Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS.

Washington, D. C., May 31. On the eve of his departure for San Francisco Chairman Cummings of the Democratic national committee received from the president the president’s plans for controlling the Democratic convention, naming the candidate, and writing the platform. - —o — The house committee on agriculture is putting the finishing touches on a bill for the regulation of the packing industry and expects to report it to the house before the end of the week. — o —' • Establishment of a federal industrial tribunal, patterned after the Kansas plan, was recommended to the senate committee on education and labor by Gov. Henry J. Allen of Kansas. —o — The Fall committee on Mexican affairs recommended recognition 6f the new Mexican government as! soon as it demonstrates its ability to maintain order, pledges itself to I give adequate indemnity, and. agrees . to modify laws discriminating i against Americans and aliens in Mexico. ■ —o>— The house passed the Volstead bill permitting the formation of associations of farmers for collective bargaining. —°“ A proposed change in the rules, whereby an enlarged appropriations committee of thirty-five members would handle all appropriation bills, will come up for consideration in the house tomorrow. —o—--Uniform primary laws limiting expenditures of presidential candidates probably will be recommended by the Kenyon committee.