London, Jan. 9, Prince George to-day performed the ceremony of opening the annexe jof the National Gallery, which has] been erected by the generosity Sir Joseph Duveen znd which is intended for the display of pictures of the Venetian school—British Wireless through Reuter. to carbon monoxide and nitrogen percide. It hed been originally! supposed that they were caused by hydrocyanic acid.—United Press. that nevertheless they were entitled to appointment to the committee in spite of this personal clash.
Unless their desire for places om the committee is granted, Senators Borah and MeMaster may take the fight Yo the floor of the Senate as a result of a revival of the recent charges by Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire that the insurgent. Westerners were "sons of wild jackasses". This jibe still rankles deeply in the bosoms of all the farm bloc" group.
The question of prohibition enforcement is expected to come in for an airing on the floor of the House of Representatives.
Representative Fiorello La Guardia of New York, lead "wet", is declaring that prohibition cannot be enforced. He asserted to Jeorrespondents to-day that there is more drinking in Senator Borah's homo state of Idaho than in New York, a taunt particularly annoying to the "drys" in view of the fact that Senator Bora is in their front rank, Jan. 8
Efforts to harmonize the Eastern and Western wings of the Republicans have proved partially Successful, although Senator Reed Smoot of Utah continues to declare that if Senators William E. Borah of Idaho and William H, McMaster of South Dakota become members of in Ris Senate Finance Committee it will give them the balance of power! and this he believes to be highly)
Senator Smoot asserted that he believes the very fiscal policy of the Administration is staked upon this issue, and he said to-day that he will resign before giving the "farm bloc" leaders a single seat on the committee.
Eastern Republicans take a less serious view of the situation, however, and they have tentatively agreed to give the farm leaders at} east one of the two scats they are demanding. They believe that the result will be less disastrous than is feared by Senator Smoot, whose ire was aroused by the farm bloc uproar which blocked passage of the tarift—United Press,
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