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Fz - T HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 4, 1923—PART 1. _——— e e e FOUR-SESSION CONGRESS | PROVES HISTORY MAKER ROBINSON SCORES HARDING AND PARTY Declares Helpful World Pol- . ey Lacking and Internal B Moves Reactionary. HITS HUGHES’ SECRECY Insists Administration Is Reaping Harvest of Repudiation and Condemnation. An arraignment of the republican party's record was made by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, acting demo- cratic floor leader, in a statement last night reviewing the administration {es and acts, foreign and domes- President Harding and Secre- Hughes were criticized for al- ailure to adopt a helpful in- ternational poliey and the republican Congress ssailed for alleged failures H “The present administration,” said Senator Robinson, “is now reaping a harvest of condemnation and repudia- tie The legislative and executlve cs advanced by President Hard- ave bro down. This is at- ibutable to the ‘tionary char- acter of the polic nd to the irre- concilable factions existing within the republican party.” Sces as resident Repudiated. lative achieve- rded the Sixty- Congress, “with a single ex-! of the Fordney-McCumber | Senator Robinson declared, | 1l other important meas- ures enacted during th ngEress now expiring have been of a non-partisan nature and . ved the support of the a both houses of “The mportant legi democ in esident’s policies respecting the two most important subjects pre- nted Ly him, excluding the British ht xcttlement uct. have been openly repudiated Ly the Congress. 1 refer the ship subsidy bill and the mes- recommending membership for he United States in the Permanent Court of International J i Scores Hughes® Secrecy. The latter proposal. Senator Robin- son said, had heen “buried by the leaders of the republican party in the te.” The policy s foreign contirued, to thos administration’s Senator Robinson comprehensible even vesponsible for it. The United Stat in fc administrations took ad- vanced positions i the promotlon of arbitration and the establishment of orderly tribunals for the settlement of international disputes. Now w wre in the humiliating attitude of facing backward and standing still while European peoples in the maze and confusion of financial and eco- nomic probiems which threaten thelr. undoing are stumbling and stagger- ing forward.” in of etary Hughes' man- foreign ~ affairs was deplored by Senator that Mr. Hughes before an or- Secrec agement charged and Robinson. who sahl had discussed recently ganization newspaper men the country's n relations, but had refused »pear before the Senate foreign relations committee. “The only justification shrouding a foreign policy in solemn i Senator Robinson, “is ing it inevitably a chang Attacks Intern It has indeed, when furn witih ec 3 for to for en- that publicity respec i would force Polies. strange state, | retary of State newspaper correspond- confidential information denied to the Senate. aftairs, Senator Robin- republicans have “shame- | losely repudiated” pledges for a sol- | diers’ bonus and had not acted to| relieve farmers and others from ex- | cessive transportation charges. Re- | publican internal revenue lax revi- sion, the democratic leader said, has sulted in relieving the rich and sperous. while through the Ford- McCumber act the taxes paid by | the masses have been enormously in- creased.” “Failure Marks Record.” “Thus failure, irretrievable failure marks the record of the administra. tion throughout the last two years, said Senator Robinson in conclusion. During the evening Senator Robin- | son delivered his prepared remarks a8 an aldress to the Sen: SENATE LIBERALIZES WAR RISK INSURANCE The Sweet bill amending provi-| slons of the war risk insurance act 50 as to increase the period in which a veteran's disability will be assumed o have resulted from his service, and | extending the insurance privilege in xpecial cases. was passed by the e be There was no record vote, Under provisions of the bill cases of tuber- cular and neu chiatric diseases occurring within three years of the soldier's discharge.will be considered as due to his service, and will make uch soldier eligible for hospital and | Gompensation. All hospitals under the jurlsdiction of the Veterans' Bureau are thrown open to veterans of the civil and Spanish-American wars, as well as of the world war, and transportation | of these patients at government ex- | pense to the hospitals is authorized. | Another section authorizes the | payment of $100 for funeral expenses to the nearest of kin of any veteran | who dies and leaves insufficient prope erty to meet these expenses. Deaths of 24 Set Mortality Mark | In 67th Congress The death list in the sixty-seventh Congress was the longest in the memory of veteran members. Four senators and twenty members of the House died during the term, five of whom had been re-elected to the next Congress. Three senators from Pennsylvania, and Senator Tom Watson of Georgla, dled during the sixty-seventh Con- gress. The House members who dled were. M. M. Garland, Pennsylvania, No- vember 19, 1920; F. L. Blackmon, Alabama, February 7, 1321; William H. Frankhauser, Michigan, May 9, 1921; Willlam