The Independent . to what present emergency hereferred nor what action on the partof the United States was foreshadowedby his words, but he denied that theAdministration had any intention ofabandoning its policy of intimated that the perilous interna-tional position of the United Statesrather than the German peace over-tures had impelled the Government toact. The American Government is veryanxious to dispel any suspicion on thepart of the Allies that it is backingGermany. The communication addrestto the belligerents was, in diplomaticterms, not intervention or even media-tion, bu
The Independent . to what present emergency hereferred nor what action on the partof the United States was foreshadowedby his words, but he denied that theAdministration had any intention ofabandoning its policy of intimated that the perilous interna-tional position of the United Statesrather than the German peace over-tures had impelled the Government toact. The American Government is veryanxious to dispel any suspicion on thepart of the Allies that it is backingGermany. The communication addrestto the belligerents was, in diplomaticterms, not intervention or even media-tion, but simply a tender of good press and public in the Alliedcountries, as a whole, resent any suchaction on the part of a neutral power,but it is possible that the responsiblestatesmen of the Entente Allies maytake advantage of the offer to make amore definite statement of terms. It isneedless to say that the German Gov-ernment will hail with gratitude suchan important advance on the road toan early Congress and Th* hoPe of ma? rail, ° .. , road managers andthe Railroads labor union representa-tives that Congress might be inducedto set aside the Adamson eight-hourlaw, abandon the proposed prohibitionof railroad strikes pending the investi-gation of an industrial dispute, andconsent to a private agreement on theeight-hour day as a substitute forlegislation, has met little encourage-ment from Congress. Senator New-lands, chairman of the Senate Inter-state Commerce Committee, voiced theopposition to any abandonment of theadministration program. No matterwhat may be the agreement of therailroad executives and the brother-hoods, he said, there must be legis-lation which would prevent such astrike in the event of a disagreementbetween the roads and their interest of the public in such acontroversy is paramount, greaterthan that of either the roads or theiremployees. Representative Adamson,the author of the much discussed rail-road bill, asserted that Co
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