The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1922-01-19
NEWS SUNNI !
OF TIL, CAP TAI
President Calls Conference to Outline
Program for Sterilization
8 Of Agriculture. 81
FORD STANDS BY HIS GUNS.
Financing Of Bonus Bill, which Will
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Doubtless Pass at This SEES
sion, Being Studied.

PIary 23. This conference Will consist
of between 200 and 300 delegates rep
resenting the agricultural and allied
interests of the country. The selec-
ton Of the personnel has been left by
the president to Secretary Of Agricul-
ture Wallace.
Secretary Of War Weeks is disap-
pointed with Henry Ford's final pro-
posal for taking over the governments
waterpower project at Muscle Shoals,
but will send it to congress without
recommending acceptance in its pres
[ent form. Mr.. Ford declined to modify
his proposal in all particulars desired
by the government, agreeing to but
one change in the original. He was
particularly insistent that the grant
of Muscle Shoals should be for a pc
Rod of 100 years, absolutely refusing
to consent to 50-year period, which
is the limit provided in existing law.
The soldier compensation bill will
not be made part of the allied debt
refunding bill, Chairman McCumber
of the senate finance committee said
after a series Of conferences had been
held between senate leaders to discuss
the desirability of merging the two,
and it had become known at the white
house that President Harding did not
look with favor upon the suggestion
President Harding is emphatic on the
point that the administration never
will adopt a program that fails to keep
inviolate faith with former service
men. The president believes that
while optional benefits will be included
in the bonus legislation, nearly all the
former soldiers will elect to take cash.
That will mean a major operation in
financing. The estimates of the prob
able cash bonus payments in the ag-s:
|gregate range ali the. way from 81
SOC, 600, 900 to $3,5oo, 100000. The bill
will, without question, be passed at
this session of, congress-.
Truman H. Newberry Of Michigan
was voted his seat by the United
States senate, but relatives and friends
were slapped on the wrist by that body
for spending 100000 to obtain his
nomination in the race against Henry
Ford in 1918. The final vote was as
to Al in favor of Newberry, Senator'S
Nelson and Kellogg Of Minnesota, Nc
Cumber Of North Dakota standing
with the republican organization,
while Ladd Of North Dakota and Nor
beck of South Dakota Joined with
seven other republicans and thirty
two democrats in trying to unseat the
junior Michigan senator. William
Lorimer is the only man actually GUST
! ed from the senate of the United
States in it's 1872 years on charges that
he was elected through corruption.
Fifteen senators, however, have been
charged with occupying seats obtained
Iby bribery. In IL cases the senate
held the charges unsustained. In two,
besides that Of Lorimer, the senate
upheld the charges, but the two sena-
tors resigned rather than face final
custer vote. 'e :-s~-.r .- IL
According to an announcement of
the war department. only 3,089, Of a
little over 2 per cent of all the Ameri-
can soldiers killed in France, remain
unidentified or classified as missing. .
Those who are unidentified are buried
lin France beneath white crosses upon
which no name is written. ~.
I Newly appointed postmasters to Of
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