The Ward County independent., 1921-03-31

PAOOAcM WAl aNO1u COIItPIcte SatlSL0C-
tion to all concerned.
tn emergency tariff bill to be intro
duced by Mr.. Young will resemble in
most particulars the bill introduced by
him during the recent short session
which was later made the basis of the
bill introduced by Chairman Fordney,
which passed both houses of Congress
to be later vetoed by the President.
Congressman Young was also author
lied by the committee to collect and
prepare all statistical data necessary
to show that the bill is of an emer-
gency character, and this data will be
made part Of the committee report
to be presented to the House when the
bill is introduced.
That the Young bill will pass Con-
gress and become law in record time
| is freely predicted for most of the
, ready committed to such legislation
by their votes upon the Fordney bill in
the last Congress. The incoming men,
bers in the House and Senate, if any
thing, should create an even more fav-
orable situation for the increased Re-
publican majority includes good per-
centage Of men from purely agricul-
tural states, or at least from states
friendly to such anti-dumping legisla-
ton. This seems particularly true in
the Senate, where the Republicans
| have had but narrow margin prior
to this time, while it seems safe to
expect that the bill will draw consid-
cradle support from Democratic men,
bers of both houses, as was the stu
alton when the Fordney bill was be-
| fore Congress during the recent ses-
sion.
OF particular interest to the ex-
service men of the state and nation
should be the fact that Senator Nc
Cumber, as a member of the Finance
Committee, is now working upon a
new soldier bonus bill to be introduced
by him shortly after the coming to-
! gether of the new congress. At Sen
ator McCumber's office it was stated
! that the bonus bill now being prepared
will be similar in most of its provis-
ions to the bill reported by the Fl
nance Committee in the 66th Congress,
except that certain of it's clauses have
been clarified, looking toward the elm
ination of much of the red tape con-
tanned in the first bill. Senator Pen
rose, chairman of the committee, has
stated that the soldiers bonus bill will
receive the attention Of Congress at
the earliest opportunity.
Senator McCumber is also reported
as being favorable to the general pro-
visions of the Consolidation bill, in
troduced in the House by Represen-
tative Sweet of Iowa, which would
consolidate under one head the various
governmental agencies having for
their function the supervision of the
care and training of the disabled SOL
diers and sailors Of the great war.
The lack of such consolidation and
the only too evident lack Of coopera-
ton upon the part Of administration
officials in charge Of this work has
wrought untold hardship upon the men
now receiving compensation, training
or treatment under agencies like the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance, the
Vocational Training Board, and the
Public Health Service. American Le-
gion officials have repeatedly called
attention to the needless duplication
of work under these various agencies
and have demanded an elimination Of
the red tape surrounding the function
ing of such bureaus through the con-
solidation proposal but during the last
administration received but little sat
isfaction for their efforts to this end.
/ Albert S. Sheets, Of Bismarck, who
represented the Department Of North
Dakota at the last meeting Of national
committeeman here, went before the
Legion conference with such propos-
al and it received unanimous COM
mendation. Sheets, in an interview
published at the time, bitterly de-
nounced the inefficiency of the govern
mental agencies in their treatment Of
the ex-service men. Other American
Legion officials in the state like Ma
tional Committeeman c. l.. Dawson OF
Beach and State Adjutant Jack Will
liams, of Fargo, have also been advo-
Gates of the proposed plan Of rem
edy
That Senator +. F. Ladd's commit
tee assignments for the 9th Congress
have practically been agreed upon be-
! came known here late last week when
report from authentic sources indi-
Gated that Ladd had been assigned to
membership upon the Committees on
Agriculture, Indian Affairs, Public
Lands, and Territories and Insular
Possessions. While the sessions of
the Senate Committee on Committees
are held in secret, and their recommen-
dations must later be confirmed by the
Senate as whole, the tentative slate
may be regarded as final.
The first three committees named,
Agricultural, Indian Affairs and Pub
lie Lands, are all Of particular vantage
to North Dakota and the Northwest in
general. The assignment to the Com
mittee on Territories may also be con-
sidered an important one for in the
new congress its additional response
bilities, it having absorbed the func-
tions Of the Committee on the Philip
pines as we'll as those of several other
committees, will entitle it to rank as
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