Millions for Relief

One bill which can be guaranteed to rush through House and Senate like a flogged sailor running the gamut is the biennial highway bill, authorizing the expenditure of millions of dollars for U. S. roads. Practically untouched by human hands, the bill (this one was for $484,000,000) was unanimously passed by the House last week. There was contention on just one point. Michigan's Representative Jesse P. Wolcott (Rep.) wanted an amendment that would dot U. S. highways with frequent comfort stations. Opposition came from two Democratic Congressmen, Milton H. West of Texas and Claude A. Fuller of Arkansas, but the clause was passed, 40-38. Said Congressman Fuller: "Whether they are the Chic Sale kind or the kind that the gentleman from Michigan wrote into this bill, we ought to limit the size. We ought to know whether they will build them for one or two or three or for the whole neighborhood. ... If there is any place in the country where they need them it is down in Texas, where you have to drive sometimes 100 miles to get to a filling station."

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