Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1922-04-01
WASHINGTON

gin Immediately, the department OF
agriculture announced.
The house naval committee agreed
to report a bill fixing the maximum
authorized enlisted strength of the
navy at $4,000 plus 5000 apprentices
or 10000 less than the number Score
tary DENLY said was needed to operate
the treaty fleet. The bill also pro
vides that not more than 200 mem.
bers of each graduating class at the
navy academy shall be commissioned
this year, in 1923, and 1924. There are
541 members of the first class at the
academy to be graduated in June.
Approximately $500 aliens admitted
into the United States under temporary
permits which would expire March "a
and leave them liable to immediate de-
portation have been given an indefinite
extension OF time for their stay. Com
missioner General Husband of the i'm,
migration bureau announces.
President Harding asked congress-
for an appropriation Of 100000 for the
care custody and operation of the ma.
val petroleum reserves In California,
Wyoming and Oklahoma. An item for
this undertaking, formerly carried in
the interior department bill, was slim.
mated, making it necessary for the
navy to provide the funds.
Senate committee changes resulting
from the resignation of William S.
Kenyon as senator from Iowa, as de.
cided upon by the senate Republican
committee on committees, and ratified
by the senate elevate Senator Borah
of Idaho to the craftsmanship of the
education and labor committee. Mr..
Borah retires as chairman Of the In.
teroceanic canals committee.
Between $4,000 and 100000 in
negotiable Liberty bonds are missing
from the Liberty bond branch of the
treasury, w. H. Moran, chief of the
secret service, recently stated. Secret
service operatives have beon sent to
Richmond, Va, and Charlottesville,
Va, where two employees of the
branch, wanted in connection with the
investigation of the loss were report
ed to be.
Preliminary reports, received by the
treasury, of collections of March Is
installments OF income and taxes. show
ed total of ,$2S6,OO0.O00 on deposit In
federal reserve banks. On the basis
OF the amount received so far, officials
declared it was impossible as yet to
determine whether Secretary Melons
estimate of $3.50 100000 in tax receipts
for the quarter would be obtained.
Receipts from March payments last
year aggregated $272,OO0,OOO.
FOREIGN
The allied foreign ministers, con.
vened in Paris for consideration of the
near eastern situation, sent kilograms
recently. to Constantinople, Angora
and Aliens proposing an armistice be.
tween the Greeks and the Turk Ma.
tionalist armies, facing each other in
Asia Minor. -.
The fight for heavy reductions in the
Japanese army has been abandoned
in the diet until the summer session
leaders announced. In the meantime
It was stated, small reductions In the
strength of the army will be made in
accordance with promises of army au
| thorities.
Provisions worth $4,000, 100000 ru
| bles will be sent into the drouth-strick
en- provinces of the Ukraine by the
American Mennonites Famine Relief
| organization under an agreement just
concluded says a Moscow dispatch tC
| The Russian trade delegation in Lon
| bln.
me legislative assembly, In India
considering the budget, rejected the
proposal to tax imported silver. will
an equal bounty on exported silver
'roposed increases in the levies OF
spirits and cigars were allowed. The
budget deficit not covered by fresh tax
alton totals twelve crores of rupees
"a crore is 100000 rupees, normal
ly $3,21000O)
Drastic reductions for the estimate,
FOR the air forces for the coming ven
we're recently announced The est
mates provide f9,935,50 for norma
services and f950,5OO for war iiaDili
ties. Last years figures were Els
S09,o00 for normal services and FL,
i11,o0O for war liabilities. A reduc
ton in force equal to two squauron
Is proposed.
All letters and parcel post packages
coming out of Russia are being hel,
N Berlin untouched The Germa,
postal employees, following a physI
clans announcement that employees II