Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-19


mately lifting the excessive burden Of
| taxation"
"Political bunk" was the retort of
Democratic members Of congress. They
asserted the report was deceptive and
| that the actual expenditures for the
routine business of the government
have increased rather than decreased.
They called attention to deficiency ap-
preparations aggregating $292,O00,-
600, but Representative Madden chal-
Ienged them to deny that only $12,-
100000 of this deficiency was attribut-
able to the activities Of the present
administration.
| MR.. SPENCER, the Junior senator
4VA from Missouri, got into an I'M
pleasant mess through his efforts to
have the senate confirm the unfortu-
nate appointment Of Nat Goldstein to
| be internal revenue collector for the
eastern Missouri district Mr. Goldstein
was a delegate to the Republican ma.
! tional convention but was unseated af-
ter admitting he had accepted money
| from one of Frank O. LoWden'S manag-
ers. The appointment was violently at
tackled in the senate, and Mr.. LoWden,
who was on an ocean steamer, sent
| radiogram declaring that in his opinion
Goldstein was unfit for the job. Final
| ly, to relieve the President and Senator
| Spencer from embarrassment, Gold
stein asked that the nomination be
withdrawn. This was done, but the
Democrats made it plain that they in
| tended to keep the incident alive for
use in the approaching campaign.
| r EADERS Of building trade unions
IL in the Chicago district who have
been fighting the Lands wage award
appear to have overreached themselves
at last. Not content with bomb throw
| ing incendiarism and blackmail, some
of them or their hired gunner last
week killed two policemen who in
terrupted their operations. and wound
ed a third. The brutal murders
aroused Chicago to the determination
to wipe out the outlaw bands. Swift
| police raids caught large number OF
labor leaders, including some who are
ex-convicts and others who are now
under conviction of crimes or awaiting
trial. Among the prisoners, asserted
| the police, are the men really respon-
sible for the reign of labor terrorism
which has gripped Chicago for so
| long a time.
Samuel Gompers of course always
| has refused to countenance violence in
labor disputes, but it is hard to see
how he came entirely avoid some moral
responsibility for these crimes in Chi
cage, in view of the open encourage
ment he recently gave the unions that
are seeking to repudiate their agree
| ments to accept the verdict which
might be rendered by Judge Lands,
the arbitrator chosen by themselves.
a MERTCA lost one of her most
1 \ eminent financiers in the death Of
Henry P. Dawson, who passed away
at the conclusion of an operation to
remove tumor from the brain. By
his own efforts he had attained high
position among bankers and he had al
so accumulated large fortune. Dur
| ing the World war he made a fine
record as head of the American Red
Cross.
| 4 T THIS writing President Harding
\ has not stated which of the plans
| for a soldiers bonus bill-the sales
| tax or the insurance-he prefers, or
whether he will accept either one. The
prediction in Washington is that he
will veto the bill and that it will be
passed over his veto. Leaders in con-
gress have refused to let the matter
| go beyond July.
THE interallied war council, at
L Paris, has agreed that Germany
shall manufacture a Zeppelin Of 10000
meters capacity to replace the one
allotted to the United States by the
Versailles treaty but destroyed in Ger
| many. It will probably be delivered
within nine months aid e. German
crew is to bring it across the Atlantic.
IT. HE federal railrosd tabor board
l. issued an order last week that
may serve to avert the threatened
strike of 100000 shopmen and switch
men. This ruling places a ban on the
contract system of farming out job
work under which many roads are
said to have been evading the orders
| of the board as to wages, working con-
| ditions and ether matters.