Mason, llinois, June 18, 1921; Rohrer A. James, Vir- ginia, August €, 1921; Samuel L. Taylor, Arkansas, September 13, 1921; Henry D. Flood,” Virginia, December 8, 1921; John A. Elston, California, December 14, 1921; J. K. Kalanianaole, Hawall, January 1922; L. W, Par- rish, Texas. March 27, 1922; M. Brinson, North Carolina, April 13, ; Moses P. Kinkald, Nebraska, July 6, Lemuel P. Padgett, North Carolina, August 2, 1922 Charles R. Connell, ~ Pennsylvania, September 6, 1922; John I Nol California, November 18, 1822; Jam R. Mann, Illinois, December 2, 1822; Nestor Montoya, New Mexico, Jan uary 18, 1823; Sherman E. Burrollgh New Hampshire, January 27, 1923 Henry Z. Osborne, California, Febru- ary §, 1023: W. Bourke Cochran, New Xork, March 1, 1923. come to a ®on caid, te. { Senate only March 4 { the | retiring v Nearly 500 Laws Passed—Billions Voted for Public Use~Many Familiar Fig- ures to Disappear as Gavel Falls. With the passing of the present Congress, in sesslon practically con- tinuously since early in 1931, Wash- ington faces a suspension of congres- fonal activities which probably will continue unt!l the first regular ses- sion of the Sixty-eighth Congress in December. In the event President Harding adheres to his present in- tention of not calling a special ses- sion, the recess will be the longest since 1815, The closing Congress, record- breaking In that it has consisted of four sessions for the first time in history ang its acts have touched i hitherto “virgln flelds in American legisiation, was ushered in with the Harding adminstraton. Concluded Peace Pact. The four sessions were preceded by clal but brief session of the to 15, 192 which, with the new President and former senator establishing a pre dent by appearing personally be- fore the Senate behind c doors, the new cabinet members con- firmed. The first enth Congress, from April 11, 1921 and was notable for of peace with German reduction of the Army and naval establishments and for revision of internal revenue laws, reducing taxes about one billlon dollars annually according to administration estimates. The second. and first regular, ses- sion, was from December 5. 1921, to September 22, 1922, with passage of Fordney-McCumber tarift act after more than a year's considera- tion, Senate ratification of the Wash- ington arms conference treaties and the goldiers’ bonus fight, which ended with the presidential veto, as its signal affairs. During this session came the record-breaking single legislative day of the Senate, the longest in American congressional history, lasting, on the tariff bil from ‘April 20 to August 2. without a formal adjournment The third session was a special one, called particularly for House considera- tion of the administration shipping bill It lasted from November 20, shortly after the congressional elections, until December 4. Passage by the House of the shipping Dbill, seating of the frst woman senator, Mrs. W. H. Felton of Georgla, resignation of Senator Truman H. Newberry, republican, Michigan, and “nate blocking of the Dyer anti-lynch- irg bill and the administration measure proposing a $5.000,000 loan to Liberia were its prineipal features. The Congress closes with the recent egular session beginning December 4, in"which the shipping bill fight. farm credits legislation and the British debt funding bill have been predominant. Billions of dollars in annual and spe- cial appropriations have been ordered during the four sessions; hundreds of bills, public and private, passed and thousands of appointments confirmed. Among the latter were those of Chief Justice Taft and three assoclate justices of the Supreme Court—Sutherland, But- ler and Sanford—and scores of ambas- sadors and other American diplomats, including new envoys to Germany and Austria after the peace treaties, Nearly 500 Laws Passed. Tn its wake Congress leaves more than fourteen thousand unpassed bills and resolutions, some of wide importance Nearly 500 public laws were passed by the Congress, or, excluding Sundays and holidays, about one law per day. The final gavels will close the public careers of many veteran public men, inciuding “Uncle Joe" Cannon, the former Speaker, with his record of serv- ice in the House; Representative Mon- dell of Wyoming, republican floor leader. nators Williams of Mississippi and Culberson of Texas, both former demo- ratic floor leaders, and others, some defeated in the Jast elections and some luntarily. The closing Congress, In its relations with the President. has been noted for a s hsed were was special one, to November its conclusion and Austria. continuance of executive addresses to| joint sessions. Mr. Harding made a half dozen of these, chief among them being his presentation of the shipping legislation February 28, 1922; the Brit- h debt tunding agreement, with a re- newed demand for a Senate vote on the shipping bill, last month; his discussion last August 18 of the railroad and coal strikes: his request for postponement of the soldiers’ bonus bill, July 12, 1921, and his addresses coincldent with the opening of sessions of Congress. The *“bloc” movement was born during the present Congress, with organization of the Senate farm bioc, headed by former Senator Kenyon, j