Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. Dec. 24. President Wflson issued a proclamation returning the railroads to their owners on March 1 next. By i that time congress is expected to have enacted the pending legislation reorganizing the transportation systems of the country on a new basis. —“° — IL The president and Mrs; 'Wilson are to spend Christmas practically alone at the white house' tomorrow. Mrs. Wilson during the day, accompanied by Dr. Grayson, will distribute presents among relatives and friends and leave packages for the youngsters along the route to the president’s golf links. —o•— Senators Knox and Kenyon conferred today with Assistant Attorney General Becker, of New York, over the contemplated investigation of Russian soviet propaganda in the United States and the connection therewith of Ludwig Martens, the Russian soviet representative in New York. It was decided to make the inquiry a thorough one, Tasker H. Bliss, of the American peace mission, just returned from Paris, says the great need of Europe is a proper distribution system for supplies. The faulty distribution, he says t is largely responsible for the existing European troubles. The state department has ordered all shipments or arms to Mexico cut off. No comment is given as to the reason for the act or whether it may be the forerunner of a more drastic Mexican policy. ' —o— Thew United States has yielded in its clJim to seven former German passenger vessels which have been held by the shipping board as a club to"* force the British to give up all claim to oil tankers owned by a German subsidary, of the Standard Oil company.