Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1923-02-10
WASHINGTON

constitution proniDltlng issuance by
states and municipalities of tax
exempt securities, which recently was
approved by the house. was turned
over by the Senate judiciary commit.
tee to subcommittee.
The annual army appropriation bill,
carrying total of S34O,341 ,396.2S was
reported to the measure as passed by
the house.
The state department may be asked
by prohibitionists In congress to APP
peal to Great Britain for cooperation
In stopping the great flood OF SNUG
gled liquors coming into this eoun.
try from the Bahama islands.
With only five weeks intervening
before final adjournment OF congress,
Republican leaders OF the senate are
determined to utilize every possible
means to bring about passage of
three principal pieces of legislation
the Lenroot-Anderson rural credits
bill. the army appropriation measure
and the pending shipping legislation.
The house, by a vote, OF 204 to II,
approved Thursday the action OF its
Judiciary committee In giving Attorn-
ey General Daugherty clean bill OF
helath on the impeachment charges
brought against him by Representa-.
tive Keller.
The senate passed and sent to the
house bill so amending the law as to
permit the construction at Salt Lake
City Of branch federal reserve hank
building.
Acceptance of Henry Ford's offer
for Muscle Shoals, provided no better
offer is available and conditioned on
the actual production of nitrogren for
year, is recommended in a special re-
port made to the American Farm Blu.
reau federation.
Several federal prohibition enforce
ment officers In Texas have been su.
spended by headquarters pending an
investigation.
Attorney General Harry M. Daugh-
erty. stricken with "a dangerous con.
dition of high blood pressure. with
complications" was ordered confined
to his bed at his apartments.
Notice of a fight against the $50,
10000 river and harbor appropria-
tons voted by the house was given
in the SENATE by Senator King, Utah,
referring to the fund as "pork bar
rel' legislation.
FOREIGN
Fred Moore Woolworth, prominent
American business man, who had
been seriously Ill in London for some
time, died at the Ritz hotel. Mr..
Woolworth, who was the London al
rector Of the chain store organization
subsidiary to the Woolworth store
organization in the United States,
was taken I'll last October.
A former British soldier, suffering
from shell shock. attempted to at
tack King George with his crutch at
the St. Panchras railway station.
Captain Coyne of the National
army, was shot dead and three sol.
diers were wounded when a party Of
troops was ambushed by irregulars
between Abbey Feale and Brosna, on
the Limerick.Kerry border.
The French aviator. Andre Nancy
rol, has beaten ali world glider rec.
ords by remaining in the air hours.
minute and &c seconds.
A revolutionary movement has
broken out In the state of Rio Grande
do Sui, according to South American
d dispatches.
The dispute between Great Britain
and Turkey Over the Irak Frontier,
involving oil fields of Mosul has been
brought up before the league Of ma
lions.
Dr. Paul Samuel Keinsch, formerly
American minister to China and later
counsellor to the Chinese government.
died at Shanghai after q protracted
illness.
The allied reparations commission
Friday declared Germany in default
on all her PREPARATIONS obligations to
france and Belgium under the treaty
OF Versailles.
Russia stands ready to provide a
national home for the rmenians, &C
cording to letter received by tn,
British representatives at the Lausan
ne conference from the soviet delega
ton.
| Dusseldorf ndvices report traffic
throughout the valley and the ada,
cent occupied territory paralzed by