Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. G., Dec. 11. Although he would neither confirm nor deny the report, it was stated authoritatively that Fuel Administrator Garfield has asked the {resident** to accept his resignation. >r. Garfield disapproves of the basis of settlement of the coal strike, which he fears will result in an increase of the price of coal to offset an advance in wages exceeding the 14 per cent he declared fair. — o — Lowden’s candidacy for the republican- nomination for the presidency was officially launched tonight by Senator Sherman and indorsed by all the republican members of the Illinois congressional delegation, who- organized themselves into a Lowden committee to conduct the campaign in the east. —o — After a heated old fashioned political shindy, the senate refused today by a vote of 32 to 27, to lay aside the Cummins railroad bill to take up the McNary bill designed to relieve the sugar shortage and ’’bring down sugar prices. —o Viscount Grey, appointed British ambassador to the United Stated on .special piission, but who, owing to the illness of the president, has been unable to present' his credentials, has decided to relinquish the post. Edward Downs returned today to his home in Indianapolis after a visit here with relatives. Gerald Jarrette, A. S. Laßue, Grant Wynegar and Fred Irwin went to Monon this afternoon. Hunters instituted a wolf hunt near Mt. Ayr last Saturday and as a result a fine large, grey wolf was killed. There are said to be many of the animals in the Mt. Ayr neighborhood and several more drives will be made this winter.