PROBLEMS FACED BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMBINED WITH DOMESTIC TASKS
Foreign affairs department faces heavy workload as domestic duties converge on the agency. Officials warn the combined tasks strain resources and slow progress on key initiatives.
04 Mar 1921
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Newspaper
Macomb Daily By Stander
Location
Macomb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1921
Page
1
Foreign affairs department faces heavy workload as domestic duties converge on the agency. Officials warn the combined tasks strain resources and slow progress on key initiatives.
A list of major international and domestic issues facing the Harding administration includes treaties with Germany and Austria, disarmament, relations with Soviet Russia, Mexico, Greece, and Turkey, plus domestic policies on taxes, prohibition, labor, and reconstruction. The piece notes a large crowd at a Holmes Hospital nurses dance with the Little Six orchestra providing music.
Washington reports President Wilson ended his term by issuing a pocket veto on the army appropriation restriction bill and the non restriction bill, signaling a veto by inaction.
The Associated Press reports that President Harding will fill upwards of 50,000 public offices with salaries totaling over 100 million dollars annually. Early picks include cabinet posts at 12 000 dollars yearly and ambassadors at 17 500 dollars, with many other high level posts slated for appointment.
The Republican majority blocked confirmation of several thousand postmasters and other officials, including a member of the Shipping Board, during the last session of Congress.
Ashington dispatch reports President Harding, arriving at the Capitol for the inauguration, declines attendance in the Senate chamber. He reassures Senator Knox and Coolidge, saying the Senate has thrown him down but he will not fall.
Floyd Ellis and Floyd Creel claim a rapid drive from Donaldson Indiana to Macomb in under two hours. The men recount starting at 4 20 and arriving by 6 40 with a claimed distance of seven miles in time.
President Harding's inaugural address will be printed in full on page 2 of the By-Stander today.
In Washington on March 4 Warren G. Harding of Ohio and Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts were sworn in as President and Vice-President. Harding took the oath at 1 18 p.m. with Chief Justice White presiding and used George Washingtons Bible. He pledged a return to normalcy and urged peaceful world relations while rejecting entangling alliances.
Notices posted over the C B and Q railroad system announce a proposed wage reduction to take effect March 31. The cut follows a Chicago conference of railroad executives and will be considered by the railway labor board.
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