The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-08-11


lie in the District of Columbia, women
spectators in the district committee
room on a referendum vote opposed
the bill, twenty-four to one. The COM
mittee took no action on the meas
ure.
The Department of Agriculture
announced that present prospects
for a good cotton crop are favorable,
| the recent warm weather having been
favorable to growth and to the elimin-
| alton of the boil weevil.
10000
At an entirely peaceful session of
the Bergdoll investigating committee.
William R. Campbell of Lexington,
KY, father of Maj. Bruce R. Camp
bell, charged with accepting $4,000
from Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll, to aid
in freeing her Stacker son, testified
that $500 investment made by his
son increased to $4,000. Maj. Camp
bell testified previously that this ac-
counted for deposit of $4,000 to his
account about the time of the alleged
charge.
10000
Henry T. Oxnard, vice president
of the American Beet Sugar COM
pany, before the immigration COM
mittee opposed admission of Chinese
coolie labor to the Hawaiian islands
to relieve the agricultural labor short
age there.
The house last week passed the
senate resolution authorizing the
President to invite foreign nations
to participate in an exposition at
Portland, Ore, in 1925 in celebration
of hydro-electric power.
10000
American forces in Germany ag-
gregate 1875 officers and men, ac-
cording to a letter from Secretary of
War Weeks laid before the senate.
The total cost of keeping these troops
from December IS, 1913, to April 80, |
1921, has been $275, 100000 or aver
age of 100000 a month, according
to Secretary Weeks. The letter also
states that on April 80, 1921, Ger
many owed the United States $780,
100000 for the maintenance of the
American troops under the terms of
the armistice. The Weeks letter was
sent to the senate in response to the
Borah resolution adopted several days
ago as the beginning of a movement
to bring the American troops home.
10000
Secretary Hoover is urging govern I
ors of the various states to let their ,
contracts for road construction this
Fall, rather than in the Spring, as a
means of relieving the unemployment
situation. Mr.. Hoover says this pro
cedure is already in effect in some
states.
By a straight party vote of IT'S to
sc, the house adopted a resolution
authorizing payment from its con-
tingent fund of the salary of Walter
F. Brown of Toledo, named by Presi-
dent Harding as head of the joint
congressional committee on reorgan-
ization of government departments
10000
Division of Western public grazing
lands into areas for lease to live
stock raisers at not more than one
cent an acre where annual rainfall
averages more than ten inches and at
not more than one-half cent an acre
where the rainfall is less than ten
inches is provided in bill introduced
in the house by Chairman Sinnott of
the public lands committee.
10000
President Harding's efforts to
bring about a recess of congress have
been further retarded by the action
of the steering committee in adding
to the legislative program the Capper-
Tincher bill to regulate grain ex-
changes and the Kenyon bill making
the secretary of agriculture member
of the federal reserve board.
10000
Any food that may be sent to
Russia by the American relief COM
mission will go to the children who
are said to be starving, and can be of
no aid or support to the soviet govern
ment, it was explained in answer to
criticisms of the offer to extend re-
lief on the conditions accepted by
other countries. /:
First Published in the Hays Free
Press, August 4, 1929