Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-25
REPUBLICANS ARDENT
IN WOOING OF WOMEN
Outdstance Opposition When 1t Comes to
= Counting Feminine Voters-Con-
gress Gets Under Way


magma ton" does not interfere with
an advance in flour of 81 a barrel,
He said that a man friendly to the
fish interests had administered the
fish bureau in Boston and that people
were robbed right and left" Fish
brought to market at less than cent
a pound sold as high as cents whole
sale.
Il have not the confidence that the
administration seems to have in some
of the men who are in charge OF THESE
food bureaus" he said. ut seems to
me that these men have fooled the
administration officials long enough
and that if they will not get out they
should be kicked OUT
Now this wasn't one of those wicked
republicans lambasting the admins
tration for merely partisan ends, but
a perfectly good democrat. Was it
"but as voice crying in the wilder
ness" 49,. ..,s. ,.....a.s.e
***x l.
Once again to the breach comes the
old water-power. question, veteran Of
many a battle
WATER.PoWER BILL through sue
AGAIN TO FRONT. cessive sessions
-- of Congress, al
ways defeated. but ever coming up
smiling with renewed strength from
having been brought low, like the
hero in mythology. AS will be re-
membered the vexed problem of con-
troll, conservation and use of water
power reached the stage in the last
Congress of bill perfected in con-
ference between the two houses, the
conference report adopted by the
House, but filibustered into defeat in
the Senate.
By special rule brought out by
the committee on rules in the, House
and adopted the Speaker. is to ap-
point q special committee of eighteen
members to take up the question at
once. The men will be chosen from
the committees. on agriculture, public
lands and interstate and foreign COM
merce.
The vexatious and productive
taxes on small. things are to be re-
pealed. Theae
PETTY TAXATION taxes were laid
HAS NOT PAID. by the two .rev-,
u 5.S :eenue bN3RssfQr
war phrposessats4 time theni tnesV4ys
and means men had to reach out for
every fieeinE penny that could, be
overtaken by the tax gatherer. Eek
perience showed that there was more
hue and cry than wool in the under
taking. The taxes, did not produce
enough money to compensate for the
trouble and expense in collecting, in
some Instances, and certainly not
enough to pay for the annoyance and
vexation caused. the people.
So, the ways and means committee
will bring in a bill within sixty days
to repeal several score ofssmal1 taxes.
After that is passed. the committee
proposes to commence in August
series Of hearings on a we'll balanced
tariff bill to supplant the present
tariff law. to be ready for the regu-
lar session Of Congress in December.
k* ~
The House committee on interstate
commerce. in considering the railroad
disposal bill, pro-
CHEAPER MEAT? poses to insert a
YES, SOME DAY. provision placing
under the Inter-
state Commerce Commission the pri-
vately owned stock and refrigerator
cars now. used by the great meat
packers. 1t has been charged that
the monopoly of thesf cars induces to
the high cost of meats. One by one
the excuses offered for heart-break-
ing meat prices are to be run down
by Congress until some day, by a
process of elimination, the real trou-
BILE may be discovered and remedied