Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1921, Page 3

" President Wilson to PROPOSAL TO OPEN DISARMING PARLEY | BEFORE THE HOUSE Representative Brooks Hopes . to Get Action Following I Committee Report. Following the first definite steps toward international disarmament taken by the House foreign affairs committee in unanimously reporting the Brooks res- olution, Representative Edwin Brooks of Illinols, author of the resolution, ex- pects to get a special rule from the rules committee giving this legislation right of way in the House. 7 The Brooks resolution authorizes invite the na- tions of the world to send delegates to an international convention to con- sider ways and means of effecting disarmament. The only difference of opinion expressed in the committee or among members of the House after the resolution was reported was as to whether it would not be proper to postpone such action until President- elect Harding could take the initiat Special Rule May Be Invoked. 1t is probable that a special rulej will be invoked, as otherwise action on the committee report might not be taken at this session, and republi- can leaders are anxious to have the matter expedited. An effort will be made tomorrow to hasten the action in bringing this measure up on the floor of the House. Although all members of the com- mittee voted for the proposal, demo- crats objected to its adoption at this time on the ground that it might embarrass the President. They con- tended it was a_question which more properly should be considered by President-elect Harding. Chairman Porter, a warm advocate of the move- ment, ‘insisted, however, that it was the desire to have the resolution ready for Mr. Harding in event Mr. Wilson did not act on it. There was no indication of any movement to get together with the Senate, which has pending a resolu- on Senator Borah, republican, Jdaho, providing for armament reduc- tion bx the United States, Great Brit- n and Japan, and a resolution by Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, authorizing the President to appoint « member of the disarmament com- misgion of the league of nations. Vete I in Doubt. Members of the committee frankly expressed doubt whether the Brooks resolution could be voted on at this session, owing to the heavy run of ap- propriation legislation. Without much discussion the com- mittee defeated an amendment by Representative Mason, republican, - Jinois, stipulating that countries now seeking their independence should be invited to the conference, which would be held in this country. Mr. Mason said_this. would enable Ireland and the Philippines to participate. Mrs. Charles Edward Russell of the Woman's Peace Society expressed the view that the Borah resolution in the Scnate was too limited and might breed suspicion in other nations. Chairman Porter contended also that all nations should participate in the conference ang endeavor to disarm. Mrs. Russell told the committee it could no more claim there was such a thing as civilized warfare “than it could speak of a heavenrly hell.” “Men have created a military ma- chine, just as Frankenstein. created a monster. which is trying to_destroy the world,” Mrs. Russell said. “Eugene V. Debs, who tried to destroy,the monster, was called a pacifist and put in prison.’ Mrs. Russel] said the league of na- tions was a document her mind could not grasp. Augusta. Charleston. Savannah— Through service daily. Atiantic Coast Line R.R. = lf H st. n.w.—Advertisement, FIRE' MENACES WOUNDED. Half of Veterans in “Flimsy” Hos- pitals, Cumming Says. Half of America’s sick.and wounded veterans of the world war are quarter- ed in hospitals ‘of “flimsy and in- flammable construction,” Suigeon Gen- eral Cumming of the public health service, has informed Senator Ashurst, lemocrat, Arizona, who pleaded yes- terday with the Senate to provide ad- ditional hospital facilities for the soldiers. The surgeon general added in his letter that the Army was transferring | ‘wounded and other classes of hospital cases to the public health service at a monthly rate of 1.000 and that be- fore the transfer was completed 30,000 additional beds would be needed. Senator Ashurst said an appropria- tion of $30.000.000 would be required. “Our - ex-service men fought in a cause as high and as noble as ever animated the human breast,” the sen- ator said, “and no senator ought to be frigid or indifferent to their suffer- ings” —_—— ASKS COAL FIGURES. Newton Wants Full Facts in Gov- ernment Purchases. The Federal Trade Commission would be asked to inform Congress how much coal was bought by the government the last two years, and at what price, under a resolution in- troduced by Representative Newton, | republican, Minnesota. The resolution | calleq for production cost. mine price, how much agents or middlemen gof and the increase last year over 1919. Mr. Newton declared one railroad in the northwest had to pay three and a third million dollars more for its coal in 1920 than in 1919, which. he con- tended. was one of the principal rea- =ons for an increase in freight and passenger rates. WOULD ASSUME LOSS. Mr. Palmer Explains U. S. Position in Sugar Shrinkage. Attorney General Palmer and rep- resentatives of the American Trading Company. a New York importing con- cern, appeared yesterday before a Senate committee in support of Sen- ator Wadsworth’s