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Show uu WATCH THE SCHEMERS. Ogden should follow with unabated interest the fight now on in Washing ' ton to cut up the agricultural depart mailt The outcome of this conflic' means much 'o Ogden. yj A few yeais ago it was proposed to! iaJie the forestry bureau out of ihe department and make it a pan of the Interior department nnd the plan contemplated con-templated the removing cf he.idquar 1 ters of district No 4 from ogden This j latest BChemc is the old plan with a new front ..It also is proposed to transfer the, I bureau of road-; lo the department of j "the' interior, and Ogden again would be in danger of suffering a 103 The whole move is inspired hj manipulators who are not laboring for ' tlit- good of ihe public sen Ice. Thin' Scheming is an echjU of thd Ballingei , 'scandal which dtove Tmi from ihe White House, on Saturday Samuel Adams, preil 'l-n' oi i(i- Agricultural Editors' a-so i ic-iion. will call on president Harding L to protest against the changee Hi made this statement The Agricultural Editors' assocla lion, at a recent meeting In blcagj idopted resolutions protesting against I b- plan to cui the department f ag 1 i it ui ure to plei tis and fllrei teil me to submit ihe protest to President Hard I ing. I have been iu Washington sev- , ; ral days looking into the situation I , j liavi talked to the heads of tlie ,vgn ultural bureaus and lo Secretary I Wallace himself, and there is a gen "ral impression that tho administra - lion in favorably inclined to the rec-;l rec-;l nmmendetipni of ih reorganisation j commission. Heads of all the farm or j sanitations are cooperating In the ef fort to prevent such a consummation I I have also talked with John T ' 1 Adams, chairman of the Republican li national committee I told him that ii I I such a program should he submitted j to congress by the administral ion, to' I sny nothing of the possibility of its I enactment, there would be quite aj ; number of seats in congress change po ppjsjpj J lit leal complexion Mr. Adams said he I would have the matter looked into. I! j LBH I is the opinion of our association, and f e bo stated in our resolution, that if I ihe protest against this change is un ; v needed that the secretary of agricul I &ro should resign." j I Ogden's chamber of commerce ; should get in touch with our senators I and representatives in congress and obtain from them a promise to protect j Ogden's interests in the forest service I nnd Bureau of roads, and to do their J part lo prevent a breaking down or J jj those two bureau. ' |