Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1921, Page 1

- of the bill to the Senate today, said 2 WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; colder tonight, temperature slightly above freesing; fresh northwest winds. f Temperature for twenty-four hours ending 2 p.m. today: Highest, 45, at 4 am. today; lowest, 34, at noon to- day. Full report on page 4. Closing New York Stocks Fase 2 he 'WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION bening % | Al rights of publication of spectal Glapatches erein are ales reserved. | Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 91,755 Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. INCREASE OF $2,210,150 AND 50-50 PLAN PLACED IN D. C. FINANCE BILL Appropriatfim Measure, as Reported to Senate, Carries $22,017,163, $3,021,881 Less Than " Regular and Supplemental Estimates. No. 28,013. COMMITTEE AUTHORIZES USE OF SURPLUS;; SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS WILL GET AID Limitation Placed on Commissioners, Not to Ask More Than Double Amount of Expected Revenues in District for ¥ One Year, Removed. The District appropriation bill for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1922, was reported to the Senate today, carrying a total ap- propriation of $22,017.163.86, which is an increase of $2,210,150.87 over the amount carried in the House bill. The bill, as reported, is $3.021,881.13 less than the regular and supplemental estimates submitted for 1922. ) The Senate committee struck out the House provision for the! appropriations on the 40-60 plan and restored. the 50-50 plan pro- vided in the organic act of 1878. Under the House bill the federal . government would contribute 40 per cent toward the expenditures for the National Capital and 60 per cent would be taken from the revenues of the District. 2 -In this.connection the Senate committee, in effect, authorized the use of the surplus of District revenues which has accrued in recent years, and also the use of any surplus that may accrue in the future, under the 50-50 plan. The limitation placed upon the District Commissioners to estimate not to exceed double the amount of the estimated revenues of the District in one year is removed. $2,276,500 FROM SURPLUS FUND. The greatest increase provided under the bill as reported by the the Senate is contained in section 9, emergency appropriations to be paid from the surplus revenues of the District which have al- ready accrued, and which amount to about $4,000,000. The fotal WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1921-TWENTY PAGES.’ FACE PROSECUTION FOR COAL PROFITS Take Up Inquiry Started in Senate. Evidence as to prices charged the goverment for coal in 1920 submitted ’lo the Department of Justice by the i Senate committee on reconstruction appears to warrant, “even require.” investigation, Acting Attorney Gen- eral Nebeker announced today. If the facts developed in the com- mittee investigation bear out the evi- | dence as presented, Mr. Nebeker said, prosecutions would be instituted and Ppressed to the limit. The committee’s report, Mr. Nebeker added, contained a list of more than a score of coal concerns, which was withheld pend- ing investigation. On the face of the committee's re- port, he said, it would appear that the prices charged the government were exorbitant to a degree, and that prosecution would lie under the Lever act for profiteering. Prices on Deeline. Replies to telegrams of inquiry sent to chambers “of commerce and mu- nicipal _authorities over the country by the Senate coal investigating com- mittee began coming in today and were said to indicate that retail coal prices_were on the decline. A tabulation of the reports is being made for presentation next week, when the committee resumes its in- quiry, and committee members said it would be useful should the com- mittee decide to embark on an inves- tigation of the retail distribution of , as suggested yesterday by ators during a general debate on the coal question. The National Coal Association last night issued a statement, saying that its' president, Col. D. B. Werts, in testifying before the Senate commit- tee yesterday inadvertently permitted the impression to be created that the Watkins Coal Company of Pennsyl- vania. made a profit of $6 a ton on coal sold the War Department. “As a matter of fact the Watkins Coal Company,” the statement said, “sold only 670 tons, which went to the War Department, through the Wentz company of Philadelphia, and on that coal it received a gross sales commis- sfon of less than 25 cents a ton. The Natfonal Coal Association is advised that the coal in question was not pro- duced by the Watkins Coal Company at all, but was coal which that com- pany was selling for other producers, acting as their sales agent.” of lh};ro sed emergency appropriation to be paid from this fund is '6,500. £ $2The emergency appropriations to be paid from the surplus revenues, as recommended by the committee, are for school sites, and an office for the recorder of deeds, municipal stables, storehouses and asphalt plant, playgrounds, street lighting, a nurses’ home at the Tuberculosis Hospital, parks, sites for a ieeble-minded institution and an industrial home school. ‘Ne Provision for School Houses. The Senate committee declined to insert in the bill any of the proposals by the Commissioners and bosrd of education for the erection of Bew school buildings, om the ground that exorbitant prices were being charged for the erection of such bulldings. The emergency appropriations m‘l?