Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-06-03
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1920 business was but 1913 per cent.
Testimony before q New York in
yestigating committee revealed that
the American sugar business is in the
hands of three or four persons, that
there is large "invisible" supply of
the commodity somewhere in the Unit
ed States. and that million tons are
stored in Cuba for higher prices. In
Chicago many carloads of sugar were
found in railroad yards, but the deal
ers and railway managers asserted it
could not be unloaded because of the
switchmen's strike The federal au-
thorities there contemplated some
drastic action to get the sugar on the
market.
President Wilson stirred up the anil
mails again with his request that con-
gress authorize him to accept man.
date for Armenia. In1a message sent
to both houses he said that he was act
Ing Gin the confidence that am speak
ing the spirit and in accordance with
the wishes of the greatest of Chris
tian peoples" He felt he was giving
advice "from which the congress will
not willingly turn away"
But congress did turn away from 1t
with an approach to unanimity that
would discourage less determined
man than Mr.. Wilson. Republican
leaders, almost without exception, ex-
pressed themselves as opposed to
| granting the request, and even Senator
Hitchcock said, after several days,
that he did not expect to support it.
Then along came William Jennings
Bryan with the uncomprolnisng asser-
tiOn that an American mandate over
Armenia or any other country was
impossible.
At first it was said congress would
take no action on the presidents re-
quest until later In the summer, but
this plan was reconsidered. The sem
ate foreign relations committee af-
ter brief discussion, reported reso-
luton declining the mandate, and the
house committee on foreign affairs
asked Secretary of State Colby to ap-
pear before it and give information.
The president sent in his expected
veto of the Knox peace resolution on
Thursday.
Meanwhile the Armenians are try
ing to insure their own safety on one
border at least by entering into nego-
tiations with the Russian bolsheviki,,
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the north. They accepted an invita-
tion to send delegates to Moscow. The
Georgians already have made an agree
ment with the Moscow government,
undertaking to prevent the use of
Georgian territory as base of attacks
on the bolsheviki. On the other side
the Armepians are confronted with the
Turkish nationalists, whose leader,
Mustapha Renal Pasha, has reiterat.
ed his defiance of the allies and his
unending opposition to the terms of the
peace treaty. In Thrace, where the
Turks are opposing occupation by the
Greeks, they have met with several de.
feats.
The war between the Poles and the
soviet Russians continues unabated,
and advantages are claimed by both
sides. 1t is apparent that the Rus.
slams have had the best of it along
the northern part of the long hat
tie line. They report the capture of
Borisov on the Reresina, which car
ries them well on the way TO the i'm
portant railway center of Minsk. Still
farther north they have extended
their operations into Letvia and are
threatening Dvinsk, which controls
the main railroad into East Prussia
Just as we thought Mexico was set
Ting down into comparative quiet un.
der the new provisional government
comes the disturbing report that an.
other uprising is under way, led by
Felix Diaz. Rebel troops under his
command that are operating along the
coast of the state of Vera Cruz are
said to have Joined forces with hthe1
bands still loyal to the Carranza re-
glme. Some time ago Diaz announced
that he had quit fighting Carran.
"a and wanted only to leave the
country. The successful revolution.
lists also have "Pancho" villa to com.
bat, for he has declared himself dis.
satisfied with their government, and
has resumed his career of banditry
He is still powerful in Chihuahua
state.
The Mexican congress elected Adol
10 de Ia Huerta Of Sonora provisiona