The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-06-11

Speaker Byrns the session will pro-
baby drag on another ten days or
two weeks as Congress will recess
during the Republican convention,
so as to enable Senators and Re-
personalities who are delegates, to
attend the national gathering Of
the G. o. p at Cleveland. If any
more must" measures come up
from the White House we may re-
main on here until toward the end
of June or into July, although the
new Speaker, w. B. Bankhead, of
Alabama, is a great hand to put
things through. The new Speaker
will not stand for any monkey
shines.
A Good Suggestion
Senator Vandenberg has intro
duced in the Senate resolution
for a constitutional amendment
which would give the President
power to disapprove individual
items in general appropriation bills
without multiplying the entire bill.
That is move in the right direc-
ton. Many an appropriation bill
has been vetoed by President be-
cause Of some Objectionable item.
AS rule the Appropriations Com
mittee Of the two Houses have
spent weeks upon the vetoed meas
ure and it has long seemed to me
that the President should have the
power to veto one or more items
of the measure instead Of being
compelled to veto the entire bill as
Is now the case.
Favors Reciprocal Trade Policy
We have known for a long time
that the international banking
crowd in New York stand for free
trade and why shouldn't they?
They have hundreds of millions of
dollars invested in the sugar indus
try of Cuba, in the banana indus
try of Latin American and in mills
and factories in Europe and the
Orient. These patriots" want to
bring the products of their foreign
farms and factories into this coun-
try free of duty and they cannot
see why any American should be
fer giving the American producer
reasonable protection against the
peon and serf labor of other lands.
Mr.. Aldrich is a. brother-in-law
of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who
wants foreign oils to come in free.
His father was an old fashioned,
rugged American who believed that
the American market belongs to
the American farmer and American
laboring man. His distinguished
son, who is our biggest interna-
tional banker, believes that the
American market should be given
to the foreign farmer and laboring
man. AS between the two philoso-
phies I am with the old man Aid
rich and so are the twelve million
Americans who are being kept IN
iGleness because we are buying so
much from other countries that we
should produce at home.
A Valuable Discovery
The Bureau of Mines last week
announced that a new process for
extracting manganese from low
grade American ore has been per-
fected. Under this method it will be
pOSSlDlC W CAlidSI Pui AAoh6oh-
csc from ores containing as little
as 10 to Is per cent of the metal.
Heretofore we have been depend
ent almost entirely on Russia,
Brazil, and Africa for our mangan-
csc requirements. I am sure that
this will be good news to the Guy
una range where there are large
deposits of low grade manganese
that have been Improbable to
work in times gone by. This Is an
other example of the great contri-
buttons that are constantly being
made for our welfare by laboratory
experimentation.
We Get Soaked Both Ways
We have not yet heard the last
of the AAA. The Ways and Means
Committee has reported out bill
which proposes to set up 60 courts
to determine claims for refund of
taxes paid under the Agricultural
Adjustment Act. Under the propos-
CD measure 60 courts are to be set
up in various parts of the country
each to consist of one presiding Of
ficer, two attorneys, three investi-
gators, two stenographers and one
clerk It is estibated that there are
about 100000 small claims and 70
thousand big ones. The latter will
receive about $800,000,000 of the to-
tai of $685., 100000 involved. At the