- the schools provided by the com! called merely for the purchase of e p Senato! sites for bui r Curtis of dings. ansas, in charge of the District ap- l:ropri;tion bill, following the report “For the purchase of & uige in the vicinity of the Tenley School, $16,000: Building for Recorder of Deeds. “For the purchase of the property known as the Century building, num- ‘bered 4126th street-northwest, Wash- ington, District of Columbia, being the north 338-100 feet of lot 15. square 489, for offives of the recordef ot deeds, §70.000, or so much. thereof as Mmay be necel g ¥ Municipal Stables, Ete. “For the acquisition of lapd as a site for stables, store yards, store- bouses and shops to take the place of stabler, store yards, storehouses and shops now located within. the lines of Canal street, between South Capitol street and Delaware avenue mouthwest. and also as a site for disposal of city refuse stables. and for municipal asphalt plant, said site to contain an area of approximately two hundred and eight thousand square feet. with authority to .con- struct a railroad siding into said #ite 36 acquired, provided the same shall abut upon a railroad or upon in sympathy ml‘{: saig that the committee would call upon the District Commissioners o investigate the cost of buildings in other cities similar in size to Washington. and to report 1o the committee. He indicated hm‘n legislation would be put througt . future to care for the 5choo the a street now legally occupied b; y @ needs. aver the committes has re- |Taiiroad track, $400.000. ceived _information ‘:-_n‘ oo Vor D. C. Playground, school buildings are bein: “#wimming pools—For the c o- a cost of $25,000, and l"f;":' 7~ ™ | tion of two swimming poon;.o:::"":r school buildings at a cost of | butld- baths, appurtenances and equipment four-room school bul on sites to be selected by the Com- t of :rnh;l cl?l‘lh! District is estimated at $100.000, and of twelve-room school ‘duildings at $300,000, he said. The committee believes that no such dis- crepency in the cost of school build- ings should exist between Denver and Washington. Ome Important Imcrease. ;‘;;,,f,’,}f;?;,of{'"mh“ Heights play- increase proposed is|take the place of the Gallinger - =g ’m‘w"as; (nr a water main be-{ground. §. Ser ol se Circle, Georgia Park playground—For the purchase or condemnation of ground to take the place of the present site of anrk Vlfiw playground, $32,000. t'to per diem employes regu-| “Logan playground—For the pur- ;:yi‘ynel;npln)"d, leave of absence 'ls;:slc::eel:r m;ndelnnl(lon of ‘mung to pay not exceeding fifteen asysacic 317300 Siplacot ot play o e T 5 e fizcal Year o commitiee recommended | “Rose Park playground—For the o e ber of decreases from the ap-|purchase or condemnation of ground S ropriations carried in the House bill, | to take the place of Rose Park play- the total decrease being $3552,440. ground, $5,000. The committee has made praw“"yl Electrieal Department. lder street northwest. avenue and El 3 e The committee had inserted a new ection authorizing the Commissioners | | | | no increases in salarier. e e tmenC i A Emergeney Appropriations. lighting. Tor gas. Hehting. olumes The emergency appropriations car- the purchase and installation of lamp- rird o section 9 recommended by the | POStS, strest designations, fixtures, committee follow: nterns and all other necessary ex. “0.That the Commissioners of the Dis- l;'eu;ut;:"‘r in connmection therewith, trict of Columbia are authorized to use | $53.000- it Seh s may be necessary of the| “Kor the erection of a nurses’ home Yarplus revenues of said District in | erculosis Hospital, $50,000. the Treasury of the United States on Pablic Pa June 30, 1920, to pay one-half of the rha. Toliowing sumwzw;-u;«;ly 2 appropriated 1ro :x::.eh'mndm:\ further sum equal to the amount so appropriated from the rev- “hues of the District of Columbia is Vereby appropriated from auy moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appro- priated, to pay the ether half of said sums, namely: Schools, Sites for Buildings. “For the purchase of a site for an onfll:to-:oom Sxtensible building in the