Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., April 13. President Wilson moved today to deal with the menacing .situation brought about . by the railway strikes. He called a cabinet meeting for tomorrow mornigg and announced the appointment of the railway labor board, the members *of which will be confirmed by the senate tomorrow. The board will have its headquarters in Chicago. —o — Spurred by the menace of a na-tion-wide transportation tieup, senators today were disposed to the conviction that nothing short of straightout prohibition of railroad strikes would serve as a permanent safeguard. - ■ — —o— The Growing conviction among government officials that there is behind the spreading railroad strike a covert motive that strikes at the vitals of American institutions, led the department of justice today to increase its vigilant search for evidence on which to proceed against the agitators. 7 ( ' — 0 > The’ war department today released for public consumption its surplus food stores in Chicago and other centers, and the department of justice urged all district attorneys to curb profiteering that might arise as a result of the strike enforced food shortage. —o— — With four Democrats voting in the negative, the house adopted a resolution reported from the Mc“Kenzie subcommittee of the war investigating' committee requesting the attorney general to institute criminal and civil proceedings againstT army camp contractors. / — In order that the parcel post may be used to a greater extent during the railroad strike Representative Randall of California today introduced a resolution providing for the consideration by the postmaster general and interstate commerce commission of the advisability of increasing the present weight and measurement maximum. Martin J. Gillen of Racine, Wis., was today appointed by President Wilson to be a member of the shipping board, Succeeding Henry M. Robinson of California.