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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1922
Page
2
Washington reports 10,000 aliens naturalized in July. Panama Canal tolls exceed 1 million with 281 ships passing in August. Census Bureau notes birth rates fall while deaths rise in first quarter. House approves anti profiteering coal bill. Senate passes soldiers bonus. Harding eyes Detroit cornerstone for Masonic temple September 18.
Senator Johnson renominated by California Republicans as Baxter predicts further conflict over the bonus bill with Simmons and Simmons amendments. Germany receives six months’ respite. The piece notes a federal injunction halting railway shopmen strikes, labor strife, coal shortages, and political maneuvering in Washington as Harding contemplates a veto.
The House approves the administration emergency fuel bill by 214 to 61, granting the Interstate Commerce Commission power to regulate coal prices using priorities. The act ends January 1, 1924 unless revived by the President during a later emergency. Senate resumes Borah coal commission discussion.
Representing the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees and a railroad shop laborer last week petitioned the rail way labor board to establish a new wage scale and recognize a living wage principle. The board refused, holding a just and reasonable wage is a living wage. Grable then wired Chairman Cummins of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee urging amendments to transportation laws to insure a minimum living wage for railroad workers.
The senate approved the soldiers' bonus bill by a 62 to 22 tally with many absences or paired votes. Analysts note 15 senators would have supported the measure, leaving the necessary two thirds short of overriding a presidential veto. The Wednesday proceedings included two major actions.
California voters backed Senator Hiram Johnson for renomination with C C Moore defeated for the challenger spot. All incumbents were renominated. State Treasurer I W Richardson beat Governor W D Stephens for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. District Attorney T L Woolwine nominated for governor by the Democrats. Woolwine is wet while Richardson is dry.
The piece discusses strained Italy Austria relations amid a supposed economic union plan with Austria and British French backing. Yugoslavia opposes Italian expansion and seeks Klagenfurt, while Serbian irregulars rumored to threaten the region. Czechoslovakia eyes northern Austrian provinces should Austria split. Hungary warns it can resist incursions.
Allies accept a six month moratorium on 1922 reparations payments to Belgium and Italy. Germany will supply 70 million dollars in treasury bonds to Belgium, with Brussels to receive the balance due this year. A November conference will set the 1923 schedule as the crisis eases.
Reports recount a overloaded Chilean vessel sinking near Coquimbo with 316 drownings and only six saved. A Japanese cruiser Niitka sank in a typhoon with large loss of life. In Jackson California a fire trapped residents believed to be rescued later.
A group of boys on a weekly X M C A camping trip in a park gathers around a campfire for devotions. The secretaries reading from Acts recount Paul warning comrades of danger, prompting a boy named Bly to remark that Paul is "just like the rest of us."
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