immediate vicinity of the Mott School, “The Commissioners of t of Columbia are hereby ,;entll):?rl:;i:é to acquire by condemnation under the provisions of law governing the ace Qquisition of public parks as contained in the District of Columbia appropria- tion act for the ‘fiscal yvear ending June 30, 1913, approved June 26, 1912 the following tracts of land for pari and playground purposes at a total cost not to - exceed $1,500,009, and there is hereby appropriated toward the acquisition of one or more of said tracts the sum of $1,000,000. “The tracts of jand known as 40,000, S Klingle Road Valley Park, B4 00D thie purchase of additional land | xbout seventeen and twenty ong LiE «dioining the John Faton School, |hundredths acres, and the Pimey $33%00. Branch Valley Park, containing abogys 2:000. he purchase of a site for alten and fifty-five - onehunbregcet sixteen-room bullding north of and in|acres. shown on a map filed in " the i ity of Lincoln Park, $45,f . office he surveyor istri the viclnlty of 1 aae of & site for a | of Columbla; o' °f the District replace the| “The Dean tract, known as and 819, in square 3333, comtsinis about nine and one-fourth acres, ang |the Patterson tract, known as parcel 219-2, containing about $1.7¢ acres: “The Commissioners are further jauthorized to reduce the area to be acquired in any of sald tracts where by reason of improvements construct. ed or unreasonable prices asked, or sour-room _ building to Smothers School, $5.000. "For the purchase of a site west of J6th street northwest, in the Ingleside section, $50,000. J “For the purchase of a site in the yicinity of Woodley Park, $43,000. “For the purchase of a site for a sunior high school, in the vicinity of 1 Emery and Kckington ity of the Stevens Schooi, $35.000. For the purchase of a site for a adjoining the Buchanan 0ol, $45,000. For the purchase of a site between 15th and 16th streets northwest, on or north of Spring road, $40,000. “For the purchase of a site for an ht-room addition to the Lovejoy hool, $7,500. i the Bell School, $10,000. "'Por' the purchase of a site in the vicinity of the Ludlow School, $20,000. “For the purchase of additional land @djolning the Peabody School, $14,000. ‘Jor the purchase of & site adjoln- | D¢ for other reasons in their the public interests may r«;’:fi:’m:.'.'é the amounts hereinbefore authorized to cover the cost of said tracts shall be reduced in proportion to the pres- ent value of the areas so reduced, Site for Home for Feeble-Minded. “The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and di- rected to purchase as a site for a home and school for feeble-minded rsons a tract of land containing approximately one thousand acres in the District of Columbis, or in the state of Maryland, or in the state of D. C. DISAPPOINTE AT MISSING MAYOR Crowd at Union Station Had Planned Welcome 1o Dff-- iel 1. 0’Callaghan. > 3 [} Local Trish sympathizérs were disap- | pointed toduy when word was receiveld | that Danfel J. ©'Callaghan. lord thayor of Cork, who was to have arrived in the city from Norfolk at 2:30 o'clock, had missed his train and would not leave the southern city until fonight. A delegation from the American As- soctation for. the Recognition of the Irish Republic, headed by Rossa F. Downing, was on hand to recefve Mayor Q'Calla- ghan and escort him to his hotel. ‘While it has not been definitely de- cided how long Mayor O'Callaghan will stay in the city, when he reaches here, it is expected that he will remain here untll a decision has: been rendered by the government regarding his case. Forwarded Appeal. Judge Joseph T. Lawless, .counsel for Mayor O'Callaghan, yesterday forwarded to Washington his appeal from the de- cision of the immigration office at New- rt News, which held that Mavor O'Callaghan could not remain in this country. 4 Mr. Downing said today that in case Mayor O'Callaghan stayed in the city over tomorrow every effort would be made to hive him address the Amer- jcan Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic at its regular meeting_tomorrow night. The New York branch of the or- gonization, according to report, is making elaborate preparations for a monster demonstration in honor of the Irishman in that city next week. 0’Callaghan Case Up Menday. Legal question of OCallaghan’s right to be in the United States in violation of the pussport regulations will be taken up Monday, when Sec- retary Wilson of the Labor Depart- ment returns from Pennsylvania, it was said today at the Department of Labor. At that time Secretary Wilson is expected to confer with Acting Sec- retary Davis of the State Department. Labor Department officials today claimed Secretary Wilson is entirely within his rights in admitting O'Cal- laghan on parole. If the State De- partment wishes to canse the arrest of the lord mayor for entering the