Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS

Washington, D. C., Fei). 4th. Complete arrangement on pailroad legislation, along the tines forecast by the Tribune last week, was reached by the conference committee today. The remodeled Cum-mins-Esch bill will be reported to both houses within a few days and the leaders are -confident that it will be approved and sent to the president next week. (Excluding from consideration the peace treaty, Mexico, and foreign relations generally, Chairman Hays of the Republican national committee and twenty senators and congressman began today the preparation of recommendations to the resolutions committee of the national —convention on twenty-two matters of domestic interest, including the tariff, industrial relations, high cost of living, taxation, military and naval program, law and order, and social problems. Senator Johnson of California returned to Washington today after a stumping trip in the middle west, and announced that he would renew his fight to give the United States as many votes in the league of nations assembly as the British empire. At the same time, reports, unconfirmed by the White House, reached the senate that Viscount Grey s letter had angered President Wilson and had made him more unyielding than ever. ... Attorney General Palmer denied •before the house juriciary committee that he had “cold feet” on the subject of sedition legislation. He reiterated his advocacy of the Davey bill, but said the Starling and Graham bills were too far reaching. Secretary of war Baker objected to the provision in the senate army reorganization bill giving an under secretary of war full power over supplies. Testifying before the house committee on military affairs he said that responsibility should be lodged with the secretary of war. _ „ x . . pliesup iineoair aGta?,a etaoin tao