The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-13
PLEASURE JAUNTS TO
ALL PARTS OF WORLD
BEGAN IN "a HOURS AFTER
THE ADJOURNMENT OF
NATIONS LAWMAKERS.
LARGELY AT PUBLIC EXPENSE
Some of the Many Investigations
Which Will Be Made During Sum-
nler Months. Wives Travelling With
Many of the Legislators.

WHICH VIII be MADE Our1ng Sum-
ner Months. Wives Travelling With
| Many of the Legislators.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Congres-
sional junketing at government ex-
pense started "a hours after the adj
journment of congress.
Trips are to be made to various
parts of the world. some of them be-
ling financed entirely by the federal
government, while on others the sem
ators and Representatives who go will
pay a small part of their expenses, us
ually per diem subsistence allow
ance Of approximately $3.50
During the nine months recess of
congress a number of official if1vesti-
cations are planned, and these, in adj
dition to the inspection trips in the
United States, Panama, Hawaii and
Alaska, will take congressman to all
parts OF the country.
Many to See Joint Maneuvers.
Probably the largest number of leg
islators that will go on any of the
trips is that which left Washington
on the marine transport Henderson
to witness the joint n1aneuvers OF the
Pacific and Atlantic naval fleets off
the coast of Cuba
More than 100 senators and repre-
sentativ@ arranged for accommoda-
tons on this trip. Their TRANSPORTS
ton and entertainment will be free,
but they will pay the regular SUBJ
sistence charge of about $3.50 a day.
The trip will last five weeks, and be-
fore the Henderson starts back to the
states trip will be made through the
Panama canal. The ship, will visit
Santo Domingo City, Dominican re-
public.
Wives on Another Trip.
Wives of Legislators are not per-
mitted to go on the Henderson, but
many of them are travelling with their
husbands on another Panama trip,
which started today from New York.
They sailed on the Cristobal and will
pay a call at Port Au Prince, Haiti.
The party will be gone until March
10th.
A. special committee of senators
Nary, of Oregon, is to make an ex-
HdlStlNC SluQy VI lClOICStdllOH llIio
summer, starting in the Gulg states
ceeding along the Atlantic coast to
Maine, thence to the Pacific coast in
the late summer and fall.
A joint committee of the house and
senate. of which Senator Medi11 Nc
Cormick, of Illinois, is the chairman,
is to make a study of inland water
ways from the Great Lakes to the
Gulf of Mexico, with view of pro-
viding a nme-foot channel in the Mis-
sissippi all the way from St. Paul to
the Gulf.
Weeks to Visit Army Posts.
Secretary of War John w. Weeks,
accompanied by number of con-
gressmen, expects to visit the army
posts of the United States and Ha-
wall for the purpose of determining
which of these can be abandoned
without military loss to the country.
Another trip has been arranged for
the army and navy committee and the
territories committees of the house
and senate. That is to be a 60-day
voyage, starting from New York
about the time the Henderson trip
ends. The trip is to be through the
Panama canal and up the west coast
to Alaska From Alaska the legisla-
tors will return to Seattle and travel
by rail back to their homes.
Joint Study of Prisons.
Members of the senate and house
judiciary committees have been au-.
thorized to make study of the fed
eral penitentiaries and penal institu-
tions throughout the country, while
the members of the mines and mining
committees of the senate and house
are to study the gold and silver sit
uation. The government will bear all
expenses of these trips.
The imperial irrigation district has
invited members of congress who are
interested in reclamation and irriga-
ton projects to visit Boulder Canyon
at the expense of the organization.
Chairman A. d. Lasker, of the
United States shipping board, has in
vited a number of senators and repre-
sentatives to accompany him on the
trial trip of the Leviathan, which is
now being reconditioned as a trans
Atlantic liner at Newport News. This
voyage will be made in June.