Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1922-05-03
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK

comparatively LITTLE resemblance TO the
measure as IL passed the house. OF
course a good deal of interest centers
In the American valuation clause
which has been discussed 10 the tir-
Ing point time after time. AS things
are, however, dairy men want higher
rates on eggs; bakers are asking for
reduction on eggs; dye men want an
extension Of the period fixed for the
embargo: soap men want something
done in the matter OF vegetable oils
which are imported for saponaceOus
purposes; and then there is trouble
over the rate proposed on raw stock
picture films.
In the senate these days there are
being repeated the scenes Of the days
OF the Payne-Aldrich tariff bin. Vari-
Gus interests are represented here. each
IN its own behalf 90 beg for special
provisions TO protect this industry or
that industry against what each man
says Is destruction.
Tariff discussions I'm open house and
senate are apt 20 be dry affairs, but
the hearings are not altogether sleep
producing. Occasionally the petition
ers. pro and con. enliven the proceed
ings with personalities and with do
ings which look as IL they might cut
inmate In Old-fashioned rows. The
public Is showing more interest in the
tariff proceedings in the room of the
finance committee Of the senate than
IL did In those I'm the ways and means
room Of the house. SO far as the rep
resentatives are concerned. Mr.. Ford
ney. the ways and means chairman,
seemed 20 have made up his mind
what he and his colleagues were go
Ing 20 do. and - the representatives
OF the various interests thought IL use
less 20 make much OF a tight. Things
are different over In the senate.
Senators Too Tired 20 Talk Long.
Il begins To look today as II the
flEia bill will not consume as much
debate and argument time as IL was
at first supposed would be the case.
This Is not because senators have no
strung opinions on this. that or the
other provision OF the bill. but because
every one Of them Is tired out, and
some OF the most labially active ones
seem 60 be talked out. Perhaps they
viii get a second breath before the
time TO start the wind mills into action
shall come. but there Is every evidence
today OF actual fatigue In the senate
chamber. something which has not
been I'm evidence there for a good
many years.
Not long ago IL was believed that
the senate either would postpone ac-
ton ON the bonus bin until another
and a more convenient season, or
would change Il materially, probably
cutting out the cash or near cash feat
ure OF the measure. Today the SEEM
Ing wiseacres declare that the senate
will pass the bin In pretty much the
form In which IL passed the house. and
that President Harding under pressure
OF party persuasion will give IL his
endorsement.
lust what the senate will do with
the measures on which the national
safety depends. those which would re-
duce the army and navy 10 the point
OF uselessness. remains 10 be seen, but
II the majority OF the senators prove
as panicky as was the case with
majority of the house men, they may
end0yse the propositions 10 cut the
arm. and navy down 20 proportions
which, while they will cost a good deaf
OF money 10 maintain, will make them
OF little service TO the government. In
other words, the President seems TO
believe and So do all army and navy
men. that II the proposed reductions
are made IL might be just as well 10
20 further and wipe the army OF the
earth and the navy OF the sea.
Harding May Save Army and Navy.
Within a few days fiat statement has
been made by men who seem 10 know
the administrators mind that If the
senate shall do what the house wants
II 10 do. and provide for a pigmy army
and navy, President Harding viii veto
the bills. Not even In the days pre-
cedfog the entrance OF the United
States into the war with Germany
were the evidences Of extreme pacitism
more salient than they are IN WISH
ington today. Congressman seem to
hold the thought that because the
treaties have been ratified by the SEN
ate. there no longer Is any need for
an American force. either on land or
on sea. They seem 20 have the con-
fidence OF babes that nobody is going
TO hurt them OK theirs In the future.
President Harding. IL is said. believes
that the action OF the house In army
and navy matters is purely political
and that the members are not such
fools personally as they appear to be,
but that they were directed along the
line OF destruction Of every defense
means solely by the thought that their
constituents would approve OF the
course and that therefore they would
vote them back into Office.
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