The St. Mary banner., 1919-10-25


the amendments written into the peace
treaty by the foreign relations com
mittee The amendments had been
introduced by Senator Fall, republican.
of New Mexico, and had as their
common purpose curtailment of the
power of the American representative
on the reparatiOn commission, an in
ternational body set up by the peace
treaty to fix and collect Germany S
reparation bill.
Congress was asked to appropriate
800, 900 to provide free cotton seed
TO farmers in Arkansas, Nueces and
San Patricio counties, Texas, whose
crops were destroyed by the recent
gulf storm, in a bill introduced Thurs
day by Representative Bee of Texas.
Baron Romano Avezzano is to be
appointed Italian ambassador to the
United States. The baron has been
minister to Greece.
Attorney General Palmer Friday
made public a report of progress in
the governments campaign to reduce
the cost of living. 1t showed that Sc
cases of actual seizure of boarded
foodstuffs had been made in IS states
and that % other cases were being in
vestigated. Numerous prosecutions
have been instituted.
Without reaching a decision on
recognition of the right of workers to
bargain collectively, the National In
dustrial Conference Saturday closed
the second week of it's deliberations.
A favorable report on a resolution
extending for one year after the procla-
nation OF peace war time restrictions
on passports so as to keep radicals
and undesirable aliens out of the
country, was ordered Tuesday by the
house foreign relations committee.
Military authorities and federal in
trail of radicals who have been spread
ing their propaganda in connection
with the strike in the steel workers
announced Tuesday their discovery Of
an anarchistic plot to destroy abandon
ed army cantonments and other gov
ernment property.
Immediate steps to avert the threat
ened nationwide strike of bituminous
coal mine workers are to be taken by
the federal government.
The Platt bill amending section 5000
of the national banking act, increas-
ing the loans that may be made by
national banks from 10 to 25 per cent
of their capital and surplus, recently
passed by congress, has gone to the
president for approval.
Under q bill passed by the house
Monday members of the District Of
Columbia police force would be for
hidden to join labor organizations.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
Early ratification of the peace treaty
was urged in a resolution adopted
Friday at the closing session of the
American Manufacturers Export AS
sociation, in convention in New York
City.
The Masons holding the annual fall
reunion at McAlester, Ok, Thursday,
voted to build a 100000 dormitory
at Norman for use of boys and girls
Of Masonic families attending the uni.
ysrsity.
The body picked up Thursday Oft
Cape Hurd, Lake Huron, has been
identified as that of Observer Verhey-
den, who with Captain Dammann has
been missing since their balloon was
found wrecked off Cove Light Oct. 4.
Secretary of State Robert Lansing
received the honorary degree of doc
tor Of laws at the annual convention
Of the University of the State Of New
York Friday. This degree has been
conferred by the board of regents on
2G other men and only four of these
men who received the honor are liv-
ing. They are Thomas A. Edison,
Elihu Root, Jules Jasserand and Card
inal Mercier.
Austin, Texas, was selected as the
meeting place in 1920 and Theodore
Bechtel Of Ocean Springs, Miss, was
elected president at the closing ses
sion at Albany, Ca, Friday of the