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Show is assured that Mr. Wilson will veto the bill, and the' vote in the senate indicated that it cannot be passed there over the veto. Party lines among the senators were broken in the voting. Among those who availed the measure meas-ure most bitterly were Moses of New Hampshire and Edge of New Jersey, both Republicans, and Reed of Missouri, Mis-souri, Democrat. The senate is now going to get through with the 11 big appropriation hills which it has not yet passed and which Mr. Harding has especially requested shall be enacted en-acted at this session. ' Only an immediate application of the principle of collective bargaining will settle the railway labor controversy contro-versy and avert a national crisis In the transportation industry, according to B. M. Jewell of the railway employees' em-ployees' department of the American Federation of Labor. He told the railway labor board last week that the fight of the executives on the national agreements was a smoke screen to obscure the fundamental Issues, and made these suggestions: "First, that the board refer the national na-tional agreements which are now before be-fore it to a joint conference of the representatives of the railroads and of the labor organizations with the recommendation that their agreements be adjusted by negotiations as soon as possible, the board agreeing to ! pass immediately upon any points of difference dif-ference which may arise from the negotiations. , "Second, that the board request the representatives of the railroads and representatives of the .labor organizations organiza-tions to meet the board in conference to consider the establishment of boards of adjustment as contemplated by the transportation pact. "Third, that in reply .to Mr. Atter-bury's Atter-bury's notice to the board and his subsequent letter to the chairman advising ad-vising him that lie contemplates filing a flood of individual complaints to reduce re-duce the wages of unskilled employees, the board recommend to Mr. Atter-bury Atter-bury that he meet In general conference confer-ence with the representatives of the employees affected so that the existing exist-ing general agreements will not be impaired and the matter brought to the board in the form of a single complaint." That dreaded pest, typhus, has invaded in-vaded the United States through the port of New York and there have been several deaths already. It comes from the infected areas of Europe, and Its spread here is being effectually effectual-ly fought by the strictest inspection of all immigrants. i with resentment that the Presidentelect President-elect last week granted an Interview to a committee of the "German-American Citizens' league" headed by the notorious George Sylvester Viereel;, former editor of the Fatherland. Why cannot this man and his colleagues, who still cling desperately to their hyphen, lie quiet until time and good behavior have somewhat rehabilitated them in the opinion of decent Americans? Ameri-cans? Here are the demands, requests and opinions which these hyphenates had the effrontery to present to the President-elect : 1. That Americans of German birth should participate equally with their fellow citizens in the government of "our country." 2. Immediate peace with Germany and the rejection of the "infamous" peace of Versailles. 3. A protest against the French annexation an-nexation of the "ancient German provinces of Alsace-Lorraine." 4. Immediate withdrawal .of the American forces from the occupied portions of Germany. 0. Condemnation of British action in Ireland as "In violation' of the principles prin-ciples for which American blood was shed and American treasure lavished in defense of the British empire during dur-ing the World war." 6. Condemnation of the "attempt to embroil this country in a war with Japan for the benefit of Great Britain." 7. Repeal of the Panama canal tolls act, which it has been said would be violation of our treaty with Great Britain. 8. Opposition to entangling alliances, alli-ances, "especially any alliance with Great Britain." 9. Investigation of the government handling of alien property is demanded. de-manded. 10. Immediate release of Eugene V. Debs. 11. Resentment of attacks against citizens of German descent. 12. Prohibition condemned as "a breeder of death, corruption and contempt con-tempt for the law." 13. A study of immigration "in a liberal spirit" urged. Another man, who during the war made himself only a little less obnoxious ob-noxious than Vlereck Oswald Garrison Garri-son Villard ran into a hornets' nest when he undertook to deliver a Lincoln Lin-coln birthday address at the Woman's City club in Cincinnati. A great crowd, made up largely of ex-service men and men and women who lost relatives in the war, tried to break up the meeting, and only the intervention inter-vention of the police saved Villard from possible Injury and enabled him to go on with his speech. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS President-Elect Harding Still in Doubt About Three of the Cabinet Places. WOOD FOR THE PHILIPPINES? Viereck's Hyphenates Present List of Impudent Demands Attempt to Impeach Judge Landis Senate Passes the Emergency ' Tariff Bill. 1 By EDWARD W. PICKARD. As March 4 draws near interest in the make-up of Mr. Harding's cabinet grows acute. The President-elect is, at this writing, believed to have decided upon seven of his ten advisers, while the men to whom he will entrust the navy, labor and commerce portfolios still are to be definitely selected. Former Form-er Governor Lowden of Rlinois has refused the place of secretary of the navy. For secretary of labor four men are being considered. They are James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, former steel worker; T. V. O'Connor of New York, leader of the Longshoremen's union; James Duncan of Massachusetts, who hasv been an official of the American Federation of Labor and of the