The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1921-04-08
WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER.

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WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER.
Exclusive to the Pioneer Express)
Senator E. F. Ladd Of Fargo and
Congressman %. B. Burtness Of
Grand Forks, new members of the
North Dakota delegation in Con-
gress, are now in their offices pre-
paratory TO the meeting Of the spe-
cial session Of the 9th Congress, to
meet, on April 11th. Congressman
George NJ. Young, Second District,
also returned to the Capitol on Fri
day after q brief visit to Michigan
in company with Congressman Kelly,
Michigan, and Fess Of Ohio, where
Representative Young, i as author Of
the new emergency tariff bill, ad-
dressed the Esch- Chandler Republi-
can Club of Lansing, on the coming
tariff on farm products.
Congressman !: Burtness has not
yet received his committee assign
ments but if he is unable to obtain a
place on the Committee on Aericul.
ture, as seems likely now, it is un-
derstood that, he will prefer an as
signment to either the Judiciary or
Banking and Currency Committees.
The House Committee on Commit
tees will take up the work Of new
committee assignments sometime
this week.
Ernest L. Peterson, editor of the
Dickinson Press, who was in Wash
ington last week enroute home from
the convention of the National Edi-
torial Association held at St. Aug
Justine, Florida, on March 7th, had an
interview with President Harding at
the White House on. Saturday when
the President himself a member of
the Association, received. number
of the delegates to the convention.
Mr.. Peterson is personally acquain-
ted with the President, having met
Mr.. Harding at previous meetings of
the editorial association as well as at
the Republican Convention in Chi
cago last June where Peterson served
as an alternate from North Dakota.
Following the meeting at st. Aug
ustine the delegates visited at vari-
GUS points in Florida, the Canal
Zone and Cuba, at which latter place
they were entertained as guests Of
the Cuban government. While in
Havana Mr.. Peterson attended re-
ception given to the newspapermen
by the President of Cuba Peterson
reported that w. R. Kellogg, pub
Usher Of the Jamestown Alert, and
other North Dakota men, had been
detained for few days in Havana
but that they were expected to ar
rive in Washington early this week.
In commenting upon the outcome
of the convention at Devils Lake, Mr..
Peterson predicted a decisive victory
for the Independent forces in the
event Of a recall election and he
warmly endorsed the candidacy of R.
A. Nestos, of Minot, Independent
nominee for governor. He stated
that he had discussed the political
situation with many North Dakota
people wintering in the south and
added, "the eyes of the world are
certainly on North Dakota now"
While in Washington Peterson
visited the members of the North
Dakota delegation in Congress, and
also met former Congressman John
M. Baer Of Fargo, who is still in the
city.
! Mrs. Crabbe and Mrs. Murphy Of
Fargo, also called at the White
House last week to pay their res.
poets to the new President. Mrs
Crabbe was on her way to New
York City where she expected to Wis
it her son, who is a. student at Exc
ter Preparatory School.
According to an unofficial repor
from the Senate Committee on Com
mittees the list Of committee as
|signments given to Senator E. F
Ladd, junior senator from North Da
.kota, remain the same as was an
nounced in this column two week
ago, namely, Agriculture and Forest
ry, Indian Affairs, Public Lands an,
Surveys, and Territories and 1nsula
Possessions.
Senator McCumber continues a
chairman Of the Pensions Commits
land as q member Of the Foreign Re