Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 7 January 1926 — Page 10

QUIET YEAR IN U. S. POLITICS Congress In Recess lor Nine Months; “Off Year’’ For Elections By Ludwell Deuny (U. P. Staff Correspondent) Washington, Dec. 30. — (United Press.) —Politically and legislatively the year 1925 was quieter than any since pre-war years. For the first time since before the war Congress ■was in recess for nine months, and it was an "off-year” tor elections. Buttressed behind the mandate of 17,5004)00 ,W» received in the 19-1 election. Present Coolidge intensified his policies at conservative administration with federal economy and tax reduction as the focal points. Meanwhile administration opouents, challenged and defeated the administrattton when the senate rejected the President s nomination of Charles B. Warren as Attorney General, and again at the polls when Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., following the death of his father, was overwhelm I ugly elected senator from Wisconsin over his Old Guard opponent. Overshadowing other attacks against the administration in public interest were the sweeping charges of Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, assistant army air chief, against his superiors, the consequent Mitchell demotion and court martial and special Presidential Air Board probe. While Europe was apparently moving toward international accord through the Locarno security and arbitration pacts, the State Department here was having its difficulties in Latin America and the Far East A sharp exchange of words with Mexico. the disputed preliminaries under Gen. John Pershing of the TacnaArica plebiscite, and Chinese civil war and anti-foreign demands embarrassed the administration in conduct of its foreign policy. Cabinet Changes Cabinet changes, which continued throughout the year, began with the announcement early in January of the resignation of Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, who was succeeded on March 4 by Frank B. Kellogg, ambassador to Great Britain. On the retirement of Justice McKenna, Attorney General Harlan B. Stone was elevated to the Supreme court and John G. Sargent of Vermont was put in charge of Department of Justice. President William M. Jardine of the Kansas State Agricultural college was appointed to succeed Secretary of Agriculture Gore, who hud been elected governor of West Virginia. After five months absence from Washington following a paralytic stroke. Secretary of War John W. Weeks, resigned in October and Assistant Secretary Dwight F. Davis was appointed in his place. Vice-President Dawes celebrated his Induction into office on March 4, with a vigorous and swooping attack on the Senate rules and alleged unbusinesslike methods of that body. During the summer and autumn he campaigned in various parts of the country in preparation for an attempt, to limit senate debate and speed up parliamentary procedure. Dawes gained further prominence by being absent from the chair when the Senate deadlocked 40 votes to 40 on acceptance of the Warren nominatioa and when his vote would have meant victory for the administration. On a later ballot. Senator Overman of North Car I olina changed his vote from an affirmative to a negative, and for the first time since J*6B a presidential cab'net nomination was rejected by the senate. Congress The three months session of the outgoing 68lh Congres* produced lit.-' tic important legislation. The postal pay bill was adopted over the President's veto. It provided for increased postal rates to cover salary raises , for government postal workers. Most of January and February was spcti' in an effort to determine how the government should dispose of its big '-Iju.O'i't.oWj nitrate power plants at cl' Shoals. No conclusion could be reached and finally the Hob e, Jud before it adjourned March 4, odoji'c I s mentation asking Mr. CodJidge to appoint a commission to study the problem. This commission was appointed and recently made a divided report to the President, which he ban submitted to Congress. Steps wore taken Io punish thoso in the Itnpiiblii an ranks who participated in the uprising against President Coolidge in the 1924 election. Senator.'; I,n Follette, Brookhart, Fragier«und I obi were shorn of their Jte publ can status by a vote of the Republicum, for their part in the third part movement. The Administration organization iu the House also took action against 13 Republican Progressives. On June IS&mtof’ La Follette died lu Washington, aud tour day* later

his Progressive associate Senator Ladd of North Dakota died in Baltimore. The Democratic party was also boraft of its oldest leader William Jontrngs Bryan, wh wiled following iliis spectacular fight for orthodox re I ligion as a counsel for the state in the prosecution of John Thomas Scopes for teaching evolution in.the Dayton, Tenn., high school. During the year the American Debt Funding Commission reached fundins agreements on war and relief debtt with Italy. Belgium, Czechoslovakia. Romania, Esthonia and Latvia. These agreements have been submitted tc Congress for ratification. Following an unsuccessful attempt to fund the French debt, resulting in a tentativi five-year agreement, the French gov eminent notified Die United State; that it would reopen negotiations i) the near future. Despite civil war conditions ir. China and anti-foreign riots, the long deferred Customs Conference con vened in Peking in October with rep resentatives of the United States am other powers attending. The confer ence. which is still in session, recog nized the right of China to tariff autonomy beginning January 1, 1929 with the Peking government in turr agreeing to abolition of the likin oi provincial tariffs. Silas H. Strawn of Chicago wat named American representative to th t joint commission on extraterritoria rights in China which convened it Peking Dec. 18. Mitchell Controversy The aircraft controversy which cent ered around Col. William Mitchell was many sides involving hearing by the special Lampert House committee, the President's special aircraft board under Dwight Morrow of New York the naval inquiry court on the Shen nandoah dirigible disaster in which 14 lives were lost, and the Mitchell court martial. Immediately after the Shenandoah tragedy and 10-day disappearance of the naval plane PN-9 1 off Honolulu in its San Francisco-Hawaal flight, Mitchell charged army and navy officials with ‘'incompetency criminal negligence, and almost treasonable administration” of the national defense. The Morrow aircraft report, which was submitted to Congress, did not uphold the Mitchell charges or support his plea for a unified air service. It recommended, among other things, appointment of assistant secretaries of war. navy and commerce, to handle air problems, and the creation of a bureau of air navigation in the commerce department to further commercial aircraft development. The House Committee report, however, supported Mitchell’s demand for a single department of defense with coordinate branches for army, navy and air- It placed the United States third in air strength compared with other powers, and stated that adequate air equipment and a definite policy arc lacking. Other departments and Administration policies also came under attack during the year. Homesteaders and Western congressmen and senators charged that Secretary of Interior Work's policy of forcing installment payments by settlers on reclamation projects despite agricultural hard times worked great hardships on the homesteaders. Criticism was levied against the official crop reports and estimates of tlio Agricultural Department, especially by cotton growers and senators from southern states. Following attacks upon the Administration for allegod inefficiency in ■ prohibition enforcement, various fed- ■ oral prohibition agencies were reorganized and coordinated under the [single command of Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews, as assistant secretary of the Treasury. Renewed efforts were made by the U. S. Coast Guard to chock rum running. With appointment, of William E. Humphrey of Washington, a Coolidge campaign manager, on the Federal Trade Commissioti, that, body adopted new rules, limiting the publicity of its cases and adopting procedure al-

