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Throughout the week the Cabinet held frequent sessions, and interminable dickering and wrangling ensued behind closed doors. Despatches reported that the causes of dissension within the Government itself were two: 1) The refusal of the Cartellist Ministers,* headed by Minister of the Interior Chautemps, to approve the heavy increase in indirect taxation which is the keynote of M. Doumer's scheme. 2) The alleged success of M. Herriot in bringing M. Blum, the leader of the Unified Socialists (TIME, Nov. 23) back into the Cartel. Since the present Briand Government was formed on the basis of a majority...
...Congress $16,498,381 $14,915,001 White House 441,960 489,960 Veteran's Bureau 458,965,000 405,700,000 Other Bureaus, etc 46,302,899 53,630,499 Departments of Agriculture 140,717,758 138,075,191 Commerce 30,402,847 28,542,129 Interior 250,967,602 262,255,603 Justice 24,367,027 24,205,822 Labor 8,567,305 8,627,625 Navy 322,869,430 302,862,378 State 16,614,932 16,277,652 Treasury 157,563,713 153,708,404 War 335,641,525 339,765,931 District of Columbia...
...Interior. One pleasing fact, (a savings of $82,635,930 in operating the Department during the past two years) and several disturbing ones were reported by Secretary Hubert Work. He declared that the timber on public lands was being dissipated, and recommended that no Government timber be sold for ten years. He asserted that Government reclamation projects planned to pay back their cost in ten years, had not done so in 20 years; that on many projects it is impossible to secure sufficient settlers; and that on parts of many the soil is too poor to enable settlers...
...passes that he is not called upon to act as engineer, architect, artist, interior and exterior decorator, landscape gardener, tree doctor, florist, gamekeeper, director of outdoor sports, and censor of beauty, morals and safety. "He is the man who provides 'love nests' for the birds and squirrels in Washington's numerous parks and playgrounds, shelter for the park policemen, benches for the weary as well as the lovelorn, golf links, tennis courts, and bathing beaches for the thousands of Government workers. He blazes bridle paths through the cool woods, supervises the care of the flowers and cherry...
...Minister of the Interior...