Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-16
Think Procedure a Mistake.

lie pointed out that the committee OF
contingent expenses had reported the
resolution merely for the purpose o1
authorizing the expenditure of the
money necessary for making the IN
yestigation and with the recommends
ton that it be referred to the Distfic'
committee.
Il cannot help but believe that the
senator from New Jersey is making a
mistake in pressing the matter az inns
time said Senator Gallinger.
Senator Smoot of Utah. VINO also ia
vored having the resolution reterred 10 t',, Z
standing committee for consideration
as to its merits, said that he himseif
was a member of the committee on
contingent expenses. and tnat coiiiihl.
tee had not given any consideratloh 70
the subject matter. He added. how
ever. that he would make no further
effort to oppose the resolution II Sena-
tor Hughes persisted in asking its pas
sage. u-,,.
Senator Gallinger suggested, that limit
of $4,000 be placed on the expenditure
which may be made by the Senate COM
mittee in conducting the investigation.
Objects to Limitation.
To this Senator Hughes objected. say
;np that while he did not believe the
committee would need $1,000 to make the
investigation he would prefer to have no
limit put upon it.
.aThe matter is just this. said Senator
C;allinger: a strike on street rail-
road In the District has failed. and now
-be strikers come to Congress and ask
Congress to take it up. II seems to me
that it would be well to put limit
,,non the expenditure. However, since
the senator from New Jersey objects l
Will Withdraw the amendment.
senator Smoot said that he had talk-
ed the matter over with the Secretary
OF Labor and that the Secretary said
he had done all he could and the public
utilities commission of the District had
done all it could and that he thought
possibly something might be discover
ed which has not hitherto come out II
an investigation was made by Sen
ate committee. THAT seemed to be as
far as the Secretary would go in rec
ommending the matter, said Senator
Smoot.
The resolution was then adopted
without roll call.
The committee appointed by the vice
President to make the investigation
consists Of Senators Hughes OF New Jer-
sey, chairman; Gerry of Rhode Island. Pit
man of Nevada, Dillingham; of Yer
mont and Harding of Ohio.
Frank NJ. Thompson has been elected
by the executive council of the Wash
ington car mems union to take the
place of NJ. T. Slater on the committee
OF strikers from TIE W dsIiitG WI Itdll-
way and Electric Company.
Slater, as a member of the naval re-
serve. has been called into active serv-
ice. Thompson was member of the
grievance committee of the Washing
ton Railway and Electric Company en-
ployes under the agreement of last
year He was motorman On the
lexington division.
The executive council, which met yes
terday, also considered plans for ex-
tending the jitney service now being
operated along the tracks of the com
pany. and for increasing the forces of
pickets at intersection points
This evening the Central Labor
Union. meeting at Typographical Tenn
pie. will consider the recommendation
Of an advisory committee. to appeal to
all locals and central bodies in the
United States and Canada for financial
aid to the strikers.
]. H. Goodman of the Capital Trac-
tion Company today is representing the
local union at a meeting of the Fedora
tion of Labor for Maryland and the
District of Columbia. in session at
Cumberland, Md.