this, it seems to
me, is the necessity for an immediate
consideration of the revision of our tax
laws Simplif1cation of the income and
profits taxes has become an immediate
necessity These taxes performed an in
dispensab BILE service during the war. The
need for their simplfcation, however, is
very great in order to save the taxpayer
inconvenience and expense and in order
to make his liability more certain and
definite Other and more detailed recon-
mendations with regard to taxes will no
doubt be laid before you by the secretary
of the treasury and the commissioner of
internal revenue.
Would Aid War Heroes.
It is my privilege to draw to the atten-
ton of congress for every sympathetic
considerat ton the problem OF providing
adequate facilities for the care and treat
ment of former members of the military
and naval forces who are sick or disabled
as the result of their participation in the
war. These heroic men can never be paid
IN Fnr
cally rendered the nation. Their reward
will lie rather in realization of the fact
that they INDICATED the rights of their
country and aided in safeguarding civili-
cation. The nations gratitude must be
effectively revealed to them by the most
ample provision for their medical care
and treatment as We'll as for their voca-
tional training and placement.
The time has come when more COM
plete program can be formulated and
more satisfactorily administered for
their treatment and training, and earn
estly urge that the congress give the
matter its early consideration. The sec
rotary of the treasury and the board for
vocational education will outline in their
annual reports proposals covering medi-
cal care and rehabilitation which am
sure will engage your earnest study ana
command your most generous support.
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the need for action upon certain matters
upon which / dwelt at some length in
my message to the second session of the
6sth congress: The necessity, for exam
pie, of encouraging the manufacture OF
dyestuffs and related chemicals; the Inn
portance of doing everything possible to-
promote agricultural production along
economic lines, to improve agricultural
marketing and to make rural life more
attractive and healthful: the need for
Inv regulating cold storage in such a way
as to limit the time during which goods
may be kept in storage. prescribing the
method of disposing of them If kept be-
yond the permitted period, and requiring
goods released from storage in all cases
to bear the date of their receipt.
Would Mark Storage Goods.
1t would also be most serviceable If
it were provided that all goods released
from cold storage for interstate shipment
should have plainly marked upon each
package the selling or market prices at
which they went into storage, in order
that the purchaser might be able to
learn what profits stood between him and
the producer or the wholesale dealer. In
deed, il would be very seryiceable to the
public If all goods destined for inter-
state commerce were made to carry upon
every package case whose form made
it possible a plain statement of the price
at which they left the hands of the pro-
Queer. I respectfully call your attention.
also. to the recommendations of the mes
sage referred to with regard to federal
license for all corporations engaged In
interstate commerce.
In brief the immediate legislative
need of the time is the removal of all
obstacles to the realization of the best
ambitions of our people in their sew
eral classes OF employment and the
strengthening of all instrumentalities
by which difficulties are to be met and
removed and justice dealt out, wheth-
err by law or by some form of media
ton and Cancellation. I do not feel 1t
to be my privilege at present to sug-
gest the detailed and particular meth
DDS by which these objects may be
attained. but I have faith that the in
ouiries of your several committees will
discover the way and the method.
Asks for Loan to Armenia.
In response to what believe to be
the impulse of sympathy and opinion
throughout the United States, I ear
nestly suggest that the congress au-
thorize the treasury of the United
States to make to the struggling gov
eminent of Armenia such a loan as
was made to several of the allied gov
ernments during the war, and I would
also suggest that it would be desira-
Bile to provide In the legislation itself
that the expenditure Of the money thus
loaned should be under the supervision
of commission, or at least a COM
missioner from the United States, in
order that revolutionary tendencies
within Armenia itself might not be af-
forded by the loan a further tempting
opportunity.
Allow me to call your attention to the
fact that the people of the Philippine
islands have succeeded in maintaining a
stable government since the last action
of the congress in their behalf and have
thus fulfilled the condition set by the
congress as precedent to a consideration
of granting independence to the islands.
I respectfully submit that this condition
precedent having been fulfilled, 1t is now
our liberty and our duty to keep our
promise to the people of those islands by
granting them the independence which
they so honorably covet.
/ have not so much laid before you
series of recommendations, gentlemen, as
sought to utter a confession OF faltn, OF
the faith in which I was bred and to
which it is my solemn purpose to stand
by until my last fighting day. l believe
this to be the faith of America, the faith
of the nation, and of all the victories
which await national action in the days
to come, whether in America or elsewhere.
An American Indian in California
owns a bee ranch of 900 stands that
produced thifty-three tons Of honey
this season.