Evening star., 1921-01-16
What Congress Is Doing
The House
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

n1 WILL f. hECN ~ nO As
There's q big fight brewing In
the House Tuesday and Wednes-
day. The reapportionment measure
is the matter Of special business.
and the prospects are that tho
Siegel bill, which would enlarge
the House from 435 to 4S3, will be
defeated. 1t is opposed by House
Leader Mondell, Speaker Gillett.
Minority Leader Champ Clark. for
mer Speaker Cannon and other
leaders among both the republican
and democratic forces who are
averse to further charging the
size of the House. The Segel bill
would prevent any state from los
ing any seat it now has in the
House, but a minority report.
signed by three republicans and
three democrats, shows that there
was fighting division even in
the census committee.
Tomorrow will be devoted to the
unanimous consent calendar. House
Indian appropriation bill. now be-
fore the House, can be disposed Of
Tuesday.
Agricultural Appropriation.
Following the reapportionment
Thursday, the agricultural appro-
priation bill, which the subcom-
mittee of the super-appropriatio tions
committee, headed by Representa-
tive Sidney Y. Anderson, is pre-
pared to report to the House early
this week.
AS regards committee work,
probably one of the first important
acts will be an endeavor to get a
special rule from the rules COM
mittee giving privileged status to
the resolution fathered by Repre-
sentative Edwin Brooks of Illinois,
reported yesterday from the for
eign affairs committee, which au-
thorizes President Wilson to invite
the nations Of the world to send
delegates to an international con-
ference to discuss ways and means
for disarmament.
The District committee will be
called into conference Thursday,
when a subcommittee report will
be made on the Zihlman bill to es-
tablish a traffic court and provide
for general overhauling Of trafic
regulations in the National Capt.
tai. The committee also will con-
slider a report on the Curtis-Gard
child labor bill, which also pro-
poses to change the age for COM
pulsory education in the District.
ID. G. Representation.
Hearings closed yesterday, after
running for three days, before the
judiciary committee on the Bur
roughs' resolution for a constitu-
tional amendment granting ma
tlonal representation to the resi-
dents of the nations capital. Civic,
professional and business associa-
tfons assured the committee that the
people Of Washington are united in
seeking national representation.
The $240 bonus given to govern
ment employees during the last cou-
pie OF years. pending reclassifica-
ton OF the basic salaries, to meet
the increasing costs of living, was
knocked out OF the general salary
measure on Friday by a point Of
order made by Representative
Blanton of Texas. He protested
that it the District police and fire.
men were not included in the bonus
the other employees should not get
it.
The legislative appropriation bill,
as passed. carried $113,0OO,OO0. It
made a net reduction Of 10.6OO
The appropriation for enforcement
OF prohibition was increased to $6,-
100000.
The agricultural committee has
been conducting hearings on meas
ures designed to safeguard against
trading in futures on the grain ex-
changes. tr+--.
Secretary Daniels and Cen. Tas-
kar H. Bliss, former American rep
resentative on the supreme war
council in Paris, told the naval af-
fairs committee that time is ripe