The Washington herald., 1921-08-21

~ ~. 10, s.;d YES and until that fated hour
tax and tariff bills and raft OF smaller egisiSuo"
will be hammerng at the portals OF the (apnoi lot
attention ~.
The biggest event of the week just past was inc
p adont;on of an amendment by Senator Curtis oil
Kansas TO the good roads bill, striking out the pro-
vision creating Federal highway commission
was the heart of the Phipps-Dowen measure
over which committees OF both branches OF Congress
had been laborng for many weeks. Senator PUTNAM
OF Nevada brought it about by threatening hhous.et
against the unless something be done ior inc
relief of States in need Of road improvements par
ticularIy Nevada He charged Senator Townsend with
holding. back Whereupon the Senator from Michigan
proved his good faith by calling up the bill on the
spot and causing il to be made the unfinished business
under which ruling il would remain before the Senate
until finally disposed Of Then the fireworks started
and speeches fell thH and fast from the lips OF
Senators Lodge Wadsworth, Pittman, King simmons
and Others more than score OF Senators opposing
the plan of establishing new commission which
would cost the government approximately $Ioooooooo
a year Some fourteen Senators, however, chung to
the belief that the business of dshng out Federal aid
10 the States in road building should be sysenatized
and handled by body OF men particularly quahhed
10 select routes and hold the States in line with
fixed policy and they voted against the amendment.
AS changed the bill provides that the Secretary OF
Agriculture shall have the powers designed for the
commission. s
q HARING prominence with the good roads and
- recess bills was an amendment to the anti-beer
bill by Senator Stanley Of Kentucky fobiddng search
and seizure without warrant which was adopted with
out division of votes. After the anti-beer bill went
10 conference the House substituted an amendment
which permitted search of persons garages and places
Other than doiciles and the manufacture of beer or
wine in homes for private Senator Ashurst, OF
Arizona denounced the substitute amendment as
vicious in that deprived individuals of their constitu-
tiond rights of liberty under the fourth and nth
amendments and sanctioned the setting up of stills
in homes for the spread of bootegging. He said he
would withdraw as conferee if the Senate agreed
to any such amendment. Senator Stanley again, as
when he presented his amendment assaied the prac-
tee Of dry agents and bandits representing themselves
to be officers OF the law, of searching automobiles
grips and people indiscriminatey, even respectable
women" and declared that the cause of temperance
could never be advanced by such dissertation OF the
sacred rights guaranteed citizens under the Consttu
ton The Senator from Arizona said that he would
use something more than words on any vulgar face
that presented itself in demand to search him his
property without writ, ard declared that no good
American would fail to knock down man under such
circumstances; whether he be enforcement officer
or an imposter.
And then the Senate transacted lot of general
business 1t adopted resolution by Senator Pome-
rene Of Ohio, calling upon the Secretary of State to
: supply the Senate with list of men, women and
children the Lustana when that liner was sunk by
German torpedo, the claims filed and adjustments
made and the correspondence between this
and Germany the subject 1t passed joint
luton by Senator Smoot, changing The of the
Veterans Bureau, recently established, to the United
States Veterans Bureau, to prevent confusion
with similar names, received numerous nominations
from President Harding, including that of Albert
Ottnger Of New York, to be Assistant Attorney
General 1t passed a joint resolution authorizing
Chinese to register citizens under certain restrc-
tons and bill authorizing the distribution of cigars,
cigarettes and tobacco not disposed of soldiers and
former soldiers.
THE urgent deficiency bill carrying $5o,3s6,2os,
including $48oooooo for the Shippins Board