Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-12-31

Calvin Coolidge and Charles Gates
Dawes were declared elected, and on
March they were duly inaugurated.
Before that event congress had put
through the usual grist OF appropria-
ton bills and had passed a measure
increasing postal rates and the pay of
postal employees. 1t also raised the
salaries of it's own members to $4,000
and Of the cabinet members to $4,000.
Associate Justice McKenna of the
Supreme court resigned January and
the President appointed Attorney Cen
eral Harlan f. Stone to the vacancy.
A few days later he nominated Charles
B. Warren of Michigan to be attorney
general. When the senate met in spe-
cial session after the Inauguration one
of it's first acts was to reject the War
rem nomination because of his former
business connections. The President
sent in the name again, and again 1t
was rejected. Mr.. Coolidge thereupon
nominated John G. Sargent for the
place and he was accepted. Secretary
of State Hughes retired from the cab
met on March 4, and was succeeded by
Frank B. kellogg, then ambassador to
Great Britain. Secretary of War
Weeks, who had been i'll for many
months, resigned on October ID, and
Dwight f. Davis, assistant secretary,
was given the portfolio. Mr.. Davis
position was filled by the appointment
of Col. Hanford MacNider, former ma
tiOnal commander Of the American Lee
gion. William M. Jardine of Kansas
February IA. A change in the White
House itself that was of especial In
tereSt to politicians was the reSigna-
ton of G. Bascom Slemp as secretary
to the President and the appointment
of Everett Sanders of Indiana.
President Coolidge spent the sum-
mer vacation at Swampscott, Mass,
and during the year he made several
trips for the purpose of delivering ad
dresses. The more important of these
were to st. Paul, Mimi, for the Morse
American centennial celebration; to
Omaha for the meeting of the Amer
lean Legion, and to Chicago for the
convention of the American Farm Bu-
reau federation. Vice President Dawes
was exceedingly active in carrying on
his campaign for revision of the rules
of the senate, making speeches on that
topic in many parts of the country
When the Sixty-ninth congress opened
its sessions OH December he was
ready to go on with his fight, but with
out glittering prospects OF success.
The Republicans were in full con-
troll of the new congress, but the old
insurgent bloc in the party was there
again undaunted by disciplinary meas
ures by which its members were de-
prived Of most of their important COM
mittee assignments. In the lower
house they refused to support the Re
publican candidate for speaker, Nicho-
las Longworth of Ohio, who neverthe-
less was elected. The Republicans
also amended the rule concerning dis
charge of committees so that ma
jority of the house must sign a petit
ton to take legislation out OF COM
mittee's hands and place it before the
house. In the lower house sat three
women MEMBERSHIPS. Rogers of
Massachusetts and Mrs. Kahn of Cali
fornia on the Republican side and Mrs.
Norton of New Jersey on the Demo-
cratic side. With a vast number of
bills introduced at the beginning of the
session, the house put at the top OF
the list the tax reduction measure that
had been prepared by the ways and
means committee during the fall, and
at once went to work on it. This bill
proposed a cut in income and other
taxes that would reduce the national
revenues by more than 1925, 10000
1t was virtually a nOnpartiSan meas
ure and seemed assured of passage.
Aside from Vice President Dawes eff
fort to reform the senate procedure, in
teEest in the upper house at first CEN
tered on the attitude of Senator Rob
ert NJ. LaFollette, Jr. of Wisconsin,
who had been elected to succeed his
late father, the leader of the insur-
gents. The young man gave every in
dicaton that he would follow closely
in the footsteps of his SIRE Another
of the radical senators had passed
away-Senator Ladd of North Dakota
and Governor Sorlie had appointed
Gerald z. Nye, an avowed follower of
LaFollette, to succeed him. Some of
the senators opposed the seating of
Mr.. Nye on the ground that the gov
ernor had no right, under the state
constitution, to fill senatorial va
cancy. Senator Ralston of Indiana, a
Democratic wheelhorse, died October
II and A. r. Robinson, Republican, was
appointed to fill the vacancy. Senator
Spencer of Missouri also passed away
and his place was filled by George H.
Williams.
One OF the most spectacular political
battles of recent times was that waged
for the mayoralty of New York. 1t be-
gan with hot. contest for the Demo
cratic nomination between Gov. Al
Smith and Tammany, whose choice
was State Senator Jimmy" Walker
and the Hearst following, which urged
the denomination of Mayor Hylan.
Tammany won out, and in the election
Walker was easily the victor over f.
d. Waterman, the Republican nominee.
Col William Mitchell, by his deter
mined fight to improve the air serv-
ice of the army and navy, made his
name household word. Early in the