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■iw«pnii"ni »»ni II i ■ > t f ■* ■ 1 \ % Üf It , s ml il m Cÿj •- ■ —• . . M w ■ Mm m ■■ V ■win 1 % Hi n !- i in » irmgaTjrg-Sr V. W\ 'caçsWj* E t ■j i ■■■ttUi, i i 1.—Miss Helen Keller, the famous blind and deaf woman, visiting President Coolldge. 2.—Hlza Khun, the new king of Persia, reading an address to the constitutional assembly during the coronation ceremonies. 8.— Design for the proposed annex to the Treasury building at Pennsylvania avenue and Madison place, Washington. NEWS REVIEW OF CORSENT EVENTS Nye of North Dakota Seated in Senate by Close Vot Farm Relief Prospects. By EDWARD W. PICKARD S MENATOR BORAH, who had said he would vote against seating Gerald P. Nye, the appointee of Governor Sortie of North Dakota to fill the va cancy caused by the death of Senator Ladd, changed his mind when the case came to s vote last week. The consequence was that Mr. Nye was seated by a fote of 41 to 89. While most of the Democrats and more radi cal Republicans applauded, Senator Frasier escorted his new colleague up the center aisle to Vice President Dawes' dais and the oath of office was administered. The acceptance of Mr. Nye was said to be due partly to the fact that he Is to be counted among the opponent# of American adhesion to the world court. Furthermore, some of the senator# were averse to rejecting a man who is avowedly a champion of the Middle West farmers, not desiring to vex the agriculturists, that Inflüenced some votes wa# the feeling that North Dakota nhould not be deprived, for seven months, of full representation on a technicality. The senate's vote establishes a precedent, upholding the contention that a sen ator Is both a "state officer" and an "of ficer of the United States," and that his state properly has something to say as to the method and machinery o l bia election,_—t— Yet another reason RNR1K 8HIPSTBAD of Minneso ta, the only Farmer-Labor sena tor, took a hard fall out of the world court resolution Wednesday In a three-hour speech in the course of which he undertook to demonstrate that the court; Instead of being an agency for the preservation of pence. Is a part of the war machinery of the League of Nations. "The power," he said, "to enforce the decisions of the court hy war is vested In the League of Nations by the treaty called the covenant "Thus we have a clear program for Inaugurating all kinds of 'legal* wars on the assumption that the wars levied under this arrangement will be 'le gal.' and under the further assumption that wars In the past have been il legal.' "How many governments In the his tory of the world have started il legal' wars? "All of the governments that have started illegal' wars, please say 'aye.* "Silence. Senators I hear no sound. "All that have started H governments only 'legal' ware, please say 'aye.' Sen ators, all the governments in history shoot In chorus, 'aye'!'' Senator McKinley of Illinois spoke briefly in favor of the resolution of adherence to the court, declaring that neither our Monroe Doctrine nor our Philippine protectorate had got us In to trouble with other nations nor would our entry into the world court. "There la a crying need at this time for a foreign market for our corn, our wheat and our hog products.'' Senator McKinley said. "Europe needs all the food we can sell her. One hundred millions of people in Italy, Germany, England, Austria and Hungary are liv ing on half rations. Why? Because working conditions have never become settled since the war. What will settle them? An assurance of continued peace." C ONGRESS seemingly stands ready to provide relief for the farmers If only the farmers can agree on what they want. At this writing they are still split into factions and are unable to get together on the question of what legislation will best do the work. The meeting of the National Council of Fanners' Co-operative Marketing associations took some two hundred delegates to Washington and they, to gether with other farm leaders, told Secretary Jardine, congress and the country at large their views—which were varions and diverse. In a gen eral way most of them favored the ad minist ration measure providing ma afclnvn* for the promotion of co-oper atlve marketing, and consequently that bill was reasonably certain to be favorably reported by the house agri cultural committee. The co-operative men, or many of them, do not stand with the farm paper editors and the farm bloc leaders In the matter of controlling crop surpluses to boost farm product prices, and In this they are in line with the administration. However, the Dickinson bill Is looked on kindly by the middle-of-the-roaders, and its main features were highly com mended by Frank O. Lowden of Illi nois in a speech of great significance. Mr, Lowden, frequently mentioned ns a potential corn and wheat belt candidate for the Republican nomina tion for President In 1928, enunciated the farmers' demand for a sped ally protected domestic market affording as profitable returns as the protective tariff affords the manufacturer profit able returns. He advocated the plan to segregate the export surplus and enhance the domestic price above the world market price which has been embodied In the Dickinson hill. He de clared the doctrine of crop surplus control was vital for the salvation not only of agriculture, but of the