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I ■ r:. THt: CUNTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. "a;: THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1982 •YRADr9RDlMiLir Wftsliinfton, July 25.The Bonus Expeditionary Force is , scattering: back to the states where its members came from,- with the aid of $100,000 appropriated by Congress to send them, Washington is glad to get rid of them, because their presence here has kept away from the city a large proportion of the usual Summer tour ists, who have been afraid of a mob uprising. There never was any danger of that, but outsiders didn’t realire it. Mellon Expe<|ted To Resign Post ‘Need of Younger Man To Han dle War Debts Parley*’ To Be Given As Reason.^ ^ London, July 25. — The Daily Her ald said today Ambassador; .\ndrew W. Mellon “is expected to resign” when he arrives in Washini^on on his present trip to the United States. ing he was going to the United States Stall •e ^ a no* for a holiday, taking advantage dull period in embassy work. ' ' / He, himself, said the trip had political significance. Today, however, his leaving vvas coupled with the departure of the British ambassador. Sir Ronald Lind say, from Washington and other newspapers besides ^he Herald print ed dispatches from New York and Washington speculating on the coin- I cidence. * j visit is purely personal, it was said, and was planned sometime ago. \ MELLON BACK HOME New York, July 26.—A lull “over I It is beiL'^’ed he will tell President 'Hoover the coming negot.aiions on i war debts should be in the hands of ** The Herald ia younger man than he, ;added. The London newspapers have been [ making something of a mystery of the ambas.saSor’s trip home ever since he left here a v/eek ago today, declar- Beforc he left here the aml>as.sador | indicated to his associates he intended | to remain in the United States two or three weeks and be back in London before the end of August. So far~as was known in official circles here to day his plans have not been changed. There has been tjo official intima tion whate\er that he had ar.y inten tion cf relinquishing his jwst. The there”, brought Andrew W. Mellon, American ambassador to the.Court of St. James’s, back to America ♦oday and reports that he intended to re? sign brought emphatic denial. Tlie former secretary of the treas ury leceived more than .a dozen re porters in his stateroom aboard the liner Majestic as it rode up the bay from quarantine. He remained cordial throughout nr onslaught 6f questions but answered only those queries that referred to his reported resignation ^or to the weath er. “It (resignation) is news to me — midsummer news,” he said. “There is, no foundation for the report.” ^ HTIEN D^RESSIONS END ) (The New York Times) *’ / A ray of hope has been found by one brokfc.'^ge firm in ibe fact that, all of the luajor business depressions' Why not keep your money at hone by giving me your subscriptions, both new and renewal. Prompt attention given to all order*, JAMES W. CALDWELL . CaU 38 at 12 P. M. of this n*untry since the Civil war have er.d.,d between May and Septem ber. In the depression of 1873-1879, for example, the stock market reached its lowest level in June, 1877; in the slump- of 1884-5 prices touched bot- torti' in May, 1884, and June, 1885. Similarly, the depression of 1893- to 1896 saw security prices at their low est in July, 1893, and*August, 1896, while in the post-w'ar slump, the mar ket reached its lowest level in August, 1921. These 'iltatistics are cited to show that if the «stock market is to forecast a recovery in business this year, it should begin to reflect the improved outlook within the next two months. For Nervous Headaches A haadacb^ is Nature's waming Off high nerve strain. You can get quick and itelightful relief ^ front headaches and other nerve pains bgr using Capudine because it soothes the tense nerves, (^ontai^s no opi ates and does not upset the stomach. Being liquid, Capudine acts al most instantly—milch quicker than tablets and powders. Sold by drug- g lsts in 10c, 30c, and 60c sizes, also y the dose at founts, (adv.) Cliecking I’p on “Honest (Jraft” Political propagandists of both parties have been busy digging into the records of “honest graft” on the part of memibers of the House and jNenate, and have uncovered source.* of income, above their salaries, ot which a majority of members, of Itoth parties. s<*em to have availed them selves. Not that there is anything techni cally dishonest about putting members of one's family on the government payroll, or collecting trtkvel and ex pense money which has not been ac tually expended. Congress makes the- laws governing tho.se things, and Con- grei* has carefully seen to it that j there are many legal ways in which I its members can add something to their $10,(HM» salaries. Every member, for example, is en titled to charge 4(t cents a mile for travel between his home district ^ind Washington, at the l)eginning and the! end of each session of Congress. That j runs up into material money in the | case of a meml)er from the Pacific i ( oast, who ( an put in a bill for close j to at least twice a year fori “travel exjK'iisc*,” whether he goes, home between sessions or not. | Instances have been uncovered whete inemlaMS collected round-trip 1 tiavel expenses between the end of a' regular session and the beginning of a special session which began only- a few days later, when it would hay** been impossible for them to go home and back in the time allowed. They got their travel pay, nevertheless, liegal, of course -but is it legitimate and honest ? In the matter of members of their families of (iovernment payrolls, enough has already been disclosed to make some hundreds of congrijasmen and not a few senators anxious that nob(»dy goes into their home distriuts with the facts. Each member is al low (hI $2.00(t~a year for a sevretani'; In addition, every committee of each house* has an appropriation for a coiln- mittce clerk, and that appointment is at the (lispo.-al of the chairman of the committeec. Besides those functionar ies, there are literally hundreds of other (‘inployees in and around the Capitol and the Senate and House,of fice building — something more than .Many members appoint their \vives <)r their sons as secretarie.*. put nephews and other relations in as pages, clerks and the like. The rt‘cijrd is not yet compleU*. but enough has, Ix'cn discovered to indj.eate fhal t.iere! are (omparatively few members of either house who have not tM“en alile j Vo add a few thousand a year to the family income hy these methods. ! As stated before there is nothing* partisan about this impiiry. .lust [ about as many memlH-r.s of one party j as of the other are‘'eoheerned. Ib'sides the money perquisities, member.** have luxurious offices fur nished at (iovernaifenl expense, elab orate Turkish baths and barber shiips, the best restaurant in Washington for their exclusive use, many other luxur-; les which make the life of a Senator or Representative far from unpleas ant. What is worrying some of them now', however, is the fear that tbe facts about these things will get back home where their constituents are groaning under the burden of taxes imposed by these same tffwrna The facts might result in some em- barra.*sing questions between now and election. It begin.* to look as if |beer might keep Congress in session all Summer, tlMriirl> you never can tell. It may ad- 5o||to before this gets into print, thoo^ thac i* hardly likely. The ef fort to amend the Volstead act at this session has a lot of force behind it, and it may succeed. The settlement of the German re- pa rations qiiemTon aC"La usanfie has revived interest and discussion con cerning the readjustment of Europe’s debts to the United States. 'Hie best- informed persons here are convinced that we shall never collect any ma- teriaf amount (»f the priitdpaLof those j debts, and* that what will have to be j worked out is some way of coming to a permanent settlement which will not be actual eaneellation but will' amount to the same thing in the end. A tough job for the diplomats. One corollary of that will be' the necessity for refunding our own in ternal national debt, as Great Britain ia doing witb it*s bonds. 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