republican, Towa, with Senator Cap- per, republican, Kansas, as his suc- cessor. It has been very actlve in passing farm legisiation. The pro- gressive bloc was organized last De- cember at the conference called by Senator La_Follette, republican, Wis- congin, and Representative Huddle- ston, democrat, Alabama, but has never met agaln, although it prom- ises to be a factor in the next Con- gress. A war veterans' bloc in the House also was inaugurated recently. An unusual flux of congressional investigations also has marked the closing Congress in both House and Senate. Few were concluded. Several wiil be prosecuted during the com- ing recess and others in the new Congress: Many Prebes Undertaken. Prominent among these investiga tions were those into impeachment charges against Attorney General Daugherty; the Ford-Newberry sen- atorial election contest from Michi- gan: the escape of Grover Cleveland Rergdoll, Philadelphla draft dodger; the West Virginia coal mine warfare of 1921; American occupation of Haiti and Santo Domingo; agricul- tural conditions by the Lenroot-An- derson commission; leases of naval ofl reserves and into oil and gas prices by the Senate manufactures com- mittee. Other investigations included the Muscle Shoals, Ala, power project, including Henry Ford's offer; the al- leged dye lobby, treatment of war veterans, civil service and charges of former Senator Watson, democrat, Georgia, that wholesaln illegal exe- cutions of American soldlers of the A. E. F. had occurred. International affairs have been prominent in the Senate, with fre- quent discussions of and interven- tions in immediate European devel- cpments. Prominent among these was the Senate resolution requesting recall of American troops from the Rhine, which was followed in a few days by the President's withdrawal order. Efforts of Senator Borah, re- publican, Idaho, to initiate an inter- national economic conference all fur. nished several spectacular periods. A large number of treaties, mostly of minor character, were ratified by the Senate, including the $25,000,000 Panama canal settlement with Co- lumbia on April 20, 1821; the German, Austrian and Hungarian peace trea- tles, October 18, 1921, and the seven arms cenference conventions in the spring of 1922. There was no further action on the Veraailles or the three- ower treaty urged by France for ér protection against Germany. The treaty to relinquish American claim to the Isle of Pines has gone over until the next Congres: Principal domestic legislation en- acted by the Congress included: The Fordney-McCumber tariff bill, rev sion of the internal revenue laws, the temporary emergency tariff act, the reduction of the Army to 125,000 men and the Navy to 86,000 men, the 3 per cent immigration quota restric- tion law, statute establishing the fed- eral budget system, provision for fed- eral control of cable landings, the Knox-Porter peace resolution, crea- tion of the allied debt commission, the agricultural co-operative market- ing law, the meat packer control act, session of the sixty-sev-| reorganization of the Veterans' Bu- reau, strengthening of the prohibition {1aw by forbidding prescription of {beer, creation of the federal coal |commission, authorization for twenty- four additional federal judges. regu- lation of future grain trading, the federal maternity aid act, extension of federal road ald. the China trade act and the resolution providing in- terchangeable raflroad mileage. Numerous Measures Fail. Little legislation was vetoed by President Harding, His prominent vetoes were those of the soldiers’ bonus and Bursum clvil war pen- sion increase bills. A ng important legislation which it appeared today would fall of en- actment and die with the adjournment gavels were: Tho soldlers’ honus, passed b gress, but vetoed July 18, Senate sustaining the veto after iwas overridden by the House. | . Measures dealing with the Muscle Shoals, Ala., power project. includ- ing government development bills and Henry Ford's offer. Senator” Borah's resolution for a world's economic conference enator Robinson's resolution for | official reparation commission repre- | sentatives. Reapportionment of Congress under | the 20 census. The vetoed Bursum pension |increase -~ civil and Mexican | veterans' pensions. The Dyer anti-lynching bill, passed | by the House, but blocked in the| | Senate. { | _The administration biil, to loan $5.- | 000,000 to Libe also passed thel House. but blocked in the Senate. | | A proposal to establish a depart. | ment of public welfare, or educatior, ! lr@r/vmment!ml by President Harding |in 1921 Reorganiz: on of government Dartments and bureaus The “truth-in-fabric” bill, to advise consumers of cloth contents. Resolutions to submit constitu- tional amendments to regulate child labor, prohibit issuance of tax- exempt securities, provide for direct election of a President and abolish the electorfal college, and set up a uniform divorce law Bills seeking the revislon or re- peal of the Esch-Cummins transpor- tation act. The railroad debt-funding bill, President Harding. Con- | 1922, the it bili war | de- recommended by but later dropped Provisions for a general revision of the immigration laws, including proposed passport vises