AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

[Renter Telegrams.] ■" U.S.A. AGITATION. REACHES DEADLOCK. WASHINGTON, June 15. As the day for the adjournment of Congress approaches, there is an indication that the Leader is opposed to further agitation on the prohibition question, and there is little prospect that cither the Dry or the AVet legislative programme will receive action this session.

The Senate Judiciary Commission has already reported adversely upon all the measures proposing a modification of the Volstead Law, or a change in the Eighteenth Amendment, or proposing a national referendum on tho prohibition question, there being six such measures. Senator Edge declared: “We are more than gratified with the progress made. The country now knows the facts, and in time it will act accord-

ingly.” ’ _ Representative Crumpton, the Dry leader in the House of Representatives, admitted that no useful purpose would be served for the House to pass dry measures, since there was little prospect of their passage through the Senate. A last-minute effort may be made to pass a measure for the re-organisation of the Prohibition enforcement-of tho Government, but this is unlikely. Other measures, numbering five, providing for a prohibition border patrol, heavier penalties for violations, etc., will probably have to wait till later sessions. CANADIAN POLITICS. OTTAWA, June 15. The Government had a majority of six on a no-confidence motion by the Conservatives. A DENIAL. WASHINGTON, June 16. E. V. Morgan (United State Ambassador at Rio de Janeiro) cabled, to the State Department a categorical "denial of the report that he congratulated President llernardez on Brazil’s resignation from the League.