Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-02
The House.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY

The House. will start off scrap
py, this week from the fall of the
Speakers gavel, because the first
legislative business to come up VIII
be the row over the Muscles Shoals
nitrate plant appropriation. South
~crn, members. under the leader
ship of Representative Bryns ana
Garrett of Tennessee and Almon
of Alabama. will fight stubborn
Iy, as they have for two days, that
an appropriation Of 100000 de-
/. nicd by the appropriations COM
mittee shall be included in the
!: spndry civil bill.
a ), The Legislative program OF the
: House as laid out by House Lead
er Mondell for this week is to pass
the sundry civil bill, pass the post
office appropriation bill and then
take up the legislative. executive .s,
and judicial appropriation DIE
which will be reported out in
couple of days.
The sundry civil bill. which was
reported on Wednesday and taken up
for debate the same day, indicates
the severity with which the ap-
! preparations committee is deter
mined to slash estimates. The bill
recommends an appropriation of
s3s3,s1I.292. which is sA2o.s14.19z
less than the departmental esti-
mates. 1t contains more than two
and a quarter million dollars for
parkway. bridge, monument and
humanitarian institutional work
in the National Capital.
The post office Appropriation bill
recommends total of $573,364,72f.
which is $11,442.1S1 less than was
asked by the Post Office Depart
ment.
The $24O bonus to employees of
the federal and District govern
m.nts. which has been paid for
the last two years in lieu of an
increase in salary to offset the
increased cost of living, is to be
included in the legislative appro-
priation bill when it is introduced
this week.
The House paused in its econ
omy drive on the appropriation
measures on Wednesday to pay
tribute to "Uncle Joe" Cannon.
who broke all records for length
of service in Congress. The rec
Smith Morrill, of Vermont. who
had served forty-three years, nine
months and twenty-four days.
The House pensions committee
has been the scene of lively row
over the proposal to cut down the
southern representation because
ii is claimed the right of suffrage
has been denied to colored resi-
dents. The Association for Ad-
vancement of the Colored People
has been heard and southern mem
bers have replied vigorously. Rep
resentative Aswell of Louisiana
said no force bill to cut down the
representation of the south can be
passed. The reapportionment row
will be continued this week
Chairman STEVENSON of the
post Office committee introduced
bill for further reclassification of
postmasters and postal employees.
The Smoot-Reavis bill for joint
congressional committee to take
charge of reorganization of the
government service became a law
on Friday, when the ten-day time
limit given the President to sign
or veto it expired
Congress now has before it an
other Redistribution program,
drafted by the United States bu-
reau of efficiency, which proposes
nineteen wage groups and twenty
three classes of employment 1t
proposes an average increase in
pay of about 10 per cent above
present base pay and bonus, or
about 20 per- cent more than the
present basic salaries.