The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-01-14
CABINET HEARS
HUGHES VIEW
OF CONFERENCE
President Hopes Results
VIII Please America
And World.
contlnsed from Paes one.

how much money would be avail
able In . funding proposition In
the opinion of the standardization
No one knows what the exact state
Of the credit Of Europe actually II
today. Some nations can meet
their obligations. Others can not.
There IL $1,000. ooo.o 900 due the
United States. but, In the opinion
Of the President and his advisers,
this money Is like the assets Of
bank that has been compelled to
go INTO the hands of receivers be-
cause most of its assets are non
liquid. Put up at q forced sale
their value might be very small,
but hquidated properly, every dol
lar would be realized There In
plenty to pay with. but the Presi-
dent will not consen to any plan
OF payment based on soap bubbles
or future promises. IN the opinion
OF those who have been closest In
his confidence lately.
The administration attitude was
made plain last night by those
who have been visitors TO the
President as about as follows:
The executive department win
remain everlastingly hostile to any
compensation act which does not
propose how the funds are to be
raised and show them in 1t least
prospective cash
So far as the sales tax proposals
are concerned the administration
recognizes that there Is much sup
port for II. But that, also, is some
thing on which the President de-
taking any positive position
AT yesterdays Cabinet meeting
there was q general concensus that
there would be no embarrassment
10 the armament conference be-
cause Of the retirement from ONCE
OF Premier BRAND OF France. How
ever. IL was not 80 certain so far
as the Genoa conference is con-
eerned. It Is violating no conf
dence to say that most oficials are
fearful that the activities OF the
Genoa conference already have
ended
Protects Property Rights.
Suggestions that the property
held By the Alien Property Gus
todian amounting to more than
S4oo,0oo,ooo shall be sidetracked for
bonus purposes received q sharp
blow yesterday. II was made plain
that so far as the President Is con-
Csrned, he believes that the age
ong policy Of America that private
property never shall be seized to
liauidate government obligations
holds today In the opinion of the
American people. They never will
consent, IN his opinion. to seizure
without warrant Of law.
Suggestions that the government
buy up all liquor In the country to
prevent violation of the eighteenth
amendment have no responsive echo
with President Harding. He never
has heard Of the proposal. those
who know him best say. and never
would consent to it
Fer Law Enforcement. .
- However, those who intimate
that he doe4.not- beffe5e in COM
pIete and positive enforcement of
the laws as they are on the statute
books. and as they have been nter-
preted by the Supreme Court of the
United States are simply stating
untruths-
Visitors who talked with the
President recently declared emphat-
ically that he was aghast over the
suggestion that law enforcement
ever could be considered a Joke.
When you ind municipalities
openly Haunting the law there
arises a serious question whether
popular government Is not endan-
gered-this Is understood to be the
position OF the President. When
ever we cannot enforce all laws In
the United States we reach a seri-
Gus stage in national affairs. And
those who have talked with the
President believe that this IL his
reply to the recent demand In Chi
cago for nonenforcement of the
eighteenth amendment.