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Show 1 1 Washington Notes : i WASHINGTON. Feb 26 Herbert Hoover, who is to be secretary' of com-jmerce com-jmerce after March 4. arrived here to-day to-day from New York and went into conference with Secretary Alexander to discuss affairs Of the department of commerce Hl KRS-U LRBORS BUU WASHINGTON. Feb. 26. Without ;ilb r)ng the measure us framed by tho house, the senate last night pussed the navai rivers and harbors auoropriatlon hill, carrying fl6.UOo.t00 of new ap-proprlatlona ap-proprlatlona and authority for the expenditure ex-penditure of H7. 000, 000 In uncxpend-.'.1 uncxpend-.'.1 inilatices durlne the next fiscal year. The t.in allows li'.soo.ooo more than carried for tho resent year. Southern senators attacked the appropriation ap-propriation as loo small for tho needed need-ed improvements, and Senator Harri-Deniocrat, Harri-Deniocrat, Mississippi, said he "almost spurned It." but he lost on roll call, AA to IS, when he attempted to raise the figure to $3.000,000. Chairman Jones announced, how-ever, how-ever, that he expected another rivers and harbors bill would be brought out at the special session. The present measure allows the army engineers discretion In distributing the funds and specifies no localities tor expenditures. M KTi:s DEPORTATION WASHINGTON, Feb 26 Officials of the department of labor acknowledged acknowl-edged last night that the warrunt of Street ami order of deportation against Ludwlg c. A ic. Martens, the Russian Soviet aKnt who was recently deported, deport-ed, had been cancelled, but denied that this would servo to permit his return to th,. United St ites. Although Martens was never recog-tl recog-tl ,1 as the ambassador of soviet Russia, department officials said he was rocoimized as a representative of that country and as such it was felt that he merited certain consideration. Inquiry developed that the warrants of Emma f.oldman and Alexander Berxman, who were deported several months ago, have not boon oancelled. 01 VIOCRAT UNSEATED. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2D. Patrick HcLaqe, of Scranton. democrat, representative rep-resentative from the Tenth Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania district, was unseated by the house late last nUtht on charges of violating the corrupt Drarlices act and because of election frauds. Immediately after taking this action, the house adopted a rcnort by the committee on elections declaring John R Farr, Republican, also of Scranton, duly elected and entitled to Mcl-ano's seat. The vote to unseat McLane was 161 to 121. Before proceedings to Dut McLane out, a motion to sen.l the contest back to commlltoe for further consideration wa rejected. 161 to 121. Tho vote to' seat Farr was 158 to IOC. all roll calls Showing members voting ntrlctl along party linos Farr was sworn In Just hefore midnight. For the six legislative legisla-tive days remaining durlnsr which ho Will servo, the new member will draw salary and Incidental expenses approximating approx-imating $21,000. McLano already has drawn his pay to date and will Ioko only six dcys' salary. stm K LRDS PKAI, WASHINGTON. Feb. 26 Examination Examina-tion of the records in the district supremo su-premo court showed that the Interest In tho ChlcaRo stockyards sold hy Ar mour & Company to F H. Prince & Company, of Uoston, with tho court's consont, represented 20 oer cent of the total stock of tho stockyards company. com-pany. The number of shares sold was approximately ap-proximately ir,,000 InsteM of twenty as first reported, and the price paid j by Prince ,t Company was 11,600.000 I This gives tho Boston company con-it con-it ol of all of the stock of tho yards WATER POWER PROJECTS WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 Former I Senator Weeks, of Massachusetts who as secretary of war In President Hard-' lngs cabinet, will bo chairman of the federal power commission, said that' tho reorganised commission would take up pending applications for power pow-er projects soon after March 4 Aff?r that date the commission will bo composed of the new secretaries of war, Interior and agriculture. The .present commission has before it several sev-eral hundred applications and already has started Investigation of a number of them. . I |
