Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Dec. 21. The executive committee of bituminous coal operators refused to accept President Wilson’s commission plan for settlement of the wage dispute which led to the mine strike and called a meeting of operators at Cleveland next Tuesday to. pass on the question of accepting or rejecting the proposition. —o — The war department will sell 1,900,000 pairs of new army shoes at $8.25 and $7.50 per pair to the public through the army quartermaster’s retail stores. ——. —o— The house committee on military affairs has decided not to incorporate any provision for universal military training in the army bill which will provide for an army of 300,000 men instead of 575,000 asked by Secretary of War Baker, and will reduce the war department’s appropriation nearly $400,000,000. /■ —o — Farmers are not enthusiastic over the agreement between the department of justice and the packers, which they assert leaves them out in the cold and more than ever in need of protection through congressional legislation regulating the operations of packers and commission men. —o — Holders of Liberty bonds would be protected from profiteers and the annual income of th§ government increased by over $100,000,000 under a plan proposed by the United States bureau of efficiancy, through which 'bonds may be purchased from their owners and money loaned on them by the government through the postal savings system. /