The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-05-30
WASHING TON

approval of President Coolidge
foreshadowed by unexpected develor
ments.
Senator Robert Marion La Follett
will coneent to run as an Independent
candidate for president if called upo
by the substantial progressives an
liberal elements of the country.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has ordered 10 per cent reduc
ton in the express rates and egg
berries, vegetables, butter and egg
when shipped in carloads. The ordei
was an amendment loan order of No
vember 10, 1928, which reduced ex
press rates on food articles 10 pei
cent.
Steps for the carrying out of the
provisions of the soldiers bonus ACT
were considered at recent cabinet
meeting and secretary Weeks report
ed that it would be necessary to add
once about 1000 employees to his de
partment. More will be required
later.
The question as to whether senate
action on American world court mem.
bership should be attempted before
adjournment of congress will be con-
sidered at conferences to be held with
in a few days between President
Coolidge and Republican leaders OF
the senate.
The department of justice has de-
MED a request of the senate Daugh-
erty committee for permission to take
George Remus, convicted bootlegger,
to several Middle Western cities for
the purpose of obtaining documents
and records for the committee.
Declaring a stable government
now reigns in the Philippine islands
and that the Filipinos are entitled
to government, minority of the
insular committee filed with the house
a report asking for immediate indie
pendence and opposing the Fairfield
pill providing for independence in
twenty years.
Senator Pat Harrison of MISSISSIPPI
ii, spokesman and orator extraordin-
Try of the Democratic party in the
upper branch of congress is a heavy
avorite for temporary chairman and
keynoter" of the Democratic nation
j convention.
A pledge to Support" wholeheart-
dly the policies of Present Cool
dge" if elected senator from Massa-
husetts, is given by Speaker Gillett
a letter to r. M. Washburn, secre-
airy of the Roosevelt club at Boston.
he speaker also declared "there is
ot the slightest chance of any sub
tantial change in the Volstead law"
FOREIGN
Fifty old masters belonging to the
luke of Westminster will go under
ne hammer at Christie's next July.
his will be the most important sale
valuable paintings conducted in
ngland since the war.
Ten persons were injured at Sal
liki during clashes between the po-
re and locked out tobacco workers,
hich caused rioting in which 10000
'rsons participated. Calvary was
lie out to quell the disturbances
I'd Leland B. Morriss, American
nsul, appealed to the governor
neral to protect the American to-
eco warehouses of Athens. ,
The British government, according
communique, has fatty refused
guarantee a loan to Russia. This ,
the first denifite result of the
1glo Russian conference in London.
Edward GoscLen, the man to whom S
lancellor Won Hollweg is
puted to have characterized the i
'lgian neutrality treaty as a scrap l
paper, died at his home at Lon I
n. Sir Edward was a veteran OF t
= British diplomatic service, which Q
entered in 1869, and at the out
eak of the war was British ambas> I
Tor at Berlin. 8
Premier Theunis of Belgium and !
emier Mussolini of Italy has de- :
ed that a solution of the interal- y
4 war debts was indissolubly in :,
led in the PREPARATIONS problem, .
an international conference, with .
} United States taking part, Is :
'essary for reaching an agreement. !
Former Premier Takahashi, leader II
the Seiyukai party, on an election c,
trip, had a narrow escape from is
tn in a train wreck at Sendai His 81
sping coach was smashed, but the II
tesman was only slightly injured e,
effort is being made @,
defeat Mr.. Takahashi in his con- is
uency and the accident is creating pl
'umor that an attempt was made G,
remove him by death. u
he United States was by rar ia
IS best customer during 1928 and ell
} sold Japan more goods than any l.,
err country, according to an Off Cl