very nation Itself. C. L. Rlcheson of Iowa, president of the National Com Growers' associa tion, told President Coolldge that the so-called revolt of the com belt has been exaggerated. He denied that the farmers have declared war on the pro tective tariff and asserted that they could work out their own salvation If given such aid In disposal of their ex port surplus as Is proposed In the Dickinson bill. The credit situation In Iowa, he said, had been greatly Im proved by the loans of the two Inter mediate credit banks established In that state recently, OHN W. LANGLEY resigned as a representative from Kentucky when the Supreme court refused to review hi# conviction for violation of the pro hibition law#. He now asks the Re publicans of his district to elect his wife to fill the vacant «eat In con gress, asserting that she knows better than anyone else (be needs of the dls triot. In Chicago, Mrs. Jacob Baur, a well known business Woman, ha# announced her candidacy for «Ingres« from the Ninth district. no*r represented by Fred Britten Whom she will oppose in the Republican primaries In A|«il. Mrs. Baur, like Congresswomen Kalin and Norton, favors the liberalization of the dry enforcement law. J U NCLE SAM seriously objects to the retroactive provisions In Mexico's new alien land and petroleum lawk. hnfl his objections have been transmitted throng Ambassador Shef field to A. J. Saenz, Mexican foreign minister. The Obregon government was warned that the United States considers the new laws Inimical to the Interest* of American property hold?_ era and In violation not only of Inter national law, but also of the agree ment made between Mexico and the United Slates In 1923. In Its reply the Mexican government took the stand that Mexico Is a sov ereign nation and can moke any laws It see# fit. It also asserted that the laws had not been promulgated and so the protest was premature. This was offset, however, hy a statement Is sued by the department of Industry and commerce which said the laws were promulgated on December 81, The legislation In question Is de signed to carry out that article of the Mexican constitution which provides that only Mexicans and Mexican com panies have the right to acquire own ership In lands, waters, and their ap purtenances, or to obtain concessions to develop mines, waters, or mineral fuels In the republic of Mexico. M AJ. OEN. WILLIAM LASSITER has sailed from the Panama ca nal cone to take General Perahlng'a place as president of the Tscna-Artcs plebiscitary commission. Pershing will soon return to the United States but meantime he has scored a signal vic tory at Aries la the passage by the commission of hia resolutions for In vestigation and punishment in many cases of outrages committed by Chil eans agsinst Peruvians and the estab lishment of complete law and order before the plébiscité la held. Sen or Edwards, the Chilean member, acqui esced fully In the resolutions. UOO SLAVIA'S debt funding mis sion arrived lb Washington last week, and on the same day King Alex ander made the statement that he re garded the debt to America as one of honor, to be settled on that basis up to the limit of the country's resources. Senator Henri Berenger, the new ambassador from France, also reached Washington. His special mission is to bring about a settlement of the French debt. The Italian debt settlement probably will be approved by congress, (bough the objectors, led by Rainey of Illinois, kept up the attack. Count Volpl Is now In London hoping to get from the British better terms than were granted by the Americans, but this la considered unlikely. J A CCORDING to the final report of the Consens senatorial committee that Investigated the amortization of war facilities, the Internal revenue bureau permitted improper allowances in that connection that have cost the government a total of $210,665,360. Al lowances Involving "discovery deple tion," ft Is asserted, benefit the oil In dustry to the extent of $37,500.000 an nually, the total having been much higher than this while war time tax rates were In effect. The loss to the government In taxes due to erroneous valuations of copper mines. It Is farth er declared, amounts to $60,000,000 annually. I NCREASED price# of rubber due to control by the British government have resulted In the formation of two American organizations "to protect rhe American public and the rubber industry with respect to future sup plies." The first, the Rubber Associa tion of America, announced It was planning the expenditure of $19,000.000 a year for five years to plant rubber tree# In areas under American control or where favorable conditions would be assured. The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce announced the formation of a $10,000,000 organization by automobile manufacturers to pro duce, purchase and deni In raw rub ber, as well as to manufacture rub her tires. OPE of settling the anthracite strike in the near future has gone glimmering. The Joint conference of operators and miners, which began In December, broke up last week because of the deadlock over the matter of ar bitration. The operator# charged Presi dent Lewis with seeking to rule or, ruin and said he had suggested to them that they might raise the price of coal $5 a ton "as long as he got what he wanted." This Lewis hotly dented, retorting that the operators were