The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-11-13

were rescued by flremen. A number
stayed in their rooms until the fire
was over without any injury except
smoke suffocation, which was slight.
WASHINGTON
Congress is preparing to adjourn
without enacting any big reconstruct
ton measures.
1t has been definitely decided by
senate leaders that no more domestic
legislation of Importance can be put
through at this session.
House leaders are still fighting for
action on the railroad bills, but the
decision of the senate interstate COM
merce committee to abandon the Cum
minis bill until next session dashes
that hope.
Army bills have been introduced in
the house, hearings held, but no bill
can be put through until after the
Christmas holidays.
Tariff legislation has struck a snag.
The house has passed several bills
to protect the dye industry and other
industries likely to be. lit by Euro
pean competition. These have bump
ed against the stone wall IF the SEN
ate, and will go over till the next SEES
sion.
Believing that Mr. Wilson intends
to end war prohibition as soon as the
peace treaty is ratified, the agrees
sive dry element in the house, led
by Representative Randall of Califor-
MIA, have laid all their plans to check
mate him, it is stated. 1t is their in
tention to seek an extension OF the
war time prohibition for six months,
which extension will be added to the
food and fuel control act.
The first affirmative step toward
qualification of the peace treaty was
taken by the senate after admlnlstra-
ton leaders. with the, backing of Pres
ident Wilson. had reaffirmed their in
tention of voting against ratification
if the reservations drawn by the SEN
ate majority are adopted.
By vote of 4S to 40 the senate
approved, after all efforts to amend
it had failed, the committee preamble
to the reservation group, requiring
that to make the peace treaty bind
ing at leas three Of the four great
powers mus accept the senate quail
ficatiOnS.
Relief f,pn threatened congestion OF
wheat shipments apl ears certain II
is announced by the railroad admins
tratiOn.
Notice has been served on Germany
by the allied and associated powers
in a note accompa Aying protocol Tor
warded. that the treaty Of peace will
not go into force until Germany exc
cutes to the satisfaction of the allied
and associated powers, obligations as
sumed under the armistice convention
and additional agreements.
Vice President Marshall made a
short address to and shook hands with
the delegates to the international la
Dor conference in session in Washing
ton.
A compilation just completed from
official sources of crimes during the
months of July. August and September
of this year in the Tampico oil fields
(Mexico) has been placed at the dis
posal of the American government.
Six employees OF the Oil companies
were murdered and total of more
than ST. 1896 in American gold secured
by Mexican bandits in three months.
On August II two masked men, with
rifles entered camp near e Tigre,
Mexico, and murdered the boss car
penter in the very presence of his
wife by cutting his throat from ear
to ear. The carpenter and his wife
were the only persons in the camp
at the time and the wife was pros |
trated.
The specific charge is made that
some of the robberies reported in
Mexico. were participated in by Car
rama soldiers. Discarded clothing
at the scenes of some of the robberies
bore the Mexican federal stamp that
is placed upon soldiers clothes.
A dispatch from London, August 8.
quoted the National News as saying |
that a suggestion that the British West |
indies be coded 10 the United States |
in part payment Of Great Britain's |
war debt, is being seriously consid- I
cred on both sides of the Atlantic.
Pleasant A. StOvall, former editor
and owner of the Savannah (Ga) |
Press, has resigned as ambassador to |
Switzerland. He has held the post for |
six and half years, and it is his in