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NEW LOAN BILL IS PASSED BY SENATE HOUSE HOLDS BRIEF SESSION DISPOSING OF CONFERENCE REPORT ON HOSPITALS. MANY BILLS DOOMED TO FAIL No Matter of Sufficient Importance to Require the Calling of an Extra Session Expected to Arise. Washington.—The sixty-fifth con- grees entered upon its last full .work ing day. facing an unprecedented mass of legislation, bflt with the contested "Victory loan" bill out of the way. The senate remained in session all night to pass the loan bill, the key stone measure of the calendar^ while the house held a business session, disposing of the conference report on the hospital bill. Passage of the loan bill without a record vote and in the identical form in which it came from the house defi nitely marked the course of future leg islation and gave assurance that President Wilson would not find it necessary to change his plan of defer ring a call of the new congress until after his return from France, prob ably in June. Most Republicans favored an ear lier extra session, but after Republi can senators at a conference last night failed to reach any decision as to the advisability of obstructing the loan biH no filibuster* was undertaken. Although many important bills, in cluding the ^720,000,000 navy appro priation measure with its authoriza tion of a new three-year building pro gram and the 1,215,000,000 army bill, apparently are doomed to certain fail ure, administration leaders believe that none is of sufficient importance to require an earlier call of con gress, and that, the president will ad here to his original plan, announced after he arrived from Paris. Passage by the senate of the “Vic tory loan" bill, authorizing sale by the treasury 'of $7,000,000,000 of new short term notes and $1,000,000,000 for advances by the war finance corpora tion in extending American foreign commerce, came after a bitter con troversy, a threatened Republican fil ibuster. COAL AND OIL LAND LEASING BILL IS TALKED TO DEATH Washington.—The oil and coal land leasing bill virtually was killed when obstruction led by Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, Republican, prevented a vote on the conference report which had been adopted by the house. Mana gers and opponents of the bill agreed that there now is practically no chance of securing action on the bill before Congress adjourns. '- Senator LaFollette spoke for three hours and a half nad only yielded the flmr to permit the "Vie^-<- bill being laid before the senate with the understanding that if the oil bill was again brought up. he would not be barred from speaking again. The Wisconsin* senator devoted most of his address to an attack on the senate rules giving conference re ports priority over other matters and on the practice of bringing in such re ports on important bill late in the ses sion. Washington.—Forty per cent of the total-known oil supply in the United States, exclusive of oil shale -depos its three states, has been exhaust ed, according to estimates transmit ted by Secretary Lane to the senate commerce committee in compliance with a resolution presented by Sena tor Ransdell, of Louisiana. Up to last January 1, Mr. Lane said a total of 4,5908,000,000 barrels had been produced, while the known avail able oil resources, not counting the shale deposits, in the ground and in field storage were estimated at 6,- 740.400.000 barrels. Distillation of shale deposits in Colorado. Utah and Wyoming, however, would produce 70,000,000,000 barrels of oil, the sec retary said. LAST^OF COASTWISE SHIPS RESTORED TO THEIR OWNERS Washington.—Ships of the. Mer chants and Miners Transportation Company, engaged in Atlantic const- wise traffic were turned back to pri vate management by the railroad ad ministration. Officials of the.company accepted the relinquishment which heretofore they have protested. This action restores the last of. the coastwise steamship lines not owned by railroads to private management 40,000,000 RUSSIANS ENGAGE IN EFFORT TO SAVE COUNTRY - •" _ 4 Paris.—“Forty million Russians in organized governments ttrr iRjvr co^ operating in a movement for a re united Russia. These Russians are working and fighting, dying by hun dreds and even by thousands daily, in an effort to save Russia from com- .jlLate-destruction ^ and all this is being done without a thought of political nmbjilc^,'’ said Sergius Sazonoff, rain- itser of foreign affairs in the Denikina government DOMESTIC SERVICE COURSES FUNNED Trained Home-Maker Is to Have an Eight Hour Day and Stand ard Minimum Wage. <| Courses for training home assist-, ants, who will go into the home by the day, hour or week and work on a schedule of hours and fixed wages, have been inaugurated by the Young Women’s Christian Association as' a means for meeting the problem of do mestic service. The object of this course, now being tried'out in New Yorlf City, is to place domestic service on the same dignified basis* as clerical work, trained nursing or other professions open to women. The home assistant will worlf eight hours a day for a salary of $15 a week. She will not live In the home of her employer or take her meals there. She will have'an hour for luncheon, when she can go to a restaurant or eat a lunch which she has brought with her Just as she would were she employed In a factory. The employer will not address the home worker by her first name. She will be Miss Smith or Mrs. Brown, as the case may be. Applicants for the course are care fully selected, and registrants are ap pearing In large numbers. With the same, independence as to recreation hours, places of eating and living as the factory girl, house-work has a greater appeal, as being a less mqnote- nous and more Interesting work to the average woman. The course is a thorough one in plain cooking, waiting /m table and door, chamber work, plain sewing, care of children, making of menus and the washing and Ironing of light things. Heavy work is to be done by outside workers. On graduation the student receives a certificate which proves her qualification as a dependable home worker capable of attending to all ordi nary duties in a home. The Young Women’s Christian Asso ciation has been Interested in the prob lem of domestic service both from the standpoint of the employee and from that of the employer for some years. The first commission on Household Employment made Its report at the fifth national convention of the Young Women’s Christian Association held in Los Angeles, Cal., In May, 1915. The difficulties of attracting capable women to this field of work were laid to the long hours, lack of Independence in arranging recreation hours, lack of opportunities for growth and progress and lack of social standing. Girls have acquired a distaste for the conditions which govern household work since the freedom they have ex perienced in working in munition fac tories. By standardizing domestic serv ice it is believed by the Young Wo men’s Christian Association that a higher type of worker may be at tracted to the necessary work in homes. The American Y. \V. C. A. has open ed a Hostess House in Germany, which will serte ns a residence house and social center for American women war workers who have advanced to do can teen, Red Cross and Signal Corps work with the Army of Occupation. WOMEN BEGIN Y. W. C. A. FOREIGN TRADE COURSES Courses in New York City Pr-pars Girls for South Amerl- can Jobs. u, Sensing a sudden call to Jobs for American women in South America, the New York City Y. W. C. A. has opened Foreign Trade courses, includ ing classes in shipping, filing orders, trado acceptances, tariff, consular In voices, documents, Insurance, mall or der trade and other lines of interna tional work hitherto left mostly to men. These classes are designed to meet after-war needs. South America Is receiving particu lar attention as the Y. W. C. 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