Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-01-08

They declare their only aim is to pro-
tect their land from the poison of boil
shevism. The Japanese premier has
indicated that any general advance or
the soviet forces beyond the southeast
side of Lake Baikal will result in out
right war between the Japanese and
the bOlsheviki.
Premier Ntti and Foreign Minister
Scialoia of Italy have gone to PARIS
and London to try to bring about an
adjustment of the Adriatic dispute ia
vorable to Italy. The latter, address,
ing the italian senate, said Mr.. Lam
sings proposal for the naturalization
of the Dalmatan islands and the sur
rounding sea as far as Ragusa was in
tolerable, since it would leave a part
of the italian coast exposed to the
same attack as in the late war, but
he believed Great Britain and France
could persuade President Wilson to
change his views.
an Clemenceau and Mr.. Lloyd
George told me-" said the foreign min
lister, chat if France, England and
Italy agreed, even going beyond the
terms of President Wilson, they be-
lievcd they could present the agree
ment to President Wilson and induce
him to accept it in the interest of Eu-
ropean peace"
If the conferees of the senate and
house do not arrive at satisfac-
tory solution of the railway bill puz-
zle, It will not be for lack of ADVICE
expert and inexpert. All sorts of or
CARNATIONS have been taking whack
at 1t. and all of them are directly in
terested. The American Federation
Of Labor, the four railway brother
hoods and ten railway shopmen's
unions affiliated with the federation
got together in Washington and told
what they wished, what they hoped
for and what they would not cOunte-
nance. In the first place, they de-
clared themselves in favor of two
years more of government operation
of the railways, in order to give the
principle of government ownership
real test. They realized that the re-
turn of the roads to their owners on
March 1 is now certainty, but gave
notice that they will make government
ownership a political issue in the fu-
ture. AS for the pending legislation,
they declared themselves against the
anti-strike feature and the penalty
provisions against ceasing work, and
in favor of the features which tend to
establish better relations between the
employees and the carriers, and urged
that these features be extended to the
sleeping car and Pullman company
emplovees. The railway ShOpmen
already have voted to strike If con-
gress adopts the Cummins anti-strike
provision, and it is believed the broth
erhoods might adopt the same course.
Next, the American Bankers asso-
citation told what it considered neces-
sary to rehabiitate the impaired cred
II of the roads. It favors the speedy
return to private ownership; the vol
untary but not compulsory consolida-
Iic1l vi lttlilottt pI'I'Nie
federal incorporation; exclusive regu-
lation and control of the issue OF
stocks and bonds by railroads and wa
ter common carriers by federal
board government guarantee to the
roads for six months after the end OF
federal control, of net operating in
come equal to the standard return for
the same period during federal con-
troll and an extension of the carriers
indebtedness to the government for
capital expenses to run serially for
from ten to twenty years. All these
features are in either the Cummins or
the Esch bill, and some of them are
in both.
Another group vitality interested in
the railway legislation is the ship
pers, and these gentlemen, at a nation
al conference in Chicago, besides rec
ommending higher rates for the roads,
adopted resolutions in substance as
follows:
eve are opposed to the creation of,
a transportation board as provided in
the Cumn1ins bill.
1--WE oppose the appropriation by the
government Of the excess earnings Of
/ a railroad company.
1--WE oppose the scheme of ratemak-
ing groups and standardization Of
earnings therein as provided for in the
| Cummins bill.
eve are opposed to the consolida-
ton Of the railroads and the division
of the country into rate groups as pro-
| yiled in the Cummins bill.
"We are in favor of legislation
which will .ermit the return of the