Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Dec. 15. The supreme court’s unanimous decision upholding the constitutionality of tne war time prohibition •act practically destroyed all possibility of a “wet holiday before the advent of constitutional prohibition on January 16. The now can .be lifted only by the restorat on of neace, either through ratification of the peace treaty by the senate or adoption by congress of a tion declaring the war terminated. President Wilson is expected to announce tomorrow the personnel of the commission to take up the d - ferences between the miners and operators. Q < —o— Gov. Frank O. Lowden of and Omar H. Wright, director of finance of Illinois, appeared before the senate budget committee, headed by Senator McCormick, today, and advocated a budget for lhe federal government patterned after the Illinois plan. Legislation facilitating the deportation of anarchists and other undesirable aliens will be passed by the house this week, according to the plan of Representative Johnson, of Washington, chairman of tne house immigration committee. The McNary bill continuing the sugar equalization board for a year would be futile without provisions for licensing, embargo and control, George A. Zabriskie, Jiead of the board, telegraphed Representative Haugen, of lowa, chairman of tne house committee on agriculture.