Evening star., 1919-11-09
TALK OF BALLOT BOX
FOR NATIONAL CAPITAL
Referendum Here on Daylight Saving
Might Be Beginning of Real Amer
lean PRIVILEGES.

reSentlng large revenues to the gov
ernment were on the books-and they
are still operative. Provision for the
soldiers was generally desired and
certainly was justified. but even on
the first anniversary of the armistice
it is still lacking. The roads will
have to run as other governmental
and other enterprises are running
on the momentum they received from
democratic legislation. AS units of
the population. republicans as well as
democrats. socialists and independents
suffer from this republican failure.
AS citizens. workers. business men
and consumers, and especially as tax
payers, they would have welcomed
and applauded a quick, efficient, re-
sultful solution of these problems
which touch so intimately the well
1are of every class. But after five
months of patient expectancy they
are disappointed. 1t is inevitable
that the recollection of these repub
lican delinquencies will be carried to
the polls next year by thousands of
voters"
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This taunt apparently got under the
skin of the republicans, for their ma
tional committee i'm
TAUNT GETS mediately issued
QUICK RISE. statement through its
clip sheet telling what
the Congress had enacted and what
the House had passed and sent over
to the Senate for consideration after
the treaty is out of the way. The
principal enactments were stated to
be the submission of the woman suf-
frage amendment to the Constitution;
the framing of the wartime and per-
petual prohibition enforcement laws;
restoration of telephones and tele-
graph wires to private control; res
toration to the Interstate Commerce
Commission of the power to initiate
railroad rates: broadening the anti
prof1teering law; repealed the day
light saving law.
For the House 1t was claimed that
it had inaugurated legislation likely
to result in establishment of the bud
get system: had passed a vocational
rehabilitation bill providing special
vocational training for disabled serv-
ice men. with monthly allowance
while in training; passed a bill great
ly liberalizing the war risk law;
passed a minimum wage bill; passed
several pop gun" tariff bills, affect
ing dyes. tungsten and zinc; passed a
cold storage bill recommended by tho
President: passed a bill to deport
alien enemies now interned al being
dangerous; proposed to repeal the
tax on soft drinks; passed tho bill to
increase the pay Of postal employees
and tie members of the police and
flre departments of the District of
Columbia: passed bill providing for
the completion of the Alaskan rail-
road: made amendments to the fed
era1 RESERVE act and the farm loan
act
The bi11s passed by the House do
not dj0 with expiretion of the extra
session. but re-
BILLS SURVIVE main alive until
SESSIONS END. the Congress ex-
pires. March 4,
1921. 30 when the regular session
commences. three weeks from newt
Monday ,ths Senate committees will
have a large grist Of bills to grind
upon, The House will immedia. ely
have to busy itself with the regular
appropriation bills for the next fiscal
year, task which will occupy it's at-
tention fog the earlier months of
1890. Consideration of these bills
will bring up questions of taxation
and open a wide field of political dis=
cussion and haymakins fer the presi.
Dental and congressional campaigns
Of next year,