The Washington herald., 1914-01-16
Under the Capitol Dome.

Consolidation OF the three antitrust
bills thus far5 drafted by the House
judiciary subcommittee into two meas
ures. is the program outlined to be COM
pleted before the full committee meeting
on Tuesday.
A provision for a Federal trade COM
mission is to be incorporated in the bill
specifically defining monopolies and COM
binations in restraint OF trade.
The Southerland workingmen's COM
pensatcn bill, which attempts to pre-
scribe an automatic settlement OF dam
ages sustained by employees OF common
carriers will be reported from the Sem
ate Committee on Commerce next Tues
day. according to an agreement reached
yesterday. Senator Hoke Smith addressed
the committee for an hour in opposition
to the bill.
Representative Murdock. Progressive
leader in the House. yesterday had in
troduced a resolution directing the United
States Civil Service Commission to report
TO the House the number OF women GER
titled for clerical positions with the post
master In New York for the year ended
June %. 1915; the number OF women on
lne tLbhAt llSl- uuIuDtT Ol men ana
women examined for such positions and
the percentage of men and the percent
age Of women who passed examination.
together with the total number Of men
and women now employed In the New
York office and its substations.
II was learned that Progressives in New
York have made charges that the New
York postmaster has discriminate
against women employees.
Attorneys for Blair Lee, Senator-elect
from Maryland. who is attempting to OBJ
tain his seat in the Senate Immediately.
were notified by the Senate Committee on
Privileges and Elections yesterday 70 file
final briefs before today. The committee
will take up this morning consideration
of the Frank p. Glass case. Glass was
appointed Senator by Gov. Emmet
O'Neal. of Alabama. to fill a vacancy
caused by the death Of Senator John
ston.
President Wilson yesterday sent to the
Senate the following nominations: Daniel
+. Mooney, of Ohio, to be Minister to
Paragua; Lewis T. Carpenter. Of Ari-
zona to be collector of internal revenue
for the district of New Mexico, and
Alonzo G. Pack, OF Colorado, to be as
sistant chief inspector of locomotive
boilers If the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
The Roads Committee Of the House yes
terday voted to report a compromise bill
appropriating 100 for the improve
ment of rural highways. The money Is
10 be apportioned on a basis Of popu-
lation. area, and road mileage among
the several States. The States are to a
propriate as much money as is given by
the Federal government for this work. A
commissioner of good roadsr at a salary
of $500 a year. under control Of the De-
partmcnt of Agriculture, Is to supervise
operations for the Federal government.
Presidential primaries bills will be
taken up by the Senate Privileges and
Elections Committee as soon as 1t dis
poses of work now before It. This assur-
ance was given Senator Cummings on
the floor of the Senate today by Senator
Kern, chairman of the committee.
Senator Owen. OF Oklahoma, chairman
of the Committee on Banking and Cur
rency, will begin hearings February l.
on the bill to attach penalties for the
use OF the mails for fraudulent stock
exchange transactions. He also an
nounced that a substitute committee. con-
sisting OF himself and Senators Crawford
and Hollis had been appointed to con-
slider various measures bringing into ef-
feet the rural credits plan.
A resolution designed to ascertain
whether government-owned automobiles
are being used for private purposes by
War Department officials was introduced
in the House yesterday by Representa-
tive Howard. Of Georgia.
c,,,hhor, onnosition In tho nrono.., ,,.,
islation giving the Interstate Commerce
Commission power to regulate frequency
and speed of trains developed with the
opening of the hearing on the Esch bill
before the Interstate Commerce Commit
tee of the House yesterday. large
delegation of railroad officials and rep
resentatives of railroad brotherhoods at
tended.
The clause in the Esch bill authorizing
the Interstate Commerce Committee to
compel passenger lines to put in block
signal equipment within four years was
attacked by Vice President and General
Manager Dice of the Reading Railroad.
Mr.. Dice also objected to the regulations
of speed of trains at switches which are
unattended and not interlocking.
Complaint that the small railroad lines
of the country would suffer a great hard
ship by the block signal clause and by
supervision of speed on the part of the
commission was made by Chief Signal
Engineer W. II. Elliott. Of the New York
Central Railroad.
Representative Sims. Of Tennessee, in
troduced bill yesterday calling for a
$4,000 postoffice at Lexington, Tenn
Representative Keister, OF Pennsylvania.
introduced bill proposing that $4,000 be
spent on postofnce site at LAtrobe. Pa.