determined to prevent any set tlement. The operators refused to permit the arbitration of prices of coal, and the miners would not accept arbitration of wages unless It was guaranteed that wages should not be H lowered. F loods and prevalent throughout Europe have been followed by a severe cold wave, and though this ha# checked the ris ing water, the people are suffering In tensely. Ice and snow are all over the continent as far south as the Midi and Naples. In Russia all elementary schools have been closed because of the cold. Spain has been swept by de structlve gales violent winds that were OCTOR LUTHER has again been named chancellor of Germany and asked by President von Hlndenburg to form « new cabinet of représenta tlves of the Centrists. Democrats. Ger man People's party and the Bavarian People's party. Erich Koch had found it impossible to form a "big coalition" ministry because the Nationalists and Socialists would not take part. i D I N THE Navy department appropria tion bill submitted to the house last week It Is recommended that all llght er-tban-air aeronautic activity hy the navy be discontinued pending the re sults of its co-operation with the Air craft Development corporation of De troit In the development of a new type all-metal dirigible. The bill proposes that the Los Angeles shall be put In storage and the establishment at Lake bunt reduced to the minimum. This la contrary to the advice of Rear Ad miral Moffett, chief of the bureau of aeronautics. U. 8. BUREAU TO LET CONTRACTS ON EIGHT MONT ANA PROJECTS - WILL BHPLÎTE TEN OTHERS Program For -192* Agreed Upon at - PörtlinÄ Announced 'By Engineer Clark Contracts will be let for eight new projects, «instruction work will be continued' on 10 other* already under way and maintenance work will . be done on 15 highway sections in 192(1 under the forest highway program agreed upon at Portland, according to A. O. Clark, engineer in «Sergo of the bureau of public roads /(».Montana. New projects to be oftffrtaken in clude: - Expenditure of $100,000 and Clark highway through the Lolo pass. Building of five mile* of road and a new bridge across the middle fork of the Flathead on the Columbia Falls Glacier park highway. Surfacing of nine miles of road In the Yellowstone canyon, between Liv ingston and Gardiner. Construction of seven miles on the Roosevelt highway between the state Une and Troy, Mont. Thirteen miles of reconstruction and surfacing on the Y-GB line between Monarch and Nelhart. Surfacing of nine mile# between Turghee pass and West Yellowstone. Grading and surfacing of five and a half miles on the Yellowstone trail, between Nine Mile and Aiberton. do d on I/ewls Premeditated Murder Peter Jacobi, Rosebud county ranch er and his niece, Miss Mathilda Latsch were the victims of a premeditated murder, planned hours before with robbery as the motive by a moron of vicious nature. County Attorney Felk er Haynes declared after an all day ex amination of Arthur Thomas Hesterly, a World War veteran, who escaped on July 2, 1924 from a government hos pital for the Insane at Knoxville, Iowa. It was the confession of Hesterly. found by relatives of the murdered pair in the Jacobi ranch home that led to the discovery of the two bodies un der a haystack on the Jacobi place, three miles east of Forsyth. The man said he killed the pair on the after noon of December 29 last" N. P. Had Good Year The Northern Pacific railway in 1925 experienced the best year since the railroad systems were turned back by the federal government. In the opinion of Charles Donnelly, president of the road. He and Vice President J- G. Woodworth are making n trip over the western lines. A budget providing for sa expenditure of $10.000,000 on the Northern Pacific lines has been drawn ap for 1926, President Donnelly said, There are no particularly large 1m provements contemplated for the Rocky mounttln division with the ex ceptlon of the rebuilding of the Green hom viaduct on the Helena mountain, which will cost $85.000. Lovers of native game birds will do well to Investigate before becoming too enthusiastic In favor of introducing the Chinese or ring-neck pheasants as part of our wild population. Argu ments on every hand seems to go un dlsbttieä that not only do the pheas ants kill off the native grouse and prairie chickens, hut they eat the eggs of these birds as well. In localities that were once well supplied with grouse and prairie chicken, but In which pheasants have been liberated, in this state, come reports that sports men found few or none of the nativa birds during the last open season. Mother Wants Boy Proceedings whereby James Reed Thompson became the adopted son of t Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bruckert of Red Lodge have been annulled by the Mon tana supreme court. The decision fol lows a review of the action by the dis» trlct court in September, 1924. and is made upon the ground that the boy's real mother, Maggie Thompson, a resi Ore., never had <]t D t of Portland, no ttce of the proceedings and never j. >ve j, cr consent to the adoption, There Is now pending before Judge Goddard at Billings an action by which Mrs. Thompson seeks, through habeas corpus, to recover custody of the boy. _ , H N * * n , . H vhl thp tllrialoo c *^ the Northern Pacific ra read. died at Mls ■»«»■ f 1 ' .f"" »• cftme to Mls ^ Glendive 10 years ago as chtaf dispatcher, and ta September. 