The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-04-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
GOVERNMENT CLEANINCS
Soldier Week.


Washington, April 5.-(Speciai
correspondence e)-President Harding
has been appealed to by delegation
from the National Disabled Soldiers
League to issue proclamation max
ing the week beginning May 29th a
period for the consideration of leg
islation for the better care and train
ing of wounded soldiers. There is
no cause so worthy as contributing
toward the welfare of the former ser
vice men, but Presidential procla-
nation to the people of the country
can be of no benefit. Congress is
fully alive to the situation, and it is
from Congress that authority comes
for whatever is done for soldier re-
lief. Mr.. Harding and his Cabinet
officers, likewise, are imbued with a
desire to do everything possible for
the disabled veterans. That there is
anything lacking for their comfort
now is due solely to the Democratic
administration that has just passed.
The Republican Congress of the last
two years made ample appropriations
for soldier relief, but much of the
money was permitted to lie in the
Treasury unexpended by former gov
ernment officials. At the last session
Congress appropriated $50, 900, 900 for
new hospitals, authorized the use Of
certain government buildings for hos
| pital purposes, and the expenditure
of money heretofore appropriated
for forms of relief other than auth
orized in the original appropriating
acts. There is no doubt that the bur-
eaus of the Government charged with
the duty of erecting suitable build
| ings and ministering to the needs of
the disabled veterans will exert them
selves energeticaly to that end. II
further action by Congress is found
necessary, an intimation to that
effect from the proper source will
bring it.
Right of Way for Tariff.
After a conference between Presi-
dent Harding and members of the
Ways and Means Committee of the
House and the Finance Committee of
the Senate it has been decided to put
tariff ahead of internal revenue in
the legislative program for the ses-
sion that convenes on April 18th. The
emergency tariff bill vetoed by the
I former occupant of the White House
will receive first attention. Then will
come a measure providing that i'm
port duties shall be levied according
to the American value instead of the
foreign value of the article, change
that should bring substantial in
crease in revenue. Following that
law will come a general tariff bill,
and after that permanent revision
of the internal tax laws. In addi-
ton to the legislation for the pas
, sage of which the special session was
called, there are some bills that were
killed in the last session by Presi-
Dental vetoes and Democratic fill
busters. The Army and Navy appro.
priation bills and the immigration bill
n are among them. The close cooper.
r alton manifest between the President
i and Congressional leaders assure:
e expeditions passage of the legislation
r NAVAL CONCENTRATION
It 1t is reported that within the mex
l. few weeks orders will emanate from
Z. the Secretary of the Navy concen
u trating practically our entire nava
J. fleet on the Pacific side of the coun
Is try, not, as one writer puts it, "as
II military gesture, but merely as a re
e. turn to sound naval strategy" II
E paraphrase our old watchword
20 ''United we float, divided we sink,
E. an axiom which had the full supper
" of that prince of naval experts, tn
m late Admiral Mahan. One of tn
Oh most dangerous policies ihaugurate
by the late Administration was tha
% of dividing the fleet. But that Pro,
"a idence which watches over the Uni
Do ed States ordained that our shore
OF should not be subject to attack Will
so 10 Daniels was head Of the Nav.
TO The new Administration, in return
TO ing to the policy of fleet concentr'
IL ton wisely emulates cold Put" wh
'ss believed in Providence, but did NJ
10 believe in tempting it, and who ther
ny for advised that we "trust in God ar
keep our powder dry"
II The definite date for the appearaut