recommended by_President Harding. Registration and education of aliens, recommended by the President. Government regulation of radio Recognition of the Russian government. Restoration of free tolls privileges in the Panama canal to American coastw ships. A proposal to strengthen the cor- {rupt practices act regulating elec- tion of members of Congress. A bill proposing partial restoration of enemy alien property. A measure to prohibit newspaper publication of horse race betting news. A bill to appropriate $10,000,000 for government purchase of fertilizer ni trates for loan to cotton growers. A provision for general amnesty for persons convicted under the es- plonage laws. General recodification of federal statutes. The _bill of Senator Ladd, republi- can, North Dakota, for government price fixing of agricultural products. The proposal of Senator Norbeck, republican, South Dakota. to provide $250.000.000 forelgn credits for pur- chases of agricultural products. The bill of Senator Norris. repub- lican, Nebraska, for a foreign export trade corporation The “blue sky” security issue regu- lation bill. The bill of Senator McNary, repub- lican, Oregon, appropriating $350,000,- 000 for reclamation development. The bill of Senator New, republican, |Indiana, regulating shooting of mi- gratory birds. Bills _of Senator Dial, democrat, South Dakota. for amendment of the ofton futures act. The bill of Senator Edge, repub- lican, New Jersey, to regulate co- operative organization Provisions for establishment of free trade manufacturing zones in Amer- ican seaports A measure providing the disposition to the states of surplus war material. The Gooding wheat stabilization bill, appropriating $300,000,000 for government price fixing. _— SENATOR TAKES FLING AT “WEAKEST CONGRESS Simmons Declares Sixty-Seventh Most Inefficient in History. Scores Administration. viet (e By the Associated Press. NEWBERN, N. C.. March 3.—“The wealest and most inefficient Congress n our history,” is the characterization to which the Sixty-seventh Congress is entitled, Senator F, M. Simmons declared in a statement given at his home here tonight. Its record has been one of “weakness, vacillation, in- consistency, camouflage and sub- terfuge,” and were it not so tragic, the spectacle the end of this Con- gress presents would be truly laughable, he asserted, “Speaking_broadly,” Senator Sim- mons said, “it may be asserted that this Congress, with its large repub- lican majority and its _boastful promises of wonderful accomplish- ment of progressive, remedial and constructive legislation, has not only failed in all of its promises, pledges and predictions, but it has left & ressrd 8o barren of accomplishment, so replete in its shortcomings and pitiable fallures, as to entitla it to be characterized as probably the weakest and most Inefficient Con- gress in our history. ‘That it has been a sore disappoint- ment not only to the people at large, but to the republican party as weil goes without saying,” he continued. t has been a record of weaknes: vacillation, inconsistency, camoutiage and subterfuge. In both houses the leadership of the dominant party has been weak and halting, while the rank and file has been discordant and unstable. The result i{s there has been no unity of purpose or concert ot action on the part of the majority in matters of legislation, and the President and his cabinet, instead of being a steadying influence, initiating and directing along wise, safe and constructive lines, has by equal vacillation and Inconsistency con tributed to make the situation worse instead of better, s0 that the end of this much vaunted Congrgss pre sents a spectacle of imbecllity and cowardice which would be truly laughable it it were not so tragic. —_—— CAPT. BRYAN RETIRED. Capt. SBamuel Bryan, Naval Supply Corps, who has been serving as al- lotment officer in this city, has been placed on the retired list of the Navy on account of age. He was gradu- ated from the Naval Academy in 1881, and since then has served In var ous parts of the world. He is cred- ited with the establishment of a model dairy farm at the Naval Acad emy and with many lnrornnc works of naval construction st other places since- then, ‘UNCLE JOE,” ALL PACKED AND READY TO GO SC ANT D. C. LEGI SL ATION i ON RECORD OF SESSION Riders on Bills Chief Source of Such: Provisions as Affect Washington— Change in Fiscal Relations. Photograph of Representative Joseph articipation in government affairs peared at the Ca Fordney Wins Pay| Raise for Clerks In Closing Fight The last legislative battle of Representative Joseph W. Ford- ney of Michigan, chairman of the House ways and means committee, who retires voluntarily tomorrow after twenty-four vears' service in the House, was for extra com- pensation for the clerks in his office—and he won it. Chairman Madden of the appro- priations committee objected, but the veteran Michigan member said his committee did more on the tarift bill, which bears his name, than the appropriations commit- tes did “in a whole damn vear.” and the House upheld him by a vote of about two to one. — i i HEFLIN LEADS FIGHT TO FORCE VOTE ON NITRATES| i (Continued from First Page.) ifornia, and Smith Hickenlooper, Ohlo, 1o be federal district