New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-12-10

VIII De no sinai TASK.
The senate proposes to accept thu
revised budget legislation during Thu
short session. Leading Republican
members of the senate say that there
is no doubt that budget Legislation
will be completed by the senate's pass
ing the budget bill, which the hous,
passed last June, on the eve Of ad
journment. after II had eliminated th'
features of the legislation to which
President Wilson took exception in /;
veto message. II Is the thought OF
the Republican leaders in the senat,
that the legislation as revised In ac
cordance with the Presidents idea
shall be accepted so as to enable the
new secretary Of the treasury under
President Harding TO start his admin
~istration with a budget system.
May Be Revised Later.
Later. it is pointed out, if the new
Republican congress shall deem 1t ad
visable, the budget legislation can be
overhnuled. The important thing in
the judgment of the Republican lead
ers in the present congress is To get the
budget system under way. The ap-
preparation bills that will be passed
during the coming session. the bills
for the fiscal year beginning July l,
1921, will be prepared under the q
rule of the house of representatives,
which cOnsOlidates the various com
mittees in the house that have hereto
fore dealt with appropriation bills,
That rule vas adopted when 1t was
believed the budget legislation would
be completed in time to apply II Ia
the appropriations for the next fiscal
year. The first business of the house
Will be TO provide for the enlarged
committee.
1t Is always the ease that an out
going house of representatives has 10
deal with the personal desires of a
large number of members whose terms
expire on the fourth of March. An
unusually large number of private
bills. so called, are on the calendar
at this time and the house will I'M
doubtedly give them n respectful hear
ing during the session. AS for the
senate, It looks as If II would mark
time while waiting for the house TO
send over the appropriation bills, I'M
less the Versailles treaty should be re-
submitted to It. Even IL the treaty
should be resubmitted. there is no
assurance that the senate would give
II any consideration, though there are
senators who believe that il might do
SO.
No Women In Cabinet.
Apparently there Is no prospect
of the women being represented in
the cabinet Of President Harding.
The measure of recognition of women
accorded by the new administration
will probably depend on the de-
mands they make, say the men poll
ticlans. 1t will certainly be the policy
of the new administration 10 do
everything possible to please the
women are In a position to demand
much.
As nearly AS the statistlcians ran
make out at this time, there were
for the country. as a whole, about
women votes for Harding
and Coolidge for every one hundred
votes. So the women, if they
desire TO do 50, can justly say that
they Ind . hand in the Republican
landslide almost equal 70. that of the
men. As to the question about the
women apd the cabinet, the men folk
who are in politics in q big way are
disposed To take the view that the
women should have some training in
public life before aspiring to places
in the cabinet. The time will come,
they say, when women will sit IN the
cabinet but it will not come next
Plenty Of Places for Them.
If the women really desire To help
run the government during The next
four years, there will be plenty of
which they ran undoubtedly
fill in nm acceptable way. Already
N'iii'i i'lpfN'lllinS Nhil'uS "ShillLu'
have been looking into the num-
.er Of offices outside Of the classified
service, and they have been surprised.
50 one OF them said today, To find that
there Will be so many good places at
disposal Of the new president.
There will be, first of all. the women
discover, the assistant secretaryships
various departments. places that
pay an average of 5000 n year. Some
IF these assistant secr~etaryships. like
hose In the treasury, require train
.ng Of n technical character. but GEN
rally speaking the positions here do
lot require any special training. So
I is assumed that the members Of
he new cabinet In choosing their as
'istants will have to consider appli-
from women.
Then there Is the diplomatic srv-
ce. which Is likely to tempt the wom-
N. No n expects to see n woman
appointed TO an Enthusiastically. or
made a minister In the foreign
at this time. but Il is not i'm
,robable. IL is believed. that women
will be recognized in making appoint
nents to fill vacancies as they occur
n the diplomatic forces abroad.
here are, for instance. many desir-
BILE secretaryships I'm the diplomatic
ervice that women could fill accept
bly,. and some of the foremost women
\ the United States have for some
ime been referring to the desirablllty
f having a woman assistant at every
lmerican embassy abroad. whose spe-
ial duty il would be 10 look after
he wants of American women who
ought the assistance of the embassy.
he consular service is also looked
pom as affording IN opening for the
-omen who have aspirations 10 serve