The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-03-19
WASHINGTON.

sonata. The advances would be mad
by tie secretary of agriculture, woul'
be limited to So per acre, and woul'
constitute lien on the coming crop
Twenty-six awards totaling $13S,
S22.4O. Of which twelve aggregatin:
s1T12526 were in the Lusitanis
group, were announced by the Ger
man-American mixed claims commits
sion in favor of American claimants
against Germany.
The interior appropriation bill. the
first OF the big supply measures, was
passed Tuesday by the senate. The
measure now goes to conference.
The senate appropriations committee
added about 81 100000 to it as it was
approved by the house. and the SEN
ate increased this by another $780,
900, Of which S450,0O0 is for the
Boise. Idaho, reclamation project and
$250,000 for the Yuma, Arlz, project.
The total as it passed the senate was
1924, 100000.
Senator Greene of Vermont con-
tinues to make progress toward re-
covery. Attending physicians stated
however, that it could not yet be said
that he was out Of danger, and that
even should his improvement con-
tinue, it was problematical when he
would be able to leave the hospital.
The act Of congress making state
workmen compensation laws appli-
cable to stevedores working upon
vessels lying In navigable waters
was declared by the supreme court
to be unconstitutional and invalid.
President Coolidge closed week
devoted largely the country-over to
commemoration of the birth of Wash
ington by going to the nearby city
OF Alexandria, Va, Sunday to at
tend the regular morning services in
Christ Church, where the first presi
dent for many years was vestry-
man.
Public hearings in the oil scandal
will be reopened soon by the senate
coincident with renewed
efforts in the senate to force full
of the administration of
General Daugherty.
The Democratic national commit
tee in formal statement has called |
upon President Coolidge to remove |
hi Il in
instead of stopping with the
Of Secretary of the Navy
DENLY.
Senator Phipps, Republican, Colo
RADIO, was accused in the senate by
Senator Ashurst, Democrat, Arizona,
IF voting to put money into his own
pocket when he opposed an appro-
oriation of $250,000 for hydroelec-
.ric plant in the Yuma irrigation pro-
ect in California and Arizona.
FOREIGN
The federal forces under General
luis Gutierrez, Juan Espinoza Cordo-
'uxpam without resistance last Tues
ay.
Prince Masayoshi Matsukata, one
f the senior genro. or elder states I
len, is critically i'll at Toxic and
,embers Of the family have been
to his bedside.
Former Field Marshal Ludendorff,
dolph Hitler, leader Of the Bavarian {
ascisti. and seven other defendants :
ere placed on trial at Munich for {
leir connection with the putsch of {
lst November. All of the defendants I
kept one are charged with high 9
'eason.
Believed to be of the Neolithic q
eriod, or later Stone Age, a boat Il
even feet long and three feet wide,
ollowed out of the trunk of an oak
zee. has been found in the mud at e
lmley ferry marshes near Silling-
,urne, Eng. 1t is estimated by ex- :,
srts to be 5000 years old. !,
A note from Prime minister Mac Il
onald Of Great Britain to the allied Z
'uncil of ambassadors regarding the i
of work by the interallied q
ilitary control mission in Germany, y
hich was received Tuesday has been :.
ferred to the interallied advisory
Hilary committee presided over by ~
arshall Foch, for advice.
The Canadian embargo on cattle ',
ON the states of California, Oregon =
Id Nevada will remain in effect I'M -
assurance is received from the =,
nited States that the foot and =,
outh disease is wiped out in the co
rec states it was made known by Al
e department of agriculture.
There are rumors of a Communist ="
volution in Bulgaria and the es- y
blishment of republic in that -