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Show . 1 I Democrats of Arkansas renorolnatea Governor McRae, who was supported by organized labor and the Ku Klux Klan, defeating Judge Toney. In Ala bama Judge W. W. Brandon won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination by a large majority. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTJVENTS Prospect Considered Bright. for, . - Early. Settlement of the 1 Coal Miners' Strike ; - PROPOSALS FOB COMPROMISE President Harding's Final Suggestion for Ending Railway Strike Under Consideration Brotherhood Men Are Restless French Plans Concerning Germany Opposed Op-posed by Other Allies. , Cy EDWARD W. PICKARD Ur.LKSS the coal operators, the ofH-cials ofH-cials of the miners' union and the authorities In Washington are badly off In their guessing, the coat strike is almost al-most over. The four-state conference called by 1'reniilent Lewis In Cleveland Cleve-land was considering favorably this acreement: ship attendance when the house should reassemble this week, Instead of the taking of the usual three-day recess. Democratic Lender Garrett wired all Democratic members to be In their seats Tuesduy, but the Republican leaders took no such action, PRESIDENT HARDING'S desire for congressional help applies equally, o the railroad strike, which If anything. any-thing. Is becoming more serious. Ills 'atest and, in bis own words, last suggestion sug-gestion for peaceful settlement of this controversy was that the shopmen return re-turn to work and that both sides submit sub-mit the question of seniority to the railroad labor board. This was Instantly Instant-ly rejected, Informally, by the leaders lead-ers of the shop crafts, .who called for a general conference of all the railroad labor organizations In Washington on Friday, to consider a formal reply and to adopt tnensures to make the strike more effective. Mr. Jewell said the nnswer to the Tresldcnf might not be .o..i!y for several days. The t;!:c;-:nr!! r.re trying In various ways to obtain the active support of the brotherhoods, and In a measure are getting It. F.ngineers, firemen and trainmen are ordered, by their chiefs to tuke no chances with ' defective equipment. Despite the denials of railway ofllcluls, the union leaders declare that engines nnd cars are de- TO THE allied premiers and other statesmen assembled. In. London, , Premier I'olncare submitted France' plua te compel Gwmany to pay reparations rep-arations or to get the money from the country In other ways. He declared France was In a desperate financial condition, and. threatened to act alone against Germany if the allies failed to support her Just claims. Pol nca re's demands, briefly, were for control of the following: First, licenses of exports ex-ports j second, financial - exploitations of mines; third, state forests; fourth, participation In German Industrial companies. , Lloyd George, with the support of the Belgians, Italians and Japanese, forced the submission of the French plan to a committee of' experts, say-lng: say-lng: ""It Is all a question of the method of getting everything from Germany, whether the method bring trouble or cash, and every sanction should be submitted to a test." T:1E experts fulfilled expectations by rejecting the French propositions, ill hut the Krnech members being agreed In opposition to them on every major point. The situation became bo acute that both the British and French cabinets were called together, and each gave full support to the stand taken by Its premier. As neither side showed any signs -of yielding, It appeared as If the entente were soon to break up, leaving France Isolated. The British position may be sunnnarized thus: Germany is unable to pay; she is ruined, nnd an effort to squeeze large sums fryn her would merely add to her difficulties without profiting the allies and, besides, would delay the economic reconstruction of Europe, The French contention Is that Germany Ger-many still Is economically powerful and able to pay a great deal, but that partly by design and partly by circumstances, cir-cumstances, she has assumed an appearance ap-pearance of weakness which In fact does not exist. Polncalre Is willing to grant Germany a brief moratorium to see whether she Is willing to promote pro-mote financial reforms and apply productive pro-ductive menNures that would yield some money for reparations. But he has no confidence In the good faith of Germany. terlorating rapidly, and more than Intimate In-timate that this Is the cause of recent bad wrecks. Another serious threat by the brotherhoods developed from a clash In Joliet, III., between strikers nnd a sheriffs posse, in which a striker nnd a railway detective were killed and the sheriff dangerously wounded. State troops from Chicago were hurried hur-ried to the scene nnd some of them, being stoned from ambush, fired at their tormentors. Brotherhood men on the Klgm, Joliet 4 Eastern railroad rail-road to the number of 1.300 promptly quit work, saying " their lives were endangered by the bullets of the troopers. troop-ers. Their action was approved by the brotherhood heads and President Stone of the engineers said: 'There will be 100 such cases soon If conditions condi-tions are not changed. We are not going to have our men shot up or beaten up or threatened by armed guards at railroad shops and yards. When the men cannot go to work without with-out having Irresponsible armed guards endangering their lives, they may go home and stay there until the condition condi-tion is removed." If thefe remarks were aimed nt the private forces of guards maintained by railways they may be to some extent ex-tent Justified. If Stone meant to Imply Im-ply that brotherhood men are abused by state troops, In Illinois or elsewhere, else-where, the best Information obtainable Is that his Implication Is false. CHICAGO'S street cars and elevated trains were running again Monday after the six-day strike which cost the employees and companies some $1,200,000 and the business industries of the city many millions more. The compromise reached provides for a. reduction cf VIM pr cent !n wo. --' 1. A "four state" basic contract, perhnps expanded to 'Include northern north-ern West Virginia, under which the old wages and working conditions In the contract which expired last Match 81 will be continued until next April 1. 