Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Nov. 10. The government, through Attorney General Palmer, today declared that organized labor or any other group of citizens is not greater than the law of the land and replying sternly to the defiant statement yesiterday of the American Federation of Labor in support of the illegal coal strike, gave warning that the law would be enforced. The attorney general accepted the challenge of organized labor to a finish fight, if necessary, but expressed the hope that the enjoined miners would obey Judge Anderson’s mandate and that the miners and operators would get together. ! . . o—- ' The house, 'by a vote of 309 to 1, voted to exclude from membership [Victor L. Berger, of Wisconsin, on the ground of ineligibility because he “had given aid and comfort to the enemy in the war with Germany.” Berger made a bitter speech ! on the floor before the vote, declaring that he took back nothing he had said for which he was convicted, assailing congress, the courts, and President Wilson. —o—l~The Russian problem, it is learned here, is to be referred for solution to the league of hations, and is to constitute the first great test of the powers in the league. It is proposed that the league should give mandates to the various powers over different elements in non-Bolshevik Russia, each power to confine itself to assisting the particular element assigned to it.