The Washington herald., 1921-04-25
Administration Minutely
Observes Effect of Pol
icies on Public.
PEACE AND TARIFF
SOON WILL BE LAW
Democrats Await Results
To Outline Campaign
For Future.

tive tests will be applied TO the new
administration foreign and domes-
tic policies.
During that period the declsrs-
tory peace with Germany will have
been established and its FIRST effects
noted: the emergency tartn measure
will have become law and IL will
be seen whether IL attsins its OBJ
jectiye Of sffording temporary relief
in the crisis faced by farmers and
other Industries: sweeping depart
mental reorganization. recommended
by Secretary Hoover, Charles Dawes
and others as not only necessary
for the sake Of economy, but sbso-
mtely vital to the success Of the
administration itself. will have be-
gun; the basis upon which the Ger
man repsrations problem is TO be
solved, as well as the method OF
procedure toward working out
other debatable questions raised by
this government in allied disposi-
ticn of certain settlements under
the Versailles treaty, will have been
reached; and measures for rehabil-
itating the railroads probably will
have been at least b~gun.
watching Results
In view OF this. the new admin
istration today is seen passing from
the stage wherein IL has laid the
foundations for Carrying out its
prediction promises and is about
to pass into a position where IL may
experience the first domestic and
international results Of enactment
of these promises.
The steps mentioned are those re-
garded by the administration az the
most vital toward stabilizing world
conditions. Tax laws and a perms-
nent tariff will come later, and both
will depend in large measure upon
the reaction to the expected repars-
tions solution. the operation Of the
emergency tariff law. the savins
effected in departmental reorgsn-
,ization and the extent 60 which
both domestic and foreign trade re-
sumes after the combined relief
measures for the railroads and the
Strengthening out of international.
tangles-
The importance Of these next
thirty days is perhaps best illus
trated by the significance attached
to the period by both Republican
and Democratic party leaders.
Each party is awaiting the result OF
the first definite test Of the new ad-
ministration policies before map
ping its political program for the
eighteen months to follow before
the 1922 Congressional elections.
To ReorEanIEe.
Early in June Postmaster Cen
eral VIII Hays, still chairman q
the Republican national committee,
expects to call a meeting of the ma
tionsl organization to elect a new
chairman. Hays is retaining his
post until that time for two reasons
to supervise the wiping out OF
the 81. 500. 900 Indebtedness faced by
| the national committee at the close
of the campaign, and. second. In
order TO let suficient time elspse
to permit Of getting a line on the
new administrstion's work which
would enable him TO chart a course
| for the national committee during
( the coming pre-Congressional cam
paiEn months. So the'frst concrete
steps toward domestic and inter
national stabilizstion effected
through the events Of the next
thirty days will play an important
part in the party's future political
program.
Also. between the latter part OF
May and the middle Of June. the
Democratic national committee is
expected 10 be called to discuss
questions Of organization and future
policy. The Democrats, too. are
looking to the next thirty days de-
velopments to give them a clew
as to future political policy.
Support Grouping.
I Pending enactment OF the admin
| fstration measures, the Democratic
| minority in Congress, so far as fts
leaders are concerned. will estab-
/ lish their record as being opposed
Z to the Knox peace resolution and
/ the emergency tariff. but will sup
J port the departmental reorganiIa-
tIon work espoused by Harding
The Democrats are banking heay-
4 lily, however. on the belief that
neither peace with Germany nor the
| emergency tariff will effect the in
dustrial stabilization hoped for. and
that the railroad problem. being the
key TO all present-dsy Industrial
confusion. will become the great
! issue Of the next few months.
What the administration does
along this question. therefore. viii
be watched with tremendous inter-
est by Democratic leaders. Either
! during the next thirty days. or
shortly after that period has
/ elapsed, u a suitable solution of
the railroad difficulty has not been
born OF administration thought ana
work, a Democratic solution may
be expected 20 come from one Of the
party leaders.
See Compromise.
At present IL is the belief OF these
Democrats that some compromise
must be effected between the aims
Of the government-owners eIe-
ment. the out-and-out private own
ershtp advocates and those favoring
the so-cslled Plumb plan.
A tentative solution now being
worked upon would embrace IN,
unihcation OF all the railroads
under one system. TO be privately
owned through a funding company
embracing present holders Of rail-
road securities and 60 be operated
under strict governmental super
vision by q board Of directors Of
asout seven men. -four OF whom
would be railroad executives. two
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