The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-05
BURTON |. FRENCH
ARRIVES AT HOME
SEES EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY
ON EVERY HAND-WAS WITH
PRESIDENT IN SOUTH

IedCueu nome laSC n1SnC from SOUTH
ern Idaho having driven through
with Assistant United States District
Attorney Jno. H. McEvers from Boise
Mr.. McEvers proceeding on his way
to points further north in the state
Maybe the country has looked as
beautiful BEFORE" said Mr.. French,
but if it has I never noticed it. We
have had a wonderful trip from
south Idaho and with the abundance
of rain you have had, the crops are
splendid everywhere and the noun
tains and strips of land along the
road not in cultivation are simply
carpeted with the greatest array OF
wild flowers and native grasses and
shrubbery that 1 ever saw And L
am glad to be home and to have the
opportunity Of spending some months
in our state and going over with
our people the many matters that are
constantly needing consideration.
"For a little more than two weeks
with Representative Cramton I have
been in the southern part of the state
going over the various reclamation
projects under the reclamation SER
vice and Indian bureau, and visiting
all the works that are now In pro-
cess of construction or that are ap-
parently most likely to be considered
within the near future. Before that
1 visited Oregon, where much the
same program was carried out Re
preventative L. G. Cramton, chairman
of the subcommittee on the interior
of the appropriations committee, is
making personal inspection of these
projects, and as his associate in this
work we are familiarizing ourselves
with these activities.
With President Harding at Pocatel1o
One of the most pleasing events
of the trip was the opportunity to
Governor Moore, Senators Borah and
Gooding and Representative Addison
T. Smith and other members of the
governors committee in meeting Pre-
sident Harding at Cache Junction,
Utah, and accompanying him to Poca-
telIo. The reports of the presidents
reception and speeches have been so
ample that I need not refer to these
matters. Maybe I should say, now
ever, that the greeting to the presl-
dent everywhere was most hearty ana
the presidents addresses were re-
ceived with the greatest enthusiasm;
President Harding likes people and
when people see him and meet him
and hear him they like him They
like Mrs Harding too, and l was
most delighted to see her looking SO
well again after long illness, and
able to share with the president the
burdens and pleasures of the visit.
Il
could not have been worked out Tin
ally so as to have permitted a stop
at Moscow and President Harding |
desired that l tell our people OF his
regrets that he could not have been |
our guest and visited this section OF
our Inland Empire.
Naval Affairs and Other Problems
Mr.. French has been asked by Re
preventative Madden, the chairman I
of the appropriations committee OF
the house. to become chairman OIL
the naval appropriations sub-com-
mittee, and in this connection MI
French has just completed a close IN
spection of all naval projects on the
Pacific coast, all in Panama and the
West indies and many on the Atlantic
seaboard
Chairman Madden stands out as
one of the greatest chairmen that the
committee on appropriations has ever
had" said Mr.. French, and ne de-
mandS the same type OF work from
his Iieutenants on the committee that
he demanded of his business assoc1-
ates in building up a great business
He demands that his subcommittee
know their respective subjects, and
the fact that during the last year we
have been able to pare the expendl-
Lures of government many millions OF
dollars below what they had been the
study upon the part of the appropr1a-
lions committee of the house work
ng in close sympathy with the bud
ref bureau Chairman Madden'S idea
nav be wrong, but it is that the
,nly way to retrench is to retrench,
md TO do as a government precisely
what a successful farmer or merchant
would do in handling his private
business, and lop off useless or un-
necessary expenditures, and cut out
waste 1 believe Madden is rlght-
And during the last four months
members of the appropriations COM
nittee of the house and various other
members of what might be called bud
ret committees of house and senate
lave been investigating, holding
hearings and studying our problems. E
"How can we reduce the expend1- r
ures of this navy yard? How can 1
We eliminate the loss of OO,0oo.Oo i
| year of the government owned t
Alaska railroad? How can we pro- s
,erlv educate the children of Esqu1- 1
naux and Indians in Alaska, and how 7
an we wipe our trichOma and other a
diseases prevalent among these ]
Yards Of our government? How can
ye save the fisheries of Alaska that
ave contributed about $500, 900 100000
n wealth to the United States during
he past SO years where now they .
re threatened with destruction? "
,hese are some of the many prob :, :.
ems that we have been studying. y
Party Pay Own Expenses il
One of the features of the commit a
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