The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-09-22
WASHINGTON NEWS

be Secretary of State Hughes, Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts, Elihu Root
of New York, and Senator Under
wood Of Alabama
10000
Preparations for the unempIoy-'
nent conference were discussed at
the cabinet meeting and it was decid-
ed that the delegates, including sew
eral women, would be chosen TO re-
present the country geographically
and that representation of groups,
classes or industries would be avoid
ed
10000
minimum of $3,2OO,OOO,OOOI
must be raised by internal taxes
through the revenue bill the senate
finance committee will report when
the senate reconvenes September 21,
Republican members agreed at a con-
ference, following a meeting of the
committee attended by Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon.
10000
The duties on posts, poles, and ties
In the Fordney tariff bill are opposed
by the Western Pine Manufacturers
association.
10000
The United States is working its
way out of a weller of waste" saws
President Harding in letter pointing
70 accomplishments of Republican
administration.
10000
The rights of the United States in
the territories ceded by Germany and
ner allies will be fully protected, Sec
rotary Hughes contentious having
been admitted by the allies in their
request for the views Of this govern
ment.
Senator Penrose indicated that the
senate viii amend the house revenue
bill to make retroactive to January l.
1921, the repeal of the excess profits
lax and the brackets Of the individual
income surtaX above thirty-two per
cent
Secretary of War Weeks announc-
ed that another offer has been made
fer the government plants at Muscle
Shoals, and that he had asked Henry
Ford to come to Washington to dis
euss the terms of his offer.
10000
J. ". Powell, formerly of the Beth
lehem Shipbuilding corporation, as
sHmed his duties as fifth vice-presi-
dent of the Emergency Fleet corpora
tiOn.
Pershing and Gompers exchange
remarks at banquets as to whether
labor alone won the war, the former
denying it and the latter supporting
labor's attitude during hostilities.
10000
There will be a desperate battle in
the senate over retroactive repeal Of
the excess profits tax and the reduc-
tion Of the maximum income surtaxes
from sixty-fve to thirty-two per cent.
10000
The labor departments Industrial
survey showed an increase in employ
e ment in August over July in thirty
eight cities and decrease in twenty
seven cities. The business depression
is still pronounced, particularly in the
east, but conditions are improving
somewhat in the west.
10000
The special senate comittee invest
igating the government agencies of
relief for ex-service men will urge
congress to appropriate $16,4OO,OOO
more for disqualification and make
numerous recommendations of
changes in the administrative system
10000
Secretary of commerce Hoover
has reorganized the bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce so as tc
furnish up-to-date information tC
American business men on the foreign
market for American products.
10000
Gables from South America to the
department of commerce state that
the Germans are undertaking anC
underselling Americans in many
places but that the German products
are inferior, the reports of ruinou:
German competition being greatly ex
aggerated.