judges, Filibuster Defeated. At midnight defeat of the Senate filibuster was conceded by its man- agers and dropped. They sald they had abandoned hope of securing a: tion by the House on the nitrate measure and had not reccived suffi- clent support in the Senate to carry on the battle. The Senate then reached an agree- ment to spend two hours in the con- sideration of minor bills Closing Hours Picturesque. closing hours in the House wors’ pictapesque for_many reasons Uncle Joe” Cannon, who has served | in Congress longer than any history, ls retiring aIanlu;) i v nd sat through e v belng the center of observation for the crowds in the gallery J At a late hour last night Mr. Can- non took the floor and was greeted with tumultuous applause, as the crowds considered that he was about to sing his “swan song.” He merely asked permission to extend his re- marks in the record briefly on the rural credits bill. The galleries were a in seeing thres women f time in history seated on the Miss Alice Robertson, Mrs. Wi Mason Huck and Mrs. John I “'he last was accompanied b: daughter, Miss Corlis Theresa Nolan. Just before the dinner hour last night the members of the House pre- sented Floor Leader Mondell. who 1so interested or the first floor nnifred Nolan. vin Congress after twenty-six Lo ® gervice, with a_magnificent chest of silver and a silver service. Owing to the serious ll|_nl-5! of Representative Frederick H. Gillett of Marsachusetts speaker, who has been confined to his home with influenza for more than a week, Representative Philip P. Campbell, chairman of the Tules committee, who is completing fwenty years' service, presided. Representative Gillett is the veteran member of the House, having just completed thirty vears. Recessed to 10 A.M. he House recessed last night 1t e o ‘meet at 10 o'clock today, When the President will be at the Capitol to sign last-minute leglela- tion. _On_invitation of Representa- tive’ Newton of Minnesota, the Ma- ime Band will be at the Capitol to- Gay, and it is expected that there @il be a song service in the House Thamber, marking the close of the Sixty-seventh Congress, the first in history to have four sessions and which has been working for 416 days. During the closing hours in the House 1last_night Representative vebster of Washington tendered his N elmation from the joint commit- fee on reorganftzation of the adminis- tative branch of the government Representative Webster had been ap- pointed to_this joint committee to Pucceed C. Frank Reavis of Nebraska, when the latter beame an assistant attorney general in the prosecution of war fraud cases. Representative $tapes of Michigan, former chairman of the House District committes, was named to succeed Representative Webster on the reorganization com- e gpeaker pro tem announced the following committee appoint- ments: To the committee on accounts, MacGregor, New York; Underhill, Massachusetts, and Park’ of Georgia; ‘o the committee on printing, Keyes, Pennsylvania; Johnson, Washington, and Stevenson, Bouth Carolina; to the Joint committee to investigate em- ployment of prisoners in peniten- tiaries, Graham, Pennsylvania; Chris- topherson, South Dakota; Hersey, Maine; Bumners, Texas, and Monta- gue, Virginia. Soores of Bills Passed. In the'course of the day yesterday during the evening hours scores; :?dmlncr‘ ills squeezed under t wire and others received their death blows. The debate turned on many subjects. Many statements praising the two-year record of Congress were made by republican leaders, while opposite views were voiced by. their political opponents. Revision of the tarift and internal revenus tax Cannon, who retires from active with the outgoing Congress, as he ol yesterday. wearing hat presented him when he me to Washington ax an 1llinois represen ative in the House. FARM CREDITS BILL READY FOR SIGNING House and Senate Approved Conference Agreement Last Night. ’ TWO AGENCIES CREATED One Will Be Under Loan Board and Other Run by Controller of Currency. Both the Senate and House approv- d the conference report on the farm credits bill last night and the measuro is ready for submisslon to President Harding when he visits the Capltel prior to sine die adjournment today to sign bil It was not until 11 o'clock that the safety of the legislation was assured through the adoption, without a record vote, of the conference agree- ment by the Senate. The House 2 few (lours previous had approved it, Managers Explain Bill. Managers on the part of the House explained in a formal statement to the House that the bill as agreed to in conference would create two dis- tinct and separate rural credit or- ganizations—the federal intermediate credit banks and the national agri- cultural credit corporations. The former would be placed under the control and management of the Fed- eral Farm Loan Board and the latter under the supervision of the con- troller of the currency. While the two systems will fur- nish relief to the agricultural inter- €sts of the country.” the Statement said, “the federal intermedlate credit banks will more particularly take care of the needs of a certaln class and might come nearer than would the national agricultural credit ocor- porations in taking care of the entire needs