The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-09-01
WASHINGTON NEWS

A plea for economy by Senator
Lodge, Republican leader, marked
the debate, but ne took the position
that congress had cut the appropria-
lions for the army below point that
seemed to him safe.
10000
Senator Harrison DEMOCRACY
Mississippi, introduced a resolution
20 instruct the American delegates to
abe disarmament conference to use
their good offices to bring about open
sessions.
10000
Secretary Hughes was requested
in a resolution adopted to transmit a
list of all Americans aboard the Lusi-
tania when sunk by a German sub
marine, together with a statement of
claims filed for damages, steps taken
toward adjustment and copies of cor
Tespondence with the German govern
10000
The name of the recently created
veterans bureau was changed, in a
resolution adopted, to the United
States veterans bureau, to distinguish
it from other bodies of similar name.
10000
a majority of the house committee
which investigated the escape of
Stacker Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
charges in its report that he was aided
in his escape by a conspiracy, in
which former Judge Advocate Gen
eral Samuel T. Ansell, Col. John E.
Hunt and Col. c. C. Crossen took
leading parts.
The President and Secretary
Hoover in announcing plans for Rus
sian relief declare that they will be
carried through by single American
administration with all American re-
lief agencies combining their re
sources, and that no public drive"
for funds will b conducted.
10000
The senate was enlivened by stir
ring debate over prohibition when
conferees on the anti-beer bill asked
for further Instructions. The senate !
voted to stand by its amendment MAX
ing search and seizure without a war
rant 4 criminal offense. Senator
Ashurst, who bolted the conference
committee, said no man was a good
American citizen who would not
knock down a prohibition agent who
invaded his premises without a war
rant.
Milo d. Campbell of COldwater, !
Mich, president of the National Milk |
Producers association, before the
congressional agriculture committee
urged enactment in house form of the
bill authorizing formation of cooper
alive agricultural associations. He de-
clared farmers would rather have the |
measure killed than enacted in the
form recommended by the senate /
agriculture committee.
10000
Sent the Willis-Campbell anti-beer
bill to conference after eliminating
by a vote of 12O to 90 a senate
amendment providing fines and i'm
prisonment for federal officers who
searched for and confscated liquor
without warrants, adopting a substi-
tute to require warrants only for the
searching Of homes.
10000
Representative Herrick (Republi-
CAM, Oklahoma, proposed a bill in
tended to solve the governments fin
ancial problems. 1t provides that
any holder of a Liberty Bond or certi-
ficate of indebtedness of the United
States shall be given United States
circulating notes for the full face
value whenever he presents them to
the treasury and that any person or
corporation selling or offering to sell
the bonds for anything less than par
shall be fined up to $4,000 for each
offense.
10000
By vote of seven to two the ad-
ministration's railroad funding bill
was ordered favorably reported from
the interstate commerce committee.
The measure would authorize the War
Finance Corporation to use not to ex-
ceed $500, 100000 to purchase rail
road securities from the railroad ad-
ministration and prescribe interest
rates upon securities hereafter ac-
eepted from the carriers.