The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-12
Bills Designed to Couer More Important Problems
 Are Introduced Yesterday

I tional education and home building, left out taxation proposals, but Represent ative Gallivan. democrat Massachusetts
 put in duplicate of the bill as 1t passed the House last session. TO, CONSOLIDATE BOARDS
 Tn further aid to veterans Represent atfve Sweet, republican, Iowa, intro- duced bill to consolidate all boards and bureaus having to do with soldier rehabilitation, and Representative Fess, republican, Ohio suggested exemption ] from income taxes of all payments to veterans undergoing vocation training.
 Immigration restriction, decided upon I by the last Congress In enacting bill limiting annual entrance of aliens into the United States to per cent of tho total residents of each nationality in the nation as found by the 1910 census, was proposed by Chairman Johnson Of the immigration committee. His bill ex- act1y duplicated that which President l Wilson gave pocket veto.
 Representative Blanton. democrat, l Texas, whose battles with his associates in Congress have attracted some atten- tion, came forward with a suggestion to reduce Congress from 435 members to 9o4 and reapportion them according to the 1920 census. number of other reapportionment bills were proposed, but
 
 | ship to it's present limit. MT. Blanton also proposed the elimination of the present travel allowance of 20 cents | mile for members and substituting l therefor a payment of actual expenses to be made upon sworn vouchers
 AGRICULTURAL TARIFF
 Representative Young, republican, North Dakota, for the ways and means committee, introduced the emergency i agricultural tariff exactly as 1t was passed in February. It's effective period l was fixed as six months after enact ment instead of 10 as in the vetoed meas ure of the last session.
 | Chairman Kahn of the military affairs committee again proposed a separate air corps under new executive bureau to control military aviation and separate proposal for federal regulation of civil ian aviation to accompany it.
 Chairman Good of the, appropriations committee introduced the federal bud get bill, another of the measures vetoed during the former administration. Abolition of the railroad labor board and repeal of sections of the trans portation acts under which it operates was proposed hy Representative Tin cher. republican, Kansas. His bil. would empower the interstate com merce commission to perform functions now aSS1EneQ 10 the DOdEu. Other bills Introduced in the House included: OTHERS INTRODUCED
 Creating a federal department of education, appropriating 3la,O00.0o0 to aid states in training teachers, aAd $7,500,000 for alien An,ericanisation, by Towner. republican, Iowa.
 Establishing the metric system as the standard for the federal govern ment for customs, -exctse, postal and revenue purposes, after 10 years: by Britten. republican, Illinois
 Permitting manufacturers of trade marked goods to fix uniform resale prices, by Kelly, republican, Pennsyt- van1a- M
 Converting Mammoth National cave, Kentucky, into national park, by Thomas. democrat. Kentucky
 Submitting constitutional amend ment requiring ratification of all fu- ture constitutional amendments by di- rect votes of citizens of the states, I by Sfegel. republican, New York.
 Providing for cabinet members to sit AS members of Senate and House. by-Montague, democrat. Virginia
 Submitting constitutiQnal amend ment fixing January as the date for Il terms of President. t. and congressional Il officers to begin. by Montague. dein9- crat. yirginia.s N I S. s. ,j
 ApproprlatlnS S9.UOO. 0Q0 Tor cOnStruc-' 4 tion of canal from Dslawars river to Il can, New Jersey x, x < s;II
 Extending Hdry law enforcement to- Philippine Islands, by Voistead, repup- lican, Minnesota - sss ..s. s9. J K x
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 Making October the late ,Theo- wore Roosevelt's birthday, an annual national holijiay. by Bacharach, repub ltcan, New Jersey. E5 fsstsf s9sas s.s II
 Proposing federal co- operation withS states, in physical condition of school children. by Fess. republican, Ohio.
 Regulating stock yards; meat, pack ing and transportA ton of live stock sby Il Haygen. republican,. Iowa. ss z ;1Rroviding fpr's1 feSfeTal co5operatipn l with states and fn TetnFAis.l tation by Snsl3s n f1i4 }tnanA N1&t xttE ' asRermitttng iE 1knas can citizenship liter III with ssl al aliens t 'by s Ressrs' Frepubl Putting consu3Ar ana dfpiohpetle of- ficers under cfv1Is eEyIcs, bg IS6sees, republican, NasSaqhusetfss, .fS T M Taxing future eal lesx Of erain 1oxporl cent 'of value ..i,ysa s s-I
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 Permit ting NetloI3aI 6apki fb estab fish sa ytpes depxrf ffheht by Hilton. re-i l publican. Caltkofnja.f . sr <; LII ssss. Permitting use of naval radto for | commercial and press messages. by | Curry republican. California.
 Forhiddfng strikes which hamper in- | terstate commerce, by Blantan, demo- crat Texas. "
 Requiring federal ppblictty for costz. prices, and stock In bttumin6ps cool | ipdpstry. by Newton. republican. Min-