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Show WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF WASHINGTON Keb. 4 Supporters 1 of the house emergency tariff bill caught their opponents napping to-1 day and . two amendments were! adopted before senators fighting the I measure were aware of the action. The amendments were agreed to by H vl 1 Voce vbte with oul nine senators sena-tors in the chamber. Thfcn Senator Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi, be-j came aware f what was happening j and demanded thai a quorum be called The amendments adopted, propose a rate of 40 cents a busrel on wheat .ni l the exemption from import duuesl 1 of lice 10 b- used In canned goods. After the quorum call whatever plans there were for a unanimous Consent agrcemeht to fix a time for : a vote on the measure were upset as I Senator Williams, Democrat, ' Jtfissls-1 sippl announc-d that he never would' I consent to such an agreement. 1 RARE Mi l M s PAVMJSJi Is 1 WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. Scnutor. Etoblxiaon's bin 10 llbprajlac the law governing the mining of UiligSteh, chronic and other minerals during thej war. was reported Unanlnfbusly today. I hy the sV nate mines committee. The measure Wpuld permil many miners to participate in the distribution of ai fund of between $6.ou0,oot' and JC-000.000. JC-000.000. BIRD PRKSI Rt 1 WAflHINCrTON. fob, 4. President I Wilson vetoed Thursday a bill author- 1 tzlng patenting of acres of publlo lauds in Montana for game preserve purposes by t lie Milk River Vallcyj : Cull Cllib, I In my opinion," the president said: 1 In his message;, "ihe legislation pro-j I pOsed is not in th- public Intercal The prCBldem added that he vas I informed that the lands in question were used by some birds as breeding! j grounds, and he suggested that 11 bi I made a federal bird reservation" in-, I Stead. SPE4 I I . 1 ssiuN WASHINCTmN, Feb. 4 1 r it I I Wilson, acting on the recenil; coirt-l ! munlcaled request of President-elect I Harding, issued a proclamation calling call-ing a special session of the senate to , convene Man h 4 It M. (, s iJSC I RV WASHINGTON", ITob, I. Means o i manufacture chloroform, carbor m-! I tradhlblide, methyl chloride and sim- j i ilar compounds from natural gas now , 1 Koincr ro waste, nas Deen u ioi .i by bureau of mines experts, accord-' 1 hi' t'i an announcement by ihe Inter-' j tor department VVaSle gas is par-' j licularlv a problem in Louisiana,; (Texas, Wyoming and California. It iVaS said, as there is not enough to pay to pipe it from the wells to An- in -trial centers I'nder the chemical ud iiieimui reactions worked out by 1 the bureau, "essential facts on which ' to base commercial development," i through chlorinatlon of this waste itas ' Is believed to have been provided. I 1 Di W RIGims Washington, k?o. 4. The u. 1 preihe court Is told In a petition for. j re-hearlnic filed by counsel for Can-j adlan clalmunts to Kansas farm lands j that Us recent decision, If allowed to ! stand, that B eitlzfn of Canada is not. j eligible to inherit land In America will ' place the t'nlted State In tho poitlon; it failing to keep faith in the ful- , fillment of ita treaty obllg.itiona" The decision, the petition says "most vitally affects the honor of this nation." IN AXi M VPPED WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. Army; engineers who hive under consideration considera-tion th projected lake-to-rlver canal , lo connect .the Great Lakes with the j I Gulf of Mexico havn virtually decided' that only four practicable routes are j open. All of the routes considered prac-1 , tically would connect lake Iirie with! .the tiblo river and thence to ihe Gulf by way ot the Mississippi Three of I the routes lie entirely within the state! of ")hlo. The entire matter Is under (tudy! and no choice of a route has been ; made as yet. it was said today. PA1 FUOSl CFK.M WASHINGTON. Feb. 4 It would , seem ' wise" to collect now the $234,-1 i j 000.000 balance owed by Germany to, the United States for the expenses of the American army of occupation. "In view of the obligations to other nations Germany is now expected to assume," Representative Slemp. Republican, Re-publican, Virginia, a member of the house appropriations committee. miu m i l tier ta Becretarj Houston. .Mr. Slemp No wrole that be ' won-1 clered." if A merlc.-i could collect for mocc than 7.500 troops, the "number, according to General Pershing's testimony, tes-timony, it was agreed by President Wilson we should keep In Germany." The American forces on the Rhine are said to number over 1-.000 men.. |