Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 3, 1921, Page 10

THE BEMIDJi GAILY FIONEER. BILLS PREENTED ' BY THETHOUSAND SENATORS AND REPRESENTA | TIVES BUSY FILLING THE HOPPER OF CONGRESS. President Harding Shows No Sym pathy for General Amnesty Move. ment—Coinage of Roosevelt Two. Cent Plece Meets Opposition. By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washingtgn.—Up to . the present | writing senators and representatives | have put into the congressional hopper strong. The first_house measure to start on | the road to consideration was the bill {of Chalrman Fordney of the ways and {means committee, providing for a bo- nus for service men, with the alterna- |tives of land “settlements, insurance, {education and home building. This | measure left out the proposition for i taxation which appeared in the bill at |the last session. Another measure, however, was introduced by Represen- itative Gallivan of Massachusetts, | Democrat, which was a duplicate of |the bill as it was passed by the house {in the last congress. i Every sort of human endeavor | seems to be covered by the bills whlch{ i have been presented. There are meas- iures affecting the railroads, immigra- ttion, taxation, budget, nking and currency, colnage, the buylng of Low- er California from Mexico, prohibition of so-called gnmbling in grain and cot- ton, exemption of American vessels from Panama canal tolls, the with- idrawal of American trogps from the occupied area in Germany, to prohibit .foreign language newspapers from i printing anything in a foreign tongue unless the English translation accom-{ | panies It, and literally something more| than three thousand and one other things. Senator France of Maryland is the father of a measure which looks to amopesty for many men now in prison| for violations of the war-time laws. +The other day a bunch of amnestyltes, whose endeavor it was to secure the pardon of all the too-free-talkers and !the dodgers of military service who are imprisoned under the provisions of .the law during the war, called on the i President with a request that he open 1the cell doors. | Marding Against General -Amnesty. ! The President apparently was not {mltogether amiably inclined toward the {xequest. He declined to commit him- {welf to any course which would look [toward a general Jjail delivery, but ;sald that the case of each prisoner would be taken up by the Department of Justice sepurately and decided on] |4ts merits. If this is done it means, of course, that some of the men now in prison for anti-American activitles while their free brethren were fighting. !the Germans, will be compelled to re- main In durance for some time to come. Oue bill which has been introduced into congress provides for the coinage of a 2-cent coln with Theodore Roose- |velt’s face upon it. There has been what amounts almost to a propaganda iin behalf of such a coin, but recently|H opposition has come to it from certain quarters, It seems that since the street car fares have advanced from the old nickel rate to six, scven or .eight cents on some city and Interurban i1ines, coln boxes have been introduced |which are so constructed that a 2- 'cent piece of the slze prescribed will not slip into them. It Is urged that ithese coin boxes cost much money iwhich will be lost if the receptacles ,must be thrown onto the scrap heap.; i Railroad Problem Troublous, The railroad problem is one which 1 vexing congress as it 1s véxing the country. Senator Cummins has intro- jduced a measure which calls for an! investigation of the whole railroad sit- ,uation in the United States, and it ‘may be adopted. The Presient pald 'considerable attentlon to the rallroad ‘matter in his message to congress, |There are all kinds of charges and |counter charges affecting the problem 'as it exists. The labor end of the controversy says the rouds are not economically managed, and that if} they were thére would be no necessity of cutting down wages. The railroad| managers say econowy is the rule and that wages must come down. In the meantime high freight rates and high passenger rates are in effect, and the ‘shipping and traveling publie, as their views are volced in congress, are de- manding that something be done. ~~ If there is an investigation under} the provisions of the Cummins reso- lution, the facts may be discovered and leglslation or executive prders, if /the latter are possible, may resultl \which will straighten out the situa- {ion. Edwards Heads Promotion List. Nothing bhas happened, not even the diplomatic semidenial which ’Whlch came recently, to change the ‘opinfon . that General Pershing I8 ito be given the job of looking after the reserve forces of the United States aviy, a work of bullding up ‘and coalescing, It will be a big job ‘and one which even a ranking officer ‘of the United States army can under- . itake - Avithout loss of prestige or; dignity. / been sent to the INOTHING SEEMS OVERLOOKED| /3600 bills, and they still are golng| order some of his men to fall back, senate the names of the new major generals’ and brigadier generals of the United States army. As is aiready known, comparatively few changes were made In the list as sent over b§ former President Wilson some time ago. It was a foregone conclusion that Brig. