The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-06-13

Establishment Of a national employ
ment service under the department of
labor. with an initial appropriation of
$500, 100000 for 1920 is proposed In a
bill drafted by the department and in
troduceds in the senate by Chairman
Kenyon of the senate labor committee.
War department estimates for the
coming year will be reduced at least
S400,0O0,000 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.
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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 a dispatch to Washington.
Checks amounting to $33, 933 1862
were mailed to $4,000 dependents of
men lin 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 1, and that he
might as well return to New York and
not worry"
Unanimous approval was given by
the house to q 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-
fication. The vote was Sc for adop-
tion and % against, or one more than
two-thirds majority required.
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I Only by increased rates can the gov
eminent controlled railroads meet op-
Grating expenses, Director General
Hines told the house appropriations
committee. He is opposed to any in
crease at this time, however, because
1t might advance the cost of necessi-
ties of life.
Eaxness in the cancellation Of tax
stamps will not be tolerated by the in
ternal revenue bureau. Failure to
comply is punishable by fine of 500,
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 IL, it was learned in
Paris from an authoritative source.
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Petrograd has been captured by the
Esthonians ana the Films, according to
an unconfirmed report received by the
newspaper Tidens Tegn of Christiania
from VardOe.
The small powers have won a vic
tory in their opposition to the limita-
ton of ornaments of the new states
created from the former Austro-
Hungarian empire, as Incorporated in
the Austrian peace treaty. The coun-
Gil of four in Paris has decidS to
eliminate the provisions for such 1imi-
tation.
The Swedish socialist newspaper
Folkets Dagsblad of Copenhagen has
received a telegram from Petrograd re-
porting that the forces Of Admiral
Kolchak of the Omsk government have
been defeated on the south and center
while the northern front is shaking
The soviet troops are said to have cap.
tured 10000 prisoners and 100 guns.
The Austrian government mas de
cided unanimously that the peace
terms presented at st. German are
unacceptable, the Neues Abenblott of
Vienna says.