Evening star., 1922-09-18
WALTER REED AID
BILL IS PASSED
House Approves Appropria-
ton of $44,109.22 for Vet
erans' Hospital Extension.
ACTS ON D. c. MEASURES
Teachers Pay Bill and Street I'm
provement Plans Are
Considered.

Appropriation of s44.10s.22 for
waiter Reed General Hospital for
the acquisition Of an addition ana
for the site Of a medical museum anu
library in addition to sums hereto
fore appropriated for this purpose
is authorized in a bill fathered oy
Representative Crego. providing Tor
tho acquisition of land for military
purposes which was passed by the
House today under unanimous con-
sent
The House also passed. in spite OF
the objections of Chairman Focht OF
the House District committee, the
Zihlman bill which provides addi-
1ional terminal facilities in squares
10 and 712 In the District OF Co
lumbia for freight tramc rms
measure was redrafted to meet OBJ
jections made by citizens associa,,
tion, churches hospitals schools and
other Institutions along North Capl-
tol street between New York avenue
and Union station.
Bill Causes Argument.
The objection was on the ground
that by allowing railroad extensions
into one small triangular piece OF
property, which could not be used for
any other than freight terminal facili-
ties, It might be possible to open up
the entire section between list street
northeast and North Capitol street as
an Industrial rather than as a COM
mercial zone.
Chairman Focht asked that this
SyNht Tor
when its turn was reached on the
unanimous consent calendar. Repre-
sentative Stafford Of Wisconsin urged
that 1t should be Immediately con-
sidered, AS Representative Stanford
had previously objected to other legis-
tween himself and Chairman Focht.
in which the latter called Mr.. Stafford
"our new self-constituted floor leader.
The Fitzgerald wcrkmen's compen-
sation bill providing compulsory indus
trial insurance for all classes Of EN-
ployes in the District, was refused
unanimous consent consideration by OBJ.
lection from Representative Sproul OF
Illinois, q member Of the District COM
n!ttee.
Teachers' Bill Considered.
Representative Millspaugh of Mis-
souri, asked that his bill to regulate
the sale of milk. cream and certain
products in the district be passed
without prejudice.
! The so-called teachers pay bill,
which would reorganize the entire
school department of the District and
generally increase salaries for teach
ers and other employees Of the bureau
of education. was passed over with
out prejudice on the motion OF Rep
resentative Stafford. who said that
this legislation was too important to
be considered IN this way.
passed the Senate bill which author
ICES extension and widening OF 9Th
street from Longfellow street north.
west, to Underwood, and Underwood
street from 9Th street to Georgia
avenue northwest
The House also passed by unani-
nous consent ..-the District bill to
amend the act relative to the pay
ment Of claims for material and labor
furnished in District Of Columbia
building, which was fathereo oy
mittee.
Parkway Plan Approved.
The House passed over without
prejudice the bill fathered by Repre-
sentative Gilbert Of Kentucky for the
prevention Of social diseases in the
District. The bill fathered by Rep
resentative Focht, which would au-
thorize the extension of the park sys-
tenn Of the District. was not acted
upon, objection to unanimous consent
being registered by Representative
Stafford OF Wisconsin.
The bill to make necessary survey
q nj a
parkway to connect the old civil war
forts in the District was also passed
over on objection from Representative
Stafford.