The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-02-12


Quivering with emotion, Repre-
sentative Cramton, Republican,
lame duck" of Michigan, stood
in the we'll of the House and in
spite of parliamentary rules, man.
aged very neatly to call Senator
Caraway, Democrat, Arkansas, "a
plain, unadulterated liar for his
charge that Cramton had used his
influence in the House Appropria-
lions Committee to maneuver hiatt
self into a job with the Washing
ton Bicentennial Commission.
Cramton, a veteran of eighteen
years in Congress and one of the
majority leaders at his end of the
Capitol, did not exactly violate
the House rule, which forbids d.
rect reference to the Senate or any
of its members, but he skirted
close to the line, as was the case
with Representative Underhill, of
Massachusetts, in assailing the ac-
Invites of the Senate Nye Com
mittee.
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Both the Senate and the House
were warned through committees
that payment of $3,500,000,000 as
soldier bonus at this time would
seriously handicap business and
t. G government in their efforts to
bring renewed prosperity out Of
economic depression. Clarence ",
Woolley, chairman of the board Of
the American Radiator Corpora
ton told the House Ways and
Means Committee that the flota-
5ion of government securities in
sufficient sums to pay off the DO :
us would Danish hope of business
recovery this year.
Hundreds of bank failures, par
ticularly among the smaller in
stitutions, would be the result OF
the proposed flotation of So, AGO.
100000 in government bonds to
pay off the adjusted compensa-
ton certificates of World War vet
Grams, Charles F.. Mitchell, chair
man of the board of the National
City Bank of New York, predicted
in the course of testimony before
the Senate banking committee. AS
sertion was made in the House
that President Hoover had inter
vened in the situation in an at
tempt to get a compromise which
would not bring such huge bur
den on the treasury.
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Assailing questionable banking
ventures, Senator William H. King
of Utah predicted that one OF
more bills would be reported t.
Congress to "prevent abuses which
confessedly exist and also the loan
ing of money for speculative pur
poses" The Senator addressed
about $50 members of the Traf
fic Club of Baltimore, at the eigk
eenth annual dinner of the organ
ization in the Lord Baltimore Hote
His topic was the Position of tn,
United States in World Affairs.
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The Senate coalition scrappinl
President Hoover over the nomln
ations of three members of tn
Power Commission prepared TO.
an attempt to reject the nomina
tions preliminary to seeking
court decision on the controversy
Continuing to consider the nomina
tions despite President Hoover
refusal to admit the legality o
the action, the Senate Interstate
Commerce committee reported
, them back to the Senate withou
Recommendation.
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When General Pershing was a
, the Columbia Broadcasting Syst
ems Washington Studio recently t,
.. make a Red Cross appeal to The
country Harry Butcher, Columbia
, Representative here, asked tht
commander in chief of the A. f. T
how he liked being an author. "I'c
rather fight two or three wars,
, Pershing replied, than write the
:. story of one"