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WASHINGTON NEWS.
amendments to the food control act
.,rosing a $4,000 fine and imprison-
y mani of two years for proflteering
20 ordered favorably reported Fri
day by the house agricultural commit
tee.
Nv strict party votee the house
Thursday passed and sent to the SEN
10 hill imposing tariff OF $40
INIT or 5000 ton, on crude tungsten
ore and 81 pound on serro-tungsten
and other tungsten salts.
netition containing approximately
9oo0 names OF retailers and merchants
=, Gan Antonio and Southwestern Tex
"a advocating passage OF the Kenyon
hin to regulate the packing industry,
was presented to the senate Friday by
Senator Sheppard and referred to the
oor,cultural committee holding hear
iugs on the bill.
Repeal of the daylight saving act
WAS accomplished Wednesday Inc
senate voted to sustain the house IN
nassing the repeal measure over Pres
ident Wilson's veto. The vote was
81 to 10. Repeal Of the law, which
now takes its place among the very
few which have been passed over a
presidential veto, becomes effective
after the clocks are turned back to
normal in October 1t will go down
in legislative history as one OF the
very few measures which have twice
been vetoed by president and be-
came a law after all by the vote OF
more than two-thirds of both houses
Of congress.
Investigation of the news print pa
per industry to determine whether it
is engaged in illegal practices and
whether prices are excessive, was au-
thorized in a resolution introduced
Thursday by Senator Reed, democrat,
Missouri, and adopted by the senate.
President Wilson has not the power
to declare peace by proclamation, nor
could he consent in any circumstances
to take such a course prior to the rati-
fication of a formal treaty of peace
BY the senate. The president so
wrote Senator Fall Friday in answer
to one of the twenty written questions
the senator presented at the White
House conference Tuesday.
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The first open move for a compro-
mise in the league of nations fight
came from administration quarters
Wednesday, embraced in a proposal
that the senate adopt interpretative
reservations but that they be kept
apart from the actual ratification OF
the treaty.
General Pershing, in cablegram to
the war department, has expressed the
opinion that the bodies of American
soldiers who died abroad should be
left near where they fell. II believe
that, could these soldiers speak for
they would wish to be left |
undisturbed where, with their COM
rades, they fought the last fight"
General Pershing said. Those who |
rest in England gave their lives in the |
'ame cause and their remains repre-
sent the same salvation as those who
lie on the battlefields.
The prohibition enforcement bill was
presented to the senate Monday by
senator Sterling of South Dakota,
chairman of the judiciary subcommit
ZEE, which considered the house meas
ire. There was no indication when
ne measure would be called up.
Secretary Baker defended Monday
'ef0re the senate subcommittee on
military affairs his recommendation
or an army of $4,000 men by say
ng that in view of the disturbed con-
litions in the world" he did not wish
ne responsibility" of asking for
mall force.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
Rain was reported general over the
orthern, eastern and some of the CEN
III portions of Texas and extending