The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-05-16
WASHINGTON


others already substituted in ii
measure.
The provision in the immigratio
bill for Japanese exclusion wa
agreed upon by senate and house cor
ferees to be effective July l mex
when other provisions of the bill be
come operative, and was met immed
lately with indications at the Whit
House that the arrangement was un
satisfactory to President Coolidge.
A move to force at this session tn
issue of American participation il
the world court was made from tn,
Democratic side of the senate.
President Coolidge, on recon
mendation of Secretary Work, has
set aside the "Craters of the Moon
lava wonderland near Arco, Idaho
as a national monument. The rea
covers thirty-nine square miles and
was given its name because of the
similarity of its surface with that or
the moon as seen through a telescope.
Further consideration by the house
of the Barley bill to abolish the
railroad labor board, Speaker Gillett
ruled, must be deferred for two
weeks.
Chairman Burton of the house COM
mittee which investigated criminal
charges against Representative zihl-
man. Republican, Maryland, said in
statement that he had found mo evil
dence," that Mr.. Zihlman had i'm
properly received money to exert Of
fetal influence.
There will be a showdown in con-
gress this week on the extent to
which President Coolidge is able to
influence pending legislation. Wheth-
er congress will pass over the presi-
dents veto the Bursum pension bill
increasing civil war and Mexican war
pensions by $5S,0OO,OO0 annually will
be decided.
With the picturesque emphasis that
made him famous long before base
ball took him from the federal bench
to become its high commissioners. |
Nenesaw Mountain Lands gave the |
senate Daugherty committee his opin-
on of prohibition enforcement and |
her administrative questions as they
nave been dealt with in recent years
~ the federal governmnt.
Acquitted of n serious statutory
,harge by Virginia jury, Represen-
alive Knutson, Republican, Mime
ota. is on the job again at the capitol.
FOREIGN
The Ulster cabinet has recided to
maintain it's position and refuse to
ppoint a representative on the COM
ween the north and south, as pro-
ided for in the Anglo-Irish treaty.
appointment of the commissioner |
-as requested by the British govern
rent.
Germany's famous former "heads,
ian" and executioner, Lorenz Sch c
eitz, who held a record for behead- '
e with an AK in true medieval style /
% criminals on the block, commit 0
ID suicide in his home at Breslau. y
e was "a years of age and was c
'rmerly a butcher.
Three hundred more Hebrideans
i've left their native primative is
nds to settle in the provinces of
estern Canada. Like the several
iploads which left the islands dur
g the last three years, the newest
ntingent will settle near Red Deer,
berta
The German governments reply to
e protest of the Russian ambassa-
r, M. Krestinsky over the raid on
2 Russian trade delegations office
Berlin, declares Germany cannot
,ept the reproach of disregarding
sting treaties.
in the bush bordering
the northern Rhodesian frontier
England have recently been in
te of seige owing to the activities
lions. The animals have come
of the jungle in daylight and at
ked the farm animals carrying off
ny of them.
he Tashi Lama, head of the Budd-
religion in Thibit who was re-
thy forced to flee from his mon
cry at Tashilumpo. has reached
cutta incognito and Immediately
parked for China His Holiness
ow on his way to Pekin where he
es to find refuge in a large Budd-
monastery which sheltered the
ii Lama who fled from Lhasa ten
s ago.
)r reasons of economy, and to
e use of some of the inmates the
Ion ZOO authorities are starting
e and lamas to trim the lawns g.
geese are kept from straying by SEQ
fencing. and the lamas are vor
cred by a long rope which gives rol,
l a twenty-foot grazing circle. vro
fpbOats Of fha now German liner "