The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-08-25
IN NATIONS CAPITAL
Passage of Senate Amendment Means
Cut of $4,000 in Minnesota
Road Appropriation.
In Its Economy Program War Depart
ment Withdraws $4O,OOO,OOO for
Return to Treasury.

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roads bill reducing the appropriation
for this year from $1O0,000,000 to $751;
100000. This means rs per cent cut
in the allotment to each state. Mime
sofa received $2,840,OO0 last, year.
and the cut will reduce this to ST.
10000. Under the bill one-third of
the appropriation is to become imme-
diately available.
The war department has withdrawn
$40,000,000 from current appropria-
tons, to be returned to the United
States treasury as the result of a pro-
gram of sweeping economy. "These
withdrawals of more than $40,000,000
have been made to avoid, if possible,
the necessity Of creating a deficit"
Secretary Weeks said, "and Of making
request to congress to relieve the
embarrassment which was referred to
by the president in his message to
congress, returning with his approval
the bill for the support Of the army
for the fiscal year 1922.
Before reporting the railroad fund
ing bill, the senate interstate COM
merce committee adopted an amend
ment by Senator Kellogg, Minnesota,
to protect agricultural credits. In the
war finance corporation operations the
railroads would be secondary to the
farmers. The Kellogg amendment
says: "No purchase shall be made by
the war finance corporation under the
provision of this amendment at any
time when such purchase would inter-
fere with the corporation granting the
fullest aid for the financing and ex-
porting Of agricultural products by
the war finance corporation under the
act of April 5, 1918, and any amend
ment thereof in force or hereafter
adopted by congress, it being the in
tention that this amendment shall be
so construed and administered as to
give preference to the financing of
agricultural products"
Elimination of taxes on proprietary
medicines was agreed to by the house
ways and means committee, which ap-
proved more than go changes in the
republican tax bill. Subsequently the
majority Of the members of the COM
mittee voted to reduce the tax on
cereal beverages from the proposed 6
cents gallon to cents and to bring
fire and marine insurance companies
under the 12k cent corporation income
tax on the same basis as life insurance
companies. Another amendment which
was approved by the committee ex-
empts from taxation all money re-
ceived from the government by war
veterans, including those who served
in former wars as we'll as in the recent
world war.
The administration bill designed to
authorize Major General Leonard
Wood to become governor general of
the Philippines without retiring as an
active officer of the army was laid on
the table by the house military COM
mittee without a record vote. Com
mitteemen were said to have held it
would be a dangerous precedent to-
establish.
Railroads were authorized by the
interstate commerce commission to es-
tablish rates on grain and grain prod
ucts from Chicago, Mississippi river
crossings and other points in Illinois,
Indiana and other states to Atlantic
ports for export at 71a cents hun
dred pounds less than the present rate.
The rates may be established on ten
days. notice.
Woodrow Wilson and those who
supported him most strongly in his
fight for the league of nations have
been eliminated in considerating the
appointment of democratic member
of the delegation to the disarmament
conference
President Harding, in a letter to
Senator Jones, defends the shipping
board against recent attacks, declar-
ing that the great indebtedness is a
heritage from the Wilson administra-
ton and that high salaries are neces-
sary to help clear up the mess.
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll's flight
from Germany to Switzerland to es-
cape extradition after peace treaty
is negotiated will not deter the United
States government in it's efforts to
capture the arch draft dodger.
President Harding and Secretary H
C. Hoover, in announcing plans for
Russian relief, state that they will be
carried through by a single American
administration with all American re-
lief agencies combining their re-
sources, and that no public "drive" for
funds will be conducted.
The house on Monday passed, with
several changes, the senate bill to au-
thorize the war finance corporation to
extend credits up to $1,000,OO0,000 to
exporters in order to stimulate for
eign trade in American farm products.
The present inertia in agricultural
freight movements throughout the
country was attributed to the high
rates by witnesses appearing before
the interstate commerce commission.
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