Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1930, Page 22

* MOVES T0 REPEAL REGENT ENACTMENT Cramton Protests Bill Au- thorizing Tall Masonic Tower in District. ‘The extraordinary procedure of in-| SEAATE T0 FINGH ., BLLS SOON Several Measures to Be Act- ed on Include That for Pay Raise. Several local measures, which falled troducing & bill in the House to repeal to get through the Senate on the unani- s law only two weeks on the statut books was started yesterday by Repre- | noon, will have a chance to mous consent calendar ye.surg:y after- consid- sentative Cramiton of Michigan, author | ered again at an early date, possibly of the National Capital Park and Plan- | this afternoon. Thi ning Commission act and other meas- | men and firemen ures for the harmonious development of | Cramton park de the proposed merger of the Washing- the National Capital. were the police- increase bill, the lopment measure, Representative Cramton’s_position is[ton and Georgetown Gas Light Co.'s that the law of April 29, authorizing the | and the bill to increase the salaries of construction of a tall Masonic tower | the District Commissioners. on the Dean tract, between Connecticut | Senator Copeland offered to amend THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1930. Spend a Cool Summer in Your “Outdoor Living Room” With avenue and Florida avenue, was passed | the Commissioners’ salary bill to pro- on misinformation furnished him at a|vide for $9,000 & year instead of the time he was ready to object to unani- | original recommendation of $10,000, in mous-consent action. _After protesting | order to expedite its passage, but unani- about that in the House yesterday,|mous consent could not be obtained stressing that result will be an affront | yesterday. to the esthetic development of the ™ Senators Bingham and Copeland ex- Capital and a “desecration” of the| plained that the former Commissioners unique Lincoln Memorial, acting on | received $9,000, but that, due to the the suggestion of Representative Arentz | classification law, the new Commis- of Nevada and Minority Leader Gar-|sjoners had to start at $8,000. They ner, Mr. ton introduced & bill 10| pointed out, therefore, that a bill mak- Tepeal the authorization act. ing the salaries $9,000 would not in Cramton Makes Statement: reallty be an increase. a3 e . Senator rammell, 'mocrat, of e g I e o im0 allow | Florida, declared he’ was opposed (o the Masonic Temple Association, in| bills relating to the salaries of higher kit & tlon of their | officials until the inequities existing in A M O e fraw the pullding regu. | the salary schedules' among low-pald ‘ | e T lations of the District permit. When | Government clerks are corrected. ] . \ that bill came up for consideration, 1| The bill recommend:d by the Vet- " erans’ Bureau to amend the District asked for certain informatlon, but ihe erens’ Bureau to amend the District was not accurate. }x_nggrz:ar:éix:‘msv:;m gave it to me was|&ppointing guardians for veterans was not at fault, because the plans of the | referred bffi} to the Dutrlft eo;nmn- association had not been fairly disclosed | tee for further study on . b, to the committee, By reason of the in- | ator Blaine, Republican, of Wisconsin. formation given me I did not make the oblection to ;fif bill which T Jvould have| Ballston Firemen to Meet. ade. The assed and has become | e ;:w, Since that %lme certain facts have| BALLSTON, Va., May 13 (Special).— been developed of which Congress was | A special meeting of the Ballston Volu not aware. First, that instead of being| teer Fire Department will be held simply & fraternal structure that would | the fire house tonight, to complete a) be an ornament to the city, in & con- |Fangements for its annual carnival to splcuous location, & part of the project | be held June 14 to 21. is a commercial one, the erection of sev- | ———0 eral apartment houses, 5o that Congress gave consent o an exception to the building regulations in connection with | s commercial project. This Congress | would not have done if we had known the facts. Secondly, the portion of the structure that is to be higher than the building regulations would have per- mitted, as now planned by the archi- tects, is to be practically a replica of the | Lincoln Memorial. . Reasons for Protest. ! “In other words, we are permitting, | in connection with & semi-fraternal | and semi-commercial project, the plac- ing, in a very conspicuous part of the eity, of a replica of the Lincoln Me- morial, to some extent taking away the unique beauty that characterizé that . I do not know what author- ity, if any, the Fine Arts Commission and the National Capital Park and Planning -Commission may have left to them, but I hope they have enough au- thority that they ean prevent the des- ecration of the Lincoln Memorial by uniting it with' this pending proposi- tion. (Applause.) I think there ought not to have been that exception for any | commercial project. However, that has gone by, and I only take this time to express the hope that the committee on the District of Columbia in any legislation they are going to bring be- fore the House today will know the facts.” Representative Arentz reminded Mr. Cramton that he had many followers and suggested the bill to repeal. Mr. Cramton replied: “I that would be very desirable Garner's Suggestion. Minority Leader Garner then en; n a brief dialogue with Mr. Cramton as_follows: Mr. Garner. The gentleman said that the time had gone by, but is there not & remedy that we could now apply by sppropriate legislation? Have they ac- quired rights that we could not take away from them? Mr. Cramton. No. If Congress would = the legislation, it would still be in e. This Popular Out-of-Door Furniture Rustic Chairs, $675 - Rustic Benches, $11 Garden Benches, $22.50 Bird Baths, $15 & $22:50 Chairs to match, 3650 We cordially invite the public to attend Special Demonstrations of the New FLORENCE OIL COOK STOVES OIL WATER HEATERS Wed., Thurs. and Fri. May 14th, 15th and 16th Free samples of cooking made on the Florence stove and a practical demonstration of both of these splendid household necessities. 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