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. ® President Harding Due . . For Visit I 2 August. No Informatinn yet Received as (0 a More Definite Date; Leaves Washington June 20 WHOLE TRIP REARRANGED Many Western Speeches Cancelled to Allow Return to Washington via Canal and Porto Rico. President Harding’s plans have been rearranged so as to provide for a visit to Porto Rico after his Alaskan trip, acenrding to cables reczived from Wash- ington this week. No definite time has been set for the President’s visit and so far as can be learned probably he will not be here until some ti ne in Aucuse, No definite information has been re- ceived here as to when the President will leave Washington nor as to the probable time of his return to the States from Alaska. Rece:'t news despatches, however, have stated that it was the President’s plan to leave Washington on June 20. His trip to the Pacific Coast is still in the process of revision, it is understood, and with his expressed de- sire to return thru the Canal and by way of Porto Rico, it is believed will necessitate still further wmodifications The President originally planned make several speeches on his way t} ru the West as ®ell as on his return. Sme of these tentative engagements Fave been cancelled while with the ch: nge of his plans to recross the continznt fur- ther changes are believed to be necelsa- ry. Not only is the President believed to be anxious gcome to Porto Rico, whict he has neve®seen, buc it is also believe , that if possible he would like to ave.d the long railroad trip back across jhe continent during the heat of the m d- summer. By taking a steamer either ‘'t Portland or some other Pacific port, h- wiil be able to return to Washington, if he so desires, entirely by water. Not only would this trip be far more com- fortable but it will give the President an opportunity for a period of rest which he could not hope to have skould he hold to his original plan of returning by lail and making numerous speeches. No information has been received as to who will ecompose the President’s par- ty, but with the exception of newspa- per men it is not believed that the Pre- sident will have a large travelling party wit}? him.—Porto Ricd Progress, May 26th. DROSTES SHIPWRECKED BUT SAFE AT Sl. JOHN'S. *‘Shipwrecked safe everything losst’’. S I kU2 2 S That was the eable messaze that came Thursdoy from the Rav. J. Drostc and Mrs. Droste to Bishop Colmore. The message was sent from St. John’s Naw- foundland. Mr. and Mrs. Droste sailed from here thre# weeks 2o for New York and were to have sailed from Montreal for -Holland on Friday of last week. Their message was dated Wednesday, May 23, so that it is supposed here they had actually been at sea only a short time before thes® met with an accident, It is presumed here that their shiv encountered an iceberg. They were in the general rezion of the Titanie disas- ter of April 1912. Mr. and Mrs. Dro.te are in charge of the Episcopar mission near Manati and both are natives of Holland. This was their first vacation in three years and they vere planning to sp2nl it in Hol- land.—lbid. TLLEGRAMS, SELOCROIX S .’:\TI().\I.. Concerning Prohibition, Washington, Juna 3rd. -Tha Treasury tossed on the interna‘ional doorstep its new regularions carcyiag oit the Sa- preme Court deecision barring all liquor from territoria! waters of the United ates after 12.01 a. m. June 10th. No .opholes have been left, according to a Treasury spokes:nan, and the court’s re- cent construction of the dey law will be rigidly applied. Having failed to find any way by which conflict with foreign laws could be avoided, the Treasury bases its new liquor rules on a literal reading of the court’s opinion and is prepared to let come what may. Its oniy hope for allev- iating a situation, which most officials ~oree will b embarrassing to interna- t.. 'ecommeree. was said to lie in rem- edial legislation trom tne uca. .. ~vess, Except for the exemption granted mear- cinal liquor, the usual immunity aceorded diplomats and the privileges allowed for- eign vessels of war, the regulations per- mit of no inbound passage of aleoholic be verages, Corsideration is given, how- ever, 1o ships foreed by the extremity of distress to putisinto United States harbors. But even such vessels, ifthey have liquor aboard, must show that the necessity was grave and the proof must be con- vincing, after which they will be re- quired to give bond for the faithiul ob- servance of the dry law. Concerning the hope among foreign wartime powers of relief from what is rezarded as one of the most drastic interpretations ever given by the Supreme Court, some Trea- sury officials feit tonight that Congress might find away of circumventing the import deadline. Gthers weive convineed that the barred zone was due to remain until a change was made in the eigh- teenth amendment. In this connection it was pointed out Ly tbe latter that the Jacision of the Supreme Sourt was tased fundam~>2ntal'y on the sweeping provi- sions of the amandm>nt, rather than on the enforecement azt and that the court held, regardless of whather liguor for beverages was bcing imporied, its be- ing earried for any such pirposes with- in the three mile limit eonstituted transportation, which is specifieaiiy {or- bidden by the amendment. Lezisiation to relieve the situation, from the toreign view point, it was contended, could searcely b 2 other than in contraven- tion of the eonstitution and theretore invalid. Specifizally, the regulations pro- vide. No merchant vessel, domestie or foreign, may lawfully carry as carzo within the territoral waters of the United States any liquor for use for beverage purpaes. Liquor for non-beverage pui- poses inay b= transporied within (he ter- ritorial waters of the United States under permit, in accordance with the provision of seerion 93 or regu'ation 65 (Medicin- al ard sacramental). It is uniawtul for any United States or foreign vessels, within terrizorial waters of the United States, to covry or possess as sca stlores any liquor whatsoevor fur beverage pur- poses. The exempiions accorded by the regulations have set down restric- tions that require permits and reports of a character and quantity suth- cient to give the Government a com- plete chart on all liquors thus brouzbt into the barred 2zoae, or landed on American soil. Provision has been made, however, that the seizures di- rec... .uua the fines allowed to be im- posed ‘may not apply to vessels which have left a foreign port prior to June 10th, and which reaches a port of the United States after the band is operative. No limitation is preseribed for the amount of medicinal liquor which any eraft may possess in [nited States water, the regu- lations stating only that a reasonao.e quantity be retained for such non-bever- age purpoges, nntil the master of the vessel hus had ‘‘a fair opportunity to obtain either a tpermit, or certificate of mecdicinal need.’”’ New York, Jun 2 4th.—Three days af- ter the signing by Governor Smith of the repez2l of the Mullan-Gage prohibi- tion enforcement law, four States, ac- cording to the New York Tribune, are more or less definitely in revolt against the eighteenth amendment. These are Massachusetts, Connecticut, [llinois and Wisconsin. Others, including virtually all the great industrial states, are ex- pected by the wet torces to line up be- hind these b=fore the week is out. '‘Got- ernor Smith’s action in affixing his sig- nature to the repezl’’, the Tribune says, *‘appears to have given to the anti-dry forees in all quarters precisely the tan- gible initiation toward concrete action which during the months of miscella- peous grumbling they have been await- ing. In Ma:sachusetts, accordlng to the constitutional liverty league, this will