The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-07-01

nerican delegation to naval limitation
| important individual caller of the
| week, having been invited to report or
| conditions in the islands. Other Wis
i itors included several congressman.
d REPRESENTATIVE w. R. GREEN
IN of Iowa, chairman Of the house
ways and means committee, went tC
| Washington for conference with Sec.
| rotary of the Treasury Mellon, and
told the correspondents that there was
small hope of substantial tax reduc.
ton in 1928. Present indications, &C.
cording to Mr.<Green, are that, if there
| is any surplus in the national treas
ury at the end Of the fiscal year, it
| will not be large enough to permit
such reductions as were made in the,
last revenue bill, which authorized
cuts aggregating $400,OOO,0OO.
! In this view Mr.. Green takes sharp
| issue with other Republican leaders,
notably Senators Edge of New Jersey,
| and Reed of Pennsylvania, who have
| predicted surplus exceeding $780,
100000, and probably running as high
as $4O0OOO,O0O.
BECAUSE of his refusal to return
- to the United States and testify
in the trial of Albert B. Fall and
| Harry F. Sinclair in the Teapot Dome
| oil lease fraud case, the Department
of State has put Harry M. Blackmer
much In the position of imam with
| out country" The former chairman
of the Midwest Refining company has
been deprived of his passport by order
of the department and so is without
| the protection of the. government on
his travels. While his passport has
| been revoked he has one chance to
recover it, namely, to apply for a
| passport to return to the United
States. But as Blackmer evaded serv-
ice ora subpoena for long time and
finally actually refused service, Off
Gals here do not believe he will seek
chance to come home, knowing that
| this would mean facing another sub
| poena on landing, or arrest for con-
| tempt of court, or confiscation of his
| American property under the drastic
| Walsh law, recently enacted by con-
gress to meet this very case.
/ N ONIAIANDER BYRD and his three
~ fellow aviators waited all week
| for weather conditions favorable to
the start of their fight to France in
the Fokker monoplane America. Heavy
fogs and fluctuating winds prevailed
over the north Atlantic, and Byrd
saw no object in starting as he was
not planning a record-breaking flight
or contemplating any sensational per-
Torrance.
Colonel Lindbergh had few days
to devote to his own affairs, and then
was summoned to Washington to- con-
fer with officials of the Army, Navy
and Commerce departments. He flew
there from st. Louis in an army plane,
making one stop, at Dayton, Ohio. A
! committee of st. Louis business men
has offered Lindbergh the presidency
| of projected airplane manufacturing
company with large capital.
CITIZENS of Indianapolis grew tired
~ of the doings of the city hall ring
there and, being given the opportunity
at special election, they smashed it
by voting, five to one, in favor of abol-
fishing the council and mayoralty sys-
TEN and substituting the city manager
form of government. In March the
anti-manager forces persuaded the
legislature to amend the law so that
the change cannot be- made before
January l, 1880. If this legislative
action is held unconstitutional the city
manager will take Office next New
Years day.
UNQUALIFIED approval of the
" Great Lakes-St. Lawrence water
way project is given by the joint New
England-St. Lawrence waterway COM
mittee of business men, financiers,
economists, and engineers in Massa-
chusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, Vermont. Maine, and Connec-
ticut.
After months of study this commit
tee has concluded that the all-Ameri-
can waterway route through New
York, proposed as. an alternative to
the st. Lawrence route, is impractical
from a finaNeial and engineering
standpoint, al in formal report the
spokesman fof the six states urge the
Washington. government to initiate ne
gotiations with the Canadian govern.
ment upon q treaty which will Sneed