The Washington herald., 1914-04-10
Under the Capitol Dome.

cries Committee voted yesterday TO take
up on April l6 the La Toilette Seamen's
BILL passed by the Senate last December.
and which in the Sixty-second Congress
was passed by the House. Chairman
Alexander and a majority OF the COM
mittee indicated yesterday they would
insist upon drastic amendments. The
labor group in the House will night all
amendments.
Chairman Flood. Of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, introduced a bill to
elevate the American Legation at Chilli
to an embassy and 10 authorize the ap-
pointment OF an Ambassador at the Gus
tomary salary of 1880 a year.
The BaCon-Bartlett bill limiting the
powers OF Federal courts in issuing in
functions In labor disputes and exempting
labor unions and farmers organizations
from the scope of the Sherman antitrust
law. was fought over at length in the
House Judiciary Committee and finally
sent to the Clayton subcommittee on
trust legislation. The subcommittee was
instructed to include the principles of the
bill in the antitrust program.
President wilson's recommendation that
the government spend $500 600 on an
exhibit building at San Francisco for
the Panama-Pacific Exposition was ap-
proved by the House Committee on In
dustrial Arts and Expositions.
Members Of Congress from Maryland
decided to join in a protest demonstra-
ton in Baltimore next Wednesday night
against the failure of the Organization
Committee to chose Baltimore as one of
. - f1r r.. ha- 81.
Manufacturers and bankers from Balti-
more called upon the delegation yester-
day and announced plans for the mass
meeting.
All Federal employees in the customs
service at New York receiving under ST.
coo a year are unable to decently sup
port their families with that income,
Representative Maher told the House
Committee on Ways and Means. He
urged a Is per cent raise.
As the result Of a fight. engineered by
Representative Nolan. the labor group
in the House amended the legislative
executive and judicial appropriation bill
by abolishing piece work in the auditors
office Of the Postoffice Department
The Senate passed the resolutions in
troduced by Senator Bristow calling on
the Secretary of the Treasury for a state
ment Of tonnage in and out OF American
ports, together with the amounts ex-
pended or appropriated by the United
States on the improvement of each river.
canal and harbor in the United States.
A resolution introduced by Senator CAL
linger calling on the Secretary of the
Treasury for information regarding the
basis on which the Department has de-
clared invalid the per cept rebate on
American shipping provided in the tariff
bill was also passed.
Blind tigers will go out of fashion in
dry territory. Representative Vaughan
and DIR. c. E. Dinwiddie. secretary of the
National Anti-saloon League, told the
House Ways and Means Committee, IL a
bill introduced by Vaughan becomes law.
This measure compels the Federal in
ternal revenue collectors to secure proof
of the legal right of the revenue tax
payer to conduct a liquor business before |
his tax receipt is issued.
Consideration of Representative Park
resolution impeaching Judge Wright, Of
the District Supreme Court, and calling
for an investigation Of his conduct was
planned by tine House Judiciary Commit |
tee 70 be taken un today.