The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-03-26
WASHINGTON

All United States troops will be out
of Siberia by April 1, General Graves
reported.
The nomination of cambridge Colby
as secretary of state has been con-
| firmed by the senate.
Treasury officials estimated the first
installment of income and profits taxes
would approximate $900,000,00O.
The senate killed the peace treaty,
voting 40 to 35 against ratification,
and sent it back to the president.
Unpaid interest on foreign loans, up
to November last, totalled 1896 ,240, ia,
Secretary D. F. Houston told the SEN
ate.
The house approved peacetime
army of $4,000 enlisted men and IT,
500 officers in passing the army reor-
ganization bill. The measure goes to
the senate.
President Wilson has urged the
members of the bituminous coal COM
mission to reconsider their coal strike
conclusions and reach unanimous
agreement if possible.
hO hhOA iVoOiutlOl uCStol ih6 PCebSO
with Germany is to be revised and
senate leaders claim there will be a
comfortable majority for a simple re-
peal of the declaration of war.
The house passed the bill authoriz-
ing the grain corporation to sell 5,000,-
600 barrels of surplus flour to Euro
pean governments for cash or credit
as means of feeding starving people
of those countries.
Robert Lansing, former secretary of
state, has accepted honorary chairman
of the National Interchurch board,
which has effected a strong alliance of
more than score of church denomina-
tional organizations to. fight the red
menace.
Leaders of 1,S50,OOO railroad en-
ployees presented wage advance de-
mands totalling $1,100,0O0,000 to the
joint conference of managers and en-
ployees here. The question eventual
ly will go to the railroad labor board
soon to be appointed by the president.
Replying to recommendation of
the executive committee of the Amer
lean Association of State Highway Of
f1cials, Secretary e. T. Meredith said
he would recommend to the state de-
partment the acceptance of the invi.
tation of foreign governments to join
the permanent association of road con.
crosses.
State Department is without a head
for the first time in American history,
the nomination of cambridge Colby
not having been confirmed by the
senate within the 80 days during
which Undersecretary of State F. L.
Polk was able under the law to serve
as acting secretary. Until the office is
filled no one can leave for a foreign
country, there being no one authorized
to sign passports.
Domestic
President Lowell announced 40 to
so per cent increase in Harvard facul.
ty salaries.
The National Association of Insur.
ance agents voted to have the next
convention in Des Moines, Iowa, in
October.
Discovery Of new star, the sixth in
the constellation Sagittarius, was an.
nounced by the Harvard college OBJ.
servatory.
Application for passports for travel
abroad are piling up in New York at
the rate of 200 day, according to Ira
F. Holt, chief of the passport division.
A detachment of 76O Jugo-Slavs who
left the mines and steel mills of the
United States to help expel the Aus.
TRANS, returned All were six feet tall
or over.
Officials of the national Lutheran
council met in Chicago to perfect plans
for relief work in Europe. The relief
program will call for an expenditure
of more than $2,000,0O0, officials said.
Appeals that they introduce in con.
gress measures penalizing rent pro.
fiteering, were sent to Senator James
ID. Phelan and other California mem.
bers of congress by the Tenants Pro.
tective association.
More than SIS, 100000 will be spent
by the Methodist Episcopal church this
year in caring for its $500 pensioned
ministers and their dependents, &C.
cording to report at meeting OF
the board of claimants. Bishop
Charles B. Mitchell of St. Paul was
elected president of the board
Foreign
The mayor of Cork, Ireland, was as.
sassinated by men who made their
escape in an automobile.
Reports that gold has been struck
near the village of Miechgow, Poland,
in the Crawcow region, have reached
Warsaw.
Communists in Germany have ere.
ated disorders in several cities and re.
ports says over 1900 people have been
killed in clashes.
Profits of $1,061,30 for 1919 is
shown in the annual report of the Ma.
tional Brewery compared with $685..
2S6 the year before.
Vilhjalmar Stefanson, Arctic ex-
plorer, has resigned from the Cana
dian governmental commission inquir.
ing into the possibilities of northern
development for meat producing pur.
poses.
DR.. Thomas G. Masaryk, first presi-
dent of the republic of Czech-Slovakia,
will be permitted to continue in office
for life, according to the provision of
the national constitution, recently
adopted at Prague.
Dispatches from the Duchy of Tes-
chen, where Poles and Czechs recently
clashed, resulting in the establishment
of martial law, say the situation is
much easier. Czech miners are return