The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-08
Washington Bulletins
By Associated Press

lClIIHOOTS6 LHe LTedSuTy OI LI0 IOeAd fAhA for additions and betterements; s3i 462,- 300 to refund like amount of par value
 of prior bonds and s17,5S7,7Oo for the pur- chase of new equipment The bonds
 would be dated April l. 1919, to mature 1 April 1, 1859
 "The Alabama cotton fraud case" reached the supreme court today when petition for a mandamus to United States [ Judge w. I. Grubb, northern district of :, Alabama was filed by counsel for D. H. ] Riddle, one of the six defendants found guilty of obtaining money under false l pretenses through the sale of hundreds
 of bales of lint as cotton of superior
 grade.
 John Skelton Williams of Richmond, Va, was renominated today by Pres | ident Wilson to be comptroller of the | currency. His name was in a list of | approximately HOO nominations. mostly recess appointments and including some | thing like 15000 army promotions. Prac- 1 tically all of the more important appoint ] ments had been previously announced. 1 Senator Heflin, democrat Alaabna, was assigned today to the committee places :, held by the late Senator Bankhead. the committees including that of postoffices and postroads. Senator Glass, democrat. Virginia, was reassigned to the commit
 tee places he filled at the last session. | Secretary Baker was asked today by | the house military committee to appear
 before it Friday to explain why the war department haA recruited an army of
 more than 1S00oo men.
 l The interstate commerce commission today suspended from December 8, until i, April :. the operation of certain schedules | on manufactured iron and steel articles | in car load lots from Houston and Gal
 weston, Texas, and any intermediate , points to destinations in Louisiana. | Congressional investigations of the "in- creasing unemployment" to determine what action, if any, to relieve the situa- ' tion can be taken by the federal gov
 ernm ment, was proposed in a joint resolu- l ton introduced in the House today by | Representative Mason of Illinois. A gen. eral conference of governors of states
 and representatives of the federal gov ernment for the purpose of determining the facts concerning unemployment also was proposed Mir Mason estimated the
 number of unemployed at approximately | 2,000, 900.
 Representative Finnis J. Garrett of
 Tennessee was fined $10 in federal po-
 lice court here today on a charge of
 colliding, growing out of an accident here several weeks ago in which an
 automobile driven by him knocked
 down and slightly injured young woman. The charge of operating a
 machine without a permit was dis missed.
 The seven new democratic members
 of the enlarged House appropriations
 committee. it was determined at a
 minority caucus today. will be Repre-
 sentatives Small, North Carolina, of
 the rivers and harbors committee; Dent, Alabama military affairs; Rubey Missouri, agriculture; Holland, Vir-
 ginia. postoffice; Hastings, Oklahoma Indian affairs; Ayers, Kansas, naval af-
 fairs Smith, Illinois. foreign affairs All seven will give up their seats in Congress on March 4.
 X The original copies of the Declara- tion of Independence and the consti-
 tution "are in grave danger from fire
 Or other mishap" Secretary Colby de-
 clares in a memorandum transmitted
 to Congress in which he asks for an
 appropriation of $25,o0o to be used not
 only to provide protection against fire, water and violence" but in ex- hibiting them during business hours to the public.
 Arguments were heard in the su- preme court today in the suit to pre-
 vent the sale and dismantlement of thu Ocklawaha Valley railroad in Florida
 The state government secured writ
 of prohibition from the state supreme court restraining that court from con-
 firming or approving the sale of the
 road to any purchaser except one who
 would continue it's operation. The rail
 road originally was constructed at 2
 cost of some $50O0C0 to serve a. numhe
 of sawmill interests which have since
 to large extent gone out of business
 It was bid in at a sale by William $
 Hood, as trustee, for $225,oo0.
 Hundreds of Irish sympathizer'
 thronged the Union station tonight t' greet Mrs. Muriel MacSwiney, widow
 of the late lord mayor of Cork, on he
 arrival here from New York to testif.
 tomorrow before the commission ap
 pointed by the committee of 100 inves
 t:gating the Irish question.
 Payments by the war department t, steamship companies for the re-coldi tioning of ships used as transports dur ing the war were in at least two case greatly in excess of amounts adjudge' equitable by boards of officers, Lieut. Otto Runde, IT,, in charge of the lcga branch of the army transport servic at Hoboken, N. J., testified today be fore the House war expenditures inves tigating committee.
 A delegation of Osage Indians heade by Chief Bonnicastle arrived here 'oda, from Oklahoma to urge the enacting b. Congress of legislation extending tn period within which oil and gas ma be extracted from reservation lands fo the benefit of the member tribes. Tn gpresent law will expire in 1921. and tn Indians are asking an extension of ? wears.
 Mrs. Warren G. Harding, wife of tn Presidenttelect, was the guest of Ion or at a luncheon given today by Ar. Thomas R. Marshall. wife of the vic president. The luncheon, which wa giveE in the Senate office building an attended by about 40 wives of senator and other officials, was the second 50 cial affair for Mrs. Harding during he two-d day stay in Washington, Mrs. Will son, wife of the President, having en tertained her at tea at the Whit House yesterday.
 Action of the House at the last ses sion in deciding to refer all money bill to an enlarged appropriations commit tee today showed signs of developin into an open row. Rumblings wer heard from several quarters and som mittee chairmen particularly were rer
 resented by their associates as TO- feeling that the move had been in th wrong direction.
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