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THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1920 HOUSE REVISES BUDGET SYSTEM TO SAVE MONEY Single Committee of 35 Mem . bers to Handle Appropria tions Under New Rules. Washington, D. C, June 13. (Special.) Although oudget legis lation failed as a result of Prest dent Wilson's veto, congress will be gin its next session with a new sys tem of making appropriations. A change in the rules of the house, -hich was put through in the clos ing days of the recent session as supplemental to budget legislation, will center in the hands of a single rnmmltlM ttii wnrlr nf nrpnarinc appropriation bills heretofore han died by seven, different committees The new rule was adopted only after a hard fight put up by mem bers of some of the committee who would suffer loss of power and pres tige. If it had been known at that time that budget legislation would fail of enactment through the presi dent's action it is quite possible that this amendment to the rules would have met defeat, i Representative Good of Iowa, chairman of the special budget com mittee of the house and other mem bers of that committee believe that the new system will aid in keeping down the total of appropriations. Opponents of the system, insist, liowcver, that this result if attained will simply mean that some- depart ments are favored at the expense of others. Will Give It a Test. The appropriations for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1921. will be prepared under the new committee system. If the plan proves to have its faults there undoubtedly will be . effort made before the end of the next session to return to the old system. The Good-McCormick budget bill, which was passed by both houses and vetoed by the president and then repassed by the house, but killed ' through a filibuster in the senate, I created a budget bureau headed by the secretary of the treasury and placed responsibility upon the presi dent for submission to congress of detailed estimates of both appro priations and revenues. The change in committee system which has been made was not a matter of legisla tion, but simply involved action by the house alone. ' Under the new system the appro priations committee of the house will be made up of 35 members. There have been 21 members of the committee heretofore. In the pas the appropriations committee has handled such annual supply meas ures as the legislative, executive, and judicial bills, the sundry civil bill, the pension bill, the fortifications bill, and the various deficiency bills. Lop Off Six Committees. The six other committees whose powers in handling appropriations nave been transferred to the appro priations committee are those on 'military affairs, naval affairs, agri culture, foreign affairs, postoffices and Indian affairs. Heretofore the military committee has prepared the annual army appropriation bill, the . naval committee the' naval appro priation bill, the postoffice commit tee the bill providing for that de partment; the foreign affairs com mittee the diplomatic and consular bill, the agricultural committe the agricultural bill and the Indian af fairs committe the bill for the sup port of the Indian activities of the government. These committees will henceforth handle general legisla tion relation to their various fields, but will lose their power over fiscal matters. .The change in rules does not af fect the committee on rivers and harbors appropriations bill; or the committee on. public buildings and grounds, which will haifdle public building measures. An Important Change Under the new system the. chair man of the appropriations commit tee, who at present is Representative Good, will be become one of the most powerful members of the house. It is the intention to divide the committee of 35 members into subcommittees with each handling a particular bill. The full member- nate and scale down the totals. Inasmuch as all appropraition bills originate in the house, the change in the house rules is more important than any action the senate might take alone similar lines. The senate, however, also revised its rules during the closing days of the session, although not along this line. The new senate rules re duce the number of standing com mittees of the senate by about 40, eliminating numerous committees that rarely, if ever, meet. The mem bership of the principal committees also has been reduced, 10 of the mittees, having a membership of 15 each. This change places the com mittees about on the same basis as the house committees have been for some time. In the house no member may belong to more thap one of the major committees. This has not been the case Heretofore in the sen . ate where a member usually has be longed to several