The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-05-30

LiOn VIII uolily uSuiueFS IHdL extra
assessments must be levied until the
deficit Is wiped out, 1t was announced
lat Buffalo, N. T.. last week.
Notification was sent TO all chiefs
of police In California by placement
representatives of the war department
at San Francisco to stop soliciting and
badge and toy balloon selling by dis
charged soldiers in uniform, and the
alleged "commercializing" of the uni
form by private concerns employing
these men.
President Wilson was criticized by
commissioners to the one hundred and
thirty-first general assembly of the
Presbyterian church, u, S. a., at ST.
Louis, for requesting congress to re.
peal or amend the wartime prohibition
act, and q resolution was adopted urg-
ing congress to sustain the law. Presi-
dent Wilson is an elder in the church.
WASHINGTON.
First debate in connection with the
peace treaty at the extraordinary SEES
sion of congress began Friday in the
johnson, Republican, of California, of
his resolution asking the state depart
ment to furnish the senate with a copy
of the text of the treaty
Withdrawal of the entire American
army from Europe will be demanded by
Representative Kahn of California,
chairman of the house military com
mittee, when he speaks before the
house ON his two months investigation
of conditions in the A. q. #.
Sending bombs and other explosives
through the mails would be made
capital offense under bill introduced
by Senator King of Utah and referred
to the judiciary committee. The Utah
senator was one of those to whom in
fernal machines were addressed in the
May day bomb plot.
A national eight-hour working day, be-
ginning January l, 1921, was proposed
in bill introduced by Senator Moses
of New Hampshire, Republican. 1t
was explained that the regulations of
the measure would be similar to the
Adamson law to the railroads.
Passage by the house, on May 81, of
deficiency bill providing urgent APP
preparations of SAC, 044, 500 for war risk
allowances to soldiers and sailors fam
lilies and civil war pensioners made an
other speed record for the new house.
National suffrage for women was
Endorsed by the house of representa-
tives for the second time when the
Susan B. Anthony amendment resolu-
ton was adopted on May q by vote
of 304 to SO.
FOREIGN.
When former Emperor William of
Germany is placed on trial before an
international tribunal for having COM
mitted high crimes against universal
morality he will furnish the incrimin-
atfng evidence against himself; in fact
the commission which had his case in
hand and reported to the peace con-
ference is held to have prepared
enough evidence to convict the former
kaiser by merely quoting the speeches
he made before and during the war.
The volcano Stromboli on the island
OF that name off the north coast Of
Sicily was in violent eruption Friday.
Numerous victims are reported.
An attempt was made to demolish
the American legation building at San
Jose, Costa Rica, Monday night by a
bomb.
German plOtters and criminals who
have been reached during the war by
the strong arm of the law of any of
the allied associated powers, and who
are now in prisons or internment
camps, cannot be released and repa-
trlated, either now or when peace is
signed, but must serve out their SEN
fences, regardless of their German cit.
lzenship, is the substance of a note
to the German peace delegation.
Eduard Bernstein, the German social
democrat leader, declared that the Ger
man government had not taken the
proper course to secure approval of
its foreign policy by the socialists and
that it could have obtained better
terms of peace if it had acted diff
ferently.
The German reply to the allied
peace terms will be in five sections,
dealing with political and territorial
issues, the league of nations and finan-
clal and economic questions.
The notes Which the German peace
delegation will submit to the peace
conference before May 20 will appar-
entity be so voluminous that the en-
tente representatives win require
week for consideration before they
can make a rejoinder, 1t is expected
that there will be a new time adjust
ment for the Germans TO sign the
treaty
Admiral Kolchak, dictator of the
omsk government, has been notified
by the Paris peace conference that as
soon as he has established stable
government, with guarantees of free
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