bill to have the federal sugar equalization board dis- tribute and assume liabilities for Only Democratic Member of House From Pennsylvania Representative Guy E. Campbell of Pittsburgh enjoys the distinction of being the only democratic congre: man elected from Pennsylvania to the Sixty-seventh Congress. This is the first time since the organization of the republican party that Pennsylvania has had only one democratic repre- sentative “ampbell was first elected to Con- gress in 1916, when he w ent from the thirty-second district to succeed Dr. A. J. Barchfeld. He the nomi- nation_on the democratic, Washing- ton, Keystone, Roosevelt-progressi and bull moose party ticket by the narrow margin of 46 votes. In 1918 he was unopposed for the democratic nomination and entered the republican primaries, where he won the nomination of that party by a plurality of 2,500 over three other candidates. He was elected that year by a majority of 17,556 over the so- cialist and_prohibition candidates. In 1920 Campbell again won the re- publican nomination over two con- tenders, this time having a plurality of 10.500. Again he was unopposed for the democratic nomination. He wasg elected by a majority of 35,800 in a district that is rated as normally 10.000 to 20,000 republican. Campbeil never held a public office before com- ing to Congress except to serve one term as auditor of his home borough of Grafton. B — SHOOT 2 MEN DEAD; ESCAPE WITH $5,000 By the Associated Press. BAY CITY, Mich,, January 15.—Six armed men robbed the Broadway branch of the Saginaw County Sav- ings Bank tonight, shot and killed L. M. Persons, an insurance.man, and Martin L. Debats, president' of the Valley Home Telephone Company, and escaped with loot estimated by bank officials at $40,000. The bandits departed in the direc- tion of Saginaw, according.to the police. Debats and Persons were the last customers in the bank, which was about to close for the night. Persons had just turned away from the re- ceiving teller's window and Debats had takén his place when the bandits dashed through the doors and im- mediately opened fire, their first shots killing the men. The bandits then lined up bank em- ployes and made their escape with all the money in the teller's cage. ASK PRESIDENT TO SPEAK. Mr. Wilson Invited to Be at Dedi- cation of Lincoln Memorial. President Wilson has been formally invited to deliver an address at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial early in May. John Temple Graves, special resident commissioner of the Lincoln Memorial commission, who is planning for_the deication ceremonies, called at the White House yesterday afternoon and extended the invitation to Mr. Wil- son. A “the entire program is not compleled.‘ but tentative arrangements, it is under- stood, provide for the presentation of the memorial by former President Taft and its reception by Mr. Harding, who at that time will have become chief ex- ecutive. 1t has not been made known whether President Wilson will be able to be pres- ent on this occasion, but it is expected that he will communicate a message in the event he cannot dellver it In person. | —— URGES AID FOR RAILROADS Counsel Says Short Lines Facs' Bankruptcy. A number of short-line railroads face early bankruptcy unless the gov- ernment provides financial relief, the House commerce committee was told yesterday by Bird M. Robinson, general counsel of the American Short-Line Railroads Association. Most of fhe roads, he said, were “in dire need” of partial payments on amounts due them under the guaranteed earnings provisions of the transportation act, and he protested against the Treas- ury’s interpretation of the act which prevents partial settlements. A similar position was taken on be- half of manufacturers of railway equipment and supplies by Frank W. Noxon, secretary of the Railway Business Association. He said wide- spread distress had been caused by the cancellation of orders by the car- riers’ plants having been forced to close down or operate on part time. CRIME REMEDY OFFERED. Death Penalty for Offenses With about 13.000 tons of sugar bought in Argentina by the trading company for the account of the Department of Justice. The Attorney General sald that the time the sugar reached this country the famine had been broken and p es had fallen, avd that it was not. fair| that the company. which bought the sugar at the request of the govern- ment, should bear the loss, estimated at about $1,800,000. MAY MODIFY ALIEN BAN. Immigration Bill May Become Part of Tariff Measure. Proponents of legislation prohibit- ing immigration for a year or longer said yesterday they planned to in- troduce the House bill in modified form as an amendment to the emer- gency tarift bill when that measure comes before the Senate. Several members of the Senate Im- migration committee said it was im- probable that the committee would report the House bill or that they would recommend passage at they present session of any temporary legialation restricting immigration. ——— Seand “Her” Violets via Gude’s. Sweetest home-grown epectmens, 1314 F.