The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-10-30
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The Senate committee investigation
of. the steel strike in the plants Of the
bethlehem Steel Corporation has fin
iShed its work. according to Washing
ton dispatch of last Saturday.
President Wilson is said by the re-
cent report of his condition to be near
recovery. Some public business has
and last weeks and no i'll effects FROM
the work have been noted.
The Johnson anednlent to the peace
treaty-the amendment that purpOrtS
to equalize the voting power of Amer
ica with Great Britain III the League
of NatiOnS-waS defeated in the Sen
ate Monday by narrow margin.
According to information that has
come to the state Department in
are waiting for transportation to Amer
lea. Many Of these people are Polish
Jews who are members of families
residing in the United States.
The committee Oh credit of the In
ternatiOnal Trade Conference. in ses-
sion at Atlantic City. n. j.. last Sat
urday. recommended to the conference
that the bill now pending in Congress
for the financing by the Government
of foreign credits that shall facilitate
this coHntry'S trade abroad be passed.
Permanent government jobs to the
number of 400 in a variety of trades
and occupations are now open to form
er soldiers and sailors ut pay ranging
from - Il day. with free beard. to
S195 a month and hoard. according to
Il story given out by the Washington
bureau for soldiers employment this
week.
\ Washington dispatch of Monday
says official information received from
Mexico indicates that CarranZa sol
dierS unqueStionably We're implicated
In the kidnapping of William q. Jen-
kins. the American consular agent ut
Pueha, who was Released only after
his friends in l'uebla had paid $1JO.OOO
in American gold.
President Wilson vetoed the prohibit
ton enforcement bill Monday because
it included the wartime measure after
the necessity for the WARTIME measure
had passed. according to the language
of the veto message. The House re-
passed the bill over the Presidents
veto and the Senate was also expected
to relnlSs the measure Yesterday.
Senator Miles roindexter. of Wash
ington. has issued Il statement to the
people of the United States announcing
his candidacy for the Republican NOM
ination. for President, He lenounces
the threats of labor leaders to tie up
the industries of the country with
strikes as government by terror" and
says the Government must he made
supreme to both capitol and labor.
\ Washington news story of the
18th says successful applications of the
serum discovered by Dr. Noguchi. of
Of the Rockefeller Institute. in the
treatment of yellow fever has been re-
ported to the bureau of medicine and
surgery of the Navy Department by
!, medical officer of the United States
steamship Chicago. which was ut Am
apala. HunduraS, during the recent ap-
pearance Of the scourge.
\ Washington news story says that
pressure of the most urgent nature will
he brought to bear upon Mexico to
bring to bear all the forces of the Mex
lean Government to obtain the release
of William Jenkins. American consular
agent at Puebla. who was robbed and
kidnapped last week by bandits and
was being held for $15O.OW ransom.
Later information is to the effect that
the Mexican Government had already
effected the release Of Jenkins.
Following the passage Of the I'rohi-
bition Enforcement Bill over the Pres
ident'S veto Tuesday, the announce
ment came from the White House that
the ratification of the peace treaty
would put an end to wartime prohibi-
ton. and wet spell, it is inferred,
would prevail until the time for the
constitutional prohibitional amendment
to take effect in 1920. The new ell
forcement law is very drastic and pro-
vides Il fine or Imprisonment for even
the display of a picture Of brewery.
President Wilson's cabinet (the Pres
ident being still too i'll to attend to
business) will call another industrial
congress for the purpose Of finding /,
basis for industrial peace in the United
States The delegates this time will
not he divided into groups representa-.
capitol. labor and the public. respec
lively, but will vote Individually. The
cabinet will recommend fifteen of the
most prominent citizens of the United
States to the President for appoint
ment as delegates and they are to bt
representative of all classes.
Following the failure of all efforts
last week to avert the coal miners
strike called for November 1st. Pres
| ident Wilson issued Il formal statement
Saturday night warning those respon
| Sible for the calling and carrying Ou
| of the object of the strike that theil
actions not only did not represent the
| sentiments of the coal miners III
were illegal and immoral. He close(
the statement by saying that he coult
say nothing less than that lie wOult
| of the miners are demanding Il SIX
hour day and tive-day week.
AntiStrike legislation by Congress:
was declared to mean conflict by th'
official representatives of the American
Federation of Labor in Washington
last Saturday. While the bill nov
pending only forbids the railroad mel
from striking. the federation consider
such legislation an entering wedge ant
it was intinated that the passage o
the bill would he met by referendum
vote in all the trades unions, wlicl
would amount to veto, as far us re
cognition of the law by the unions i
concerned. Mr.. William II. Johnston
President Of the International .AsSOcil
tion of Machinists. said the direct &C
ton" might be reSOrted to If all Othe
means of advancing the interests o
the unions failed.
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