Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Sept. 30. Urileaa thegovernment takes a firm hold on the distribution of sugar, the price is destined to go to 25 or 30 cents a pound during the next year, and it also will be a scarce article. Experts " say that even under the most favorable Circumstances the price is likely to rise to 15 cents this winter and to remain there for several months. The .sugar bureau of the department of justice has this conviction and it is endeavoring to stamp out speculation and keep retail prices within reasonable bounds. : , The interstate commerce commission, acting on a complaintof the Indiana public service commission that maintenance of lower classifications, ratings, and lower class and commodity rates within Illinois than"applied on traffic from points in Indiana to Illinois was preferential to niinois, railroad administration today that the Illinois scale of class rates be cancelled, but that the Illinois c’assification of freight rates be maintained until there is substantial uniformity in ratings in the general classifications. - —o — The senate adopted Senator New’s resolution calling upon President Wilson for a statement of facts regarding the landing of American marines on the Dalmatian coast without knowledge or authority of Xhe United States. Administration leaders bitterly opposed the resolution, and Senator Hitchcock angrily charged that its chief purpose was to embarrass the president and delay the peace treaty. Senator Lodge emphatically denied this. The American peace mission in Paris has cabled this government urging the immediate American troops to Russian Armenia to save the population from extermjnation. —o — ~ The peace treaty, from all information available, seems to be drifts ,ng rapidly into the deadlock stage, with democrats threatening to vote against a~ratification resolution with reservations. Both sides are charging deliberate efforts to delay, and in the meantime neither side is hearing anything from the president.