Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Nov. 22. Miners and operators attempting to settle the coal strike appeared in a worse deadlock than ever tonight after the miners had accepted and the operators rejected a compromise proposal o# Secretary -of Labor Wilson for a 31.& per; cent increase in. wages to make up for cost of living advances. The operators charged that Wilson’s figures were falsely based and advantageous to the miners, and the miners charged the operator** <with criminally delaying negotiations. The announced that they gone as far as they could and appealed to the government for some means of arbitrating the difficulty. president Wilson ha* denied re-

ports that he seeks to oust Senator Hitchcock from leadership in the treaty fight or his taking sides in the minority leadership contest in which Hitchcock and Senator Un- , derwood are candidates. Through Secretary Tumulty the president said Senator Hitchcock’s handling of | the treaty fight was “masterly.” (Senator Warren G. Harding, of (Ohio, is about to come out as a self- ■ confessed aspirant for the republican '(presidential nomination. A fore- , runner of this came today when a (Statement appeared from Harry Td. ' Daugherty, one of Ohio’s republican leaders, authorised by Senator Harding, declaring that Senator Harding is the man the country wants to lead the coming political fight on the issues of Americanism and the welfare of industries and cemmare*. V

' Prospects . for ratification of the peace treaty • through compromise reservations faded today when some of the mild reservation senators said no progress was being made. Senator McCumber, mildest of the mild reservationists, said that not much in the way of concessions could be expected from the treaty opponent*. The state department has had no reply from Gen. Carranza to its ultimatum demanding release from . imprisonment of American Consular 1 Agent William O. Jenkins, but has (heard that Jenkins is still in jail. Carranza will be given a reasonable time to reply to and act on this government’s demands before any further action is taken. •- r W. I. Spitler, who* is now located in Chicago, spent Sunday here with his family.