Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-06-12
NEWS review OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Congress Adjourns and the
Country's Eyes Turn to
G. o. P. Convention.
Rv EDWARD w. PIcKARD

ONGRESS adjourned on Saturday,
~ and the country heaved one great
sigh of relief. Business, which had
been depressed, began to perk up; and
stocks, which had been in something of
a slump, regained some Of their lost
values. The people Of the United
States turned with interest, unmixed
with excitement, toward Cleveland,
where the Republican party was gath
ering for the purpose of nominating
Calvin Coolidge for President.
In the closing days of the session,
several pieces of projected legislation
went by the boards. The McNary-
Haugen bill designed for the relief of
the farmers was defeated in the house
by a vote of 224 to 154. and modifica-
tons of it were also rejected. The
farm bloc did not wish any of the
other farm relief bills passed, and
then President Coolidge told the con-
gressional leaders that he would not
approve of any measure that included
price fixing. That settled it for the
present.
AS for Muscle Shoals, that also went
over until next session. The senate
agriculture committee, reporting ia
vorably the Norris bill providing gov
eminent control of power from the
site, denounced unsparingly the bill
which would give the project to Henry
Ford and exposed the financial fal-
lacies Of the Detroiter's offer. The
report was written by Senator Norris,
who took full advantage of the chance
to say what he thought of the admin
istration. Pointing to Ford's denun-
Citations of Secretary Of War Weeks
and Indirectly Of the administration
at the time the Gorgas plant was sold,
the report said:
ITO appease his anger vacillating
admin stration publicly announced that
the amount received for the plant
would be credited on the S5,OOO,OOO
Ford offered for Muscle Shoals If his
bid was accepted by congress. This
kindly favor, perhaps superinduced by
other considerations, so pleased Mr..
Ford that his anger at the admins
tration was not only turned into love
and admiration, but he became so VIC
lently friendly that he himself with
drew as candidate for President and
announced his support of the execu-
tive who made such liberal conces-
Sions."
Senators Hefiin, Ladd Smith, Har-
rison and Caraway submitted a mi
nority report favoring the Ford bid,
but the best they could do was to OBJ
tain unanimous consent to make
Muscle Shoals the first order OF busl-
ness after the next session on Decem-
Der 3.
Senator McCormick's resolution pro-
posing the twentieth amendment to
the Constitution by which congress is
empowered to control the labor OF
persons under eighteen years OF age
was passed by the senate, the vote be-
ing 81 TO %. The house approved of
the proposed amendment last April,
SO it now goes to the states for ratiti-
cation.
Sixty bills for the modification of
the yolstead act were left reposing in
the room of the house judiciary COM
mittee, despite the efforts OF their
sixty authors and Of others who de-
clare that 2.75 per cent beer should
not be called Intoxicating.
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE took the
tax reduction bill and the Treasury
departments analysis thereof on
weekend trip down the Potomac, and
when he returned to the White House
Monday he signed the measure. At
the same time he issued statement
severely criticising many features of
the bill and pledging himself to do all
he can in the next session OF con-
gress toward the passage of tax bill
''less political and more truly eco
nomic."
The President said that in Its adj
ministratiye features the bill repre-
sents generally an Improvement over
existing law; chat it will provide suffi-