of the general agricultural publi the national agricultural credit corporations will make cer- tain the caring for in a national way of the live stock and co-opera- tive marketing requirements On National Bank Lines. “Your managers took into consider- ation also the fact that the national agricultural credit corporations will be organized along the same lines that national banks are organized, namely, by private subscription to capital and. secondly, that the go- oceptances, oollateral trust notes or debentures issued by them under the provisions of the act carry no tax exemption privileges, whereas federal intermediate credit banks are cap- italized by the United States govern- ment and are permitted to issue tax- free debentures.” —_— e laws, with reduction of expenditures and Army and Navy forces, were claimed by the republicans as the outstanding achievements, but Sena- tor Robinson of Arkansas, the acting democratic leader, issued a statement declaring that the tariff law was the only “administration triumph. important measures, he sald, wer, bi-partisan, and he declared the pres. ent administration was ‘“reaping a harvest of condemnation and repu- diation.” Both branches of Congress went at high speed on their last working day yesterday until the sriag of fllibustering developed. Among the measures put through were the $166,700,000 deficiency appropriation bill, the Sweet bill for War veterans' relief, a Senate resolu- tion ordering an investigation og the gold and silver industry, and & resolu- tion ordering an Investigation of the ernment employes. For more than 100 members this was virtually their last day of service, and goodbye greetings wers numerous and sometimes touching. The House halted its filibuster for a half hour to present a large chest of sllver to Representa- tive Mondell of Wyoming, retiring re- publican floor leader. ‘World Court Plan Wafts. During the day the administration proposal for American representation on the world court was definitely laid to rest until the new Congress con- venes next December, The Senate voted, 49 to 24, against proceeding with the King resolution granting the President’s request for senatoril as. sent. All but one republican voted against its consideration, and three democrats joined them, Several 'last-minuté nominations were sent by President Harding to the Senate, including that of Senator Simmons, democrat, North Carolina, to the Ailled Debt Funding Commis. sion to succeed Senator Glass. demo- crat, Virginia, who declined the place after confirmation yesterday, Among the nominations held up to the last moment was that of James G. Mo- Nary, Texas and New Mexico banker, to be controller of the currency By a margin of one vote he received the endorsement of the Senate bank- ing committee, but his opponents car- ried their fight to the Senate floor on the basis of a minority report. The Sixty-seventh Congress has little to its credit in the way of Dis- trict legislation. The most {mportant measures affecting the National Capital were put through as riders on appropriation bills rather than a distinct legislative measures. Among the most important actions affecting the District which were put through in appropriation bills was the change In the time-honored prin- ciple of half-and-half sharing of the cost of the National Capital between the federal Treasury and the District taxpayers. This change in the fiscal relation from a 50-50 to a 60-40 per- centage was made in the District appropriation bill, which also increas- ed real estate assessments from two- thirds to full valuation, required a semi-annual payment of taxes and put the District on a cash-as-you-go basis by 1927, Another important legislative rider on the appropriation bill authorized the construction of & new water con- dult from Great Falls at an ultimate cost of approximately $9,000,000, and the appropriations to carry along this work have been made for the last two vears. Provisions for a home for feeble- minded and transfer of the board of children’s guardians to the direct sup- ervision of the District Commissioners ere also carried in the appropriation il arious Important Measures. Among other important measures which the Sixty-seventh Congress passed after they were considered by the House Dis- trict committee are: The marine insur- ance law and the law requiring removal of snow and ice. These constitute prac- tically all of the important District leg- {slation that Congress passed. The favorable report was made in the Senate on District suffrage bills, both for & constitutional amendment grant- ing voting representation in both branches of Congress and the so-called District delegate bill, but no action was taken The Senate passed the teachers sal- ary and compulsory education bill, but these were not acted upon in the House. The Senate also passed the street-car merger bill, granting the Washington Rallway and Electric Company and the Potomac Electric Power Company per- mission to merge, which they are now prohibited from doing by act of Con- gress. This same measure seeks to re- duce street car fares in the District by imposing an excess profits tax of G0 per cent on income above 6 per cent and 75 per cent on income above 7 per cent. This