Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Sept. 7. Efforts are being made to stem the tide of democratic insurgency againsT "President Wilson’s demand for unqualified ratification of the peace treaty, including the league of nations covenant. With democratic senators coming out-for reservations, administration leaders intimate that there are only twenty-seven to forty democrats who can be relied upon to stand with the president against any j - Asserting that - the —preside-ntis a course calculated to involve the shedding of American blood in foreign wars, indefinitely, Senator McCormick announced that he would offer a resolution proposing that all American troops in Europe and Siberia be withdrawn and that no jnore be sent abroad unless expressly authorized by congress. Hearings on railroad legislation will be concluded this week and a bill reported to the house by the committee on interstate and foreign commerce within the next three weeks. The' Esch-Pomerene bill, which consists chiefly of extensions of the authority of the interstate commerce commission, will be used by the committee as a basis for the new bill. Prominent Washington people join organizing the People’s Cooperative union, which will combat the high cost of living by establishing its own industries, charging market prices and to the members pro rata on the amount of their purchases all excess profits.