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Show I QUARREL IN CABINET ADDS TO TROUBLES OF PRESIDENT Harding Likely to Be Called Upon to Decide Fall-Wallace Fall-Wallace Dispute, With Resignation of One Expected to Follow; Congress Pulling Apart. I BY ROBCRT T. SMALL j Special Correspondent of the Stand-1 nri-l 'xamlnor. (Copyright, 182i. by the Standard-Examiner.) Standard-Examiner.) WASHINGTON, March 18. Pi ,lcni Harding returns to Washington I tomorrow to meet a number of .situations .situa-tions which require adroit handling. Congress has been pulling farther ind farther away from the administration1 program and It would seem that a ' show down soon must come between I the executive and legislative branches 1 of the government. : Members of the cabinet, In charge: I of the executive Departments, feel that, congress is attempting more and more to encroach upon executive functions through Its control of the purse strings! of the nation Congress Is attempting I to provide that money appropriated j I to the executive branch shall be spent j I ; only under certain restrictions Iuld I .1own In the appriprlation laws Nat- I urally there is resentment In the exe- I cutlve departments, and the president' I may be called upon to intervene. CABIN irr ADVICE REJECTED I Cabinet members are finding their. I advice to congress being set aside I daily, and congress, particularly the house of representatives, seems bent I ' upon pursuing Its own Ideas of gov- J eminent regardless of the officials ac-I ac-I lually In charge of the various I Lranches. I The house of representatives is dls- i posed, it scorns completely to ignore j the recommendations of the secretary I I of war and the secretary of the navy. I as to the size and equipment of the! I two military establishments. Con- I Kress evidently has put great polit- I leal store by the recent arms confer- I ence and feels that the eompleti suc- I -cess of that undertaking will be as-I as-I , sured only by cutting down the army I and navy virtually to the vanishing I . point. Secretary of War Weeks and I I' Secretary of the Navy, knowing more: I !! of the international situation that is' I M' couchsafed to congress, fjel that a i I ., .serious cut in either establishment I would belittle short of a national dls- I aster. 1 N IVY OF 180, not) I Endorsing tlx.- two members of his m cabinet, President Harding has him- I self appealed for a navy of at !ist I ISO. 000 men and an army of 130.000 I while navy experts agree the strength I should be at least 190,000 and (J I Pershing a member of the advisory council at the arms conference, has I said it would be foolhardy to cut the1 urmy below 150.000 men Congress j I has attempted to oispute the army I claims by limiting the number of American Am-erican troops to be stationed on the Khine, In Hawaii. In the f'hlllis and in the canal zone. President Hard Iiik feels that this attempt on the ..iri ..1 congress to direct the disposition ..: i he armed forces f th--- Cnit.-.l States is clearly an usurpation of pow-i pow-i r v hlch will not stand a constitutional test. BONUS QUESTION The president upon his return tomorrow to-morrow will find the bonus question In fnore of a snarl than when In went away ignoring his own advioe, flaunting his threats of veto, the house of representatives apparently Is bent upon passing any sort of bonus legislation legis-lation which will lift the burden from the shoulders ol" th. ? who must run for re-election this fall The house apparently ap-parently Is not concerned as to whether wheth-er or not the bonus measure Is sound The. house will leave that to the senate to straighten out. The house refuses to listen to the advice of Secretin Sec-retin y of the Treasury Mellon. President Ranting will find the treaties of the Washington conference still hanging In the balance in the senate. The margin of victory claimed claim-ed by those who desire the ratification of the pacts Is so narrow as to give concern to the more impartial Observers. Observ-ers. It Is recognized that any sort of slip-up In the calculations will place the pacts In real jeopardy. The mystery mys-tery in the sltuntlon has to do with how deeply in earnest are the Democrats Demo-crats who are opposing the treaties. Some of the Republicans hope that they merely are endeavoring to draw a deadly parallel between the present treaties and the league of nations with the idea of exposing a certain inconsistency incon-sistency on the part of some Republicans. Republi-cans. VOTE TO HE l,L TALE Only ihe final vote on the treaties can tell their fate Xo certainty can be drawn from the early estimates. In some respects the most serious situation which will confront the president presi-dent tomorrow has to do with his own cabinet circle. Secretary of Interior Fall and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Wal-lace, together with Chief Forester Greeley, have been at loggerheads to an extent which recalls to many observers ob-servers the disastrous Ballinger-Plnch-ot controversy of Che Taft administration. administra-tion. The differences between the interior in-terior and agricultural departments have progressed to a stage when apparently ap-parently the president must take sides in the matter, and a decision on his part easily may mean the resignation of one or the other of the cabinet mem en Involved |