Granite Cutters' union, and Johu I. Nolan of California, member of congress and an iron moulder. Mr. O'Connor was one of Mr. Harding's visitors in St. Augustine last week, and it was announced an-nounced that he would confer with the President-elect again this week. If the southern states are to have a representative in the cabinet and they are urgently claiming such recognition recog-nition it may be he will be the new secretary of commerce. Many southerners south-erners think this would be fitting in view of the existing movement for industrial in-dustrial expansion in the South. Three gentlemen from below Mason and Dixon's line have been especially recommended rec-ommended to Mr. Harding. They are T. H. Huston and Newell Sanders of Tennessee, and Congressman C. Bas-com Bas-com Slemp of Virginia. Many petitions peti-tions have been sent to St. Augustine asking that either Herbert Hoover or John Hays Hammond be given the commerce portfolio, and among others mentioned for the post is Charles D. Hilles, former chairman of the National Nation-al Republican committee. Discoveries made and documents seized by the police of Paris, Barcelona Barce-lona and Milan have revealed a great communist conspiracy to overthrow the governments of France, Spain and Italy, the date set for the revolution being May 1. Funds for the conspirators conspira-tors came from Berlin in the form of checks and were transmitted through an American financial organization that has European headquarters in Paris and branches in Berlin and Vienna. The French police say soviet? have been organized throughout through-out France ready to take over the banks, railroads and all civil services. With the opening of the British parliament par-liament last week Premier Lloyd George once more "faced the hardest fight of his career." But he is used to that now, and probably will again emerge victorious over bis opponents. To be sure, the opposition is unusually unusual-ly powerful this time. and. has been re-enforced by the addition of the Cecil brothers. Lord Robert and Lord Hugh, who are quite Influential. As soon as King George had delivered the brief address from the throne the fight began In the bouse of commons, Herbert Asquith. former premier, and J. H. Thomas, labor leader, heading the attack. Naturally, the Irish question ques-tion supplied their chief ammunition. In reply to questions the premier said the situation in Ireland had improved greatly in the last six months and that if the British people would have patience pa-tience order would soon be restored. "Boycotting has completely ceased." he said. "Sinn Fein courts have disappeared dis-appeared ; the police are recovering their authority, and the magistrates are coming back to the courts." Decidedly Interesting if not very important is the attempt to impeach United States Judge Kenesaw M. Landis of Chicago. The attack on this spectacular jurist, who is both much loved and much feared, came from two sources and was based on two grounds, but the actual move for his impeachment was made by Representative Repre-sentative Benjamin Welty of Ohio, who asks the senate to remove the judge from the bench because he accepted ac-cepted the office of supreme arbiter of 1 organized baseball. The house committee on judiciary took up the Welty charge, and also received an opinion from Attorney General Palmer Pal-mer who ruled that Judge Landis had committed no offense in holding the two positions. The other attack on the judge was made by Senator N. B. Dial of South Carolina, who was enraged en-raged because Landis. in hearing the case of an embezzling bank clerk, criticized the hunk directors for paying pay-ing only $00 a month to a young rrtan who was required to handle large sums. The judge accepted Dial's challenge with glee and said some rather cutting things about the senator's sen-ator's interests in banks, cotton mills and child labor. As Dial has not been an especially influential member of the senate it is not likely his outbreak will have results. The emergency tariff bill, supposedly supposed-ly designed for the relief of the farmer, farm-er, was passed by the senate on Wednesday, but with such considerable consider-able amendments that the senate and bouse conferees faced a hard task in triig to complete the measure for submission to the President. Anyhow their labor probably is wasted, for it Mr. Harding and those called into conference with him of course have not confined their discussions to cabinet cabi-net appointments, for the new President Presi-dent will have innumerable diplomatic and other important positions to nil. No formal announcement about any of these places has been made, but it is now taken for granted that Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood will be made governor general of the Philippines to succeed Frederick Burton Harrison. This appointment ap-pointment probably would meet with the approval of all except those who are in favor of giving the Islanders their independence Immediately, regardless re-gardless of their ability to govern themselves or to protect themselves against the possible encroachments ot the Japanese.' American prestige in the islands is said to have declined markedly under Governor Harrison and the movement for independence has grown correspondingly. General Wood's ability as a colonial administrator adminis-trator Is unquestioned, and doubtless under him American authority in the Philippines would be strengthened and the defenses in the islands would be perfected. Albert Fletcher, who was one of Mr. Harding's guests during the houseboat cruise in Florida, is slated for appointment as embassador to Japan. He was a Roosevelt Rough Rider and served as minister to Mexico. Mexi-co. Probably Mr. Harding cannot well refuse to meet delegations of presumably presum-ably law-abiding citizens that journey I to St. Augustine, but many thousands of Americans whose memory of events during the war has not faded read |