The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-01-25
WASHINGTON

AZ nicAico ny signing q pTOCldmatlf
I which imposed an immediate emba
u go on any shipments except with Il
specific approval OF the government
A fine Of $4,000 or two years in
prisonment or both may be impose
upon convicted violators of the en-
barge.
The Box peace plan and Elihu Roo
chairman Of the committee of aware
were assailed in the senate by Ser
ator Mccormick of Illinois, one {
tile 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 rapid,
a Tuesday.
ri Frau Schneider, a member of tn,
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 a 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 a plan
! for throwing all the roads of the
country into eighteen or twenty great
mergers.
Because of urgent demands from
congress for the report of the recla-
nation fact-finding commission, that
body, instead OF visiting all irrigation
projects in the west as they had in
tended, changed their program and
VIII 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 la Huerta revolution
airy group in Mexico is being discour-
aged by the administration as against
the policy of the American govern
ment
The wage agreement between the
National Association of Window Glass
Manufacturers and the National
Window Glass Workers union was
10 hxx tbo .,r~o,,,o <o,,rf he
valid and not in restraint of trade.
Trouble over the American Falls |
Tor department bill arose in the house |
appropriations committee when that
body held that legislation recently re-
commended by the budget bureau in
with this appropriation
would not be in order and voted TO
strike it from the bill The only
legislation recommended by the bud
get bureau acceptable to the commit
zee is tile proviso that no part of the
for the American Falls
'eservoir shall be spent until irriga-
ion districts sell sufficient bonds to
urn over at least a million and a
Ialf dollars to the government.
FOREIGN
Fifty million dollars is believed to
e conservative estimate of the
ltrinsic value of the fabulous treas
res in the tomb of King Tutank-
amen.
The proposals contained in the Box
eace award created immense salts
action in league of nations circles at
eneva. League officials, basing
leir views upon a somewhat meager
urinary of the project telephoned
ON Paris, said the plan as outlined
instituted a tremendous contribution
world peace and cooperation
The Dutch banker, Duyzen, has
zen ordered expelled from France
? the minister of the interior be-
luse of alleged alarmist statements c
'garding the fall of the franc. An 7
of the expulsion follow I
the arrest of three foreigners, who
ere said by the police to be unable
to explain their pres
ice III the foreign exchange room T.
the stock exchange.
The Afghan situation is regarded a
more critical since the receipt of II
WIS by the foreign office that AT b
anistan has concluded a treaty OF D
lity with Persia. The relations of [,
eat Britain and Persia have been
aimed for some time and it is be-
we'd that Persia will secretly as II
It the Afghanistans if the threat I'll
ed frontier war breaks out CO
The police, after suppressing the 10
panese newspapers that published
counts of the unsuccessful bomb
owing at the imperial palace, re- OF
sed the story with a formal state NJ
mt that a Korean had hurled the be
nbs. which failed to explode. 2,
70 less than sixty banks and many 10
ndred merchants and craftsmen Of Is
Rim are facing heavy penalties as ST
'esult of the prosecuting attorneys m