Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 317, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Jan. 3. More than 2,600 alien radicals ar* rested by the department of justice last night and today are to be proceeded against under the provision of the immigration laws which provide that persons who advocate the overthrow of the United States government or belong to organizations advocating such doctrine shall be deported. The first evidence of well defined revolt against the administration’s peace treaty among democratic senators came to light today, when a number of democrats agreed to meet in conference tomorrow with Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, to frame a set of treaty reservations with a view to effecting a compromise with the republicans. The senate military committee purposes to force the issue of universal military training in congress, and the subcommittee today made public details of Its army bill, winch provides for a regular army of 280,000 enlisted men and 18,000 officers and for universal training for a period of four months for all young men in their nineteenth year. o■ —' _ n The senate investigating committee learned today from a Mexican witness that the plan for an American to furnish nail for American Consular Agent Jehkins in Puebla was devised In New York by Rafael Nieto, Mexican under secretary of finance, who wired it to Luis Cabrera. . _ It has been leaned here that arrangements have beenmadebetween the United States and the allied powers by which President Wilson will S»ue the formal call for the first council of the league of nations, despite the fact that America has not ratified the war department engineers relative to Mie Chicago take front project nA AnOVn