Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Oct. 14. Senator Lodge, in the climax of senate debate over the Shantung agreement of the peace treaty, uttered a warning against helping to aggrandize Japan into a formidable military power* which sooner or later would clash with the United States. Senator Lodge declared that Japan in the past had broken faith repeatedly and should not be trusted to restore Shantung to China. Senator McCumber defended the Shantung agreement. . i_ —o— Samuel Gompers warned the industrial conference today in urging his steel strike arbitration proposed that if capital does not come to an agreement with the conservative labor element it must eventually deal with rampant radicalism of the bolshevise and I. W. W. type. —oi— The cabinet today determined to take a firm grip on domestic probIcms, in view of the president’s illness, and assigned several important issues to various of its mem’bers for special consideration. Secretary Wilson will tackle the threatened coal miners’ strike, Secretary Houston the sugar shortage problem, and Secretary Baker the general problem of industrial unrest. —o — The president’s general physical condition was reported as practically unchanged, except that he is now suffering from an old ailment which has been aggravated by his confinement to bed. —o— In view of the fact that evidence of a conclusive character is in possession of the department of justice that I. W. W. organizations and other radical and anarchistic groups are puotting openly to overthrow constituted government in the United States, Senator Poindexter introduced a resolution in the senate calling upon the attorney general for an explanation of why vigorous- steps have not been taken to suppress and prosecute known offenders and to deport undesirable and rampant aliens from the country. —oh As a means of keeping out undesirable aliens, the house committee on foreign affairs approved the resolution proposed by the state department extending for one year after the proclamation of peace the wartime passport, restrictions.