River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-11


enlisted personnei of $4,000 instead
of $1,000 men. A few days later this
was confirmed by a record vote OF
221 to 14S, and then the bill was
passed and handed on to the senate.
Ninety Republicans voted against the
personnel increase and 4S Democrats
supported it. The measure carries
total appropriation OF $251, 1863, 900,
which is S1S,000,000 more than was
fixed by the appropriations commit
tee. Further increases are expected
in the senate.
THE fight of those who believe In
1 adequate national defense is now
centered on the army bill. In this
| the American Legion is taking active
part, National Commander MacNider
appearing before the senate appropria.
| tons committee to denounce the house
| BIZ, which provides for only 115OOO
enlisted men. He said:
"The American Legion unqualified
| ~ backs up the President, the secre-
tary of war; and General Pershing In
| their support of necessary appropria-
lions for the National Guard, organ
i lied reserves. reserve officers train
ing corps, and civilian military train
| ing camps as recommended by the
/ War department, and also supports
the position that approximately $780,
600 men is the minimum number
needed for the regular establishment
| to perform its proper mission in our
/ plan of national defense"
/ 9 O1IETIME during the present sea-
~ son the senate will pass soldier
bonus legislation. SO much was de-
| ternined by the Republican senators
/ in caucus by a 3 to i vote, and they
/ asked the finance committee TO report
! a bill within a reasonable time
But they reached no decision as to
| the form the bill will take. The right
/ of the senate to add any revenue pro-
visions to the bill passed by the house
! is questioned, since the Constitution
/ requires that revenue measures must
| originate in the house. Republican
leaders of both senate and house are
again discussing the plan OF financing
| the bonus by the sale of British bonds,
and it is understood that if these are
found available through the work of
/ the foreign debt commission, Presi-
| dent Harding will not object to that
| method of raising the funds. With
/ this In view efforts are being made to
postpone senate consideration of the
| bonus measure until after the tariff
| bill has been passed, by which time
| 1t is expected the work of the COM
mission will be far enough advanced
| to give assurance that the long-term
British securities will b. available.
| FLOODS and tornadoes have been
Il playing havoc In the Middle West.
/ Through much Of the Mississippi river
valley the rivers and streams have
broken their levees and overfiowed
their banks, doing vast damage in
many towns and inundating millions
of acres of land. Unseasonably cold
weather added to the distress of the
people who were driven from their
homes. The windstorms were most
/ severe in southern Illinois and south
/ ern Indiana. Several towns were
badly wrecked and about fifty lives
were lost.
THE two Portuguese aviators who
l. started from Lisbon to fly across
| the Atlantic to Brazil in several
| Jumps got as far as st. Paul's rock,
about a thousand miles from the Cape
Verde islands, but smashed their plane
| in making the difficult landing there.
A new plane will be sent to them by
the Portuguese government to enable
them to complete their journey.
yXTOMEN from all parts of the
Wv Western Hemisphere assembled
i'm Baltimore, Nd, at the call of the
National League Of Women Voters to
confer on such subjects as education,
child welfare, women in industry, pre-
vention of the traffic in women, civil
and political status of women and in
ternational friendliness. 1t is hoped
the conference will lead to close CO.
operation among the women of the
entire world.
d REPRESENTATIVE BLAND Of In
IN diana has drafted a bill which
authorizes the President to appoint a
"coal investigation agency" composed
of the director of the geological sur
Yey. director of the bureau of mines,
director of the census and commits
sioner of labor statistics and six 9TH
ers to be confirmed by the senate. It
would be given sweeping powers to
obtain information.