The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-12-31
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS

DOTWEO IL AT Alf<O
Presidential electors of the states
met January - and went through the
formality of voting for President and
vice president of the United States
Calvin Coolidge and Charles Gates
Dawes were declared elected, and on
March 4 they were duly ~inaugurated.
Before that event congress mad put
through the usual grist OF appropria-
increasing postal rates and the pay OF
postal employees. 1t also raised the
salaries of its own members to S1O,O0O
and of the cabinet members to Sl6,00O.
Associate Justice McKenna of the
Supreme court resigned January 4 and
the President appointed Attorney Gen
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 its 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. MI. 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 Ill for many
months, resigned on October Ii. and
Dwight F. Davis, assistant secretary,
was given the portfolio. Mr.. Davis
position was filed by the appointment
of Col. Hanford MacNider, former ma
tional commander Of the American Lee
gion. William M. Jardine of Kansas
was made secretary of agriculture on
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 Blu
e federation. Vice President Dawes
was exceedingly active In carrying on
his campaign for revision of he rules
Of the senate, making speeches on that
topic in many parts OF h country.
When the Sixty-ninth congress opened
it's sessions OIL December 7 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
Tres by which its members were de-
1rived of most of their important com
nittee assignments. In the lower
house they refused to support the Re
publican candidate for speaker, Nicho-
as Longworth of Ohio, who neverthe-
ess was elected. The Republicans
ilso amended the rule concerning dis
,harge Of committees so that a ma
ority of the house must sign a petit
ion to take legislation out of "a COM
hands and place it before the
louse. In the lower house sat three
women MEMBERSHIPS. Rogers of
Massachusetts, and Mrs. Kahn of Call
ornia on the Republican side and Mrs.
Norton of New Jersey on the Demo
ratio side. With a vast lumber OF
ills introduced at the beginning of the
ession, the house put at the top of
he list the tax reduction measure that
ad been prepared by the ways and
neans committee during the fall, and
t once went to work on II. This bill
roposed a cut in income and other
axes that would reduce the national
yenues by more than S325, 600, 1000.
t was virtually a n~onpartisan meas
re and seemed assured of passage.
Aside from Vice President Dawes eff
)rt to reform the senate procedure, in
crest In the upper house at first cen
cred on the attitude of Senator Rob
NJ. LaFollette, Jr., of Wisconsin, :
tho had been elected to succeed his
tie father, the leader of the insur
The young man gave every in
that he would follow closely I
the footsteps of his sire. Another j
{ the radical senators had passed ]
yay-Senator Laid of North Dakota ]
and Governor Sorlie had appointed !
erald p. Nye, an avowed follower of
aFollette, TO succeed him. Some OF {