AMERICAN AFFAIRS

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 April 1924, Page 5

AMERICAN AFFAIRS

IMMIGRATION COMPROMISE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association WASHINGTON, .April 28. A move for a compromise between the Executive and the Legislative branches of the Government, on the question of Japanese exclusion, was continued at the conference between President Coolidge and Chairman Johnson of the House Immigration Committee. An impression prevails that Mr Coolidge advanced a proposal that is believed to satisfy t" Exclusionists, and to avoid and affront to Japan. It is understood it involves thd postponement of (the effective date of the exclusion, with an assurance that the Government will negotiate with Japan with a fair prospect of success, to achieve through diplomacy, the ends sought in the Immigration Bill. WATER POWER MONOPOLY. ' WASHINGTON, April 28. A new sensation involving President Coolidge was revealed in the Senate during the Agricultural Committee's discussion (.of the (disposal of the so-called Muscle Stoals (Alabama) Power Plant, which, next to Niagara, is regarded as the greatest source of water power, and which the Government during the war, used to manufacture nitrates. Mr Henry Ford recently made a bid for a lease to operate the nlant, but the conservationists bittedlv opposed a lease, alleging it would vest private interest, in a monopolistic control of the greatest source of national wealth.