Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-09-27

hlbil.on enforcement by the Senate
committee presided over by Couzens
of Michigan will be held off until
after the election. The committee
has started its investigation of the
Treasury, but will be occupied for
the next five or six weeks with a
survey of the administration of the
tax laws with a view to recommend
ing changes in existing regulations.
Nothing very exciting will come out
of that.
THERE is NO doubt in the minds
of those who are watching the
political situation in the west that
something more than naval problems
caused President Coolidge to sudden
ly recall Secretary of the Navy
Wilbur to Washington from Cali
fornia. The President FASTENED to
deny that, however, because he
didn't want to make it appear that
there was any friction between him
self and Wilbur. The Secretary is
back at his desk in the Navy Depart
ment, where he is expected to re-
main during the rest of the
campaign, making no speeches.
CONGRESSIONAL committees and
special investigators seem to make
no Roadway in determining whether
or not the Government has been
defrauded by the duplication of
bonds in the Bureau of Engraving.
Charles Brewer, who made an in
vestigation of the alleged duplica-
tion for President Harding, says that
bonds were fraudulently issued. but
Secretary Of the Treasury Mellon is
just as emphatic with his denials. A
new inquiry Of the scandal has been
launched, but it is getting nowhere.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF
Democratic Chairman Shaver that
he did not think Davis could win if
the presidential election should be
held now was received with
surprise and considerable pleasure
in both the LaFollette and Coolidge
election would be thrown into
Congress. In admitting that he did,
in some respects, "let the cat out of
the bag" as it is always expected
that politicals managers will never
admit anything detrimental to
themselves or their party. The be
lief that an election at this time
would result in a deadlock is held
privately, however, by both Re-
publican and Progressive leaders
although they are not so willing to
talk about it as Shaver
SOCIETY TONGUE-WAGGERS
got a surprise this week when it was
learned that S. Parker Gilbert,
former Under-Secretary of the
Treasury. and now Agent General
of Preparations in Europe, was to
marry Miss Louise Ross Todd Of
Louisville, KY Gossip had it that
Gilbert was about to effect an
alliance with the Mellon Millions by
marrying Miss Ailsa Mellon, daugh-
ter of the Secretary of the Treasury
and one Of the wealthest young
women in the world
THE SUPREME COURT ruling
that intoxicants can not be sold on
American ships travelling the high
seas has resulted in at least one
vessel retiring from the transatlantic
trade, according to reports to
Government shipping agencies The
old German liner AGEMENNON,
after striving unsuccessfully for two
years 70 compete with the liquor
selling English ships, has given up
the ghost and put in at Hampton
Roads. The ship probably will rot
at the docks and then be sold for
junk
GELASIO CAETANI italian Am
bassador to the United States, is to
follow the japanese Ambassador,
Masanao Hanihara, into private life
as a result Of the enactment Of the
new American immigration law
OF course. here is no exclusion Of
Italians as there is for orientals, but
he immigration quotas Of the South
European nations were reduced to
such an extent that the Italian
Foreign Office is said to feel that
Caetani did not handle the situation
skillfully enough The Ambassador
is returning to Washington next
month from Rome to wind up his
affairs in this country.