Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D C., April 80. - The solders* bonus bill was ordered reported by the house way* and means committee today by a vote of 11 to 10 with two Republicans joining with eight Democrats in opposition' to the measure. 0—« Agents of the department of justice throughout the country were preparing tonight to guard caremen* official* and p thera whow Hraa had been threatened. ■ o The Anti-Saloon league i* preparing to get behind a presidential candidate in both of the Ug parties who will stand squarely for a dry enforcement plank in the platform. ' The senate foreign relation* committee favorable reported the « redrafted Knox peace resolution wbien repeals the declaration of war against Germany and that against j Austria also. A War department report to the highways committee of wmfrmto clares that problems of highway .construction, particularly in middle 1 west state*, are matter* of national .rather than state concern.