The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-09-09

each or n total Of $4,000. Although
this was less than the estimated AVER
age cost of one ~ the ships. the board
agreed In accept the offer Most of
the vessels have been lying Idle In
the James river and II has been cost
ing the board almost $4,000 a month
tn care for them. Twenty ships were
reserved to be- sold at highest prices
and nifty others may be kept for use
~ ponfoons for the building ~ the
proposed bridge across the Hudson
river.
The peace treaty with Germany has
been completed and last week was
shown to the members Ut the senate
committee on foreign relations. and
also 10 other senators. All who saw
Il expressed their approval of the
pact, and u WAS To he signed In Her
lin. II must now he ratified by the
senate and the reichstag. The treaty
provides for the resumption Of diplc-
matte and commercial relations be-
tween the two countries, awards the
United States the fruits Of victory
specified In the Versailles treaty, and
provides for the payment by Germany
NJ American war damage claims. A
similar treaty has been negotiated
with Austria aDd signed ut Vienna.
Unless the Dublin correspondents
are wrong. smother impasse IN the
Irish peace negotiations has been
reached. he Valera, Hall Elreann
and the Irish republican council. after
long debate, have drawn up their re-
ply to Lloyd Georges offer and dis
patched Il TO London. Presumably ITS
contents will be made public before
this reaches the reader. II Is assert
ed now that the British offer has
been rejected and no counter PROPOSE
ton made by the Irish. hut that the
way IL left open for further negotia-
tion. The Sim Feln leaders believe
the premier Ii not sincere when he
says Great Rritain has made It's ulti-
mate offer: they think the truce will
not be broken by their rejection and
that MIR. Lloyd George VIII make fur
Their concessions.
The Roman Catholic church inter
yened In the Irish controversy last
week with message to DE Valera
| from the highest authority" deiiv-
cred by the lord bishop Of Dromore.
The source of the message and it,
| purport we're not made public.
| Federal officials have punctnrei q
SO,OO0OOO financial bubble. they as
sert. In the arrest 81 Charles w.
French. partner 81 John w. Worth
ington. already In custody, and num-
her of his associates In various parts
az the country. These men, II IL
charged. were selling stock In 20
companies. all organized by French.
and having n total capitalization Of
more than s2l.0o0.00O. The federal
agents have seized about $4,000 600
In suspicious paper and are getting
| confessions from several Of the gang.
| Developments In the case are coming
daily.
of concrete interest In the South
and nj least academic interest In the
rest ~ the country Is the decision Of
Federal Judge Royd In Greensboro.
\. e. holding unconstitutional the
federal law Imposing taS 1T 10 per
cent on the profits derived IN prod.
ucts "n which child labor Is EN-.
riosed. Regulation Of labor. Judge
l.
tanned by the states and no, delegated
,o the federal government State
child labor laws are adequate to care
for the situation and provide q pen
atty, mot n tax, as IL proposed BY the
act nj congress. the decision said.
The attempt nf the federal govern.
ment To regulate labor within the
state Is u usurpstion Of authority and
a violation ~ the sovereign rights al
the state. the Judge decided
The Pennsylvania Railroad com
pans has again challenged the RICH,
nf the federal railway labor board e
dictate the reads policy In dealins
with it's employees, and has renewed
the hrht for the open shop. The
Pennsylvania. In an application nlet
+ by Samuel Rea. president. denied thu
legality of the boards refusal 10 rec
ogniEe recent election Of representa-
tives ~ the railroads employees. Tn.
ballots which selected them made nj
provision for unions as such. and tn,
hoard ordered new election. prescrib
Ing the form of the ballots. Agree
! ments entered into subsequent to IN,
} | drst election were declared void.