The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-18
Washington Bulletins
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of Georgia Railway company applied to- day to the interstate commerce comnlis- sion for a certificate of convenience, ask ing authority to retain earnings in ex- cess of 6 per cent on a coal spur 6-7b miles long, 10 be built in Jefferson county, Alabama. to the lower Cahasa. coal fields.
 Extension of the pink boil worm guar antine to include the state of New Mex ico, was announced today at the depart nIent of agriculture. The quarantine will affect the movement of lint and seed from Dona Ana county Texas and Louisiana already are under the duaran- 1 tine.
 | Hearings on the House bill proposing l adjusted conpen sation for former serv- l icemen. were completed today by the Sen ate finance committee and Acting Chair ] man McCumber announced that the com 1 mittee would meet tomorrow to deter mine what action should be taken on l the measure,
 | Unalterable opposition of the federal reserve board to any legislation which | in any way attempts to limit the power now invested in il, or the federal reserve banks to regulate the rate of discount to member banks is expressed by Gov ernor Harding in a letter sent today to | Chairman Mclean of the Senate banking committee.
 tax of one-auerter of 1 per cent on T bank deposits is proposed in bill 1 introduced today by Representative
 freadway of Massachusetts, a republican member of the House ways and means committee. Mir. Treadway estimated that | f-a,, faf Q n. proximately 1.0oo, .oo0 annually.
 Reserve officers training camps will be operated for six weeks next summer be- beginning about the middle of June, il i was announced today at the war depart :, nent There will be one camp for in- fantry officers in each of the 12 corps areas, but the specific places were not de- signed. Other camps will be operated as ! follows: Field artillery, Camp Knox, Ky; coast artillery, Fort Monroe, Va, Camp Humphreys, Va
 1 Repeal Of the Underwood tariff law | and re-en actment of the Payne Aldricn tariff scheduels, abolished in 1s13. is pro posed in a resolution introduced today by Representative Begg. republican, of Ohio.
 Senator Smith, democrat, Georgia, in troduced today in the Senate an amend ment to the federal reserve act making factors paper eligible for discount at the federal reserve banks The naval court of inquiry which l investigated charges of indiscriminate | killing of natives by American ma rines in Haiti has completed it's re- port and it is now in the hands of the | judge advocate general of the navy. l Secretary Daniels said today that he expected to receive the report tomor , row or Monday and that he would l make it public as soon as he had re- | viewed it.
 l Inquiry into the disappearance of 1 17o00 ballots cast in the Michigan senatorial primary in 1918 will be rushed by the Senate elections com mittee. Chairman Spencer today in- | formed attorneys for Henry Ford who 1 is contesting the election of Senator 1 Truman H. Newberry that any wit nesses they desired to examine must 1 be on hand Monday as the committee l intended to close the present inquiry, which is preliminary to the actual bal lot recount set for January A. l Under a bill introduced today by Rep lresentative Rulings, republican, Penn sylNania, the shipping board, in char tering governmept-ow vessels would be authorized to discriminate in the fixing of rentals between ships l engaged in different trades so as to enable them to meet foreign competi- l tion." The board would be required to keep such vessels insured and in re- pair.
 Repeal of the excess profits and other l taxes applied to American corporations doing business solely in China was asked today by H. II. Arnold of Shang- hai, president of the American Cham Der of Commerce of China, before the House ways and means committee con- sidering tax revision.
 l Recommendations that the states aS- sume part of the care of disabled World war veterans and for consolidation of all federal agencies dealing with ex-service men were made by Director Cholmeley Jones of the bureau of war risk insur- ance in his annual report made public today. He urged that the states build hospitals and lease them, with option to ! purchase, to the government ] A new record was made in the pro- iduction and transportation of bituminpus coal during the week ending December Ill, the American Railway association an- nounced today. Production for the week was estimated at F 2.S500 900 tons, which is $500 tons more than was produced the
 
 made.
 4 series of conferences. attended by several senators and representatives and labor leaders, was begun today for the tannounced purpose of achieving better ico-ordination of the liberal forces of the country with their representatives in the l House and Senate.
 | resolution designed to remove cer- tain legal barriers which have hindered the government in it's efforts to recover oil lands held by the Southern Pacific Railroad company was introduced today by Representative Raker of California lThe measure would provide that none of the terms of the grants under which the railroad came into possession or the iands should be construed to mean that the company was given perpetual ownership of mineral lands and the attorney gen eral would be directed to proceed Ill court to recover the oil tracts for the government,