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Show pt-r bill to extend nnd liberalize tr fit'dlt facilities of the federal re?en system for the benelit of agriculture The house bunking and currency committee com-mittee whs scheduled to report cnly the Cupper measure, anil the leaden of the farm bloc snld In that case they would present the oilier bill on th floor of the house a an amendment CONTENTIONS of orptnlzed lnhor and the position taken by the federal fed-eral railway labor bourd were sustained sus-tained by the Supreme court In a decision deci-sion In the "eompnny union" case Involving In-volving the Pennsylvania railroad. Th opinion, delivered by Chief Juitlc Tuft, held that the labor board did not exceed Its powers when It condemn the methods adopted by the Pennsyl vunla railroad to establish employe representation In dealing with que Hons of wages nnd working conditions. Clmlrmnn Ben Hooper of the board snld the derision was a long step toward to-ward Industrial pence on the railroads. "The contention of the employees was In harmony with the spirit of our republican re-publican lnItutlons,,, be snld. "Upholding "Up-holding the principle of majority nils In organized labor will greatly conduce to the supremacy of law over force la the adjustment of Industrial controversies." contro-versies." WISCONSIN Socialists came to ths front rather sturtllngly lust week. In the lower house of the state assembly assem-bly they, In combination with the administration ad-ministration forces, put through a bill to abolish the Wisconsin National Guard. The measure was passed by acclamation, the opposition being negligible negli-gible In numbers. It was tnken for granted that the bill would be killed by the senate or vetoed by Governor Blaine, but this did not materially lessen the frantic Joy of the Socialists, who felt they bad put over something on the so-cnlled progressives and Justified Justi-fied their claim that the Wisconsin assembly as-sembly Is the most radical of all the NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Lithuania and Poland Fighting Over the Vilna Zone and the j. ' Railway Line. RUSSIA MAY EE INVOLVED onir Lava Policy of Hand Off In the Ruhr Sustained by Parliament Frvnch Orgsnli Transport Thar Filibuster Against Ship Subsidy Sub-sidy Is Effective. By EDWARD W. PICKARD "Q DO YOU think th sanatoria! . filibuster ar aarvlng th bast Interest of tha Amerl. can public. In preventing a vota en tha ahlp subsidy bill, or ara thay only playing a selfish political po-litical gam? LITHUANIA and Poland have Blurted Blurt-ed another little wur of their own, which might conrelvubly disturb the so-culled peuce of much of Europe. Eu-rope. Alreudy the condition la bo serious se-rious thut member of the council of the lugue of Nntlons believe the league will be compelled to Intervene. The council on February 'i defined the frontier between the two countries, and In ao doing It awarded to 1'olund a strip of territory, that Includea Vllnu and tha very Important Kovno-Vilnu railway. Lithuania wua counting on poaBeaalon of tlila rail line to provldu a connection between Itussla and East t'rusalu whereby she could create a lot of commeri'lul business for herself her-self and especially for tne port of Hera el, which had been given her after she selted It a few weex uiro. Moreover, More-over, the Llthuniilana were determined not to relinquish tltel claim to Vilnu. Therefore, when ttie Poles undertook to take possession of the strip In controversy, con-troversy, the Lithuanians Immediately started hostilities, ( first with ".Irregulars" ".Ir-regulars" and then with their regular army, the claim being mude thut the 1'olee were attempting to occupy territory ter-ritory that wua Incuniesiubly Lithuanian. Lithu-anian. Proceeding from aklrniishes ta real buttles, the con II lets have resulted re-sulted Is many casualties alreudy, and by tha middle of the week lieuvy artillery ar-tillery had been brought Into action. Russia la much disturbed by the affair, af-fair, and Korelgti MlnlMer Tchitcherln sent to both Poland and Llthuunlu a Sole atutlng It was Russia's opinion that Llthuunlu was right In the controversy contro-versy and offering Moscow's friendly assistance In settling the dispute. Franca la so tied up to Poland, financially finan-cially snd otherwise, thut her sympathies sympa-thies and perhaps material usslstunce cunnot but go to the Poles. On Monday the British and French warships leit the harbor of Memel. carrying tl.o French troops I hut had garrisoned the district for two yeura. T't -word of Memel and the adjucent tt'tirlct to Llthuunlu Is regarded re-garded as a diplomatic victory for Kuiwla over the ulllcs. The Lithuanians Lith-uanians buna announced their Intention Inten-tion of building a new railroad which will unite IttisHla and Germany. They a) no exiect a greut deal of trade with America to pass through the port of AlemeL TllOUGII Mill contending that the French policy In the Ituhr Is bad, tha Itritiah government forces In pur II a men t prevented the adoption of the amendment to the address on the king's speech, enlllnr for action bv the council of the Lengtie of Nations to submit the whole mutter to n confer ence of expert In which America, It was hoped, would participate. A vote sustaining the amendment would have meant the downfall of the ministry. Instead, the house voted ;!