Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-28
HARD|NGCONT|NUES
TALK ON TARIFF
Senator McCumber and 0s.
car Strauss at Marion
Conference.
By the Associated Press.

ny tne Associated Press.
MARION. December eS.--President-
elect Harding today continued his dis
cussion of domestic questions with
Senator Porter McCumber of North
Dakota, ranking member of the Sen
ate finance committee, and with Oscar
Strauss. former Secretary of Com
merce and Labor.
Senator McCumber is expected to
discuss with MIR. Harding, beside finan-
c1al matters. the proposed emer-
gency tariff bill now before the Sen
ate Mr. Strauss is expected to discuss
matters pertaining to foreign COM
merce.
MARION, Ohio December 2S.-Sena-
tor McCumber, the only republican
member of the Senate who voted for
ratification of the Versailles treaty
and league of nations without reser-
vations advised President-elect Hard
ing to go ahead with his proposition
Tor formation of All association of ma
flons independent of the league, as he
considered the league dead. so far as
the United States is concerned.
Yesterdays Conferences.
Senator Harding yesterday inter
rupted his discussion of foreign policy
and an association of nations with
prominent citizens to take matters of
domestic concern. around which most
of the discussion during the present
week Will center. He commenced his
talks on domestic subjects with Rep
resentative James W. Good OF Iowa
chairman of the House appropria-
lions committee He also talked with
Max Fsabinoff, conductor of the Chi
cago Opera Company. on Russian
trade.
That Senator Harding will resign
his seat in the Senate Immediately
upon the Inauguration of Gov.-elect
Davis and the governor-elect will i'm
!mediately appoint Senator-elect Frank
b. Willis to the vacancy was definite
~ announced by Mr.. Davis after a
conference with Mr.. Harding.
The conference yesterday with Rep
resentative Good was said to have
chiefly concerned appropriations and
proposed budget system. In a state
ment issued after the conference
Chairman Good said he had pointed
out to Senator Harding the impor-
lance. as it seemed to him, of having
budget legislation passed by the
present Congress so the fiscal opera
lions of the new administration might
be inaugurated-o the budget plan.
Mr.. Goods Suggestion.
Ny suggestion he said. was that
the best possible budget system be Sc
cured at once and that later it might
he modified if necessary. 1t is, of
course. highly desirable that the
policy of the new administration be
formulated as soon as possible SO that
Congress may conform it's program to
that policy. The present Congress is
making appropriations which will ru.i
well into the Harding administration.
but which of necessity represent the
policy of the present. rather than the
incoming administration.
Appropriations. of course. are made
for the purpose of carrying ont a
particular line OF policy. and it is
therefore desirable that the policy
should be known to the appropriating
authorities as early as possible"
Mr.. Rabinof's conference with
Senator Harding was said to concern
opening Of trade relations with Rus
STA through the great Russian CO.
operative societies without giving
formal recognition to the Russian So
Wet government He said that open
ing Of trade relations with the United
States Is absolutely necessary il
Russia ID to be rehabilitated and to
save Itself, much less to make its
proper contribution TO the recon-
struction of Europe
House Leader SfondelI will leave
Washington tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock for a conference in Marion.
Ohio, with President-electH Harding.