The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-02-13

Chicago drainage canal, Illinois and
Mississippi rivers. from Chicago to
Cairo as part of the lakes to the
gulf waterway justified Chicagos use
of lake water for sanitation, and pro-
nounced any lowering of lake levels
less attributable to diversion from
Lake Michigan at Chicago than to d.
versions at Niagara and other points
on the lakes.
The Chicagoans told Mr.. Weeks the
sanitary district proposes to expend
$130,112,O00 for sewage treatment
works within the next 30 years, but
that even with the changes contem-
plated it will be necessary to have a
flow of 10000 cubic feet a second to
safeguard the health Of the people Of
Chicago. Not only must there be
enough to dilute the sewage and trade
wastes, but the flow Of the Chicago
river must be kept reversed. The pro-
posed work In the district will call for
such an increase Of taxes that the per
capita tax levy in Chicago will be "a
cents above the average per capita in
all cities above 100000 population.
A FTER lively debate In open ses-
4 a sion, the senate confirmed the
nomination of Attorney General Stone
to be associate justice of the United
States Supreme court. The vote was
Il to 6, those voting nay being Frazier,
and Norris, Republicans Helm and
Trammel, Democrats, and johnson and
Shipstead, Farmer-L aborites. Senator
Wheeler and Senator Walsh. of Mon.
tana refrained from voting. Walsh
and Heflin made the chief speeches
against confirmation. the former
stressing Mr.. Stones action in con-
nection with the Wheeler case, and
the latter combining his attack to the
so-called Ownbey case.
Senator Borah voted for confirma-
ton but declared his opposition to the
policy pursued by the attorney general
in transferring the Wheeler matter to
the District Of Columbia, $500 miles
from his own state. He said he would
address the senate at later date on
the legal principles involved and pos
sibly would recommend legislative ac-
ton that would prevent the forcing Of
defendant to stand trial in a strange
community at the will Of the attorney
general.
THDRE is row among army and
= navy officers and officials in Wash
ington which may result in the de-
motion of Brig Gen. William Mitchell,
assistant chief of the army air serv-
ice, and the removal from his post of
Rear Admiral w. A. Moffatt, chief of
the navy bureau Of aeronautics. Both
Of them, as well as other officers, have
testified before the house committee on
aircraft and are said to have been too
enthusiastic and progressive' to suit
their superiors. Besides that they ia
vor the creation of a separate depart
ment Of aeronautics. Some Of the COM
mittee members believed that officers
were being "muzzled" to prevent frank
testimony on the relative efficiency Of
aircraft in war. This was emphatical-
ly denied by Secretary of the Navy
Wilbur. Secretary Of War Weeks,
however, called on General Mitchell to
explain some Of his statements to the
committee, especially one that officers
who gave testimony contrary to the
views of superiors were likely to be
disciplined. Mitchell also told the COM
mittee that American air power would
not attain full development so long as
1t was made secondary to existing
agencies, that everything in the army
and navy was based on precedent and
that the trouble with the air service
did not lie with the appropriating
power.
MAINTAINING its prerogative to be
AVA the exclusive originator of reve-
nuelegislation, the house returned to the
senate the postal pay and rate increase
bill which the latter body passed. The
house then took under consideration
its own measure, resembling the senate
bill in most respects but designed to
produce more revenue to take care of
the proposed increase of salaries of pos
tai workers.
.XKTHEAT prices, skyrocketing to
w over 50 bushel in Chicago and
to corresponding figures elsewhere,
have aroused and alarmed the world.
In various lands something like famine
is predicted, and already in some
places the price of bread has been adj
vanced. Naturally the charge is made
that the high price of wheat is due to
manipulation by traders and that the
Garner Is peaping no profit from it.