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards 1 would be nominated as a major gen- eral. Edwards’ case has been dis- cussed too frequently to need much additional comment. As soon as the senate can act he will be confirmed. It is Irony, and perhaps cruelty, that the promotion of Edwards will dis- place one of his classmates and. hife- long friends, Omar Bundy, who was named by Wilson for a place among the major generals. .General Bundy, like Edwards, has been a center of comment, discussion and dispute. He commanded a divi- sion in France and later was relieved | from his command. He had a won- | derful fighting record before fhe last war began and it was he who told the French generals who wanted him to that Americans did not know how to fall back. Bundy was praised and criticized alternately for this action. He is an Indiana man. May Be Governor of Porto Rico. ‘What is golng to be done with Ed- wards now that he has been made a major general of regulars? Some army men seem to think that he will retire voluntarily. He has had 40 years of service and can retire at any time that he wishes. Others say wat he will stick until the day that the law forces him to go out on the sixty- fourth anniversary of his birth. There is rumor that President Harding wants to make Edwards governor of Porto Rico. If this be true it may be that he will accept, for some of his friends say that he would like the Job, Maj. Gey. David O. Shanks is the only man promoted to the rank of major general who did not see service overseas, but Shankg did a really tre- 'mendous work as chief of the port of embarkation’ at Hoboken. He tried hard enough to get overseas, but the authorities would not let him go be- cause he was showing a perfect genius for the work which he bad in hand. Barring Edwards, the only new name on the list of promotions to the rank of major general Is that of George Bell, Jr. He commanded a divislon overseas and “he did good work. Moreover he has been Inthe active military service of his country ever since March, 1876, when he en- tered West Point as a cadet. bl Weeks Creates a Precedent. Secretary Weeks' announcement that during the coming year when two retirements in the'grade of major general occur, Brig./Gens, Charles J. Balley and Samuel G. Sturgis will be promoted to fill them, came somewhat as a surprise, not' because of the names of the favored ones, but be- cause it s against custom to tell men so long in advance that they are to be shoved up. ver, there seems to be some wisdom in this, because it will stop log rolling on the part of friends of brigadier generals and will save the secretary of war from the importunities of men who know what they want. Genggal Bailey will take the place of Gen. Joseph T. Dickman, who com- manded;) the Marne division (the Third) of the American army and who later commanded the first corps in the Argonne, and later still the army of occupation. Dickman will retire in October. It may be that Secretary Weeks will recommend that Dickman, accounted by some military critics as the greatest American sol- dler who saw service on the other side, be promoted to the grade of lleutenant general on retirement or perhaps before. “ New Correspondents’ Committee. Newspaper correspondents entitéed to admission to the press galleries of congress have just held their biennial meeting and have elected a standing commlittee as follows: Robert T. Barry, Philadelphia Pub- lic Ledger; Charles S. Albert, New York ‘World; Roy A. Roberts, Kansas City Star; Gus J. Karger, Cincinnati Time-Star, and Arthur J. Henning. Chicago Tribune, Recently the sepate rules commit- tee closed the inner lobby of the sen- ate-chamber to correspondents who for many years have been allowed en- trance thereto for the purpose of in- terviewing senators on matters of public moment. A vigorous attempt will be made by the correspondents to have the privilege restored. The new rule works bardship. No senator was obliged to leave the chamber to speak to a correspondemt. The ques- tion of interview or no interview was ¥or the senator himself to decide. The correspondents voted for an in- uirp by a special committee, looking to the adoption of a rule to prevent the attendance, at the meetings which the correspondents have with the President of the United States, of bro- kers' tipsters, lobbyists, agents of em- bassles and others who pose as news- paper men. The President sees the newspaper raen in a body frequently. There are many correspondents and it has been linown that unauthorized persons fre- quently attended these meetings prob- ably for the purpose of getting infor- raation for use in ways that are-not commendable. Taking it all in all, the press gal- lerles of congress are safeguarded in virtually every way possible; the one exception, if exception it be, is the admission under certain conditions of men who as a sidg line do some pub- liclty work, Keep Bandages Handy. A bok of bandages should be kept handy In every household in case of accident. These can easily be made. Tear them from strong cotton cloth, unhemmed, and roll them tightly, mak- ing separate rolls of varying-widths. Sterilize them by placing them in the oven, and then store them in a fruit dar. 7 Pfoneer. Speech Strangely Restored. Antoine Dumas, a farmer living near Yssirgeaux, who for three years had been without the power of speech, was cured in gn unusual manner with- out the cost of a ¢ent. 'Dumas served in the French artillery during the war, ‘During one of the heavy bom- bardments his ‘voice ceased to func- tion, and although scores of army doctors tried to ald him, no oce had ever been able to restore his power of speech. While werking in the hay loft of his barn he" slipped and fell to the ground. Farm hands wh®ran to -his aid" discovered jthat while his only injury, was a small bump at the back of ‘the head, Dumas was able to curse as loudly and colorfully as the iest of' the .farmers. * Luxuries in Less Demand. There's a vast difference between eating to live and living to eat. This is being discovered by a great many peaple. In a ‘medsure discovery ac- counts for ‘lessening demand for lux- urles yet doesn’t supply the funds for necessities. One can’t spend dollars und have them too.—Grit. i —= —8imple Solution, “Sages tell us that the best way to get the most -dut of life is to fall in love witha t problem or a beautiful woman.” “Why not choose the latter snd get bnm?"—jmhmt Lord Jeff. 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