River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-09-01

each or total of $4,000. Although
this was less than the estimated ayer-
age cost of one of the ships, the board
agreed to accept the offer. Most Of
the vessels have been lying idle in
the James river and 1t has been cost
ing the board almost $4,000 a month
to care for them. Twenty ships were
reserved to be sold at highest prices
and fifty others may be kept for use
as pontoons for the building of the
proposed bridge across the Hudson
river.
The peace treaty with Germany has
been completed and last week was
shown to the members of the senate
committee on foreign relations, and
also to other senators. All who saw
it expressed their approval of the
pact. and it was to be signed in Ber-
lin. 1t must now be ratified by the
senate and the reichstag. The treaty
provides for the resumption of diplo-
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
of American war damage claims. A
similar treaty has been negotiated
with Austria and signed at Vienna.
Unless the Dublin correspondents
are wrong, another impasse in the
| Irish peace negotiations has been
| reached. De Valera, Dali Eireann
| and the Irish republican council, after
long debate, have drawn up their re-
ply to Lloyd Georges offer and dis
| patched it to London. Presumably its
| contents will be made public before
| this reaches the reader. 1t is assert
| ed now that the British offer has
been rejected and no counter PROPOSE
| ton made by the Irish, but that the
| way is left open for further negotia-
| ton. The Sim Fein leaders bellows
| the premier is not sincere when he
| SAYS Great Britain has made it's ulti-
mate offer; they think the truce will
| not be broken by their rejection and
| that Mr. Lloyd George will make fur
! Their concessions.
| The Roman Catholic church inter-
/ vened in the Irish controversy last
week with message to De Valera
from the highest authority" deliv-
cred by the lord bishop of Dromore.
| The source of the message and ity
| purport were not made public.
Federal officials have punctured u
| S5O.OOO,0Oo financial bubble. they as
sert, In the arrest of Charles W.
French, partner of John W. Worth.
/ ington, already In custody, and num-
| Der of his associates in various parts
| of the country. These men, 1t is
| charged, were selling stock in 20
companies, all organized by French,
/ and having a total capitalization Of
| more than $21, 100000. The federal
agents have seized about $27000.000
In suspicious paper" and are getting
confessions from several of the gang.
| Developments In the case are coming
daily.
OF concrete interest III the South
and at least academic interest in the
rest of the country IS the decision Of
Federal Judge Boyd in Greensboro.
n. c., holding unconstitutional the
federal law imposing tax of 10 per
cent on the profits derived from prod
ucts on which child labor is en-
! ployed. Regulation Of labor. Judge
Boyd ruled is one Of the powers re-
tanned by the states and not delegated
to the federal government. State
child labor laws are adequate TO care
for. the situation and provide a pen
atty, not a tax. as is proposed by the
act of congress, the decision said.
The attempt of the federal govern
ment to regulate labor within the
state Is q usurpation of.autnority and
violation of the sovereign rights Of
the state. the judge decided.
The Pennsylvania Railroad com.
pany has again challenged the right
of the federal railway labor board to
dictate the roads policy in dealing
| WITH us employees, anu hdS iSHS"Su
the fight for the open shop. The
Pennsylvania. in an application filed
by Samuel Rea. president. denied the
legality of the boards refusal to rec
ognize a recent election of representa-
tiyes of the railroads employees. The
ballots which selected them made no
provision for unions as such. and the
board ordered a new election. prescrib-
ing the form OF the ballots. Agree
ments entered into subsequent to the
first election we're declared void.