The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-04-09
News FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL
Fight Is Started on Time-Hon.
ored Secrecy Rule in the
Senate. ..4

firmation of Winthrop M. Daniels, of
New Jersey, as a member of the in.
terstate commerce commission, &C
tual hostilities began when Senator
Kenyon, of Iowa, after a conference
with those of his colleagues who are
leading in the movement to lift the
ban on publicity, introduced resolu-
ton to provide for open sessions on
all matters except treaties, unless
otherwise directed by unanimous con-
sent of the senate.
It was submitted with the backing
OF Senators La Toilette, Cummins,,
Gronna, Borah, Clapp, Jones, Bristow,
Norris and Poindexter, who propose
to discuss fully the question of quail
fications of nominees for public office
whenever they feel that the public
should be informed regarding them.
Bank Reserve Cities Designated.
After three months of consideration
the reserve bank announced it had d.
vided the continental United States
into II banking districts and selected
IL cities where Federal reserve banks
are to be located under the new cur
rency law.
The reserve cities are Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Rich
mond, Atlanta, Chicago, st. Louis,
Minneapolis. Kansas City, and San
Francisco.
The bank with the greatest capital,
$13,351, 1926, will be situated at Chica-
go. New York state will be a district
by itself, with its bank in New York
City. This bank will have a capital
Of 1861, SIG.
District known as No. IL, comprises
California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
Nevada, Utah and all but five counties
Of Arizona.
Selection Of Bank Cities Criticised.
The announcement of the reserve
districts and cities by the reserve
bank organization committee were the
signal for considerable adverse COM
ment.
Apparently the most vigorous criti-
cism has been directed toward the
choice of Richmond, Va, in preference
to Baltimore or Washington, and of
Atlanta instead Of New Orleans. It
was said, however, by those familiar
with the committees deliberations
that the trend of trade from the south
is north and eastward and not toward
New Orleans, and that in consequence
Atlanta is more strategically located
for reserve bank.
General Legislation Waits.
Little general legislation is expected
in the senate until the all-absorbing
tolls issue is decided. The house will
devote itself this week to putting
through the delayed appropriation
measures.
Conservation measures are being
rushed through in the house public
lands committee The committee will
take up the national leasing bill with
q view to revising it and reporting 1t
to the house within a week so as to
insure, II possible, action by congress
at this secession.
Plans for water power legislation
are being laid by both the public lands
committee and interstate commerce
commission. With the interstate trade
commission bill agreed upon and to be
reported early this week to the
house the interstate commerce COM
mission is not disposed to hasten &C.
ton on the proposed measure to pro-
vide for the federal control of railway
capitalization.
National Capital Brevities.
Secretary of State Bryan for several
days has been confined to his bed, suf-
fering with a cold.
The house has passed bill design
ed to give pensions to widows of the
Spanish war, Boxer uprising and Phil
ippine insurrection. The widows who
are dependent on their own labors for
a living would get $12 a month.
The house refused, after hot de-
bate, to cut the mileage allowance for
members of congress. Twenty cents
a mile is the present scale, and it was
proposed to cut the allowance to &C.
tual expenses.
President Wilson told White House
callers that he did not expect any fill
clustering in the senatee during the |
consideration of the resolution provid-
ing for the repeal Of the exemption
clause of the Panama canal tolls bill. |
Senator La Toilette introduced a
bill imposing $4,000 fine, a term in
prison. or both, upon persons who try
to influence the interstate commerce
in its decisions.
Warren Young was honored by q re-