important com mittees with the result that it was impossible to give all of them prop er attention. Budget Legislation. The change in the committtee sys tem of the senate does not affect the handling of appropriation bills which will continue to be referred to several " different committees when brought over from the house. Budget legislation seems assured at an early date in the next session. The bill was reintroduced by Rep resentative Good, following its fail ure on the closing day of the recent session, and will be pushed through both houses early in the December t .t. . session, inasmucn as ine xeaiure relative to the tenure of office of of- X" 1- ....A I 1 it. 1-11 I. L. VIVHltU U J lll UU!, nilll.ll TTDJ objected to by President Wilson, has been eliminated the enactment of the legislation seems assured. uipnung rixrares .Burgess-uran-; gen Co. Ady, "Say Boys and Girls Let's Nominate Harding' Words That Turned Convention Tide Prank Draws Big Laugh From Tired and Sweltering Delegates 'Who Had Spent Hours in Hopeless Deadlock Suggestion of Jokester Results in Big Boom for Ohioan. BY EYEWITNESS Chicago Tribune-Omaha Be Leaied Wire. "Say boys and girls let's nomin ate Harding." Willis of Ohio. Chicago, June 13. The jolly com panionable words that roaring Wil lis of Ohio had spoken on Friday were the only ones that soared above the tumult and the shouting when they were in the very vigor of the game on Saturday. "In that dusty hour, wjjen state af ter state was wheeling when it was not scurrying into Mr. Harding's column, all the pompous shibboleths of party feallty went glimmering, and it was the seven rough and ready words out of the vernacular that made the tired fighting men lean back and laugh and forget their troubles. Even Henry Cabot Lodge permit ted himself the indelicacy of a grin well, ot a grin, but a tired smile as the hurriedly scrawled placard was thrust perilously near to the sa cred gangway from which he had vehemently ;shovd an overzealous journalist earlier in the day. And Paul H. Creswell of Xenia, deputy auditor of Green county, Ohio, was a happy man, by gosh. - Resurrected Words. For, though the words were the words of Willis on. Friday, it was young Mr. Creswell, the deputy au ditor, in the patent, self-ventilating linen cap that is prime for traveling, who resurrected them on Saturday and lifted them high above the din and heat of battle, ' During the dramatic tenth ballot, when the wheeling into the column and the scurrying for the pew and resplendent band wagon became a mania, he emerged steaming from the sloppy basement regions of the Coliseum with his placard. He had found a big white sheet of bristolboard that read on one side "for firemen only." On the other, he feverishly emblazoned the words of Willis. Then he swung the plac ard down from the gallery to the left of the platform as you face the chairman. Greeted With Roar. A big, hearty, heartening cheer greeted it. A roar of laughter bal looned the cheer from end to end and from side to side of the tired old hall. . The deputy auditor of Greene county took heart of grace, descend ed into the arena, strode with many an "excuse-me-fellows" over the pine tables in the newspaper sham bles, and hung. his placard in the comfortable view of a dozen thou sand people. Then he dropped, pleased and panting, into a chair by Levy Mayer, one of the few momentous men who can be an agreeable looker-on at affairs even when he cannot cut ice in connection with them, and Levy patted the deputy auditor on the back and remarked, "My boy, you've said it." Mr. Creswell had, indeed, effected more than he suspected. After all the rancors and the rhodomontade, his prank diffused the jovial con sciousness that we, in this goodly land, are still boys and girls, ana, even amid the strain and fume of these colossal diets that malce one governing system unique, just folks together. The glad whoopee was Mr. Cres well's reward and the bandwagon continued joyously to fill. See One, See 'Em AIL In other respects the "demonstra tions" leading up to and culminating in the nomination of Mr. Harding were the usual thing. As Uncle Jo seph Cannon says: "It's like the circus you see one and you see 'em all." You saw the strain on the white or the florid faces of the party man agers who paced Lodge's gangway relax as evening drew on. You saw their whispered conferrings trans- Denies British Firms Control 99 Per Cent Of World Oil Supply New York, June 13. Claims of London financiers that British in terests control 99 per cent of the world's potential oil territory outside the United Stares was denied in a statement issued . here today by Thomas A,. O'Donnell, president of the American Petroleum Institute, who has just sailed for Europe to at tend the international