Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., June 29. Senator Harding, Republican presidential nominee, and his ruhning mate, .Gov. Coolidge, made their first speeches of the campaign today. They talked into phonographs. Senator Harding, with “Americanism” as his text, indicated a willingness to accept the Democratic challenge to make the league of nations the chief issue. —o— Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, leader of the administration’s fight for the peace treaty in the senate, issued a statement declaring the treaty issue paramount and predicting that a wave of public sentiment will “engulf the reactionaries who defeated the treaty.” — o — . j Production of gasoline increased by a daily average of 13% per cent during the first four months of 1920 but consumption increased by a daily average of 33 per cent.