Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-11
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An appropriation of S1,OOO,OOO to be
used in cooperation with the states in
forestry work during the next fiscal
year has been asked of congress at
Washington by the Department OF
Agriculture.
The census bureau at Washington
announced that the population of Can
ton, O., is S7,091, of which $1,000 are
white and ,349 negroes. The 1919 fig
ures showed 1876 whites and 291 ne
groes.
President Wilson's concrete recon-
mendations to congress at Washington
in his annual message were: Revision
of the tax laws, with simplification OF
the income and profits taxes; indie
pendence of the Philippines; loan to
Armenia; economy in government ap-
preparations and expenditures and Gre
alton of workable budget system;
cold storage and other laws affecting
licensing of corporations as recon-
mended in previous messages; rehabll1-
tatiOn and training of disabled soldiers
and sailors.
President-elect Harding called at the
White House at Washington. Senator
Harding did not see the President He
| his card.
The move to have the senate at
Washington Immediately consider
| resolution providing for the revival OF
the war finance corporation as
means of extending farmers financial
relief was blocked in the senate by
| Senator Lodge of Massachusetts.
| Dissolution of the combination
formed by the Lehigh Valley Railroad
| company and its affiliated rail, coal
production and sales companies was
ordered by the United States Supreme
court at Washington.
| President-elect Harding at Wash
| ington said that he had asked sena-
tors during his conference to proceed
with all appropriation bills as rapidly
| as possible in order to get that neces-
sary legislation out of the way and the
] decks cleared for a special session of
| congress-"
Standing at his desk where he
served for six years, President-elect
Warren G. Harding babe farewell to
the United States senate at Washing
ton, and in a brief speech, choked with
emotion, expressed the hope that he
might have the cooperation of his col
leagues in the four years beginning
March 4 next.
| A Washington dispatch says the ox
tension of the time for the payment OF
the war debt over a period of 60 years
is advocated by Senator Watson of In
diana.
President-elect Harding will break
all precedents by naming his cabinet
early in February and putting all OF
it's members Immediately to work il
Washington, according to information
obtained at Washington.
All hope for relief from the bur
den of federal taxation went glimmer
ing with the announcement at Wash
ington that estimates for al, branches
of the government aggregated $4,
$50, $50, 759.
A Washington special says all rec
ords for flying between Chicago AM
New York were beaten by the al
mail service. J. T. Christensen mad
the distance of 742 miles in 5 hour
and 81 minutes, actual flying time.
State department officers at Wash
ington said that President Wilson
would act personally in naming
mediator to act for him in an effor
to settle the trouble between the Al
menians and Turkish nationalists.
Authority to continue it's invest
| gdClOn INTO campaign expenditures uL
til next March 4 will be asked of tn
senate at Washington by the con
mittee headed by Senator Kenyo
of Iowa.
Domestic
Four bandits robbed the Stearn
Brothers pawnshOp at Chicago of $50
/ 600 in diamonds.
Lumber prices took another tumbl
when Milwaukee dealers announced
cut ranging from to IL per cent. TIL
total reduction from the top price no
reaches % per cent.
The Clothing Manufacturers assoc
alton of Boston voted to break all rel
lions with the Amalgamated ClothiT
Workers of America.