trade confer ence. "The American oil industry," he said, "has obtained many important holdings and concessions in Mexi co, in South America and Rumania, in the future of which large invest ments of American capital are staked." Admitted that Great Britain has been alert to secure the future of her petroleum, Mr. O'Donnell said "it would be a grave misapprehension to assert that the oil industry of the United States has been wanting in either vision or action." For Breakfast Ready-to-eat the meat of wheat and malted barley GrapeNuts A nourishing fo od that provide at small cost the essentials nature requires to keepj the body in trim.' At grocers everywhere ferred to the larger stage on the floor below, where they became in tent chafferings, not probably as im portant as chafferers thought, but calculated to save self-respect and to inform big men, who decide things that present also were little men constituting a very large mech anism that sometimes get out of hand and smashes the fingers of big men. I happened to fall in one of those occasions when a little scene of the drama of the day had been trans ferred from the big actors to the lit tle stage aloft to the minor, actors on the big stage below. It was Kansas conferring Kansas coatless, very intent and 20 strong. They were all stnding in a circle, all facing one another, and wholly oblivious of the 13,980 men and women around them. Had they been in the middle of one of their own prairies they could not have cared a lesser damn about the rest of the world or been less self- conscious. One weary man evi-J dently well considered by the others had twined an arm and a leg around the pole that bore the state's name, and he was saying, "I will vote to let it stand as it is.". Agree With "Frank." There were sober nods at this, and phrases like "I guess you're right," and "For the present, then, that's agreed on," and "All right, Frank, and the group hailed itself into chairs. I thought it beautiful the quiet, kind faces, the forthrightness and sobriety of it all and with a simplicity in it that made it some how majestic. It was like a footnote to Bryce's "American Common wealth, and thinking over it sort of steadied a man. Burleson Denies Charges Made in Platform of G. P.P. Washington, June 13. Postmas ter General Burleson issued (a "statement today declaring that "in the light of the truth" the "ar raignment of the postal authori ties" by the republican party plat form adopted at Chicago "falls hatmless at their feet'." Replying to the declaration that the present administration de stroyed the "efficiency of the tele phone and telegraph service when controlled by the government," Mr. Burleson quotes from state .ments of the late Theodore N. Vale, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, President Carlton of the Western Union Telegraph company, to show that the wire properties were successfully administered by the government , t - Taking up the platform's dec laration commending the republican congress for increasing the pay of postal employes, Mr. ' Burleson says that instead of adopting his plan "which would have resulted in an increase of salaries of post office clerks and city letter carriers of salaries to a maximum basis of $2,062 yearly and like increases to those in the other postal activity," congress granted "a horizontal in crease which gives some an in crease not deserved and denies to thousands of faithful and efficient employes increases commensurate with their work and to which. they are fairly entitled." Hog Barn Fire Results in Loss of Telephone Supplies Ord, Neb., June 13. (Special.) Saturday night at midnight a se rious fire broke out in Blessing's hog barn, and completely destroyed it. Several hundred dollars' worth of telephone supplies belonging to the Farmers Mutual Telephone company, which were stored in the building, were destroyed. An auto mobile, two horses and a span of mules also were burned. The origin of the fire is unknown. Bill Dahlen, veteran major league ball player, is now an employe of the Polo grounds. FOUR VICTIMS OF MOTOR CRASHES DURING SUNDAY Two' Are Seriously Injured When Motorcycles Collide One Man Drives Ford Over Embankment. Motorists and motorcycle riders continued to run wild on the city streets yesterday, and as a result four persons were seriously injured. They are: Floyd Clark, 2424 Jones street, left leg broken, contusions on side of head and body; taken to Metho dist hospital. Glen McNulty, 4S03 Harney street, bruised right side, leg and face; taken to home. A. C. Bailey, 1021 South Tenth street, laceration of jaw and inter nal injuries; taken home. Franklin Rowe, 1624 South Tenth street, delivery boy for Bea ton Drug company, abrasions on both arms and internal injuries; taken