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Show uiukjub 10 its I'M Cllffi President Contemplates Formation For-mation of National Liquidating Liqui-dating Commfssion BY RAYMOND CLAPPER. United Prase, Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON. March IS. Plana to return to "normalcy" occupied most of the attention of President Harding and hia cabinet today. '. , Creation of a war liquidation com- mission to clear up the aftermath of the war, leaving government heada free to puraue work on peace-time bails, wu propoaed and aerloualy considered. I Cabinet members, after Investigation of condition! In their respective de-partmenta, de-partmenta, have und and reported to Hardin a altuatlon approaching chaos In many Inirtancea, flue to neglect which waa unavoidable under the prea- 1 aure of war mattera. The tangle la bo J Involved that Harding and tha oUiuL. have virtually reached tbe conclusion that If the new administration I to isaitfl headway In solution of current problems, the legacies of the war must be gathered and placed In the hands ot a liquidating commiaalon. NATURAL RESULT. There ia no disposition on Harding's part to blame the Wilson administration administra-tion for the situation, it waa said. He considers it the natural result of the war. A situation of neglect prevails In many of the territorial possessions and is especially critical In Alaska where the population is diminishing and the transportation system haa broken down, according to reports submitted at today'a cabinet meeting. It can be aid that the new administration plana to work- out a policy which will not be tainted with the greed of exploitation exploita-tion on one hand or dulled with paraly-ia paraly-ia on the other. TALK SHIPPING. The aerioua condition of the Amer- . Icsn shipping wltnatfnn was rtlsniswed at length and It waa Intimated that new legislation may be sought which will enable the United Statea to compete com-pete on a more equal basis with nations na-tions who now pursue a paternallatlc policy toward their merchant marlnea. President Harding and his advisers have been Informed in various conferences con-ferences with business men recently (hat the low ebb of the natlon'a Indus-; Indus-; trial depression has bee.n reached and they are laying their plana in tbe be-lief be-lief tht the onward turn has started. |