Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1919 — NEWS FROM AROUND ABOUT US [ARTICLE]

NEWS FROM AROUND ABOUT US

Congressman Will R. Wood has introduced a bill appropriating l $150,000 to reconstruct the postoffice at Hammond, and provide additional room for government activities. The army transport Buford sailed Sunday from New York with Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman and over 200 other anarchists and radicals who are being deported to soviet Russia. i Incorporation papers have been filed with the secretary of state by the Monon Telephone company, Monon, capital $35,000, to maintain and operate telephone exchanges; directors, Claud A. Warner, Floyd N. Warner, Oliver J. Warner. Victor Berger, who was re-elected to congress by the socialists in the fifth Wisconsin district last week, announces that he will go to Washington Jan. 5 to demand his seat. Vic was recently expelled from congress because of his pro-German and anarchist record, and his demand again for a seat in that body will fall on deaf ears.

Mrs. Albert Walstlck, her Fred and daughter Bertha were all instantly killed when their automobile was struck by an L. E. & W. train at a crossing east of Monterey, Ind., Sunday. The car was thrown 100 feet and completely wrecked. Another daughter, Daisy, was severely injured. The trajp stopped and took the dead bodies and the injured girl to RochesterThe Cummins railroad bill, paving the way for the return of railroads to private operation, passed the senate Saturday by a vote of j 46 to 30. The bill went through without change in the anti-strikb and other provisions around which the senate measure was drawn, and was sent to conference for adjustment during the recess with the Esch bill, passed by the house Nov. u 17. Final enactment of the permanent railroad reorganization legislation is expected early next month. Legislation which would amount to a virtual reorganization of the army with protection from outside j attack as a primary purpose and with compulsory military training for boys from 18 to 21 years of age, as a leading feature, has been agreed upon tentatively by the senate military sub-committee considering a permanent military policy for the nation. Senator Wadsworth of New York, chairman of the sub-committee, says that the.

legislation would be put in final form during the Christmas recess o( congress for presentation to the full committee when the senate reconvenes. President Wilson has appointed the three members of the commission to consider the differences between the bituminous coal miners and operators, in accordance with the peace plan proposed and accepted by the mine workers at Indianapolis Recently. The appointees are: Henry M. Robinson of Pasadena, Calif., to represent the public; John P. White, a former president of tho United Mine Workers, to represent the miners, and Rembrandt Peale, a Pennsylvania mine operator, to represent the operators. Mr. Robinson was with the shipping board during the war and Mr. White and Mr. Peale were advisors to Fuel Administrator Garfield.

Judge Anderson of the federal court at Indianapolis remanded fireeating Alex. Howatt, president of the Kansas mine workers to jail Monday for contempt of court while he considered the matter of bond. Judge Anderson declared that he had to either vindicate the law or abdicate in favor of Howatt. There is said to have been 364 strikes In Kansas coal fields during the past 33 months under Howatt’s leadership. Judge Anderson asserted that he consideration the situation in Kansas fields as Intolerable and said Howatt would have to change his attitude toward the law and the court if he expected to secure his liberty. He declared that Howatt had “breathed defiance’’ right here in Indianapolis and that he was going to show him that there is a government Ln this country.