Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-21

w oSA1AASIOA ApIA -Vs-SOASTS COD
this week, aside from the multipli-
city Of investigations which have en-
gagged its attention. faces the Ques-
ton of a soldiers bonus. the tax re-
duction bill, prohibition. Muscle
Shoals and a variety Of appropria-
ton and miscellaneous measures.
The senate's oil committee will be
in recess until Wednesday but the
Daugherty and Wheeler investiga-
tons have hearings scheduled for
Monday and the house shipping
board inquiry will go ahead. vt is
probable that il Chairman Borah de-
cides to resume hearings in the in
vestigation Of the indictment of Sem
ator Wheeler. Democrat, Montana,
the Daugherty committee will mark
time, owing to the fact that the
Montana Senator who has been act
| ing as its prosecutor, will find 1t nee
essary to attend the meetings of the
committee, looking into his own
Tease.
\ 1t Is expected that the senate will
Rpush the bonus bill through in quick
IItime. Democrats who have express
Ned a preference for q cash option In
the measure, also have announced
that they would not court a presi-
Dental veto by insisting on their
plans. When this measure Is out of
the way the appropriation bills, in
Guiding that Of the navy are due for
consideration.
Senator Watson, Republican, In
diana. has pending his move to dis
charge the committee which has
been investigating the internal re-
l.venue bureau. Senator Couzens. Re-
publican, Michigan, chairman OF the
Ecommittee. who was to have paid the
tretainer of Francis J. Heney of Cali
fornia, as committee counsel, is Ill
Gin Baltimore hospital. and Senator
Watson so far has refrained from
pressing his motion.
Muscle Shoals will occupy the
senate agricultural committee.
which has before 1t number OF bids
sfor the property, including that OF
Henry Ford, which has been ap-
proved by the house. Senators ia
WIRING the Ford bill have demanded
aktion by the committee on the
threat of moving that the question
be brought to the open floor.
II the Daugherty committee goes
ahead it probably will take up the
long heralded inquiry into anti trust
law prosecutions. Another problem
with which its membership has been
struggling Is the preparation of its
contemp citation against NJ. S.
Daugherty, brother of the former at
torney general. action which has
been deferred several times. Diff
Guilty has been encountered by the
committee in making its presenta-
ton because the vote called for
direct use by the senate of power to
punish recalcitrant witnesses, and
not for 4 submission of the ques-
done by the oil committee in its con-
troversy with Harry F.. Sinclair.
The house tomorrow will take up
miscellaneous bills, among them pro-
badly the bureau bill to increase
pensions Of veterans of the civil and
other wars, which already has been
approved by the senate. On Tues
day the house will get back to con-
sideration of the agricultural appro-
priation bill as soon as 1t is out OF
the way leaders plan to call up, the
Foster resolution proposing child
labor constitutional amendment. A
vote on this measure is expected be-
for the end of the week.
The prohibition question will come
to the fore again tomorrow when a
public hearing will begin before the
judiciary committee on the identic
bills introduced by SO house members
to, legalize 2.75 percent beer. Three
days probably will be devoted to
hearing the arguments of propon-
cnts, with opponents to be given an
opportunity later to present their
case.
Among the witnesses who will OPP
pose the Volstead act before the
judiciary committee will be repre-
sentatives of the joint legislative
of labor. the association against the
eighteenth amendment, the Consti-
tCtional Liberty league Of Massachu-
sets and the Moderation league, Inc.
Wayne 3. Wheeler. general counsel
for the Anti-Saloon league, an
nounced tonight that the dry forces
would be ready to answer all argu-
ments presented.
Those favoring the modification
bills expect to put on the stand
Samuel Gompers, president Of the
American Federation of Labor, and
a number of lawyers in an effort to
show that their plan would not mean
notification Of the eighteenth
amendment. They also will center
an attack on alleged lawlessness
which they claim has resulted from
the Volstead law.