The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-07-06
NEVADA LETTER or
WASHINGTON NEWS

WASHINGTON, DC, July L.
At 9:47 o'clock last night the House
of Representatives took recess un-
til August Is. Five bells rang on
the House side of the Capitol at
$40 in the afternoon, and for the
moment workers not in the chamber
believed the long-expected recess
was on, because five bells is an un-
usual signal. Four bells means adj
journment; five mean recess. 1t
was quickly learned, however, that
this recess was only until 9 o'clock
in the evening. At that hour the
House reconvened. There was some
discussion, a few engrossed bills
were read by title, then came vote
on the resolution to recess. A d.
vision was called for, a point of no
quorum made and sustained, call
of the House ordered. The bells
changed and the shouting COM
menced. The necessary quorum was
gathered in, the resolution passed.
The Republican floor leader asked
unanimous consent that all men,
bers who had requested it be given
permission to extend their remarks
in the Record. Montague of Vir-
ginia declared that during his many
years in the House he had never
made objection, but he did now OBJ
ject. That settled it. Mondell
moved that the House "do now ad-
journ" and, there being few spec
tators in the galleries because of
the heat, the motion was carried
with a whoop. A few relieved men,
bers began singing "Annie Laurie. "
Somebody broke one of the strictest
rules by lighting cigar on the floor
just before five bells changed at
9:47.
Putting the Collar on the Colo
RADIO River" is the title of three
reel Fox picture which was shown
in the caucus room of the House
office building Thursday evening by
Representative Phil D. Swing of the
Eleventh California district. The ex-
hibition was In support of Swings
bill CHR. 11449) to replace with
improved irrigation canals running
through United States territory the
bitches which now extend sixty
miles through Mexico. Several Me-
vada towns and many prominent
men have Endorsed this bill. Secre-
tary Hoover recommends it. Swing
made hit with the timely picture,
the third reel of which took the
Congressional spectators into and
onto the flood now raging in the
Palo Verde valley. Animated maps
also helped eastern people to under-
stand the Imperial Valley situation,
The California representative made
witty talk during the picture run.
He said it was summer all winter
in the largest irrigation project, and
all summer it was-he would not
say. The soil of the valley was said
to be so extremely fertile that as
paragus could not Immediately stop
growing after it was taken from the
ground; they cut it an inch and a
half shorter than the crates because
it grows that much on the way to
market. He quoted Secretary
Hoover as saying that the Boulder
Canyon dam would be the most
talked-of subject in the United
States two years from now.
An old schoolmate of Charles S.
Chandler and Hugh H, Brown was
discovered by your correspondent
during a recent business visit to the
office Of the Forest Reserve, Agri-
cultural Department. He is Charles
H. Squires, Stanford 1913, who has
grown somewhat grizzled In his
quarter-century wrestling with
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