Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-08-02
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WASHINGTON NEWS.

Washington.-A Mitchell Palmer,
before the senate judiciary subcom-
mittee, renewed his fight for senate
confirmation OF the nomination as al
! torney general and again vigorously
defended his administration as alien
property custodian.
Washington.-Geor H. Cushing,
managing director of the American
! Wholesale Coal Association, told the
house rules committee Thursday that
| the public would be to blame for the
coal famine which the country prob
ably would face next winter.
| Washington.-By a vote Of 1868 to Al
the house Tuesday passed the Dill
! providing a minimum wage OF 81 Tor
all government employees except those
! in the postal service. The wage is ex-
elusive of the war time bonus of S240
a year allowed employees. The meas
ure now goes to the senate.
Washington.-John Shelton VIII
liams. comptroller of the treasury de-
MED Monday before the senate bank
] ing committee charges by Representa-
| tive McFadden OF Pennsylvania, that
/ he had received a fee in connection
| with the sale of the Arlington hotel
! site here to the government.
n.-Representatiye Mann
| of Illinois, leader of the republican
forces in the house during the last
congress, appeared on the floor OF the
house Monday for the first time in
two months. Mr. Mann left Washing
| ton soon after the new congress was
organized, declaring that ill health
/ made it necessary for him to take
/ long rest.
Washington.-Re of mail
service between the United States
and Germany, effective immedf-
ately, was provided in an order
signed late today by Postmaster Gen
| eral Burleson.
Washington.-One officer and six
enlisted men were killed in the de-
struction of the American mine sweep
er Richard H. Buckley by the ex-
| plosion of a mine in the North Sea
| July II. Two other officers were in
/ jured.
Washfngton.-Scat clashes be-
| tween whites and negroes occurred in
| Washington tonight and at midnight
! the police reported that seven negroes,
| badly beaten, had been taken to hos
| pitfalls and fifteen soldiers and marines
were under arrest, charged with as
! sault.
| n-RepresentatiVe Lever,
| democrat, of South Carolina, was NOM
| mated Thursday by President Wilson
| to be a member of the farm loan
| board. Mr. Lever announced that he
| would resign from the house August
| l to accept the appointment.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
Silver City, N. M--sTrs. Candelaria
| Galvan, 36 years old, Of Hurley, n.
NJ, and nine children were drowned
nine miles east of here late yester-
| day when a wagon In which they were
riding was swept away by q SWOLLEN
stream. Five of the children; whose
ages ranged from 2 to, IS, We're those
of Mrs. Galvan-
| Dallas, Tex-Acting upon the sug-
gestion of Governor Hobby and the ad-
iutant general OF the Texas National
Guard, the Aviator's Club Of Texas.
| viii shortly mature plans which they
/ will submit for th blishing of an
air service branch 70 the national
guard.
Galveston. n.-Immediate action on the
part of the Carranza government to
assert control in the oil regions, re-
kduce the power of Manuel PeIaez and
| unattached bandit groups and estab-
| lisll safe working conditions about
/ Tampico are promised in information
reaching the local Mexican consulate
| Monday morning.
New York Secretary OF State Lans-
ing arrived here from Brest on the
steamship Rotterdam. The secretary,
accompanied by his wife and small
party of state department. attaches,
we're met off quarantine and brought
| @ this city on revenue cutter.
Douglas, Aria complete under
standing was reached on details of a
| plan whereby the officers Of the Unit
"a States arr J ID Arizona and those
of the Mexics j federal army In sono-
"a viii co-op4ate to prevent trouble
along the Ari ona.Sonora boundary.