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Last week the President of the U. S. closed his Drought Relief controversy with Congress by signing the Interior Department Appropriation Bill carrying $20,000,000 for "food loans" (see col. 3). Of eleven supply measures which must be passed by Congress and signed by the President if an extra session is to be avoided, this was only the second...
...about 75,000 Indians in this district. Every now & then their chiefs hitch up covered wagons or crank up battered motor trucks and travel through the varicolored badlands to councils called by tall, tanned, benign Herbert James Hagerman, 59, onetime (1906-1907) Governor of New Mexico Territory, now special Interior Department Commissioner to handle the business of 21 tribes. Constantly his little official car is speeding over the roads to local powwows or religious dances, where the guttural excitement of the drums will greet him several miles away...
Fortnight ago most New Mexicans, who consider Commissioner Hagerman one of their most distinguished citizens, were astonished to hear that the U. S. Senate had amended the Interior Department appropriation bill thus brusquely...
...House & Senate conferees on the Interior appropriation bill last week struck out the Frazier amendment, restoring Commissioner Hagerman's pay and re storing the Senate to New Mexico's good graces...
Weightier than any other testimony was a letter from Secretary of the Interior Wilbur. In it he reversed his attitude that the oil industry must help itself. Independents jumped for joy when they heard that he had said: "If proration is the logical method of control of supply, it would seem to be logical to apply it to imports...