measure was favorably reported by the House Distrcit commit- tee a week ago, but dies on the District calendar in the House. The Senate also passed a bill amend- ing the tax laws by straightening out the Inequality resulting from the new tax scheme put through in the ap- propriation bill, but no action on this was taken by the House. The Underhlll workmen's compen- sation act, consideration of whica de- layed other District legislation in the House for more than six months, was tabled by tue Senate Distric: committee. The Underhill bill was passed by the Houre after a biiter duel between it and the Fitsgerald bill. The Unaerhill bii: calls.for compulsory industrial insurance :o be carried by industrial concerns or private insurance compani The Fitzgerald bill would have had this business carried by a government agency. The workmen's compensation bill s the only House measure which was not placed on the Senate calendar by the Senate District committee, which offers a clean slate on District legis- lation. Measures Become Lawa. Other District measures which be- came laws include the followin, Roard of accountancy; alley-dwelling law extended; bad check law; estab- lishing standard weights of bread; widening 1st street northeast; clos- ing a portion of Grant road running from Connecticut avenue: additional and jury for the District of Co- umbia; extension and widening of 9th street from Longfellow street to Underwood street and Underwood street from 9th street to Georgla ave- nue; closing of Piney Branch road be- tween 17th street and Taylor and 16th and Allison streets; equalizing pensions of veteran police and fire- men; extension of the Ball rent act to May, 1924; resolutions permitting the use of parks for camp grounds during the Shrine convention and appropriation for additional pell protection and convenience statio during Shrine aonvention. The Sen- ate passed a resolution to investigate taxicab rates and report to the next Congress; continuing $240 bonus for federal employes for another year; closing up of Water strest between S1st and 22d streets so that the Na- tional Home for Science could be erected. the District measures of mfi:“? T portance which falled in the we were: O ension. of 14th street through the Walter Reed Hospital grounds Which would have. opened up & new avenue into the National Capital, and have made possible relief of housing congestion through residential de- velopment of a large suburban area. ‘The pure milk bill, on which ex- tensive hearings were held, which was fathered by the District health office, and which required that all milk for domestic consumption com- ing into the District must be from tuberculin-tested herds. The measure looking toward the prevention of ‘social diseases and tho suppression of vice. All_mothers’ compensation meas- led. ur;%o“i:renul court bill, on which tensive hearings were held, Includ- g voluminous testimony regarding the Juvenile Court and the board of children's guardians, never came out mittee. OF LNt & dosen bills deslgned to rem- edy the street car situation were con- sidered in the District committee, and the only measure considered in the House, the Wood bill, was sent back to the committee. Trafie Court Bill Fails. The Zihiman bill to establish a traf- fic court and carrying heavy penal- ties for violation of traffic regulation, which _provided for a special assist: BLUDTONE For Cleansing the Blood, tending to relleve Scrofula, P and Boils, The following are a few of the Herbs contained in this remedy and uses: Ci demulcent and nutriment, It s digestion, improves nutrition and in- creases the appetite. Dulcamara—Employed in treatment of acne, impetigo and chronic eczema. Potymnia—As a tonic, stim- ulant and laxative, increases nutrition and aids in the elimination of waste prod- ucts. ~—Stillingla—Remedy in scrof- ula, sluggish cutaneous dis- eases and chronic hepatic affections. M. A. Louis I 1 | | ant corporation counsel to prosecute traflic cases in a speclal court with distinct jurisdiction, was reported to the House, but died on the District calendar. Several gun-toting bills were con- sldered in committee but never acted upon. After extensive hearings the so- called pawnbrokers® bill was reported to the House and debated at length, after ul":lckh It was recommitted. tk an ro eglsla- tion failed N s One of the most voluminous bills ever considered by the House district committee, on which extensive hear- ings were held, and which was urged persistently by the insurance com- missioners of the District, proposing ! a revision of the Insurance code, was reported to the House with the un- derstanding that it had the heartlest Support of the administration, but It Wwas never called up for action. One of the major pieces of school legislation, the free text book bill, falled of action in the House. The bill to abolish capital punish-| ment died on the District calendar.| Approximately a score of bills| regulating professional practice, in- cluding optometrists, osteopaths, undertakers, chiropractors, etc., ali failed. The only measure in this| class which was acted upon was the establishment of a board of account- J“.Er;] la‘ District. ue sky” leglslation failed The daylight savings bill All the blue laws failed hl‘r)‘b; bill to connect civil war forts The biil nursery at failed The bilt Commissioners L{sr h!chanl on Prhur street. Phe bill 1o} point the education, failed to enlarge the 0 District Fort Dupont, Anacostia, directing the to build a the site at cets failed. 