Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-03-17
WASHINGTON
DAY BY DAY
(From Our Special CORRESPONDENCE

Washington, March 17.-Business
throughout the country will not De
affected by the strike of the bitumln-
Gus miners, scheduled to begin
April l.
This was the information given out
here today by a member of President
/; Hard;ne's Cabinet, who has been IN
/! close touch with conditions III all sec
t;ons Of the country. 1t was further
declared that a coal strike will find
the railroads of the country. stoKed
up with reserve supplies OF coai,
which they have been accumuiatlng
for many days in anticipation OF
strike among the bituminous miners.
This supply now on hand will last the
Transportation companies from sc to
60 days at least.
IN addition to this supply, it was
pointed out that the nonunlon mines
throughout the country, especially the
fields in West Virginia, which are
tapped by the Norfolk & Western
and Chesapeake & Ohio railroads, will
be kept going at top speed and will be
able to supply half the normal guam
tity of coal used by the big industries
| throughout the country.
There is no intention of the Gov
ernment to interfere in any way, even
if strike is called, it was said by
this Cabinet member. Past expert
ence has shown that coal strikes, after
they have been in progress for any
length of time, are usually settled on
the motion of either the operators or
miners, and it was said that with the
railroads moving and industries not
interfered with, that there would be
no reason for the Government to take
any hand in the situation.
The United States Veterans Bu-
reau Vocational School at Chile
cothe, Ohio, has announced the gradu-
alton of its first disabled veteran.
Charles Davhuff, of Patricksburg,
Ind, was rehabitated as laundry
manager, and tomorrow will take
charge of the laundry Of the Ohio
State Reformatory. Dayhuff saw l6
months overseas service and was in
the Meuse-Argonne, st. Miniel, sec
ond battle of the Marine, Belleau
Woods, and Chateau Thierry attacks.
He was badly gassed at Chateau
! Thierry, and was declared 90 per cent
disabled. When the Veterans Bureau
opened the vocational school az Chill
lecothe, Dayhuff was one of the initial
students.
Hereafter when the President OF
the United States gives state dinner,
reception or other public function at
the White House he will not be COM
PEELED to defray the expenses OF such
entertainment out of his own pocket.
The Senate Committee on Appropri-
ations, in making provision for the
expenses of the White House and the
Presidents salary, has put in an
amendment to that part of the bill!
which allows the Chief Executive S25,
900 a year for travelling expenses,
providing that any part OF this sum
may be used in defraying the expenses
of official entertainments. The din
ncrs which the President is compelled
to give to members of the Diplomatic
Corps. the Judiciary, Congress, and
to distinguished foreign visitors, are
always costly affairs, but up to the
present time he has been compelled to
meet the expenses thus entailed out OF
his personal account. Congress has
never before made any provision for
the paymentof such official functions
carried on by the occupant OF the
White House.
1t is the intention of the Depart
ment of Commerce to send a party,
headed by Assistant Secretary Hus-
ton, to Alaska this summer for the
purpose of making a general investi-
CATION of conditions in which that de-
partment is particularly interested:
Particular attention will be devoted
during this trip of inspection to the
salmon fisheries of the territory,
which yield products of an average
annual value Of about S4O,OOO,OO0,
and in normal seasons give employ
mcnt to upwards of 10000 persons,
and represent an investment of about
70,000,000.
| IL VIII pe liiS pun pooS, aiSo, " ~
serve conditions in respect to the fur
seal industry at the Pribilof Islands,
which work is administered by the De-
partment Of Commerce through the
! Bureau of Fisheries. The American
fur seal herd resorts to seals are
killed there and the pelts subse-
quently disposed of for the ac-
count of the Government. In the sea-
son of 1921 there were taken 1851
sealskins from the herd, which num-
bered 5S1, ,453 animals. The annual
censuses of the herd show satisfac-
tory growth each year. the net in
erase being per cent after deducting
those killed.
The skins are dressed, dyed and
machined, and sold at public auction
through the departments selling
agents at ST. Louis, and the proceeds
are covered into the treasury Of the
United States. On the average seal
skins WELD the Government from
S1,OOO,00O to S2,000,000 annually. The
Government also engaged in foxine
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