Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., March 23. Billians of dollars are being exacted from the people in taxes to keep up the administration's pay roll and support the civilian war, machine in almost the same magnitude as during the progress of actual hostilities. There has been a reduction of only 2,840 civil employes in Washington since Oct. 31, 1919, and there are now 100,110 employes, as compared with a pre-war force of 37,908. The senate finance committee decided to recommend the building of a high tariff wall around America’s infant aircraft industry to save it from destruction by British and French competition. The National Association of Railway and Utilities Commissioners protested to the interstate commerce commission against the adoption of the property investment accoiints of the carriers as the basis for tiie return of 5% per cent prescribed by the new transportation law as. had been urged by the carriers. —o— Goy. Lowden of Illinois Will’ be the first presidential candidate to be placed in nomination at the Republican national .convention in Chicago next June, according to the anana^ni in ; One of the first acts of Bainbridge Colby after he assumed the office of secretary of state was to request of the senate Foreign relations committee to lift the lid of secrecy surrounding the investigation of bis fitness for the post and to make, the record of the hearing public.

Directors interehurch worid movement announced “big business” and “Wall street” are behind the nation-wide movement; to- combat bolshevism mad the, Bods, and that various multimillionaires are pledged to support the campaign of education and relief directed neaiast radicalism. Arrangements were completed today by the senate subcommittee on privileges for recounting the Mkhigan ballots to determine whether Truman «... Newberry or Henry Ford was elected'senator in 1918.