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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1924
Page
6
President Coolidge’s annual message to Congress calls for continued budget discipline, further tax cuts after this year, and effectiveness of federal and state programs. He opposes expansion of subsidies, supports limited Muscle Shoals disposition, and favors stronger naval limits plus a world peace stance, while warning of limited readiness and defenses.
The postmaster general submitted to the senate an expert cost study. It shows a net loss near 40 million dollars in 1923 with over half of the excess tied to second class mail including newspapers and magazines. Only first class mail and postal savings turned a profit.
Resident Coolidge and Mrs Coolidge rode an ordinary sleeper to Chicago and spent about 12 hours there. The President viewed the stock and gave two brief talks at a luncheon and a dinner. Mrs Coolidge was entertained by Chicago women but joined her husband at the stock yards during the exposition.
Secretary Mellon announces sale of 20 to 30 year 4 per cent general government bonds totaling 200 million dollars. Additional allotments may be issued in exchange for third Liberty bonds and other Treasury securities maturing in 1925. Bonds exempt from normal income tax but $5,000 per holder exempt from surtaxes and excess profits taxes. estate taxes apply. state and local taxes do not.
President's advisors push repeal of tax publicity clause while test cases chip away at government actions. In Kansas City Judge Reeves quashed indictments against the editor and managing editor of the Journal-Post, ruling the law prohibiting newspaper tax lists violates the First Amendment and freedom of the press.
Samuel G. Compere and a large AFL delegation traveled to Mexico City for the inauguration. Mexican politicians say the visit will deal a death blow to socialism and radicalism. Radical leaders have stirred trouble with the Russian minister's help, but organized labor in Mexico aims to rid itself of the Communists.
PGST QR government moves to suppress Reds after a failed Reval seizure. General Laldoner named military dictator as field courts rush executions. Latvia and Poland pledge troops if needed. garrisons along the Russian frontier expand. Finland offers aid if Bolsheviks advance.
Premier Ziwars Pasha and the Egyptian government yield to British demands after the murder of Sirdar Stack. Lord Allenby’s forces suppress the mutiny in the Sudan. The Nile region is quiet for now as stern British measures paralyze the Cairo group known as the murder gang.
L Koretz, who swindled friends in Chicago out of about 2 million dollars and fled, was found in Nova Scotia and brought back. He pleaded guilty and received a prison sentence. Victims, all well off, show little vindictiveness.
The council of people’s commissars permits liquors and cognac up to 80 percent alcohol to boost public revenues and curb illicit sales. Citizens of Peking fear the withdrawal of Marshal Chang’s forces as Feng’s troops advance. Wu Pei-fu reportedly blows up the Hankow Peking railway bridge over the Yellow River, the region’s longest bridge.
Eonid Krassin, first ambassador of Soviet Russia to France, arrived in Paris to assume duties. About five thousand Communists greeted him with red flags and fiery speeches as the Internationale was sung. A Communist deputy proclaimed that world revolution had reached Paris. Radicals bore witness to the transfer of Jean Jaures ashes to the Pantheon, marking another Paris demonstration.
The Federal Council of Churches met in Atlanta with Dr. Robert E. Speer presiding. The general secretary reported growing church cooperation to undertake tasks none could achieve alone, and stressed the spiritual significance of the council’s work.
President Coolidge urged Congress to pursue strict economy to enable possible tax cuts for the next fiscal year. He defended debt reduction, opposed U.S. entry into the League of Nations, and called for continued agricultural relief, railroad consolidation, and streamlined government. He stressed keeping within the budget and urged debt payments abroad without canceling foreign claims.
President Coolidge's message stresses rigid economy and government cost cuts. It calls for tax reductions, surplus-led policies, and reforms across railroads, immigration, civil service, and national defense with international cooperation but no League of Nations membership.
Montana Supreme Court reverses Fergus county ruling in Ferguson Motor Co v Sorenson. Automobile conditional sales must be filed where the vehicle is located. chattel filings go to the court of the chattel’s location. Case involves attachment and a car bought by conditional bill of sale filed in Garfield county.
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