Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS

Washington, D. C., May 10.—— Democrats are apprehensive and Republicans delighted over the position taken by the president in his telegram to Oregon Democrats, urging their unqualified support of the treaty of Versailles. Republican members of the house ways and means committee voted to eliminate the 1 per cent tax on retail sales from soldiers’ bonus bill. Attorney General Palmer was under fire in the house in connection with his campaigns to reduce the cost of living and drive out alien reds. The house refused to grant an aditional appropriation of 000There were more Smiths in the American army, navy and marine corps in the late war than persons of any other surname —enough Smiths to make fifteen regiments of 3,600 men each or two divisions of 27,000 men each. The senate voted today to speed up action on Senator Borah’s resolution to investigate campaign expenditures, and it is expected. the measure will be passed within a day or two. Chicago is the center of race track gambling in the United States, according to testimony of Howard C. Barber, superintendent of the Society for the Prevention of Crime in New York.