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Show CAPITAL 4 GLEANINGSA L '.. A YOUR CONGRESSMAN JjlMMlIfll persons, and a payroll increase tor one month of more than $1,000,000. When Sir George Paish, 72-year-old British economist and propagandist, propa-gandist, called on Senator Wheeler recently and said the United States ought to enter the war, he made a tactical blunder, and as a result, likely will be forced to return re-turn to England, because he was not registered with the state department de-partment as a foreign agent. Sir George boasted to the Montana senator that he was responsible tor getting this country into the last war and he intended to get it into this one. The propagandist said he had an interview with President Roosevelt, arranged by Nicholas Murray Butler, and also had conferred with Secretary Hull, eight senators and several representatives. repre-sentatives. The British embassy was embarrassed, and a spokesman spokes-man said: "We wish someone would drop Sir George Paish over Germany as a pamphlet." A special house icommittee headed head-ed by Representative Tolan of California Cali-fornia is seeking information on which to base legislation setting up a plan of rehabilitation for migrant mi-grant families. Hearings have been held in New Jersey, Alabama, Nebraska, Ne-braska, and later California. These migrants are a serious problem, and their movements help to make difficult any program designed to make them self-supporting w ithout relief. Several thousand persons from the Middle West have moved to Idaho. The senate finance committee has concluded hearings on the excess-profits tax bill and will make several radical changes in the measure passed recently by the house under gag rule. When the tax bill is passed by the senate this week, and a deficiency appropriation appropria-tion approved by both houses, reports re-ports indicate a recess may be taken September 14 to 21. All national na-tional defense legislation will be completed, and only international developments may require further congressional action at the 76th Congress. Congressional debate this week of the Btirke-Wadsworth bill disclosed dis-closed that the psychological objective ob-jective of the current hysteria is to involve this country in the Euro pean war. House leaders persisted persist-ed in referring to "war" in discussing dis-cussing conscription of men for service not "training" in peace time. Several attempts were made to safeguard the interests of draftees draf-tees under the bill, but these proposed pro-posed amendments were rejected promptly, as administration leaders insisted that the measure must take the form in which it was reported re-ported out by the military affairs committee, although it contains many inequitable features. Debate disclosed that the almosl million men now available in the land, sea and air forces of the country- cannot be trained anil equipped properly before 1942, but proponents indicated that it is not men which is desired, but a new system of military trailing in peace time. Regardless of whether or not, the volunteer system is adequate for the country's needs, the bill would place control over the manpower man-power of the nation in the hands of one man. Conscription advocates charged their opponents with being fifth columnists and pro-Nazi, and the wave of hysteria in the land was reflected in a fist fight last Thursday Thurs-day night in the well of the house between Represenative Vincent -of Kentucky and Representative Sweeney of Ohio (both Democrats) afier the former had called the Ohioan a traitor. In a speech I made last Wednesday Wednes-day in the house, I called attention to a statement by military leaders at Pittsburgh that men engaged in war industries would be exempt from draft, "but farming districts and areas with non-essential industries in-dustries may expect to provide more recruits." The draft bih originally proposed to pay these men only $5 per month (although changed to $30 later), while young men working in industries and shipyards ship-yards are earning as high as $30 a day. The house late Thursday voted 1S5 to 155 to give the voluntary enlistment system a 00-day last chance to meet the army's manpower man-power requirements. This involves no delay in recruiting, but the president assailed this proposal, and a roll-call was taken Saturdav approving !his amendment 20S to 200. On final passage the vote was 263 to 149 for the bill. Congress 'completed action September Sep-tember G on a $5,251,480,392 "total defense" appropriation bill con tabling funds lor 1S.422 more planes, initial construction of 200 combat ships for a two-ocean navy and equipment of a l,200,0o0-man army. This bril boosts total defense de-fense appropriations this year to about lot billion dollars. With the constant increase in "umber of civil employees in thj federal executive departments I more office space is necessary' even though the government is paying in excess of $4,000,000 an nually for privatelv-owni , lers. On September 15 war do- t pariment employes will begin mov niK into the hu',-e $15,000 000 struc I ture being completed for the rail- 6 road retirement and social security I bureaus. The latest figures ,-e- I l'd by Ihe U. S. Civil Service I commission show that on July 1 f "iT 77 1:,:1'S2:: Hvil -mploVes i ol the federal payroll in Ihe Bis 'net of Columbia, the June p-lv" f roll amounting to $23 215 077 This I compares will, 1::.; in Jun (lJ . 19JDa gain of more than 10,0ou |