home. Clark, and McNulty who were riding motorcycles crashed into each other at 7 Sunday morning on the west Dodge street road 8 miles west of Omaha in a headon collision when McNulty lost con trot of his machine. Clark was driving east and McNulty was go ing west. Both were going at a high rate of speed, police say. Bailey plunged over a 20-foot em bankment at Thirteenth street and Deer Park boulevard when the steer ing mechanism of his Ford car broke. An unidentified man, who was in the car with Bailey, ran away before the police arrived. Bailey re fused to tell the police who his com panion was. Bailey said he attempted to stop the machine ,, after the steering mechanism broke, but. his efforts were futile. Rowe was driving in Tenth street near the Burlington depot when he crashed into an automobile driven by B. A. Miller of Newton," la. The boy collided with Miller's car after Miller turned into the drive way leading to the auto entrance of the, Burlington depot, the police say. Cars Used to Haul Coal for Railroads Not Charged to Mines '". " Washington, June 13. The Inter state Commerce commission, reply ing to the resolution introduced in the senate , by Senator Harding of Ohio; now the republican presiden tial nominee, asking by what author ity it issued its car assignment or der of last April IS, said the order was based on -the interstate com merce act. It added that its author ity to take such action had been upheld by the supreme court in numerous decisions. Under the order, cars supplied to ,coal mines for the transportation of fuel for the railroads could not be charged against the distributive shares, of cars to-those mines. Sen ator Harding objected to the order on the ground that it was prefer ential to the railroads as against some of the mines , and he public Oil Well Will Be Drilled In Vicinity of Wymore Soon .Beatrice, Neb., June 13 (Spe cial.) Sherman Taylor. Wymore banker, reported that material is ar riving daily to be used in sinking the oil well east of Wymore. The Dempster company of this city'has 'the contract for sinking the well, and it is said a thorough test will be made in that vicinity. Want Another Mail Carrier. Fremont, Neb., June 13. (Spe cial.) Fremont has petitioned the postal department for another city mail route, through Postmaster Ful rodt. There are now 10 carriers here. roKstr business COTTAUTO OURIST JTORE OMAHA.VJ.A. , To the Woman Who Knows the Value and Economy of Quality The Price of Gooch's Best Flour Never Seems High "Sold to Particular People by Good Grocers" Harmony Now Prevails In Republican Camp (Continued From Tage One.) the day. Senator Johnson departed for Washington after sending Sen ator Harding -this telegram: ( "Congratulations to you. Hi Johnson." While senator Johnson would not discuss his attitude toward the ticket, there is excellent reason to believe that he will get in line in no unmistakable manner by the time the actual canvass begins. Senator Borah also declined to talk, but it was learned from his friends that he does not intend to bolt and ally himself with, a third party, but will remain regular and probably will stump the country for the ticket. LaFollette Dissatisfied. The only sign of a bolt is in Wisconsin where Senator LaFol lette appears to be promoting party disaffection. He is reported to be working in close harmony with the "committee of forty-eight" and Wil liam Randolph Hearst, who are planning the formation of a third party, composed of ultra-radical labor and farm organizations. La Follette might be nominated for president by such a party which would aim to carry industrial cen ters and such radical agricultural constituencies as support the . Non partisan league of tTie Northwest. Republican leaders are not alarmed by such signs of insurg ency. Harding and Coolidge con stitute a conservative ticket which the elder statesmen of the party regard as an asset instead of a lia bility, for they believe conservatism is going to be a popular, quality to possess in this campaign. They believe the democrats are going to adopt so radical an attitude in pro moting the class domination of la bor that the country led by the vast majority of the farmers, busi ness men and small property own ers, will go conservative with a whoop. "I think our ticket will appeal strongly to thousands of democrats when they find how radical and bolshevistic their own party is be coming," said Senator Brandegee of Connecticut. Senator New Pleased. Senator New of Indiana was ju bilant over the evidence of party harmony. "Of course, I always thought that Harding was the best candidate," said Senator New, "and now that it is all over I find it very generally conceded that the best possible thing for the convention to do was' done. "Harding is