Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1922, Page 16

- STEEL INDUSTRY | ASKS CUT IN RATE Wants 40 Per Cent Increase . in Rail Charges Granted i in. 1920 Set Aside. The steel industry asked, the In- ters e Commerce Commission yes- terday in its investigation into trans- portation rate levels to remove en- tirely the 40 per cent increase in freight rates granted throughout eastern territdry in August, 1920. This is the greatest reduction so far re- quested by shippers since the com- mission reopened the general rate question. Spokesmen, Tnited States Steel Corporatipn gnd independent producers, joined in sug- gesting the 40 per cent decrease. L. C. Billy, traffic manager of the Carnegie Steel Company, a steel poration subsidiary, asserted al stee] products “have long borne and are still bearing more than thelr - proper pro rata share of transporta- 2 tion charges.”” F. A. Ogden, for Jon & Laughlin, indpendent producers, and H. C. Crawford, for the Cambria Steel Company of Philadelphia, joined him in asking the removal of the 40 per cent. Mr. Ogden declaring the Step would result in “stimulation of business, greater operation of iron and steel mills, and increased traffic for the railroads.” Halts Normal Conditions. John A. Topping, chairman of the board of the Republic Iron and Stcel Company, speaking for independent producers, declared that “normal con- ditions cannot be restored in ihe iron and steel industry unless a substan- tial reduction " in _transportation charge is effected.” He added that producers had cut costs to the limit, but that the consumers in sthe long run controlled the price level, and the selling prices had to be fixed to meet the ability of consumers to pay. The commission heard also conclu ing statements by coal represent- atives, and a plea for lower rates on metallic ores in the west. An order was issued by the com- mission yesterday admitting repre- sentatives of labor organizations to the investigation, setting February 10 and 11 as the dates for hearing_the workers. By other changes in the advance schedule, live stock and packing house product rates considered February 21 and etdml:um products on February 23 hd 24 SYNATE AGREES TO PAY . OF NEW BUDGET CHIEF Amendment Will Perrfit Appointed Army Officer to Draw Retired Pay, Plus Difference. Provision for the appointment of an Army officer” to succeed Brig. Gen. Charles G. Pawes as_director of the budget in July, contained in a Senate amendment to the Treasury appro- priation bill, was agreed to yesterday afternoon by the Senate during the consideration ‘of the bill in committee of the whole. The amendment excludes from the provision of laws now in force re- tired officers of the Army, Navy, Ma- < rine Corps and coast guard who may be appointed to offices created by the ‘budget act, So as to permit them to receive the difference between their retired pay and the pay of the clvii position. Senater King asked Senator Warren, chairman of the copfhittee, if it was the intention of this amendment to provide for the appointment of Army *the budget. The committee chairman going out4n a short time, and that the President had in mind an Army officer who had shown his value in #uch matters in handling Army finances. and this provision was to permit the President to retire him and give him the job. The director of the budget receives $10,000, and he ‘would be permitted to accept the dif- ference between his retired pay and the pay of the director of the budget, ‘which could not be done under pres- ent law It is known that Gen. Dawes will leave the budget bureau on June 30 next, and that he has recommended Gen. Herbert M. Lord, chief of finance, for the position. It is generally un- derstood that the President will ap- point the latter officer. 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WHEATLEY, Some interesting developments are expected to follow the calling * of the District rent commission before the Senate District com- mittee this week for an explana- tion of its failuTe to fully enforcd the law and provide relief for apartment dwellers. Members of the Senate committee believe that the commission should initiate more cases against apartmemt house owners and investigate rents in them without the filing of formal complaints. The commit- tee will take up the matter at its regular meeting Wednesday. Senator Ball of Delaware, chair- man of the District committee, will introduce in the Senate to- morrow a bill providing for the purchase of Piney Branuch Valley Park, a strip of land of about nine- teen acres, lying in the bed of Piney branch, running from the 16th ‘street bridge in a northeast- erly direction to 14th and Varnum streets. Senator Ball has an- nounced that he will push this measure, owing to the inroads be- ing made on the property by home builders. - The joint committee investigat- ing the local school situation will continué hearing of outside edu- cators this week. Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, chairman of the *committee, said that thres-out-of- town educators have been invited, but he has not as vet heard from them, #nd therefore the committee will not hold its hearing until the latter part of the week, on a day to be announced later. It is probable that the bill to provide a geparate public utilities commission for the District of Columbia will be completed this week, and will be introduced by Senator Ball. 4 The Senate will take up the bill to refund the foreign debt tomor- row. . Protracted debate is expect- ed on this measure, and there is a probability that the entire week ‘will be consumed in the discussion of the measure. The investigation of the raile roads by the Senate committee on interstate commeroce will be re- sumed Tuesday, with Walker D. Hines, former director general of railroads on the stand. He will be followed by William G. McAdoo, probably on Friday. The hearings on the Watson ckarges of illegal executions in the A. E. F. will be resumed by the special Senate investigating com- mittee Tuesday. REFERENDUM PROVIDED IN BRENTWOOD MEASURE Advocates of Incorporation Deny Any Intention to Seek Action ‘Without Local Vote. BRENTWOOD, Md, January 21 (Special).—According to advocates of the proposed incorporation of this community, an effort is being made by some persons, presumably antago- nistic to the proposition, to misrepre- sent the attitude of citizens favoring the project by circulating propaganda to the effect that the committee named by a_citizens’ mass meeting held upder the auspices of the West Brentwood Citizens' Association, to present the charter adopted at this meeting, is attempting to railroad the proposed charter through the legislature without a reference to the people. Last ‘Wednesday the committee officers to positions in the bureau of named to present the charter to the legislature, headed by William F. said that the present incumbent was ) Keys, went to Annapolis, and follow- ing a conference with the Prince Georges county delegation, it was agreed that the bill should be enacted into law with a referendum attached. Accompanying Chairman Keys were George A. Casel, Gilbert Sipes, Mr. Hayden and Judge Isaac D. Arnold as members of the committee, and also Mrs. Sipes, Mrs. Casel, Mrs. Charles Mullet, J. I Gerhardt, Mr. Tolson, John Clark and Messrs. Gwynn and Bell. The bill will be introduced in the senate and house Monday evening, with the referendum clause attached. In discussing the question of a referendum with a Star man today, Chairman Keys stated: “There is not and never has been any intention on the part of the ad- vocates of incorporation to put this law through without giving the peo- ple interested a chance to record their approval of the measure. This would, in my judgment, be un- democratic and unwise from many angles. Speaking for myself and, I believe, for my colleagues on the oL —Cobwebs and dust, no matter how high, are never out of reach of this convenient wall " duster. Its 66-inch handle en- ables you to reach every nook on moldings, picture frames and walls. 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House Leader Mondell has here- tofore opposed, letting this bill come,up in the House on the grounlis “that it is really general legislation in ‘disguise and _that purely District. legislation_should I be Eiven right of way on District ay. g 1 The District appropriation bill, | carrying items for the support of District business for the fiscal y#ar 1923, totaling $20,391,679.80, will be reported to the House on Tues- day and has been made the spe- cial order of business for consid- eration on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Tuesday House Leader Mondell concluded on the Dyer anti-lynch- ing bill and consideration under Wednesday the program calls for dispensing with calendar anti-lynching bill to final action. Speaker Gillett set a new prece- [ House his reasons for giving the committee on interstate and for- the report of the international I joint commission on development vide a great lakes to the sea waterway. He had previously sat argued their rights to jurisdic- tion. ‘Wednesday next is to receive from Representative Fitzgerald of Ohio workmen's compensation law for the District. The committee this gerald bill over the principle of the Underhill bill. sidered the new appropriation bill for support of independent estab- $425,000,000. expects to have general debate the five-minute rule started. Wednesday and carrying the Dyer dent on Friday, when he gave the l eign commerce jurisdiction over of the St. Lawrence river, to pro- I as a judge while three committees The House District committee on his rewritten biil for a compulsory week decided in favor of the Fitz- The House during the week con- lishments, carrying approyimately DECLINES 50 PER CENT Department of Commerce Shows Big Drop, But Volume Is Reported Nearer Equal. Foreign trade of the United States decreased about 50 per cent in value during 1921 as compared with the forelgn trade for 1920, the Depart-' ment of Commerce has announced. | It was indicated by the department that the volume of trade did not fall oft ,so greatly as did the value. “Lower