Evening star., 1925-02-16
White House Plans Eleventh.
Hour Effort to Get Some Ac-
tion Before Adjournment.
GIVEN GLOOMY OUTLINE
OF PRESENT PROSPECTS
Senate to Meet Tonight to Take Up
Traffic, School, Welfare and
Other Measures.

President Coolidge will summon
Republican Leader Longworth and
several others of the House to confer
with him at the White House within
a day or so in an eleventh hour
attempt to get through Congress rent
legislation and some of the more i'm
portant bills. affecting the District Of
Columbia.
The Executive conferred today with
Representative Reed of West Virginia.
chairman of the House District COM
mittee, and 1T was during this con-
ference that the President let II be
known that he will send for the
House leaders in an attempt to press
upon them the necessity of getting
clear track for the more important
District legislation.
Gives Gloomy Outline.
Representative Reed said after
ward that he went entirely over the
situation with the President and in
timated that he gave the Executive
a rather gloomy prospect for the
chances of the rent legislation. Mr.
Reed said that from the talk he had
with House leaders the chances OF
any rent legislation was very doubt
full. He said also that the legislation
proposed to regulate traffic here. as
we'll as the public schools building
program, are not very promising.
While Representative Reed expects
the President to specify particularly
rent legislation when he talks to the
House leaders he also expects him to
use his influence in favor of the public
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Representative Reed said he did not
discuss the reorganization bill, al
though he knows that the President
is specially interested in it and Is
very hopeful that 1t may be given
consideration at this session.
The pending rent legislation was
the subject of number of communi-
cations received today by Repre-
sentative Reed. most Of which yigor-
ously opposed this measure.
Senate Meets Tonight.
The Senate will consider District
legislation at a night session, be-
ginning at s o'clock tonight and
running until IL o'clock tonight
under unanimous consent agree
ment entered into this afternoon.
Five bills will be considered in the
| following order: the traffic regula-
ton bill. the school building pro.
gram bill, 4 bill closing a part OF
Thirty fourth place, 4 joint resoIu.
| tion providing for a city planning 6
| commission and the public. welfare
| bill
The street railway merger bill was
omitted from the list at the request
of Senator McKellar of Tennessee.
The bill to extend the life of the
Rent Commission, which was on q
similar list, scheduled to be taken UP
at a meeting Friday night, also was
| sidered tonight.
Under the unanimous consen,
agreement speeches on the bills and
| on all amendments are limited to Il
| minutes each. The Limitation of de.
| bate was proposed by Senator Rob.
inson. the Democratic leader. Senator
Curtis, the Republican leader, pro.
posed the night session for District
| legislation.
Controller McCarl suggested two
minor amendments to clarity and
| simplify accounting.
The Building Owners and Man
ayers Association OF California and
the Pacific Southwest, In convention
| sent a telegram to Chairman Reed, in
which they said that legislation at
| tempting to fix and regulate building
| rentals in the District should be op-
| posed with the utmost vigor as dan
| gerous in principle and destructive In
! its tendency to the very fundamental
doctrine of the sacredhess of private
| property, upon which our economic
! structure rests.
! Example of Russia.
This telegram says that if this leg.
islation is upheld as constitutional, II
will speedily spread throughout the
| entire country and ultimately result
property ownership, as in Russia
| The Building Owners and Man.
ayers Association of st. Louis in q
| communication declared that the pro.
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