Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Dec. 10. Louisiana senators, acting on behalf of their sugar producing constituents, who have been authorized by the administration to exact 17 cents a pound for their crop, began a filibuster today against the McNary bill to relieve the sugar shortage and check exhorbitant prices. —o —_ The republican national committee chose Chicago as its convention city today. The vote was 44 for Chicago to 9 for St. Louis. Tuesday, June Bth, was the date selected. —o —'■ The American Legion today urged universal military training and a small standing army before the senate military committee. Missed train connections delayed 85,000,000 letters during the month of March alone, Assistant Postmaster General Praeger said before the house postoffice committee. A house resolution authorizing expenditure of an unused balance of the passport bureau’s $600,000 fund to check immigration of radicals was passed today by the senate. A senate postoffice subcommittee has approved a bill introduced by Senator Dial, democrat, South Carolina, providing for a drop letter rate of 1 cent an ounce. The postoffice department indorsed the measure. —o — Several hundred representatives of organized labor w’ill assemble here Saturday at the behest of the American Federation of Labor to deliberate upon a peace time policy for w’orkingmen in the United States.