Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., May 7. Senator Kenyon of lowa touched off a charge of T N T in the senate today by reading a letter disclosing what was interpreted as a covert threat by Du Ponts of Delaware to withdraw their support from the candidacy of. Gen. Wood unless Senator Moses of New Hampshire, a Wood manager, ceases to oppose the dye-stuffs tariff bill in which the Du Ponts, as dye manufacturers, are interested. —o— Answering Herbert Hoover’s challenge to define his views on the peace treaty, Senator Johnson today announced he would welcome “any real attempt to promote peace and prevent war,” but was unalterably opposed to the treaty of Versailles, with or without reservations. Reports that Senator Harding of Ditto might withdraw from the presidential race were silenced today by the announcement that Harding headquarters would be opened next Monday in Chicago. .—o— Representative Volstead of Minnesota in a report presented to the house today urged the passage of a bill permitting collective bargaining by farmers. —o — Assistant Secretary of Labor Louis F. Post defended his record in the administration of alien deportation cases before the . house committee on rules. —o—- — Cummins said today that while it was plain the railroads needed money, he though it unlikely that congress would appropriate in compliance with the request of the railroad executives for another >500,000,000 Joan for new equipment. “Uncle Joe” Cannon of Illinois celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday today. ...