Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-05-30
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From Our Special Correspondent
Washington, May 3O.-A revolt
against the leadership of Senator
Lodge of Mass, is brewing among
the Republican Senators as revealed
in anonymous literature being re-
cived by all the Republican members
of the Senate
The revolt is not in the open yet,
its trainers being careful to conceal
their identity, but it is evident that
the revolt is having it's origin IN the
refusal of Senator Lodge to acqulesee
in the plans of some of the Repu0ll-
can Senators to put through a dras-
tic cloture rule to stop debate on the
tariff bill and force it through the Sem
ate.
Senator Lodge has been one of those
who have been standing out against
the cIoture rule on the general ground
that delay in the passage of the tariff
hill is preferable to the enactment of
a cloture rule that would mean the
shutting off of debate through the will
of majority. The reason why the
Republicans are fretting at the delay
is that most of them have hard cam
paigns for reelection and they desire
TO get back to their home states as
quickly as possible.
The American flag which was dis
played in Paris to marx the entrance
of the United States into the World
War was presented to President Hard
ing at the White House today by the
French Ambassador. The flag will be
kept in the National Museum for the
American people.
The flag was hoisted by the French
government on the top of Eiffel Tow
err beside the French flag on the noon
of April 20, 1917 and saluted by 100
guns. II flew there until April 30. 1t
was again displayed over the Troca-
dcro Palace in September, 1918, at the
celebration of the victories of the
Marne
The ceremony today took place in
the East Room of the White House.
Among those present were the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Harding, the Ambas-
sador from France and Nine. Jusser-
and. the Secretary of War, the Assis-
tant Secretary of War, the Acting
Secretary Of the Navy, General Per-
Shing, Admiral Koontz, and other
general officers in the army, navy
and marine corps.
That ninety per cent. of the devast-
ated farm lands VI France are being
put into condition for the growing OF
crops during the coming season is
the information sent to the Depart
ment of Commerce by special agent
Dennis. The recuperation of the farm
lands in France, it is said, will do
much to solve the food problems Of
Europe.
Farming in the devastated regions
of France is being done in a more
scientific manner than before the war,
one reason for this being the fact that
much of the reclamation work has
been done under the direction of Am
erican engineers and agricultural
lists and in such a manner as TO per
nit of the operatiOn of tractors and
other up-to-date farm machinery in
districts which were formerly worked
in the crude manner In vogue among
the peasants of Europe for centuries.
American made movies" are MAX
ing a hit with the French, who are
showing an especial fondness for Sc
rial stories having to do with the So
called "Wild West. according to ad-
vice reaching the Department Of Com
merce.
american motion pictures are eX-
hibited i'm practically every cinema at
Havre." saws Consul General Ingram
"Not only do American-made pictures
form a prominent part of the program,
but they are featured to great extent.
A recent number of 'Comedia', a
French theatrical publication, stated
that all French cinemaS are showing
American films and that in Paris three
of the four largest motion picture
theatres are featuring American pro
ductions. and have found them their
biggest drawing cards"
Every much unheard of before. one
OF the glacier experts OF the Ge0lOGl-
cal Survey said recently when shown
reports and photograph sof the Grass
hopper Glacier which lies just outside
the northeast corner of the Yellow
stone National Park.
However, the glacier is there for
anyone to see, according to officials of
the Department of Interior. Imbedded
in its ice there are thousands of strata
Of grasshoppers of an extinct species
which must have been flying over the
mountains in living clouds when thev
were caught in snowstorms and killed,
later to be preserved for countless
wears in solid ice.
Garden Party