Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS delegates and agenda for the armament conference are being determined FOUR SELECTED FOR AMERICA secretary hughes suggests Suggs sti topics for league of nations elects moore judge of inter national court senate completes its draft of tax dili preliminary work on the conference on limitation of armaments and far hastern eastern problems Is going on steadily a and nd before long it will be known jus who will take part in the meeting ond and lit in it a general way ay what they will discuss the several nat nations lolis concerned are selecting their representatives those for the united states being tile tho first to bo be announced president liar ilar ding has appointed for that high duty secretary of bf state hughes senator henry cabot lodge H eshu ichu boot and senator oscar W underwood three republicans and one democrat As premier iiara will ile he unable to come admiral baron kato lias fins been select ed to hend head the japanese delegation and ambassador to the united states Sh Idehara will also be a member it Is still believed premier lloyd georee will lead the british contingent and it Is likely that lils his associates will be andrew bonar law secretary tary for war bvans and lord lee of farchmin Farch nm nin first lord of the admiralty the alie british dominions especially australia new zealand and canada have been strenuously arguing their right to representation resen tation in the conference lit in view of their great inderst in matters concerning the pacific and far east and it Is believed that some of their leading statesmen will bo be asked to attend in tho the capacity of advisers two to more notions nations have been added to tho the list of nf those hose invited to tho the conference with the consent of five principal powers holland and belgium will participate in the proceedings insofar as their interests in tile the far east are concerned conce ined their status thus will be the sanae same na as that of china for it in id not to be supposed they will take part in the discussion on arain armaments ments diplomatic allons and anfor mal exchanges between betge en tho tha govern ments mend concerned have progressed so BO far that secretary hughes has been able to send to tie the other four great powers aers and to china a suggested out it lang of the topics for tile the conference tills th proposed agenda has not been made public pending its acceptance by the other governments government but Is believed to Inc include ludd aside from limitation of arina armaments ments these suggestions territorial integrity of russia the open door arid and equal opportunity for economic activities the powers acting na its trustees until russia shall have recovered slid and set up a central representative government territorial integrity of china and lip he apen door 11 tin substitution of international co for the past practice of seeking selfish monopolistic advantages in china AssIst mice to 0 o china in achieving administrative fiscal and judicial reforms A tokyo newspaper says mr air hughes also includes in ill ills suggestions mandates if they have not been previously settled and Afan manchuria churin and tile the chinese railway that question gueson nu eson of f meaning in tills this case es Pec lallY yap Is causing thu the japanese a n lot of worry they dont want it brought up lit in ILI bip conference andere and anre ta alij their utmost to get gc it oett settled lid before tile the washington meet their 1 occupation 0 of f shantung Is another matter they de desired alred to keep out of the conference but in this hits they are arc likely to be ba disappointed they have asked china to enter into private negotiations for tile the settlement of that controversy but the more intelligent elements in china rely on the banh ington meeting to right their count rys wrongs and tho ilia peking government tins has refused japans proposition fearing that it would bo overthrown if it boine or of tho the lenders leaders lit in that government linao long becci suspected of being pro japanese an interesting report IP ili washington Is that robert former secretary of state till under president wilson Wll soil will be an adviser to the chi chinese nese delegall delegation oil the assembly of tile league of nations continues to unction function lit in disregard of the assertions assertion it of various barlous personages that tile league Is vii virtually dead parenthetically it may inny be said that the treaty of versailles guaran guarantees tile leagues life for 30 10 yours years for the lio purposes of administering the baar basin and abul tile atio control of danzig the chief accomplishment of tile lissell assembly blY last week was tile election of judges of the international court of justice hoot lieving declined for personal reasons to be a candidate the latin american group brought about tho election of john bassett moore of new york lie ile and ten tell others worn were accepted by the council three deputy judges also were vere elected and con firmed but there was mas trouble over the choice of tile fourth deputy three times the assembly ns elected bettor alvarez of chile and three ahnes the council voted for al descamps ot ok nel ile glum at last the deadlock was referred to a committee senior Arri ador 0 of I 1 11 panama anning threatened to withdraw ills hla delegation if alvarez was not accepted by tile council the question of the leagues competence to judge the taatia arica dla and tile caille treaty was referred to a of three jurists yenor senor edwards of chilo chile stated lint ho fie was not prepared to admit thill that the league was licensed to intrude lit in purely south american affairs lit in violation of the monroe doctrine senor honor Aru aramayo of Holl vla having received new instructions from ln lit paz withdrew ills bis demand that the dispute with chile bo be included tn in tho the agenda of tho the assembly the irysh meaning the sinn glnn feln ers era were willing to hold a conference with the british cabinet ut lit inverness this week as proposed by Prein ler lloyd george but as was easily predicted they wont to submit to tile tho only condition imposed that the sinn feln fein must abandon its demand for separation from the empire de sent harry boland and joseph Alc Orath with tits acceptance odthe of the invitation vi but in his letter lie made several chief of which w waa as tits his objection