Evening star., 1948-04-04
Senate Action
Planned on DC.
Saving
Rent Control Bill
Also on Calendar
For This Week
By Harold B. Rogers

Dayignt saving Ilme ana extension
of rent control for another year are
among District issues scheduled for
congressional action this week.
The McGrath bill to authorize
daylight saving each summer has
been made pending business" OF the
Senate when 1t resumes sessions
Tuesday noon. Debate and q vote
Tuesday are expected.
Attempts were made to bring the
measure to vote Friday. but more
pressing business prevented action.
Chairman Buck of the Senate Dis
trict Committee Is expected to pilot
the daylight-saving bill on the floor,
in the absence of its sponsor, Sena-
tor McGrath. Democrat, of Rhode Is
land, and Senator Cain, Republican,
of Washington, who tried to get the
measure to a vote Friday. Opposition
on the floor will come from Senator
Overton, Democrat, of Louisiana,
Rent Bill on Calendar.
A Senate bill to extend the present
District rent control act, with some
amendments, to March 81, 1949 is i.
on the Senate calendar, with pros
poets 1t may be called up for action
sometime early this week.
The amendments would decontrol
new homes. and buildings recon-
verted with new accommodations for
rent, where construction or renova-
tion was completed after March 81
this year.
Freed from rent control after
April 80 would be hotel transient
rooms. The bill also would free pri-
vate homes where there are not more
than two paying guests. This would
bring District law into line with the
new national rent control extension
act.
On the House side, the O'Hara
subcommittee of the House District
Committee is studying provisions
of the Senate rent bill, with a view
to action when and If the Senate
sends the measure to the House.
Hearings Ended.
Representative O'Hara, Repub-
lican, OF Minnesota. said no further
hearings on rent control would b
held, since both proponents and op-
ponents already have been heard by
joint subcommittee OF both Senate
and House.
The present District rent act has
been extended from March 81 to
April 30, by stopgap law, to give
Congress more time to handle local
year-long legislation. The pending
District rent control extension bill
would terminate simultaneously
with the national control act,
March 81 next year.
A. House administration subcom-
mittee win Hold hearing at 10 I'm.
tomorrow on a resolution to author
ize erection of monument to the
memory Of Mohandas K. Ghandi, in
the city. Sponsored by Representa-
tive Celler, Democrat, of New York,
the resolution would grant permis-
sion to the India League of America,
or any other organization which
may be organized for the purpose,
to place the memorial on grounds
designated by the Fine Arst Com
subject to approval of the
Congressional Joint Committee on
the Library.
Hearing Scheduled.
A House Public Lands subcommit-
tee will hold public hearing at 10
q m. tomorrow on bill to author
1ze q survey Of the c g. o Canal,
between Great Falls and Cumber-
land, Md, to determine the advisa-
bility OF constructing a parkway
along the route. The survey would
be made jointly by the Public Roads
Administration, and the National
Parks Service.
The House Rules Committee will
consider at 10 am. tomorrow q re-
quest for a special rule to permit
early consideration by the House
OF the bill for construction OF the
new Federal Courthouse here.
Chairman Miller OF the House
District subcommittee on Health.
Education and Public Welfare, an
nounced last night his unit expects
to approve formally Tuesday the
long pending, revised bill for stricter
control of sex offenders here. The
measure then would go to the full
House District Committee for ac-
tion.
Also before the Miller subcom-
mittee Tuesday will be bills to con-
tinue the District program for day
care OF the children Of working
mothers; authorize appropriations
for renovation or reconstruction OF
private hospitals here not included
In the Washington Hospital Center,
to be erected on the Naval Observa-
tory site, and regulate the practice
OF optometry here. Further hear
ings may be necessary, probably be-
ginning Wednesday, DR.. Miller pre-
dicted on the optometry bill.
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