Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-06-11
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The United States senate adopted q
resolution by Senator Johnson. Rennh.
lican, of California, asking the sta+.
department to furnish the senate q
copy Of the peace treaty.
Investigation of how copies Of tho
peace treaty with Germany reached
persons in New York was ordered INV
the United States senate.
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Bills prohibiting Immigration for
Eve years and placing more rigid 70.
strictlons upon aliens entering this
country We're introduced in the senate.
Postmaster General Burlesom sent +o
Chairman Cummins of the senate q
letter declaring that his order had been
miscOnstr1ed; that he had not turned
back the wires to private ownership
and that no such action was contem-
plated.
Establishment of a national employ
ment service under the department of
labor with an initial appropriation of
$400,00O,0O0 for 1920 is proposed in a
bill drafted by the department and in
troduced in the senate by Chairman
Kenyon of the senate labor committee.
War department estimates for the
coming year will be reduced at least
$400,000,000 by the house military COM
mittee.
Unanimous decision to press legis-
lation for repeal of the wire control
resolution was reached by the senate
interstate commerce committee.
Senator Borah's resolution asking
the American peace delegates at Paris
to secure a hearing before the peace
conference for the Irish delegates head
ed by Edward De Valera, provisional
president of the Irish republic, was
adopted by the senate, 60 to 1.
On recommendation of General Per-
shing, President Wilson has committed
to ten years Imprisonment the death
sentence imposed on Private Philip
SOhn Of the One Hundred and Ninth
infantry, Twenty eighth division, for
desertion in the face of the enemy,
says dispatch to Washington.
Checks amounting to S33 933, 1862
were mailed to 59,9O6 dependents of
men in the military service in May
by the bureau of war risk insurance.
Appealing to the house judiciary
committee for repeal of the war prohi-
bition law, Adolph Neurad, chairman
of the legislative committee of the
Family Wine and Liquor Dealers as
ISOLATION, said that Senator Simmons
told him last November the law would
take care of itself July /, and that he
might as we'll return to New York and
not worry"
Unanimous approval was given by
the house to a resolution increasing
the war expenditures committee to
fifteen members so that five separate
Investigations of disposition of funds
by the war department may be made.
The S31 100000 agricultural appro-
priation bill was passed by the house
at Washington, with only one dissent
ing vote, and sent to the senate.
The house woman suffrage resolu-
ton was adopted by the senate and
the proposed constitutional amend
ment now goes to the states for rati-
fcatiOn. The vote was So for adop-
ton and % against, or one more than
two-thirds majority required.
Only by increased rates can the gov
eminent controlled railroads meet OPP
Grating expenses, Director General
Hines told the house appropriations
committee, He is opposed to any IN
crease at this time, however, because
il might advance the cost of necessl-
ties of life.
Laxness in the cancellation of tax
stamps will not be tolerated by the IN
ternal revenue bureau. Failure TO
comply is punishable by fine OF Sloo'
says an order issued by the bureau.
Foreign
The big four has decided to call In
the Turkish peace delegates, accord
ing to an unofficial report from Paris.
The exact date has not been fixed.
The allies answer to the counter
proposals will be handed to the Ger
mans before June u, it was learned IN
Paris from an authoritative source.
Petrograd has been captured by the
EStbonions and tho Films. according to