Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-11-12
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mails from robbers. This decision
was reached by the President and his
cabinet at Washington.
The administration at Washington,
tied upon 'the City of Washington" as
the official designation of the capital.
The tax revision bill now faces its
third rewriting, this time by the house
and senate cOnferees. The measure
finally was passed by the senate at
Washington, 3S to "a.
The senate, after a short but snap
py debate, voted to ask the United
States delegates to the armament con-
ference at Washington to use their en-
deavors to have newspaper reporters
admitted to all sessions and to have
the proceedings published
Premier BRAND and his colleagues
of the French delegation to the arm
ament conference reached Washing
ton.
The Sheppard-Town bill for the
protection Of maternity and infancy,
already passed by the senate, was ia
vorably reported by the house inter-
state commerce committee at Wash
ington.
Another effort to write the soldiers
bonus blu into the tax revision meas
ure failed, the senate at Washington
rejecting the Simmons amendment
proposing to pay the bonus out OF In
terest on the foreign debt.
Chinas defaulting on the $5,6OO.OOO
loan caused Secretary Hughes at Wash
ington to cable a remonstrance, cou-
pied with a warning of the disastrous
effect a default would have on Chi
nese credit In the United States.
The much revised taX-revision bill
finally was passed by the senate al
Washington, after a session lasting
more than fifteen hours. 1t still must
run the gauntlet Of the senate and
house conferees before it reaches the
President.
The resolution of congress declar'
ing Armistice day, November IL, q
legal holiday, was signed by President
Harding at Washington.
The interstate commerce cOmmlS-
sion at Washington suspended from
November 1 to March l, 1922, the op
GRAFTON Of certain freight schedules pro
viding for proportional grain rates
from Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Pardon for FIVE American soldiers
convicted by court-martial Of the muir
der Of Capt George Lancefeld Of the
British army, in Germany last year
has been recommended by Secretary
Weeks at Washington.
| Domestic
| The Federal Court of Appeals al
| Chicago set aside the temporary In
junction issued by Federal Judge A. B
Anderson, at Indianapolis, which for
babe operators to check off miners
dues and wages.
Fire destroyed the baking plant OF
| the Holland Bread company at YOungs
town, O., causing loss estimated al
$25O,O0O. The blaze was caused by ar
employee allowing too much gas IL
the ovens.
District Attorney Brady announced
at San Francisco that Alice Blake
missing prosecution witness in thu
Roscoe ("Fatty') Arbuckle case, hat
been found, and would appear to ties
tify when wanted.
Four American Indian chiefs, each
a tribal hero, will pay the unknown
soldier in Arlington cemetery at Wash
ington the highest hOnOrs known te
their race, by placing upon the caske,
q coup stick and war bonnet.
The principal building of ST. Stanis
laus college, Jesuit institution fol
the priesthood at Macon, Ca, was de
stroyed by fire. The structure cos
$4,000
Six men were killed and five other:
were wounded in an election figh
shortly after the polls opened at the
Clayhole voting precinct, on Trouble
some creek, Breathitt county, about II
miles from Jackson. Ky.
More than 100000 people Of Create
Cleveland were without milk wher
drivers for two companies strucl
against a wage reduction of 20 pc
cent.
Probe Of the Ku Klux Khan was or
dered by Judge c. w. Robinson in hi.
charge to the new grand jury In tn,
Criminal District court at Houston
Tex.
There are 796 vacant apartments
flats and houses in st. Louis, accord
ing to police canvass.