Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D- C. May 14. More than 600,000 Europeans , have applied to American consuls abroad for permission to migrate to | the United States, and the latest , figures show that immigrants are arriving at the rate of 600,000 a year, five times the number last year and half the peak pre-war number. Opposition ds developing to an immigration rider in congress making it unlawful for aliens to enter the j United States without passports of I their governments. If Presdient Wilson dictates the platform of the San Francisco convention, it will he the' “epitaph ,of the Democratic party,” according to Senator Reed of Missouri, who told the senate today that “nobody outside a lunatic asylum believes unqualified approval of the treaty possible.” A real railroad strike in this country, if railroad workers do not get adequate wage increases, was predicted hy Timothy Shea in his final argument today before the railroad labor board. Vice President Marshall was severely criticised by the Anti-Saloon league today for having asserted before the Virginia Bar -association at Richmond last night that the United States senate would not have approved prohibition if the vote had been taken behind closed doors. The house failed to pass the legislative, executive and judicial appropriative, executive and judicial appropriation bill over the president’s veto. Both houses approved the ence report on the army and navy pay bill over the president’s veto. Both houses approved the conference report on the army and navy pay hill. Senator Gronna made it clear today that he will oppose any efort to extend the life of the Grain corporation beyond June 30.