Floor Leader Not Func
tioning With Admin
istration Forces.
Washington.—Those who have been
watching the shifting scenes day by
day in national aiTairs declare that an
undercurrent is gaining strength to de
pose Representative Frank W. Mondell
as republican leader of the lower
house.
Some caustic things are being said
about Mondell by the Harding repub
licans Some have ssated that Monnell
thinks more of his personal ambition to
be the next Senator from Wyoming
than he does of the success of his party.
While Mondell’s opposition to the
President’s program irritates the ad
ministration group, it is laid that the
basic cause of resentment against the
floor leader is that he is the symbol of
the system, recently inaugurated,
which places the appropriations for
every department or project in the
hands of the appropriations committee.
Thus, the power of appropriating is
taken from the naval affairs committee,
the military affairs committee, and the
river and harbors committee.
Administration spokesmen in the
House are insisting that Mondell’s
leadership is detrimental to party har
mony and that his attitude is slowly
but surely creating a serious split be
tween the President and that body.
The Wyoming member, they charge,
has opposed the position taken by the
W hite House on almost every import
ant piece of legislation that has come
before Congress. These measures in
clude the taxation bill, the American
valuation proposal, the army bill, the:
navy bill, and the soldier bonus. Mon
dell’s refusal to co-operate with the ad
ministration. it is further asserted, has
impaired the functioning of the lower
body and brought forth the recent
complaints of inelficiency.
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Muscle Shoals Project
Gets Boost to Extent
of $7,500,000.
Washington, July 3. — The
army bill, containing authority
of Congress to spend money on
the Muscle Shoals project, effec
tive October 1, was passed by
the Senate without change in
language as already approved
by the House and by ,conferees
of the two legislative bodies.
The bill now requires only the
President’s signature to become
law. It carries $7,500,000 for
the Shoals enterprise.
No Change in Limit
Date for Membership
lin Pioneers of Alaska
There will be do change in the limit
date for membership in the.Pioneers
of Alaska, according to announcement
made at the recent session of the grand
igloo at Ketchikan when the result of
the referendum vote was made known.
The vote was taken prior to the annual
gathering and canvassed by grand
igloo officers.
The proposal was made to advance
the date to permit tnose residents of
Alaska since 1905 to become members
of the Pioneers organization, but the
vote showed a majority of 245 in favor
of excluding from membership all ar
rivals after 1901. The result of the
referendum vote was as follows:
Igloo
Cordova
Anchorage
Fairbanks
Flat
Juneau
Ketchikan
Kodiak
McGrath
Nenana
Ophir
Seward
Tanana
Valdez
Wiseman
Wrangell
Juneau auxiliary
Total
For 1901 Against
6
n
145
21
32
54
,1
2
177
0
1
27
2
4
12
82
639
26
113
34
23
7
25
27
7
5
18
29
1
42
15
21
1
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Fred Spencer and Jess Yoder were
among today’s arrivals, coming from
Berry Landing.
C. D. Carter
Dental Surgeon
Officer
E. P. Werner Bldg„
McGrath i
‘Beautiful Beyond’
of Sir Conan Doyle
Toronto.— “Death is beautiful and
without any sense of pain,” according
to Conan Dovle.
“I am 79 and, blind, or very ..nearly
so,-and if this clipping is true, whv
should 1 linger here?”
These words-, scrawled with a sbak
iDg hand in an almost unreadable note,
and a clipping from a newspaper report
of a lecture by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
British author and spiritualist, wore
found beside the body of Percy Drown,
in his Alexander aveoue home, Mon
day
Brown, who had withstood the hard
est bpUetings of the world for 79 years,
had passed himself over into spiritism!
with.sublime faith,in the spiritualistic
preachings.of the creator of Sherlock
Holmes.
Northern Commercial Co.
of Alaska
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Tobaccos
Cigars
. Soft Drinks
Lunches Served At All Hours
“Service”—Our Motto
* . Candies
Mrs. E. P. Werner
Prop.
McGrath Roadhouse
Excellent Meals
Service Prompt and Efficient