Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Aug. 13. — While the administration was seeking nearly $3,000,000 emergency funds from congress to fight the -H. C. L., Attorney General Palmer ordered the exposure of the alleged vast hoards of foods (held by the packers and speculators in the great coil'd storage warehouses, chiefly in Chicago. He instructed his investigators to make public the names of the persons and the amount of their hoardings for higher prices. He thought the publicity would result in release of large quantities of food upon the market, but also promised prosecution of the hoarders and asked congress to provide a penalty for the offense. The Bremen, Germany’s great merchant submarine, was sunk by Lieut. Langley of the British navy, according to Representative King, of Illinois. Langley, he said, was first complimented by the British admiralty for the deed and then rebuked for sinking an unarmed merchant ship. Because the act was viewed as discreditable the news was suppressed and this accounts, Mr. King thinks, for the fate of the Bremen becoming a mystery. Immediate action on the peace treaty was demanded by the administration in default of which Senator Hitchcock said he would move to discharge the foreign relations committee. Chairman Lodge, feeling that the president had (bottled up all the information desired by (the committee, said he was ready to proceed to the revision of the treaty and covenant at once, but his. hand was stayed by Senators Borah, Johnson, Brandegee and Fall, who -demanded that Col. House, Gen. Bliss, and Henry White, the other peace commissioners, be sumbloned from Europe to appear before the committee. Legislation to make railroad strikes unlawful was urged before the house committee on interstate and foreign commence by Stephen C. Mason, president of the National Association of Manufacturers of the United States, Who declared that provision should be made for the appointment of wage adjustment commissions by the president. He favored return of the raproads to private owners and the creation of a transportation board.