The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-29
Washington Neu.s
Rx Associated Press

Washington December 2S.-The rail- roads coal bill for the first nine months
 of this year was ss7. .026. 624 more than dur said statement issued today by the in- terstate commerce commission. A resolu- tion asking the commission for report as to the amouhts spent by the~roads for
 ccal this year and last Nas adopted yes
 terday by the Senate During the first nine Inonthl of this year the roads spent
 $S2C 923, ,642 for coal. as against S229, ,S97 01S.
 the commissions statement showed. The total coal consumption by the railroads during the nine months was S1.752,S2l
 tons, while during the same period in
 1919 they used 7L6lsoos tons.
 Deportation of Russian radicals has
 been resumed. 1t was said today at the department of labor. A number of Rus
 sians were started home last week and another batch of 9 will leave New York
 h about three weeks. Ludwig C. A. k.
 Marts-s. self-tyled Russian soviet ann
 oassador who is to be surren6 cred on
 January 3 on a deportation warrant, will
 te sent to Russia via Libau, if was sad st the department.
 Admitting interference with the landing on American shores of the Western Union cabe from Barbadoes, and stating that
 they acted under direct orders of Presi- dent Wilson. Secretaries Colby, Baker and Daniels filed today in the district su-
 preme court their answers in the suit
 brought by the telegraph company for an injunction restraining them from pre- venting the landing of the cable line. The Gas inet officers say an injInc;,ou woLid inflict injury on the government and peo- De of the United States. and would am- tt, tt,., Of negotiations with foreign countries on the subject of cable corumuniCai uns
 By the passage of the dyestuffs import regulations act. Great Britain has def1-
 nitely accepted the theory that poison
 gas will be the supreme weapon of the next war. and at the same time has
 opened the way for the entry of German dyes into this country, according to the
 views expressed tonight by chemical ex- ports of the government. The British act, which became law yesteray prohibits
 the importation of dyestuffs into Great Britain for 10 years, which government officials declared will enable England to build up her dye industry to a point ot complete independence from the outside world. Poison gas and dyestuffs both come from coal tar, it was explained, and from the manufacture of the commercial article to the production of the military
 weapon is but another step in continu- ous process.
 The murderer of John Brens, an Amer ican mining man killed last month in the state of Mexico, Mexico, has been ar rested, and is being held for trial in the state of Michoacan, the American em- bassy reported to the state department today. The authority given by the em- bassy for it's statement was the account of the arrest published in the Mexico City newspapers December 26.
 President Wilson was advised by the in- terstate commerce commission today to sign the bill recently passed by Congress amending the transportation act so as to defer until January 1, 1922, operation of Section 10 of the Clayton antitrust act. The recommendation by the committee to
 which the President referred the ~bill was
 understood to have been by vote of Is to 4.
 Secretary Daniels told newspaper cor respondents today that he favored legis- lation that would ultimately conserve the
 nations entire fuel oil supply for use at sea.