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Show slfilio mem Illinoisan, Peeved at Landlords, Land-lords, Threatens Drastic Action. i (Chicago 'Tribune Special Service.) WASHINGTON, May 20. Senator Sherman of Illinois threatened lo-flny to (Continued on page 1", columnjl) future ccipital of the nation. "I liave been giving tho matter of landlord extortion consideration," said Senator ishennnn. ' After; peace has been proclaimed I do .not sec how a law can bo passed which will limit a landlord iu the amount of rent he may charge, any more than it would be possible pos-sible to pass a law saj-ing how much a man may charge for-whea,t or any other commoditj-. "It has been reported to me that there will be a general and very heavy increase in rents by tile landlords. If that happens, I shall immediately introduce in-troduce a measure transferring the capital cap-ital of the nation to some other place, possibly to St. Louis. I do not think (hat man- persons here realize the extent of the feeling which has been aroused among the members of congress con-gress by the exorbitant charges for rent and food and clothing they have been compelled to pay in Washington. A bill of the kind I have mentioned will have strong support. "From a military point of view. Washington is about the poorest place that could be selected for a capital ot' the nation. It is not centrally located in the center of a big producing area, and food and other materials have to be shipped here from a considerable distance." uslLihstHii ybuLU (Continued from -Page One.) have the capital of the United States removed from Washington to the middle mid-dle west. The senator is still on the warpath against profiteering landlords of the District of Columbia and says if they persist in gouging the public after wartime war-time legislation restraining them becomes be-comes inoperative, he will "up and nle c;niitul westward to grow up with the country. AVashington never was a good place for it anyway, he insists. But the Illinois senator does not even have his own state or its metropolis in mind. He suggests St. Louis as the probable place he will pick for the |