Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-21
Washington Document is
Kept Secret by Mutual
Agreement.
OFFICIALS ARE SILENT
Press ReiterateS Question Is
One That Must Be Wiped
Out by New Ideas.

Toxic, May 21.-The foreign ofic,
received and is studying the reply of
the United States to its original pro-
test in regard to the California land
legislation. 1t declares by agreement
with Washington the document will
not be made public. The officials make
no comment. The press today reiter-
ates the question goes deeper than the
ownership of land or the making of
treaties. and that it is a racial dis
elimination which must be wiped out
by mutual education and understand
ing and fusion OF ideas.
sIssON is MUZZLED.
Washington, D C., May 21.-Presi-
dent Wilson today sent for Represen-
tative Sisson Of Mississippi and urg-
ed him not TO mske a speech that
would offend the sensibilities of ia
pan.
Sisson, who recently made O war
! speech had given notice of his inten-
! tion to speak in the house Friday on
the legal phases of the Japanese alien
| land question. He assured Wilson, ac-
cording TO the White house version, he
would not discuss the pending negotia-
tions or touch anything of an incen-
diary character. Sisson himself de-
clined TO make any comment, declar-
ing merely he would speak Friday.
CURRENCY PLAN AGREED ON.
Washington, d. c., May 21.-Chair-
man Owen of the senate banking COM
nIittee said at the White house today
that an agreement practically had
been reached as to the fundamentals
Tor currency reform. Those working
on the subject, he said, felt that the
system of regional reserve banks was
the best means of mobilizing reserves
and that an elastic currency should
be obtained by the issue of money
through such banks based primarily
on the credit of the United States, the
gold in reserve and upon private Sc
curities.
The fight between republican and
democratic senators over making pub
lie the names of manufacturers who
appear before the senate finance sub
committee and publishing briefs filed
in protest against rates was renew
cd today when the finance committee
met.
NEW PROBE RESOLUTION.
Chairman Smith called the commit
tee on education and labor together to-
day to consider the Kern resolution
to direct an inquiry into conditions at
the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek coal
fields in West Virginia. The commit
tee authorized a subcommittee of five
to draft a new resolution directing an
= inquiry by the full committee Of edu-
cation and labor, with a subcommit-
: tee to take testimony in West Virginia.
The subcommittee preparing the re-
: port and resolution to be given to the
senate is composed of Swanson,
Shields, MARITIME, Borah and Kenyon.
Kenyon says the resolution will be
; broad in scope Sessions of the entire
committee will be held in Washington.
ON AGRICULTURAL SCHEDULE
Senator Williams, chairman of the
+, finance committee considering the
agricultural schedule announced 1t had
? been decided to treat beef cattle.
sheep and hogs and their products.
, wheat and -four, oats and oatmeal on
an equal basis. IL the duty is to be
put on raw material it is likewise to
be put upon the products, or vice YER
sa. That the subcommittee had decid-
: ed to put cattle, wheat. etc, on the
free list with beef and -four Williams
: denied, declaring it, had not been de-
termined upon what basis such ayti-
cles would be treated, whether dutia-
BILE or undutiable.