The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-05-08
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WASHINGTON NEWS.
The naval appropriation bill carry
ing approximately $465, OO0,000 fol
1921 navy expenditures passed the
senate Wednesday without a recoro
vote and was sent to conference fol-
adjustment of $40,000,O0O senate In
crease over the house bill total
The supreme court was asked FIJI
dav by the government to reopen the
anti crust suit against the United
States Steel Corporation, dismissed
March / by a to decision. Inc
Governments argument on the motion
for a 7ehearing was based largely on
the 4 20 8 decision rendered by the
court last Monday, ordering the dis
solution of the Reading Company ana
its subsidiaries, the first OF the So
called anthracite coal cases to be de-
cided.
Defending his own action in accept
ing tic and 18c as fair prices for
Louisiana sugar, Attorney General
Palmer testified Friday before house
investigating committee that Presl-
dent Wilson would have bought the
entire Cuban crop last year at a low
figure if congress had not ignored his
request for necessary legislation.
Increased costs and short produc-
ton were controlling factors in the
agreement by the department of JUS
tice that Louisiana sugar producers
would not be prosecuted If they sold
their 1919 crop at II and IS cents
pound, the house judiciary committee
was told by Henry Mooney, United
States district attorney at New Or
leans.
The Congressional Record, publish
ed daily at the government printing
office and containing all OF the
speeches delivered the day before in
congress, may have to suspend. Inc
shortage of print paper, which is Sc
verely handicapping all the neswpa-
pers of the country, is the reason.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
A general advance by Polish forces
along a 1S0-mile front in the Ukraine
was announced in Fridays commun-
ique by the Polish general staff. The
movement, it is set forth, is for the
expulsion of "the foreign invaders"
(Russian bolshevikD.
The sugar crop of 1919-1920 in the
Philippine Islands, now being harvest
ed, aggregates 225,000 tons for export
and between $4,000 and 100000 tons
for home consumption.
Headed by the battleship Pennsyl-
vania, having on board Secretary OF
the Navy Daniels, the Atlantic fleet,
an armada of Americas greatest sea
fighters, swept into New York harbor
Saturday for a two weeks visit.
John T. McGraw, democratic ma
tional committeeman from West Vlr-
ginia, died suddenly, Friday, on train
near Baltimore while en- route from
New York
I.umbermen of Louisiana cypress,
pine and hardwood men, in conference
with John M. Parker, governor-elect,
at New Orleans, La, Tuesday, accept
ed a license tax of 2 per cent on
| stumpage value basis. Timbermen will
appoint a committee of five to meet
the board of state affairs and Mr..
| Parker in Baton Rouge to agree on
| fixed basis per thousand feet Tur-
| pentine and rosin men have agreed
| to the per cent tax based on the dip
and scrape Sale industry will also
agree to the per cent proposition,
and it was said sulphur would fall
| in line.
Federal agents seized 96,500 pounds
of sugar, stored in two warehouses
at Omaha, Neb, Friday, belonging to
seven grocery firms, and alleged to
be boarded. Assistant District Attor-
ney Peterson said Lever act prose
| cutions will follow and if the suits
are successful the sugar will be placed
on the market One concern had
$500 pounds.
Bermuda onion shipments out OF
Laredo, Texas. have assumed heavy
proportions, despite the strike condi
lions, and since the shipping season
began on April up to the present a
total of 602 carloads of the bulbs had
rolled out to markets in all sections OF
the country
With flames bursting from beneath
the hood of his 16-cylinder automobile
at the finish line, Tommy Milton Tues
day, at Daytona, Florida, further re
duced his own worlds record for one