Show lp i IN orv ut A weekly panorama of events ln in alio capital BY PETER KEEGAN ono one of tho the big issues in tho the 1924 11 presidential residential campaign will bo be the muscle shoals which just now Is to little more than a name to the majority of the voters the fight will conter about the deposition disposition of tho the power project owned by tho the government at muscle shoals and tort of henry ford to lease the property for tho the manufacture of will bo be discussed and argued at croat great length after congress failed to approve the salo sale of tho the property to ford secretary ot of war weeks sold the biggest power plant at muscle shoals to tho the alabama power company a bitter rival of tho the ford interests te to fords friends says he lie waa wais squeezed out to keep him hlin from boing being a formidable candidate for president the announcement in this column that woodrow wilson would like to take the stump in the forthcoming campaign has boon been followed by the statement in authora tive circles that mr wilsons Wll sona namo name might well bo be included among the democratic receptive candidates for the presidency it is tho the general opinion that tho the former president Preal dent would discourage organized effort to make him the democratic standard bearer again thus far the democrats only havo have one announced candidate so there Is no internal warfare in the party except c pt over politics tho the solo candidate d ate to date is sonatas oscar W underwood of alabama and ho he is feeling his way ny carefully being hesitant to commit himself on matters of policy until a clearer perspective can be obtained obtain ed of next years outlook that former secretary of 0 the treasury william 0 mcadoo will also be a candidate there thero is doubt but mcadoo is campaigning for tho present without blare of trumpets or beat of drums major roy A haynes baynes the federal prohibition commissioner commiss loner and police officials of the district of columbia are on engaging in a controversy over the enforcement of tho Vola tead act in washington the district commissioners commissio nors who are supreme in municipal affairs served notice on haynes that they will withdraw the metropolitan police from prohibition enforcement duty unless the federal takes steps to improve the personnel of the enforcement officers on duty in tho the capital it is a 8 situation that is proving embarrassing to both sides and may require adjudication by the president who Is the real boss bosa after all about half of the members of the senate have gone to europe this S summer ummer to get firsthand first hand information on economic and political conditions the first guess would be that each would come back with a new plan for solving all the problems of the world but such is not the case nearly all ot of the returning legislators inform me that their investigations have convinced them that there la is virtually nothing for the united states can do just now except to sit on the side lines and watch the international poker game across the atlantic incidentally that is one of the cardinal points of this administrations foreign policy too to be ready to help when the opportunity arises but not to rush the american people into new difficulties unless mr coolidge uses his executive powers to revive the united states grain corporation there Is not likely to be any move of or a spectacular character on the part of the government in extending financial relief to the farmers the president is dead sot set against a special session of congress and has his administrative agencies engaged in a study of railroad freight rates and the tariff to see if it some plan cant bo be worked out to alleviate the economical embarrassment barras arising from a crop surplus especially wheat if the grain corporation Is put to work again it probably will buy about bushels of wheat either elther for lor export or to hold until the price goes goe up |