The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-30
WASHING TON

speclllc approval OF tne government
A fine Of $4,000 or two years i'm
prisonment or both may be impose
upon convicted violators of the EN-
barge.
The Box peace plan and Elihu Root
chairman OF the committee of award
were assailed in the senate by Sen
ator Mccormick of Illinois, one o
the Republican irreconciliables.
Stpes toward making rigidly effec.
tive the Coolidge arms embargo di.
rected against the De la Huerta fac
ton in Mexico went forward rapidly
Tuesday.
Frau Schneider, member of the
German reichstag, was given the prvi-
lege OF the senate floor this week.
She was introduced to the senators
by Senator Owen Dem) of Okla
homa and discussed German political
and economic conditions with several
of them.
Another revision program, that Of
the Republican insurgents in the house.
was offered as substitute for the
Mellon plan, which already had drawn
the fire of Democratic members of
the house ways and means commit
tee.
Final arguments on railroad con-
solidation began before the inter-
state commerce commission as the
last stage in its preparation Of plan
for throwing all the roads Of the
country into eighteen or twenty great
mergers.
congress for the report of the reclar
nation fact-finding commission, that
body, Instead of visiting all irrigation
projects in the west as they had in
tended, changed their program and
will go direct to Salt Lake City to hold
open meetings to hear reports of
settlers on all projects.
Shipment of arms from the United
States to the De Ia Huerta revolution
Try group in Mexico Is being discour-
iged by the administration as against
he policy of the American govern
nent.
The wage agreement between the |
National Association of Window Glass |
lanufactureres and the National |
declared by the supreme court to be
aid and not in restraint of trade.
Trouble over the American Falls
eservoir appropriation in the inter-
Or department bill arose in the house |
committee when that
ody held that legislation recently re-
by the budget bureau in
onnection with this appropriation
'ould not be in order and voted to
trike it from the bill The only
,gislation recommended by the bud
ct bureau acceptable to the commit
,e is tile proviso that no part of the
preparation for the American Falls
.servoir shall be spent until irriga-
on districts sell sufficient bonds to
i'm over at least million and a
alf dollars to the government.
FOREIGN
Fifty million dollars is believed to
, a conservative estimate of the
trinsic value of the fabulous treas
es in the tomb of King Tutank- t
men. I
The proposals contained in the Box !.
ace award created immense salts
ction in league of nations circles at
,neva. League officials, basing :
cir views upon somewhat meager !,
mmary of the project telephoned
ON Paris. said the plan as outlined
instituted tremendous contribution
world peace and cooperation.
The Dutch banker, Duyzen, has a
en- ordered expelled from France il
the minister of the interior be- O.
use of alleged alarmist statements o.
sarding the fall of the franc. An a
uncement of the expulsion follow c
the arrest of three foreigners, who
re said by the police to be unable
W tApldlu PRES
ce in the foreign exchange room n
the stock exchange. Il,
rhe Afghan situation is regarded OF
more critical since the receipt of h,
VS. by the foreign office that At eC
anistan has concluded a treaty of al
ity with Persia. The relations of al
eat Britain and Persia have been A
aimed for some time and it is be-
ved that Persia will secretly as re
the Afghanistans If the threat di
ID frontier war breaks out. je
rhe police. after suppressing the =,
)anese newspapers that published o.
cunts of the unsuccessful bomb
owing at the imperial palace, re- y
sed the story with formal state
mt that Korean had hurled the
nbs, which failed to explode. ~
70 less than sixty banks and many nm
ldred merchants and craftsmen of oh
rlin are facing heavy penalties as de
esult of the prosecuting attorneys 40