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PICKARD The senate has adopted a resolution submitting to the states a constitutional amendment under the provisions of which the President and vice president would be inaugurated the third Monday in January after their election, and the newly elected congress would begin functioning the first Monday in January. Does this plan to make the government almost immediately responsible to the will of the voters meet with your approval? In the face of increasing opposition from the Germans, the French are displaying a corresponding increasing determination to have their way in the Ruhr. Moreover, they last week let Great Britain know that they wished her either to cooperate to a certain extent or get out of her way. Minister of Public Works Le Trocquer and General Payot, in charge of communications in the Rhineland, went to London to ask that the British turn over to the French a strip of the occupied territory in order to control the direct railway for coal from the Ruhr. The demand was rather embarrassing to the British government, which cannot make up its mind whether or not to withdraw its troops entirely from the Rhine. It is believed such withdrawal would be ordered at once were it not for the fear that the immediate result would be the setting up of a buffer state there with the support of the French. General Godley, commanding the British at Colgate, favors remaining there as long as possible for this reason only. It is said that in a recent report to Downing Street, the French  of the British on the Rhine through Mr. Bonar Law’s repudiation of the French policy on occupation, warned the cabinet that the British forces were liable to be mixed in the French and German clashes. If they became widespread, and drew attention to the fact that the French were likely at any time to violate the British zone by transporting pollus across it. PRIME MINISTER BONAR LAW and Lord Curzon, in the parliament debates over the king's speech, both expressed disapproval of the French policy. Mr. Bonar Law said the British troops might have to be recalled at any hour and that this meant the almost certain rupture of the entente. He told of the London and Paris conferences, saying that from the first he saw it would be impossible to agree with France, because the French themselves had two aims which were incompatible. They wanted money, but they feared to allow Germany to become strong enough to pay. They were determined from the first to seize the Ruhr, although they were going to get nothing out of it, but because French public opinion would be satisfied with nothing less. On the question of reparations, the prime minister said the French feared to fix any sum which the Germans would be able to pay off in a reasonable time, fearing they would then be able to prepare for a war of revenge. Marquis Curzon, addressing the lord, was equally certain that the French policy is unsound, and closed his speech thus: "America, strong as her views are against intervention in European matters, is closely and absorbingly interested in this question. We have had indications from time to time that she may move." "I should be hopeful as regards the value of her intervention, and if intervention does not take place or cannot through the league, or if it is impossible to invoke the league at this stage, do not let it be thought that for a moment deprecate the idea of international action to solve the problem. I think it only can be solved by international action sooner or later." That Secretary Hughes' plan for a commission of experts to report on reparations is not dead, was shown by the action of the two wings of the Liberal party in parliament. They agreed on an amendment to the address from the throne reading in part: “Ami humbly represent to your majesty that inasmuch as the future peace of Europe cannot be safeguarded nor the recovery of reparations by the operations of the French and Belgian governments in the Ruhr, it is urgently necessary to seek effective securities against aggression by international guarantees under the League of Nations and to invite the council of the league without delay to appoint a commission of experts to report upon the capacity of Germany to pay reparations and upon the best method of effecting such payments, and that in view of the recent indications of willingness on the part of the government of the United States of America to participate in a conference to this end, the British representative on the council of the league should be instructed to urge that an invitation be extended to the American government to appoint experts to serve upon the commission." OCCUPATION of more German towns by the French, the prohibition of shipments of manufactured products from the Ruhr to other parts of Germany, arrests of many officials for defiance of French orders, and decisive steps toward the operation of trains by French crews marked the week in the occupied region. First Recklinghaus and then Gelsenkirchen declared complete strikes against the French, and the latter town was fined one hundred million marks for violation of military orders and because of a clash in which two French soldiers were wounded. Refusal to pay the fine resulted in the arrest of the leading bankers of the place. One of the latest of General De Goutte's orders was that the 10,000 German security police in the occupied region should be disarmed. TURKEY Insists that her decision to close the ports of Smyrna and Ismld to allied warships is irrevocable and that the vessels there must