Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Sept. 8. With the senate Mexican investigation getting under way today and the missionaries on the stand sounding the praises of the Carranza regime, word came to the state department of another American murdered in Carranza’s country, the vicihis “time-being a goan, Herbert S. McGill, son of James K. McGill, 321 Lockwood avenue, Chicago. He was killed by “unknown bandits,” the message said, at Coapa, state of Chiapas, August 30.

Senator Poindexter, of Washington, in a senate speech today, accepted President Wilson’s challenge to the “contemptible quitters” to “put up or shut up” and offered the president -as a substitute for his league of nations covenant “the constitution of the United States, “the declaration of independence, and “Lincoln’s government by the people.” “Strong” and “mild” republican reservationisfe of the senate have practically reached an agreement upon the reservation program to the league of nations covenant, and they will present a solid front when the time comes to vote in the senate. In an effort to prevent price agreements, Victor Murdock, member of the federal trade commission, asked the house judiciary committee to give authority to the, commission -over voluntary associations of business men. The purpose is to reach such organizations as the American Steel and Iron institute, the institute of American meat packers and the National Coal asso- ' ciation.