AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1922, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. U. S- POLITICS. (Received this day at 8 a.ip.) WASHINGTON Nov. 29. ® Air Harding is having trouble with the* old Congress, whose tenure ends on Alarcli 4th. and which lie convened [,. r a special sitting in the hope of passing certain legislation which lie could not hope to pass through the new Congress, because of the reduced Republican majority. The House of Representatives passed the Ship Subsidy Bill, with one or tiVo vitiating alterations, but without ail amendment which would have denied a subsidy to any American ship carrying liquor. The Bill was passed by ® small majority, more than fifty Repul)- ~ licans joining the Democrats and voting “No”. Meantime• tlie Bill cannot go"to the Senate because another administration measure is already there, which promises to disrupt the body. J. the Anti-Lynching Bill, which aims to protect negroes in the South. It has already passed the House but Southern Senators declare they will not permit consideration of the measure in the Senate and have begun a filibuster which they declare they will maintain till March 4tli., making all legislative business impossible. Filibuster means Opposition. Senators obtaining the floor will talk in relays for months. The closure is not-applicable, and a vote is impossible.

U.S. COAL SHORTAGE. (Received this dav at 8 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. The commandeering of coal passing through the territory by various com- r niunities, will result in sixteen million tons. The shortage, due to the miners strike, has become so prevalent that the Federal full distribution Committee has issued a warning that where a community seizes coal intended for another community there is a liability cf reprisal. The burden is general and attempts at taking the law into their own hands will only tend towards chaos and suffering all round. The Federal mine bureau lias issued a statement blaming the recent coal mine explosions resulting in 185 deaths t s the coal strike. It is pointed out tint the—- • strike caused the loosening of moral throughout the coal industry, the lowering of discipline and employment of inexperienced personnel, conducive to accidents. . OIL FETLD RUSH. NEW YORK, Nov. 29 A message from Eldorado, Arkansas, reports a fight similar to those on the gold rushes in America in ’49. during the development of the gold fields. The position is resulting. in conflicts between gamblers and undesirables and self-appointed law forces. A fight occurred to-day in the oil fields involving 2 (100 vigilants and so-called undesirables near there, resulting in many casualties. Some reports indicate 25 are dead. Though these are discount- lj| ed, disorders have recently been occuring in oil-fields engendered by underworld enmities. The vigilants have paraded towns with placards, asking disturbers to quit. Sheriff’s posses are attempting to quell the commotion. DRASTIC MEASURES. WASHINGTON, Nov 29. Mr Daugherty Ins ordered all Fed- , eral Attorneys tlirouglio it the country to tighten tlici prohibition enforcement, and expedite the violation eases before Courts, secuiSng the heaviest- sentences possible. - ■