Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1929, Page 5

oY FLOOD OF BILLS Supply, Tax Cut and French Debt Measures Lead Heavy List. By the Associated Press. Legislative flood gates that have been | closed for brief periods to Representa- tives since the House recessed last June | swung wide today with the opening of the regular session. During three and five minute semi- | weekly meetings since September 23, the | total of bills duced exceeded 5.000 | and if the House members are as pro- lific_as usual in proposing legislation their number will be swelled to nearly 25,000 before the end of this Congress. Ten annual supply bills being pre- pared by the House appropriations com- mittee. ‘a_resolution to bring about a £160.000,000 tax reduction on 1929 in- comes, and a measure to ratify the agreement on the $4.000.000.000 French war debt, stood at the head of the pro- gram for major legislation drawn up by | party leaders. Many Being Drafted. Many new and redrafted bills of far- reaching importance are being prepared by members and committee chairmen for introduction. An_omnibus bill, calling for an out- | lay of about $125.000.000 for rivers and harbors is being drafted by Chairman Dempsey of the rivers and harbors committee. A measure seeking modification of the Mississippi River flood control proj- ect is to be prepared by Chairman Reid of the flood control committee, who is urging expedition of the completicn of the work. The matter of continuing the life of the Federal Radio Commission will come up before the House merchant marine committee, and there iS a pos- sibility that Chairman White will urge the establishment of a permanent body | |i to handle all interstate telephone, tele- graph and wireless communication. Proposed legislation, requested by President Hoover, to transfer prohibi- tion enforcement activities of the Treasury to the Justice Department will be before the House judiciary com- mittee. Banking Law Revisions. Revision of banking laws, growing out of the recent bank failures in var- jous parts of the country, will be studied by the banking and currency committee. The interstate commerce committee will have railroad consolidation and motor bus regulation legislation to con- sider. Muscle Shoals, an Army housing pro- gram and a revamping of the Army Air Corps expansion program will be issues before the military affairs com- mittee. ‘The naval committee will have a naval public works bill and a measure to readjust officer and enlisted person- nel pay to deal with, along with a question of expanding the naval avia- tion unit. Other legislation to be proposed in- cludes an extension of Federal nighway aid, creation of an education depart- ment, restriction of immigration from the Western Hemisphere and consolida- tion of agencies dealing with war vet- erans. o Assigned as Military Instructor. First Lieut. Frank M. Albrecht, Corps of Engineers, at Fort Humphreys, Va., has been assigned to duty as military instructor at the Pennsylvania State College, at State College, Pa. Capt. Robert P, Kunnecke, Veterinary Corps, at Walter Reed General Hos- glul. has been ordered to examination or retirement. —_— Under the reforestration plan of the Jewish national fund, 280,000 trees have been planted in the Balfour Forest in Palestine. | set 'up a revolving fund for reh: PR s e LR s BY WOMEN IN CONGRESS Ruth Bryan Owen Will Ask Disast.er Re- lief Fund; Mrs. Norton Seeks Aid for Veterans. Eight women stood ready today to write into their records as members of the Seventy-first Congress an assortment of undertakings varying from legisla- tion setting up a permanent disaster relief fund of about $25,000,000 to & Federal campaign for popularizing “self-extinguishing” matches. Returning to the Capital by airplane and train, the feminine Representa- tives expressed one salient desire in common: That their chapter in the world's history of woman legislators should have—whatever else—an abundance of sub- | titles. Florida’s Ruth Bryan O sponsor_the disaster bill, sa would have the support of Cross. She will intrcduce it as possible, and its purpose will who will | d that it | ber he Red|of i | oficcis * financial assistance for families rough “the killing by enforcement Seeks Funds for Veterans. tion of stricken areas—beyond the pre toking by ‘& goal she-set for her- ent capability of the Red Cross—par-|self as soon as she came to Congress, ticularly during periods when Congress | Mrs, Mark K. Norton of New Jersey is not in session, will try in this session to secure ad- A survey of special assistance by |ditional aids for war veterans, she said, Government agencies in past disasters, ncreased pensior she added, showed that 61 per cent of Katherine Langley, Ark- funds extended had been returned, and |ansas' Pearl P. Oldfield, and New her measure would set up a revolving [ York’s Ruth Baker Pratt also were back fund for storm, flood, insect infestation | in their places, ready to work especially and other contingencies. for their own districts, but prepared to Representative Edith Nourse Rogers | assert themselves also in national ques- of Massachusetts will sponsor what she | tions. calls a safety match campaign. Several of the women expressed point- “Whether legislation will be feasible |ed views on the tariff and other na- | I cannot say yet.” she explained, “but [tional and _international questions, as | I will do whatcver is possible to pre- | well. Mrs. Rogers wants a “sane” tariff | vent enormous fire lcsses by this simple | bill-—and she 1s prepared to ask larger | precaution.” appropi The Bur veloped a Mrs. Rogers ske Secretary Lamont to call manufactur- ers into conference next week to talk over adaptation possibilities. E Long identified with the “wet” side| “Concentration of veterans’ aids in | of the prohibition question, Mrs. Flor-|one agency is beside my object,” she | ence P. Kahn of California, intends to | added, “for what I want is mure—ade- push, during this session, her bill to quate—beds.” She also will seek to 00,000 she secured nearly two years Women Now Demand a PORCELAIN TUB RETAREX $99 The new ROTAREX porcelain tub is easy to clean. It is very sturdy and service- able. Also it is very beautiful with a mot- tled, jaspe sage tint. There are other splendid features of- fered by this new model, such as the Dasher-Disc, which is different from any agitator you ever saw. 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