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Show t 7" Washington Notes WASHINGTON! Feb 2J. Bbioysrd I workers on the Atlantic and Pacific j coasts have voted against acceptance of a ten per cent wage reduction. It , was announced today by the Amen- can Federation of LSbor, but officials said "little trouble Is expected" when the pew VV age Scht dub become- ( ffi i - live March 1. The wage redm lion, which w ill 1" made by the twelve shipyard represented repre-sented In the Atlantic Coast Shlp-I Shlp-I builders' association, will affect between be-tween .". 000 ahd 50.00.0 men. DEBATE LANDIS JOB WASHlNOTON, Feb. 22. Right of I a federal Judge- to accept outside cm-' cm-' ploynient while on th- bench WflS I sharply questioned by members of the 1 house judiciary committee Monday ! considering Impeachment charges I against Judge K. M. Landis. After Representative Welty, Demo- I crat, Ohio, hail outlined grounds on which he asked for the impeachment . 1 1 ttm . fls. . ranlsed base ball, member insisted that the committee com-mittee should go thoroughly Into the 1 -1 With this In view. Chairman Volstead announced that the question would be taken up Wednesday. KNEMTJ PROFERT1 WASHINGTONj Feb. 22 The house Monday passed the senate bill amending amend-ing the trading with the enemy act to permit American -wives of citizens of Germany and Austria-Hungary to re- I cover property confiscated by the government gov-ernment provided they were married I and in possession of the property be- I fore the United states entered the war. House approval also was given tin i Nolan bill extending for six months patent privileges to citizens of foreign I countries that afford Americans similar simi-lar rights. SOLDIER ROMs DELAYED, I WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. Soldier ! bonus legislation will be delayed by the senate until the extra session, ; Chairman Tenrose of the finance com- ' mlttee said Monday In connection .with a statement by Senator McCum-her. McCum-her. Republican, North Dakota, that ! he was preparing "for ihe senate and the American people" Blatemont of costs of the relief measures. Mr McCumber explained that he ' expected lo have from army and navy Sources sufficient data to make an ac- I curate estlmat of the oosts. Mr. Penrose said the bonus legislation legis-lation should be handled properly i: at all, and he feared the Jam pf Ihe last few days might destroy deserving fea-i 1 lures Ll Mill I'. 1 oMltl I SUIT, WASHINGTON. Feb. 22 - -Attorney General Palmer Mondaj or'1! red suit to be brought in the federal difetrtat (court at St. Louis ttgajinSI the Southern South-ern T'lm- association, ahotit fifty of its principal member companies and I seventy Individuals on the ground it 1 1 entered Into 1 consplracj to curtail cur-tail the prodne: ion and Increase the 1 price of yellow pine lumber. In violation viola-tion of the Sherman anti-trust net. The proceedings , will be instituted within a few days. It was said at the department of justice. They will hnvc as their aim the granting of a temporary tempo-rary injunction which would restrain those against whom the proceedings would he directed froni further participation par-ticipation in what the government alleges al-leges to bp a conspiracy by curtailing production in Arkansas. Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana. Mississippi and Alabama Ala-bama and in any agreement to control prices. PAPER PRIC1 DR4 l'v WASHINGTON. Feb 22.- -Bids to supply the government with paper during the next sl months were re- celved Monday by the joint congr. -- sloeal printing committee and win sail to show "a decided drop" In prices quoted January 3i when former for-mer bids wers rejected. The. low blel for newn print to.luv wh.s o -48 cents a pound a ; compared with r..2X cents In the lag! bids Hook paper was quoted from two to torn cents a pound below the former l.ids The new bids, it was estimated. wUI jive the government $200,000, PROMOTES ISXPOR1 TRAD! WASHlNqTOK, Peb. 22.- Th I'v.-r bin, authorising federal charters for companies engaged In trade with Chins and exempting ther.i from payment pay-ment of Income tuxes on such !.n-l-neSS. iassed the. house Monday 262 to SE and now gif.i tu ti senute. S.ATjARX kaisi denied WASHTKGTO'N, Keb. Ji. Th vice president and speaker of t he nmix u.-in.: u.-in.: in receive salary Increases, Hfnnt,. arncndmeiiin io ihe le.u.., tlve appropriation bill to Increase their salaries from $12,000 to 115.000 have been stricken from the bill by thu oonferees, INSEPT t) - IR vvi im:. WASHINGTON, Feb. 82, Quarantine Quaran-tine regulations effective April l agSJlUl frail and vegeliibles from Cuba, the Bahamas, Jamaica, the canal rone. Costa Rica, India. Philip-Pine Philip-Pine Islands, Ceylon and Java were aqnoupced today by th department of BgrlOUlturs OWlng to danger of ii citrus black fly pent. Tho rules apply to raw ov unprocessed plants or parts of plnnta Including such as may b0 ued for peeking material, but not to shipments of processed fruits op v ege tables m i w K r;, ,t,,i s I WASHfNQTON, K. i.. 22 President UiNon is expected to recommend to congress before he leaves that authority au-thority be grnnte.l for the United ! States to necept German bonds to he I applied against the debt that Hel-ginm Hel-ginm oweS America. It was learned ;l thrt stnie department. While the United States Is not committed com-mitted to any agreement it was . plained that there was an understanding under-standing reached at the Paris peac conference that such recommendations should be made to the legislative bodies bod-ies ot England, France and the Unjt-' Unjt-' "ij States. It was incident to the i claims of Belgium for priority in repa-j repa-j rations and was agreed to bv the rep-t rep-t ressntatlves ot the three great powers ! as j.raetlcuble means for an imme-dlate imme-dlate lightening .,r Belgium's finan-I finan-I clal burden. JOHNSON'S : yon. WASHINGTON, Feb. -1'.- "1 am not going to leave rhe senate " .,id Senator Johnson. of ( allfONlia, n - gardlrig his acceplanoe of s position as counsel for New York Citv In Ho municipal railway dispute. Senator Johnson said that he had been employed em-ployed by Mayor Hylan and the corporation cor-poration counsel ,,r New, Fork lo -slst In the case us a lawyer to appear ap-pear in proceedings to had next : month, during the recess of congress. |