Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-02-25
IN CONGRESS
YESTERDAY
HOUSE.


D. m. until noon tomorrow, when ee-
logies will be delivered on the lives and
public services Of the late Representa-
tives Mason, of Illinois and Taylor,
Of Arkansas.
Before the Military Affairs Com
mittee, which is investigating Henry
Ford's proposal 10 take over the gov
ernment nitrate and power proJecrs
at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Thomas
w. Martin, president of the Alabama
Power Company, denied that the
power company was controlled ny
British capital.
The committee was thrown int" al
uproar later when Representative
Miller Republican,, Washington, de-
clared the contract signed by the Ala
bama Power Company with the war
Department for construction of the
Warrior steam plant in Alabama WIS
"unconscionable" and took advantage
Of the government during the eXi%en-
c!es of war"
The Republican Ways and Means
subcommittee, continuing its struggle
with the bonus bill, rejected, BY, vote
of 7 to 2, the proposition of financing
the scheme by means of sales tan,
and also was understood to have gone
on record by vote of 5 to in favor
of reporting out an adjusted conf
pensation bill without providing the
means of raising the revenue.
With 26 port bases at which fuel oil
is delivered for the navy, Representa-
tive McClintick (Democrat), Okla.
homa, insisted before the Naval NJ
fairs Committee that it ought to be
possible for the department to put out
of commission a number of its fleet
oil carriers in the general work of
cutting down appropriations.
Purchase by the Federal Govern
ment of the lepidoptera collection of
William Barnes, of Decatur, H., said
to be the most complete display Of
North American butterflies and
moths in existence is proposed in Il
bill introduced by Representative
Moore (Republican). Illinois. An ap-
preparation of 100000 would be au-
thorized to purchase the collection Tor
the Smithsonian Institution, with an
additional $4,000 for transportation
Of the specimens to the National Mu
scum in Washington.
SENATE.
Met at IL a. III. and recessed at 5:2O
p. m. until noon today
Opposing the proposed soldier bonus
legislation, Senator Moses (Pepub-
licany, New Hampshire, said It would
tend still further "to destroy the
financial equilibrium Of the nation"
Charles *. Rawson, of Des Moinea,
was sworn in as senator from Iowa
to succeed Senator Kenyon, resigned
to accept. appointment as Judge o.
the Federal Circuit Court.
The judiciary Committee is directed
to inquire into the eligibility of Sen
ator Smoot and Representative Bur-
tor as members Of the allied debt
funding commission under a resoIn-
ton adopted yesterday.
The agriculture committee was au-
thorized to make a personal inspection
OF the Muscle Shoals project and the
expense allowance increased to permit
of other senators making the trip if
they cared to.
An agreement for final committee
action today on the Four-Power Pa
cifc treaty was reached by Senate
leaders yesterday after administra-
tion forces and a group of Republican
reservationists had united in support
of a new compromise reservation.
The agricultural bloc in conference
elected Senator Capper, of Kansas,
chairman to succeed Senator Kenyon.
Investigation of charges by Dem'-
Gratis of irregularities in the appoint
ment of postmasters began Yesterday
by a subcommittee of the Civil Service
Committee.
President Harding let the commit
tee investigating the dye industry
know that Congress has tied the hands
of the administration in dealing with
the reparation commission, and su%-
gested that some Legislative. action
be taken to permit the United States
to obtain its quota of German repara-
tion dyes.