Show 0 FROM OUR washington correspondent 0 0 muscle shoals in accordance with expectations none 0 of the offers submitted by the bidders and forwarded to congress by secretary weeks in connection with muscle shoals was found acceptable cep table the house military committee acted in a way it was explained pla ined which left its decisions subject to acceptance by any person or interest willing to meet its terms and which will permit it at the same time to support its counterproposal counter proposal before the house when the subject of muscle shoals is acted on in that body care was exercised by the committeemen mitte emen to keep the details of their plan in secret until tile the bidders had received it including mr F ford 0 rd in detroit the senate committee commit tee having the muscle shoals matter in charge is not likely to support any proposal similar to that of the house the senate committee has hag indicated that none of the offers is satisfactory agricultural exports the total value of exports of agricultural ri products is about the same as for last year and about twice the I 1 prewar average for the month of april according to the foodstuffs division of the department of commerce the average prewar value of grain meat and cotton exports for the month of april was about tor for april 1922 this amounted to tariff troubles senator watson republican of indiana in a recent speech strongly criticized the british and italian ambassadors and a number of foreign consular representatives in connection speeches and statements made them american tariff and trade senator watson charged there was a foreign propaganda against the pending tariff bill and declared he denied the right of the representatives of any foreign government to come to this country and instruct us with reference to the policy of our government 11 renewing tile the charge of a democratic filibuster the indiana senator said republicans were convinced democrats did not propose to permit the bill to become law until just before the november elections so that its full effect could not be felt until after that time the charge of a filibuster brought indignant denials from senators simmons pomerene Por nerene harris and others of the mi minority orlay business straws reports issued by the department of commerce covering business conditions for march show that out of 50 commodities for which figures relative to 1919 are available that production increased over february in 43 41 cases decreased in 5 cases while 2 commodities remained tile the same this huge increase is partially real and partially due to the increase of about 10 per cent in working time over february |