The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-04-16

lions, privately scoffed, and said |
national issues meant nothing to
Chicago voters at said election.
Developments might go far in
changing the lineup of the Hi
nois delegation in Congress. The
State has been almost rock-ribbed
Republican,-and dry-as far as
congressional and presidential ell
ections are concerned, for years.
The tariff was accepted by Sen
ator Hatfield as an issue in the
1882 campaign. The West Vir-
ginia Republican, in statement |
through the national committee,
said Chairman Shouse of the
Democratic national executive COM
mittee had promised the tariff
would be an outstanding issue.
sThe Republican party Senator
Hatfield said, will welcome a re-
newal of the 100-year-old debate
on the tariff, which the Democra-
tic party has consistently and re-
peatedly lost. We hope for moth
ing better than a clear-cut deci-
sion of the country on this matter
of the tariff. We will gladly ac-
cept the challenge
4
Secretary Hyde, who recently re-
turned from tour of the drought
areas, reports the drought broken,
confidence restored, gardens grow
ing, Federal loans doing what they
were intended to do, fields ready
for crops and nothing pessimis-
tic in the present outlook But
most striking of all is the picture
Mr.. Hyde draws of the once-strick-
en- region. There are clear skies,
fertile, deep-plowed, well-watered
among fields ready for planting;
food for all, kitchen gardens show
ing green in virtually every farm
yard, spirit of optimism both
among the farmers and the towns
men. Verify, the drought and all
that spirit of depression which ac-
companied it seem to have been
broken. Apparently much pleased
with the reports brought back by
Mr.. Hyde, Mr.. Hoover turned his
semiweekly press conference over
to the Agricultural Secretary to
give first hand account of drought
area conditions. 1t was the first
time in the recollection of veteran
White House attaches that Pres
ident has turned his office over
to anyone for such a purpose.
John Barton Payne, Chairman Of
the Red Cross predicted that the
need for supplying food to those
in the drought area would end
about June |, when spring gardens
were producing. sPeople in the
drought sections are looking up
said Judge Payne. Arkansas IS
feeling good. The State now has
her tail over the dash board, if you
know what that means, and is COM
ing back FAST The Red Cross
is still feeding about 100000 peo-
pie, mostly in Arkansas, Oklaho-
ma, Kentucky, Mississippi and
Louisiana, but this is said to be
less than half of the burden at the
peak of the crisis.
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Senator William Fl. King, Demo-
crat, of Utah, returned to Wash
ington after a prolonged visit to
Hayti, here he found the people
much pleased by the steps Presi-
dent Hoover has taken to give
them greater control of their gov
eminent, but disappointed that
American marines have not been
evacuated entirely. The sched-
ules of withdrawal of American
marines from Nicaragua will be
delayed because of the earthquake
at Managua. Although no final
decision has been reached, Henry
L. Stimson, Secretary of State,
has reconciled himself to the nee
essity of letting the marines re-
main longer than had been antici-
pated, it is learned.
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While in Washington on a two
day visit Montagu Norman, gov
ernor of the Bank of England, con-
versed privately with President
Hoover, Secretary of the Treas
ury Mellon, Secretary of State
: Stimson and Federal Reserve
| Board officials on various phases
of the world business depression.
These conversations may prove
of momentous significance in mon