RENT COMMISSION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HEARINGS BEFORE THE JOINT SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 3764 A BILL TO CREATE AND ESTABLISH A COMMISSION, AS AN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNITED STATES SENATE SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION L. HEISLER BALL, Delaware, Chairman WESLEY L. JONES, Washington. WILLIAM H. KING, Utah. ARTHUR CAPPER, Kansas. MORRIS SHEPPARD, Texas. WALTER E. EDGE, New Jersey. CARTER GLASS, Virginia. DAVIS ELKINS, West Virginia. AUGUSTUS 0. STANLEY, Kentucky. FRANK R. GOODING, Idaho. ROYAL S, COPELAND, New York. EDWARD I. EDWARDS, New Jersey. L. HEISLER BALL, Delaware, Chairman ROYAL S. COPELAND, New York. WESLEY L. JONES, Washington. EDWARD I. EDWARDS, New Jersey. COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION STUART F. REED, West Virginia, Chairman FREDERICK N. ZIHLMAN, Maryland. CHRISTOPHER D. SULLIVAN, New York. FLORIAN LAMPERT, Wisconsin. THOMAS L. BLANTON, Texas. OSCAR E. KELLER, Minnesota. RALPH GILBERT, Kentucky. CHARLES L. UNDERHILL, Massachusetts. WILLIAM C. HAMMER, North Carolina. ROY G. FITZGERALD, Ohio. CHARLES F. X. O'BRIEN, New Jersey. CLARENCE J. MCLEOD, Michigan. STANLEY H. KUNZ, Illinois. ERNEST W. GIBSON, Vermont. HENRY L. JOST, Missouri. EDWARD M. BEERS, Pennsylvania. ALLARD H. GASQUE, South Carolina. HENRY R. RATHBONE, Illinois. EVERETT KENT, Pennsylvania, GALE H. STALKER, New York, ISABEL HORTON, Clerk SUBCOMMITTEE ON S. 3764 FLORIAN LAMPERT, Wisconsin. THOMAS L. BLANTON, Texas. CLARENCE J. MCLEOD, Michigan. WILLIAM C, HAMMER, North Carolina GALE H. STALKER, New York. 730 46 57, 75, 118, 449, 461, 473, 555 De Vaughn, Rev. C. A. (colored). 40, 245, 333, 389, 394, 419, 421, 422, 454, 459 Petty, John A. 182, 197, 304, 420 CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, The joint subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 9.30 o'clock a. m., in the room of the Committee on the District of Columbia, Capitol, Senator L. Heisler Ball presiding. Present: Senators Ball (chairman), Jones of Washington, and Present also: Representatives Lampert, Hammer, Stalker, and Present also: Richard S. Whaley (chairman), William F. Gude, Oliver Metzerott, and Thomas E. Peeney, members of the Rent Com- mission; and William T. Sabine, secretary. Present also: Former Senator Thomas P. Gore. The joint subcommittee had under consideration S. 3761, a bill to create and establish a commission, as an independent establishment of the Federal Government, to regulate rents in the District of The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. We have asked that the members of the Rent Commission come before us this First and personally I would like to have in as concrete form year, the valuation which the owners place upon those build- I think it would be better to have Mr. Whaley, chairman of the Rent Commission, give us that information as far as possible first and then we will call on Assessor Richards to give us now or send us later data connected with what Mr. Whaley may have to say. 1 |