AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

ifarUALIAX AND N.Z. CAUI.E ASSOCIATION. RIVERS OF WHISKY. WASHINGTON. Dee. -t The Don Mr Daugherty's annual report suites: —The liquor smuggling business is the greatest criminal prole lem that the United Slates has ever laced. No less than IAO,OUO gallons of whisky, ironi Scotland alone, were i I legal! v imported into the l. nited States within one period ot seven weeks during IbffJThe Bahama Islands have sent thirteen hundred thousand gallons of whisky into the United States in the past twelve months. I here have been eighteen vessels of foreign registry that were raim-running, seized iu the last fiscal year. Mr Daugherlv concluded with a. summary of the tivmeiidous difficulties of enforcing these laws owing to the United -Mates great southern and northern boundaries, and the set of

DEA ill OC K CONTINUES. WAS! IINGTON. December^' A situation unprecedented in recent Congressional annals is occurring with the House if Representatives deadlocked over the selection of a speak.-r. Seventeen Republican memheis have boldly and effectively divided the party, and. after two days, every effort to break tip the cliques has oe.ii futile. Tim House L now meeting privately ;>t night .sessions, to attempt a reconciliation which is yet uncertain, despite ev-n President Coolidge’s efforts to pour oi! on the troubled waters. The cliques tielilying tactics savour of a deeper .significance than was at first apparent. They are attempting to force a promise from the various leaders, including the democrats, immediately to amend the House rules in a way, assuming the abandonment of the closure, and enabling the minority destruction of undesirable legislation by endless debate.