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Show war" with Italy has not yet broken out into actual fighting, and as negotiations nego-tiations between Italy and the "regency "re-gency of Quarnero" are under way . the affair is likely to be settled with little lit-tle or no bloodshed. It Is believed the poet will yield If his services in saving sav-ing Flume from the Jugo-Slavs are officially of-ficially recognized. That city is still blockaded. Last week two of the Italian Ital-ian warships went over to the D'An-nunzio D'An-nunzio side, their crews first binding and gagging the officers. Affairs In Ireland continued to occupy oc-cupy much of the attention of the English-speaking world. As the week closed the prospects for a settlement, according to Lloyd George, were much better than they appeared on the surface. sur-face. This the premier said after he had conferred with Mgr. Patrick Clune, archbishop of Perth, who had been acting as his intermediary and , consulting with Sinn Fein leaders. It was said the bishop had conveyed to Lloyd George a message from Michael Collins, commander of the Sinn Fein army, which presumably contained the Irish terms for a settlement or at least a truce. Father O'Flanagan of Roscommon, acting president of Sinn Fein, also sent a message to the premier pre-mier concerning a truce, and the cabinet, cabi-net, considering this, was reported to have decided on a reply embodying these terms : "No amnesty, no republic, repub-lic, and a cessation from the present campaign of outrage and murder." Sir Horace Plunkett, chairman of NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS President Urges Independence for the Philippines and a Loan to Armenia. BOTH OPEN TO OBJECTION Canadian Delegate Stirs League Assembly As-sembly by Scoring European Statesmanship States-manship Attacks on Article X Prospects for Irish Settlement Good, Says Lloyd George. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Congress is on the job again, with plenty of work to do and the prospect of nor getting a great deal of it done before March 4, with the exception of appropriation legislation and the possible pos-sible passage of bills for the creation of a budget and the restriction of immigration. President-elect Harding, who occupied his seat in the senate for a day or two, urged upon his colleagues col-leagues the need of quick and nonpartisan non-partisan work, and intimated that an extra session, would be called soon aflwr his inauguration. Withdrawal from the League of Nations Na-tions assembly by the Argentine delegation dele-gation caused a lot of talk, in Geneva and elsewhere, but It didn't disrupt the gathering by any means. Indeed, Pueyrredon and his colleagues found they! had put themselves in a rather ridiculous position and the chief retired re-tired to Paris, disappointed but still defiant. Their argument that proposed amendments to the covenant should be discussed and acted on at this session, was upheld by the Scandinavians and certain others, but their action in quitting quit-ting because they found themselves in the minority on the question was not approved by anyone, and was attacked by some of the Buenos Aires papers. Pueyrredon stated that his mission in Paris was to consult with Senator Mc-Cormick Mc-Cormick of Illinois in the hope that the United States and Argentina would become the leaders of a movement move-ment to give to the world a substitute for the present league. Wednesday's session of the assembly assem-bly was enlivened by a hot speech by Newton Rowell of Canada in opposition opposi-tion to the plan of Hanotaux of France to have three new organizations organiza-tions set up, each with an annual conference, con-ference, to take care of finance, transportation trans-portation and health "matters, and to be supported financially by the league as is the labor bureau. The labor bureau's bu-reau's budget for the coining year is 7,000,000 gold francs, and Mr. Rowell protested that nations like Canada would not agree -to be saddled with the immense additional expense that the three proposed commissions would the Dublin peace convention, sailed for New York to appear before the American committee of inquiry, and before starting said : "I see no hope of a truce in Ireland nor any hope in the overtures reported in the press. There cannot be peace while there is frightfulness on both sides. In my judgment the British government is blamahle." The American committee heard one of its star witnesses, Mrs. Terence MacSwiney, widow of the lord mayor of Cork, whose appearance before It was very Interesting though probably' her views on the Irish problem are given an exaggerated value. She was preceded by her sister-in-law, Miss Mary MacSwiney, who told a long story of the wrongs of her country, and freely admitted that in 1916 Ireland Ire-land turned to Germany for arms and would have accepted from that nation all the help it could get. This she justified jus-tified by the assertion that Ireland was "at war with England." Because of that "war" she defended all the killings of British policemen and soldiers, sol-diers, while In the same breath .she denounced the killing of Irishmen by the English. The American committee's delegates named to go to Ireland for a first-hand investigation cannot go. They obtained ob-tained their passports, but the British embassy in Washington refused to vise them for the stated reason that "the proposed visit to British territory Is not agreeable to his majesty's government." gov-ernment." Delegates to the American Farm Bureau Bu-reau federation in Indianapolis adopted adopt-ed a resolution asking congress to prohibit pro-hibit short selling In agricultural products on the Chicago board of trade. Banking and commercial Interests In-terests were asked to co-operate In their efforts to get Immediate relief from the present economic conditions by the extension and renewal of notes. The lefrislnfive hitrenn nf tho forlnm. require. Nor could such nations afford af-ford to send their best technicians each year to the conference, he said, and consequently the problem involved would be handled exclusively by European Euro-pean nations, which would not at all suit Canada. "Why," he cried, "do you think we should have confidence in European Eu-ropean statesmen and leaders when it was European