Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1932, Page 6

A6 WETS N HOUSE DENIED ROLL CALL Parliamentary Procedure Prevents Record Vote on Wire-Tapping 3an. ¥ By the Assoclated Press. The hazards of parliamentary pro- | cedure have handed the House wet bloc an unexpected defeat in their ef- | fort to secure a roll call vote on a pro- hibition issue, They brought to a test late yesterday the question of spending Federal money for wire tapping in prohfhi*’on enforce- ment, losing, by & teller vote of 132 to 102, 3 motion to amend ‘the appropria- tion bill in question by closing the $11,- 369,500 Prohibition Bureau funds to wire-tapping uses. This was the ex- pected result, . Cannon Beats Schafer. Upon it they planned to offer a mo- tion to send the bill back to committee with instructions to insert the anti- wire-tapping item. Such motion per- mits a roll call, and only one recom- mittal motion may be submitted on each such bill. Before Representative Schafer, Republican, Wisconsin, could be recognized to put the proposition, Speaker Garner gave the floor to Rep- entative Cannon. Democrat, Mis- who moved recommittal on an- point he Speaker explained, at Schafer's 1at House procedure required | him to recognize Cannon first, as he is a member of the Appropriations Com- mittee in charge of the bill. Later Gar- ner told inquiring newspaper men hs had not known Cannon was going to| seek recommittal Roll Call Teworrow. His motion had b*3n defeated, 198 | to 1, but Schafer, @bjecting that a quorum was not presefiy, the House was adjourned and a roll call will be held on the question tomorrow. Now the wet bloc must seek an- other prohibition issue to get the names of the members down in black and white on the gquestion. The situation involved one gain to them. The teller vote recorded 25 more for the amendment than it obtained when presented a year ago on the 1932 appropriation bill. TRACTION MERGER CHANGES OFFERED| Commission Submits Final Set of Amendments to District Committee. The Public Utilities Commission today submitted a final set of amendments to the pending street car merger bill to the Senate District Committee, now considering the merger. The principal amendment has to do with the problem of giving the merged street car company the right to operate taxicabs. It is sought to avoid this possibility by amendink the bill so as to ve the new comipany the right to acquire, own and operate street rail- ways, motor bl lines and other forms of mass transportation. In the previous draft the word “mass” was not used, and its use in the present draft is de- signed to eliminate the objection that the new company could enter into any transportation field at its option, whether properlv a part of mass trans- portation or not. A second amendment takes out the language which would permit the new company to operate through subsidiary corporations *in the DLstrEl. A third would require approval by the Public Utilities Commission of the articles of incorporation for the new company. The last amendment gives the Public Utilitles Commission power to fix “rea- sonably reduced rates” for the trans- portation of school childrens The act of Congress, setting a 3-cent limit for fares for school children is now in liti- gation, and the commission desires to save the reduced fares even if the court should decide against the 3-cent Tate on the ground that it is confisca- tory. The recent Economic Congress be- tween Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay e THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, F Along Washington’s Path Record in Family Bible Only Record of First Presi- dent’s Birth on Virginia Plantation; Few Traces Left of I8 BY JAMES MORGAN. Special Dispatch to The Star. WAKEFIELD PLANTATION, Va. February 23—On this gentle blufl, which looks across a broad inlet of the Potomac and the six-mile wide river itself to the Maryland shore, Washing- ton's birthday first was celebrated an even 200 years ago. No cannon roared, drum rolled’or bugles blew; no flags shivered in ghe chill February wind. Nothing but the complaining wail of a gray-eyed baby boy, piercing the anxious hush of a lonely farmhouse, signaled an, event that now yearly halts for a day a Nation of 120,000,000 and is honored arotind the world. The only Tecord of that earkiest celebratfon is in the mother’s BfBle Even this solitary notice was neglected at the time and seems to have been entered only as an afterthought by some | good penman, who wrote strangely like George himself “George Washington, son to Augus- tine and Mary his wife, was born ye 11th day of February, 1731-2 about | in the morning and was baptized t 5th of April following. Mr Beverly Whiting and Capt. Christopher Brooks godfather, and Mrs. Mildred Codfrey godmother.” One Oother Trace. Posterity has chosen to commemoyatc February 22 as Washington's birthday in accordance with the calendar Eng- land adcpted 20 years after he was born, when 11 years were dropped from the reckoning of time. And some say,the first to celebrate the twenty-second Wwa none other than Tammany in 1790! Except for that bare and belated record of his birth, we have only one | other trace of Washington in his child- hood, and that is a passing reference in a letter to “Baby George.” We nearly lost_trace of his birthplace itself, Which he left when he was three, his father moving his family 50 miles up the Potomac to another of his farms, which we know as Mount Vernon. Washington had been dead 15 years when Mrs. Washington's grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, float- ed down the Potomac from his stately | and now so familiar home at Arlington and identified a briar and bramble grown cellar hole as the true site of the birthplace, which had been burned in the Revolution. Custis had taken on his pious pil- grimage, a memorial stone, which he His Early Life. [set Up at a corner of the ruin, where. from his recollection of Washington's |own description, the birth room had been. After 40 years more the ground was given to the State, but nothing was done to enshrine it until Congress ac- cepted it from Virginia. Meanwhile, the Custis monument had been hacked to fragments by relic hunters, who pene- trated the primeval wilderness that had crept back over the neglected scene. Neighboring farmers also, including some members of the five Washington families, who are living to this day on their ancestral acres hereabouts, had carried off the bricks in the chimney by whose hearthstone the infant Wash- H'Eg\n gazed in wonder at the miracle of_fire. The place remained a prey to the hungry wilds for 15 years more, until Grover Cleveland, the twenty-second President, on July 4, 1896, dedicated a funereal obeli which the Federal Government had erected at the birth- place of the first President. Left in Solitude. After that brief ceremonial the memorial was left in a seldom visited solitude for the next quarter of a cen- BUY or RENT Office Furniture H. Baum & Son 616 E St. N.W. Nat. 9136 tury. Among the few who adventured to it were Mrs. Roosevelt, while she was in the White House, and Presi- dent Coolidge, when an ebbing tide stranded him here and he had to make his way across country to the presi- dential yacht. Most of us knew only that Washing- ton was born somewhere in Westmore- land_County, but whether on Bridges Creek or Popes Creek there was no agreement. At last a woman went to the rescue of the neglected spot. (Copyright. 1932. by th North American Newspaper Al ce, Inc.) Bible Class to Banquet. 'MUSICIAN DEFEATED ; IN MAYORALTY RACE \ Orchestra Leader Had Campaigned [ for Hostesses on Trolley Cars, Other Novel Ideas in Seattle. | By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, February 24.—Trolley cars | will have no hostesses, bands will not HYATTSVILLE, Md, Febriary 24 |greet visitors and there will be Mo (Special) —The first annual banquet of | cracked fce for riders of “owl" cars the Triangle Bible Class of the Baptist | in this Northwest metropolis, for Vic Church was held last night in the church basement. There was an enter- tainment program, and newly elected officers, headed by Charles F. Glass, jr. president, were installed. J. A. Craw- ford is the class teacher. 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