Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 312, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

\Washington, D. C., Dec. 29. Scores .of conferences between senators today failed to net any material results in the way of a compromise on the peace treaty. Senator King of Utah, democrat, presented a new set of reservations, but ■ the “mild reservationists” said it failed to meet the most vital of all their objections. Charged with having" planned the release on bail of Consular Agent Jenkins to “get the laugh on the Americans,” three prominent Mexicans will be called before the senate subcommittee investigating Mexican affairs to testify as to the activities of Carranza agents in the United States. Additional outrages on Americans in the Tampico oil district were today reported to the state department. Memb'ers of were skeptical of the success of the plan for a national tribunal for the settlement of industrial wagfe disputes as suggested by President Wilson’s industrial conference. Officials of organized labor lost no time in voicing their criticism. The long sought appropriation for a new Chicago postoffice will not have easy sailing in this session of congress, because of the desire of the republican leaders to economize. Chicago members of the house intend to make a fight for it nevertheless.