Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1935, Page 20

A—20 HEARNG 5 ASKED ON HOUSIG PLAN i Citizens Want More Data? Before Land Is Bought } in Northeast D. C. Acquisition of any land in Northeast Washington for use as a Federal hous- ing project until a public hearing relative to the purchase was permitted to enable citizens of the Rhode Island avenue territory to express their views on the matter was opposed last night | by the Rhode Island Avenuc Citizens' | Association meeting in the Woodridge Sub-branch Library. After considering several motions, | the association adopted a resolution introduced by C. J. Crilley, asking also that citizens be given time for further consideration of the matter. The resolution referred to the proposed purchase by the Federal Housing Com- | mission of some 60 acres of land be- tween Seventeenth street and Brent- wood road northeast. bounded by | Rhode Island avenue on the mnorth and extending back several blocks. Ickes to Be Sent Letter. A letter of “appeal” was ordered sent Secretary of the Interior Ickes making the request. William S. Tor- bert was active in the debate, mtm-J ducing a resolution. which was voted | down to make way for Crilley’s motion. With more than 75 members present, a unanimous vote was given the reso- | lution adopted. | Clayton Marsh, president, and H. S. Huggin retary, who officiated at the meeting, and E. G. Sievers also | were active in the debate Dr. Henry H. Rowland, of the association’s Schools mittee, declared there were 2500 pupils in Washington schools from Maryland and Virginia and asked for an investigation to see if this fact caused overcrowding of schools in the association's territory. The request was ordered. One of the schools over- crowded is Taft Junior High School. | Bill Is Opposed. ‘The House bill proposing abolition of capital punishment for the District was opposed. Opposition was also expressed to the erection of an overhead railroad pass by the Pennsylvania Railroad | at New York and West Virginia ave- nues northeast The association chairman | Com- also opposed the House bill to incre the powers of the District Commissioners. Elected to membership were L. F. Sonneman, J. D. Bowen, Mrs. Alice Neal, Jesse W. Lankford, Roland M. Brennan and William A. Bloodworth. LOCOMOTIVE WORKS DECLARED EVASIVE, Securities Commission Says Phila- delphia Firm's Reports Incomplete. By the Associated P The Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia was charged last night by the Securities Commisison with having “misled the investing public” by failing to publish adequate finan- cial reports The commisison took no legal action against the company. one of the world’s largest manufacturers of loco- motives, but said it was making a statement “in justice” to those in- vestors who may have suffered be- cause of their ignorance. This was the first time the com- mission has taken such action, and it was said by an official to have been done because an explanation was publicly due investors who had complained to the commission. PHILIPPINE TRADE PACT OBJECT OF CONFERENCE Roosevelt Responds to Requests of Islands for Agreements to Supplant Free Trade. Responding to Philippine pleas for early clarification of future trade rela- tions between the United States and the Islands, President Roosevelt yes- terday announced a joint economic conference would be held here late this year. Existing free trade relations pre- | sumably will disappear with inde- pendence, but the President's action | apparently foreshadowed a reciprocal agreement. Only ONE PRICE .. .. The Lowest Always Coat Dept. Second Floor Smart DRESS COAT $29.75 Navy Julliard is the material with ire silk jabot and turned back cuffs. Two shiny clips and buckle to match. Sites 15 to 20. Sketched at Zirkin's for accurate representation. 821 14th Street N. W. Washington’s Oldest Furriers Established 1885 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1935. Love’s Labor Fruitful Cannon’s Revision of Parliamentary Precedents Being Printed. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. | LABOR of love for 18 years | by Representative Clarence A. | Cannon of Missouri is com- | pleted—a monument to his de- | votion as an authority on par- ( liamentary procedure in the House— is now being printed in the Govern- ment Printing Office. It is a set of | 13 volumes, an edition of 30,000 | copies, at a cost of about $120,000, | bringing up to date Hinds' Parlia- mentary Precedents of the National House of Representatives. Just about one-half of the text is| Mr. Cannon’s. Hinds had five volumes of text and three of index—Mr. Can- | non hasdovetailed his index with Hinds’. No revised edition has been printed since 1907, and provision is now being made in case no other edition is | printed for another 2u years. This set of books, a unique compila- tion of authorities, is considered as the working tools of Congress. The bill authorizing the appropriation for printing, which carries also a carefully | worked out scheme of distribution, was introduced last Saturday by Chairman O’Connor of the Rules Com- mittee. But the real authority came in the general deficiency appropria- tion bill 14 years ago. Working 4 Years Earlier. For four years before that Clarence Cannon had been working on the job. It all happened this way: The then | big three of the House—Speaker Fred- | erick H. Gillett of Massachusetts, James R. Mann of Illinois, Republican leader, and Champ Clark of Missouri, Democratic leader—held momentous conferences in which they decided that, beginning with the parliamentary revolution in 1910, which dethroned “czarism” and “Cannonism.,” the House rules had been knocked all topsy-turvey. and that there must be a new compilation. The then youthful parliamentarian, Clarence Cannon, was instructed to undertake the task. It was expected to take only a cou- ple of years, but it has stretched into 18 years. Clarence Cannon, 14 vears ago, succeeded Champ Clark in the House, when the latter died. The authorization bill_for the new edition was sponsored - by Representative James Goode, chairman of the Ap- propriations Committee, later Secre- tary of War, who since died. Repre- sentative Mann also had died. Speaker Gillett went over to the Senate and, after long service there, retired. And still Clarence Cannon burned the mid- night oil over his “labor of love” he had started in 1917 The new editi'# of Hinds'-Cannon’s “Precedents” covers the 28-vear pe+ riod from 1907 to 1935. Much of the original Hinds' text is obsolete, but historically valuable, so it is all being reprinted. The new edition is to be bound in dark red silk cloth to distinguish it from the old edition bound in “law buckram.” Distribution Limited. The pending legislation regarding distribution has been most carefully studied so as to conserve the new edi- tion for those only to whom it will be | of special value. There will be no| distribution whatever through the document room on requisition of members of Congress. Each House and Senate member is to get one set | for personal use. Each committee of Congress is to get a set, properly let- REPRESENTATIVE CLARENCE A. | CANNON. !ured, to be retained in the perma- Inent files of the committee—and not to be taken away. Depository libraries, the library of each Government de- partment or independent ment, each get one set. Various of- ficials of Congress who need a set for reference will get it. The overturn in the last seven Con- gresses has been studied, showing an average overturn of 60. This has been multiplied by 10 so as to allow for supplying a set of the Hinds-Cannon “Precedents” to any new man or woman who may come to Congress in the next 10 Congresses. 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