Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-06-14

Resolutions asking the SIaLo UC
| partment for the text Of the treaty
| with Germany and directing the Tor
eign relations committee to invest-
gate how copies of the unpublished
document have reached private hands
in New York were adopted by the sem
ate Friday without a roll call.
Secretary Tumulty announced Fri
| day that President Wilson had sign
ed the emergency deficiency appropr1-
| alton bill, which includes approprla-
tions for war risk allotments and PEN
sions for the fiscal year ending June
80.
Secretary Baker wrote Governor Al
len of Kansas Friday that he had
been unable to find in the war de-
partment files the official report re-
ferred to by the governor as support
ing charges that the 35th (Missour
and Kansas) Division had suffered un-
necessary losses in the Argonne bat
tie, due largely to inefficient leader
ship. Mr.. Baker said it was entirely
possible that the repart was in the
records Of the army corps with which
the 35th was operating and that as
soon as these were transferred to
Washington further search would Ds
made.
Vice President Marshall Thursday
signed the woman suffrage constitu-
tional amendment resolution N the
presence of Chairman Watson OF the
senate woman suffrage committee and
other senators and representatives or
women's organizations.
Telegraph and telephone companies,
whose wires have been controlled and
operated by the government since last
August /, were ordered Thursday to-
resume immediate operation for their
own account by Postmaster General
Burleson. The postoffice depart
ment, however. under terms OF Mr..
Burleson's order, retains measure OF
control over the service, pending
final legislative action by congress.
The nations public debt reached
new high mark OF $25, .151,270 at the
end of May, an increase of S1,096, ,64O,-
750 during the month, resulting from
new issues of certificates of indebted
ness and payments on victory loan
subscriptions.
Secretary Baker Tuesday asked con-
gress for legislative authority and an
appropriation of 10000, 900 for the i'm
mediate purchase of the Cape Cod
Canal.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Gulf Production Company's BY
ers No. 5 was brought in at West Col,
umbia, Texas, Thursday flowing 160
barrels of oil per day.
A growing scarcity of farm labor
has been brought to the attention OF
the Texas Chamber of Commerce by
interests throughout the state, ac-
cording to an announcement. The or
ganization has been asked to use ev-i
cry possible means toward having the
available supply conserved as much
as possible and preference shown by
industries to the farmers during the
present serious emergency.
The Texas Company's well Land
slide No. 236 at Humble, Texas. has
come in Thursday as 1900 barrel
producer.
Governor Sidney ]. Cats sent
special message to the Florida legis-
lature Thursday urging that body to
ratify the federal equal suffrage
amendment, and thus put Florida, 8
Southern state, on record as the first
to do so.
Misses China, Velma and Thelma
Akers, triplets, 10 years old, the
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. II. c. Akersi
of Breckenridge, Stephens County,
were callers at the governors office
at Austin Thursday. 1t is probably
the first visit ever paid Texas execu-
tive by triplets. and their call Gre
hted no little attention. The young
ladies were accompanied by their
parents.
Eighty-three men dead and 30 9TH
srs burned and MANNED, many OF
whom viii die, is the tell of dis
aster in the Baltimore tunnel OF the
delaware and Hudson Coal Company
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, Thursday. Seven
kegs of black powder, 800 pounds in
ali, were tietonated and the dead and
MANNED were literally roasted by the
superheated gas flames following the
explosion.