Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-09
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
AGAIN UP IN SENATE
Consideration Halted by SEES
sion to Canvass the
Electoral Vote.

The Senate resumed consideration
! of the sundry civil appropriation bill
today with the expectation of passing
! it before adjournment. Action on the
bill and amendment was Interrupted
temporarily by the joint session of
Congress for the canvass on the cleo
| toral vote for President and Vice
President. which took place in the
| House at 1 o'clock.
| Zoo Park Police Favored.
| Increases of $50 month in pay
were allowed by the Senate yesterday
| to the sergeant, ten policemen and
twenty-one keepers and two guar
| dians at the National Geological Park
| during the consideration of the sun
; dry civil bill yesterday afternoon.
| The action was taken on motion of
! Senator Pomerene of Ohio, who point
| ed out that these employees were paid
| only $50 month. with the excep-
| tlon OF the sergeant, who receives
$S5, evidently scarcely a living wage.
The senator from Ohio also obtained
an increase of $1,000 in the appro-
priation for the Columbia Institute
for the Deaf
Defense Council Item Out.
The Senate knocked a seventy-five-
ithousand-dOllar item for the Council
of National Defense out of the sun
dry civil. bin, Al to 81. on motion of
Senator Mcclellan, democrat, Tennes-
see, leaving the council without
provision for the council, but on an
peal Of Secretary Baker the Senate
committee included the item which
was voted out
siashes in appropriations for the
Federal Trade Commission. the Inter.
state Commerce. Commission and the
! Iar1n Commission, totaling S45O.O00.
winch had been made by the Senate
appropriations committee were dis
approved by the Senate and the orig
ma sums carried in the sundry civil
OH as 1t passed the House were re-
| stored
AS agreed to, the Federal Trade Com
mission was allotted 100000 the In.
tensAte commerce Commission, 81, 300
o ooo and the Tariff Commission, $500
creases were 100000, 5000. 600 and
| $oo,o0o. respectively.
Combinations Defended.
| The Senate's action followed y;aor
GUS defense of the three commissions
Dy senators johnson, republican. CALI
! Iofnia; FLETCHER, Florida; Walsh Mon.
| tana; Thomas. Colorado, and Jones
HeW Mexico, democrats, and Kenyon
! iowa, republican. Senator Kenyon a.
ciared that the Federal Trade Con,n,is
sion continuously faced opnosition
| from the big business as well az
| crooked business" as
| The Iowa Senator said he some dav
would tell the full story of the war
| wager against the Federal Trade Com
mission by certain big industry. He
nesltated to tell it, he said, but wonid
especially since the Chamber Of Com
merce OF the United States had decided
! 70 night the packers regulation hill
Ihe Federal Trade Commission has
l saved more than it has cost" he said
on one purchase of dressing panss
| made by the government durine ~
lars" " iiiiiiioh ool-
. Provision for ChapIains.
me Senate adopted an amendmen+
providing for the continuation of the
services OF chaplains in hospitals nndar
.ne 9urisdicti'n of the public heaIth
service. Senators. Mclean, repubiican
connecticut. and TrammeI. democrat'
fIorlda, who offered such amendman.s
explained that unless necessary an'
Ihorlty were provided the chapIains IN
GUY at the hospitals would be WITH h"
oraWn because of lack of authoritw e.
thelr further employment. LUZ