Tnited States in violation of the pass- port regulations it will act entirely within its rights, it was said. Today’s News ! in Paragraphs Harding does not believe tariff wan Should be built too bigh. Page 1 Department of Justice takes inquiry R gas of cosl profitecring. Page 1 se committee hearings on the Lehi- House o elansification bill are especiod to begin next week o 2 e oeoiidead inesassRorkss 110 e o plan in. District approprin. | tion bil i e | Docision regarding the selection of Sface for the inauguration ball is ex- pected in 2 few days. Page 2 Fronch and British must decide way to | ¥ fiscuss German civil guards. Page 2 Near Iast Relief reports $14677.37 given last year. o - Thomas W. Salmon and others D parate. hospitals for treatment o War victims. At of Knox proposes sending Senate - D ttes to Cuba to conduct inguiry. Home buyers to take plea before - rees next. Wednesday. P Income tax blanks for District to be ‘available next week. Page 3 ugpanish grandes” and runaway found by reporter. wie P. O. Department chief clerk replies to article on using space in office for branch. - Virginia, and the sum of $40,000 is (Continued on Page 5, Columa 1.) main Builders and realty hape for early men resumption of big bullm: bu:m in District,: % «Page 1 Part 2 Department of Justice to TH THUS ENDETH U. 3. SPECULATES INPOSTAL SAVINGS Takes Fund in Banks and | Buys Liberty Bonds for | Greater Profit. Well, what do you think? Your |Uncle Sam has turned . speculator. { Moreover, he is buying his own “pa- iper" at less than . He: has shrewd eye for a bargain, it seems, dnd {s ndt above taking advantage of ‘opportunities to turn an honest penny for himself. 5 1t is this way; the government, find- ing that it had some $168,000,000 of deposits in postal xavings banks, took cut $105,000,000 and bought liberty botide. The face value of .the bands purchased is $111,000,000, 4nd Uncle s will draw interest on the money fwily invested of.$.aad:6 per cent, |* VIEW: FOR STAR GAZERS. | Conjunction of Planets Observable Tonight if Sky Is Clear. ’ This evening about 8 o'clock, if the sky is clear, star gazers can observe the conjunction of three planets. planet Mars, which now is a con uous evening star, will be Within one- half of a degree of Venus. ‘Uranus at this time is but a quarter.of a de- gree north of Mars. So close a conjunction of three plan- «ts at once is unusual enough to be an interesting phenomenon in the The | spic- heavens, though one of them may be invisible to the naked eye. TOASK HOSPTAL HEADS TO TESTIFY House Committee ~ Seeks; More Information on Waiter | 1./ -Reed Fire Needs. ® as afu Bst 234 and 2% per cent paidi. . ge of th thal 'Hé House rules committee today Hfip’&fi?""’ # % N fdecjided to- invite Col. Glenpan' 'dnd Net' Co¥ll, Prefiteer. Po be sute, hb is not such a good business man when it comes.to buy- ing coal for the¢ War Department, hating paid an average of $7.12 a ton for coal which cost $2.32 at the mine, and . which the - Navy Department bought for $4.35 to $4.75 a ton—but that is another affair, which Congress is patiently Waiting for the War De- partment fo expiain. i But he surely is forehanded and far- sighted in his liberty bond and pos- other officia}s at Walter Reed Hospital to a conference with théem looking towards affording greater protection. against fire to the 1,400 war heroes who are now housed in inflammable| barracks at the hospital. : This deécision was reached by the committee after two. days’ hearing on a resolution introduced by Represent- ative Clarence J. McLeod. himself an_ ex-service man, proposing an in- tal savings flnancing. Congressmen | vestigation of the fatal flre onj agree that it may be questionable for | December 12. the government to buy its own se-| As a result of testimony given | curities at less than par, but is en- tirely within its rights in doing so. These facts were developed in the course of debate on thé post . office appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1922, which also “brought- out " the statemept that the business of the Post Oftice Department has increased 20 per cent during the current fiscal year. The pending appropriation bill is the lirgest ever presented to Con- gress, carrying almost $600,000,000. At that, the business is not paying its way, the deficiencies for the years 1920 and 1921 amounting to $73,- 500,000. Alr Mail Experiments. ‘The air mail service is not well re- garded by the appropriations com- mittee, but experiments will be con- tinued to the extent of $1,250,000. ‘The House is willing to take another chance on the innovation. It is re- called that when the postal savings banks were established, the banks of the country raised a protest, charging it would hurt the banking business, bat found that it helped it, because the funds deposited In the postal savings accounts ultimately found their way into the banks. 