Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-03-25

and cases so that there will be a
long delay in adjudicating the present
question. while in the meantime the
roads get the benefits Of the wage re-
auctions ordered. The whole thing is
so acute and at the same time so in
volved, that it is very likely to be
subject of congressional action at an
early date.
President Harding has announced
that he will call the sixty seventh con-
gress into extraordinary session April
IL. The tariff and tax programs have
not been definitely mapped out, al
though the statement is made from au-
thoritative sources that the President
approves the proposal of Republican
congressional leaders to pass bill
preventing the dumping Of cheap for
eign goods In the United States. a
feature of this legislation will be a
section or a special bin placing the
valuation Of imports on domestic
instead of a foreign basis.
Any tariff legislation is almost GER
tain to be Of preliminary nature as
the vast humber of schedules to be
dealt with in a permanent bill will re-
quire many, weeks consideration
probably into the middle Of the sum
mer. One of the talked about fea-
lures OF the preliminary bill is an
emergency tariff on agricultural prod
ucts. The administration has not
been authoritatiyely committed to this
provision although 1t has strong sup
port in influential Republican circles:
In response to the demands Of bust
ness, tax legislation will come up for
consideration Immediately after, if
not before, the temporary tariff bill.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover has
started out on the program Of accom-
plishment, the 'do-things" plan, which
his friends predicted he would inaug-
urate. One of the first problems he
has tackled is that OF broadening the
possibilities Of American manufacture
ers in foreign countries, necessity II
Uncle Sans ships are to be kept in
employment. Mr.. Hoover has been
meeting with the directors Of the
Chamber of Commerce Of the United
States. an utilization of chambers of
commerce and boards Of trade all over
the country, with view to closer cor.
operation between his department and
the various trade and commerce or
ganizations. Also, 1t is the intention
Of the secretary to create an advisory
committee for each of ten or twelve
chief groups of industries. 1t will be
the purpose of each committee to form
direct connection between the par,
ticular industries and the foreign.
agents of the Department of Com
merce.
Beyond the fact that Bavaria has
defied the allied powers in refusing
to disband It's civilian military or
ganizations and that the Berlin
reichstag has tabled the. order de-
signed to coerce Bavaria, there has
been little change in the German stu
alton. The action of the Bavarian
leaders and the reichstag was taken
despite reports Ihat France intends
to occupy Frankfort and possibly 9TH
err important cities If refusal to COM
DIV with the order persists.
The whole German attitude to the
unfulflled terms Of the Versailles
treaty, the Preparations program and
the allied occupation is that, 1--WE are
damned If we comply and damned If
we don't" The difficulties of either
course are so pronounced that the
leaders are in a quandary and prob
ably disposed to let the questions solve
themselves along present lines Of al
lied action. In the inability of the
German government to map out a
clear course, its leaders seem inclined
to accept conditions as they are and
assume an attitude of martyrdom,
while they make feeble protests to the
League of Nations and continue prop
uganda in the hope of affecting other