Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-29
films into other states. Scores of
witnesses were heard by the jury.

films into other states. Scores of
witnesses were heard by the jury.
THE senate last week passed the
L 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-Barkle 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
its 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 san 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
international matters he pomises to
keep within the bounds of reason.
| X 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 a 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 it. 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 Preparations as strongly as does
| M. Poincare.
In the Ruhr the strike of miners and
othes 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
spectacular way in Edinburgh when
James Brown, once pit boy and now
miner member of parliament, sat
upon the throne in Holyrood palace as
lord high commissioners 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 populace
cheered the little~ miner
DOLAND, Rumania and Turkeys ac-
1 cording to dispatches from Buchar-
est, are negotiating 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. It provides especially for
the defense of Bessarabia Poland
and Rumania each guarantee to put
100000 well trained, well equipped
troops into the field against Russia,
and Turkey promised to throw in $780,
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.