The Hoover Week

The black Republic of Haiti last week cast a shadow of concern over the White House. Prompted by bloody disorders there, President Hoover sent out of his office two despatches: 1) an order to the Navy to reinforce U. S. troops already on duty in Haiti; 2) a special message to Congress. In this message the President said:

"We are confronted with a difficult problem, the solution of which is obscure. . . . If Congress approves, I shall despatch a commission to Haiti to review and study the matter. . . . I request Congress to authorize such a commission and appropriate $50,000."

P:Also to the House of Representatives the President sent his budget message, asking for $3,830,445,231 to run the government next year. A separate request: $200,000 to pay the expenses of the U. S. delegation to next month's London Naval Conference.

P: President Hoover last week knocked the first word from Patrick Jay Hurley's title of Assistant Secretary of War. On the same day the President asked Mr. Hurley to change the name of Fort Russell at Cheyenne, Wyo., to Fort Warren as a ''fine tribute" to the late Senator Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming.

P: As part of his policy to strengthen U. S. diplomacy in Central and South America, President Hoover made a seven-way shuffle of ministerial posts last week. Three "career" ministers were promoted to better posts: Evan E. Young from the Dominican Republic to Bolivia, Roy Tasco Davis from Costa Rica to Panama, Hans Frederick Arthur Schoenfeld from Bulgaria to Costa Rica. Four career secretaries were advanced to their first full envoyships when Julius Garecke Lay was named Minister to Honduras, Matthew Elting Hanna to Nicaragua, Post Wheeler to Paraguay, Charles Boyd Curtis to Santo Domingo. Known as "bright young men" about the State Department, all seven are glib in Spanish.

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