The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-07-28
IN NATIONS CAPITAL
House Passes Fordney Tariff Bill With
Amendments Placing Hides,
Etc., on Free List.
Ben Johnson of Kentucky Throws
Committee Into UprOar When
He Assails Witness.

By vote of 2S9 to 127, the house
passed the Fordney tariff bill after
placing on the free list hides, oil, cot
ton and asphalt and striking out the
provision for an embargo on dye
stuffs. The senate finance committee
has begun hearing witnesses for and
against the duties fixed by the house.
Representative Ben johnson of Ken
lucky threw the Bergdoll investigating
committee. session into an uproar when
he sought to assail Charles A. Braun,
brother Of the notorious Stacker,
rushing upon him as he moved his
hand toward his pocket as though
reaching for gun and hurting cpl
thets like pirate. Johnson's wife
shouted "You must not do that" and
Johnson's colleagues pitched upon him
and restrained him with great diff
Guilty while Braun was being removed
from the room. Braun, when johnson
told. him he did not think he was
telling the truth, called the Kentucky
representative liar.
Sales of government surplus proper
ty have been ordered stopped by
Director Dawes of the budget bureau
pending the creation of co-ordinated
machinery to control sales.
Investigation of the reported opera
ton of floating bar off Long Island,
outside the three mile limit has been
ordered by Prohibition Commissioner
Haynes. The commissioner said he
was looking into reports that liquor
cargoes were being transferred beyond
the three mile limit.
With sales tax proposition def
nitely sidetracked, the house ways and
means committee has begun hearings
on revenue legislation which will be
devoted chiefly to complaints against
miscellaneous features of the present
law with a view to their correction.
Carl Vrooman, former assistant Sec
rotary of agriculture, urged, before
the agricultural investigating commit
tee, the passage of the Norris bill to
create a farmers financing corpora
ton.
Disturbed by the continued agitation
of the Sunday blue laws, the Religious
Liberty association, from it's national
headquarters, is circulating through
out the United States a petition to
congress not to pass the compulsory
Sunday observance bill regulating, I'M
der penalty, the observance Of Sunday
in the District of Columbia. What the
association fears, according to Charles
S. Longacre, general international Sec
rotary, is not so much the drastic law
proposed and advocated by Noah w.
Cooper of Tennessee, chairman of the
Methodist Central Sabbath Crusade
committee, but any Sunday law, how
ever moderate, that might be passed
and serve as an entering wedge for
future legislation, especially national
Sunday law. 1t is realized that there
is little if any disposition in congress
to pass law stopping the running of
railway trains, publication of newspa-
pers, all professional and other work
of charity or necessity, the playing of
baseball and similar activities on the
Sabbath. But the prohibition amend
ment is pointed out by the association
as an instance of what can happen as
result of persistent and organized
agitation in any given direction, and
the association, which is opposed on
principle to any legislative regulation
of public conduct on Sunday that does
not apply equally to other days of the
week, regards as an even greater dan
ger the more moderate Sunday laws
proposed and supported by other re-
ligious and welfare organizations than
Mr.. Cooper's.
Air bombing tests, concluded with
the sinking of the former German
dreadnaught, the Ostfriesland, in 20
minutes, have demonstrated to the
satisfaction of progressive army and
navy men that the United States gov
eminent is wasting $5OO,OOO,000 going
ahead with construction of capital
naval ships proved obsolete before
work on them is fairly underway.
The senate, in less than three hours
debate, passed the Sweet bill consoli.
dating all soldier relief agencies and
- designed to insure more adequate care
of the disabled soldiers.
State department officials explained
to congress that communications from
the league of nations are always an.
swered by this government to tho
member nations individually, but nd
to the league of which the United
States is not member.
The administration refunding bill
was held up by call from the senate
finance committee on Secretary Mel
Ion for additional and more definite in
formation as to past commitments
with respect to the nations foreign
loans. Secretary Mellon was request
ed to examine thoroughly all records
of negotiations and agreements made
by the Wilson administration regard.
ing both the principal and interest