19% AMENDING THE FOOD CONTROL AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA RENTS ACT. COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, The committee met at 10.30 a. m., Hon. Benjamin K. Focht (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will please come to order. Mr. MILLSPAUGH. While we are waiting, I wonder if it would not be well to have the chairman of the subcommittee on milk legislation make a report. The CHAIRMAN. If there is no objection, will you do so, Mr. Lampert? Mr. MILLSPAUGH. Mr. Lampert is chairman. I will say that the report was a unanimous one. The CHAIRMAN. Before you begin, I will ask if any members of the subcommittee are here who were appointed to consider H. R. 5909? Mr. Sproul was made chairman of that committee. The bill is in reference to an appropriation of $10,000 for extras on the Central High School. Mr. Burton is anxious to have something, and I make this request so that we may know if we have anything on it. Mr. MILLSPAUGH. I am not on that committee, but Mr. Sproul yesterday showed me some data that he had accumulated and dug out on that down at the commission, and I assure you he wants to be heard. The CHAIRMAN. I will report that to Mr. Burton. Very well, you have heard the motion with regard to the milk bill. What is to be done on that? Mr. LAMPERT. The subcommittee appointed on that matter reported the bill unanimously. There were four members present. Mr. Kunz was not here. I just want to make a statement that he told me when he left that he reserved the right to take any position on the bill he saw fit when it is called up. The CHAIRMAN. Will that be a minority report.? Mr. LAMPERT. I do not think so. I have asked Mr. Millspaugh to please make a report on it. Mr. MILLSPAUGH. In regard to that bill, Mr. Chairman, I presume as the other members of the committee know, the subcommittee held very protracted hearings on it-very protracted. We met day after day and night after night on it, and the hearings are quite voluminous. After the hearings and after a great deal of heated argument, I think that the fact the committee (the subcommittee) is unanimous in its report is sufficient to make the whole committee know that it is a good bill. The subcommittee, after going over the situation, decided to report the following bill, with the exception of a few amendments. Mr. HAMMER. Yes; just a very few slight amendments. Mr. MILLSPAUGH. And we found that while the expense incurred in this subcommittee hearing was considerable, I think the results justify the expense, because milk was reduced in price about 12 cents per gallon and I am sure that the saving was far more than enough to pay the expenses of the subcommittee. I do not think it, is necessary to make any extended talk on the bill at this time, for when it comes on the floor all of this data will have to be brought out; but the fact that the committee started out divided and ended up unanimously indicates they worked out a satisfactory solution of the problem. Mr. HAMMER. When would you suggest that we take action on this? The CHAIRMAN. If there is no objection, report it. What is the suggestion? Mr. HAMMER. I do not know what the custom is. I do not know whether we ought to report a bill of this importance or not without a quorum. I think if the committee would go into it they would agree wih us, because we have been very careful about it. We have been painstaking and we have surrendered · 1 |