Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-26
The Story the Week Has Told

means to that end. absorbing and
monopolizing everything"
Lithuania:-The Lithuanian people
seem to have accepted quietly
enough the coup by which the Con
servatives, with the backing of prac
tically the entire arm y. ousted the
Radical President and cabinet and
replaced them by gentlemen Of the
Right. Success assured, the organi.
GERS Of the coup bethought themselves
following the recent Polish example,
Of the forms of legality, which they
proceeded to observe SO far as the
conditions permitted. Parliament
was summoned and a Right rump
thereof met. The President (under
guard in his palace) and the cabinet
lin quod) were induced to submit
their designations in due form to the
parliamentary rump. and the latter
proceeded to elect as President M
Smetona, chief of the coup and form
erly President, and to give their
blessing to new cabinet Of the
Right. Though, Of course, accuse
tons fly about importing Moscovite
or Polish or German intrigue, and
though. no doubt, distrust Of the
Moscovite orientation of the Radi
cal government was an important
ancillary motive, apparently the at
fair was purely domestic, the chief
impelling motive of the coup being
the resolve to prevent parcelling out
of the great estates, as threatened
by the Radicals, the great landown-
ers constituting the most important
element of the Conservatives, the
No. hot
archy supporting them.
The population OF Lithuania is only
2 900, 900, her natural resources tim
Der excepted are slender. her eco
nomic and cultural development is
international. She Is passionately de-
sired by Poland, Germany and Rus
STA; not so much because Of her
charms as by reason of the intense
jealousy on her account felt by each
toward the other twain. Lithuania
had not enjoyed a real honest-to
goodness coup since she was recon
stituted a state; so that she was en-.
titled to one. and we should felicitate
her. Particularly should she be
felicitated in that it was purely a
domestic product.
United States of America.-One
hears that the Republican leaders
have decided that there shall be nc
reapportionment legislation at the
present session. The Presidents mes
sage to Congress made no reference
to this important matter. The Ques
ton would seem to be involved with
the issue of wet or dry. Under the
Mcleod bin the total of House mem
bership would remain ABS.
The Senate has passed the rivers
and harbors bill after amending II
considerably. The total of expenditure
authorized somewhat above that al
lowed by the House) Is about 5000,
600. The most interesting clauses are:
That providing for purchase by the
Federal Government for $11, $50, 900 of
| the Cape Cod Canal; that (contemplat
ing an initial appropriation Of $12,
900, 000) providing for deepening oil
the Missouri River, from Kansas City
to Sioux Falls, Iowa, so as to give 8
six-foot channel; that authorizing ere
alton Of an inland waterway from
| Jacksonville to Miami, Fla, rs fee
wide and s feet deep, at a cost o.
| $4,221 900: and that 1.-THE chief bone o.
contention) authorizing improvement
of the Illinois River as an element II
the Lakes-to-Gulf waterway system
Specifically. the last named authorize.
an appropriation of $3.500,000 ant
| calls for q channel 8 feet deep an(
| 200 feet wide between Utica and TIT
Mississippi. An amendment declarei
that ''nothings.tn the bin is TO be con
strued as authorizing diversion Of