The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-12-23
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WASHINGTON

4 WASHINGTON
President Coolidge has transmittt
TO congress with his approval an a
d Aftion to the budget Of $685., 900 I,
4 the completion of the American Fal
reservoir In Idaho.
Congress was asked by Aepresenti
tive Bloom. Democrat. New York, t
solve the domestic servant problem
He introduced bill to lift immigrs
ton restrictions on European wome
established beyond question in the &C
reers Of cook or housemaid.
Production of bituminous coal dur
ing the week ending December s, wa
1z.76S,000 tons, the highest week..
tonnage in five years, the bureau O
mines announced.
The new 13-cent BENJAMIN Harrison
postage stamp will be placed on sale
January II at Indianapolis, Harrison's
homo city. The stamp will be greer
and used principally on parcel pos,
mail.
Dredging Of the Sacramento river
IN California to q depth of ten feet
from its mouth to the city of Sacra-
mento was declared inadvisiEie in a
report submitted congress by Major
General Taylor. chief of engineres. He
recommended, however, that a lock
and dam be constructed at Freeport
at a cost Of $2.679,Oo0 to attain the
same purpose.
The economic outlook for Great
Britain has improved greatly since
the signing Of the LocarYo pact, the
British embassy said in formal
statement brought out by an article
BY George Harvey in the North Amer
lean Review. In which Mr.. Harvey
painted q gloomy picture Of the Brit
tsh future
Upward Of q score of recommends
tons for strengthening the hand of
the law were placed before President
Coolidge and congress by Attorney
General Sargent and his assistants in
the annual report of the department
Of Justice.
The senate committee on commit
tees. deadlocked on the question of
whether Senator Robert M. La Foil
cite of Wisconsin should be classi-
fled rs Republican in committee as
signments, decided to refer the issue
to the Republican caucus.
A wide range of legislative recon-
mendatiOns, some of them new, others
= reiteration Of policies he has advo-
Gated to congress for the last two
years, was contained In President
Coolidge's annual message transmit
ted to the house and senate.
The licensing of grazing privileges
on the public domain giving home
steadera and present occupants a pre-
ferred status would be provided in a
bill introduced in the senate by Sem
Ator Phipps of Colorado. Phipps also {
Introduced bill which would provide
, reduction in fees for grazing live
stock on national forests. t
Representative French, Republican, =
IDAHO, introduced bill to make In
iians subject to the laws OF their
'tates or territories relating to mar s
'iage, health and education. Treaty ]
lights to hunt and fish would not be a
Effected. g.
GENERAL a
The Rev. Albert Sidney Gregg, au- II
hor. lecturer and head of the Amer
can Civic Reform league, was SEN
enced to twenty-five months in At e1
anita federal penitentiary and fined tn
$50 by Federal Judge Paul Jones at az
cleveland, Ohio. Gregg was found NJ
uilty by jury on a charge Of send
az obscene matter through the D,
rails. ~
Mistaking his sleep-walking daugh- tn
,r. Rose, for a burglar, Anthony Car ar
one, Of Jersey City. N. j., shot and an
rftfcally wounded the 9-year-old In
hid. Rose was taken to a hospital on
le roof of her mouth torn away and tn
Tree teeth missing from her upper
w.
of
An 1S-year old Los Angeles girl, tn,
eta L. Holdredge. will soon become lar
le posessor of mfllion-dollar for lin
me which she cannot touch. 1t is ste
IT In trust for her under the terms ga,
the will Ct her grandmother, the oil
te Mrs. Flora L. Holdredge, widow co,
J. T. Holdredge. prominent grain
aler and miller Of Kansas City and
issouri. He
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson of ~
'xas, issued statement declaring -
at she will not call special ses- Y
IN OF the legislature as requested che
Speaker Lee Satterwhite and other pro
'mbers of the house. Nu,
Christ Seyboldt OF Defiance. Ohio, J
her Of Ralph Seyboldt, who was OF
lvicted Of murder in Salt Lake City, was
d that he was preparing to appeal ale
President Coolidge. of s
'wo Illinois convicts escaped from gon
state prison by having themselves clar
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