Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Oct. 4. Government officials are making no effort to conceal their anxiety over President Wilson’s physical condition, notwithstanding that his physicians, after another consultation today, reported him slightly improved. While the general belief is that the president is in no imminent danger, there *is anxiety lest his 'recovery fromthe nervous exUmwtinn ■nrKi'/'h bn. nf-Fllj-lnrl him will*" HHuSblOIl WniCn iUiS UlllitluU ill 111 W 111 be so slow that it may be a long time before he can resume active participation in important affairs. —o — Senators who are opposing the treaty have received encouraging reports from Senator Johnson’s meetings in California, where the president was reported to have gained such strong support for the treaty and league covenant. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, told the house interstate commerce committee that the American workingman would not obey an anti-strike law even if congress should incorporate such a provision in pending railroad legislation. Such a law, he said^—was__ unAnierican, would fziriH 3SE mnlrp <yF Trio uVIIxX W lllanc xa rv best citizens. ■ o' - Former President Taft and Secretary of the Treasury Carter Glass urged the house budget committee today to devise a budget system for the United States which would put* responsibility for government financial affairs upon the president. Secretary Glass said the government is being run at a great loss and that congress must curb the expenditures .