1922. P"»«ot»d to the trainmaster posl tton. Hamilton.—The Rev. M. H. English of St Francis' Catholic church bas left on a trip that will take him to several countries In Europe. He will visit In Rome and other parta of Italy, as well _ France, Germany #n<J Austria. He expects to be gone for two months. Wolf Point —Betty Loo Farneaa, born In this city recently to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Farneas of the Plenty wood vicinity, has the distinction of baring a great-great-grandmother, a great-grandmother, a grandmother, all living, making her fifth in line. SOLDIER OF STATE AFTER O.S. REJ 7 Silver Bow County Attorney Inter* prêts the State Veteran Burial Statute A man drafted In Montana but re jected for physical disabilities as soon as he reached Camp Lewis, was still a sokfier under the Montana law provid ing for burial of veterans at public ex pense,, an opinion given the Syvyr.Bow commissioners by Comity Attorney T.' E. Downey says, The opinion was sought when relative*' of a man who recently died In Butte asked for $125 to reimburse them for funeral costs. The deceased had been Inducted into the service in Butte with the first call and -was sent to Camp Lewis. Here he was given another physical exami nation and turned loose. The war de partment's records Indicate that he was "discharged from draft," and as an ex-soldier is considered to be one "discharged from army ^service," the question Of whether or not the county should pay the burial came up. In the ruling Mr. Downey held that as far as the soldier and Montana were considered, he was in service as he had passed the local examining board and was taken to camp from the state. If he had left the train en route, he would have been a deserter, the at torney held, and consequently he iptist have been a soldier so far as the burial law Is concerned. The commissioners issued the reimbursement order. TAXPAYERS HAVE ((ÄADE MONTANA Those who bear the taxes de They serve your patronage, have made Montana a desirable place in which to live, and they are entitled to first consideration In purchases made by those who now enjoy the things provided this tax by money. Treasure State Tabloids > Murray A. Stebbins of Glasgow was elected secretary of the Montana Wool Growers' association, at a meeting of directors and executives In the office of the National Wool exchange in Hel ena. He succeeds H. H. PIgott. Roundup.—At the Elliott ranch on Willow creek old-time friends gathered recently to aid in the celebration of the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. John Elliott, who were mar ried In Scotland and have for many years been residents of what is now Fergus county. Bozeman. —The Rev. H. fl. Kl emme has begun his sixth year ns pastor of the Presbyterian church here. During that period the church has added 500 members of whom 280 were profes pions of faith. The debt of $5,000 has bçcn lifted. Special services were re centïy *held fb mark the occasion. Oren'f'FnIIs.—The State bank of Belt j s tiré second bank In this vicinity to j.pny a dividend within the week ending i January 0. The American Bank and Trust have announced an 8 per cent dividend. The Belt bank Is paying a 10 per cent dividend, amounting to $12,015. on petition of Receiver W. C. Bloomqcist. • • ' The new school house at Cqlstrip Is completed so that school commenced there after the holidays. The new building ,is rnodern in every respect It is heated by a furnace and lighted by electricity. The play rooms are not complet«! and thé water will not be turner] on for some time. This is prob ably the finest rural school building In Rosebud county if not in eastern Montana. Three suits were filed against the government in federal district court at Great Falls on behalf of Arthur Peter son, Ross Evans Dietrich and Theo dore Thompson, ex-service men who were disabled during the World War. The suits were Intended to speed set tlements of war risk insurance claims filed with the veterans' bureau by the former soldiers. When the cashier In a Butte restaur ant was confronted by a burglar who pointed a gun at her head and demand ed that she open up the cash register, she calmly upbraided him for his boorish manners and at the same time pressed a button which brought lb a cook with a murderous looking cleaver. The bandit took to his heels whereup on the cashier fainted away. Butte.—-Nearly 200,009,000 pounds of fabricated copper and brass products were turned out last year by the Ana conda Copper Mining company at Its Great Falls plant and plants of its sub sidiaries, according to a current issue of the Wall Street Journal. "In other words." says the Journal's story, "An aconda and Its subsidiary fabricated into finished or semi-finished form ap proximately 25 per cent of the world s production of copper In 1925. Plans and preparations are now rap idly developing for the shipment of the 000 elk from the Bison Range to MM dleboro,'Mass. Percy Jones, who pur chased the animals from the govern ment is at St Ignatius assisting Frank H. Bose, warden of the park with the 'work. Two miles of winged V shaped fences have been built to corral the elk.* They will be herded very care fully Into these pens and held there by a series of gate* The bucks will be dehorned. 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