Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-09
MapeS, Frear, Holiday,
Beers, Crisp, Collins and
Patman Selected Under
Simmons Resolution.
TWO WERE C0NFEREES
ON APPROPRIATION BILL
Appointment of Committee Fol-
lowed Six-Weeks Struggle Be-
tween Members of Two Houses
of Congress on Lump Sum for
Local Government.

appointment of the special
House committee to study fiscal
relations between the Federal and
District governments was made to-
day by Speaker Longworth, when
he selected the following seven
members:
Representatives Mapes, Repub-
lican, Michigan; Frear, Republi-
can, Wisconsin; Holiday, Repub-
lican, Illinois; Beers, Republican,
Pennsylvania; Crisp, Democrat,
Georgia; Collins, Democrat, Mis-
Sissippi, and Patman, Democrat,
Texas.
The Speaker, who has been out
of the city since Congress adj
journed last week, notified his Of
tlce at the Capitol this afternoon
of the personnel or the commit
tee, which was authorized by a
resolution which Representative
Simmons of Nebraska, chairman
OF the District subcommittee of
the House Appropriations Com
mlttee, offered in the House on
the closing day of the session.
Two Were COnferees.
Two OF those chosen by the Speaker.
Mr.. Holiday and Mr.. Collins, were con-
terees on the District appropriation BAL
Tor the current year, in connection with
which the two branches of Congress
staged battle over the fiscal relations
issue. The Senate, in accordance with
Its custom over long period of years,
defended the contention of the people
of the District that SO 900 900 was not
an adequate contribution by the United
States toward the upkeep of the Ma
tional Capital.
After a struggle lasting nearly six
weeks, during which the Senate stood
hrm for some increase in the lump sum.
the House agreed on the last day of
the session to raise the Federal con-
trlputlon for the ensuing IL months to
$4,000 900.
Coincident with the approval of this
agreement on the appropriation act
Tor the current year, Representative
Simmons of Nebraska, chairman of the
House confereeS, had the House adopt
his resolution creating this special COM
mlttee Of seven House members to go
into the question further and report to
the House, presumably at the December
session.
Didn't Want to Serve.
Mr.. Simmons said several DAYS ago.
before leaving for Nebraska, that he
had no desire to be a member of the
special committee and was particularly
anxious not to serve on it.
Mr.. Simmons will have charge of the
District appropriation bill in the next
session--for the fiscal year 1881 -32-af-
ter which he is slated to take charge OF
appropriations for the Department of
Agriculture Mr.. Holiday, one of the
men appointed by the Speaker, is
scheduled to succeed Mr. S mmons as
chairman of the District subcommittee
on appropriations after next year.
The Simmons resolution directs the
to inquire into the various
elements, factors and conditions which
may be deemed pertinent and essential
to the accumulation of data and infor-
nation bearing upon the question of
fiscal relations, and TO recommend to
the House what amount. in their iudg-
ment, the United States should con-
tribute annually toward the develop
ment and maintenance of the munich
pality.
Will Study Taxation.
A significant clause in the resolution
authorizes the committee also to in
vestigate municipal taxation and the
various sources of revenue in the Dis
trict and Ito recommend to the House
such new forms of taxation and sources
Of revenues and such changes in exist
ing forms of taxation and sources OF
revenue as to them may seem just and
fair"
The committee has authority to sit
during recesses as well as the sessions
Of the House, to hold hearings. to re-
luire the attendance of witnesses, TO
compel the production of documents
and to take testimony.
The resolution requests the Com
niSsioners and other municipal officials
10 furnish the committee such assist
ance as 1t may need, and such aid
also may be furnished by the Bureau
Of Efficiency That bureau itself made
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