a plain, sensible, ca pable American citizen, a man with a big heart and wid understanding, who knows the people of this coun try and who has his ear to the ground on the problems confronting the nation. "Harding is no master mind. Tnere are very few master minds in this country. The nation is for tunate and the party should rejoice that Harding is no master mind. Of master mindisp the" country has had enough. "You will now see a common sense American go into the White House with a practical knowledge of constitutional and popular gov A Word to Owners of Small Gars About Buying Tires Now 30 x3'6 Goodyear Double-Cure $-7050 Fabric, Ail-Weather Tread. L J 30x3V& Goodyear Single -Cure $-7-150 Fabric, And -Skid Tread... Li. ernment. You will see him surround himself with the brainiest cabinet the country has seen since the days of William' McKinley. There will be John Hays and Elihu Root and Philander C. Knox in Senator Har ding's cabinet. See Things as They Are. "The future president will not be 'seeing visions and hearing voices in the air.' He will be seeing things as they are in these United States and will be listening to advice -on the problems confronting him from the greatest minds with which he can surround himself. "Harding will enter the While House with a feeling of deep con cern over conditions to be met and a. sense of deep responsibility, to meet them properly. He knows now that in the great reconstruction to come as soon as the country passes from the control of the master mind, he cannot do the job alone. And he also knows that congress, the legis lative branch, must take a co-operative part in the task. Harding un derstands congress and its responsi bilities. Wilson has fought congress and has ignored its importance in the government of this country. "I know you hear a few dis gruntled men saying today that the party might have done better. It could not have done better and with in a few days the men who are in clined to be fearful will have their coats off and be out for Harding and Coolidge in good old-fashioned re publican style. We are on our way back in this country to government of the people, for the people." Flooded With Telegrams. Senator Harding's headquarters were flooded with telegrams of con gratulation. Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, who had been a dark horse possibility for the nomination, wired: "Am delighted with your nomina tion and will do all I can to secure your election." Dan R. Hanna, prominently identified with the Wood campaign, sent this message: "My Dear Sir Congratulations and best wishes; also extend my congratulations to Mrs. Harding." Frank Hitchcock, one of the Wood managers, extended "hearti est congratulations," and similar messages were received from Her bert S. Hadley, a progressive repub lican leader who fought for Roose velt; former Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan, Heny B. Joy of Michigan and Judge J. C. Pritchard of North Carolina, and hundreds of others prominent in the party. Report One Death Due to Bubonic Plague at Tampico Laredo, Tex., June 13. Accord ing to the Porvenir of Monterey, re ports received here say one death, due, it is believed, to bubonic plague, has occurred in Tampico. Later advices said that Dr. Di Bella Pier of Tampico had wired Gov. Portes Gil that two cases of bubonic plague had appeared there, one resulting in death. , Residents of Monterey are alarmed at the imminence of danger of inva sion of the disease,, say reports brought here and every effort is being made to hasten sanitation of the city. You know that every summer, for the past four years, there has been a short age of Goodyear Tires in the 30x3-, 30x3Vi- and 31x4-inch sizes. Although we have now in full opera tion the world's largest tire factory devoted to these sizes, we cannot guar antee to supply all needs this year. So if you want true Goodyear mile age and economy this summer for your Ford, Chevrolet, Dort, Maxwell or other car taking these sizes, we counsel you to act at once. The sure way to avert disappointment later is to go to your nearest Service Station Dealer and buy Goodyear Tires and Heavy Tourist Tubes now. LEADERS SCAN PAST RECORD OF G. 0. P. NOMINEE Politicians View Stand on Big Issues for Possible Strength Or Weakness. By PHILLIP KINSLEY. