Evening star., 1925-12-13
The Story the Week Has Told

The President, l take it, means to
recommend legislation to give effect
to all its main recommendations
TT is thoroughly complete and repre-
sentS the mature thought of the best
talent of the country"
9. A most delicate matter is most
delicately glanced at in the following:
Legislation should be considered to
provide for leasing the unappropriated
public domain for grazing purposes
and adopting a uniform policy rela-
tive to grazing on the public lands
and in the national forests
TO-. Inability to manage and con-
troll our great resource of coal for
the benefit of all concerned is very
close to a national economic failure" "
The President recommends as follows:
Authority should be lodged with
the President and the Departments of
Comerce and Labor, giving them
power to deal with an emergency.
They should be empowered to appoint
temporary boards with authority to
call for witnesses and documents,
conciliate differences, encourage arbi-
triation, and in case of threatened
scarcity exercise control over diStri-
button. Making the facts public un-
der these circumstances through a
statement from an authoritative
source would be of great public bene-
fit. The report of the Coal Commits
sion, headed by Mr.. Hammond,
should be brought forward, reconsider
ed and acted upon
IL. The President seems to approach
the subject of railroad consultations
very gingerly, and studiously to avoid
the adjective compulsory" Il rec.
ND ha hot ba
authorize such consultations under
The supervision of the Interstate Com.
merce Commission, with power to ap.
prove or disapprove," concerning eX.
clusions or additions.
~. Concerning agricultural relief
the President expresses himself very
briefly His views in this connection
were fully expressed in his address on
Monday to the Farm Bureau Confed
Grafton at Chicago. A bill embodying
his program whereof the chief item
is promotion of cooperative market
inG will soon be introduced in Con.
greSS.
13. Adhesion of our Government to
the protocol establishing the Court of
International Justice, with the reserva
tions contrived by Mr.. Hughes to keep
us clear of league taint, is once more
urged.
IA. Except for his observations on
the World Court, the President has
not much to say concerning our for.
eign relations. The question Of land
disarmament is, he observes, peculi-
arly European. When Tor if) it has
been satisfactorily settled with our
appreciation and encouragement u
but the President seems to intimate,
entirely without our direct participa.
tom we may more easily consider
further reduction and Limitation of
naval ornaments. For that purpose
our country has constantly, through
its executive and through repeated
acts of Congress, indicated its willing
ness to call such a conference. Under
congressional sanction it would seem
to be wise to participate in any con.
ference of the great powers for limi-
tation Of naval ornaments proposed
upon such conditions that 1t would
hold a fair promise of being effective.
The general policy of our country y
for disarmament and it ought not to
hesitate to adopt any practical plan
that might reasonably be expected to
succeed. But it would not care to at
tend conference which, from it's To-
cation or constitution, would in all
probability prove futile" The precise
drift of the above is not quite clear
The AK revision bill introduced in
the House on Monday contemplates
for the calendar year 1925 a total tax
reduction Of S325, 5,736,000,