Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-02-04
IN CONGRESS
YESTERDAY
Senate

merS' cooperative marketing Di4i WIZ
out reaching a final vote.
! Adopted resolution by Senator
! La Toilette designed to prevent mod
ifcation of the Federal court decree
requiring the "big five" meat pack:
ers to relinquish their unrelated
lines Ct business.
Senator Wadsworth introduced
bill transmitted by Gen. Pershng
chief of staff, designed to reduce the
number of army officers to $4,000
as compared with $1,000 now author
lied. ;,
In a letter General Pershing said;
"The constant aim had been to effect
immediate economy and at the same
time maintain the morale of the
army"
The bill provides for board OF
five officers whose duty it would be
to reduce the commissioned person
mel to the requirements of the legls-
lation within five months after pas
sage of the act.
/ Senator Calder, of New York, in
troduced a bill providing for the ex-
animation and registration of archi-
tects and to regulate the practice OF
architecture in the District of Co.
i lumbia.
Combinations yesterday included
Rippon W. Ward, to be United States
marshal for the Eastern district of
North Carolina; Rex B. Goodcel, to
+. be collector of internal revenue for
the Sixth California district, and a
{; long list of postmasterS,
Unable to reach an agreement on
! the valuation plan for assessing du-
! ties. the finance committee returned
to the consideration Of specific rates
and conversion Of ad valorem rates
wherever possible into specific rates.
HOUSE
Met at noon and adjourned at 5:25
D. m., until noon Monday.
Continued consideration of the Dis
trict of Columbia appropriation bill,
completing the reading of 25 of its
100 pages. =.
Adopted Senate amendments to the
allied debt-refunding bill, which now
goes to the President, who is expect
ed in the near future to announce
the personnel of the commission
which will open negotiations with the
debtor nations.
After White House conferences be-
tween the President, Chairman Ford
ney, of the ways and means commit
tee, and Secretary -aof the Treasury
Mellon, it was announced that ad-
ministration objections to the Senate
requirements that the refunded obli
cations mature not later than .Janu.
airy Is, 1947, and that the minimum
rate of interest be Ia per cent
were withdrawn.
Although neither the administra,
ton nor House Republican leaders
approved the Senate amendments,
they accepted them rather than delay
enactment of the measure.
1 The military affairs committee will
today, take up Henry Ford's offer
for the Muscle Shoals project, Chair
man Kahn, Of the committee, to which
the report of Secretary Weeks was
referred, announced the meeting
would be executive and for the pur-
pose of determining procedure.
! After conference with President
Harding, Chairman Fordney, of the
ways and means committee, announ.
ced that whatever bonus bill finally
( is reported will carry provision for
raising the necessary revenue to
! finance it.
Mr.. Fordney said it remained to be
determined whether the money would
be obtained by internal taxes or the
use of the proceeds from the refund
ed foreign debt.
Before the ways and means COM
mittee Wayne B. Wheeler, general
counsel for the Antisaloon league,
opposed a tax on 2.75 beer, advoca-
ted by Levi Cook, Washington at.
! torney, Mr.. Wheeler saying it was
illegal under the prohibition amend
| ment.
Fl. c. Mckenzie. representing the
American Farm Bureau Federation,
opposed a general sales tax, manu-,
! facturers' tax or any form OF con-
sumption tax.
Representative Rainey (Democrat)
| Illinois, introduced a resolution pro-
posing appointment of an American
| Ambassador to the Irish Free State
and in floor speech declared such
an appointment would promote mu
tually helpful relations between the
United States and Ireland.
A resolution declaring that it was
the sense OF the Congress that the
United States should participate in
the Forthcoming Genoa economic con-
ference was introduced by Represen-
tative London (Socialist), New York
a resolution which would pledgs
the United States to grant the Phil
ippine islands full and complete in
dependence within one year was in,
troduced by Representative Rankin
(Democrat), Mississippi. The Presi-
dent would be requested to consider
the expediency of negotiating a
treaty with other powers which
would guarantee the territorial In
tegrity of the islands as a republic
The appropriations committee re.
ported the legislative supply bill fol-
the support of Congress, government
printing office. Congressional Ii
brary, Botanic Garden and architect
of the Capitol, carrying total OF
S12,3S9,411. This is S785,204 les:
than appropriations for the current
year and S637, ,125 less than the tota
of the estimates.