1t is figured now that it costs $535 to carry a ton of mall one mile by afr, while a ton can be carried a mile jon the railroads for 7 cents How- ever, the government thinks that the experience gained in flying through all climatic_and air conditions be- tween New York and San Francisco may be of advantage for militay pur- poses, and the small appropriation will be continued. The transconti- nental alr mail service is supposed to gain sixteen hours between New York and San Francisco over the the railroad delivery. {CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE ILL. Has Heavy Cold and Is Confined to His Home. Chisf Justice White is confined to his home with a heavy cold. While he i8 under the watchful care of his phy- siclan, his condition is not regarded as dangerous. today by District Commissioner Thil- man J. Hendrick, George W. Watson, : chief engineer of the firg department, and Battalion Chief J. J. Hanlon, the committee -will recommend to the| hospital authorities that a fire alarm | box be placed in the-telephone room and other boxes placed about the grounds, with instructions that these boxes are to be rung immediately when fire is discovered. : It was the general opinion of the District officials that there was de- linquency at the hospital on Decem- ber 12 in sounding the alarm Which was first given by telephone instead of a box being rung. Want Brick Bulldings Used. The House rules committee will rec- ommend - to Col. Glennan the use of brick, fireproof or semi-fireproof buildings on the hospital grounds for use of the approximately 500 bed- ridden patients which are now. being | used by officials, nurses, attendants | and laborers. . Chairman Campbell of the rules| committee, Representative Pou of North Carolina, whose son was killed in service during the war; Represent- ative S. D. Fess of Ohio and other | members of the committee emphati- cally expressed a desire to get prompt action, that the utmost protection may be given to the war heroes. Chairman Campbell expressed. the opinion that everybody is tired of in- | Vestigations and reports, but he be- ! lleves every member of Congress is most sincerely anxious that every possible protection shall be given to the men at Walter Reed Hospital, At the hearing today- Edwin M. Cleury, an attorney, living near Walter Reed Hospital, continued the testimony he started yesterday. He sald that an alarm from Walter Reed Hospital would be treated as a local, and an- swered by engine company No. 22, Which he described as “‘a country com- pany,” while if an alarm was sounded at 10th street and Louisiana avenue, Where the only danger to life was to chickens, ducks, etc., six or eight com- panies would respond. He read a long letter of recommen- dation _which - he _had submitled to (Continucd on Page 2, Column 3.) “Many Changes in Inaugural Ceremonies”’ , A special article of interest to all Washingtonians in ! the Magazine Section of Tomorrow’s Star Do you know that George Washington’s inaugural andg started fourteen days before the inauguration? that no heat was furnished for Grant’s inaugural ball? Or that—?. But don’t fail to read this interesting article in : Tomorrow’s Star | all has to do with Indiana politics, the AnD-Fieenmd A BONUS SHAS BEEN &Y DROPPED BYATHE c:"?n‘ffis TEE E——— FIRST WEEK OF THE HAPPY NEW YEAR. ONLY HUGHES SURE 0 BE IN CABINET Other Candidates to- Await Decision, Though Post Is Open to Daugherty. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘Twixt Marion and Washington, whither runs the great political high- Way of the nation, many a change has 1 come during the past week. Some of the early -cabinet Drobabilities have fallen by the wayside. Some of the | Reporter to Offer | Aeronauts $16,000 | Orders of the Navy Depari- | ment to the three Ni mew making thelr wi from the Canadian wild: their oficial re- submitted, will Daniels said periences uai port has beem stand, Secretary today. “Simce the men ave 1 paid by were the governme traveling in goverament serv- fce, at the expease of the pub- lic,” Daniels said, “1 believe one or 000 for a sigmed exclusive ac- count. | HARDING OPPOSES 100 HIGH TARIFF :;Does Not Believe Wall Should Shut Off Very Imports Giving Revenue. