Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-06-26
A Weekly Panorama of Events In the
National Capital
(By PETER KEEGAM

SENATOR La Follette's death leaves
~ the Progressive Party which he
'ounded without a leader and gives
the regular Republicans more than
an even chance to obtain control OF
the Northwestern states which he
has controlled and dominated politi
cally for so long. Senator Burton r.
Wheeler, the Montana Democrat who
ran on the La Toilette ticket for vice
president in 1924 has become the
nominal head of the liberal movement
which eliminated in La Follette's
candidacy for President, but there
are men within the Republican party
who believe that La Follette's mantle
should fall on their shoulders and
they will not be backward about say
ing so. There will also be a row in
Wisconsin over naming La Follette's
successor as the term for which he
was elected does not expire until
March 4th, 1929. One of the possi-
bilities is that the widow, who has
followed her husbands political ca
reer closely, may be named to fill
his seat in the Senate.
THE tax problem continues to hold
the center of the stage, with
Secretary Mellon slowly but surely
winning over leaders of both parties
and of all lines of business and in
dustrv to his view that the only
scientific way to revise the federal
tax system is to virtually eliminate
the surtaxes on big incomes so as to
leave capital free for any uses to
which it might be put. Mellon has
not decided whether or not he will
have a definite tax plan to submit to
Congress IN December, but he is
working on the problem quietly with
| those members of the Senate and
House who will be directly response
ble for framing the new tax reduc-
ton bill. Among those who have
been won over to Melons proposal
| for the reduction of the SurtaXes is
Senator Underwood of Alabama, for
mer Democratic leader of the Senate.
10Th the President and his eX-sec-
- retary of State, Charles Evans
Hughes, are leaning strongly toward
the states rights doctrine, long the
watchword of the Democratic party.
In public speeches they have both de-
clared that the assertion of sovereign
ty by the States is one of the things
that is needed if the American Re
public is to continue to operate for
the best interests Of all the people.
One of the ideas in the Presidents
mind in this connection is that the
federal Government would be able to
save a lot of money-millions of dol
lars, in fact-if the States did not
accept federal doles for road building
and other purposes, raising the mon
ev themselves in accordance with
their own Individual needs.
THE President and most OF the
White House force left Wash
ington this week for Massachusetts,
there to spend the rest of the sum-
mer on the coastal estate of Frank
Stearns. By telegraph and special
messengers the President will keep
in touch with the affairs in Washing
ton, including the debt funding ne
gotiations which are to start this
month with Italy and Belgium. Italy
owes the United States more than
two billion dollars and Belgium near
ly half a billion. They are the first
of the European debtors, in addition
TO GfeaC Britain, 10 MAKE dll dcIudi
attempt to pay. France still con-
tlnues to hold back, but Mr.. Coolidge
is hopeful that they will soon see that
the French Debt must be funded if
Frances foreign credit is to be pro-
tected.
WASHINGTON got considerable
amusement out of the court mar.
tial for the Misses Anderson and
Clancy of the Navy Nurses Corps,
charged with smuggling liquor into
this country from Cuba. The liquor
came in their baggage, was pro-
duced in court, but they claimed to
know nothing about it and acquittaJ
followed from a court composed en-
tirely of men. Secretary of the
Navy Wilbur, who ordered the trials
in face of opposition and on the p:rt
of some of his advisers in the De-
partment, has to pass upon the rec
ord, however, and may decline to ap-
prove it.
WAT DIN DAnH