Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-06-30

of the province of Shantung, China. as
soon as practicable. What her atti-
tude may be concerning Siberia and
the northern half of SaghaIien is not
yet known.
The British imperial conference,
which is in session in London this
week, planned to take up almost the
first thing the matter of renewing the
Anglo-Japanese treaty. Prime Min
listers Smuts of South Africa, Hughes
of Australia and Massey of New Zea-
land all have declared publicly that
the pact must not be renewed unless
it is agreeable to the United States.
Premier Meighan of Canada, if he is in
accord with public opinion in the Do
minion, will oppose any renewal of
the treaty. 1t is believed in London
diplomatic circles that the question
may be finally solved by the forma-
tion of Pacific triple entente-Great
Britain, the United States and Japan.
The house of representatives, as
was expected, adopted the Porter
resolution declaring war with Ger
many and Austria terminated. The
vote was 305 to 81, 40 Democrats join
ing the Republicans on the final roll
call. The senate absolutely refused
to accept this substitute for the Knox
resolution, and the prospects were ex-
cellent for long deadlock in confer
ence. 1t may well be that such a de-
lay swould quite suit the plans of the
administration, but President Harding
is taking no part in the dispute. The
objection of the house to the senate
resolution is that to repeal the decla-
ration of war might be taken to mean
that congress repudiated the action of
the government in entering the war.
The senators take the position that
the cOnstitutionality of the Porter
resolution may be questioned and that
this might open the way to ceaseless
litigation. They assert that the power
of congress to assume the functions
Of treaty-making body and declare
the war at an end may be open to at
tack in the courts.
Despite charges that the house bill
for regulation of the packing industry
was drafted by attorneys for the pack
ers, the senate, by a vote of 81 to "a,
substituted that measure for the more
drastic bill recommended by the SEN
ate committee on agriculture. The
house bill vests the secretary of agri-
culture with authority to administer
the measure, while the senate bill
creates under the department of ag-
,riculture a federal live stock commits
siOner, appointed by the president and
subject to confirmation by the SEN
ate, to regulate the packers.
OF more than local interest and i'm
portance was the arrest in Chicago Of
"Big Tim" Murphy, powerful labor
leader, and some of his proteges, for
implication in a number of big postal
robberies there and elsewhere. Con-
in the band were followed by recov-
cry of part of the loot. The postal
authorities and Department of Justice
officers believe the gang which Muir
ply is accused Of directing commit
ted the million-dollar robbery in To-
ledo last February as well as those in
Pullman and at the Polk street station
in Chicago.
Roy A. Haynes, the new ''mop"-in
other words, national prohibition COM
missioner-is now in office. Though
he is rotund and genial to the point
of jollity, he declares he will enforce
the dry law to the full extent Of his
power, and he appeals to all good
Americans to help him. He has not
yet made up his mind concerning the
dispensing Of real beer for medicinal
purposes.
The death roll of the week includes
the name of William E. Mason of Chi
cago, congressman-atlarge for Illinois.
He had been prominent in political
life for many years. and his personal
friends were numerous, though he
alienated many by his course just be-
fore our entry into the war and by
his bitter attacks on the draft.
The American Legion elected Maj.
John G. Emery of Michigan its ma
tional commander to succeed the late
Colonel Galbraith. Like his predeces-
sor, he has an excellent war record.
He saw much of the fighting in which
the American troops participated and
was wounded during the Meuse-Ar'
gonne drive.