Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., April 15. Majority Leaders of the house at a meeting of the steering committee today decided to institute an official investigation to determine whether there is ground for the impeachment of Louis F. Post of Chicago, assistant secretary of labor, on charges of shielding dangerous aliens from deportation. —o — Tension in government quarters over the railway strike. situation was relieved somewhat -today. The railway board was confirmed by the senate and will meet tomorrow. Attorney General Palmer reiterated today his conviction that the strike was part of a revolutionary movement, directed by the Communist Internationale, through the I. W. W. and the Communist party of America. —o — Private ownership of the government fleet of merchant vessels and the appointment of a committee to draw up for the guidance of the shipping board a plan for the selling of the ships was advocated by the conference of business men from Chicago and other cities with members of the shipping board to—o — A resolution directing the attorney general to investigate the manufacture, distribution, and sale of print paper and to institute criminal proceedings against those found to be profiteering, was introduced in the house today by Representative Christopherson of South Dakota.