Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-09-08

each or total of $43O, 900. Although
this was less than the estimated AVER
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 it has been cost
ing the board almost $4,000 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
1t expressed their approval Of the
pact, and 1t was to be signed In Ber-
lin. It 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-proposi-
ton made by the Irish, but that the
way is left open for further negotia-
tion. The Sim Fein leaders believe
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
ther concessions.
The Roman Catholic church inter
vened In the Irish controversy last
week with a message to De Valera
"from the highest authority" deliv-
cred by the lord bishop Of Dromore.
The source of the message and its
purport were not made public.
Federal officials have punctured a
$5O,0OO,0O0 financial bubble, they as
sert, in the arrest of Charles W.
French, partner of John w. Worth
ington, already in custody, and a mum.
ber of his associates in various parts
of the country. These men, it is
charged, were selling stock in 20
companies, all organized by French
and having a total capitalization OF
more than 21,0O0.OOO. The federal
agents have seized about $27, 900, ,OOC
in suspicious paper" and are getting
confessions from several of the gang
Developments in the case are coming
daily
OF concrete interest in 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 a tax of 10 pei
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 tax, as is proposed by th'
act of congress, the decision said
| The attempt of the federal govern
ment to regulate labor within tht
state is a usurpation Of authority ant
violation Of the sovereign rights o
the state, the Judge decided.
| The Pennsylvania Railroad com
pany has again challenged the righ
of the federal railway labor board t,
dictate the roads policy in dealing
with its employees, and has renewe,
the fight for the open shop. Tn
Pennsylvania, in an application file,
by Samuel Rea, president, denied tn
legality of the boards refusal to rec
ognize recent election of representa-
tives Of the railroads employees. TIL
ballots which selected them made n
provision for unions as such, and tn
board ordered new election, prescrit
ing the form Of the ballots. Agree
ments entered into subsequent to tn
first election were declared void.