Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-03
FEDERAL BUSINESS
TAKEN OUT OF CITY
President and Eight Cabinet
Members Away-Work and
Play at Camp.
By the Associated Press.

! By the Associated Press.
The Governments business was car
| ried forward chiefly outside the CAPITAL
today, with President Hoover and eight
OF his cabinet members out of the city
seeking relief from the heat.
| Vice President Curtis and two cabinet
| members, Secretaries Lamont and Will
bur. were the only administration off,
Gals remaining in Washington over the
week end. 1t was the second big
exodus Of governmental chieftains from
the Capital this Summer.
The President. leaving late yesterday.
/ took two of his official family, Post
master General Brown and Attorney
General Mitchell, together With Frank
T. Hines, director OF the Leterans'
Bureau, on his customary week end
excursion to his mountain camp on the
Rapidan River in Virginia, enabling him
to study while enjoying the cool noun
tain breezes, the problems OF their
Offices.
Plans for reduction of the mounting
Post Once deficit have been under dis
cussion between the Executive and Mr..
Brown for some time, while the At
torney General took with him reports
on the recent Leavenworth Penitentiary
convicts' riot and on conditions In
Federal prisons.
Sugar Tariff Considered.
The proposed sliding scale of sugar
tariff duties was another subject to
which the President allotted part of his
week end. He invited Chairman Snoot.
~ ha pN1a faIA %t,.
finance committee is to consider. to visit
the camp tonight and tomorrow.
The Senator. who made public his
proposal shortly before the Presidents
party left, announced that he would
go to the mountain retreat II he could
get away from Washington today. His
plan calls for automatic reduction in
raw sugar duties within a scale OF
l to 3 cents pound as the New York
price OF refined goes up or vice versa,
and Is advanced as means of checking
runaway markets damaging to con-
Sumers which might be attributed 10
the tariff. President Hoover has been
represented by friends as being favorably
inclined toward the idea of protecting
both producers and consumers in the
sugar tariff schedule If way to do so
can be worked out.
SeaShore and mountain resorts had
attracted most of the other six cabinet
officials. Secretary Stimson, who has
been kept close to his desk at the State
Department during recent weeks by the
Chinese Russian situation and the naval
disarmament discussions, went to the
mountains, but refused to reveal his
destination because he was DESTROYS of
complete privacy. Secretary Good went
to Portland, Me, while Secretary Davis
decided to spend the week end with his
family at Atlantic City. N. J.
Secretary Hyde was attending the
agricultural conference at Baton Rouge,
La. Secretary Mellon followed his usual
week end plan Of going to his home
near Pittsburgh, Pa.
Only one OF the cabinet officials went
away for a somewhat extended stay,
Secretary Adams leaving for two weeks
on the Massachusetts, seacoast.
Because OF the decision of the Presi-
dent to remain in Washington, none OF
the cabinet ohdcials, except Secretary
Wilbur, who returned several weeks ago
from months inspection tour of the
West, has been away from the city
this Summer for more than two weeks
Attorney General Mitchell recently re-
turned from two-week visit to his
family in the Minnesota lake region,
but most Of the other cabinet chiefs
have not had an opportunity for trips
OF even two weeks duration.