The Republican., 1923-04-12
PRESIDENT BACK
IN WHITE HOUSE
Harding Returns From Florida
Vacation Prepared to Con-
slider important Questions.
TO TOUR WEST AND ALASKA
WorIdCourt Plan, Ship Board, Navy
Appropriations and Dry Enforce
ment Are ProbIems-Plans Speak
ing Trip About June IS.

hington.-President and Mrs.
Harding returned to Washington from
their five-weeks' southern vacation.
The presidential party arrived shortly
after noon and went directly to the
White House.
The trip from Augusta, Ga, where
the presidential party spent their last
week, was made without incident.
Mrs. Harding, it was said, was only
slightly fatigued by the sixteen hour
train ride, indicating the gain in
strength resulting from the five
weeks spent in the South. The i'm
provement in her health was further
shown by the fact that she walked to
the automobile at the station entrance
whereas on starting the trip the auto
mobile was driven into the railroad
yards directly to the steps Of the
Presidents private car.
Mr.. Harding soon after luncheon
visited his Office and spent two hours
there, looking over accumulated mail
and arranging to resume work in earn
est.
A number Of matters of importance
will receive the attention of the chief
executive during the coming weeks,
and the President is described as most
anxious to get as many as possible if
not all of them out of the way before
the middle Of June, the time tentative
ly selected for the beginning of the
proposed western trip.
The President has not yet finally
decided on the western trip, having
deferred his decision until after the
vacation trip on account of Mrs. Hard
ing's health While Mrs. Harding
stood the southern trip exceedingly
we'll and was in fact greatly benefited
by it, it is recognized that such a
tour as that proposed to the Pacific
Coast and possibly to Alaska would be
far more wearing.
Among the matters expected to re-
ceive Mr.. Harding's attention within
the next week or two are the sugar
price situation, in which the tariff
commission is expected to submit a
preliminary report soon, and the Mer-
chant Marine problem. With respect
to the latter it has been expected that
the Shipping Board would be able to
present to the Executive by the mid
die Of the month the alternative pro-
posals for disposition of the govern
ment fleet. The preparation of some
Of the detailed information found de-
sirable to place in the Presidents
hands has, however, been found TO re-
Guire more time than had been eX-
pectad and so that problem will not
receive immediate attention except in
a preliminary way.
Several appointments are soon to
be announced including a member Of
each of the three groups composing
the Railroad Labor Board, several OF
the additional Federal judges created
by Congress and a member of the
Federal Reserve Board to fill the va
cancy caused by the recent death of
Milo D. Campbell.
In addition, Mr. Harding will find
himself promptly the storm center OF
the agitation over the League Of Ma
tions and Americas participation in
the World Court. Whether the Presi-
dent likes it or not, he viii be unable,
while striving to focus his attention
upon the pressing matters of admins
tration and government, to escape the
opportunities of thosy who are i'm
pressed by the, political necessity of
limiting at the foreigr-policy issue
likely to be drawn in the 1924 cam
paign.
The shipping situation probably will
receive first attention from the Presi-
dent. A D. LaskGr, chairman of the
Shipping Board who has been with
the President in Florida, expects to
quit in June, and plainly is desirous
Of the determination of a policy be-
fore he leaves. The President is equal
ly anxious that the program be fixed
before Mr. Laskcr retires.
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