LEGION LEADER TESTIFIES- Fights Child Refugee Bill CAPITAL LOBBY SCANDALS LOOM Many Congressmen Extremely Nervous. By Richard Wilson. (Th ReKlnter'i Washington Corrffponitent, ) WASHINGTON, D. C Lobby-j lug scandals of important proportions are breaking ip Washington. Various congressmen are extremely nervous because it is known that dictaphone records have been made on capitol hill and in hotel rooms of sensational meetings both alcoholic and amorous. The results are to be laid befdje a grand jury, "Bootleg Milk." The fuse, which already has touched off a series of explosions, appeared at first to be nothing but a simple move by District of Columbia authorities against the running Into Washington of uninspected "bootleg" milk from the middlewest. Milk and cream has been brought here under cover of night in motor trucks, just as rum used to be run to the national capital in prohibition days. Developments. But from the arrest, of a few truckers has streamed a whole line of developments. Representatives in congress who are members of the District of Columbia committee, which has existed for 131 years, are demanding "the whole damned thing be abolished." Several congressmen who held key positions, either as chairmen of the full or subcommittee, are threatening to resign those posts and clci ks accused of too close a hookup with lobbyists are understood to be I'esigniiig. Protest. 1 According to Kenneth Romnry, sergeant-at-arms of the house, sn congressmen have protested that dictaphones had been installed by the metropolitan police in rooms of the congressmen in the house office buildings, where the capitol and all congressional buildings are under the jurisdiction of the, capitol police. Stnunl,',,)- lVilllur.1 Tf.,l-1 1 angered by this action,' ordered Mr! Romney to nuike an investigation. The Day In Washington 1 he senate passed and sent to the house a bill establishing dutyfree quotas under which certain Philippine goods such as coconut oil, tobacco and pearl buttons- may enter the United States up to the date of independence in 1946. Carrying out a recommendation of the maritime commission, Chairman Bland (Dem., Va.)" of the house merchant marine com mittee introduced a bill to author ize the commission to write marine war risk and other marine Insurance not covered by normal channels of insurance. Secretary Hopkins asked a senate subcommittee to recommend a $255,000 appropriation for establishment pf a staff of business research experts in the commerce department. ' The senate voted 50 to 18 to return to committee legislation to authorize an appropriation of 277 million dollars for a third set of locks In the Panama canal. Senator Maloney (Dem., Conn.) had protested that the bill in its present form would give "dictatorial powers" to the governor of the Canal Zone in carrying out the project. The senate was asked by Its Interstate coinmerre committee to authorize a thorough investigation of the nation's telegraph industry. Monthly federal pensions up to $75 were sought in a hill by Representative Thomas (Dem., Tex. I. It would make eligible for pensions any person over 55 whose income the preceding year did not exceed $900 for a single person or an aggregate of $1,200 for married couples. The monthly pension payments would range from $4tf for single persons to $75 for married couples. The president and vice president would he limited to one term of six years under a constitutional amendment proposed by Senator Wiley (Rep., Wis.). UP IN SENATE Bil1 to Ban 'Blind Selling' of Movies Advanced. SEES 'EFFORT TO BREAK LAW Opposes Relaxation of Present Barriers. WASHINGTON, D. C. W The legislative representative of the American Legion Wednesday asserted that proposed legislation to admit 20,000 refugee children from Germany was "an effort to break down existing immigration laws." , The statement was made by John Thomas Taylor before the house immigration committee. On behalf of his organization, he opposed relaxation of existing bar-Piers, "no matter how sympathetic we may be to the children who would be benefitted. "Real Purpose." "If the real purpose is to help these children," he said, "the matter can be handled by giving them preference within the regular immigration quotas this year and next." , Representative Poage (Dem., Tex.) told Taylor he was a Leg-ion member and that, he was introducing an amendment which would protect the quotas system. It would permit the child refugees to be brought in under visitors' visas, he said, and they would be charged against the regular quota of immigrants from Germany after they reached 21 years of age and applied for citizenship. Not Acceptable. Taylor said the bill, even as amended by Poage, would not be acceptable to the legion. F, W. Buck, who said he represented the "Defenders of the Constitution," told the committee he feared proposed admission of 20,-000 refugees would create "more opposition' in this country to Jews. Chairman Dlckstein (Dem., N. Y.) protested that Catholic and Protestant children, as well as Jewish, would be affected by the; bill. $25,-000 88 it to I it
