Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Oct. 21. Secretary of the Navy Daniels admitted in an interview today that he divided the navy into two equal fleets, with the approval of the president, without consultation of the general board of the navy, the highest authority on strategy. The secretary said that in doing so he had not violated the principle of naval unity enunciated by Admiral Mahan and sustained by the general board ten years ago, when it refused to approve division of the naval force into Atlantic and Pacific fleets. —o— Democrats of the senate are in open revolt against the unyielding attitude of the president and Senator Hitchcock on peace treaty reservations and a democratic conference had to adjourn today because it could not agree on a policy to 'be followed relating to reservations. Some of the democrats are trying to induce Hitchcock to admit that there must be some reservations. —o—- • Action on the bill for the deportation of alien slackers who withdrew first citizenship papers to evade the draft was urged by Representative Kelly, of Pennsylvania, as not in conflict with treaties with neutral nations relative to exemption from military, service. was agreed that this class of aliens had renounced their allegiance to their native lands. With only two negative votes the house passed the budget bill recommended by the special committee of which Representative, Good, of lowa, chairman bf the appropriations committee, was head. It provides for a bureau of budget in the off ice of the president and an independent audit. - - :