The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-02
MELLON MAY Be
NEXT BIC Thief
TO LOSE SCALP
Unless They Get Hoover
First
By LAURENCE TODD.

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WASHINGTON, April /. - Now
that DENLY and Daugherty have been
dismissed from the cabinet Washing
ton is asking whether Mellon, Weeks
or Wallace is to be the next one
forced out because Of his record. Mel
Ion is already in a serious situation,
due to disclosures made by Senator
Couzens' committee as to the whole
sale reduction Of taxes to big corpo-
rations and to persons and companies
with which Mellon and his friends are
connected.
Weeks Indifferent to War Frauds.
Weeks has been as indifferent as
Daugherty to the prosecution of war
frauds, and Wallace has ignored the
plain letter of the law with reference
to stockyards and meat packer con-
troll. A house committee is now in
vestigating Wallace's acts. Senator
Mcclellan of Tennessee has renewed
the fight begun by the late Senator
Watson of Georgia to remove Mel
Ion from Office on the ground that as
a business nagnate he is constitutions
ally barred from being secretary Of
the treasury.
McLean's Washington Post, which
bashfully refrained from editorial
comment on the downfall of Daugh-
erty, has proposed that Senator Ster-
ling of South Dakota be appointed in
his stead. Sterling would be an ideal
spokesman of the anti-labor and anti
progressive program of the admins
tration.
Senator Borah's latest resolution
calling for an international confer
ence for the economic restoration of
war-impoverished world, shows all
of the limitations placed upon any
appeal to the Coolidge administra-
tion. Not only does the resolution
leave the program to the president
but it also leaves to the discretion of
Coolidge the essential matter of in
vitations.
Recognize Russia.
Borah says that while he leaves to
the president the option of inviting
or excluding any country, it is obvi-
Gus that such a conference can
achieve. no important success unless
Russia and Germany take part. To
accomplish anything, it must be a
world conference, yet just because he
knows that Secretary Hughes and the
president are hostile to Russia he can
go no further than suggest the mat
ter in speech.
Secretary Hughes is busy with the
Latin-American diplomats just now,
assuring them that his recent send
ing of a company of marines 100
miles inland to occupy the capital of
Honduras is in no sense an innova-
ton in the political affairs of that
republic Senator Shipstead, however,
| is of the opinion that Hughes would
have gone much further in his mill
tary campaign on behalf of the Unit
ed Fruit Co.'s dictatorship in Hon
duras had the progressives in con-
gress not voiced vigorous protest.
U. S. Sticks In Nose.
President Coolidge seeks to calm
the fears of the people of Latin
America by announcing that he fav-
ors the election of the governor Of
Porto Rico by the people Of Porto
Rico-a measure demanded by a COM
mission representing all of the poll
teal parties of the island and for
mally Endorsed by the house committee
on insular affairs. Secretary of War
Weeks recently sent telegram to
Porto Rico declaring that he opposed
this plan Of popular election of the
governor because the Socialists might
soon became strong enough to win
the election.