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

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

“Wet” hopes to obtain a ptank in the Democratic and Republican national platforms favoring light wines and beer have gone glimmering, according to information percolating from the headquarters of both parties today. —o•— Representative Treadway of Massachusetts, a Republican metaber of the ways and means committee, caused surprise by declaring himnelf against both a bonus and a sales tax in a speech in the house. Congress, desperately striving to hold down expenditures, was amazed today when the railroad ixecutivea came forward with a virtual demand for another $500,000,000 roan, after having appealed to the interstate commerce commission several days ago, for rate increases aggregating a year. Senator Johnson announced today that under no circumstances would he accept the vice presidential nomination. Labor’s nonpartisan political campaign committee claims to have scored its first victory in the defeat of former Senator Joe Bailey of Texas as candidate for governor and delegate to the Democratic national convention.