Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-03-08
PRESIDENT IMPATIENT
At IRRITATING DELAYS
Harding Is Tentatively Feel
ing Hcft of So.Callcd
''Big Stick"
nIcKEnING IN HIS CABINET
Relieves Responsibility Rests Entire
~ With the Senators Regarding
RESOLUTIONS BcarinR ON Treaties
Has Not Studied bonus Plan.
ny Robert J. Hcnlcr.

United News stan Correspondent.
WASHINGTON. March 7.-Presi-
dent Harding. for the first time
since he entered the White House. is
tentatively feeling the heft OF the
ro-callad big stick" used by former
Presidents Roosevelt and Wilson in
Influencing Congress and tho public.
Starting his second year, the Pres
idcnt is manifestinS every evidence
OF mpa,ience Mt irritating delays
and dickcring in Congress. ut tho
first symptoms OF pickering within
his own Cabinet, and q reports from
the country that he has not cxerted
sufficiently frm leadership.
il may be stated on highest au-
thority that tho President has taken
coguizaucc OF those In Congress and
in the country who have spread the
belief that the administration shifts
position as breezcs change"
In No Uncertain Language.
1t is significant therefore. that he
has lot 1t be officially known in no
uncertain language, for the guidance
OF Congress. that:
As regards the Borah resolution.
asking whether the LansinS-lshi
agreement is abrogatcd by tho four
power treaty. there will be prompt
reply.
The President will not dcputize
Secretary Hughes TO appear as a Wit
ness on the treaties before the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee.
though Hughes probably would he
willing 10 cooperate IN any way for
q favorable settlement.
As regards resolutions bearing on
tl.c treaties. reservations to the paCts
and other efforts to hamper ratihca-
ton. the President believes rcspon-
sibili;y rests entirely with Senators.
lie holds the executive branch of the
government has done the best IL
could in working out the results ac-
complishcd and will not lobby.
trade. suppliCate or admonish" the
senate TO the end that the work NC
approved
As regards the bonus question. the
President has not studied the revised
House Ways and Means bill. reported
out Tuesday. without discussing It's
merits, the President stands today as
ne stood when he wrote Congress on
the subject-"Funds for the bonus
SHOULD DC raised by sales tax, or the
To End Conflicting Authority.
For tho benefit of those within his
Cabinet who have become cmbroilcd
In differences over details OF rcor-
Eanizing departments In the interest
Of greater coordination and economy,
the President has indicated his in
tended course OF action with regard
10 Alaskan administration. now
moot question between Secretaries
Fall and Wallace.
Without as yet advancing any def
mite program on what should hc done
tho Ircsden; declares fatty that he
faYors "A termination of conflicting
authority in the territory, TO put an
end 10 system raralyzing develop
mcnt there" On the surface. at least
that would seem to mean the Prcsi-
dent supports Fail. in the present row
growing out OF disposition OF the for
est service.
Further Harding has just notified
Secretary Of Labor Davis to insist
that operators and employees keep
the faith" on their 1920 wage agree
mcnt which pledged both parties To
confer on "a new e-.,ge scale befor"
March 81 OF this'-ycai
All o! which tcstiacs strikincly TO
the Presidents change Of attitude to-
ward the cXcrtion Of his lcadership
j may Toe stated that for some months
his intimate friends have repeatedly
counseled him to check the practice
OF his origi nal intention to co-orcratr
and compromise with Congress in the
interest Of harmony rather than
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