—Advertisement. Use of Weapons Proposed. To check the present-day crime wave death penalty for persons con- victed of committing crimes by use of weapons is proposed in a bill intro- duced by Representative Sumners of Texas. Mr. Sumners, for many years a prosecuting attorney and former pres- ident of the District and County At- torneys’ Association of Texas, ‘said action was necessary to make human life more secure. “When the offense of robbery, bur- glary or theft is committed with fire- arms used or on the person,” he said in his statement, “it should be possi- ble to inflict the death penalty, and the legislatures of the states now in ssion should 8o provide: This crime wave has resulted in part from the war. Automobiles af- ford the facility. This is the harvest time of the seed sown by the weak- kneed maudlin sentimentalists who weep more over the criminal at the bar than over the fate of the victim.” FURTHER GAINS BY FORD. Further recount by the Senate elec- tions committee vesterday of ballots cast in the Michigan senatorial con- test between Henry Ford and Senator Newberry increased Ford's gain. With 970 precincts out of a_ total of 2,232 counted, Ford's met ‘nln was given as 1,140. N B B e "THE SUNDAY STAR, JANUARY 16, 1921—PART I What Congress Is Doing’ KEY IS REV 10 FOREIGN POLICY Hughes’ Utterances ~ on League Show Likely Attitude of New Administration. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The practical certainty that Charles Evans Hughes will be Secretary of State in the Harding cabinet hag led some members of the Semate in thé last few days to take a retrospective glance at the views of the former assoclate justice—not is vicws on legal or po- litical questions, but his utterances on foreign policy, which during the campaign had a passing value, but which now will become the basis of American action after March 4. “It_should- be#remembered,” Mr. Hughes on one occasion, “that the great .protection against war for a considerable period of years will be found not in any form of words that may now be adopted, however desira- ble these may be, but in economic con- ditions which are an assurance that for a considerable time, at least, we shall not have a recurrence of world strife. ‘The danger mow lies” he added, “not in the menace of force employed to further imperial designs, but in the disorder due to a break-up and the removal of traditional restraints and the tendency . to rvevolution within states. In making commitments it should be remembered that while it is, highly important that at this time we should do everything that is practica- ble to promote peace and to secure stable canditions, we should be cau- tious in making promises which are to be redeemed in unknown contin- gencie: = Some of the main points in Mr. Hughes' ocriticism of the present covenant of the league of nations are as follows: 1. Omitting the guaranty an ar- ticle X. 2. Suitable Mmitation as to the field of the league's inquiries and ac- tion 80 as to leave no doubt that the internal concerns of states, such as immigration and tariff laws, are not embraced. 3. Provision that no foreign power shall acquire by conqcest, purchase or in any other way, any possession on the American continent or the islads adjacent thereto. 4. Provision that the settlement of purely American questions shall be remitted primarily to the American nations, and that European nations shall not intervene unless requested to do so by the American nations. 5. Provision that no member of the league shall be constituted a manda- tory without its consent and no Ku- ropean or Asiatic power shall be con- stituted a mandatory of any American people. 6. Explicit provision that unani- mous_agreement or decision is re- quired. 7. Provision that any member of the league may withdraw at its pleas- ure on a specified notice. Guarantee a Trouble Breeder. Speaking particularly of article X, Mr. Hughes said he regarded the guarantee in article X as a “trouble breeder and not a peacemaker.” He declared that he believed it “to be unnecessary and unwise,” and that “there is little ground to suppose that it will prevent war—on the contrary, it is likely to prove illusory and to create disappointment.and a sense of injury and injustice on the part of those who are led to place confi~ dence in it.” Here is -the paragraph, however, which makes it poesible for Mr. Hughes to approach the Harding cam- paign view on the league issue and his (§un, early inclinations toward modification of the present covenant of the league: “I think that 1t {s 4 fallacy to sup- pose that helpful co-operation in the future will be assured by the at- tempted compulsion of an inflexible rule. Rather will such co-operation depend upon the fostering of firm friendships, springing from an appre- ciation of community of ideals, in- terests and purposes, and such friend- ships are more likely to be pro- moted by freedom of conference than by the effort to creates hard and fast engagements.” Leaves United States a Free Hand, The foregoing is sufficiently broad to permit Mr. Hughes to decide even- tually that freedom of conference without obligation or cpmmitment can be obtained by so modifying the covenant as to leave America a free hand in everything yet permitting her to sit as 2 member of an organi- zation which is already in operation or it may permit Mr. Hughes to ask other nations in, the league to join a new association which has much less specific powers than the present league and one that is patterned after The Hague conferences. (Copyright, 1921.) DESCRIBES BASIC CAUSES OF 1920 CAR SHORTAGE Director of Geological Survey Says Coal Output Was