The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-06-04
WASHING TON

Speedy enactment of the pendin
tax reduction bill into law with tn
! approval of President Coolidge
! foreshadowed by unexpected develop
ments.
Senator Robert Marion La Follett
will conEent to run as an Independent
candidate for president if called upol
by the substantial progressives ant
liberal elements of the country.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has ordered 10 per cent reduc
ton in the express rates and eggs
berries, vegetables, butter and eggs
when shipped in carloads. The order
was an amendment loan order of No.
vember 10, 1928, which reduced ex-
press rates on food articles 10 pei
cent.
Steps for the carrying out of the
provisions of the soldiers bonus act
were considered at a recent cabinet
meeting and secretary Weeks report
ed that it would be necessary to add
once about 1000 employees to his de-
partment. More will be required
later.
The question as to whether senate
action on American world court men,
bership should be attempted before
adjournment of congress will be con-
sidered at conferences to be held with
in a few days between President
Coolidge and Republican leaders Of
the senate.
The department of justice has de.
MED request of the senate Daugh-
erty committee for permission to take
George Remus, convicted bootlegger,
to several Middle Western cities for
the purpose of obtaining documents
and records for the committee.
Declaring stable government
now reigns in the Philippine islands
and that the Filipinos are entitled
to self-government, minority of the
insular committee filed with the house
a report asking for immediate indie
pendence and opposing the Fairfield
bill providing for independence in
twenty years.
Senator Pat Harrison of MISSISSIPPI
pi, spokesman and orator extraordin-
airy of the Democratic party in the
upper branch of congress is a heavy |
favorite for temporary chairman and |
'keynoter" of the Democratic nation
al convention.
A pledge to Support" wholeheart-
sdly the policies of Present Cool
dge" if elected senator from Massa-
,husetts, is given by Speaker Gillett
n letter to R. M. Washburn, secre-
airy of the Roosevelt club at Boston.
The speaker also declared "there is
lot the slightest chance of any sub
tantial change in the Volstead law"
FOREIGN
Fifty old masters belonging to the
Duke of Westminster will go under
he hammer at Christie's next July.
This will be the most important sale
# valuable paintings conducted in
England since the war.
Ten persons were injured at SAL
niki during clashes between the po-
ice and locked out tobacco workers,
Which caused rioting in which 10000
ersons participated. Calvary was
allie out to quell the disturbances
nd Leland B. Morriss, American
onsul, appealed to the governor
eneral to protect the American to-
acco warehouses of Athens.
The British government, according
, a communique, has flatly refused
, guarantee a loan to Russia. This
, the first denifite result of the
.nglo- Russian conference in London /
Edward Goschen, the man to whom .
Won Bethmann-Hollweg is
sputed to have characterized the ,
elgian neutrality treaty as a scrap ,
paper, died at his home at Lon l
On. Sir Edward was a veteran OF
le British diplomatic service, which
3 entered in 1869, and at the out
reak of the war was British ambas> |
ldor at Berlin.
Premier Theunis of Belgium and
remier Mussolini of Italy has de, 8
ded that solution of the interal- G
ed war debts was indissolubly in t
ded in the PREPARATIONS problem, t
I'd an international conference, with v
e United States taking part, rs d
'cessary for reaching an agreement. p
Former Premier Takahashi, leader b
the Seiyukai party, on an election s
e trip, had a narrow escape from l.
ath in train wreck at Sendai. His
seping coach was smashed, but the r
atesman was only slightly injured. b
concentrate effort is being made q
defeat Mr.. Takahashi in his con- C.
tuency and the accident is creating e
rumor that an attempt was made q
remove him by death. D
The United States was by rar ia "