Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS.

Washington, D. C., April 28. Gen. Wood has been greatly strengthened; Senator Johnson has •been strengthened considerably, and Senator Harding weakened, if not eliminated from the presidential , race, on the showing of the Republican primaries yesterday, according .to the interpretation of the results of Republican leaders here. Senator Jones' of Washington today introduced a bill to establish the policy of the government in the development and maintenance! of an American merchant marine. —o—- — department of justice filed a petition with the Supreme court asking a rehearing of the steel trust case. — o — . '' Bernard M. Baruch has advised Senator McNary, chairman of the subcommittee investigation .shoe profiteering, that in his opinion “the situation is now correcting itself” through the operation. of the law of supply and demand. —o — W. S. Carter, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, before the railroad labor board today urged further wage increases and assailed the “vicious circle” argument against raising the pay of the workers. Representative Johnson of Washington charged leniency to Louis F. Post, assistant secretary of labor, in dealing with deportation cases. <