AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1922, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

IUSTItALU- ino n.z. cable association. U.S.A. POLITICS. WASHINGTON, March (L Mr William Jennings Bryan has issued a statement to-day which is considered by some political Headers as an attempt to assume the leadership of tiie Democratic Party. .Mr Bryan declares his confidence that the Democrats would win a majority in tlio House of Representatives if thev would attack the Republicans’ weak economic policies, as exemplified in ti c revenue law’s defects. Mr Bryan has advised the Democratic Senators to accept the Arms Conference Treaties, because he claims they are actually the creation of the Democratic Party. The Senate Judiciary Sub-Committee has decided that Senator Smoot and Representative Burton are ineligible to sit on the Foreign Debt Refunding Commission, because the law prohibits Congressmen from accepting other Federal offices. This may delay the relumlm--. The Senate has adopted, without debate, Senator Borah’s resolution asking that the Senate he informed whether t!je Pacific Treaty abrogates the Lan-fcing-Ishii agreement regarding the Japanese status in the Orient. President Harding has issued a proclamation prohibiting shipments of arms or munitons of war from the Cnited States to China.