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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY An effort to override President AVilsons veto of the Republican Knox peace resolution failed yts tcrdiiy in thu house The vote was 219 for over ¬ riding to 152 against or twentynine less than the required twothirds Two Republicans Representa ¬ tive Kelly of Michigan and Fuller of Massachusetts voted to sustain the Presidents veto while seven ¬ teen Democrats joined the Republican majority in an effort to override it IMS was less than the number of Democrats voting for the peace reso ¬ lution when it was passed by the house The Democrats voting to override the veto were Rep ¬ resentatives Aslibrook Ohio Caldwell New York Care New York Cullen New York Dooling New York Callivan Massachusetts Ganty New York lOldfoRlc New York McKiniry New York Mc Lane Pennsylvania Maher New York Mead New York OConnell New York OConnor Ixniisiana Olney Massachusetts Sherwood Ohio Tague Massachusetts MassachusettsA A threat that unless common labor in the rail ¬ way crafts is granted a wage of 2500 i year a more serious condition might be confronted by the railroads than the switchmens strike was made yesterday before the hearing of the rail wage board by R M Jewell acting president of the Federated Shop Crafts of Railways The yearly wage asked by Mr Jewell stirred up considerable excitement at the hearing which was expected to close yesterday afternoon afternoonAt At the meeting of Mayor AVilllam Hale Thomp ¬ sons traction commission at the Hotel Sherman yesterday afternoon Attorney Charles E AVard announced that the proposed traction bill will be ready to submit to the city council by the middle of Tune The bill provides foe the creation of a transportation district controlled by five trus ¬ tees elected for five year terms Under such man ¬ agement the fare could be reduced to 5 cents Mr AVard believes believesApproximately Approximately 100000000 worth of building has been tied up in Chicago by the high cost of mate ¬ rials as well as the difficulty of getting them here due to the transportation tieup and because of the high labor costs and the restriction of real estate loans mid high interest rates according to M ii Craig secretary of the Building Construction Em ¬ ployers Association AssociationHe He was first elected to the lower house in 1908 and continued to represent his district the nine ¬ teenth ever since A short time ago he announced his intention to stand for reelection next fall if his health would permit him to make the cam ¬ paign paignThomas Thomas N Corman 59 one of the prominent Democratic members of the Illinois legislature and a leader f the downstate Sullivan organization died suddenly yesterday in Peoria of heart disease from which he had been ill for several mouths
