Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1924-02-22
WASHINGTON

s ture OF his own this summer into t
north polar regions.
An appropriation OF 100000
complete the government dam on Il
ella Indian reservation In Arizor
was requested OF congress by Pres
dent Coolidge. He transmitted a con
munication from the interior depar
ment saying that If additional none
was not made available there wa
great danger of destruction by flood
of work already done.
Three once famous American bat
usships, which now lie sunk in Tan
g1er sound, sixty miles below OF,
Point Comfort, with their decks rip
ped open and their steel plating
shattered by bombs, will be sold al
auction at the Washington navy yard
ON March ~.
A nationwide inquiry by the federal
trade commission into the milling
and banking industries was ordered
by the senate in adopting a resolution
by Senator La Toilette. Republican
Wisconsin.
Here are the three income tax re-
duction plans around which the fight
in the house now Is centering as
compared with the present rates.
Present law: Maximum surtax of 80
per cent; normal tax rates Of per
cent on incomes up to $4,000 a year
md per cent above $1,000.
The name of the late President
Harding and the circumstances sur
'ounding the sale of his newspaper !
he Marion Star has been brought !
nto the oil lease scandal by Frank
Vanderbilt, the New York banker.
Attorney General Daugherty ac-
TAINTED the president and the SEN
tie with what the department of jus-
ce is doing with respect to DISPOSE
on OF the many war fraud" cases.
there was a formal
owe In the senate to provide for a
'oad Inquiry into department of JUS
&c affairs, the attorney general be-
q charged In resolution with fail
e to perform properly the duties of
s office.
MAKING his first speech in the SEN
e, Senator Ralston, Democrat. In
ana suggested that all income I'm
$ooO0 be exempt from income
K levies.
Inc cost of producing hard spring |
leat In the United States last wear r
nged from 80 cents to S2.19 bush
While in Canada it ranged from
cents to $l.19, the tariff commits
n found in its investigation in con-
'uon with the application for an
rease In the wheat tariff m
recommendation that the senate ..
'pt resolution directing the sec =,
airy of the treasury to report the ~
'iits OF all bakink and milling :.
npanes as disclosed by their tax ~ ~
urns from 1918 to the present ~,
g is made in a report submitted =,
Basil M. Manly, director of the =,
pies legislative service, to Sena- n,
LaFollette Of Wisconsin. chair Ar
Of the organization. bo
n unfavorable report was ordered tw
The senate immigration COMMITTEES sit
the resolution of Senator Harris VIC
locrat, Georgia, proposing & pr,
suspension OF all immigration. tn,
FOREIGN OF
ms
'garding the difficulties between moi
ara carter and the Egyptian gov tin
lent In connection with the tomb
-ut-Ankli-Amen, the Associated
8 was officially informed SIM
that the Egyptian government VI
decided to take energetic stems
iflil what Ii considers are ite
atoms toward science and the "A
c. can
lscow is to have the largest dock an,,
eat Britain. II will cost O.00O. H..
over forty acres of water and -,
accommodate the largest vessels mo !
ing that port. -"
igration from Ireland continues ton
crease II was about &C. 600 in IuloI
So.oOO in 1914. and about 1900 acct
3D. chea
government was sustained IN pilot
suon OF confidence in the cham scra
I deputies when the lotterv INN
scheme, intended to improve hous
20 finances. was rejected by a is q
Il $50 against 252. The
Ian has been officially inaue1,- . .nen
70 rename as "Quai Wilson, 80 80
'portant section of the famous :"
aount Blanc on which the nal roa
the league OF nations Is situa- ~,
woun
Inmates Of Prussian prisons celIul
zen put on reduced rations 10 shape
'Hpense' They now get only close
ans o. meat weekly, sacchar. statol
substituted for sugar, and or on
ne provided only one in -four
Clean linen Is issued fort snIi,
? Berlin newspapers denoun. .
saving and contend prisoners y
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