Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 24, 1921, Page 8

thy mir PAGE EIGHT NM’ADOO SCORES RAIL FUNDING BILL IN SENATE. olution protesting “with concern” the ing was adopted by the der of Hibernians here last night. against the adop- tion by congress of the Penrose al. ed debt funding bill and viewing disarmament jeonference called by President Hard- California state convention of the Ancient Or- The Penrose bill, the resolution de- "is bureaucratic, un-American land devoid of respéct for the constitu- jwith amazement and Says Present Senate Plan Is Illegal and! Contradiction of Intent of Laws pat legislation.” }tional rights of congress, and we view consternation = idea of any responsible representa- ive of congress lending approval to Further on the resolution read: “We ° < view with concern the proposed dis. On Which It Is Based armament conference, not because we |do not fully believe in the suppression __ lor militaristic power and erormous WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—Disapproval of the adminis-|[0t,0f "at; Nut Decause this so-called tration’s railroad funding bill, recently reported to the sen-|dangerous to the welfare of the na- ate commerce committee, was expressed by William G. McAdoo, former director general of railroads, in a letter presented to the senate today by Senator Stanley, Democrat, | Kentucky, who requested Mr. McAdoo’s views after the com- mittee refused to hear him. @ question of policy and should be con- The ‘government is not “morally and sidered from that standpoint only. |fare and national ascendancy.” -| For the adoption of such a policy, the | — —- administration must, of course, take/ the responsibility, but it should be sion of this conference and we European and Asiatic tion miay be brought into the discus- vigorously opposed to the sinister de- signs of international bankers and chancellories |who are concerned for their own wel- Lawns of concrete have been intro- \dueed to save the trouble of watering additions and betterments, Mr. Mc-|candid about it. The public mindfand cutting the grass. Painted a nat- Adoo asserted. He declared the “pres-|should not be confused by juggling of | ural looking green, the concrete lawn ident must have been misled into figures, manipulation of accounts, or|appears, from a little distance, like ing such a statement,” adding that the law provides for the funding only of “the remaining indebtedness” of the railroads, which he calculated at $263,000,000. Payment on this balance, Mr. Mc- Adoo said, may be deferred ten years by the raliroads provided satisfactory wecurity were given and 6 per cent in- terest were paid. “This is the kind of settlement the new law now authorizes and cohtem- plates,” Mr. McAdoo said, adding that when the roads were returned to pri- vate control they owed the govern- ment $1,144,000,000 for additions and betterments, of which $3$1,0)0,000 al- | ready has been extended for a long period. He urged that before any further advances were made the rail- roads be required to abandon the “inefficiency of labor’ claims, amount- ing, he estimated to about $500,000,000. “I suppose you realize that in addi- securities or gove: mental agencies.” | the genuine article. WANTED Everyone to See “THE WHIP” NOTICE Chautauqua Season Tickets Purchased today will be Tonight Only : * Branch 112 West Midwest Ave. Phone 74. Garold Kramer, Realtor Manager WHAT COMES AFTER THE a wat cg tion to the $1,144,000,000 the railroads owe the government for ‘additions and betterments’ they have received addi credited to Chamber of With sntaet to tional loans under the Esch-Cummins Cc Dodge Bros. and. the ommerce pledge. Coliseum Motor com- Dill of about $300,000,000, making a pany we Gill suggest total of $1,444,000,000," Mr. McAdoo's letter said. “Stripped of confusing non-essen- tials, what is now proposed is that the government shall wait ten years for $763,000,000 the railroads owe it for betterments and improvements and pay immediately $500,000,000 to the railroads on account of claims for al- leged under-maintenance, etc., taking from the 180 or more railroads in- yolved the responsibility, such securi- fies as they may be able to provide; ecurities which in many instances may not be adequate to protect the government against loss. “This is not a question of ‘legal and moral obligation’ on the part of the United States’ to lend the railroads $500,000,000 more for ten years. It is that the same applies to a homestead or relin- quishment purchased through us. 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The official statement with to_the conference as made at the fhe Casver Paily Cribune White House emphasized the treaty was primarily a peace treaty and that its ratification would be fol- jlowed by a treaty of pees and \amity. |- An agreement, it was oath has been entered into with the German government not to make the text of the peace treaty public until the sig- nature of Ellis Loring Dresel, the American commissioner in Berlin and Dr. Frederick Rosen, the German for- eign minister, have been affixed. This, according to press dispatches from Berlin, will take place today. The that text of the treaty, it was said, then would be made public simultaneously in Berlin ana Washington. =e Seaweed as a fertilizer has been found to be very beneficial to potato beds, when applied previous to plant- ing the seeds. SPROUL GETS SCHOOL WORK At a meeting of the school board which was held at the Natrona county high school last night a contract amounting to about $3,000 was award- ed to W. W. Sproul for work in the new Suilding. The bidding was active and a number of firms were repre- sented. The work will consist in re- Modeling the basement rooms in the vocational school building and arrang- ing for janitor quarters. Bids were also received for a school to be built in Mills, and for arranging the basement in the West Casper school into rooms. India Seething With Fanaticism' a | NORMA TALMADGE tion trict, on the west coast of British In-} dia, }been working on the yeligious fanat- ieism of ignorant natives. Their ac- tivities have resulted in serfous rict-| towhs. has arisen in the Malabar dis-| where seditious agitators have | of village, surrounded by a mob, —In— Her Very Latest WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1921. has been repeatedly making despair. ing calls for help: “THE PASSION FLOWER” ing, bloodshed and destruction property. 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