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Be Leaisd Wtrc. Chicago, June 13. While Senator Warren G. Harding has retired to the comfortable porch of his home in Marion, O., politicians are scanning his record on the big issues of the day in order to feel out the strength and weakness of the coming com paign. As to the league of nations, Sen ator Harding is said to have tossed a coin to determine whether he would go with "irreconcilables" or the Lodge reservationists. He fi nally joined the latter group. In an address on Americanism before the Ohio Society of New York, Senator Harding had this to say: "Many have thought the ratifica tion of the peace treaty and its league of nations would make us normal, but that is the plea of the patent medicin fakir, whose one remedy marvelouslv will cure every ill. Undoubtedly formal peace will help, and I will gladly speed the day, if we sacrifice nothing vitally American. Yet, as a matter of fact commerce has icsumed its wonted way. Need Normal Thinking. "Normal thinking will help more. The world does deeply need to get normal, and liberal doses of mental science freely mixed with reason will help mightily. I do not mean the old order will be restored. It will never be again. But there is a sane normalcy due under the new conditions, to be reached in delibera tion and understanding. And all men must understand and join in reaching it. Certain fundamentals are unchangeable and everlasting. Life without toil never was and never can be. There can be no ex cellence without great labor. Low ered cost of living and increased cost of production arc an economic fraud. Capital makes possible while labor produces, and neither ever achieved without the other, and both of them together never wrought a success without genius and manage ment. No one of them, through the power of great wealth, the force of knowledge, or the might ' of great numbers is above the law, and no one of them shall dominate a free people." As to the "reds," he says: "The insistent problem of the day, magnified in the madness of war and revealed in the extreme reaction from the hateful and destroyed autoc racy to misapplied and bolshevist democracy, like the pathos of impo tent Russia, is the preservation of civil liberty and its guarantees. Let Russia experiment in her fatuous folly until the world is warned anew by her colossal tragedy. And let every clamorous advocate of the red regime go to Russia and revel in it's crimsoned reign. We have been hearing lately of the selfishness of nationality, and Goodyear Heavy Tourist Tubes" cost no more than the price you are asked to pay for tube of less merit why risk costly casings when such sure protection is available 1 30x3 $ A 50 sire in waterproof bag nr RECOGNITION OF SOVIET TO STIR BIG LABOR FIGHT Progressives Demand Red Government Be Recognized, While Conservatives Plan To Block Move. Montreal, June 13. Labor leaders predicted tonight that the first big fight on the Hoof of the convention of the American Federation of Labor, now in session here, would come up on the presentation for de bate of resolutions demanding rec ognition 6f the soviet government of Russia and the lifting of the blockade against that country. The committee considering these resolutions, it was learned tonight, will recommend that the convention "refuse to endorse the soviet gov ernment or any other form of gov ernment" in Russia until the people there have established "a truly democratic form of government." The progressives headed by James Duncan of Seattle, are pre pared to wage a bitter fight on the floor of the convention for resni tion of the' Soviets. They will he supported, he said by the Interna tional Ladies' Garment Workers of New York and several other in ternational unions. Mr. Duncan, in a resolution pre sented in behalf of the Seattle Cen tral Labor council, asks that the government "exert its best influ ence to the end that Japanese and all other foreign troops be . imme diately withdrawn from the terri tory of the former Russian empire and commercial blockade be lifted." Alexander Howatt, president of the Kansas mine workers organiza tion, announced tonight that he will fight for the adoption of his resolu tion condemning the Kansas indus trial court. ; Frank Morrison, secretary of the federation, and Patrick J. Moran, president of the International Bridge and Structural Iron Work ers Union, were made "chiefs" today by the Iroquois Indian Union mem bers at Caughnawaga, an Indian vil lage' on the outskirts of Montreal. The Indians gave a big fete in honor of the labor leaders. it has been urged that we must abandon it in order to perform our full duty to humanity' and civiliza tion. We do not mean to hold aloof, we choose no isolation, we shun no duty. But I have a con fidence in our America that requires no council of foreign powers to point the way of American duty. Confidence in America. "We wish to counsel, co-operate and contribute, but we arrogate to ourselves the keeping of the Amer ican conscience and every concept of bur moral obligations. It is fine to idealize, but it is very practical to make sure our own house is in perfect order before we attempt the miracle of Old World stabilization."