Not Avail- able When Needed. Basic causes of what he calls “the most acute car shortage in history. that of 1920, with the consequent bituminous coal shortage and high prices on spot coal, are discussed by George Otis Smith, director . of -the geological survey, in a letter sent yesterday to Semator Edge of New Jersey, & member of the Senace comy. mittee on reconstruction and produc- tion, which is investigating the coal industry In answer to the question why, witl 80 large an aggregate output of coal for the year, there could have beca a shortage, Director Smith sayg: “The answer is that the output was not available when needed and thog the consumer had no assurance ihor it could be forthcoming. The cumule. tive effect of three unexpected 2o currences—the bituminous toal strike in the winter of 1919, the storms oe February, 1920, and fthe switchmen s strike of ll"ll :w‘!ll“—)lllg out into the normal output of coal Yy somet| like 40,800,000 tons.” T Going into the cause of the shor e of 1920, Mr. Smith points out that oe the day of the armistice the quantiry of coal In storage was about 63000905 tons, the greatest in the history of \no country. -With an exceptionally miig winter in 1918-19, and with the markes for coal-falling off, consumers with’ held arranging for their stocks of seni for the following winter, he sa; 'S, evi- dently expecting that prices ware go- ing to drop. OPPOSES GRAIN GAMBLING Brief of Northern Farmers Read Before Committee, Opposition to “short selling and every form of purely speculative. fu- ture trading’” was voiced in a bries from él::r& M.c Anderson, ‘president of the ‘o-operative League St. Paul, Minn.,, which was re‘l“d b:s fore the House agriculture committee by Representative Young, republican, North Dakota. - This organization,. which was said to represent 21,000 stockholders and 400,000 customers, all farmers of North Dakota, Minne- sota, Wisconsin and Montana, de- clared through the brief that “hedg- ing” ought to be preserved *if it can be separated from the riot of gam- bling transactions now carried on in all organized grain exchange: WAR LAWS’ REPEAL UP. The House r::a:uon to rlpefl'w;r laws ) on tomorrow: by t;‘o' Senate judiclary committee. A favorable report was expected, with the food and fuel control act except- Jed as a measure to 2each coal prices. - The Senate BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Prices of coal and proposals that the government have supervision n certain particulars of the coal Industry in order to prevent profiteering in coal will eccupy the attention of two committees of the Senate during the coming week. The Calder committee on recon- struction and production plans to have before it anthracite coal men, and also to look into the charges for anthracite coal by the dealers in the National Capital. . The Senate manufactures com- mittee, headed by Senator La Fol- lette of Wisconsin, will give con- sideration to the bill drafted by the Calder committee for government supervision of the coal industry. Hearings on this bill will be heid for only three days, Tuesday, Wed- nesday and Thursday, and on Fri- day the committee will get down’ to 'work on the bill itself, with the idea of perfecting it, if it requires perfecting, and reporting it to the Senate without delay. 3 Emergency Tarifft Report. The Fordney emergency tarift bill, designed ‘to aid the farmers, has ‘been completed by the Senate finance committee, and will be re- ported to the. Senate probably to- morrow. In view of the demo- cratic_opposition to the measure there is practically no chance of its passing the. Senate before March 4, when the session ends. It has been loaded down with amendments in the Senate committee, which make its passage still more difticu} The Senate finally passed the so- called nitrate bill ‘on Friday after a couple of weeks of debate. This bill would provide for continued government operation of the ni- trate plants built by the govern- ment at Muscle Shoals, Ala., dur- ing the war. There was strenuous opposition to the bill in the Sen- ate on the part of republicans. Four of them, however, joined with the democrats to put the bill through, on the ground that these plants would provide fertilizer for the farmers of the country. It is believed the bill has little chance of getting through the House at the present session. District Appropriation. The District appropriation bill is the unfinished business of the Senate, and will come up for con- sideration tomorrow, when it fis expected to pass. Senator Phelan of California has a motion pending to reconsider the vote by which the Senate Friday put through a reso- lution to curtail the strength of the Regular Army to 150,000 enlisted men, and will press for action on it. "He holds with Gen. Pershing and Secretary of War Baker that the Army should not be reduced below 200,000. It has now been re- cruited up to about 223,000 men. Another pending motion to re- consider action by the Senate, pending upon which action will be sought this week, is the La Follette motion to reconsider the vote by which the Senate passed the dexter anti-strike bill It is understood that Senator Poindexter will not oppose recon- sideration 8o that the bill may be considered in the Senate, but he will insist upon a vote being taken on_the measure. When the foreign relations com- mittee meets, Senator Borah