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The article presents incidents related to the U.S. politics and legislation. Politician, Thomas Clyde, in a letter to the "Evening Post, asks the opponents of the present Ship-Subsidy Bill to draft and present a better measure for the revival of U.S. merchant marine before condemning before U.S. Congress. A tremendous effort was made to manufacture public sentiment in favor of government subsidies. It prompts other industries, cliques, and sections to demand similar benefactions from the public funds It makes the amount of the subsidy a matter of hugger-mugger between the beneficiaries and Congressmen, thus tending to corruption. Another incident focuses on the bill which proposes to put a prohibitive tax on oleomargarine in California.

The article discusses political developments from around the world. Independent voters are considered not only politically wise, but also morally right. They are not greatly affected by the appeals of Politicians and their organs. But they are not insensible to the criticism of men of decent character and respectable intellect, who ridicule them as unpractical. The article further discusses ship subsidies. The Republican Campaign Text-Book for 1900 contains six pages in favor of the Ship Subsidy Bill which failed of consideration at the last session of the U.S. Congress.

The article presents a discussion on the House Bill. The House Bill provides for a commission to report on the American merchant marine. The commission will travel all the way to the U.S. and will be dined by boards of trade and city councils, but will add nothing to the literature of the subject. The Library of Congress already contains nearly 2,000 works on ship subsidies. The article further discusses the hike in housing rents in Harlem, Bronx, Brooklyn and suburban towns.

The article discusses issues related to the legislation introduced by Representative Mario Biaggi that seeks to expand the government subsidy program by approximately $100 million a year and let more U.S. shipping companies participate. Companies receiving subsidies and their five unsubsidized competitors have collaborated to push for the legislative bailout. However, the administration of President Ronald Reagan is in opposition of the legislation.

The article reports on the agreement among U.S. Congressional leaders to pass the tariff, bonus and ship subsidy bills.

This section offers government and regulatory news briefs in the U.S. as of June 24, 1922 including President William Harding's insistence that the ship subsidy bill of the administration should be enacted, introduction of a bill to regulate future trading on grain exchanges, and call of Harding to the Congress to repay taxes illegally collected by the government.