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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1919
Page
5
Fragmentary text hints at a rough campaign scene in the United States with references to price paid by Wilson and a warning to keep someone out of the election. No clear events, dates, or identities are readable.
The July session in Washington saw fierce debate over the Shantung peninsula's fate, with opponents accusing Japan of conquest and supporters defending President Wilson's negotiations. Senators Norris Borah Hitchcock Williams Lodge Johnson and others weighed rights, promises, and possible secret treaties as the Foreign Relations Committee began reading the peace treaty draft.
The house halted progress on a dry civil appropriation bill after a heated party line dispute over a revised version that would fund $12 million for rehabilitation of wounded soldiers and sailors. Republicans forced a motion to adjourn, while debates cited excessive spending and disputed agency requests.
International seamen's strike spreads to Dutch Danish Norwegian and Swedish ships in New York harbor with crews quitting their vessels in sympathy with American sailors demanding equal wages at sea. American union leaders report difficulty keeping British crews at work while talks continue between the United States Shipping Board and engineers on potential responses to the threat of a wider general strike.
In a bid to save about a million head of western cattle and sheep, officials will seek a 50 percent cut in freight rates for livestock shipments from Montana and drought regions into Minnesota, Wisconsin, and nearby states with ample pasture. Washington animal industry officials joined western stockmen and Minnesota and Wisconsin ag leaders at a conference, deeming the reduction the top urgency. Nearly a million acres were tendered by Montana stockmen through the Minnesota state department of agriculture, with 400,000 acres offered at no cost.
Six former soldiers testified before a special House committee on alleged cruelties by military prisoners in France during 1918. They named camps as The Bastile, the stockade, Prison Farm No 2, and St Anne's Hotel, with beaten prisoners and meager meals of stew and bread. Some officers faced court martial. one convict was Lieutenant Hard Boiled Smith.
WashingtonJuly 18 Representatives of the American Electric Railway association told the federal electric railways commission that traction systems were in serious condition and many companies must go out of existence without fair public support The commission held its first hearing to examine causes and seek impartial recommendations The testimony cited receivership and abandonment affecting hundreds of miles of track with 16 percent of the nation’s electric railway mileage under distress including 62 companies operating 5912 miles in receivers 60 dismantled or junked and 38 abandoned reflecting mounting financial pressures across the industry.
A chaotic scene unfolds as a beer vendor spills drinks, splashing spectators and staff. Despite the mishap, fans remain watching, and no injuries are reported as security restores order.
A terse dispatch notes Roosevelt plans to enter politics, mentioning an appointed post and Hempstead in what appears to condensed local briefing. The fragmentary text hints at a town committee context and political maneuvering.
New York July 15 Bill H Hays chairman of the republican national committee issued the following statement on the league of nations covenant tonight The situation respects the league covenant is simply this There must be effective reservations These reservations must safeguard the sovereignty of the United States in every particular must guarantee the Monroe doctrine beyond the shadow of a doubt and must either eliminate article 10 entirely or so modify it that our own congress shall be morally as well as legally free after a specified period to decide when and where and to what extent our soldiers shall be employed must retain our full control of immigration tariff and all other purely domestic policies and must provide full right to withdraw from the League at any time without hindrande or conditions of any kind upon giving suitable notice It is up to the administration to decide whether it will accept these essential guarantees of American independence which would be promptly accepted by the other nations
Washington July 15 A House Judiciary hearing resumes on enforcement of prohibition with a proposed amendment to bar possession of liquor stored before July 1 The prohibitionists’ momentum indicated a tougher stance though the committee had struck out a home storage ban in earlier drafting
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