Show HOPEFUL OUTLOOK 1 1 FOR y MIDDLE AND FAR ALWAYS AGAINST IT NOW SAID TO BE 89 CHANGING ITS MIND MARKET ARGUMENT IS USED advocates advocate of measure also alo urge that without it the lakes to the sea deep water helo the th country much by EDWARD B CLARK washington ciflie 1 lie good or otherwise according to the viewpoint united states ship subsidy either will go on the rock or mannge it to make the live channel of passage in congress before mum many tides imae ebbed und and flowed it wits eleven years urs ago lust last november that t the 1 ie fa ing paragraph graph up pealed in a washington dispatch president 1 tafts lifts open support of a measure which its ad advocates octives think will build up umborn V oil i in erchant ina trine scein angly hits has given the subsidy cause headway enough to carry it into tile the C channel or of passage there will be militant opposition front from the middle west st and from the South to subsidy in whatever forni form tile the legislation shall appear ulie the lint opposition from tile the middle west west und and south pre vented the passage of it 11 ship subsidy bill in president tafts 1 lifts time just as it had prevented it in the times ot other presidents tills veita benr tile lie sub sidy nAv advocates ventes say sav they the believe that tile the west to some extent lins has been won to the cause of subsidy and that a bill along tile the lines recommended by the ship shipping board and indorsed endorsed Indor sed bv the resident president Is pretty certain before long to become tile luv law of lite land chairman albert D I 1 lasker asker of the shipping board hus has that tn in due course wit ional ald to private shipping should result in the govern indents retirement from froin operation so that ultimately no increased drain on the treasury would be involved and through profitable private operation permanency would be insured in our in merchant erchant merine private initiative and enterprise antei prise would be inspired and the government would find customers for its large fleet of ships argument for the farmer the subsidy advocates seem to be cheerful today idia but cheerfulness with them is tin an old aary and it mily may be that disappointment will meet them IM the future ns as it lias hits met them in tile past but it call be said that there here ure are some gome indications that lint the represents lives in congress con giess of the agricultural districts do not seem scein to be its as determined lit in their opposition to it a ship subsidy ld as otee once they were the llie plea Is mail madu that increased Inci eased marketing opportune ties will come it if the government fedov eminent subsidies shipping conil companies molles lind and that the Inci Inere ense aw in fit the trade with new markets and tile the profits pi i tits will more than ali in balance the taxation tat lon made ne necessary essary by bv the lie subsidizing of the lie nunlie industry it Is on tills F assumed anted change of win mind of the men of the lie middle unil tind tar far west that the he administration Is depending for foi the success of its sub sidy plans prior to tills this time little ho 1101 ever subsidy lias has seemed to be on the lie eve of success only to find that tit brought failure years lears on it years new eing england band representatives in congress led by senator william lellam 11 I 1 frye of maine fought for subsidy rile arguments they the used tire are tile the aigu ments of today once tile HIP lid did not prey all but now it Is possible that they may mas prevail the united states wants to to get out of tile the shipping business Il president resident harding las let it be known directly not only that he Is opposed to further excursions of the government into on in dup trial find commercial fields in its own behalf but that ills desire Is to put a stop to present activities of tile the government in these fields deep sea waterway involved so it Is that hat congress Is 14 to be asked to grant giant subsidies for shipping com coin panics that will enable them to take orr site such it government vessels ns as arp are sell fi a conditioned to pay the settle scale of demanded li fly american Ameil can marl little law and to enter into M new trading relations with tile lie ports of the world shipping min men argue that tho the country will not gain much li by n deep ea will va froin the lie lakes to 0 o lilt lie atlantic unless subs itly legislation Is en noted they ha say that foreign vessels will got get the trade that hint should go to american vessels will that the lie in creased prosperity bould come other hilll not be lit in evidence tills lake to tin the sa eit waterway argei nent Is being used in washington VH I nylon today I 1 the I 1 he united ted states government hns has hundreds of ships henf lole tills this much everybody eun bodi knous knos the llie shipp lita board vision sees nil all these vc vessels sels plying the sea aea oP spelling elling up tip new trade posts poeta stimulating new and cultural industries in ili the unit ed states and doing other things congenial to a willing country it 11 may be that if tile the subsidy bill Is passed alie I 1 ie vision never will materialize tin and again it may mav be that there will le be no subsidy subside legislation to give it a chance to take shape form or substance may adjourn early in june the majority leader of tile the house of representatives frank IV mondell of von ilig delleves lel levet ebat con gross will pt get through with its work and be really renil for by bi the first work week in tune june it Is bly ably true due that congress coill ann get through nilta its work by the first of june