Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., April 9. The Republican majority in congress completed today the first stage in their program for ending war with Germany in default of treaty ratification with the passage by the house of the peace resolution. The resolution now goes to the senate. —o—- — military training got its knockout for this session of congress when the senate today rejected it and substituted a mild substitute for national defense in the form of voluntary military training. The vote on the substitute was 46 to 9. Representative Clyde Kitchin, former Democratic leader of the house, was stricken on the house floor today just after he had delivered a speech on the peace resolution. —o— Representative Crampton, Hiram Johnson’s manager in Michigan, declared today that Wood and Lowden managers had entered into an agreement before the Michigan primary to have the entire state delegation to the Chicago convention go to the winner of the preferential primary vote. —o — The senate passed Senator McCormick’s resolution directing the interstate commerce committee to investigate the strike of railroad switchmen centering in Chicago.