Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-09

Brought up under a rule giving It
privileged status. the Winslow bill
authorizing partial payments to rail-
roads under the guaranty section OF
the transportation act was passed by
the House yesterday
There was plenty of debate, but
only one amendment. designed to pro-
tect the government against over
payment was adopted.
Chairman Esch Of the interstate
commerce committee. which reported
the measure. said legislation was
needed because the Treasury had re-
fused to accept the ruling of the In
iterstate Commerce Commission that
about $350.000.000 due the carriers
should be paid now. as the law, which
he helped frame. stipulated
BY giving the roads the money due
them. Representative Rayburn. dem
ocrat, Texas. member of the com
mittee, declared they would be able
to operate on a sane basis. free from
acknowledgements with the government.
Both the House and the Senate ad-
journed late yesterday out Of respect
to Representative Blackmon of Ala
bama. whose death occurred Monday
in Florida. Resolutions were adopted
| in both branches and delegations were
selected by Speaker Gillett and Vice
President Marshall to attend the fu-
neral.
The President would be authorized
under joint resolution introduced by
Chairman Porter of the House foreign
affairs committee to appoint joint
committee of six members to repre-
sent the United States at the centen-
NAL celebration of the independence
of Peru at Lima next July.
!, The republican majority of the
House ways and means committee has
practically completed its program for
the writing of the new tariff bill and
tentative plans just formulated pro-
vide for the beginning of actual work
on the proposed measure February Fl.
Chairman Fordney, it is understood,
will break away from precedent in the
drafting of the next tariff by calling
in all republican members of the COM
mittee to participate in writing the bill.
Minority members of the committee.
three of whom will not be members of
the next Congress, will be entirely on
the outside in the drafting of this bill.
Chairman Fordney gave no indica-
tions of the date on which the bill will
be ready for final committee action.
Sales of War Department surplus of
Everything from needles to the Old
Hickory plant" near Nashville, Tenn,
cost. T.. 0. Morse, former sales direc-
tor, told the House investigating COM
mittee. He placed the value of the
property sold at Sits. O00, 900, not in
Guiding material valued at $4,000, 900
transferred to other departments. and
added that remaining surplus stocks
probably aggregated another billion in
value.
The departments policy Of favoring
purchasers who planned development
Of wartime plants disposed of had
much to do, Mr.. Morse said, with sale
of the Old Hickory plant to the Ma
tional Industrial Corporation of Nash
vile.
Failure of children, as result of
physical unfitness. to advance in their
school work with normal rapidity is
costing the American public $120.000.-
600 annually. former Governor Brum-
baugh of Pennsylvania, declared last
night at hearing on the Fess-Cap-
per physical education bill before the
House education committee.
DR.. Joseph f. Raycroft. professor of
other advocate of physical education,
declared that seven-tenths of the cost
Of training recruits in the American
Army during the war was for physi-
cal training.
E. Dana Caulkins of this city told
Tie CoHuitlee lnat only One-tenth
of the children in the United States
were receiving physical education
A National Corn Meal week" the
first part of April as means of help
ing the farmer get better price for
his product IS proposed in a resoIu-
ton introduced by Representative
Reavis, republican, Nebraska.
The nomination OF Richard Coke
Marshall of Virginia. for brigadier
general, Officers Reserve Corps. was
sent to the Senate yesterday by Presi-
dent Wilson. Mr.. Marshall held SINH
lar rank in the National Army during
the war. He is a graduate Of Vir-
ginia Military Institute and first en-