Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Nov. 3. Officials stated here today that several strong undercurrents are at work to' bring the miners and operators together and to end the coal strike before the government injunction suits are pressed further. Whether this will eventuate or not has not been indicated by any facts apparent today, but the administration is hopeful of results. ' —o —- “ Senator Cummins, chairman of the interstate commerce committee, told the senate he believed the president" was preparing to return the railroads to their owners January 1, whether congress has passed adequate legislation by that time or not. This, he said, would result in * “financial catastrophe” and a situation so menacing that he proposed in a short time to move to sidetrack the peace treaty in order to rush railroad legislation through. —o— Figures prepared by the bureau of labor statistics, in preparation for discussion of the eight Jjour day issue by the international labor conference, show that the average number of hours worked by 318,946 males in twenty-eight in the United States was 7.6 per day, while the average worked by 85,812 females was 7.5 per week day. The peace treaty tonight appeared to be stuck on the rocks, the republicans meeting an irresistible force from the democrats in an effort to get a vote, and each side defying the other, , T O Representative King, of Illinois, denounce'd the Edge bill for federal incorporation of financial concerns to finance export business and declared it would “shackle the nations of the earth with the fetters oi trade and grapple them together with hooks of greed.” Lunches between 6:00 a. m., and 7:30 p. m., at the Hotel Makeever lunch room.