values of imports and ex- ports in 1921.” said a statement by the department, “as compared with 1920, do not represent corresponding declines in volume of trade, but are to a great extent due to the fall in prices.” Imports into the United States dur- ing 1921 totaled $2,509.025,403 in value as compared with $5,278,481,490 during _ 1920, Exporte for 1921 totaled $4,485,122,696 in value, against a total of $8,228.016,307 in 1920. Imports for December, 1921, were valued at $237,378,338. compared with $266,057,443 in’ December, 1920, while exports’last_month totaled $296,305,- 577 against $720,286,774. Domestic _exports during 1921 totaled $4,379,023,730, against $8,080,- 480,821, “while foreign merchandise | exported was -valued ot $106,098,966, against $147,535,486. — e committee, I want to make it plain that there has not been, and will not be any attempt to put anvthing over on the citizens of Brentwood with regard to this or any other legisla- tion. “We believe. incorporation would result in_the development of the com- munity from many standpoints, and are, therefore, heartily in favor of the proposed charter. However, if there are any persons to be affected who believe otherwise they will cer- tainly be given the opportunity to express their opposition.” THE S. KANN SoNs' COMPANY WzARD Vax (WIZARD WIZARD WIZARD WALL DUSTER| CARPET CLEAN . sh. —Keeps the dust down when you- sweep. Helps clean rugs and carpets. Makes the colors brighter. Guaranteed not to- injure fabrics. Contains no salt or sand. 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President Harding, Secretary Weeks | and other republican leaders were yesterday dectured by Senator Harrl- son, democrat, Mississippi, to be hos- tile to agricultural ipterests and to be aiming to destroy th ltural Dlod in the Kenare.” ‘n¢ eddcultura “The administration's main fight now,” said Senator Harrison, who is a member of the agricultural bloc, “is against the agricultural group, for fear it might put through some be- neficent legislation for farmers.” The Miesissippi senator also attack- ed the emergency tariff law, declaring that it was an. “akbeolute failure’* and & that prices of farm pred- ucts had decreased after its_enact- ment. This statement was challenged . republican senators. President Harding’s recent address to Congress, in which he deplored group legislation, Senator Harrison sald, was “aimed from etart to-finish against the agricultural bloc of the Senate.” A “reaction” to this speech was Immediately registered by farm- ers, he added, and “to get frog under” President Harding caled the agri- cultural conference which will con- vene here tomorrow. This conference, the senator said, was “camouflage.” “Born of Resentment.” { Senator Harrison suggested that the opposition to the agricultural bloc was born of resentment against success of the bloc's activity “in forcing re- vizion™ of the recent revenue bill. i Declaring that “what the American people want is less conferring and more action,” he declared that the President’s unemployment conference had accomplished little. “They discovered that six or seven million men were out of employment,” said the Mississippi member, “but got nothing done.” Harrison attacked the ‘When Mr. emergency tariff law, Senator Bursum, republican, New Mexico, declagred that sheep prices had increased about 100 per cemt and wool prices 50 per cent with the assistance of that law. Senator Lenroot, republican, Wis- consin, also took exception to Senator Harrison's suggestion that re- publican senators were not_interested in the farmers’ welfare, and Mr. Mar- rison agreed that in.the joint con- gressional inquiry there had been no partisanship, and that republican members had manifested as much in terest as democrats in behalf of the farmers. Farmer Aid Demanded. * Action by Congress to aid the farmer was demanded by Senator Harrison, who declared, turning to the republi- cans, that “the country is thoroughly disgusted with your do-nothfng policy and no-program polic; Senator Bur- sum interjected that “right now is the time for less talking and more action.” Secretary ‘Weeks’ address against the bloc, Mr. Harrison declared, was “evidently as the spokesman and mouthpiece of President Harding and the administration.” MINIATURE ASSEMBLY INTERESTS MARYLAND School Legislature to Take Up Real Bills as They Appear at Annapolis. Specimd Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md, January 21.— Maryland educators are interested In the ‘‘Maryland legislature in mini; ture,” the boys' high schoot assembly organized according to strict parli: mentary_ procedure, under the direc- tion of Miss Mary C. Ott, instructor of English and government at the institution. The legislature was “born” after the usual trading, swap- ping and caucusing of ‘*‘politicians.” To the students its creation meant just as much as the real Maryland asgembly, in session now at Annapolis, The school legislature will take up all bills of consequence as they are presented at the Maryland assembly. 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