Evening star., 1925-02-18
TENANTS ST0HLEAD
FOR RENT MEASURE
Federal Employees Will Join in
Asking Coolidge to Insist
on Passage.

| In final effort to obtain action by
Congress on the pending rent control
| bill for the District of Columbia, the
| local Tenants League and Federal
Employees Union. No. 2, of the Fed
| Grafton of Federal Employees, are
planning to make a joint appeal to
President Coolidge to use all possi-
BILE pressure to effect the passage of
| the measure.
Mrs. Henry c. Brown, secretary of
the Tenants League, and George
Warren, representing Federal En-
ployes' Union. No. 2, will make an
| appeal to the President, either in per
son or by petition. They will present
to him data relating to the conditions
which may exist in Washington in
the event rent legislation is not con-
| tinued.
E. H. schirmer. president of the
Tenants League, today declared that
wholesale evictions will take place in
| the city as soon as the present Rent
Commission goes out of existence on
May %. The legislation pending in
Congress is necessary for the pro-
lection of thousands of Government
| employees, particularly woman workers,
who have resisted efforts on the part
Of landlords to increase their rentals,
| he contends.
Evictions to Be Listed.
The statement from the Tenants
League will summarize evictions al
legged to have taken place within the
| last few months and the evictions
which, 1T is alleged, have been threat
ened by landlords and are believed
| almost certain to be accomplished as
soon as rent legislation expires by
statutory Limitation.
President Coolidge, while known to
be anxious for some form Of rent con-
! troll legislation. has not summoned
| any Congress leaders to the White
House to discuss the matter with him
| this week in an eleventh hour effort
| to get through this measure. At least
| Representative Smell of New York.
| chairman of the House rules COM
| mittee and one of the Republican
| leaders of that body, who was in con-
| ference with the President today,
| knows of no such summons from the
| He said his conference with the
| President had nothing to do with rent
| legislation, and he is of the opinion
Of other leaders. who have been at the
| White House recently, that rent con-
| troll legislation, at this session, seems
| to be doomed. He intimated that the
| President has been fairly well i'm
pEcSSeu Will This IdCl, ana mas Deen
given to understand that it is useless
to further press this matter.
Representative Smell said his talk
with the President today was con-
| fined to agricultural legislation,
which tops the list of the Presidents
preferred legislation. He assured the
| latter that the Haugen bill, which
seems to meet with general approval,
| will be passed probably tomorrow or
| Friday. He held out no hope for
| the Presidents departmental reor-
| genization legislation. Because of the
! radical changes in the organization
of the Federal departments provided
| in this measure, 1T could not be acted
| upon except after long debate.
President Coolidge's views on
| taxation will be set forth at consid-
| cradle length in an address he will
| make tomorrow night at the open
| ing session of a national conference
| on inheritance and estate taxation
| under the auspices of the National
Tax Association.