The Holbrook news., 1921-07-15

1 wood pulp, platinum, radium, silk
 cocoons, news print paper. tapioca and
 tapiOca flour, tea, tin ore, works of
 art, and most kinds of lumber. Despite the fact that the new tariff will produce a huge revenue, the need | of reducing government expenditures
 is as pressing as ever, and President Harding and Director of the Budget Dawes seem determined to bring about that result. They met last week with
 the cabinet and the heads of all the
 bureaus-the first meeting of the kind
 ever held-and had a heart to heart
 talk on means to meet the emergency.
 MT. Harding quickly gave the floor
 to MT. Dawes and that vigorous Chi cagoan told the gathering in plain language what he planned to do and
 what the others must do to help him.
 Then he added:
 ''The permanent success of the bud
 get system depends upon certain basic
 principles, which at its inception must
 be so firmly established both as to
 concept and rules of action, that they
 never hereafter will be questioned.
 "The budget bureau must be i'm partial, impersonal, and nonpolitical."
 In concluding, he ordered the bureau
 chiefs to their feet and, holding up his hand, recited the following pledge, ad- dressed to the President:
 These men, of whom I am one,
 realize the perplexity of your position, of ho try is prostrate, that its working men are out of employment, that we are faced with memorable necessity of re- ducing expenditures, and we propose, just as we did four years ago to win the war, to try to do it. And that's all we can do."
 President Harding, anxious to have the controversy over the naval hOli- day" plan ended, wrote to Congress man Mondell a letter saying that he was vastly more concerned with the attitude of the congress on this ques- tion than 1 am as to the form of ex- pressing that attitude" When this let ter was read to the house, MT. Mondell and all the others who had wanted the disarmament proposal to include land forces gave in and agreed to accept the Borah amendment to the naval appropriation bill. That is, all but four gave in. The only negative votes were cast by Representatives Moore, Indi- ana, Republican; and Campbell, Penn sylvania; Carew, New York, and o. Brien, New Jersey, all Democrats. Representative Linberger, California, Republican, voted present.
 Republican members of the house and senate conference committee on the resolution to declare the state | of war with Germany ended reached | compromise carrying the house dec | iaratiOn of a state of peace instead | of the senate repeal of the war resO- lutiOn, and the senate provisions pro tectlng American interests, with an | additional section giving still further | protection to the United States. Sim liar sections end the state of war with Austria-Hungary. So that squabble is settled.
 Notwithstanding the impassioned protests of many congressman and the earnest arguments of many physicians, the house last week passed the so- called Willis-Campbell bill designed to fOrestall the execution of a regulation providing for the prescription of beer and light wines as medicine held by former Attorney General Palmer to be within the law. The vote was 25O Q 93. The measure is now in the hands of the senate, and Senator 3rOussard of Louisiana already has delivered red-hot speech against it.
 Of the appointment of former Pres ident Taft to be chief justice of the Supreme court of the United States there is little to be said that has not been said in anticipation. Mir. Taft's fitness for the high position is unquestioned and the selection will meet with practically unanimous ap- proval.
 The railway labor board issued two orders of importance last week. The first extended to all big railways the wage cut which went into effect on July l. The second abolished time pay for all work over an eight-hOur day, and, with the exception of this change, extended indefinitely the operation of the national agree