Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1921-05-05
WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
FROM WASHINGTON

Palmer that beer and wine under the
Volstead Act, could be prescribed fol
the ailing without limit.
After putting ban on beer and
extra safeguards around the medicin'
al use of wine, homemade or import
ed, the new volstead bill would stop
the Importation of liquor and close
down distilleries until the present
stock of about forty million gallons
now in bonded warehouses had been
used up.
Mr.. Volstead declared there was no
sense in allowing large quantities to
be imported or manufactured while
here was so much on hand.
1T is idle to argue that there Is
any real necessity" said Mr.. Volstead
in statement, ''for beer as medicine.
Leading doctors everywhere deny
that it has any value for that pur-
pose. Besides, everything in beer
except the alcohol can be had in the
SO called near-beers without any pre-
scription. Thirty-eight states pro-
hibit beer from being prescribed.
"The measure does not prohibit
the use of wine, but it reenacts in
more specific language, if that is
possible, the injunction that such
prescriptions must be limited to the
actual needs for medicinal use"
SENATE PASSES BUDGET BILL
After a brief debate, the Senate,
without record vote, passed the
Budget Bill, which Pres. Wilson ve-
toed at the last session of Congress.
The bill provides for a bureau of the
budget in. the Treasury Department
to prepare the estimates of appro-
priations needed by the .various de-
partments.
The bureau will have as its head a
director of budget, to be appointed
by the President with the consent of
the Senate, for term of seven years
with an annual salary of $4,000.
The original bill provided for the
appointment of a comptroller general
to hold Office during good behavior
and to be removed only by concur
rent resolution OF Congress. Pres.
Wilson based his veton ON this pro-
vision, holding that it would take
from the President the power TO re-
move executive officials.
The Office of comptroller and as
sistant comptroller of the Treaury
will be abolished under the revised
bill and in their stead, offices Of
comptroller general and assistant
comptroller general will be created.
The measure approved by the
Senate will permit their removal by
joint congressional resolution which
requires the Presidents signature.
THE iMMIoRATIo PROBLEM
The immigration bill, which pass
ed the House without a roll-call pro-
vides for period of fourteen months
shall be limited to three
per cent Of the nationals Of any coun-
try who were In the Unied States
when the census of 1910 was taken.
It Is believed that the bill will be
passed by the Senate with few, If any
changes.
Members of Congress fully realize
that the interests of the working peo-
pie of America are involved in the |
question. They know |
that every alien who comes to this |
country during this period Of depres-
sion completes with some American |
citizen in the field of employment,
and they have no doubt of the sound
policy Of enacting legislation that
will temporarily restrict immigration.
The unemployment situation urgent
y demands it. When conditions nm
prove and jobs are as numerous az
applicants. I twill be an easy, mater
o let the alien in, for the crowds who
Ire anxious to come mere will be as
lvailable then as now.
1t is safe to say, however, that new
'r again will indiscriminate immigra-
ion be permitted. recent expert
'nce has taught the wisdom and ne
'essity Of picking and chooeing among
he uld-be newcomers and OF SET
ing up standard which will be in
he interest of those who come in ana
hose hundred millions of Americans
!lready here.
MIDDLE TENN. MILLS