Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., April 16. President > Wilson will decide whether Caranza will be permitted to transport troops through American territory to attack the seceded Mexican state of Sonora from the north. Conors will oppose such permission on the ground the state is entitled to “self-determination.” Rerpresentative Fordney, chairman of the ways and means committee, announced that subcommittees at work on a soldiers* bonus bill would soon complete their work and that action by the house would eome late next week. —o—- — house immigration committee dug up the record of cancellation of a deportation warrant of an alien Mexican anarchist by Assistant Secretary of Labor Post, against whom impeachment proceedings are planned in the house. —o — Progressive Republican followers of Senator Hiram Johnson for president have brought forward Senator William E. Borah as their candidate foir temporary chairman of the Republican national convention. o— ■ Representative Madden of Illinois charged collusion of war department officials with outsiders in sale of surplus army stores, with a result that a favored few are making millions of dollars on the government cleanup of stocks. —o— Senator Smoot submitted a resolution providing for creation of a special committee to reorganize the administrative branch of government, eliminating waste and surplus employes.