Evening star., 1922-03-19
The House.

Two Of the major problems
facing the administration are ex-
pected to be passed upon definitely
by the House during the coming
week-decision on the so-cailed
Soldiers bonus" and final action
on the Army appropriation BILL
which aims to regulate the size
Of the Army.
The soldier bonus proposition Is
expected to be fought out on the
floor Monday and to hold the at
tention Of the House all week. and
for that reason House Leader Mon
dell has sent out word to all alb
sent republicans advising them to
be on hand.
The Army appropriation bill will
probably be disposed of Tuesday.
District appropriation bill.
is of much more than Or
y interest because 1t carries
- sails. not only of immediate
Importance. but for the future,
will be considered in conference
between the two houses OF Con-
gress. probably starting Wednes-
day. The Senate has written into
this bill an increase of $3,536,l64
more than passed the House.
Only two important approprt.
alton bills remain to come out Of
committee, that for the State and
Justice departments and that for
the naval establishment. Com
mittee hearings on both of these
are expected to be finished early
this week.
As soon as these two bills are
out Chairman Madden of the ap-
preparations committee will make
a statement showing tn: grand
total of appropriations. the saw
ings made under the new budget
system and how the appropriations
committee cut below even the bud
get estimates.
Chairman Kahn Of the lesisla-
tive committee on military affairs
warned his colleagues in a pre-
pared speech Friday that the re-
duction in the military establish
ment proposed by. the appropri-
atoms committee would be alto
gether too drastic a cut at this
time" House Leader Mondell, on
the other hand, approved the COM
mittee reductions.
The House military affairs COM
mittee was authorized by the
House Friday to make a personal
inspection of the Muscle Shoals
plant.
Favorable report to the House
District committee on bill to
place all banks doing business in
Washington under the supervision
Of the controller of the currency.
to prevent further development of
mushroom" banks here. doing
business under state charters. was
I'D 1x-, I, \ 4
by Representative MillspaUgh of
Missouri.
Calendar Wednesday the House
immigration committee has the
call to finish consideration of i'm
migration restriction legislation.
Spirited hearings were held be-
fore the foreign affairs commit
tee for organizations. which urged
Congress to instruct the President
113 political prisoners, who had
, offended against the espionage
law. The committee very strong
ly intimated that the resolution
by Representative London. social
ist. would not be reported favor
ably.
The proposed new pawnbrokers'
law for the District. favorably re-
ported by the House District COM
nittee, was under consideration for
a brief time Monday and is unfin-
ished business for next District
day, April 3.
The House Wednesday agreed to
the conference report on the sec
ond deficiency appropriation bill,
which carries more than S13O.O00,-
900, including $74,000,000 for the
Veterans Bureau.
The annual appropriation bill
for the Department of Agriculture,
carrying approximately S35. .000, 900,
was passed by the House Monday,
after the annual row over the item
of $360.00O for free seeds under
congressional distribution, which
was included again.