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which date military supervision of
Germany will be as just determined
by the Council (see above). Meantime
diplomatic negotiations will continue
on the questions of the Notifications
and war material. Should the nego-
tiations fail the League Council will
settle the questions. Pending settle
ment of the question of the fortiflca-
lions, work thereon will cease. Each
of the governments represented in
the Ambassadors conference may at
| tach a special technical expert to it's
embassy at Berlin.
Really, one must suppose that un-
| less the Germans are quite incredibly
malign and subtle most of the pother
that ended in the agreement was in
| the nature OF elaborate face saving.
Stresemann was enabled to ego home
with the bacon" in the form of
abolition of interallied military con-
troll. While to his countrymen he
should minimize the concessions in
the comparison with the great boon
won only after desperate struggle,
and should show how those conces-
sions smooth the path to far greater
allied concessions las regards the
Rhineland, etc." BRAND, in justifying
himself to his countrymen, would
magnify the concessions and felicitate
the world on the new evidence that
the spirits of Locarno and Thotry still
live. AS to StreSemann'S concession
of special military attaches he humor-
ously added that for good measure.
No informed person imagines that
those warriors will learn much. The
really important issue was that Of
: the export Of war material. No one
could suppose that would be allowed
70 r1rnhlnn1 fn Iof
Stresemann down gently, with as
little loss of face as possible. APP
parently those gentlemen at Geneva
did their work ingeniouSly, humor
ously and well.
X X X x
United States--On December the
House passed, 295 to 80, the bill pro-
viding salary increases for Federal
judicial officers. and, having been
passed by the Senate at the last ses-
sion, the bill went to the President.
1t calls for increases as follows: Sal
airy of Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court from $500 to $20,500 a year;
Of associate justices, from $14,500 to
SIC, 900; of circuit judges, from $500
to $12,5O0; of District judges from
l$7.50O to $4,000. Corresponding in
creases are granted to judges Of che
Court of Claims and or the District
of Columbia Court Of Appeals and to
members of the board of general ap-
praisers at New York.
The treaty which proposes to out
law the use of poison gas in interna-
tional warfare and which was signed
at Geneva by representatives of 80
nations has been referred back by
the Senate foreign relations COM
mittee for an indefinite period: and
!, the general opinion is that the
Senate and the treaty will never
meet again. 1t Is of note that Gen.
Pershing declared himself in favor
Of the treaty.
House and Senate have voted to
drop impeachment proceedings against
former Federal District Judge George
w. English, who resigned under
charges.
e. c. Plummer. vice chairman of
the United States Shipping Board,
testified before a Senate committee
the other day that there was a loss
of So, 456, 900 in operation of the United
States lines in 1924 and that opera
ton thereof would show a loss for
1925 of about $1.496,00 He declared
subsidy of some sort to be neces-
sary for development Of the American