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Show REED S100T STILL FREF j I Test of Court's Jurisdlc- I tion Postponed for Two Weeks i Washington, Feb. 11 Whether the joint congressional committee on printing Is an executive branch or Ihe government, outside the Jurisdiction Jurisdic-tion of the courts, will not be decided de-cided primarily, al least for two weeks. Justice Wright ln tho supreme court j ol the District of Columbia today , granted an adjournment for that peil-j peil-j 'd in the mandamus proceeding J brought against the committee by the I Valley Paper company of Holyoke, Mass., citing It to show cnuse why tho hid of the company to furnish pap-j pap-j cr for government printing should not I be accepted . I The congressmen of the committee. j Allen F. Opy of Pennsylvania; C. ' SlurKlBB of West Virginia and Davvl ' E, .Fiuley of South Carolina, were represented rep-resented bv counsel, pursuant to the decision of the house, retusing last night to make, a general appearance; ' The senators of the committee, however; how-ever; Jonathan " Bourne of Oregon; Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida and Reod Smoot of Utah, standing on the action of the senate, maintaining that that the court had no jurisdiction occr thern, were not represented. The paper company maintains lu Its petition that its bid on papers was the lowest submitted and was thrown out illegally. i i |