UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1919, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

; REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTION. IMPORTANT MEASURES LOST. STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT. (Received March 0, />.5 p.m.) Washington, March 4. Congress adjourned after a day and night sitting. Republican obstruction has resulted in the less of a number of important measupn this session. A bill allotting the mbney necessary for Government ownership of railways failed to pass. President Wilson's nomination of Cabinet officers and ambassadors has not been endorsed. President Wilsoh made a statement to Congress, in which he said that failure to pass legislation showed that a group of men had deliberately chosen to embarrass the adm.'iustration and the financial interest of the country's entire railway J Wilson signed a Bill guaran- (.}!•> price of wheat, at two dollars and twenty-six cents per bushel. —Aus.N.Z. ("able Assn.

POLITICAL OPPOSITION TO PRESIDENT WILSON. Paris, March 5. The New York Evening Sun's Paris correspondent sums up the French official viewpoint of the Senatorial opposition to President Wilson's followers by saving that the opposition is the result of domestic politics rather than real antagonism to President Wilson's foreign policy. The Allies will stand by President Wilson and say with him that the American people's co-operation is necessary in order to make the world's peace durable.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. IRISH SELF-DETERMINATION. Washington, March 5. The Lower House adopted a resolution hoping that the Peace Conference 'Would favor self-determination in Ireland.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.