().' to I'M In sustain Prime Minister Itonar Law's policy of "hands off In the Kutir." The premier said thut Intervention nt the preoent time was Impossible without ilestroylnjr the entente; that l refer the mutter of rcpurutlont to the teugje .would srciuo Lb boiitUlly of Frum c, nnd probubly of Belgium nnd Italy, against the lengue. Replying to Lloyd Cieorge's appeal to "get America. In at ull costs to help save France from the consequences of her folly," Mr. lionar Lnw sold there wus "no word spoken or written by any representative of the American government which suggests sug-gests It Is willing to intervene In quur-rels quur-rels In Europe." So fur the French show no signs of desiring to be "saved" by Intervention. Interven-tion. It seemed last week that one of their greatest problems, the operu-tlon operu-tlon of the rullwuya In the occupied region, wus about solved. Though the British declined to aid directly In this, they did surrender to the French a strip of the Cologne zone Including the rail line from Dusseldorf to Treves and Metz, giving a direct outlet from tha Ituhr to France. Generul Payot. the French chief of communications, suld Wedneadny: "France hus so organized or-ganized the rail and wuter transport of occupied Germuny that It now Is prepared to Insure Internutlonul trains, food supply trains for troops and civilians civil-ians and trains for coul and necessary military communications. After three weeks of efforts and negotiations we are prepared to handle the normal transport of coul. With French and Belgian workers and those Germans who have not left their posts we have sulllclent personnel to meet all our own needs." It was reported the French would expel h.000 oernwn rail workera who have been active In the campaign of sa hot age. Muny mllwuy oitlclals have been sentenced to Imprisonment Im-prisonment for disobedience and Inciting Incit-ing the employees to strike. Premier Theunls of Belgium conferred con-ferred with Premier I'olncure and gave his npprovul to plans for additional military measures designed to force Germuny to submlxsloii. These will absolutely ab-solutely shut off the occupied regions from the rest of Germany. Special paper currency fur the Ituhr and the Ithlneland will be Issued, guaranteed by requisition bonds put out by the reparations commission and held ugulnst the German government The Socialist and other opposition to the I'olncure polities hus been strengthened In France by the ofllclul statement of the coats of the adventure adven-ture In the Ituhr. The government puts the minimum monthly cost at 60,000.000 francs. The coal Franc lias vhtulned since the occupation began be-gan hus cost her $4.0 a ton. Germany, Ger-many, also, Is getting tired of the struggle, and though the Cuno government govern-ment la still vigorously supporting the Industrial magnates In their pusslve resistance, there are Indications thut the renewal of negotiations with France msy not be far off. Meanwhile Mean-while government ofllclals In consider-uble consider-uble numbers are defying tha French order to keep out of the occupied region re-gion and ore stirring up all the trouble trou-ble they cun for the enemy. NEITHER night sessions nor hny other expedient has, up to the time of writing had any effect on the senate Itlibtmter by which a small minority mi-nority Is preventing the taking of h vote on the ship subsidy hill. Ueed. Caraway. Brook hart. William;. Ilellln and others of ih!s precious guns relieve re-lieve one another In making long-winded speeches on Ittisslu, Tut-Ankh-Amen, the West Indies any subject miller the sun except ship subsidy; ami their efforts seem so well organized organ-ized that It Is generally admitted that the measure Is really dead. Majority leaders In the senate planned. If the filibuster did not end with the week, to ask permission of the President to abandon the hill so that pressing business busi-ness might he transacted during the final week of the session. Just lefore taking a reooM for Washington's birthday the senate did get a chance to approve the conference report on the army appropriation hlH, which carries the $.10,000,000 rivers and harbors pork provision. In the house another filibuster developed de-veloped over the hill for the purchase lv the government of the Onpe Cod chip cnnnl. But Ihat sort of thing can be stopped by the house rules. '"I'MIE farm hloc In the house enimred a- In a "Ively contest with Secretary of the T"-nHury Mellon over final credits legislation. The secretary condemned con-demned as financially unsound the Letiroot-Anderson Mil proposing to es-taldlsli es-taldlsli an 'epclldetit ngrtctllti'ral re-(Un'-outit rysteni, and upproed the (Nip- stnte legislatures. The radicals are threatening to pass so many bills that would hamper capital that the Wisconsin Wiscon-sin Manufacturers' association laid before be-fore the legislature a list of (15 mnnu-facturlng mnnu-facturlng establishments which have planned larre extensions and additions, but which will not go forward with tha work If pending hills go through, fleorge Kull, secretory of the nssoclo lion, rend a fonnnl statement that pas-snce pas-snce of radical mensure, Including ta bills now before the legislature, would place an "unfair, discriminatory and unbearable burden upon Industry." TUB New York house of representative, representa-tive, by a vote of 7S to 64, adopted a resolution asking congress to liberal-Ire liberal-Ire the Volstead law, nnd next day the senate approved It, Under an amendment amend-ment adopted the resolution must he signed by Governor Smith to be effective. effec-tive. The IemorT:tts rnther resented this way of "mnklng the governor a clerk for the transmission of the memorial." me-morial." hut It wns snld Mr. Smltn would comply with the requirement. TIIKOIMIII.rc nE!A"!ARSn. one oi the most eminent French stu'esmen of this generation, died hist week In Nice, lie became minister of foreign nffnlrs to tSIW nnd held the poet eleven years In five successive cabinet. Anions his great achievements wns th( creation of the entente rordlale bi fween France and Oreat Britain, Apparently Ap-parently foreseeing the World war, he succeeded In forcing Italy nnd the cen trnl empires apart and In conclllatlnj the opposing Interests of Russia nnd Kng'nnd. tints preparing the ground for the quadruple entente. Another notable fltrure rmssed awsy last week In the death of Mrs. John A, birnn. widow of the famous cavnlry general of the Civil wnr, In her home In Washington. She succumbed to In-fltienrn. In-fltienrn. Mrs. 1ignn, who was eighty-six eighty-six years old, never tort her active Interest In-terest In public affairs. WASHINGTON'S ntRTSTMT was made the occasion ei' aatherlngs. In Chlc.'go and New York, Of several fhotisnndi of hvphenates who hotij foMiinnded flint France he compelled to drop the Knhr Invaihm. Nominally "Clerninn American" meet!ng they ero nddrponod especially by certain "Irlsb-Amer'crn" who nre notorious n hrters of Fncland nnd lovers of Germnnv. nnd who fn-mrrlv fried te Induce ApioHcii to fljln D'.-wd fj-Ireland's fj-Ireland's siike |
