Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1919 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C. Dec., 27. Secretary of the Navy Daniels intends that the responsibility for the final distribution of medals shall fall upon the president rather than upon himself. He announced his intention to turn the new recommendations to be submitted by the Knight board over to the president. .With Jan. 1 comes the times for filing new income tax schedules on earnings for 1919 and penalties will be imposed for those who fadl to file before March 1. The normal tax on 1919 incomes is reduced under the law to 4 per cent on incomes of $4,000 or less and 8 per cent on incomes in excess of $4,000; instead of 6 and 12 per cent last y ear - r , The interstate commerce commission in disposing of a l ’long pending Illinois classification rate case created by complaint of Indiana ship l pers holds that the complaints are well founded, but that methods proposed by the railroad administration for elimination of discrimination could not be approved because , they would violate the long and short haul clause of the act to regulate commerce. It authorizes the carriers to revise rates in both Indiana and Illinois on a basis in effect in 1914. President Wilson will be 63 years old tomorrow and his ititimate friends made known that? he is preparing to resume his grip on affairs of government and also to take a firm hold oh affairs of the democratic party, hoping to be the means of its salvation, not as a candidate, but as a directing genius. Alarmed over the widespread deaths from wood alcohol, poisoning, the bureau of internal revenue is planning to appeal to congress for legislation safeguarding the sale of this deadly drug for use in the manufacture of whiskey substitutes. Senator Poindexter, of Washington, self-announced candidate for the republican presidential nomination, will begin a campaign tour the first of the year, speaking first in New England and then in the middle west, returning to South Dakota, where his friends insist ]he has made many political friends,