The Washington times., 1925-01-26
bLANTON IS
OPPOSING
BILL.
Squabble Leads to Hot De.
bate-Ex-Senator Gore At
tacks WhaIey Measure

n SQuaDDte over the INSERTION
IN the record of statistics sub
mitted under oath by Richard
Whaley, chairman of the Rent
Commission, declaring that from
June 2, 1924, up to last Satuf-
day $3.50 tenants appealed to
the Rent Commission after re.
ceiving thirty-day notices of rent
increases bringing their rent in
one instance as high as 300 per
cent over the pre-war rental, fea-
tured today's hearing of opponents
Of the Whaley rent bill before
the joint Senate and House SUBJ
committee on rental legislation.
Blanton Objection introduced.
Chairman Ball offered the sworn
statistics, comprising fifteen legal
size typewritten pages, whereupon
Congressman Thomas L. BIanten Of
Texas denounced their Introduction
unless time is given real estate
men and landlords to explain their
side OF the cases. It was agreed
after acrimonicy,fs debate that the
Washington real estate board will
supply a list OF properties on
which they declare rents have been
reduced, and that they VIII be able
TO put in the record explanation Of
some of the statistics given by Rent
Commissioner Whaley.
Other important developments
brought out at today's hearing fol-
low:
1. Evidence that the Washington
Rela Estate Board is actually at
tempting TO clean house by the
reading OF a letter to Quinter,
Thomas & Company. agents for the
Darlington Apartments in which the
board severely reprimands the firm
on account Of recent increased rem
tails in the Darlington and the
service of four eviction notices.
2. Decision to extend the time of
both the proponents and opponents
Of the Whaley rent bin was reached
at the insistence of Congressman
sBlanton. A three-hour hearing will
be held tonight in the third floor
caucus room of the Senate office
building in the interest of tenants,
from s until II o'clock. Between
the same hours a meeting will be
held tomorrow night in the same
Mace for the benefit Of unorganized
landlords, and again on Wednesday
night a three-hour session will be
held in the interest Of unorganized
tenants.
Gore Names Coolidge.
8. A ferverent attack upon the
constitutionality of the Whaley rent
bill by former Senator Gore, ma
tIonalIy known as the blind legis-
Iator. who claimed that If reports
are true that President Coolidge
has "laid his blessing on the Wholey
bill and that he has done so with
out reading it and that If he still
approves it after reading 1t. it is
cause for dep concern throughout
the United States"
Congressman Blanton's vigorous
objection to the introduction Of
Commissioner Whaley's statistics
were on the ground that Mr..
whaley is alleged to be too pre-
iudiced to be fair, and he charged
It was a preconceived plan to shoot
the data on the committee at the
end of the realtors time without
giving the real estate interests time
to extenuate upon them.
To prove his point Blanton re-
ferred to the testimony given today
nv JOnn DO"lGf ICLIbdi IOi
tha Iriouois Apartment, where Mr..
whaley has lived since 1916.
Mr.. Bowie testified that he
wanted to contradict the alleged
assertion Of Mr.. Whaley before the
committee that he had no service
and no repairs at the hand OF his
own landlord.
Items Are Read.
Bowie read an itemized statement
showing that the rent had been in
creased in Mr.. Whaley's apartment
from $40 to $50, but that between
the months OF July, 1923, to Feb
r1Iary, 1924. a total of $283.20 had
been spent in improving Mr..
whaIey's apartment, or that in
reality five months rent had gone
to making improvements for his
comfort.
that the case of Whaley's own apart.
nasnt portrayed the tactics used by
+ha Rent Commission to win ap
nrovai from Congress for continued
regulations.