Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS.

Washington, D. C., April 26. Pooling of the war loans of the belligerents by the league of nations, with the United States as one of the chief guarantors, and the assumption by the United States of a mandate over Armenia were condemned in the senate today. O-r-Sugar refiners summoned to Washington by Attorney General Palmer conferred for hours today with Howard Figg, special assistant in charge of profiteering and high cost cases. Charging conspiracy in both Republican and Democratic parties to eliminate ex-service men from active participation in pohtical affairs, former soldiers took steps today to organize the ex-service mens national political vigilance committee. X i Champ Clark denied tonight that he was not seeking the presidential nomination, but admitted he would accept it. ' Secretary of the Treasury Houston, in a letter to a correspondent, denounced a proposed capital tax as “a radical and dangerous measure.” The necessity of increasing the salaries of postoffice clerks was presented by Senator McCormick by a committee Of the Postoffice Clerks union of Chicago.