Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, December 9, 1921, Page 5

CONGRESS CONVENES FOR SECOND SESSION Legislative Frogram Expected to Require About Seven f Months. Washington, D. C—The sixty-sev- enth congress convened for its second session Monday. After a ten-day rest following the extra session, house and senate re- turned to face tasks which leaders Predict will occupy probably seven months. Nearly u dozen questions of legislative policy confront the mem- bers, while scores of lesser matters will be pressed. President Harding delivered his message Tuesday. It appeared highly probable that no consideration would be given the naval supply bill until some indication is had of probable results of the arms conference, while that dealing with army funds is slated for late study because it may also be affected. Paname canal tolls and funding of the allied debt are two other measures which appear to be linked up with the arms conference insofar as debate is concerned This congress is the first to deal with the government's expenditures in budget form. The house and its ap- propriations committee will take up the combined supply bill with the ex-) pectation, it was said, of having all of its items to the senate by April 6. Inquiries into the railroad and agri- cultural problems have been progres- sing several months, but neither can be expected, according to leaders, to take concrete legislative form for sev- eral months. | Reorganization of governmental bu- reaus and functions, including the ad- ministration of Alaska, promised to be a subject at the forefront of congres- sional business. The senate, barring changes in its programme, will turn first to the al- lied debt funding bill. Another proposition before the sen- ate is the resolution to declare Tru- man H. Newberry, republican, the duly elected senator from Michigan and to deny claims of Henry Ford, democrat, to the seat. | HARDING REQUESTED — TO HEAR FILIPINOS Manila, P. I.— President Harding was asked to take no action on the) Wood-Forbes report without first hear- | ing Philippine representatives in a joint resolution adopted by the legis- lature. The resolution referred to| the message of President Wilson to congress December 7, 1920, in which he declared the Philippines had, by maintaining a stable government, ful- filled the condition precedent to inde- pendence and recommended that it be! granted. It declared acceptance of the Wood-Forbes recommendations | “would seriously affect the political future and vital interests of the coun- | try.” | The resolution was cabled to the Philippine commission at Washington to be transmitted to President Hard-| ing. | The report was defended by Senator | Jadji Butum, the only Moro in the, senate, who represents the islands of Mindanao and Sulu. Other senators regarded the report | as unduly magnifying the defects of | the Filipinos, JOB MEETING SCHEDULED) Washington Mayors and Other Public , Officials Invited to Seattle. | Seattle, Wash.—Invitations to may- ors and other public officials all over the state to attend a conference here December 19 and 20 to cope with the unemployment problem were sent out by Governor Hart. The governor de- | cided to call the conference after an interview with Captain J. S. Gibson, | regional director of the national com- mittee on unemployment. | An effort will be made, the an- nouncement explained, to agree on a practical programme for minimizing unemployment in Washington. Co-| ordination of municipal and other agencies for aiding the jobless will | be sought. Stimulation of civic and industrial improvement, so that more work may be provided, is contem- plated. Japanese to Keep Port Arthur. Washington, D. C.—The Japanese delegation declared before the com- mittee on far eastern questions that | Japan has no intention at present of | “relinquishing the important rights | she has lawfully acquired” in Port | Arthur. \ November 11 Not School Holiday. | Olympia, Wash.—Armistice day is, not a school holiday in Washington | state, according to a ruling of ag —= — SSS SS = SSS Es TICLES HERE WHIGH WILL HELP YOU. 