The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-11

hallenger now having its trial spins.
precluded him from placing any inter-
probation upon United States criminal
statutes under which possible viola
tors might escape prosecution.
'The legalistic method adopted by
the attorney general was wholly inef-
fective as means of price control;
it gave apparent governmental sane
ton to extremely high sugar prices,
which excited the cupidity Of Cuban
producers and caused an advance in
the Cuban market"
Congressman "Billy" Mason of nIi-
nois contributed his bit in the shape
of charges that Mr.. Palmer and An
thony Caminetti, commissioner general
of immigration, used their offices to
obtain exemption from the draft for
]. Kemp Bartlett, Jr., nephew of the
attorney general. According to copies
of correspondence between the prin-
cipals, submitted by Mason, Caminetti
signed the certificate which led to the
exemption, after the head of the i'm
migration service at Hot Springs had
refused to make such an affidavit.
Representative Mason broke out in
yet another spot last week, accusing
Barney Baruch of having "stolen $780,
100000 from the government in copper
| alone" When Baruch wrote Mason
demanding that he at once submit to
congress and the attorney general the
evidence on which he based the
charges, Mason replied that since
looking over his previous statement he
would amend it to say that ''you and
your associates stole $200,000,000 in
copper alone" He added that the mat
ter on which he based his charges al
| ready was before congress in connec-
ton with the investigation of war ex-
penditures.
You certainly do not expect me to
| present this matter to your particular
friend, Mr.. Palmer, attorney general"
Mr.. Mason said, and added: 81 shall,
if live, ask the attorney general of
! the United States after March f. 1921,
to proceed civilly and criminally
against you and your associates"
Women friends of free Ireland"
heckled the senate the other day and
were elected from the galleries. Next
day they burned British flag in front
of the treasury building. The senators
were quite willing a while ago to
horn in" on Great Britain's Irish
| problem, but they don't want anyone
| TO urge them to do it again.
Over in Ireland the republicans"
are deyoting themselves mainly to the
| destruction of police barracks, and
meanwhile parliament is making prog
resS with the home rule bill. The in
dications are that the whole age-long
quarrel will be settled by the adoption
of a dominion form of government for
the Emerald Isle.
Gregory Krassin, Russian bolshevil1
| minister of trade and commerce, was
| granted hearing in London by Lloyd
George and other members of the gov
| eminent and it was reported he was
given permission to open a central Of
fee in the city for the resumption of
trade with Russia. This despite the
/ strong opposition of Earl Curzon. head
of the British foreign office. The boil
sheviki are especially eager to resume
trade with America, but our govern
ment gives no encouragement.
In the field the soviet troops, which
had been pushing back the Poles, were
themselves driven backward on the
center of the front. where they had
been menacing Minsk. But on Friday
came startling report from Copen-
hagen to the effect that the Polish
army was, in wild flight, pursued by
an enormous bolshevik force. Ac-
cording to dispatches from Constanti-
/ nople, the Eighth boIsheyik army was
| eyacuating Odessa under pressure from
the independent Ukranian army. The
reds made considerable progress in
Persia. capturing the important Cas-
plan seaport of Resht, and some of
| their troops advanced into Armenia.
The Turkish nationallsts were hard
hit by a great French victory at Ain
tab and 1t was reported they had
signed an armfstice with the French
in Cilicia. Allied control OF the wa
tiers about Constantinople was periled
by nationalist operations along the
| Sea of Marmora.
Having received assurance that the
president would not call It back UNI
less some great emergency arose, con-
gress adjourned sine die on Saturday.
The Republicans think their record
during the session Is good enough for