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legedly favorable to big business in- i terests. Senators Borah, Norris, and others then declared that the original purpose of the commission had been ' changed and that it should be abolish- i ed. Shipping Board Controversy raged around the U. S. Shipping Board during most of the year, ending in President Coolidge s recommendation to Congress in his innual message that the board s pow- , ■r . be curtiiiled and the idininistra-1 ] live functions placed in the hands of i •he Emergency Fleet Corporation sub- ( |ect to the President. Earlier in the ] year, Commissioner Bert E. Haney, ' t minority member, refused .to re- « dgu ut the President's request; F. 1. ( Thompson, another minority member, i ■esigned to be free to oppose Admin- , sti.itioii policies; and the board, [ mated Admiral I. C. Palmer. support-)' ■r of the Administration and head of.i he Emergency Fleet Corporation. [ Secretary of State Kelln# was at? ] ■.acked for excluding from the country is visitors Countess Catharine Kar- 1 dyi, wife of Hungary’s first president, | nd the British communist and memb- 1 sr of parliament, Saklatvala. Earliet [1 Secretary Hughes was attacked for,| m alleged "gag-rule” on Count Kai 11 >lyi. Senator Borah instroduced aS dll in the incoming congress amend- 1 ng the law on aliens and restricting i he state department's discretionary 1 tower in exclusion cases. 1 No 469 | BANK STATEMENT < ALBERT REPPERT, President. I WM. M. MEYER, Vice-President C C. R. SMITH, Cashier. L J. G. HOFFMAN, Asst. Cashier. Report of the condition of the Far- , mers State Bank at Preble, in the State ' jf Indiana, at the close of its business ] on December 31, 1925. Resources Loans and Discountssllß,667.l2 ( Overdrafts 184.56 i U S. Gov't Securities 3,000.00 ' Other Bonds, Securities, etc. 16.012.72 , Banking House 3.900.00 ' Furniture and Fixtures .... 3,937.50 ' Due from Trust Companion Banks and Bankers and Cash on Hand 15,294.53 , Cash Items 65.52 i Total Resourcessl6l,o6l.9s i Liabilities Capital Stock —Paid in ....$25,000.00 ( Surplus 2,400.00 i Undivided Profits—Net .... 379.91 j Demand Deposits 56.562.01 , Demand Certificates 74,898.67 1 Savings Deposits 1,321.36 | Other Liabilities 500.00 i Total Liabilitiessl6l,o6l.9s | State of Indiana. County of Adams, ss: < I, C. R. Smith, Cashier of the Far- ' mors State Bank, of Preble, Indiana, , do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. * C. R. SMITH, Subscribed and sworn to before me, this sth. day of January, 1926. ( Charles A. Fuhrman, Notary Public. ] My commission expires Sept. 12, 1926.1 i -a No. 289 I BANK STATEMENT H. W. BUSCHE. President ('. C. SCHUG, Vice-President < W. S. SMITH. Cashier W. L. KELLER, Asst. Cashier Report of the condition of the I MONROE STATE BANK, at Monroe, | in the State of Indiana at the close i of its business on December 31, 1925. 1 Resources ] Loans and Discounts $95,767.86 i Ov-rdrafts 234.31 | U. S. Gov't. Securities 255.05 , Other Bonds, Securities, etc 1,175.00 j Banking House 3,500.00 i Furniture and Fixtures .. . ? 4.907.50 ' Other Real Estate Owned. . 8.838.79 ( Cash on Hand 25,506.13 < Cash Items • 357.36 ] Other Assets not Included in the above 3.362.86 | Total Resources $143,894.86 Liabilities Capital Stock —Paid in 525,000.00 Surplus 3,700.00 Undivided Profits —Net .... 1,292.56 Demand Deposits 55,571.18 Demand Cerftt.es. 58,231.12 113,802.30 i Other Liabilities 100.00 Total Liabilities $143,894.86 Stale of Indiana, County of Adams, ss. I, W. S. Smith, cashier of the Mon- J roe State Bank, of Monroe, do solemn- ; ly swear that the above statement is trite. W. S. SMITH, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before ] me, this sth day of January, 1926. , CHAS. H. BOHNER, Notary Public 1 My commission aspires Jan. 1, 1928. ! ——— -

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