The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-11-16

Fields in Kentucky and Whitefeld In
Mississippi. and Tanmany was viciori-
GUS in New York city, routing both the
Republicans and William Randolph
Hearst in the judicial contest. {
In the next congress the senate will
have 81 Republicans, 43 Democrat.
and Farmer Laborites. The line uD
In the house will be: Republicans 222a,
Democrats 205, Socialist ], lndepend-.
ent /, and Farmer-Laborite Ia Re-
publican majority of IL. with two va
cancies still to be flied.
Senator-elect Dale is, a dry and de
| feated an ayowed wet. but in general
the results were accounted victory
by the anti-Volstead law element. This
was especially true in Maryland AMI
Kentucky. In many localities the ku
Klux Khan was an issue. and in most
cases the Khan won.
~ OvERNOR WALTON OF Oklaho-
~ ma sought the intervention of the
federal courts TO halt the impeachment
proceedings against him, but this was
denied by Judge COtteral at LawtoD on
the ground that the court had no j,lris-
| diction in the case. However, the gov
ernor was granted new hearing al a
date not yet set. Meanwhile the trial
has begun and Walton has appeared
before the senate court through conn
sci and pleaded not guilty, making
90 III ~, ha
governors lawyers insist the court
shall hear all the evidence on all the
charges before voting on7ayerdict.
IN A report to the President the War
Finance corporation asserts that the
the adjustment of production to Amer
lean needs IL the world market is over
supplied from other producing coun-
tries at lower prices than are Salts
factory to American growers. and the
development of an improved marketing
system. The latter. the directors of
the corporation think, can be brought
about by the organization of the pro-
lucers Of the country for the purpose
Of marketing their wheat under the CO.
operative marketing plan, making it
unnecessary TO rely so completely upon
the UNCERTAIN functioning of the specu
lative public contract market
| The report expresses strong opposi-
| tion to the various proposals looking te
an increase in the tariff on wheat, gov
eminent price-fxing and government
purchase of surplus" wheat.
| A FTER hearings in the branch
"A banking controversy, the federal
reserve board has ruled, as condi-
| ton of membership in the reserve sys-
| TEN Of state banks. that the applicant
agree to establish no branches excel,
within the city where the parent bank
is located. This policy goes into effec,
February 1, 1924. A resolution adept
ed by the board declared that esi;ib-
lishment of branches by state hanks
produced an inequitable situation for
national banks. which cannot establish
branches without permission OF the
controller of the currency.
CIR ERIC DRUMMOND, secretary
- general of the League of Nations.
was received the other day by Premier
Mussolini, and came away with the as
| surance that Italy had no prejudice
against the league and that the pre-
mler favOrs its principles. Mussolini.
however, informed the secretary gem
eral that Italy required that her posi-
| tipn as one Of the great powers and
one Of the founders of the league and
| principal slgnatory of the Treaty of
Versailles should be Adequately estab-
| lished."
THE budget bureau has received the
L department estimates for the next
fiscal year. pared them to the bone and
submitted them TO President Coolidge
The total sum asked by the bureau Is
| 81, 200, 100000. this representing saw
ing of $l26, 600 900 from the amount be-
ing expended in the current fiscal year.
OF course congress may see lit to
change some of the items.
| IN A decision announcing the princi.
pies to be applied in determining
| American claims against Germany. the
mixed claims commission upholds
broadly the claims growing out of the
t0rped6ing of the Lusitania, numbering
278 and aggregatins about $22,Go0,000.
The commission refuses to assess ex-
empary. or punitive, damages holding
they are penal in nature and not au.
thOrized by the treaty of peace. II dis
missed 30.190 claims, totaling aboui
S345, 900, 900. for the recovery of nsur-
ance premiums paid by Americans for
protection against war hazards