The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-04-21
.VOLSTEAD ACT IN
DANGER OF REPEAL
NEW ADMINISTRATION WREsT-
LING WITH PROBLEMS

VUASASau AHuAiiDAbiVA enforcement
Act in Danger of Repeal-Plan to
Assist in DispOsing of Southern
Cotton Suggested to Harding
Want Freight Rates Reduced
Mexican Problem Before Hughes.
Chairman Norris, of the senate
agricultural committee reintroduced
his bill for general regulation Of the
meat packing industry. 1t is in the
same form in which it passed the
senate at the last session.
Secretary Of the Treasury Mellon
has announced that within few
days the treasury department will
formally announce an. offering of
farm loan bonds to the extent Of
about S40,000,000, bearing 5 per
cent. interest at par.
Repeal of the Volstead prohibition
enforcement act is proposed in a
bill introduced Friday by Represen-
tative Hill, Republican, Of Mary
land. The effect Of repeal, Mr.. Hill
said in statement, would be to
leave the enforcement to the police
power Of the states.
Henry Zweifel was nominated Fri
day to be United States attorney
for the northern district Of Texas.
Frank White, of Valley Citv. N. d..
was nominated the same dav to be
treasurer of the United States.
United States marshals nominated
by the president included Victor
Loisel, for the eastern district of
Louisiana, and R. A. Harvin for the
southern district Of Texas.
Henry Lincoln johnson, negro
member of the Republican national
committee in Georgia, called at the
White House Saturday, accompany
ing the Georgia delegation, to pay
his respects to President Harding.
Included in the party were State
Senator Will Richards, William T.
Day, clerk of the superior court of
Pickens county, Ga, and John w.
Martin, representing the Republican
state central committee Of Georgia.
A plan to take advantage of the
allied debt to the United States in
providing means to dispose of the
southern cotton crop has been sug-
gested to President Harding by Gov
Elect Hardwick, Of Georgia. He pro-
posed that the United States ask the
allied governments to underwrite
German bonds, which would be ac-
cepted in payment Of cotton exports
from this country and would be held
here as securities against the war
debt. 1t was understood that the
president expressed deep interest
in the plan, but has withheld judg
ment regarding it.
Blanket prohibition against the
shipment of arms and munitions to
any country where they might be
used for revolutionary purposes has
been asked of congress by the state
department. Specifically, the de-
partment requests an amendment to
the act Of 1912, which prohibits such
shipments to American countries.
The senate foreign relations commit
tee is considering the departments
request designed primarily, it was
said, to stop munitions shipments to
China. Early enactment Of an
amendment is proposed.
President Harding has promised to
use his efforts to secure the release
Of Capt. Emmett Fitzpatrick, Ameri-
can Red Cross Worker, whose home
is in Alabama and who is now held
a prisoner by the Bolshevik forces in
Russia. Congressman Stegall, Of
Alabama, headed delegation which
called upon the president and urged
that this government take immediate
action to secure the release Of Capt
Fitzpatrick, who is reported to be
under a 20-year prison sentence. The
president promised to take the mat
ter up Immediately with the state
department and see that everything
possible is done to secure Kilpatrick's
release.
An investigation to determine
whether freight rates on fruit and
other perishable products shipped
from Georgia to the northen markets
should be reduced will be made by
representative from the interstate
commerce commission and officials
of the Southern Railway, according
to an announcement by Senator Har-
ris last Friday, after a conference
between Georgia members Of con-
gress and Chairman Clark, Of the
interstate commerce commission. The
rates are prohibitive, both for ship
ments and farmers growing plans,
declared the Georgia senator, who
took the matter up with Southern
railway officials at the suggestion Of
Chairman CSlark.
The president was said by officials
of the executive committee of the
American Association of State High
way officials to have given general
approval to a plan which they are
working out for system Of nat
ional highways. The plan would pro-
vide for expenditure of federal funds
on the more important interstate and
state roads which would be main
tanned by state funds. The commit
tee was accompanied to the White
House by Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace. The committee is pre-