Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D .C. Dec. 8. The forecast by leading republicans gathering here for the national committee meeting is that the national convention of the party will be held in Chicago June Bth next. The choice lies between Chicago and St. Louis, but committeemen who claim to know say that Chicago will be chosen. Candidateboomers are beginning to arrive, Lowden boomers from Illinois coming in tomorrow. John T. King, of Connecticut, original sponsor for Gen. Wood’s boom, is on the ground exuding enthusiasm for his candidate. —OH President Wilson, in a letter to Senator Fall, brought intervention in Mexico to an abrupt halt. The president said he would view with alarm the adoption of the Fall resolution requesting severance of Mexican diploinatic relations. Senator Lodge, chairman of the foreign relations committee, promptly decided that the committee would hold no further meetings on the Mexican issue at this time at least. , —o— With sugar in some parts of the country selling for 27 cents a pound and none to be had in other sections, the senate boiled over in wrath today. Charges were made that the government had failed to halt the soaring prices and had actually helped boost the prices in permitting Louisiana producers to fix them. A peace time regular army of 300,000 men and 18,000 officers was decided upon by the house military subcommittee headed by Representative Anthony, republican, of Kansas, framing the army reorganization bill. The number of combat troops was fixed at 250,000. —o— Curtailment of the size of newspapers until July 1, 1920, is provided in a bill introduced in the house today by Representative Anthony, of Kansas. Daily newspapers must be limited to twenty-four pages, Sunday newspapers to thirtysix pages, weekly and bi-weekly periodicals to seventy-five pages, and monthly periodicals to 100 pages. Sentence of dismissal imposed by a naval court martial on Capt. Edmund George Chamberlain, an aviator in the marine corps, on charges growing out of his sensational claims of having defeated a vastly, superior force of German airships on the western front, was approved by Secretary Daniels. The Chamberlain case now goes to President Wilson. >