policy, statesmanship and ambition that drenched the world in blood?" Senator Millen of Australia warmly supported Rowell, and Lord Rohert Cecil's compromise, that the existing international health organization organi-zation continue, under league supervision, super-vision, and the other two be abandoned, aban-doned, was adopted. ' Earlier in the week another Canadian, Cana-dian, Minister of Justice Doherty, proposed pro-posed an amendment to the covenant that would erase article X, and though he was forced to yield to the assembly's assem-bly's determination to put over- until next year action on amendments; he made a bitter protest against domination domina-tion of the league's affairs by the council. On Wednesday Lord Robert Cecil took another wallop at article X, offering a motion to relieve members of the league from obligations laid on them by that article. When France, Holland, Sweden and Czecho-SIovnkia objected, the proposal was referred to the legal section secretariat to ascertain ascer-tain if the league could make reservations reserva-tions on its own covenant. The assembly assem-bly committee on new members decided de-cided in favor of admitting Finland and Luxemburg, hut deferred action on Albania and the Baltic states. Considerable time was devoted by the assembly to discussing the war on typhus in the Near East. Several delegates appealed to the world to stamp out the scourge that is gradually gradual-ly spreading over Europe, and good progress was made In raising the 250,-000 250,-000 pounds necessary to set the campaign cam-paign In motion. President Wilson was desirous of appearing in person before congress to deliver his message, but was dissuaded dis-suaded at the last, minute by his physicians phy-sicians and the document was read by the clerks. In his opening generalizations generaliza-tions Mr. Wilson said autocracy was again to the fore in Europe, and that it was up to the United States to save democracy by giving an example of its' successful operation, enacting and enforcing just laws and "standing for right and justice as toward individual indi-vidual nations." Aside from domestic matters he made just two specific recommendations. rec-ommendations. The first was that a large loan be made to Armenia, the money to be expended under the supervision su-pervision of an American commission. Compliance of congress with this request re-quest is made somewhat doubtful by recent developments In Armenia, where the Russian Reds, are now in almost complete control and have set up a soviet government. The President Presi-dent also advised that complete Independence Inde-pendence be granted at once to the Philippines. This, too,will be opposed by many congressmen who do not agree with Mr. Wilson that the people of the islands have succeeded In maintaining main-taining a stable government. Probably Prob-ably most of our law-makers would be glad to get lid of the Philippines, however, how-ever, if it were not for the proposition that, we should guarantee their independence, inde-pendence, a policy that likely would involve us In serious complications, if not wars. In the not distant future. The President recommended the early adoption of a budget system, the Institution of rigid economy in government gov-ernment expenditures, better care for disabled soldiers, revision and simplification simpli-fication of the tax laws and protection for the agricultural industry all of which meets the approval of most of the people. ,. The message made no mention of the League of Nations, but the prediction predic-tion was made In Washington that Mr. Wilson would lay the treaty and covenant cove-nant before the senate again, unchanged, un-changed, and would continue the fight for ratification up to the moment of his retirement from the White House, and afterward as a private citizen. Another matter which he omitted from his message was the restriction or stoppage of immigration. This was taken by some to mean that if congress con-gress passed a drastic act he would veto it. Senator Harding announced that he would resign from the senate between January 10 and January 15 and that Senator-elect Willis would be appointed appoint-ed his successor. Governor Cox thereupon there-upon courteously wired Mr. Harding that If he wished to leave the senate earlier he would gladly name Mr. Willis Wil-lis to fill the vacancy. Mr. Harding returned to his home in Marion to prepare pre-pare for the series of conferences with national leaders concerning the policy of his administration. tion will make a special study of rural personal credits. The federal farm loan act was approved and an amendment amend-ment was asked to increase the loan limit from $10,000 to $25,000. F. W. Thompson of Chicago, heading head-ing a delegation of farm mortgage bankers, told the senate agriculture committee rtiat bankruptcy was threatened threat-ened In many quarters through the farmer's being enlled upon to carry an undue share of the burden of deflation. defla-tion. He urged that the war finance corporation be revived to take over the task in order to prevent business chaos and save the future food supply of the country and the world. For the third time the Nobel peaca prize has been awarded to an Ameri-oon, Ameri-oon, the recipient this time being President Pres-ident Wilson. The honor carries with it a gift of $40,000. Theodore Roosevelt and Elihu Root were the other Americans Ameri-cans to receive this prize. Despite the knowledge that the restoration res-toration of Constantlne would cut Greece off from all political and financial finan-cial support by the great powers, the Greek cabinet sent word to the former for-mer king that the people had voted In favor of his return, and Invited him to resume the throne. Premier Rhallis of course recognizes the seriousness of the situation, but probably be feels he must obey the mandate of the people. peo-ple. Paris had a story to the effect that Oonstantine plans to overcome the financial troubles of the country by giving concessions for a number of great gambling casinos In various Greek cities that are favorite resorts of tourists. Another Paris report was that the Greek cabinet had asked Con-stantine Con-stantine to' abdicate in favor of the crown prince, hut at this writing this has not been confirmed. D'Annunzlo's comic opera "state of |