Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1920 — COLBY BEGINS TRIP TODAY [ARTICLE]

COLBY BEGINS TRIP TODAY

Secretary Will Visit •raid. Uruguay and Argentina—Will Sail on Battleship Florida. Washington. Dec. B.—Secretary Colby, It wb« aald. plana to leave Washington today for Hampton Kottda. from which port he exporta to aall Saturday aboard the battleship Florida on bin visit to Hraall, Uruguay and Argentina. The aecretary'a plana, however. were anld to be aubject to change, although no contingency la «n>eoted to arise that would prevent him from carrying them out. Immediate revision of the natlon’a tux laws on the busts of an annual levy of $4,001 U <OO,OOO. for a |»erlod of four yeurs. and including uu Increase of 2 per cent In the taxes on Incomes up to $5,000, Is urged by Secretary Houston In Ills anuual report sent to congress at Washington. ( • • • A sjtetial message giving the et«mplete expenses of the American pence commission during its work abroad as $1,651,19), was transmitted to the senate at Washington by President Wilson. • • • The British embassy at Washington refused to vise the pussports of the members of the social committee selected by commission of Inquiry on conditions In Ireland now in session to visit Ireland. • • • Net cost of the war to the American government was fixed by Secretary Houston In Washington at $24,010,000,000. • • • President Wilson at Washington declined the Invitation of the Leagu% of Nations to send delegates to take part in„the discussions of the disarmament commission. • • • The treasury at Washington offered for subscription two new Issues of certificates of Indebtedness, the combined Issue for approximately $500,000,000. • • • An appropriation of $1,000,000 to be used In co-operation with the states in forestry work during the next fiscal year lias been asked of congress at Washington by the Department, of Agriculture. • • •

The census bureau at Washington announced that the population of Can'ton. 0., Is 87,091, of which 85,000 are white and 1.349 negroes. The 1919 figures showed 49,916 whites and 291 negroes. • • • Sensational Sinn Fein documents, alleged to deal with purchase of arms and munitions on a great scale, are reported to have been discovered during a raid at Seaforth- Two young Irish girls were arrested. • * • Paris has struck gold! The discovery at Glef, ten miles from Paris, of a two-foot vein of gold-bearing quarts, 80 feet below the surface, has caused furious digging by the residents of the region for miles around. * • * The Sinn Fein has circulated a proclamation throughout the west and south of Ireland declaring that those guilty of “treasonable conspiracy” will be executed as traitors to the Irish republic, says a Belfast dispatch. ** • • Final election returns show a decided radical majority In the new assembly at Belgrade, Jugo-Slavia. The body will consist of 97 radicals, 91 democrats and 55 communists, against SB3 conservatives. * * * An earthquake In Albania in the Tepelenl district to the southwest of Avlona, rendered 15,000 persons homeless. An American Red Cross party in charge of Henry Reynolds of New Britain, Conn., has leftAlvena for the disturbed area. According to a recent survey there are more than 28,000,000 women keeping homes In the United States without servants. *