Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

jjAashington, D. C., April 2. Therailroad wage conference between the railway executives and workers’ representatives having broken up without result, President Wilson is expected to shortly announce the nominations for the mne members of the railroad labor board to be created under the new transportation law. Attorney General Palmer told the house committee on agriculture that he would prefer the packers court decree be given an opportunity to prove its effectiveness before new legislation is attempted; According to a majority of the members of the ways and nmans committee, some bonus legislation will 'be reported by the committee to the house of representatives, N Representative Britten of £hi«*ffo announced his intention fight for increased _ wjor the army, navy and marine corps. Departmental extravagance in th? matter of the output of publicity received another blow today m too riders to the legislative, executive and judicial bill. Another American has been killed and an employe of an American company probably, fatally uyured by Mexicans near Tampico.