The Washington herald., 1920-03-13
What Congress Did
Yesterday
House.
Met at II o'clock and adjourned at
House.

Defeated army Reorganization bill
under "fve-mlnute rule.
Passed Sandford amendment Great
ing separate construction corps of
the army.
Defeated Kearns amendment to
maintain a separate transportation
department OF the army.
Harold A. Littledale, of the New
York Evening Post. testified ss to
inenciency in the Federal Board for
Vocational Education at hearing
before the Education Committee.
Judge Hardison. of Police Court.
declared that the present judges
would be able to handle all traffic
and other cases as soon as the sup
ply of liquor runs out" and de-
creases crime, at a hearing on the
Zihlman traffic law bill before the
Zihlman subcommittee.
Knutson. Of Minnesota. urged
Congress 10 put the country back
on business basis" as a means of
getting rid of the profiteer.
~ Garland, of Pennsylvania, intro
duced bill to provide relief in war
contract cases by limiting the au-
thority OF Cabinet officers and au-
thorizinS appeals to the Court of
Claims.
Webster. of Washington. intro
duced bill to authorize the Secre-
tary of War to grant to Lloyd E.
Handy. OF Spokane, Wash, the right
to overflow certain lands of the Fort
Wrio oh
tion.
Brumbaugh, OF Ohio. introduced
q bill to codify, revise and amend
the laws relating to the judiciary.
Volstead, of Minnesota, introduced
a bill to provide that women con-
victed OF violating moral laws may
serve their confinement in some
home or refuge to be designated
by the Attorney General.
Volstead also introduced a bill
to prohibit the use of naval air
craft insignia on other than naval
aircraft.
Report of joint committee on re-
classification of government saia-
ries made to Congress shows pay
roll boost of s33,0OO,O00.
Chairman Fordney. of the Ways
and Means Committee, charged Of
hcials of the Treasury Department
with trying to force Congress to
increase taxation in order to ad-
just the compensation of soldiers
and thereby bringing politics into
the soldier bonus question.
The Interstate and Foreign Com
merce Committee held a hearing on
the coast guard service.
Muscle Shoals was again under
fire before the Ordnance sub-com-
mittee of the War Department Ex-
penditures Committee.
Packing legislatioi was again be-
fore the Agriculture Committee.
The Rivers and Harbors Commit
tee held executive session over the
bill to improve Jamaica Bay, n. Y.
The mineral relief bill was again
before the Mines and Mining Com
mittee in executive session.
The Public Lands Committee took
up their calender In executive ses-
sion.
The sundry civil bill was before
the Appropriations Committee in
executive session.
Senate.
Congressional Commission for
Reclassification of Salaries of Gov
ernment workers presented its re-
port to the Senate with a bill in
tended to enforce the recommenda-
tions contained in the report.
Two bills by Senator Fletcher. OF
Florida, call for an increase in the
pensions of widows of soldiers who
served in the war with Great Brit
ain in 1912 and of soldiers who serv-
ed in the war with Mexico in lS47.
Petition by several associations
OF Arizona citizens calling on the
government to bar advertisements
of proprietary medicines from the
mails was presepted by Senator
Ashurst. of Arizona
Examination of DIR. Van Schaick
was resumed by the special Senate
committee investigating the schools
of Washington yesterday.
Admiral Sims, in testimony before
the subcommittee of the Naval Af-
fairs Committee. complained that he
was unable to secure cooperation
and prompt action from the Navy
Department in conducting naval op-
erations against the enemy.
Subcommittee of the Appropria-
tions Committee resumed considera-
tion of the Legislative appropriation
bill.
Senators Lenroot. of Wisconsin
and Brandegee. of Connecticut. re-
newed attacks on the league of ma
tions covenant. claiming that it was
a betrayal of the peole of the United
STATES.
Senator Mcclellan. of Tennessee
declared that the attacks now being
made on President Wilson were sim
liar to attacks that had been made
on Washington and Lincoln, and
that in the case of President viii.
son the verdict of history would be
as favorable to him as it had been
to his predecessors.
Recommendations for improving
the condition of the American mer-
chant marine were brought forward
by several witnesses at a hearing or
shipping before the Commerce Com
mittee.
Subcommittee on Appropriations
resumed consideration of the legis-
lative appropriation bill.
Those who followed the lead OF
President Wilson in the treaty fight
were denounced as spineless by Sem
ator Reed, of Missouri.
Compromise embracing new res.
ervations on Article x of the Peace
Treaty was offered in the Senate by
Senator Lodge. of Massachusetts
The reservation disclaims any duty
on the part Of the United States
to preserve the integrity of the ter
ritories of other members of the
league.
Report of salary reclassificatiou
provides for wide scala of SALARY