0 have the President a; [membars, of the boara o ead o aving them ap- pointed by the jud fatrie Supreme Court. ajfog, O (e District The vagrancy law failed Accumulated Surplus. One of the most im i d portant acti of Congrees affecting the District was in authorizing a joint congressional committee to make an exhaustive in- vestigation of the fiscal relations be- tween the federa) government and the District in order to establish once and for all whether the federal Treasury Justly owed the Dietrict an accumu. lated surplus, as was claimed. Aft long and careful study by expert ac- countants and hearing parties most familiar with fiscal relations, this Joint committee reported that the fed- eral government, in all justice, owed the District approximately $5,000,000. Bills were introduced in both the House and Senate to make this money available to the credit of the District, carrying out the recommendation of the ‘joint committee. In the Senate an attempt was made to put this sur- Dlus as a rider on a deficiency appro- priation bill. but this was knocked out on a point of order. In the House the District committee favorably re. ported the Hardy bill, which would have made this surplus available and which would have made possible Houso acquiescence on the rider in the deficiency bill if it had not been knocked out on a point of order in the Senate. Continuatlon of the school building program was made possibje through a confererce agreement on the appro- priation bill. A_joint committee from the Senate and "House District committees con- sidered at length and held hearings on the needs of the District schools, with a view to mapping out a com- prehensive program of school develop- ment. While a lengthy report was District tubercu- 14th and {retiring after twi made to the Benate, action was de- To the right is pictured model 80, at $100 MANY NITED VN LEAVE PUBLI EVE | Uncle Joe Cannon Most Pic- turesque of Those Passing With Dying Congress. With the falling of the gavel at the end of the Sixty-seventh Congress some of the most interesting char- acters in public pass from the legislative body. These Include both Uncle Joe Can- non. who has served forty-six years and who s the only man living to- day who ran on the ticket with Abraham Lincols. Representative Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming, who has been repub! can leader in the House during the Sixty-seventh Congresa, retiring af- ter twenty-six vears, having been de- feated in the campalgn for the United States ate and last week appointed to the War Finance Board by Presi- dent Harding. Fordney Leaves Also. Representative Joseph W. Fordney of Michigan, who, in his younger day & was a lumber jack and who, as chalr- man of the ways and means commit- tes is author of .the new tariff law. is voluntarily leaving Congress after twen four years' service. Representative William W. Rucker of Missouri has served twenty-four vears and will be missing from tie next Congress. Representative Philip P. Camp- bell of Kansas. chairman of the House rules committee and actine Speaker during the closing week - the Sixty-seventh Congress, one of the most picturesque characters in Congress during recent years, is r tired after twenty years' service. Served Twenty Years. Representative Halvor Steenerson of Minnesota, chairman of the con: mitteo on post offices and post roud:, i8 retired after twenty years' service Representative William A. Rodern- berg of Illinois, one of the most noted orators of recent vears, {s voluntarily ty years and has refused diplomatic appointment. Representative Volstead of Minne sota, chairman of the House judictary committee and author of the prohibi- tion enforcement act, is leaving Con Eross after twenty vears’ service Representative . Bascom Slemp of Virginia is leaving Congress after sixtean vears service. representin the same district which his fathe:r represented for a quarter of a cen- tury before him. Completes Sixteen Years. Representative W. H. Stafford of Wisconsin is leaving after sixteen years’ service. Representativa Thomas U. Sisson of Mississippi is leaving after four- teen vears' service, having been co spicuous for his activity on the Dis trict appropriations bill. Representative Benjamin K. Fock: of Pennsyivania, chairman of the House District committee, is leaving after fourtecen vears service. Representative Ira C. Copley of Tllinois, @ member of the ways and means committee, is leaving after twelve vears service. Representative Jacoway kansas has just completed years' servicc of Ar twelve layed until it was too late to put euct legislation through both branches of Congress. A biiter fight was made against the school site and schoo building ftems in the District appro- priation bill in the House by Repra sentative Thomas L. Blanton of Texas, who had approximately $500,000 worth of school appropriations strick- en from the bill on points of order. 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