Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-02-03


,e's birthday. 3. Governor Evans Of
annual visit to the Manua group.
The gentlemen from the Chita gov
eminent must perforce be content with
this, and it may be said that there is
no apparent reason to doubt the good
faith of Japan in the matter.
The four powers %signatory to the
Pacific treaty have agreed to an eX-
change Of notes defining the treaty
as not applicable to the mainland of
Japan. Whether this includes the
BONN and Loochoo islands, as Japan
wishes, is not yet known.
All three of the chief parties in the
Japanese diet, which opened last
week, are on record as approving the
results Of the Washington conference,
THREE hundred delegates to
L the agricultural conference called by
Secretary Wallace were in session in
Washington, and considerable friction
developed during their deliberations.
The farmers bluntly set forth their
woes, and President Harding and Mr..
Wallace let them know that the con-
illusions reached by the conference
would form the basis for a drive by
the administration to obtain for them
relief measures from congress. Not
only temporary relief will be asked,
but measures that shall so stabilize
agriculture that there will be greater
D~,., Co. %A@ r,ao aa1
lower prices for the consumer. Before
the conference had been in session two
days insurgency made its appearance.
Some delegates declared the purpose
of those responsible for the meeting
was the destruction of the agricul-
tural bloc in congress. Making the
same charge, the Farmers National
council started a conference of its
own on Friday.
PRESIDENT HARDING has given
L hearty approval to the st. Law
renee waterway project, and under
his direction Secretary of State
Hughes already is negotiating with
the government of Great Britain for
a treaty under which the United
States and Canada can undertake the
project Jointly. The report of the
international joint commission, which
was made to the house, caused a sharp
parliamentary fight. Several commit
tees claimed jurisdiction over it, but
Speaker Gillett ordered it referred to
the interstate and foreign commerce
committee, and later the ways and
means committee was given joint con
sideration of it. Opponents of the
project, mostly from Atlantic coast
states, made a futile effort to have the
report turned over to the rivers and
harbors committee, which is counted
as hostile to the project. Probably
there will be no legislation until the
necessary treaties are negotiated.
CECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
y MELLON told the house ways and
means committee that additional taxa
ton to yield $S5O,0O0,000 in the next
two years would be necessary to make
the initial payments of the proposed
$3,200,000,0O0 cash bonus to former
service men. He also condemned as
futile, unwise and %improvident the
! plan of Chairman FOrdney to finance
the bonus from the sale of the re-
funded foreign war debts. All pay
ments of principal and interest on those
debts, he. said, should go toward retire
ment of Liberty bonds and payment
of interest on them. Notwithstanding
Mr.. Melons warning, the majority
leaders in congress decided that a
bonus bill should originate in the
house and be pressed to passage at
once. Fordney still clings to his for
eign debt plan, but Melons talk led
to a revival of the proposed sales
tax.
HHILE is not very enthusiastic over
~ the meeting in Washington with
Peru to settle their differences. She
accepted the invitation but now saws
she will not take part if Bolivia is
allowed to be represented. The lead
ing Chilean newspaper says it must
be stipulated that negotiations shall
not alter the terms of the Ancon
treaty. The appointment of the
Chilean representative has been de-
ferred by the cabinet.
M ENTION should be made of the
AVA death of Viscount Bryce, former
British ambassador to Washington.
He was an eminent man of letters and
publicist and was so warm an admirer
Of the United States that he was
sometimes called an English Yankee"