to admitting Ir elands allegiance le legi ance to the british crown before entering tha lie conference lie ile olbo also argued that it if tile alio premier objected to the lie secession of ireland front from the empire he should not support uie secession of ulster from ireland mr air lloyd george bent the hie couriers cour lera back to dublin with a message roea saga to de that his note was unsatisfactory and he fie had better arile another this the governor supplemented by a telegram to de valera canceling the arrangements tor for the tha inverness conference because hedelt he felt tut in n view of the irish attitude negotiations would bo be useless the premier was ns as conciliatory as ai he fie could be consistently but at this writing it 11 II 19 uncertain whether lie ilia degott for pence will continue tile the dall dail BIrn nn however named its delegates for the conference if it la Is held and de Is not one of them the delegates are arc arthur griffith founder of stan fein and republican foreign minister michael colllns collins minister of finance hobert barton secretary of economic affairs E enmon ninon duggan nn chief irish republican army liaison of fleer who helped to arrange the truce and georgo george duvan dury duffy the irish envoy to 0 o rome home several of thene thane men are classed as moderates the freemans freemanb fre emans journal or of dublin says I 1 their task may have its ts but its successful accomplishment ment wilt will bo be the crown of a great achievement both nations have their hearts set on oil nil an bono honorable rable ending here and now to the struggle if their desire Is well within the lie realm or of possibility and practicability all the efforts of be wreckers rec kera in n great britain hitherto lieve failed there la Is then enough statesmanship jn in the irish delegation to 0 o confirm that failure callura find and to complete a fabric of deac director of the budget dawes has haa informed the le atta finance committee ot of the details of thil the cut of in ili tile ordIn ordinary nry government expenditures for tile the current fiscal year reductions duct ions for tile the war department shipping board railroads veterans vote rons bureau and in miscellaneous places will provide of tills this the remain tier will bo be saved by better co ordina tion lion in handling de purchases and sales of supplies the finance committee completed its re drafting of the house tax bill and experts begun began getting betting the he measure ready for presentation in the senate 0 on n september 21 disregarding tile ra recommendations C of secretary of tile treasury abellon SI ellon tile committee voted to repeal the excess profits tax beginning january 1 1022 the capital tax ax effective in 1022 tin and IR 0 o substitute for these n tint flat finx of 15 per cent effective january 1 1022 among other oilier changes in the be lionso hill bill voted by ilia committee are retention of freight and passenger transportation at half their present rates and those on oil express expires 11 ments and oil pipe lines nt at their present mica for another year ond con of jnnny miscellaneous taxes tile ho house vote voted a to repeal tho the lelit against tho the ru ku klux ak glnn I 1 A n Is growing moro more intel interesting esting and more widespread every tiny day arid and t tho I 1 IQ KIAT li Is fighting back its ene enemies niles with igor various papers in many parts of the country have linao under undertaken exposures po of the hie organization and its ita methods and alms and tile tho klan hits has marled or says it ww will start ailts 1110 jtb ITI is lah nt resent it in chicago nil an organization called lie he national unity council fins weis been formed with the avowed purpose of suppressing tile tho klan and its so coiled called invisible empire the council which Is to bo be extended throughout tile country Is hent headed leti by I dard F I 1 dunne former gov governor enior of illinois lie ho s says the ku iu klux are anro a bennee to tho I 1 netlon because they avowedly proscribe millions of their fellow citizens solely be because ause either cither they wora lill god cod lit in 0 manner permitted by the constitution ution of tile unit united states state s or b because P they were born without the united states they place the black man mail without tile palo of tile the ganv such drw organizations foment racial religious and political en instead of encouraging cou raging comity ond and friendship ile between tween n all classes of american citizens which should ho be tile the aim of every brond minded american Aloan whIle tile tho klan continues to grow in numbers with kith extraordinary rapidity now lif having iving it Is said more than half n tri million lillon members and boing organized it in every state in tho union except now new hampshire utah and montana tike the great packing concerns of armour mour swift wilson and cudahy last lait acel put into operation UK tile newly ds american shop system their government sponsored agreement agreement with their heir workers having expired all disputes aro are to be sub iut rallied to shop councils comprised of i employees elected representatives arld and persons selected by the alio employers and natt national orial councils to which shop councils c ile inny inay appeal are ara to be formed in sh similar rillar milliner manner employees representatives must be employed in the shop and must be citizens or have taken out their first papers any person to Is eligible for employment whether a union member or not while tills athla Is open shop the packers bay any it Is not a change of policy since they always have hava been open shop ninety per cent of their workers wor kere they say assented to the plan the flood that struck san an tonio and other parts of texas lins subsided but its ita fiill results are just beginning to bo be realized several liun bun dred persons mostly negroes arid aiex icons perished the property loss lose in san antonio Is placed at and elsewhere at the mayor of tho the city appealed to washington Washing tog for army tents end arid cots for the thousands of homeless refugees The British cruiser dauntless heaping the bodies of tile the american of the zit 2 di onster arrived at new york friday escorted by a lest of ot nit craft destroyers and other vessels ves aela saturday afternoon the he dead accorded the full naval honors due those who gave their WOO in the line of duty |