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Show u I WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF WASHLNQTON'. Fob. 14. M. S. Johnson, a juror in , - of David Sullivan, a local broker, against John T. Davis, of West Virginia, for JGOO.Onn damages for the alleg, d allc-iiatlon allc-iiatlon oi Mrs Sullivan's affections, wns arre sted in the district supreme court today on a charge of having offered of-fered to accept a bribe of Jo, 000 from .the. defendant to vote for dismissal. 1 he rourt declared a mistrial of the damage suit. VOTE on w (.r: (i t WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. Results of the referendum vote now being taken among extern shipyard workers work-ers on acceptance of lower wage scales will he reported r.ext Thursday In New York at a meeting of union hads. Reports from various districts nr reaching American Federation of Labor headquarters here bv wire, but will not be nwide public The Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation cor-poration had proposed a 20 per cent cut effective not later than today. LIQUOR CONFERENCE WASHINGTON, Feb m. A committee com-mittee representing liquor manufacturers manufac-turers and exporters was here today to confer with Prohibition Commissioner Commis-sioner Kramer and Internal Revenue jCommlssloner Williams on redrafting; .regulations governing the liquor traf-flc traf-flc A change In the regulation"; Was jrnade necessary by At torney-General ' . T- Palmer's recent ruling that under the law permits for the withdrawal of liquor li-quor from warehouses could not be Issued Is-sued to wholesale liquor dealers but only to manufacturers and wholesale druRTgists. A representative of the de-jpartment de-jpartment of Justice will meet with the committee. HIGH KR It. R. CHARt.tS WASHINGTON I- cb. 1 i Passenger Passen-ger and freight rates ln Nebraska must be raised to the level of Interstate rates by March 22 under orders Issued 'today by the Interstate commerce commission. Th commission held that the state passenger rate of & cents per mile and tho state freight rates were discriminatory discrimi-natory H also held that Interstate fares were being defeated and Interstate Inter-state commerce interfered with or destroyed by the practice of passengers passen-gers traveling out of the state purchasing pur-chasing tickets to points near the state border nnd there buying new HckeLs and resuminc their journey on tho same train. OIL RETALIATION WASHINGTON. Feb. 14 The president pres-ident should be given authority to lay embargoes on tho exportation of oil to countries which refuse to allow American itizens to own and srquire oil lands there. Secretary Daniels informed in-formed Chairman Page of the sonato naval committee in a letter |