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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY NEW YORK December 17 A newspaper here says Word was received in this city Sunday that William G McAcloo directorgeneral of railways at a private and confidential meeting of the Senate Interstate Commerce committee Saturday last made this statement believed to be accurately quoted Unless there is an immediate and better response by senators and representatives to my proposal for fiveyear control of the railroads by the federal administration I shall advise President Wilson by wireless that the railroads should be returned to private owners on January 2 WASHINGTON December 17 The leak of pos ¬ sible taxation in tlie United States is reached in tlie 19191920 revenue bill now before the Senate Sen ator Penrose of Pennsylvania iranking Republican member of tlie finance committee declared in the Senate this afternoon From this time forward Penrose said taxation must decrease to levy heavier taxation that is proposed in the present bill would stagnate industry and individual enterprise he declared and thereby would lessen rather than increase the governments revenues revenuesNEW NEW YORK December 17 Information received from wellinformed channels says there is positively no chance for governtrieut control to be extended The Democratic side of Congress is reported to be antagonistic to government ownership now that the November election remidiated autocratic tendencies It is realized in some quarters that government ownership is unsafe for the Democratic party as well as for democracy in general generalCHICAGO CHICAGO December 17 The largest judgment ever entered against the city was obtained by the Sanitary District today The amount is 2033012 62 witli interest of 4151530 making a total of 207452794 Tlie city council sometime ago au ¬ thorized tlie corporation counsels office to agree to the judgment judgmentWASHINGTON WASHINGTON December 17l Government own ¬ ership of American wireless telegraphy under which Commander D W Todd chief of naval radio teleg ¬ raphy promises cheaper commercial rates and broader facilities to American business is under fire today before tlie House merchant marine com littee litteeLONDON LONDON December 17 That the cxkaiser of Germany is planning to return to Berlin was indi atcd by a Rotterdam dispatch to the Daily News today stating that the Dutch government is to petition the German government to insure the safety of tlie former emperor on liis trip to the German capital capitalNEW NEW YORK December 17 PostmasterGeneral Burleson again urges permanent government owner ship of the telegranh and telenhone systems and asserts that they can be acquired without ultimate cost to the government through the sayings of uni ¬ fication and amount of return on the investment investmentCOPENHAGEN COPENHAGEN December 17 Stormy scenesf during which tlie demand was made that tlie Sovists take over the control of the government and remove1 Chancellor Ebert and Dr Haase marked the opening of tlie congress of Sovists in Berlin according to advices from that city today LONDON December 17 Archduke Max was nominated to succeed his brother exEmperor Charles of Austria at a monarchist meeting in Vij enna said an Exchanga Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen today A number of leading army gen1 erals attended the meeting meetingWASHINGTON WASHINGTON December 17 Forty of the larger cities of the country are prepared to spend S122ST 0000 in appropriations and bond issues for public works and buildings according to reports made public by the War Labor Policies Board to ¬ day dayATHENS ATHENS December 17 An allied fleet bom barded a detachment of Young Turks who had bar ricaded themselves at Smyrna and were defying the entente forces according to word received here today todayCOPENHAGEN COPENHAGEN December 17 Five persons were killed and forty wounded in political riots at Dres den said a disyatch from Berlin today The fight ¬ ing was precipitated by the extremists extremistsSTOCKHOLM STOCKHOLM December 17 The Bolshevik gov ¬ ernment has begun to evacuate Petrograd moving their archives toward Mijninovgorod according to information received here today
