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Show WASHINGTON Protest against the granting by the interstate commerce commission of applications by certain railroads for lower transcontinental rates was made in a resolution adopted by the shipping board, on the ground that it wou'v divert to the roads -shipments now carried by water carriers through the Panama canal. A report signed by Attorney General Gen-eral Daugherty, reviewing steps taken tak-en by the federal government to enforce en-force the antitrust laws, was sent to the senate by the department of justice jus-tice in response to a resolution of inquiry. The wheat stabilization bill by Senator Sen-ator GiMiding, Republican, Idaho, was reported from the senate agriculture committee without recommendation. It pro-. i les for a wheat stabilizing corporal ion to purchase grain at a guaranteed price, based on !?1.50 a bushel for No. 1 northern, whenever the market falls below that level. Imports of wheat and flour would be prohibited. Attorney General Daugherty will remain for the present a member of . President Coolidges' cabinet, but he will be expected to retire to private life as soon as the senate has completed com-pleted its inquiry into his administration administra-tion of the department of justice. The proposed Alameda naval base was recommended to the house naval committee by Rear Admiral Moffett, chief of aeronautics, who desired a better site for an air station than Mare Island navy yard. Postmaster nominated by President Coolidge included Wesley A. Hill, Eureka, Eu-reka, Cal. ; Arthur B. Bean, Pocatello, Idaho, and I'eter W. MeRoberts, Twin Falls, Idaho. Farmers in the drought-stricken areas of New Mexico would receive advances from the federal government govern-ment aggregating $1,000,000. to aid them during the coming crop season under a resolution adopted by the senate. The advances would be made by the secretary of agriculture, would be limited to $6 per acre, and would constitute a lien on the coming crop. Twenty-six awards totaling $138,-S22.40, $138,-S22.40, of which twelve aggregating $17,125.26 were in the Lusitania group, were announced by the German-American mixed claims commission commis-sion in favor of American claimants against Germany. The interior appropriation bill, the first of the big supply measures, was passed Tuesday by the senate. The measure now goes to conference. The senate appropriations committee added about $1,700,000 to it as it was approved by the house, and the senate sen-ate increased this by another $700,-000, $700,-000, of which $450,000 is for the Boise, Idaho, reclamation project and $250,000 for the Yuma, Ariz., project. The total as it passed the senate was $204,000,000. FOREIGN Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the former American president, left Paris for Chateau Thierry to visit the grave of her son, Quentin, who was killed while serving as an aviator avia-tor in July 191S. She was accompanied accom-panied by her son, Kermlt. Watler Lincoln, said to have been a grandnephew of Abraham Lincoln, died at Honolulu after a brief illness. He was 02 years old and had lived in Hawaii more than fifty years. He was a contractor. The three army airplanes which left Balboa, Canal Zone on February 1 for a flight to Guatemala City and return arrived at France field successfully success-fully completing the trip of more than 2000 miles. At no time during the journey was serious trouble experienced, ex-perienced, despite the fact that much of the flying was over uncharted regions. re-gions. The Belgium cabinet headed by Premier Theunis have resigned as a result of its defeat In the chamber of deputies, 05 to. 7!), over the Franco-Belgian Franco-Belgian economic convention. According to the correspondent of the Berliner Tageblatt at Speyer, capital of the Bavarian palatinate, the last of the separatists have evacuated evacu-ated the government building there, which will be occupied by representatives representa-tives of the "old legitimate" government govern-ment forthwith. The federal forces under General Luis Gutierrez, Juan Espinoza Cordoba Cordo-ba and Juan Pablo Marias occupied Tuxp.im without resistance last Tuesday. Tues-day. Former Field Marshal Ludendorff, Adolph Hitler, leader of the Bavarian Fascis'.i, and seven other defendants were placed on trial at Munich for their connection with the putsch of last November. All of the defendants except one are charged with high treason. Believed to be of the Neolithic period, or later Stone Age, a boat eleven feet long and three feet wide, hollowed out of the trunk of an oak-tree, oak-tree, has been found in the mud at Elmley ferry marshes near Silling-bourne, Silling-bourne, Eng. It is estimated by experts ex-perts to be 5000 years old. Prince Masayoshi Matsuktita, one of the senior genro, or elder statesmen, states-men, is critically ill at Tokio and members of the family have been summoned to his bedside. j |