Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., March 4. New Jersey filed with the Supreme court an attack on the constitutionality of the national prohibition amendment, and the court set next Monday for hearing the Rhode Island plea to declare the amendment null and void. An attempt in the house to repeal the Volstead enforcement act was defeated. Roger Sullivan warned Demcrats to avoid the liquor issue, asserting that with the country oyerwelmingly dry any party adopting a wet platform would court disaster. . o— The senate today adopted the first modification to the Lodge reservations to the treaty, voting 69 to 2 to change the Shantung reservation by eliminating all reference to China and Japan. —o—Attorney General Palmer in his first political speech since open admission of his presidential , aspirations made a plea for organized labor. — O —J The president’s bituminous coal commission is having a hard time reaching a decision as to wage and price alterations. Two of the commission, it is said, have tentatively concluded that the miners are entitled to 30 per cent instead of the government’s 14 per cent increase. <