The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-11-11
Massachusetts and Iowa.

Massachusetts, and Iowa.
The House Committee on Ways
and Means and subcommittee on
Interstate and Foreign Commerce of
the House of representative will
meet next week to hear representa-
ttiyes of the Treasury Department Of
Justice and other agencies express
their views on legislation for the pay
ment of awards to Americans and
Germans as am outgrowth of the
war. This legislation deals with
alien property and has peculiar
bearing upon our foreign affairs. The
House Committee on Appropriations
will also meet within a few days to
take up proposed expenditures of
the various Federal Departments
Possession activity is necessary in
order that these bills may be whipped
into shape for consideration of Con-
gress next month.
If President Coolidge accepts all of
the suggestions that have been for
warded to him for the inclusion in
his annual reports to the Congress,
his message will have all the appear
ance of a patchwork quilt. Undoubt-
eddy he will consult the members of
his Cabinet, individually and collec-
ttively, and have their aid in sitting
the mass of ideas which have been
sent to the White House. General
Lord the director of the budget is one
man who is frequently consulted by
the President, especially when sug-
gestions have to do with expenditures
of Federal moneys. In addition to
rendering am account of his steward
ship to the Congress, the Chief Elk
ecutive must also make recommended
tons for legislation.
The annual report of the depart
ment chiefs and bureau heads have
been prepared and sent to the print
ers and they will be distributed short
ly in order that the country may
know of the work of the adn1inistra-
tive branch of the government. The
financial officers of the department
have already been heard by the Di-
rector of the Budget on proposed APP
preparations and the Committee on
Appropriations of the Huse will call
them for testimony during this
month. There are several organized
drivers for appropriations which in
reality constitute "pork-barrel" leg1s-
lation as appropriations made for po-
litical effect are classified. The bud
get system HAS to large extent wiped
| out this evil but it exists in some
form or another.
| 1t is reported that several members
of the senate and House who have
returned to their desks are drafting
bills relating to tariffs, regulations OF
the electric public utilities by some
Federal authority such as the FEEDER
al Power Commission, Interstate Com
merce Commission; bills designed t.
aid the cotton industry of the South
railroad measures; lower taxes; tht
i merchant marine; and revision o.
election laws covering use OF "slush'
j funds at the primarie and on othe1
occasions. The chances are that th'
i majority of these measures will onl!
reach the talking stage and never b.
translated into law.
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Predictions are freely made tina
the coming winter will be extremel!
interesting from a social as well a
political standpoint. Already plan
have been made at the White Hous'
/ for the State reception and dinne
and incoming families of legislator
are preparing elaborate entertain
ments. Washington is always distinc
4 tive. That's what makes it so IN
! teresting to the people at large.
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