AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN ANI) N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. AMERICAN -AFFAIRS. tßeceived this day at >450 a.nt.) WASHINGTON. January 22. President Harding has signed the N s -* val Appropriation Bill cm tying the Congressional suggestion that another i-,. ri, ‘ ieiial contereiice he called to li.ei: submarines, aircraft and auxiliary ships. KARTH OFA K E REGIST I: RED • WASHINGTON. January 22. The seismograph at Georgetown University registered an exceptionally severe earthquake lasting three hours estimated, to lm 2 500 miles distant:* “-^"V U.S.A. POLITICS. WASHINGTON January 22. Feeling in Senatorial circles is running so high over Administiation politics. that many turnouts are circulating. There is a report that Mr Hughes is out of sympathy with President Harding’s policy, and ■ will resign. Mr Hughes has denied the rumour. Another canard was that Mr Hughes had quarrelled with Colonel Harvey (Ambassador at Foudonh Ibis also is dissipated. Meanwhile the stage N set. for one of the biggo-t lights known in American polities, over the foreign policy of the Government. When cPresident Wilson met the Senatorial stonewall ovoi the League of Nations, it, was because the Senate was Republican. Now a Republican Senate is on the verge > of breaking the leash of a Republican President. There is a storm in the Washington air. P,resident Harding, who is just re- • covering from an illness, is overwhelmed with work, and tile Fliief Undersecretary of the State Department has resigned to assume an ambassadorial position, leaving Mr Hughes with more work than some Senators allege that he call do.

The reports from the Ruhr arc also causing some disquietude. Public opinion can definitely he said <o be setting against the French, and it is remarkable to note how the popular sympathy, which during the war was always with the French’; is turning the other way.