Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Sept. 15. The Italian ambassador visited the state department today and gave assurances that his government regards the army revolt at Fiume as a mutiny and that it proposed to deal with the situation under the military penal code. The government, he said, proposed to stand by the allies in the agreement over the disposition of Fiume. —o — \ Another American has been kidnapped and held for ransom in Mexico, the state department- was informed today, the message containing the significant report that a British subject and a Swiss subject captured by the bandits at the same time had been released. —o— The Tribune’s copy of the Austrian treaty was submitted to the senate today by -Senator Lodge, chairman of the foreign relations committee, and ordered printed in the Congressional Record after Senator Hitchcock, administration leader, had protested against its being read. Senators praised the Tribune for procuring the treaty. Representative Fuller, of Massachusetts, told Secretary of War Baker reasons given him for the retention of troops in Siberia were “bunk.” The colloquy took place dhiring a hearing of a resolution directing the return of the troops introduced by Representative Mason, of Illinois. Edward Leigh, of Chicago, representing the Railway Business association, urged the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce to allow the railroads to accumulate a surplus for years of adversity. — o — Magon, of Illinois, house declaring the United States at peace with the world.