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Without fault or negligence on her part the telephone operator is left to explain, and the sentence first quoted is that adopted as most briefly and concisely covering the situation. The Pacific Telephone And Telegraph Company Hardware UNEMPLOYMENT GROWS. Unemployment is increasing throughout Idaho, save Pocatello according to the monthly digest made by the United States em- ployment service, and conditions, now bad, promise to grow worse. Speaking generally of Idaho, the report says lumbering industries are operated on a greatly re- stricted basis with a further re- duction considered probable. Mining is much depressed, present operations approximat- ing 50 per cent. While the pro- duction of precious metals is in- creasing slightly, there is little prospect of early employment; agricultural lines are releasing workers at an increasing rate and many are drifting to other sections. There is a sensational reduction in lines requiring com- mon labor, “It is anticipated there will be a considerable increase in unem- ployment during the next two months, particularly in the agri- cultural and mountain sections,” says the report. In Boise unemployment has in- creased where building is dull and lumber operations much cur- tailed, with little prospect of im- provement during the winter. Miscellaneous mercantile busi- ness is characterized as fair with a slight downward tendency. At Pocatello, however, the employment trend is upward. The flour mills are reported nor- mal; railroad occupations conti- nue to gain with encouraging prospects for increased shop and track maintenance work; miscel- proving and building shows in- creased activity with the outlook good for fairly steady employ- ment during the next 60 days. pan OED tae a Auto Matches Jewels. For the benefit of your wife, you might tell her that, if she wants It, many of the automobile manufactur- ers will have her 1921 car match her Jewels, This is a fad in many sec- tions of the East, where amethyst, garnet, topaz, sapphire and other colors are used in the upholstery, tops and the body made to correspond. In this way your wife will know that her Jewels harmonize with the car. Of course, if she hasn't the jewels, she can order the car as she wants it, and then buy the jewels to match.—Chi- cage Tribune | laneous business is gradually im-| Gray Sliver, who Is the Washington representative of the American Farm Bureau federation. ARBUCKLE. JURY FAILS TO AGREE San Francisco.—The jury 4n the manslaughter case of Roscoe C. (Fatty) Arbuckle was discharged when it was unable to agree after deliberating more than 41 hours, The final ballot stood 10 to 2, according to an announcement to the court by the jury foreman. The case was set for retrial January 9. August Fritze, the jury foreman, is- sued a signed statement several hours after the jury was discharged, saying that one of the woman jurors who | was in the minority refused to con- | sider the evidence from the beginning and declared that “she would cast her ballot and would not change it until | hell froze over.” | There were two jurors who voted tor conviction, according to Fritze. BRIEF GENERAL NEWS The third party movement, backed by the committee of 48, is under way in Idaho. Typhus fever is sweeping Russia with increasing violence, especially in the Oder and Baku districts. Dr. Clyde Mount of Oregon City was re-elected president of the Oregon State Dental association at the close of the 28th annual session at Portland. Apple shipments from the Wenat- chee-North Central Washington dis- trict are now well over the 11,000-car mark. James J. Richardson, manager of athletics at Oregon Agricultural col- ‘lege, has been appointed business | manager of the Seattle baseball club. Prime Minister Lloyd George is def- initely planning to leave England for the United States December 12 to attend the Washington armament conference. Seven persons were killed and 60 | others injured when two O-W. R. & N. passengers trains, No. 12, eastbound, and No, 17, westbound, crashed to- gether in a head-on collision a half mile east of Celilo, Or. Government hunters and trappers employed by the predatory animal di- vision of the department of agricul- ture, have been responsible for the destruction of 156,150 wild animals, according to a report that has been issued. The campaign has covered a period of six years. | 45,000 Meat Men Strike. Chicago.—Union officials announced that 46,000 union workers employed | in packing plants went on strike Mon- day in protest against wage reductions averaging 10 per cent authorized by plant assemblies, under the shop rep- resentation plan in the packing in- |dustry, The strike was called by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen. Farm Products Rates Cut. Washington, D. C—A general de crease of 10 per cent in rates of prac- tically all farm products was author- | ized by the interstate commerce com- | mission in passing favorably on the voluntary application of all the roads except those in New England terri- | tory. Judge Landis Suspends Babe Ruth, | Chicago.—Babe Ruth's share of the | world’s series profits in 1921 were | declared forfeited and Ruth himself |suspended until May 20, 1922, by Commissioner K. M. Landis in a de- cision fixing punishment for the New York Yankee ball player for partici- pating in a post season barnstorming ITP, cet,ceciatntda i