Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., April 22. The joy of the administration over the first returns from the Nebraska and Georgia primaries was dampened today by the receipt of more complete figures. The people of Georgia , evinced their disapproval of the league of nations without reservations by a majority of nearly 49,000. In the Nebraska primary, although' Senator Hitchcock, standing for an unrevised -league, won the presidential vote, WilGam Jennings Bryan, according .to latest returns, is to be one of the four delegates at large, with another Bryan delegate. — o--The Daughters of the American Revolution today adopted a resolution' indorsing universal military, training. ■ - —o— The federal reserve board in its monthly report on business -conditions emphasizes the great scarcity of farm labor and consequent high wages as factors that work against decline in prices of farm products. Rep. Henry T. Rainey of Illinois, speaking for Democrats of the ways and means committee, assailed the Republican plan for a sales tax to raise funds for soldiers’ bonuses in a speech in the house.