eliut it whether wheller it 11 will ft til get gel through with ill it III not Is another matter W it 1 I i mig to mr mondell by the writer that there was in the path a alint forbidding hill 1111 of work he the hill but denied that it MI wo forbidding he says anys that lint ills ap aspri Int lon buls are in good prelim inary ani klimpe and that tile oilier legislation outlined will be passed with no great animist of trouble the house leader thinks tant with the treaties and the out of the sen senate stes 8 way wail nil 3 11 things speedily will be accounted e fur fr alie does not like to tote take issue with such auch mi ill authority on ni matters titters as the lender leader of the lie majority in tho the house of representatives and one does doca not take issue with him in tile the matter of the sincerity of ills his belief that congress will adjourn about the time of the lie advent of the month of roses but looking hack back through the history of congresses luring during the lust last twelve or fourteen years it Is found alint the best laid hild plans tind seemingly the best based thoughts of the leaders generally have gone wrong however Ho weer there have been and reassuring words front from certain senators who it wp was thought would oppose the treaties and therefore ane most formidable nil dable obstacle of progress pi ogress perhaps may be ne accounted counted as ellmIna eliminated ted but still one never can tell bonus bill troubles trouble A honus bonus bill Is going through nt at tills session or the next oil one e already as has bos been made clear prior to this time certain taxation plans were agreed upon by tile the house ways and anc I 1 means committee through which and i by which money mone to pay the ex service sen ice men inen wits was to be raised recently how eci L there has come opposition to this direct forin of taxation and the president lins has suggested the general ales tax plan will eh has almost been discarded its as impossible of passage I 1 politicians are aie interested somewhat in as to lo ait t what the republican and democratic campaigners w will III sn say lit in tile the preliminaries of the com coming ing congressional contest concerning tills bonus matter two great organizations of business men of the united states tile lie united states chamber of commerce rom merce and the national I 1 association of manufacturers I 1 i are against the bonus legislation the I 1 i congressmen tire are being told that a great body of voters including some ex service sen ice men tire are against the legis lotion tile the general belief of politicians ti however Is that greater party parti support can be secured by the alie passage of the lie bonus bill than by defeating the measure service sen ice men are objecting strongly to the constantly made statements dint tile the special haea or n bond issue tire aie to be authorized auth oiled in order to giitl satisfy fy tile lie service sen ice men the former soldiers sold leis do not like tills way of putting it because they hold that the tha debt to them hem Is 11 just one and that it Is not light constantly to toll tell tile the taxpayer that the daily dull penny or pennies that lint lie he Is putting out would bo be solved saved to him if it were not for the soldiers in insistence SS I 1 tenc e 0 on i 1 n bonus members of congress tire are willing to admit that dint there Is some justification for tile the complaint of the men who served cannon will retire uncle joe cannon one time little balled a ailed hi by ills his political opponents czar of the house of representatives has announced that lie he will not be a candidate for re reelection election mr cannon Is eighty eight six years old lib he has broken all records tor for length of service in thea lie house of representatives since the he year lear 1872 he be has known defeat only twice la in the campaigns of every succeeding two years it was sold said to in washington when mr cannons announcement was waa made that he would not be a tor for reelect election reelection re lon cannon will leave tile the house bouse eleven years after departed what hat was called however merely represented the old order of doing things in the house in a sense was simply party majority km the breukers Bp sp eukers of the house of other times of whatever party were possessed of power which seemingly give gave ample excuse fur for the use of the word czarism joseph 0 con cannon n has been called uncle through many to y years ears it if lie he had not been held lit in affection he never would mould have been so called ills his enemies like him many of them paid tribute to him even lit in the day when they were on the possibility of if outing ousting q him frum from the speakers linar they never succeeded in doing this but they lid did succeed lit in taking bilking way away front from ailin and from subsequent speakers tp enkers of tile lie house the lie almost imperial power which they die held if joseph 0 of 1111 illinois were verc to remain lemala unknown n because of tiny of ills legislative lie still would hold place in history ns ag tin illo contral ci figure in a gl which lins ln a place in the lie coil gresslin gres slon III re curlis fur for nil all time little cannon in a way tins tills been n dual personality personal ltv lie he has combined it a cor CM tain rugged common people simplicity f life and outlook m with ith it marked men tol tal tendency toward the conservatism f broadcloth lie he to be known as the champion of the Pec people itile but lie he saw safety in the upholding of certain institutions which progressivism rightly or wrongly thought had money rather than manhood for their foundations |