The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1923-01-19
WASHINGTON

unionized bituminous fields afte
April LIST has passed, In the opinion
of the federal coal COMMISSION, a
expressed by Chairman Hammond
and other members.
All Great Britain asks is a bust
Iness-like deal on her settlement tc
1.-THE United States of her five billion
dollar war debt. declared British
chancellor Stanley Baldwin, before IA
joint meeting of British and Amerf
can debt finding commission.
While the Interior Department ap-
preparation bill has passed both
houses of congress and is no longer
subject to get an appropriation in
one Of the deficiency bills yet to be
passed making an initial appropria-
ton fer the Weber river irrigation
project in Utah.
Attorney General Daugherty was
given clean bill OF health Tuesday
by the house Judiciary committee
which investigated the impeachment
charges brought against him by Rep
resentative Keller.
Work mas been started by the SEN
ate agricultural committee headed
by Senator Kendrick of Wyoming, on
proposals for investigation of the
proposed merger of the Armour and
Morris packing houses.
Declaring that stock dividends ag-
gregating $2,149,152.425 were issued
by 329 corporations last year, Senator
Brookhard, Iowa, announced he would
introduce a bill for taxation of such
distributions.
Plans for an attempt in the senate
to pass the Bursum pension bill over
President Harding's veto were said
to have been abandoned.
A resolution expressing the senti-
drawing troops from Germany was
passed.
The senate has passed the McNary
bill, granting a two-year extension OF
time to settlers on government recla-
nation projects.
Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell, wild |
DIV Of the famous inventor, died at |
The Washington home of her sister, |
after long Illness. She was SO years
IF age.
President Harding has vetoed the
3ursum pension bill which would
lav increased the pensions paid to
he widows and veterans of the civil
md Mexico wars.
An effort to termine the basis for
fluctuations last summer in the prices
t gasoline and kerosene is being
lade by the senate oil investigating
ommittee.
Immediate authorization of from
25,OO0.000 to $30.OOO.OOO for erection
/ Washington of building to house
overnment agencies now in rented
uarters was recommended in a re-
ort to Congress.
Secretary Mellon has sent letter
} congress urging the adoption of a
amendment prohibiting
X free securities.
FOREIGN
Sun Vat Sen. deposed president
the South China republic, expects
s army, which recently captured
uchow to retake Canton within two |
seks and restore him to power in
g south, he announced. :
Lenine's conditions contin- {
s to cause the gravest anxiety at
oscow, says a dispatch. An import
t consultation of Russian and for :,
N psyChoneurologists has been ar n
nged for this week.
Five soldiers, convicted OF deser- =
n from the National army, were I,
ecuted in Dublin by order of the
ee State government. 1t was an
unced that the men were found 4
hitting on the side of the regulars. q
Yrs. Edith Thompson and Freder- =
Bywaters were executed at
ndon, Tuesday. for the murder OF
} woman's husband, Percy Thomp- lc
|, on October 4th last. T
from creditable sources it is learn In
that Germany intends to recall fc
ambassador to France as soon as
learns that French troops have IA
ssed the demarcat'on line which r
v separates the occupied from the 81
territories in the Rhine
d.
Two hundred and fifty-six prisoners ot
to be released Immediately in
'ious parts of Mexico under an
nesty decree issued by President Gu
RECON. oN
FIR,
he Turkish government has issued
ecree calling to the Tors all able
led men in the liberated regions, ue
ording to dispatch from Constan- "a
lie. Oh
rinc Uktomsky has been sentenc- -.