Evening star., 1921-11-06
The House.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

The House adjourned until
Wednesday, SO that members
from several states might go
home to vote in local elections
on Tuesday. Tho adjournment
was caused by the fact that the
Senate has not yet sent the tax
bill back to the: House. After
working. for time on private
bills yesterday. House Leader
Mondell arranged for the recess.
Calendar Wednesday will find
the call resting with the commit
tee on mines and mining. Dur
ing Wednesday the tax bill Is ex-
pected to come from the Senate.
Thursday-if the tax bill has
come across-at will probably,
under a special rule, be sent to
conference.
On Friday the House is to meet
at am. and adjourn so that in a
body the members can attend the
funeral Of the unknown hero SOL
dier in Arlington national ceme-
terry. in front Of the Memorial
Amphitheater. When adjourn
ment is taken on Friday 1t is ex-
pected that 1t will be until the
following Monday.
Tomorrow the hearings are
scheduled to continue on the milk
supply for the city of Washing
ton before a subcommittee of the
house District committee, with
Representative Florian Lampert
OF Wisconsin as. chairman. These
hearings have continued all week,
with experts from the Department
OF Agriculture and from the Mary
land State College testifying in
support of the contention of the
District health Office for continu-
ance of the requirement that all
milk and cream brought into the
District must be from tuberculin
tested herds.
The members of the subcommit-
tee seem disposed to stand back
OF the District health Office as
against the fight by local distrib-
utors to have the bars let down
so that any pasteurized milk
might also be sold here. Several
OF tn. je sessions have been very
heated. Chairman Lampert has
assured the milk producers who
get only 33 cents a gallon for their
milk delivered to the distributors
In Washington. while the distribu-
tors get so cents for the milk de-
livered to the consumers, that they
Will have a chance to refute the
charge that they are In conspiracy
to control the local market.
Representative Fred N. Zihlman
House District committee and
chairman Of a special subcommit-
tee that conducted hearings on the
street railway problem, has inti-
mated that he will introduce the
first of this week a new bill
looking to a solution Of the traffic
problem. The committee is to dis
nesday. At the meeting last week
Representatives Hammer and Kunz
announced that certain outside in
terests with enormous backing
were ready to take over the public
utilities in Washington and guar
antee scent railway fare. The
attorney for these interests Is now
tion of members of the committee
covering the proposal to take over
these lines. The committee is not
placing much confidence in this
offer.
Tomorrow is the regular District
day in the House. but adjourn
ment probably means that there
will be no other District matters
of legislation acted upon at this
session.
Word reached the House on. FRI
day that Congress will be asked to
appropriate $10.00O.00 for enforce
ment of prohibition during the
next fiscal year. This is an in
rent appropriation.
Secretary Hoover outlined to the
military affairs committee a propo-
sal that surplus Army supplies.
mostly medicinal, to the value of
about $4,000, 900, should be turned
over to the American relief adminis-
tration for use In Russia.
BY a vote of 1874 to 36 on Tuesday
the House adopted the conference
report on the bill appropriating
SIS, ,000, 600 from federal funds to CO.
operate with the states in the con-
struction of good roads.
The House committee on post
offices and post roads continued Its
hearings on Postmaster General
Hays proposal to make the postal
savings system more popular by in
creasing the rate of interest from
maximum that may be deposited.
Representative Lehlback of New
Jersey. chairman of the committee
on reform in the civil service. re-
introduced the Sterling-Lehlbach bill
and favorable report on the same.
This calls for reclassifcation Of the
departmental and District employees
in the District. with standard pay
for standard work.