2. A fact finding body to be set up nnder approval or by nppolntment of Tresident Harding to tlnd out what Is the matter with the coal Industry and what can be done to straighten It out. Definite action Is being delayed In hope that the Illinois nnd Indiana Indi-ana operators will change their minds nnd participate. Hitherto the operators oper-ators have sought to break nway from the Idea of a central competitive district dis-trict on which the miners Insist. By getting some producers from each of the four states Into the agreement Irrespective of how small a minority of production they may represent, the United Mine Workers argue they carry car-ry their contention by getting a settlement set-tlement on a four stcte basis. But the contract will be binding only open those who sign up, and Illinois, which produces about twice as much as any other state In the central field, will have only a few Individual signers, the big associations standing .it on their own proiHisals. However, the theory most generally expressed at the conference con-ference was that once mines In the East legln to open up. there will be a rush on the part of Illinois and Indiana In-diana producers to sign up. In Washington the government officials offi-cials were predicting the early settlement settle-ment of the bituminous strike through the adoption of a compromise agreement agree-ment embracing these features: Restoration of last year's wnge scale until next March, with continuation continua-tion of the check-off system. Creation of a coal commission to Investigate In-vestigate the situation and to recommend recom-mend a nev agreement. Postjtonement of further controversy nntll next spring, by which time the proposed Investigation will be completed. com-pleted. It was reported that President A. M. Ogle of the National Coal association associa-tion was favorable to this plan and that Senator McKlnley had advices thut the Illinois, operators were Inclined In-clined to enter such an agreement. IRISH rebels, still on the run, are doing as much damage as they can. Before abandoning Queenstown they set that city afire, blew up a railroad bridge, and blocked the entrance to Cork hurbor by sinking barges In the narrow channel. They thus hoped to head off the attack of the nationals on Cork, to which they retreated. The Free Staters, however, landed at several sev-eral points and the fight for Cork was under way at last reports. The Irregulars Ir-regulars also seriously Interrupted cable communication between America Ameri-ca nnd VijrniM' hy selzlni? the Irish 1 coast landing places of ten of the j seventeen lines between the conti- v SEVERAL Important changes were made in the McCumber tariff bill by the senate last week. After listening lis-tening to charges by Senator Smoot that American sugar refiners, who control con-trol the bulk of the Cuban sugar production, pro-duction, are trying to destroy American Ameri-can producers, the senate adopted bis amendment by which the duty Is raised to 2-'l0 cents a pound on full duty sugar, and to 1.84 cents on Cuban sugar. The McCumber bill rates were 2 cents and l.fiO cents, respectively. respec-tively. At the demand of the agricultural agri-cultural spokesmen, the senators almost al-most unanimously voted to restore potash to the free list. Next the senate, sen-ate, despite the arguments of western HgrlcultTTnsts, voted to keep bides on the free list and placed In the dutyfree duty-free column hoots and shoes, leather of cuttle bides, harness nnd saddlery sad-dlery and gloves of cattle hides. The duty on satchels, belts and boxes and cases of leather was made .10 per cent Insteud of 40, as In the McCumber bill, IN THE Ohio primaries the Repub-llcans Repub-llcans nominated Carml A. Thompson, Thomp-son, choice of the Harding administration administra-tion and , the-' Anti-Saloon league, for governor. The Democratic nominee Is A. V. Donahey of New Philadelphia. nents. It was feared they would destroy de-stroy these plants. Joseph O'Sulllvan and Reginald Dunn, the murderers of Field Marshal Mar-shal Sir Henry Wilson, were hanged In London, all pleas In their behalf having been denied by the English courts and ofllcluls. PORTUGAL Is having a general strike caused by the rising prices of food. Martial law has been declared, de-clared, constitutional guarantee suspended, sus-pended, and the government has moved to Fort Cascaes. AMONG the train wrecks mentioned in the discussion of the shopmen's shop-men's strike, the worst was near St. Louis, Mo., when a steel coach passenger pas-senger train on the Missouri Pnclflc, running past the block signals, col-llded col-llded with the .rear of a local 'tra hi. Thirty-seven persons were killed and 138 Injured. LATER reports from Swatow, on the China coast, show that the typhoon which struck that city recently was one of the worst In history. Estimates of the number of dead have risen from 5,000 to 60,000, and it is said fully 100,000 are homeless. Governor Mct'ray's effort to reopen Indiana mines under military guard proved more of a gesture than an accomplishment. ac-complishment. Very little emil was produced during the week and most of the men employed deserted, fearing for their lives. The governor Intlnint-M Intlnint-M that-If nil other pbuis for averting a fuel famine in thetute fulled, convict con-vict labor would be employed to get out coal under martial law. On the other bund, the Impeachment of Meets Me-ets y for sending troops into the conl field was demanded by a mass meeting meet-ing of strikers and union labor men at Terre Haute. It wns the general belief that If present negotiations fail to end the strike, President Harding will seize the mines and oHrute them under guard of federal troops. That he might await the sanction of congress for suh a course wns Indicated by the fact that he suggested to the Republican Re-publican lender of the house the de-finibilitj de-finibilitj o; maintaining full member- |