The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-26
MANY MEASURES AWAIT

Prohibition for the national capital, ap- propriations, food prices and increased pay for government employees will figure in the final legislative drive in the House Or appropriation measures the House has yet to pass only the sundry civil bill, now pending, and the military academy and general deficiency bills. There may be an attempt to finally defeat the s4oo,- coo appropriation for federal trade conf mission inquiry into food prices. which the .. House, in committee of the whole, wrote into the sundry civil bill last night. The Senate bill for prohibition in the capital will come up for a vote in the House by Wednesday at the latest. The District of Columbia committee has agreed to report it by Tuesday noon. but With amendments tacking on referendum and "bone-dry'' provisions
 PROS" ARE WATCHFUL Representative Randall of California. leading the prohibition fight, announced today that no friend of prohibition would be fooled by the district committees coup or putting "bone-dry" provision into the bill, designed to put the prohibition ists into the position of voting against
 'bone-dry'' in order to get the bill through at this session,
 If the liquor advocates want bone dry legislation" he said, I've will press separate measure through to provide TOT 1t as soon as Congress reconyenes in December. which will be only a month after the pending bill will go into ef- feet, as we figure it."
 BUSINESS OF HOUSE
 The House judiciary committee meets Tuesday in an effort to report the espion- age and other emergency bills passed by the Senate. Their fate is doubtful. The shipping board law amendments, designed 10 empower the new shipping board to take over craft being built under for eign orders in American shipyards are pending in both houses.
 The rules committees prolonged "leak'' Inquiry will be wound up this week. while the House will dispose of the committees s report finding that no official leak wa. shown. Virtually all hope of getting the Webb nationwide prohibition amendment before the House this session has been aban- doned by House leaders. The prohibitions ists think that if the Reed bone dry amendment to the postoffice bill and the District of Columbia prohibition bill be- come laws they will have had big year The President, having called an extra session of the Senate to consider nomi- l nations and the Colombian treaty, there is a strong probability that this branch of the Con-. ess will remain at work for
 many weeks. Even if ratification of the
 Colombian treaty would be impossible, the opportunity afforded for changing the | long established rules Of the Senate is not going to be overlooked by a large
 group of senators who have been fight | ing for years to liberalize them.
 l Senator Owen, chairman of the specia
 committee appointed a year ago to re.
 wise the rules, is preparing to agitate this
 subject in the special session, and he will 1 have the aid of some of the progressive | republicans in advocating a form of modi. fled cloture which would make impos- sible such filibusters against important l legislation as has been threatened, and may yet be resorted to in the present leg, | slative crisis.
 1 Both houses held sessions today fo, eulogies of dead members of Congress l Tributes were paid in the House to the l late Representatives Finley of Soutf 1 Carolina, Tribble of Georgia and Browr
 and Moss of West Virginia, and in tho
 Senate to Senator Burleish of of Maine