The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-05-30

films into other states. Scores Of
| witnesses were heard by the jury.
TINE senate last week passed the
/ Gooding bill which prohibits rail-
roads from charging less for the longer
haul than for. the shorter haul to meet
competition Of water carriers or mar
ket competition. This is legislation
for which the intermountain states
have been fighting for years. The adj
vocates of the measure will try to get
action on it by the house before adj
| journment. The Howell-Barkley bill,
which would abolish the railway labor
board, was bitterly fought in the house
and it's friends admitted that final ac-
| ton on it was unlikely at this session.
WHETHER Edouard Herriot' radi-
| w cal leader, shall be the next
| premier of France probably depends
on the action of the Socialist party at
| it's meeting on June 2. The question
| is whether the party shall collaborate
with the government or participate.
| Herriot favors the latter. Meanwhile
he and other leaders of the left have
| been called into consultation with Pre-
mier Poincare and President Millerand
| especially concerning finances and the
existing campaign against the franc.
Herriot says the latter is ian UNDER
handed maneuver of domestic poll
tics" His ideas on foreign policies
are somewhat vague, but it appears
| evident that if he becomes premier he
| will move slowly and cautiously in the
matter of recognizing Russia. In all
I international matters he pomises to
keep within the bounds Of reason.
~ ERMAN> Nationalists, feeling very
~ cocky over the strength they de-
veloped in the elections, demanded, as
the price of their cooperation with
the middle parties in forming gov
eminent, that Admiral Won Tirpitz
should be made chancellor. The mid
die parties refused to promise this or
discuss it, so the negotiations for
such a coalition broke down. The
Nationalist and the German Fascist
both are opposed to the Dawes plan
and have been trying to enlist enough
votes to reject ii. Count Won Revent-
low expressed the views Of the Fas-
cisti thus: "The conditions of the
Dawes report deprive Germany of the
last shreds of self determination
promised by Wilson" Rejection of the
Dawes plan by Germany probably
would bring prompt action by France
despite the change of government, for
the French Socialists are in general
patriotic and the radicals are only
comparatively radical. They support
the Dawes plan heartily but they in
sist on reparations as strongly as does
NJ. Poincare
In the Ruhr the strike of miners and
other workers is increasing and
| sabotage is becoming general. Many
emergency workers have disappeared
and the authorities fear they have
been murdered.
! THE triumph of the laborer in
! L Great Britain was signalized> in a
spectacular way in Edinburgh when
James Brown, once pit boy and now
a miner member of parliament, sat
upon the throne in Hollywood palace as
lord high commissioner and in the
name of the king declared open the
annual assembly of the Presbyterian
| Church of Scotland. The castle gave
him the royal salute of twenty-One
| guns and the state trumpeters heralded
him as, gorgeously clad, he passed
along the royal gallery; and after the
ceremony, in which he bore himself
with all due dignity, the troops pre-
sented arms and the entire pOpulacs
cheered the little miner. -
| DOLAND, Rumania and Turkey, ac-
cording to dispatches from Buchar-
est, are negotiating a mutual defense
treaty by which these powers agree
to give full support to each other in
case any one of them is attacked by
Russia. 1t provides especially for
the defense of Bessarabia. Poland
4 and Rumania each guarantee to put
100000 well trained, well equipped
troops into the field against Russia,
and Turkey promised to throw in 250,-
600 men in the Caucasus to seize
the Batum oil fields. The British
would be expected to blockade Russia
in the Baltic and Black seas and to
supply airplanes, artillery and tanks
to these three armies. Great Britain
is alleged to be determined to prevent
the seizure by the Russians of the
/ mouth Of the Danube.