Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 319, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C. Jan. 6. Revolt against the White House among Democratic senators on the peace treaty assumed more impressive proportions today, on the eve of the arrival of William J. Bryan, who is believed to be coming to, assume the leadership of the anti-Wilson Democrats and to make a stand against the president’s unyielding demand for unqualified ratification. Senators McKellar and Kendrick submitted a concrete program for a compromise on reservations to the •league covenant which they asserted would be supported by forty-four Democratic senators. William G. McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury, is to join the wto-ring array of Democratic celebrities at the Jackson day dinner here Thursday night after all. Mr. McAdoo will not attend in person, i being in Texas on business, but has sent h letter to be read just as his distinguished father-in-law, the president of the United States, will do. This circumstance has served to revive interest in Mr. McAdoo as a presidential aspirant./'. Representative Kahn, chairman of the house military affairs committee, is preparing to make a fight; for universal military training. ’Hie committee, during his absence, prepared an army reorganization bill will out any provision for it. Mr. Kahn favora the military training provisions of the senate bill.

* rd°"“ y wS Leader MondeH in a speech in the house opposing general increases in salaries for the army, navy, and ing projects.