Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Dec. 2. President Wilson’s message to congress advocated a new tariff policy verging on free trade, suggested reduction of war taxes to promote business revival, and advanced recommendations for pacification of labor and obliterating causes for bolshevism. - Senator Fall, of New Mexico, announced after a conference with Secretary Lansing that he would introduce a resolution in the senate dealing with the Mexican situation, and that he would also lay before the senate evidence that the Carranza government is promoting the I. W. W. movement in this country. —o— Preparations are being made for speedy action on the Lodge resolution declaring the war formally at ah end. - —;■ r‘ —o — Floods of queries about how the government is being operated during the president’s grave illness are being answered with the explanation that officials of the cabinet are doing all of the work. Director General Hines today instructed regional directors of the railroads to review the train service situation and authorized them to eliminate more passenger trains with the least possible inconvenience to the public. This was done with a view to further conservation of coal by the railroads.