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...subcommittee is going to adjourn, maybe because of the trouble I raised. It may not be so; Mr. Green says he is going to see his daughter.* But the Republicans are not doing anything, anyway. They are only stalling. They have no other object except to stall until pressure can be brought to bear against the bonus." The next day Representative Green (Republican, of Iowa), Chairman of the Committee, ordered the bill made public and it was published at large in the press of the country...
...most rabid pacifist should object to such aid to the constituted authority in Mexico is difficult to imagine, and yet Representative Fairchild, a Republican, will criticism this action by introducing a bill to prohibit sale of arms to any foreign nation. Adoption of such a policy would not only repudiate an action which in this particular case is more than wise, but would negate what has always been considered sound international practice...
General Wood, who had been visiting Java on invitation of the Dutch Government, returned to Manila. He declined to comment on the Frear resolution. The Dutch Governor of Java, Fock, will visit the Philippines in March. The object of the mutual visits of the Governors is to exchange knowledge of the art of colonial Government...
Mesopotamia. The joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania under C. Leonard Woolley resumed work at Ur of the Chaldees. The Temple of the Moon God, dating from about 3200 B. C., discovered last year, and only partly cleared, will be the main object of attack. Cuneiform tablets from Ur are arriving in Philadelphia. The U. of P. Museum goes halves with the British Museum on the finds. Dr. George B. Gordon and Sir Frederick Kenyon, the respective directors, shook dice to divide the booty...
Conservation of the helium resources of the U. S. as an American monopoly for both war and peace purposes is the object of bills to be introduced at the present session of Congress. Dr. S. C. Lind, newly appointed chief chemist of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, sponsors the movement. Dr. Lind and his predecessor, Dr. Richard B. Moore, two of the country's leading authorities on rare gases and earths, speaking last week before the American Institute of Chemical Engineers at Washington, out lined the probable future developments of helium and the Government's program...