River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-02-23

| This care includes board and lodging
and represents an expenditure by the
government of S60,0O0,000 year.
Giving vocational training, without
cost to over 100000 disabled ex-seryice
men at an annual expenditure for tu-
ition and supervision of S30.000,0O0.
Mailing out 650,OOO checks every
month, representing $42,0O0,000.
Conducting an insurance business
for over 100000 ex-service men, with
out cost of administration to them, at
premium rates below that of private
companies for like policies. Insurance
in force S3,5O0,OOO,O0O.
Conducting over $4,000 medical ex-
aminations every month.
Giving outside treatment in cases
where disqualification is not required
to 10000 ex-sergice men every month.
Receiving 1000 new claims day in
addition to the 100000 already on
file; employing 1900 ex-service men
and woman in carrying out the work.
ECRETARY DENNY began last
~ week strenuous fight to save the
United States navy from congressional
action which, he believes, would de-
stroy it's efficiency and at the same
time destroy the international naval
relatively provided for in the pending
treaty for naval limitation. He is ably
seconded by Assistant Secretary Theo-
dore Roosevelt and Admiral Robert A.
| Coontz, chief of naval operations.
All three of them appeared before
| the house naval affairs committee and
i argued for a minimum personnel OF
10000 men and 5000 apprentices, and
fU an appropriation OF $350,OO0,OOO
| for the fiscal year 1923.
! at the outset Chairman Thomas But
| Ter. voicing also the opinion OF other
members of the committee, declared
the amount asked by Mr.. DENLY was
altogether too large, that the people
woulc never support vote by congress
for three times what the navy cost
| in 1915 exclusive of construction.
Admiral Coontz in his argument
said: .The secretary Of the navy has
| called your attention to the expendi-
lures Of the naval establishment for
this year as amounting to $47S,OO0.0O0.
re we add to this various other trans
actions and moneys returned to The
| treasury. we will have practically a
| half billion dollar business. Its rami-
fications extend all over the world.
.The navy maintains communca-
| tions in the interior of Europe as far
east as Constantinople and Warsaw for
| the benefit of our country. its CONNER
cial interests and the American relief
work. Our radio communications han
die Pacific matters, and. at the present
| time. due to the breaking of the mid
| way cable, are handling practically
| the entire trans, Pacific traffic. The
naval appropriation also provides the
funds for the administration Of our
island possessions, among which are
| the Virgin islands, Haiti, San Do
| mingo, Guam, and Samoa"
| ~ NE of the outcomes of the unem-
" ployment conference was up for
| discussion in the senate Wednesday
| and received some hard knocks. 1t was
/ the bill introduced by Senator Ken
Won by which the President would be
| authorized to postpone federal con-
| struction and improvements in pros
porous times when jobs are plentiful
| and then order the work carried on at
/ full speed when business stagnatlon
appears.
Senator New of Indiana based his
opposition to the measure on the
! rather ridiculous reason that the
pharaohs were unable TO discover q
formula to solve the problem Of re-
curing periods of plenty and famine
in Egypt. He did not think congress
could succeed where the Pharaohs had
failed.
WHILE the senate foreign relations
] wv committee was discussing the
1 four-power Pacific treaty, the same pact
| obtained place on the floor of the
| INNER house. Senator Hitchcock Of
fered a resolution asking President
Harding to transmit to the senate adj
ditional information and documents re-
lating TO its negotiation. asserting that
little of this was contained in the re-
1 port of the American delegates. Ad-
| ministration leaders said this was be-
cause practically all the negotiations
were oral and few minutes or notes
Gf the conversations were kept The
resolution. however, was adopted.
| = EcRETARY OF COMMERCE.
y HOOVER wants to publish the
trade statistics gathered by trade as
eociat5ons. so lle asked Attorney Gen