General Application of Penalties fo Common Carriers i ats N.cD.N, SPECIAL senvICD
Washington, Sept. 23.
The Senate to-day approved, by a ote of 4 to 23, a House amendment making. shipowner opium transportation on th by illegal means.
Owners and master were liabi penalty of G.$25 an ounce for juggled opium, and to-day's action restored House amendments making {penalties applicable to common carfers and providing that these penalties should constitute a lien upon the vessel, which might be enforced by lib Unless hereafter changed, the measure will permit the Treasury to remit penalties where petitioners ble to prove that a penalty has ybeon incurred without negligence or intentional violation of the law.
Congressional analysis 2f opium violation since 1923 showed that. opium was seized on 20 ships reach-ug San Francisco, upon which fin of $608,000 were' levied but only: 7$16,000 were actually paid—United WHO REPARATIONS BANK, British Delegates to Committee for Organization London, Sept. 20.
The Governor of the Bank of England has appointed Sir Charles addis and Mr. W. T. Layton as the {British members of the Organization Committee of the Bank of International Settlements.
'Sir Charles Addis is a director of the Bank of: England, while Mr. Layton is a director of the National 'Mutual Assurance Society and was formerly' director of the Economic and Financial Section of the League of Nations.—Reuter.
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