The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-01-15

Taken by the Helms News Service
The Wickersham commission has
its inquiry into prohi-
bition and is eager to leave the
findings on the Presidents door
step in order that the members
may turn their attention to other
matters. When word to this eff
,ect was communicated to the Pres
dent and he was advised that the
report was due in a few days, he
promptly decided to forward the
document to Congress with his
own comment. He did this notwith
standing warnings that to lay so
explosive an issue before the House
and Senate at this time might up
set all plans now made to avoid
an extra session. 1t is Mr.. Ho-
overs view that to receive the
Wickersham report and try to
smother it until Congress adjourns
on March 4 would make more trou-
BILE than would the immediate pub
LEGATION of the report and the Pres
ident's conclusions regarding it.
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1t is officially stated that the
President in transmitting the
Wickersham report to Congress
will send a special message and
that this message will deal with
the conclusions of the majority.
The Presidents advisers, without
exception, expect him to adopt
these majority conclusions as his
own. In other words, the major
ity Of the commission is believed
to be engaged at the present time
in drafting a report which will be-
come the basis of the Presidents
prohibition policy and fhe is nom
mated for a second term in al
probability it will be the basis OF
the prohibition plank in the next
Republican national platform.
i 81
Far from surrendering to Pro
gressive demands for legislation
Administration Senators, confident
of avoiding a special session 81
Congress, have adopted a program
of meeting fight with fight. The
Senate Republican Steering Com
mittee meet recently and outlined
a program of preferred legislation
designed to offset the Insurgent
threats of forcing an extra session
At the same time, there is a div
ision of opinion among Republi-
can leaders as to- how far they can
afford to ignore the Progressives
hut it can be said authoritively that
the major number is in favor OF
battling the Insurgents at every
step.
81 y y s.
When John Barton Payne, chair
man of the American Red Cross
testified to the Senate Approprla
ions Committee that Red Cros
lnds arc sufficient to relieve hu
man suffering in the country this
winter, much of the wind went GU
OF the sails Of members of Congress!
who demanded that the Fedora
Treasury come to the aid Of droa
ght and other sufferers. That as
sufance from the head Of the Re-
Cross sustained the administra
tons side in the battle over tn
principle of using Treasury fund
for relief though Senate an
House still remained deadlocke
over the issue specifically raised i
the S15,000,000 federal loan amen
dment to the pending $45,000,0O
drought relief appropriation.
Il Il i
After repeated meetings, tn
Senate and the House conferees o
Muscle Shoals virtually broke til
long existing deadlock. They cam
close to an agreement when tt
House conference committee men
bers accepted the Senate propos;
to allow the government to COZ
struct and operate transmissic
lines out of the profits of the sa
of power. The action of the COZ
ferees was regarded as a victor
for Senator George w. Norri
Republican, of Nebraska, who HI
urged the vital necessity of tt
government controlling not alol
the generation of power but al
its tranmission. -.s.ya l5,s.at b
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Secretary Of Labor Doak's G
innate that 100000 aliens are
the United States unlawfully
shocking to law-abiding citizen
If this estimate is correct tho