Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Nov. 2. While efforts were continued by labor leaders to bring Acting President Lewis of the mine workers’ into a conference here to settle the mine strike by arbitration, Warren S. Stone and other members of the railway engineers’ advisory board put forth a proposal to bring about peace between capital and labor through am industrial commission. —o— . Senator Hitchcock said that he expected to confer with President Wilson this*week on the plans to prevent qualification of the resolution ratifying the peace treaty with the reservations to the league of nations covenant supported byna majority" of the senate. He thought the treaty might be disposed of about the mid d 1 e of the mon t h. — — o — by Admiral Sims of his statements in a current magazine article that the Sinn Feiners were openly pro-German and bitterly hostile to American sailors is demanded in a letter addressed to Secretary of the Navy Daniels by the Irish national bureau, which claims that the admiral’s charges are unfounded and “an insult to millions of Americans who are solidly behind the Irish republic.” —o — The commerce department, reviewing a century of immigration, finds that as many Irish have come to this country in 100 years as there now are Irish in Ireland. ■ - —o—- . Villa is reportedready for his long heralded big drive on Carranza. He is said to hold the balance of power between Obregon and Gonzales, candidates for the presidency, each of whom has sought Villa’s support.- Warning that in a finish fight between Obregon and Gonzales Villa might easily take [Mexico City, Luis Cabrera is urging the indefinite retention of Carranza in the presidency.