Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS

Thursday, Feb. 12, 1820,, Congress will soon consider legislation for the further regulation of immigration, with the Federation of Labor contending for and employes opposing the proposed provision for the suspension of immigration for two years. President Wilson will resume his grip on government affairs tomorrow and will meet a committee from the railroad employes’ representatives to tell them what he proposes to do with regard to their wage demands, which, Director General Hines has turned down. The president is expected to indorse the position of the director general, but to promise the railroad workers his staunch support in their dealing with the railroad companies. and their demands for congressional legislation to help bring down the coat of living. Little headway was made today in the effort to settle differences over Article 10—-the chief obstacle to ratification of the peace treaty—by means of the substitute reservation put forward yesterday. Officials of the shipping board emphatically deny charges that there is any “secret deal” whereby the German ships on sale are to be disposed of to the International Mercantile Marine with British connections. John Barton Payne will be president Wilson’s new secretary of the interior, succeeding Franklin K. Lane. His appointment will be sent to the senate tomorrow.