Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-08
REPUBLICANS IN
HOUSE ARE BUSY
ON LEGISLATION
William Allen White Shows
That More Than a Score Of
Things Have Been Achieved
By Dominant Party,
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.
Tin the Chicago Post

Washington, Nov IA busy repub-
lean house of representatives has
been working during the last four
months upon all sorts of legislation.
Just as a matter of cataloguing the
work of the house il may be we'll to
set down nearly a score of important
things it has achieved. Here they are:
/. Passed and submitted to the
states the equal suffrage amendment
10 the constitution.
2. Passed an elaborate code to make
effective the prohibition amendment
10 the constitution. This bill comprises
over fifty pages and took several
weeks of constant work in the house.
3. Budget reform. This involves
fundamental and radical change in
our whole system of preparing esti
mates and providing for balancing of
receipts and expenditures. and in my
judgment is one of the most impor-
tant things pending. The leaders in
this congress are in dead earnest for
budget system that will put better bus
7ness methods into our government
financing. The budget system is sure
10 come at this congress.
4. Passed q vocational rehabilita-
ton bill which provides special train
ing for disabled service men with
monthly allowance, while in training,
of from $50 TO 800 a month. This law
is now aiding thousands of these men
TO re-establish themselves,
5. Passed Il bill restoring telegraph
and telephone lines to private owner
ship.
Passed a bill greatly liberalizing
the war risk law. The committee spent
weeks in drafting this law and ii was
under discussion in the house for
many days 1t raises compensation for
total permanent disability from $50 to
500 month, and other rates accord
ingly. It provides for payment of in
surance in lump sum-not possible
under the old law--extends automatic
insurance in cases where justice called
for it, and in countless ways makes
more liberal the old law
7. Restored to the Interstate Com
merce commission the power to fix
railroad rates in Interstate commerce.
Greatly needed by the shippers of the
country.
&. Broadened the anti -profiteering
law by adding clothing and other ar
ticles not before included, and adding
a penalty OF fine of $4,000 or impris-
onment for two years. or both,
8. Repealed the so-called daylight
saving law. Passed this bill twice. the
second time over the presidents veto.
0. Passed a minimum wage law.
Provides minimum wage of So q day
for all government employees.
IL. Passed four or five tariff bills.
Several of these such as the dye tariff
tungsten and zinc tariffs, are of vital
and far-reaching importance.
IL Passed a water-power bill
which provides for development, I'M
der strict regulations safeguarding our
national resources, of vast water pow
er now unused.
10. Passed cold storage bill recon-
mended by President Wilson, which
makes uniform the cold-storage rule
in interstate commerce and provides
regulations and means of enforce
ment
IA. Passed a bill to deport alien en-
emes now interned as dangerous. and
those alien enemies convicted of seri-
Gus crimes against the government.
8. Repealed the tax on soft drinks
and ice cream.
6. Passed a bill giving raise of
$3.50 year to postal employees, now
the poorest paid people in the gov
eminent service.
II. Passed a bill to protect the
coastwise shipping of the United
States. #h
IS, Passed a bill providing for the