Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-01-11
WASHINGTON
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Taken by the Helm News Service
Congress has returned to work
with an ambitious program for
the first week of the new year.
Beer, farm relief and banking re-
form are the most pressing legis-
lative subjects for the short ses-
sion, aside from the direct meas
ures for balancing the budget
through new economies and taxes.
But beer, because of its revenue
feature, has a bearing On this prob
lem.
Farm and business leaders have
joined in a demand on congress
for drastic economy as word came
from New York that President
elect Roosevelt, at his conference
with Democratic chiefs, would IN
sist upon a balanced budget at the
present tame duck" session. The
National Grange, perhaps the best
known of the farmers o%rganiza-
tons, directing its fire chiefly at
the Veterans bureau, showed how
savings of many millions might
be effected through curtailment to
ex-soldiers, especially for disabili-
ties not connected with war SER
vice.
Ideas for closer cooperation be-
tween the federal and state gov
ernments, particularly in eliminat-
ing costly overlapping functions,
have been disclosed by President
elect Roosevelt. In bidding fare
well to his governorship days at
Albany at the Inauguration of his
successor, Herbert H. Lehman, the
president-elect said: "It is time
for closer contacts between the
president and the governors" His
intimates believe a general con-
ference of the state executives at
the White house is in mind.
Passive resistance blocked eff
forts of three county treasurers in
Iowa to sell property on which
taxes are overdue. Crowds attend
ed the tax sales, but there were no
bids. With debt-burdened land
owners unable to obtain funds to
pay taxes, there was an organized
but well-developed movement to
prevent county officials from rails
ing revenue by selling land, both
rural and city, on which payments
are delinquent.
Friends of the legislation were
confident they could pass the bill
by the necessary two-thirds vote
in the house, but were doubtful
about the senate. Every test in
the house has indicated far more
than the necessary strength to
override a veto, but there was no
such test in sentiment in the sem
ate because the measure passed
without a record vote.
A spread of confidence and even
of optimism in a wide range of in-
dustries was disclosed in the re-
suits of a survey of national trade
associations conducted by Roy d..
Chaplin, secretary of commerce.
While some uncertainty as to the
outlook for 1888 was expressed in
the replies to the secretary's in
curry, about one-third of the
forty-four received expressed an
expectation of improvement, as
they represented more than half
of the definite opinions set forth.
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On the other hand, New York
state and New York City, as well
as the entire nation are facing the
most serious problem of their ex-
istence in the present depression,
witnesses testified at the senate
manufactures committees hearing
on the Costigan-LaFollette $780,
DOC, 900 unemployment relief bill.
Representatives of New York re-
lief agencies reported a constant
increase in unemployed and their
dependents and asserted that the
problem would soon demand the
financial Intervention of the fed
eral government if a situation of
the utmost gravity is not to get
out of control.
However, despite the general
slump, American foreign trade is
still greater than that of any 9TH
er country, according to figures
compiled by the United States
Chamber of Commerce. A review
of the first nine months of 1882
made by the chamber indicates
that United States exports for
that period amounted to $1,18S,-
920, Oh which was seventeen per
cent greater than the value of the
exports of Germany, twenty-three
per cent greater than that of
Great Britain and more than dou-
BILE that of France.
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Rebellion is brewing among the
northern and western Democrats
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