will ask that action be taken upon his resolution looking to a reduc- tion in the naval programs of the United States, Great Britain and Japan. Senators who have opposed elaborate inaugural ceremonies at the time President-elect Harding takes the oath of office have had their way, and at the request of Mr. Harding, the plans for a cel- ebration have been called off. The Joint cpngressional committee is now planning for a simple cere- mony on the east front of the Capitol, the only ceremony that is to take place. The House BY WILL P. KENNEDY. There's a big fight brewing in the House Tuesday and Wednes- day. The reapportionment measure is the matter of special business, and the prospects are that the Siegel bill, which would enlarge the House from 435 to 483, will be defeated. It is opposed by House Leader Mondell, Speaker Gillett, Minority Leader Champ Clark, for-_ mer Speaker Cannon and other leaders among both the republican and democratic forces who are averse to further enmlarging the size of the House. The Siegel bill would prevent any state from los- ing any seat it now has in the _ House, but a minority report, signed_ by three republicans and Ehres democrats, shows that there was a fighting division even in the census committee. Tomorrow will be devoted to the unanimous consent calendar. House Leader Mondell expects that the Indian appropriation bill, now be- fore the House, can be disposed of ‘Tuesday. Agricultural Appropriati Following the reapportionment bill, it is planned to take up, on Thursday, the agricultural appro- priation _bill, which the subcom- mittee of the super-appropriations committce, headed by Representa- tive Sidney Y. Anderson, is pre- pared to report to the House early this week. As regards committee work, probably one of the first important acts will be an endeavor to get a special rule from the rules com- mittee giving privileged status to the resolution fathered by Repre- - sentative Edwin Brooks of Illinois, reported yesterday from the for- eign airs committee, which au- thorizes President Wilson to invite the nations of the world to send delegates to an international con- ference to discuss ways and means for disarmament. The District committee will be called into conference Thursday, when a subcommittee report will be made on the Zihlman bill to es- tablish a traffic court and provide for general overhauling of traffic regulations in the National Capi- tal. The committee also will con- sider a report on the Curtis-Gard child labor bill, which also pro- poses to change the age for com- pulsory education in the District. D. C. Representa: Hearings closed yesterday, after Tunning for three days. before the Jjudiciary committee on the Bur- roughs' resolution for a constitu- tional amendment granting na- tional representation to the resi- dents of the nation’s capital. Civic, professional and business associa~ tions the committee that the people of Washington are united in seeking national representation. The 3240 bonus given to govern- ment employes during the last cou- Ple of years, pending reclassifica- tion of the basic salaries, to meet the increasing costs of living, was knocked out of the general salary measure on Friday by a point of order made by Representative Blanton of Texas. He protested that if the District police and fire- men were not included in the bonus the other employes should not get it. The legislative appropriation bill, as passed, carried $113,000,000. I made a net reduction of 10,600 clerks from Uncle Sam’s pay roll. ‘The appropriation for enforcement g:oprohlblon ‘was increaged to $6,- The agricultural committee has been conducting hearings on meas- ures designed to safeguard against trading in futures on the grain ex- eeretary Daniel cre anlels and Gen. Tas- kar H. Bliss, former American rép- resentative on the supreme war council in Paris, told the naval af- fairs committee that time is ripe for disarmament. THEIR HUMAN SIDE BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Here's how the cost of foodstuffs jump betwWeen the producer and con- sumer: - Senator Adle. J.- Gronna of North Dakota told his colleagues that before coming back to the capital he sold wheat from one of his farms for $1.40 a bushel, and in Washing- ton bought some puffed wheat. for Wwhich he was charged at the rate of $56 a bushel. Chairman Joseph W. Fordney of the ways and means com- mittee had a similar experience. He said a recent shipment of sheep to New York netted the shipper only 33 cents per head, but “I went into a restaurant bere and paid 65 cents for two measly little lamb chops as big as'a half dollar,” so he figured out that between the producer and the consumer a whole sheep shrank to the size of one small lamb chop. Many, in fact, most of Uncle Sam's nephews'and nieces have no concep- tion of the magnitude of Uncle Sam's ‘workshop, which is the largest busi- ness enterprise in the whole world. For example, when one thinks of tfie Treasury Department he visions the structure just east of the Executive Mansion—but as a matter of fact in the Capital city alone the Treasury Department occupies forty-seven buildings, besides fifty-one barracks buildings used for storagé purposes. This is on the authority of “W. G. Platt, chief clerk and superintendent. And when one speaks of government “red tape” it is not by any means figurative, for the House