leave at once, and the harbors are being thickly sown with mines. But up to date the warships have not departed, nor have they been fired on. Constantinople is still optimistic, believing an agreement will be reached soon, though each side is waiting for the other to take the initiative for renewal of the peace. Turkey has called out more classes and it is said the authorities at Adrianople have ordered all the old men, women, and children to vacate the city as a precautionary measure. Mustapha Kemal and Ismet Pasha presumably are in Angora by this time, and it is believed they would exert a pacifying influence on the National assembly and that the danger of hostilities was growing more remote. The British government has agreed to make the concessions which the French delegate offered to Ismet after Lord Curzon left Lausanne, and the allies are willing to yield on certain other points, so the signing of a peace treaty may not be very long deferred. THE United States senate passed the British debt funding bill on Friday after several days of more consequential debate. An amendment, offered by Robinson of Arkansas, was accepted, limiting the present legislation to the agreement with Great Britain and providing that congress and not the President shall approve. Of other funding arrangements. DETERMINATION of a majority of the senate to have $56,000,000 expended on river and harbor improvements may possibly lead to the calling of an extra session of congress after March 4, in order that the army appropriation bill may be passed. President Harding, according to veracious reports, thought he had discovered away to circumvent the pork barrel brigade and planned to instruct the Department of War to spend no more than the $27,000,000 which the budget bureau recommended, and to turn the balance back to the treasury. This made the pork senators exceedingly angry and they let it be known that they would organize a filibuster and prevent the passage of the army bill unless they received satisfactory assurances that the entire $56,000,000 would be expended. Senator Caraway of Arkansas was the recognized head of the crowd making this threat. He asserted in the senate that the President was making a bluff in order to win votes for the British debt settlement and the ship subsidy measure. Secretary of War Weeks said that President Harding had given no directions regarding the expenditure of money appropriated for rivers and harbors. "That would not be necessary," said Secretary Weeks. "I saved a large amount of money last year on the war department appropriation but I had no specific order from the President to do so. The fact that the war department engineers told congress, as required by law, that they could expend $50,000,000 this year on river and harbor improvements, is in no sense a recommendation that this amount should be expended." ON MOTION of Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, the senate adopted a resolution citing charges of waste, extravagance, and mismanagement made against the veterans' bureau and directing the special committee which investigated the treatment of disabled ex-service men in 1921 to report on the advisability of instituting a new inquiry into the affairs of the bureau. For some time a shakeup in the affairs of the bureau have been expected, and it is believed in Washington that this is now at hand. It was heralded by the resignation of Colonel Forbes, the director, who is now in Europe. Probably he will be succeeded by either Colonel George E. Lams, assistant director, or Dr. L. B. Rogers, now in charge of the medical division. MRS. MAE ELLEN NOLAN of San Francisco was sworn in last Monday to succeed her late husband, Congressman John I. Nolan. She is the third woman member of the present house. Her election was also to the next congress, of which she is now the only woman member-elect. ACCORDING to a resolution adopted by the Faciété council in Rome, presided over by Premier Mussolini. "A man cannot be a Fascist and a Mason at the same time. The Fascist who belongs to a Masonic lodge must resign from either one or the other organization." The reason for this stand is that the Masonic orders in Italy are largely political and Fascism does not admit of any other political power which has been organized into a secret party. Moreover, the Italian Masons are too much internationalists to suit the Fascist I. who are super-nationalists. The head of the Scottish Rite Masons of Italy is Count Palermo, and he has asked all its members to obey the Fascist order for the good of the country. 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His mother impressed upon him the fact that he ought to have been more careful; that he should wear his own things... and should refrain from using those of another. The favorite son agreed to all this and returned meekly to the house. Mother and brother waited for him to change his shoes. In a few minutes he was back with mates. The walk to church was resumed and the destination reached just as the service started. Mother and the two boys took a seat well forward, the minister was making some announcements, and the church seemed particularly quiet. Suddenly came a loud whisper from the favorite son. “Gosh!” he said, “I got both of Bob’s shoes on now. I changed the wrong one!” Sharing the Exemption. Young Wife (angling for a fur coat) — Now, George, dear, do consider how much my having married you is saving you on your income tax. Ought I not to have part of it?—Boston Evening Transcript. 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