Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Nov. 24. Fuel Administrator Garfield, Attorney General Palmer and Director General Hines of the railway administration framed terms of settlement of the mine wage dispute which will be submitted to the cabinet tomorrow for. eventual promulgation by the president as a demand of the government on both miners and operators. The settlement plan is said to call for a compromies on a-wage raise a little less than the 31 per cent recommended by Secretary of Labor Wilson, but considerably more than the 20 per cent offered by the operators. Before writing the portions of his message to the next session of congress bearing on the rejected peace treaty President Wilson will confer with Senator Hitchcock on Saturday. The senator will urge resubmission of the treaty with a view of reaching a compromise with the republicans on reservations. Carranza failed to reply today to the demand of the state department that he release the American consular agent, William O. Jenkins, at once. The cabinet will consider tomorrow the question of the policy to be pursued if Carranza refuses to comply with the demand.

Western states furnished conspicuously the highest percentage of physically fit men in the army draft. Wyoming heads the list jf its draft registrants physically fit Illinois is twenty-third with a percentage of 70.8 New York is in fortieth place with 76 per cent, and Rhode Island last with 57.6 per UBers have incorporated ;he National Tobacco league, with leadquarters in Washington to •ombat the anti-tobacco" legislation idvocated by the Woman’s Chnsian Temperance union and the Methodist temperance board.