The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-04-16

was notified today that the office will
be closed by the commissioner of in
ternal revenue. The order for clos
ing the office received contemplates
handling North Dakota internal rev.
enue business through the office at
Aberdeen, S. d., Mr.. Byerly said.
Washington
The federal trade commission was
directed by the house to investigate
the causes of recent advances in prices
of gasoline, fuel oil and kerosene.
The Senate elections committee or
dered an investigation of the Ford
Newberry election by subcommittee
headed by Senator ]. E. Watson (rep.)
of Indiana.
The death of President Pavlovitch
OF the provisional national assembly
at Belgrade, was announced in a
cablegram to the Czech-Slovak lega-
ton at Washington.
The senate passed Senator Medill
McCormick's resolution directing the
interstate commerce commission to in
vestigate the strike of railroad switch
men centering in Chicago.
Representative Claude Kitchin,
former democratic leader of the house,
was stricken with paralysis on the
house floor just after he had delivered
speech on the peace resolution.
The republican majority in congress
completed the first stage in their pro-
gram for apdipU NOV with Hor,,oonr II,
default of treaty ratification, with the
passage by the house of the peace re-
solution. The vote was 243 to 15O
President Wilson has designated
Charles E. Lobdell. (rep., Kan.) as
commissioner of the federal farm loan
board, succeeding George w. Norris,
who resigned to become governor Of
the Philadelphia Federal Reserve
bank.
Universal military training got its
knockout for this session of congress
when the senate rejected it and sub
stituted mild substitute for national
defense in the form of voluntary mill
tary training. The vote was 46 to 8,
a record vote on the real issue having
been lodged.
The horse is coming back in last
struggle to hold his place against the
progress of the automobile, tractor,
truck and airplane. The department
of agriculture estimates that horses
on United States farms increased
from Is, 1888, 900 in 1910 to 81, los, 900 on
Jan. 1, 1920. Mules increased, too, &C
cording to the estimates.
Domestic
In the last hours of the session of
the Maryland legislature, the senate
defeated the state soldier bonus bill.
The vote was Is to 8.
Twenty-four miners of Cherokee and
Crawford counties, Kansas, were :
der summons to appear before the
Kansas Industrial Relations court, sit
ting here, and explain a sudden strike
of between $500 and 1000 miners of
the two counties.
Temperance of the pink bollworm
in Texas and discovery of the insect
in Louisiana present the most serious
situation which has ever confronted
the cotton industry of the United
States, according to experts of the de-
partment of agriculture.
A 35x15 foot bias relief map of the
world, said to be the largest ever
made, will be exhibited by the United
States Shipping Board in New York at
the National Marine exposition. One
hundred and fifty pounds of beeswax
were used in its preparation.
The Idaho department of the Amer.
lean Legion placed itself on record as
opposed to cash bonus when the
state convention tabled a resolution
calling for the passage of bonus bill
by the next legislature. The vote
against the bonus was practically
New York landlords lost the first
round in the battle being waged be-
tween tenants and alleged rent goug-
ers, when the new antirent profiteer-
ing laws were given their first court
tests. More than 5000 men and wo-
men crowded municipal courts to APP
peal in 600 eviction notices and rent
increase cases. In every instance
tenants were granted from one to
three months stayovers when they
proved their inability to find new
homes.
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