appropria- tions committee recently asked F. F. ‘Weston, chief of the division of print- ing and stationery, Treasury Depart- ment, about an item of $20,000 for sealing wax for the fiscal year 1922— for that one small branch of the gov- ernment service. Mr. Weston explain- ed that the use of the wax “is an old custom that has come down to us from the days when thé king used to make an impression with his seal on paper,” and Representative Thomas U. Sisson of Mississippi said: *I think there is still a great deal of red tape connected with the government, but this is the first time I have no: ticed here $7,000 for red tape. The Congressional Library is not only most superb in its beauty of de- sign, but is exceeded in.the number of books it contains omly by the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris end the British Museum of London.: In the Congressional Library are found the world’s greatest collection of mu- |, sical compgsitions and of maps. It's a far cry, m such astheticism.to washing soiled towels, and yet that is one of the functions of the library. It washes upward of 40,000 towels 2 month at a fraction of a cent per towel—much cheaper than buying pa- per towels, and about one-fifth of what the laundry bill formerly came Q. The summary and ruthless way in ‘Which the republican economy pro- gram is being carried out in House appropriations committee is il- lustrated by two comments made by Representative Will R. Wood of In- diana, chairman of the subcommittee on the salary measure for government employes. Dr. Herbert Putnam, libra- rian of Congress, was a witness. Rep- resentative Wood said: “I notice that you have request- ed an {ncrease in salary for about every one connected with your establishment. You are not excep- tional in that respect, but I think we can relieve the situation by asking you to omit anything with reference to an increase in these salaries.” ‘When Secretary Alexander of the De- partment of Commerce argued for an increase in salary for the chief of the division of supplies, who has held the Dposition efficiently 'since the depart- ment was organized in 1903, from $2,100 to $2,500, the same as other division chiefs, Representative Wood said: “In order that there may be no invidious comparisons made, as well as for the sake of economy, let us reduce the salaries of the other people.” Erffineer officers in the War De- partment are now writing text books for Uncle Sam, which are to be used to instruct the commissioned and en- listed personnel in military engineer- ing and map making. Col. C. O. Sher- rill of the office of the chief of en- gineers told Congress all about it the other day. He sald: “I am myself & writer of text books. I have writ- ten several as a private individual and have sold them to individuals, and one is a large and comprehensive book on military topography, and it is sold to officers at $2.50. These people down in the office of the chief engineer are writing a text book that will take the place of my book, and they will either sell them or issue them at a very small expense, probably 40 or 50 cents, and yet I realize. although my sales will be decreased, that that is a good thing to do.” He emphasized that these books are the property of the gov- ernment and not for private profit. Another thing that the people throughout the country do not ap- preciate is the amount of mail that every member of Congress receives— 80 that the job of secretary to a member, at $2,000 a year, is far from a sinecure. ~ Besides all the depart- mental work that has to be done and all sorts of odd jobs that constituents ask, the mere task of handling the mail is staggering. Frank W. Col- lier, postmaster of the House, testi- fied the other day that the 435 mem- bers recsive on an average of 500,000 letters and other small mail a week and from ten to fifteen tons of heavy mail a day. Harry Wurzbach of Texas, the sole republican elected from that state, who is coming to the next Congress as successor to Representative Caslos Bee, Postmaster Genera: Burleson's brother-in-law, has already arrived. He is looking the ground.over and getting points. Despite the fact that he is the first republican member of the House from Texas in more than a third of a century, the firts time he sat in the House it was on the demo- cratic side with his colleagues from ‘exas. He is being chaperoned by Representative Hudspeth, ‘& demo- cratic stalwart. HARRISON CARRIES PLEA FOR SCHOOLS TO SENATE FLOOR (Continued from First Page.) vide 20 per cent less than the es- timates submitted for the new school buildings. He urged that it would be better to make the appropriations now, since there would be no other District appropriation bill before Congress until next December. To this Senator Curtis replied that there would be deficiency bills before the Senate, and the items for the school buildings could be carried in them. enator Smith of Maryland de- iolared the Senate appropriations committee was in favor of having the needed school buildings constructed. But he believed that the buildings should be erected at the lowest pos-g sible figure and that the District) should not be gouged. Glass Attacks Contractors. Senator Glass of Virginia, another member of the committee, referred to the investigations of buildings opera tions by the legislative committees in New York state, and that combinations } in the east had been formed to keep up the prices of building. “What do you think of the patriotism of contractors who would send in estimates of $300,000 for a twelve-room school building?’ demanded Senator lass. Senator Harrison, taking this remark as intimating that he appeared as a defender of the contractors, indignant- Iy denied such was the case'and said that he was urging action for the bene- fit of the school children of the Dis- trict. “I am assuming that the District Commissioners are honest and are busi- ness men,” said Senator Harrison. He asked if the committee had not received telegrams from various cities showing the cost per cubic foot of school buildings, and if they did not show that the District was paying less than some other citjes. Senator Cur- tis replied that the committee had not received them. The District Commis- sioners have such telegrams, Senator Harrison continued, and added that he had seen them. Senator Curtis said that he did not consider that the telegrams were good evidence, and he waved photo- graphs of the school buildings erected in Denver for $35,000 and $85,000, say- ing that they were handsomer school buildings than those found in Wash- ington. Auto License Bill Up. The Kansas senator submitted the following proposal relating to new school buildings, and then withdrew it, for consideration later, when the Harrison amendments come up: “For the preparation of plans and specifications for the following school buildings, including the employment of personal services, $10,000. “Eight-room addition to the Mott School, eight-room addition to the John Eaton School, sixteen-room school building in the vicinity of Lin- coln Park, junior high school near Taylor street and Iowa avenue, four- room addition to the Monroe Schoo! An amendment proposed by Senator Harrison designed to compel the gtate of Maryland to recognize District of Columbia automobile licenses was killed when Senator Curtis made a point of order against it on the ground that it was new legislation. Aa amendment offered by the com- mittee to appropriate $68,410 due pensioners of the police and fire de- partments which was authorized dur- ing the fiscal years 1911 to 1915 was adopted. Included in the items approved by the Senate were those for the pur- chase of the Century building for the office of the recorder of deeds, the purchase of the Dean tract for park purposes, a site for a building for the feeble-minded, and a site for a build- ing for an industrial home achool. EXAMINE COAL BILL. Hearings on Measure for Federal Control Open Tuesday. Senator Calder’s bill for federal regulation of the coal industry was given a preliminary examination yes- terday by the Senate manufacturers’ committee, which decided to open hearings on it Tuesday. Coal opera- tors, wholesalers and others interest- ed will be given three days for the presentation of evidence and on Friday the committee will meet in executive session to pass on the measure. A. G. Gautheim, representing the American Railway Association, was called by the committee yesterday for a brief discussion of Interstate Com- merce Commission priority orders issued during the coal shortage last summer, and W. T. Chantland, counsel for the committee investigating the coal situation, was asked as to prices paid by the Shipping Board for coal. He said this phase of the inquiry had notibeen completed, but that evidence would be presented to show that bunker fuel cost the board from $16 to $21 a ton. DELAYS CUT IN ARMY. Phelan Causes Recruiting Measure to Be Held in Senate. Further progress of the “resolution which the Senate passed Friday or- dering the War Department to cease recruiting until the Regular Army has been cut down to 150,000 men was blocked yesterday by Senator Phelan, democrat, California. The senator gave formal notice of his intention to offer a motion for re- consideration of the measure, and Vice President Marshall, after ascertain- ing that the resolution had not been transmitted to ¢he House, ordered it held in the Senate until the motion was voted on. Members of the mili- tary affairs committee said there was little prospect of a change in the Sen- ate sentimen There is a supe- riority about the Templar which wins admiration Washington-Templar Co. 901 14tk St. N.W. Phone North 7462 | THE TRMPLAR MOTORS COMPANY . Cleveland, Ohis * First Republican Elected to House From Texas. H. M. WURZBACH, Who has the distinction of being the first republl ever elected to Houxe of Representatives from t state of Texan. Mr. Wurzbnch, a & yer, merved four consecative term: district judge. His father was a Con- tederate moi fer. Mr. Wursbach succeeds Represen- tative Carlos Bee represents the fteenth congressional district. INDIAN BILL PROVISIONS CAUSE HOUSE FLARE-UP Concentration of Authority Over Appropriation Measures Results in Heated Session. A flare-up occurred in the House yesterday during consideration of the Indian appropriation bill over con- centration into one committee of au- thority to direct all appropriation measures. ‘The Indian appropriation bill was riddled, section after section being stricken out on points of order by Representative Snyder, republican, New York, chairman of the Indian affairs committee, which until this year has annually framed the bill. Claims Authority Exceeded. A subcommittee of the appropria- tions