Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Sept. 18. President Wilson’s telegram to the commissioners of the District of Coilumibia submitted to a senate committee today indicates that the president and Samuel Gompers have reached a parting of the ways over the issue of unionizing the police. —o — ' , Senate republicans decided today to mobilize their forces for a showdown on Senator Johnson’s amendments to the league of nations next week and Senator Johnson has been recalled from his speaking tour to lead the fight. —o— Gen. Pershing told a committee sent by Mayor Thompson to invite him to Chicago that he would be glad to visit that city and that he certainly would endeavor to do so at some future time. For the present he has canceled all public visit, but the general was much impressed with the Chicago invitation and said so. —o — Official intelligence received here says that the Persian ministry which recently signed the Anglo-Persian treaty is panic-stricken, fearing assassination, so great is the revolt in the country over the alliance with England. —o — Gen. Pershing was the central figure at a joint session of the senate and house at which the thanks of congress voted in resolutions adopted recently were formally tendered to him. It was the first time since the civil war that an army officer had been accorded this honor.—