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...Washington last fortnight from a private business trip to New York to mix a fresh brew of political news. Just before the Senate recessed for the holidays he introduced a resolution providing for a Senate investigation of the Colorado shale-oil charges leveled against the Department of the Interior by Ralph S. Kelley (TIME, Oct. 6 et seq.}. Last week he swiveled his aim back to Power when the new Federal Power Commission, as its first executive act, dismissed two of its prime employes...
...Minister of Pensions, Under Secretary of Agriculture and Under Secretary of the Interior, all members of the Right, resigned when they heard that Steeg had received Socialist support for his tottering Cabinet by agreeing to a disarmament program...
...goods shipped from one large town to another, will be abolished Dec. 31. Small in itself, red tape and the juggling of likin rates by provincial collections to allow for "squeeze" have held up and reduced the shipment of goods, have helped stifle the development of China's interior provinces.* Lest U. S. and other foreign exporters grow too exuberant, Finance Minister Soong announced at the same time that the government must have $40,000,000 (gold) more revenue annually, that the Chinese tariff would be raised either Jan. 1 or Feb. 1. Unofficial rumors gave the new rates...
...Steeg held that most trying post, the Ministry of Interior (controlling in France the police) from 1912 virtually without interruption through 1920. His reputation was further enhanced by two terms of colonial administration: Governor General of Algeria (1921-25), and Resident General of Morocco...
Last week under Prime Minister Steeg five former Prime Ministers consented to serve as ministers: Aristide Briand (Foreign Affairs); Georges Leygues (Interior) ; Louis Barthou (War); Paul Painleve (Air); Camille Chautemps (Education). That the great M. Painleve, thrice Prime Minister and often War Minister, should have consented to take the Ministry of Air seemed most significant, for previously the air portfolio has been a trifle infra dig, the prize of lesser statesmen like M. Laurent Eynac...