committee, Representative Sny- der contended, had exceeded its au- thority in recommending appropria- tions not authorized by existing law. He charged that the subcommittee had attempted to inject new legisla- tion into the bill, which, he held, should contain nothing except out- and-out appropriations. Representative Mondell, the repub- lican leader, championing the cause of Chairman_ Eiston of the subcom- mittee, attacked Mr. Snyder's meth- ods and charged that he was leading a “post-mortem fight on the budget. The power to draw up all appro- priation bills, Mr. Mondell said, was given to one committee in the in- terest of economy and efficiency. with the expectation that the budget bill passed by the last session, but vetoed by the President, would become law. “Fighting in Indirect Way.” “Members of the House who voted for the budget,” the republican lead- er declared, “are mow fighting it in an indirect way. During the debate, which became acrimonious, it was charged by ad- vocates of the new system that jeal- ousy of chairmen and members of various committees which had lost their power to recommend appropri: tions was prompting the fight on the bill. Some members: expressed appre- hension lest similar tactics be adopt- ed against the naval and Army ap- propriation bills. —_— SHIFT INQUIRIES TO N. Y. Committees on Ship Investigations to Resume Work. Two House committees will go to New York today to resume investiga- tions tomorrow on war expenditures. A congressional subcommittee, con- sisting of Representatives ear, Wisconsin, and Jeffries, Nebraska, re- publicans, and Lea of California, democrat, will inquire into the re- conditioning of ships used by the War Department as transports. The committee investigating into the Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet Corporatjon, of which Repre- sentative Walsh, republican, Massa- chusetts, is chairman, will also con- tinue its inquiries there tomorrow. Learn the Real Estate A speecial inducement, an extra commissfon, is offered you N N for the mext three months—with N Na bonus. It need not interfere with } your present employment N We will teach you free of charge Clanses . will be ' hel 14 eyery N in the 821 15th St. N.W. Under the auspices of the GIBSON BROS. N ) “STIK-TITE” Windows asd Reof Patches Dll'l'll.llll'll'l A. EBERLY'S SONS (lnc.) 718 7th St. NW, m{and avoid attempting political acion: N FRENCH INDIGNANTO ATLABOR'S FATE Dissolution of Confederatigh Brings Criticism From All Factions. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily Nows. Copyright, 1921, PARIS, France, January 15— French radical and labor circles have been plunged into a condition of grim indigation by the national court's og-. der dissolving the General Labor Confederation. The extremists are divided among themselves; indeed, as the condemned. labor leaders truly point out, the gov- ernment’s bold offensive only rendered possible by the profound schisms within the labor organiza- tions. Nevertheless, all the factions unite in condemning the decision 6f' the court. . Naturally the order to liquidate the" fabor confederation will not destroy- the trades union movement, which, though enfeeblcd since the deplorable revolutionary strikes of last May, can still boast of some 9.500 unions come bined in fifty-two industrial federa= tiors and eighty-nine departmental unions. Moreove: the confede immediately main purel the French law unions res nomic aracter. ertheless the present blow is sess vere, 221 Program Is Revolutionary. - Leaving aside minor infractions of the laws relating to the establishment of trades unions, the government, chief charge is that the laboc leaders, contrary to law, have lifted the ors ganization off purely economic ground onto political ground, and in creating the so-called economic council haye attempted to form a state within state by an openly revolutionary_pro- gram. The long and interesting ment by the court pays tribute to the. patriotism and valuable services renas dered by the labor leaders during the war, declares its belief in organized.s labor for purely economic purposess and cites much testimony to that the confederation at pr strayed far from this p 2 aim. Its attempted allianec: foreign labor bodies i da against Russian intervention amt in favor of revolutionary strikes anei particularly mentioned. 3 Leaders Too Important. The court declares that it beliv the confederation has done and can de much good, but that its leaders. through co-operation with the govern- ment during the war evidently comw cefved an exaggerated notion of theirz own importance. It is particularly necess now, the judgment continue: the country should not be disordered. by the phantasmagoria of a revolma tionary ideal more or less deceptive:) and more or lcss in opposition to thet profound laws upon which the modery#® life of any society depends.” g Chairman Fordn ways and means to Marion at the invitation of Presi- dent-elect ‘Harding to discuss taxem. and tariff with the President-elect. HEATING By Hot-Water, Stenm or Va Pressure Systems 1S OUR SPECIALTY ‘We are ready with the necessary mate- [ rial and expert workmen to install a new. nt or remodel your present one without =elll. CALL ON US Biggs Heating Co. 3, by 5% Rexo Special Camera, with V b i g tlander 68 lens, with Ilex Shutter. %3 Puts One in Your Home Balance in Easy nstailments