The Alaska daily empire., 1916-06-14
DAYLIGHT PLAN
 UP IN CONGRESS;
 ACTION IS RUSHED

Is,osds)-.e eunr 'NoL0NlHsvM to The Empire) movement to advance the clock in the United States and utilize to the maximum the daily sunlight is receiving prompt consideration at the hands of Con- gress.
 Senator Newlands. chairman of the Senate commerce committee, and Congressman Madden. member of the House committee on postoffices and post roads. today introduced in the Senate and House respectively a resolution providing for this i'm. portant subject
 Text Of Resolution
 Here is the text of the resolution as introduced in the two houses un- der the title "A Resolution to Create committee to investigate the Sen dardization of Time in the United States:
 Resolved, By the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Con. gress assembled. That the President of the United States be and is here by authorized to create a commits sion for the purpose of setting a standard time or times for the Unit ed States and it's territorial posses sions.
 Said commission shall comprise the sunerlntendent of the United States Naval Observatory. the chief of the United States weather bureau of the Department of Agriculture, one representative of labor one rep resentative of industry and one rep resentative of all transportation az encies.
 To Report By Jan. i.
 Said commission is hereby em. powered to make a thorough inyes- tlgation of all questions involved in the Standardization of time in the United States and its territorial pos sessions. particularly with reference to economic and labor conditions. hours of employment and kindred questions. The report of said com mission shall be submitted to Con. gress not later than Jan. l. 1917
 The sum of S1O.OOO. or so much thereof as may be necessary. is hereby appropriated out of any mon eys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to defray the expenses of the investigation herein author ized.
 All Interests Represented
 Care was taken to organize the commission as provided for in the above resolution so that the various scientific labor and industrial in- terests of the country should be rep resented thereon.
 The naval observatory at the pres ent time fixes the noon and midnight hours of the United States, and flashes its observations throughout the country and its territorial pos sessions. The weather bureau was given representation because of the relation of meteorology to time.
 As the commission following It's investigation will report upon the advisability of American adoption Of more daylight" plan, it was, of course. necessary to have represen- tatives of labor. industry and rail road and other common carriers take part in the inquiry.
 Great Interest in Congress
 Great interest was manifested in Congress in the action of Senator Newlands and Mir Madden. It de- yelops that there has been great deal of discussion among the law makers over the failure of the fed eral government to standardlze the time and to provide for the utiliza- ton of as much daylight as possible. The federal government of course has authority over matters of time, as a result of the power to regulate commerce among the states con ferred upon 1t by the Constitution. The government could not prescribe the hours of work in the states. but by regulating time 1t would have a direct influence upon such hours.
 Nemhers of Congres who discuss.