Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-02-28
IN CONGRESS
YESTERDAY
HOUSE,.

| Met at noon and adjourned at 4:45
p. m. until noon today.
Devoted the day to consideration
of District of Columbia legislation.
Began consideration of the Fochr
bill to regulate the pawnbroking busi-
ness in the District of Columbia.
Officials of the Alabama Power
Company before the Military Affairs
Committee, which is investigating
Henry Ford's proposal to take over the
, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, government
power plant, claimed under a prior
contract with the government The
privilege Of purchasing the Warrior
plant at Muscle Shoals on as advar
tageous terms as may be given to any
other bidder.
The representatives Of the power
plant claimed that the sale Of the plant
to Henry Ford would be q clear viola
ton of the contract.
At the insistance Of Chairman But
Ter, the Naval Affairs Committee will
take up, Wednesday. the question of
what disposition shall be made of the
first class at the Naval Academy, An
napolis.
After a conference with President
Harding at the White House Repub.
lican Leader Mondell and Chairman,
F'ordney, of the Ways and Means
Committee, announced that a bonus
bill would be passed at this session.
The manner Of raising the revenue
still is in doubt.
The relative advantages of New
London, Conn, and Hampton Roads
as a general submarine base was dis
cussed informally by the House Naval
Affairs Committee.
At least one-half of the immigrants
coming to this country under the Z
per cent quota law would be required
to take passage aboard American
ships under bill introduced b. Rep
resentative Gable, Of Ohio. a Repub-
lican member of the House Immig"a-
ton Committee.
SENATE.
Debate continued throughout the
day on the zap treaty. Chairman
Lodge, of the foreign relations cor1-
mittee, giving notice that he would
ask the Senate to sit during an even
ing session.
Senator Underwood, Democratic
member Of the arms conference deIc-
CATION, made speech in support Of
the treaty, but said he disagreed with
the premise on which it was negoh
ated. He contended that Japan gave
to the United States "ail we ask and
all we need"
Charges that borrowers from joirt
stock land banks in some cases bad
been charged illegal premiums were
declared to be -pSstained in report
made to the Senate by Chairman
Lobdcll, Of the Federal Farm Loan
Board.
Transfer of the tariff commission tG
the Department of Commerce and in
auguration Of new tariff plan to pro
tect American manufacturers were
proposed in a bill introduced bv Sen
ator Frelinghuysen Republcanl,
New Jersey.
Employees in the postal service
would he paid weekly instead of twice
a month under q bill introduced hy
Senator Lodge. of Massachusetts,.
Consideration of the arms confoH-
ence treaties was completed bv the
Foreign Relations Committee when i:
ordered favorably reported without
reservations, the GENERA Far Easter,
and Chinese tariff treaties. the action
on both being unanimous.
Concluding hiR argument before tho
dvc investigating committee. Senator
King. of Utah. charged that fire
American Dyes Institute. an orgari-
2aton of dye manufacturers. was IN
illegal opcn-price association Of the
kind dissolved through the recent Su-
prcmc Court decision in the case of
the Southern Hardwood Lumber As
sociation.