The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-04-09
WASHINGTON.

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able provision for cash bonus, funds
for which would be raised by sales
Injuries taxes, was approved by the
house ways and means committee by d
vote Of Ii to Q.
The British embassy, Il massive red
brick building In the aristocratice resi-
dence section Of Washington, ii being
plcketed by from ten to twenty women,
who carry large plaeards on behalf Of
the cause OF Ireland.
More than hundred members of
the house plan TO leave San Francisco
July 5, aboard the transport Mount
Vernon, for two months trip 10 the
Orient. The itinerary viii include
Hawaii, the Philippine islands, China
and Japan
President Wilson has informed the
house In response 10 resolution Of
Inquiry, that American troops on the
Rhine still were controlled by the
terms Of the armlstiee, and were sub
ject only to his orders as commander
hl-Sttlti VI llie hfInF,
Wage negotiations between the CON
ference committees representing the
railroads and the unions were broken
Off on April !, when the railroad rep
resentatiyes declined to continue con-
sideration of demands which have
been estimated TO total one billion
dollars, unless the public was given a
voice In the proceedings.
Adoption by the house of decIara-
ton Of peace with Germany is the
plan announced by the Republican
leaders. following the introduction of
the proposed joint resolution to ter
inmate the war officially.
FOREIGN
The Polish government has rejected
n counter proposal by the Russian So
Wet government for an armistice along
the entire battle front during the pro-
posed peace negotiations between Po-
land and soviet Russia.
Washington Beltran, editor of the
newspaper lei Paris, was shot and
killed in a duel nj Montevfdeo by Jose
Battle y Ordones, former president OF
Uruguay.
Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prussia.
cousin of former Emperor William, and
who was recently arrested and incar-
cerated in the Mosbit prison charged
with having fomented an attack ON
members of the French commission in
the dining room of the Hotel Alden,
has been released from prison.
The German government has an
hounced in Il communication to the
press that 1t has resolved to dispatch
troops to the Ruhr region as soon as
the entente consents to such move.
Czecho-Slovakia is ready to enter
into peace negotiations with soviet
Russia, the journal des Debats learns,
The Prague government, according to
a dispatch from that city, sis prepared
to reply TO the soviet peace offer" and
begin negotiations sin accord with the
allied powers"
Following UP his victory in the
chamber of deputies. Premier Nitti
scored confidence vote in the senate
~-l07 to 11-after a speech in which
he expressed the Italian governments
desire to settle the Adriatic question
through direct negotiations with Jugo-
Slavia.
Betsy Arnold, 10H years old at least,
but who claimed TO have remembered
the battle of Waterloo, is dead In
Bryngyn, says London dispatch. She
drank whisky and smoked pipe all
her life.
With warships cruising off the Irish
coast and $4,000 troops garrisoned at
the vital centers throughout the is
land. the British government does not
anticipate concerted rising in Ire
land.
Seven hundred Japanese troops and
civilians were killed in two days
battle with Russian Bolsheyik forces
mt Nikolaevsk, Siberia, according to
a Toxic cable dispatch received at
Honolulu,
Repulse of the Bolshevikf attacks
on all fronts is reported In official
advices received Thursday by the Pol
ish legation, describing the general
situation up to March 20.
A general strike will go into effect
throughout Denmark, following the re-
lection by King Christian and the new
of an offer by the trades
unions to compromise in The political
crisis, If the Rigsdag was convened i'm.
The United States was severely
scored by Premier Lloyd George and
Sir Edward Carson, the Ulster Union
list leader, in the debate in the house
OF commons on the second reading of
the Irish bill, The premier said it
was action such as that taken by the
United States senate in adopting the
Irish resolution that had fostered Sc.