Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C„ May 4. Democratic senators learned from Secretary of State Colby that President Wilson is determined to veto the Knox resolution restoring peace with Germany and that he is considering the advisability of resubmitting the Versailles treaty to the senate either during the debate on the Knox resolution or with his veto message. —o — Railroads of the country have formally submitted their revenue needs, which call for a 28 per cent increase in freight rates to produce an additional annual yield of sl,017,000,000. — o— Representative Galliyan of Massachusetts in a speech in the house pictured Illinois as a horrible example of the effects of prohibition. He quoted figures showing an increase in bank robberies since saloons were banished. —o—- — western bankers were included in a delegation appearing before two house committees to protest against the federal reserve board’s regulation requiring the collection of checks at par. —OH— Grain and live stock men are here besieging the interstate commerce commission and congress to increase the involving loan fund in the railroad loan from $300,000,000 to $600,000,000, to enable the roads to purchase adequate equipment to overcome the car shortage. —o — Information reaching here is to the effect that the various factions in Mexico have entered into an agreement which calls for ousting Carranza from the presidency May 15 and the selection as president ad initerim of Alfredo Robles Dominguez to rule pending a regular election of a successor. =