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power" This, Mr.. Smoot supposed, was
the basis of McCumber's statement,
but he. SmOOt, did not think Norris
had been authorized by the publishers
to make such a threat. McCumber
reiterated his statements with added
details and was supported by Watson
OF Indiana who related how Norris
and other publishers In 1908 offered
to make Joe Cannon president II he
would put through bill placing news
print and wood pulp on the free list.
Cannon, he said. ordered Norris from
his office. All OF this, whether true
or not. was highly entertaining to the
Democratic senator's.
COMMISSIONER BLAIR of the In.
ternal revenue bureau dealt the
liquor industry hard blow by for.
bidding further imports Of wines and
liquors until the supplies already In
the country for nonbeverage uses are
insufficient for national requirements.
Secretary Hughes asked. and presum-
ably was promised the aid of the Brit
ish government In the suppression Of
liquor smuggling from Bermuda and
the Bahamas. The British govern.
ment, however, has refused the unofii-
cial request OF the United States for
the right to search outside the three
mile limit British vessels suspected
of being engaged In smuggling liquor
into tire United States.
THAT the French are mt last reach.
ing point where they will con-
sent to reduction of the German
reparations debt Is evidenced by the
plan on which Premier Polncaire il
working As IL stands now-it In be-
Ing modified daily-the proposition Is
that for every dollar paid by Germany
on Interpretations account and for
every dollar of the allied debts which
Is canceled. France will cancel an
bonds. In the second week In August,
or sooner II the Italian government
crisis Is cleared up, the Morgan COM
mittce of bankers will meet again In
Paris, and IL Is hoped that meantime
the League of Nations council will
have prepared the way for the bank
ers to propose new separations set
Element. Poincare and Lloyd George
are to hold their conference In London
August 10
THE Bavarian government Is In
L open revolt against the central
German government at Berlin and has
issued a decree that rejects and sup
plants the recent legislation by the
relchstag for the defense of the re-
public. The Bavarian minister at
Berlin was instructed To inform
Chancellor Wirth that any outside po-
lice official attempting to operate In |
Bavaria would be promptly arrested.
Wirth has called a conference of all |
the German states To- consider the |
problem. and IL Bavaria does not |
suppress its new law President Ebert |
may summon the staaisgerichtshof. or
tribunal of the states. 10 deal with the
case. Chancellor Lerchenfeld Of Ia. /
varIa says he Is opposed TO any sep
nratist movement but that his state
will not submit TO any abridgemcnt Of
Its rights. The old enmity between
Bavaria and Prussia and the strong
monarchIst sentiment among the Ia.
varians make the situation difficult
for Berlin.
L ROM several widely separated
sources comes the Information that
soviet Russia Is planning military
operations on her western front In the
autumn. Frank vanderllp. the Amcri-
can financier who has been In touch
with the Russians in Berlin. says In
Paris that the probability Is increasing
that the bolshevIki will force such
war on Europe In the harvest season.
attacking Rumania and Pollard IN
an attempt TO rally Russian morale
and also TO get food from the eastern
harvcsts.- Russian refugees in Bel
grade assert the soviet government Is
for a drive through the Raj.
kans and then westward through Aus
iria.
A CGUSTUS THOMAS has been ap-
n pointed executive chairman 81
the Producing Managers association
for three years at n large salary. with
powers In the world of the spoken
drama comparable 10 those Il WIN
Hays in the motion picture industry
and Judge lands In baseball. The