Weekly journal-miner., 1922-06-07
Legislators Down to Brass Tacks Governor Campbell Tells Ro- tarians in Presenting Budget of News.
HARDING UNDOMINATED
 BY PARTY'S LEADERS
Western States Thoroughly Or ganized in Interests of Rec lamation as Better Times are Approaching.
fFrom Saturdays pany1

\ changed atmosphere greeted Governor Campbell in Washington the other day, he said ill presenting budget of news to the Rotary club at its luncheon yesterday. Washing ton is now wholly political. Where a few months ago, office holders were in the mental state of persons flushed with victory, they are now like those who have paid the price and are set tied down to business.
 Economy is more than a mere watchword of the Harding admins tration. It has taken General Dawes Is months to cut a quarter of bil- lion dollars from the government ex- pense budget, and now it is a simple matter to secure any kind of legisla- ton that does not cost money.
 That is why the first sensation of the lawmakers upon learning that
 the western states had determined to
 press for a revitalizing of the rccla-
 nation policy, was one of shock and
 deep concern. In the Snith-McNary
 bill, it is sought to place all author ization of $35O,OOO,OOO, but that money need not be spent just now. The western states, organized as
 never before, are willing to await the
 coming of better times before expect
 ing real cash, provided they can ob-
 tain an expression from the federal
 government, carrying into effect the
 reclamation blanks of the dominant
 party and paving the way to secure an adequate irrigation development ir few years.
 Governor Campbell addressed the Rotary club, whose numerous guests yesterday filled the banquet hall al the Owl He bristled with figures
 and facts. He lightly turned from one vast subject to another, with an array of data that shows the broad scope of his information. He was ir Washington at the time the forest service was figuring out the plan for dispensing the money, great pro r portion of which has come to Yava- pal and Gila counties for good roads The governor called by name, the , limits of the forest aid projects, re s ferring to the Strawberry FosSl creek project in Gila and the Pres cott-White Spar road in Yavapai.
 Harding is not politician, the
 governor went on. He has utterly
 failed to play with the influentia
 party leaders. The three outstanding
 figures of the cabinet, Hughes
 Hoover and Mellon, were selected
 over the objections of the politicians
 With such advisors, the governor de clared earnestly, Harding IS bending his energies to a rehabilitation O damages wrought by eight years O
 nefficicncy, toying with jobs too i'm
 portant for the holders thereof, an( 0 imposition of principles untried anC c unavoidable.
 c And to prove that "normalcy" l. : returning, the speaker described th' D labor situation in few comprehen l. sive statements. Secretary Davis 0 Il the labor department told the govcr l. nor that so per cent of the uncm Il ploymcnt peak had been scraped off
 that aside from the one million habi = tual loafers who never work, tn c 100000 striking coal miners and | t few who have not yet gone back t there is no unemployment i'll tn t United States. The governor esteem k ed the statistics very highly fo : they were based on surveys such a o that highly accurate and informativ
 one provided the government by tn l. Arizona immigration inspectors of $ flee. And these figures, the govcr d nor said, he knew to be true.
 d In Chicago, as an instance of tn r. wave of returning activity, he say > numbers of employment agencies $ placarded heavily with demands 10 e all sorts of workers. Building of tn $ 100000 homes required to reliev
 the housing situation is well unde li way in the east and middle-wesr. r. One hundred and twenty days iron l. the time he was in Washington, vii r. witness the unllopcd for spectacle o Il rc-cmployed America, with busi V ness picking up at an unprecedente' b rate. Cattle are tagging behind nlor J. than any other major industry at r. iecting Arizona. Copper will b $ sought at Is cents t, short time ic and the producers arc working wit
 that known end i'll view.