The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-04-13
Kaleidoscope Measures Are
Introduced INTO Congress

ate yesterday numbered less than 800, as
compared with $500 odd Monday in the
house, they ranged from tax plans,
through anti-strike legislation to adjust
ment of international debts.
Senator Smoot, Republican. Utah put
in his bill establishing a sales tax in lieu
of excess profits taxing methods and also
an embargo against wool importation.
Senator King, Democrat, also of Utah,
proposed to make conferences to assist
price-fxing criminal, and also to make
con 7iracies to hamper movement of
freight and persons" in interstate com
MERGE illegal.
Senator Poindexter, Republican, Wash
! ington. followed the same track with a
bill designed to prohibit strikes in inter
state commerce.
Wants British West Indies.
Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri, re-
introduced a resolution suggesting that
the president ask Great Britain whether
its West Indian possessions could not be
ceded to the United States in part pay
ment of present Indebtedness, and added
| a suggestion for an inquiry of the same
nature of France, as to the French An
titles.
! Senator La Toilette, Republican, Wis.
/ cOnsin, proposed recognition of the Irish
republic
Creation of permanent commission tC
/ investigate lynchings over the United
! States was contributed in bill by Sena
! tor Mccormick. Republican, Illinois
while Senator Kellogg, Republican. Min
nes0ta. renewed his bill to give the state
department control over cable landing
rights.
! Senator Frelinghuysen, Republican
! New Jersey. proposed creating coal com
mission, while Senator Owen, Democrat
Oklahoma, offered measures to limit fed
/ eral reserve bank interest charges to 6 pei
cent; to create a federal marketing bu
reau for farmers and for publication of {
national bulletin on government and poll
! ties.
Amnesty for Prisoners.
A police welfare bill was Sponsored by
! Senator Johnson, Iowa. Senator France
Republican, Maryland, suggested amnesty
! for all persons imprisoned for violations
! of wartime laws, and Chairman Mclean
of the banking committee put in a bill fo
mInting a tWO-cent coin with ThCOdOr
/ ROOsevelt's efigy upon it.
| Chairman WadswOFth of the militar,
committee put in the war department.
request for PERMISSION to sell surplus
fOOdstuffs abroad.
A DILL embodying the "fve-fold plan fo
veterans cOmpensa ton was Introduce
.
Call Troops Home.
In the house otter the president la,
read his message, Representative Fish. he
publican. New York announced ne w0uIt
introduce a resolution providing for th
withdrawal from Europe Of American
troops stationed in the occupied area o
Germany.
4 bill to prohibit publication Of foreign
language newspapers or magazines. with
out publication of an English translation
Of every article i'm parallel columns. wa
introduced by Representative UpShaw
Democrat. Georgia.
Representative Little. Republican. Kan
Sas, introduced a bill to instruct the at
torney general to institute proceeding
against the Standard Oil and United State
Steel corporations Cni0ining them an,
their affiliated companies from di<tribut
ing surplus war profits. and TO direct tn
ways and means committee 70 draft Il bill
which would tax all such surplus profits
Chairman Iiaugen of the house agricul
tlre committee introduced bill to pro
hibit the misbraudilg of manufacture,
articles by amending provisions Of tn
pure food law To makc'it unlawful to mis-
state the contents OF sealed packages an,
to send out descriptive advertising con
corning commodities held for sale