Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1928, Page 14

b e MERGER WILL GET SCRUTINY IN HOUSE District Committeemen Say No Rushing of Bill Wili Be Permitted. | | Members of the House District com- | mittee today demanded that thorough hearings and careful should be made by the House Di ct committee of the street car merger plans, regard- | Jess of any other hearings that have been held. It was emphasized that con- ditions have materially changed since the extensive hearings by the House| District committee several years ago. | =0 that the entire matter will have to| r again, includ- be carefully checked The prospects are that even if the matter were already before the com- mittee, hearings would not be conclud- ed before the adjournment of Congress. Hammer States Position The merger discusion was brought up today by Repres e Hammer, Dem- ocrat of North ho took an rings several ¥ nan said that there was attention of the committee regarding the proposed merger. While he expressed the hope that this matter would not | be delayed until it was too late for ac- tion at the present don, Mr. Ham- mer said he would insist that the com- mittee hold hearings for itself regard- less of what any officials or any other committee may have done Repres Vermont expla now before e Budget Bure of the ve int of mo which w e to be paid from Dis- trict reven: Sees Plan to Rush Bill. Mr. Hammer stated that he under- stood the plan is to bring in the bill and after cursory consideration attempt | to rush it through before Congress ad- | journs. He said that he will fight against such proceedings. | Mr. Gibson stated that his under- standing is that all of the present prop- erties of the street railway companies can be replaced for many millions of dollars less than the price asked for in the merger proposal. “We owe it to Congress to have defi- nite and reliable information before we | pass upon this merger proposal,” said Representative Gibson. + Dead Flyers Honored. ‘The aviation field at Pine Camp. N. Y., used by the 27th Division, Air Serv- fce of the New York National Guard, has been named by the War Depart- ment “Wheeler-Sack Field.” in honor of Capt. Curtis Wheeler and Lieut. Carl J. Sack of the division named, who lost their lives in an airplane accident on that field July 6, 1927 Transferred to Capital. Maj. Cleveland H. Bandholtz, Ord- nance Department, has been relieved from duty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and assigned to duty| in the office of chief of ordnance, Mu- nitions Building. | | service committe has started work by | brought to the | 91,500 WAGE BASIS MAY BE DROPPED Elimination of Minimum in Revision of Welch Bill | Forecast. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. In the revision of the Welch bill to se the salaries of Government employes, on which the House civil drafting a substitute measure the $1,500 minimum wage provision, which is an outstanding feature of the Welch bill, probably will be eliminated This statement is on the authority | of Chairman Lehlbach of the House committee who after the meeting today. when asked if many members of the committe would support his opposition | to the minumum wage feature, replied | | that he did not believe that the com- | ttee would insist upon retaining that | feature. | Basis of Estimate, ! 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The committee had before it data | submitted by the Bureau of Efficlency, by the Personnel Classification Board and by the National Federation of Fed- eral Employes, including statements re- bach said that in some cases it wi found that the Government was p: ing less than in outside employment and in other cases the Government's pay schedule is higher. S | Chairman Lehlbach said that under the auspices of the Budget Bureau a Edmonston [ole——0©= committee, which includes W. H, Mc- Reynolds, the Bureau of Efficiencs® rep- resentative on the Personnel Classifica- tion Board; F. J. Bailey, formerly of the Personnel ' Classification Board, and now on the Budget Bureau staff, and several others, Is endeavoring to work out some proposal for increasing salaries throughout _the Government _service. 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