The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-06-16
IN NATIONS CAPITAL
Concurrent Resolution Creating Com
mission of Agricultural Inquiry
Passes the House.
Bill Establishing Budget System of
Government Expenditures Signed
by the President.

The concurrent resolution to create
a commission of agricultural inquiry
has passed the house. Its purpose is
to look into the causes Of present agri-
cultural conditions, differences be-
tween the prices Of products paid the
producer and the ultimate charge to
the consumer, the condition of other
industries and the prices, the re-
sources and credits Of the country as
affecting agriculture and marketing
and transportation facilities. Sixteen
farm organizations requested the pas
sage of this resolution.
The bill establishing a budget sys-
tenn OF government expenditures has
been signed by the president. In order
to put the new system quickly into
effect the president expects to appoint
director of budget, as provided for
in the bill, some time within the next
two weeks.
The house has passed the Sweet
bill under which, if it becomes law,
government agencies dealing with for
mer service men will be consolidated.
Provision is made III the bill for crea-
ton of a veterans bureau in the treas
ury department, in which would be
placed the war risk insurance bureau,
the federal board for vocational train
ing and functions of the public health
service relating to the war veterans.
wait and see' is the Harding adj
mlnlstration's disarmament slogan.
The president intends to continue
feeling" his way through the medium
OF informal soundings abroad. In
answer to such "feelers" as already
have been stretched out it is officially
announced that '<certain informal as
surances have been received indicatinp
readiness to discuss armaments."
More than $10,00O,OOO yearly will be
added to the cost Of distributing metro
polltan newspapers and magazines
through the mails unless congress re-
peals the automatic increase i'm second
class postage rates which become ef-
fectlve July 1. Indications now are
strong that no action will be taken al
though a determined effort in that
direction is being made. Representa-
tive Martin Madden of Illinois has pre-
pared bill to suspend the increases
and may Introduce it within the next
lew days. Legislation moves SLOWLY
IN congress. With members of the
senate and house virtually unanimous
TOR bill it is almost impossible to get
final action in three weeks. Tn this
particular case a majority is against
the proposed legislation. And to make
the situation even worse Senator
townsend of Michigan, chairman of
the senate committee on postoffices
and post roads, and Representative
Halvor Stevenson, chairman of the
house committee, are not disposed to
90 anything to hurry consideration of
repeal or suspension bill. Postmaster
General Hays, it is understood. ia
vors the proposal to suspend the in
creases, but even administration pres
sure will have hard time Earring a
retlcent congress into action.
After previously passing the senate
the army appropriation bill with a
provision for standing army not to
exceed 10000 men instead Of 10000
has passed the house.
Rear Admiral Sims leave of ab-
sence in England has been revoked bv
Secretary Dcnby, and he was ordered
to report at once to the secretary of
the navy. Mr.. Denby's action was
taken without waiting for reply from
the officer to the secretary's cable
gram asking whether he had been
correctly quoted as attacking Sim
Fem sympathizers In the United
States in a speech delivered in Lon
don. Sims will sail for home on :June
IS.
The house packing control bill was
denounced in Washington by Ben G.
Marsh of the Farmers National conn.,
Gil as "a gold brick which the packers
nelped prepare to cripple the federal
trade commission and tic the hands of
an attorney general who might not be
subservlent to the packers"
Endorsement of cabinet members Of
the pending bills to regulate grain ex-
changes, packing establishments and
coal production and distribution is
believed to indicate that President
Harding is prepared to approve these
measures and to defend them as har-
monizing with his pronounccmcnt for
LESS government in business" Secre-
tary of>Agriculture H. C. Wallace an
proved the grain exchange and meat
packing bills, while Secretary of Com
merce Herbert Hoover and Secretary
of the Interior A. B. Fall went on rec
ord as favoring the Frelinghuyscn bill
for the sterilization of the coal indus
try.
Leading bankers have assured the
administration they will seek the ap
proval of the government before en-
terlng into future foreign financial
transactions. j. P. Morgan was
among those in attendance at con-
terence with Secretary of the Treas