Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Nov. 13. By a vote of 46 to 33 the senate adopted the Lodge reservation tb article X. of the league of nations covenant di&entangling the United States from any obligation to mix in foreign quarrels. This means ratification of the treaty with Americanization qualifications, if it is to be ratified at all. —o The department of justice has warned all liquor manufacturers and dealers that if they take advantage of the injunctions to sell liquor they- will -be- prosecutedif—tho—supreme court upholds the constitutionality of the wartime act. Coal operators who have arrived here for the conference called by. the government To an agreement with the miners said they would enter the conference agreed that miners should be given a generous wage. Attorney General Palmer, informed today that Alabama operators were discharging strikers who returned to work, gave warning that the government would take legal steps against operators who restrict production of coal. It was made clear here that the ! United States is opposed to any project looking to solution of Russian problems which contemplates a compromise with the bolsheviki. —o — The department of justice, still on the trail of radical agitators, and preliminary to another roundup of ■freds, caused the arrest of five men in Baltimore. They were circulating soviet propaganda of the Communist Party of America, Chicago. —o — Samuel Gompers, president of the A. F. of L., reiterated today his assertion that former Attorney Gen4kral- Gregory—assured—labor-leaders that the Lever law would not be enforced against labor organizations.