Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-10
! House Committee Will
Consider Limiting
Time in Storage.
MORE THAN Is ARE
CALLED TO TESTIFY
ypeeiaI Attention Is to Be
Given to Conditions in |
Washington.

! Action by Congress to regulate the
cost of living in accordance with rec
lamentations made by President
Wilson in his recent message Will Dc
begun tomorrow morning, when tne
House committee on agriculture Will
take up consideration OF the Dill re-
Gently introduced by RepresentaeiVe
Hutchinson of New Jersey when
would limit the time foodstuns oo0i0
be held in cold storage.
Especial attention will be given TO
conditions in Washington, where the
President said congressional action
might we'll be taken first because Oh
its unlimited jurisdiction here. Local.
representatives of the big packing
houses. officials of the Center Market
Cold Storage Company and similar
industries are expected to acqualnt
the committee with the food situation
in the National Capital.
More than twenty-five witnesses,
all of them interested in cold storage
mr. related industries, have been asked
to testify, among them being DR.. Carl
Alsberg. chief Of the bureau OF chem
istry, and officials of the bureau OF
markets.
Secret Service to Be Busy.
while this and other committees
are taking up the matter OF new
LEGISLATION, the entire secret service
force Of the bureau Of investigation
of the Department Of Justice will be
following up evidence Of boarding or
pronteesing wherever it Ii found. At
torney General Palmer having issued
crdsrs 10 this effect late yesterday.
fn response ITO ffesfdent Vaasones
appeal II is expected that more money
for this kind Of work win be sppro.
priated by Congress shortly.
REPRESENTATIVE Mondell, republican
asader In the House, said yesterday
that appropriations would be made at
pnce to enable the government de-
partments to take up the attack on
the food problem from every angle.
Chairman Cummins Of the Senate
committee on interstate commerce
rili appoint a subcommittee tomor-
row to Recommend legislation in keep
ing with the Presidents suggestion
that interstate shipments of necessi-
ties be controlled by licensing sys-
ten.
President Gives Up Trip.
President Wilson gave up his
usual week end voyage down the
Potomac on board the Mayfiower, and
except for a short automobile ride
late yesterday remained at the White
House throughout the day. 1t is ex-
pected that he will leave for his
Speaking tour of the Pacific coast
within the next ten days. and 1t is
probable that the high cost of living
will share a place with the league of
nations in the twenty-five or more
speeches he intends to make IN
widely separated parts of the coun-
try.
In referring to the need for cold
storake legislation, which is expected
to form the basis for congressional
action, the President said in his mes
sage last Friday:
II earnestly recommend, In the sec
ond place, that Congress pass a law
Z regulating cold storage, as it is regu-
lated, for example, by the laws of the
state of New Jersey, which limit the
time during which goods may be kept
in storage. prescribe the method of
disposing Of them II kept beyond the
permitted period. and require that
goods released from storage shall in
all cases bear the date Of their receipt.
1t would materially add to the serv-
aceability Of the law, for the purpose
we now have in view, If it were also
prescribed that all goods have plainly
marked upon each package the SELL
ing or market price at which they
went into storage"
VIII Get Views Of Many.
Except for the latter recommends
ton the Presidents ideas are en-
bodied in the Hutchinson bill as 1t
now stands. This bill is but one of
several which the House agriculture
committee will consider. Producers,
as well as cold storage men and dis
tributors, will be asked by Chairman
Haugen. to state their views, and Of
s1cials Of the National Grange and OF
other producing and marketing asso-
citations have arranged to. be heard.