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. MARION, Ohio, Januvary 8—One thing the legisiative conferences at Marion have determined—and that is, there's to be no billion-dollar tariff bill. President-elect Harding is protectionist, a very ardent one, and in the recent campaign surprised many persons by dealing with the tariff as a real, live issue. But he does not believe the tariff wall should be built so high as to shut off the very imports from which the greatest amount of revenue is to be expected. N can say just what the pro- mfl o,l::' tarMff will raise, but that it will not go far toward ameliorating the present tax burden of the people seems ce! n. Senator Harding has been informed that virtdally a 100 per cent increase in the present duties would yleld approximately $350,000,- 000 additional annually in revenue, provided, of course, imports continue to flow in at the present rate. With. annual appropriations by Congress hovering around the $4,000,- 000,000 mark, including interest and fund charges on the blic b For Signed Story | | wabsequent ex- | | TWO CENTS. WHITE WILDERNESS MAY GIVE UP THREE NAVY FLYERS TODAY Canadian Outposts Wait to Give Heroes First Welcome of World. | MENACING SNOWSTORM | LASTS BUT SHORT WHILE Watchers in Quandary as to Trail Party Selected—Mounted Police Out to Meet Party. By the Aswcisted Press. COCHRANE, Ontario, January 3. Expectancy that the three weather- buffeted naval balloonists from Rock- W N. Y., would emerge before nightfall from the snowy wilderness that has enfolded them since they dropped to earth on December 14 n.ear the Moose Factory trading sta- tion, pervaded this outpost of civili- zation with the break of dawn to- day. A distinct improvement in conditions {along Indian tratis by which the three stranded American naval bal loonists are returning to civilization from the shores of Hudson bay, was reported today. Notwithstanding the threat of heavy wheuutlh !&!km. it was found e skies cleared light new covering had .:.h:l,'?zl! a Wwith the thermometer steadily falling the keen {rost should stiffen the white surface over which the airmen are traveling, making mushing easier. It was newspaper men setting out from Mattice to meet the party must have covered fifty miles by now, while on the trail from Cochrane to Moose Factory rufiners :&vcee mj‘:ut.:n(‘h out from the post , the ey nearest settlement No Word Frem Sceuts. At noon no word had been ived from either scoutis party. — er of the Mattica par e beag ® that point on the tramscon \ line a3 soon s the ballbonists wers met. It was estimated that word of the party’s approach could in - this manner be brought in at least five hours ahead early legisiative enthusiasms have |ZiRking even expects The ruhiners eut. fro i > will t the ed m been sidetracked, and.the hara and e L b e evemuo cuts but & | ouiar erders, : serious business of readjusting the | comparatively small figure in BIo-| from Clute. very - rapidly nation's ec:nqmlc affairs with a vhi'lng for :pc general expense of the mw‘""" the R BToup of abls executives has com government. oor, jr.; W Hintotr aud Stephen ;’f_"n‘,‘;""“ upon by finunz-:u:: ' Gives Thenght tv Finmares. Fmeu—l-om their perflous ad- Wiy & traBacendent reqponsl- | - gonator Hardiag bas ving | ToRUTe AL the No longer 4o thé former eomrad nfifi:@e and thaught to ‘ ’ : d He and ot“s:‘mgr Harding at Washington gt of the gowernmment. 1 st e who can b twined ek pohicy 22 | recently .has. been arking ipal Sy Girection LIl Ao ir’fi'm""'uf W"flm o The burdevn:“olors. te rm“"l hims. | dustion ¥ thelr Income taxés at & their o 1, .. Representati hmve set ou that upoh the President-sledt. and. the | By, sondell lican leader. of | Cochrane i mernibers of Congress wh turned here from Marion on!u‘“‘:’l‘n’:g‘ niess With which the Reet Brepiarne it the United States is liniinaries of his job. Upset In Cabimet Siate. Al Washington has 1 ; the weelc of the upeot.sn The. cabrisy ate. The truth is that on is & fixture—poksibly twa. Phe Bay tackling the pre- {3 Charles Evans Hughes, who is al- ready arranging his affal acceptance of the Dorifollo o ecs tary of State. The other is Harry Daugherty, who can be Attorney Genefal it he wants to. - n 2 general sense, nobod: a cabinet bromise from Sy, Sracanss that cannot be revoked. Indeed. Serc. ator Harding has adopted a polic Which the wiseacres here say 19 sy astute piece of , personal strategy, coupled_with years of political asa: men. When Mr. Hardinz talked with some of the celebritiss Who have been mentioned for cabinet positions, he sud to each something like this: E course, cabinet slates ‘are like e e &a_uhject 10 about the time one had fized pari o the slate, some geographical consid- erations enter into another part and a shift must be made. All things be- ing equal. if things do shape them- selves right, will you be in a position to ¥o into the cabinet> Noc ot = Detiaite Commitment. Now to some men that as u definite offer of & Pambr et follo sufficiently certain to go home and tell one's wife.and one's intimate friends. And that's how news of posi. tive selections finds its way Into the Dudlic prints. But any reader will agtee that the foregving doesn't rep- resont a definite commitment and that presidential prerogutive permits the tmako "::; :hf.;u&h lz::en! Statements o eventually be chosen. e hen there’s another fuctor taken into conslderation. The me.. ment word' gets out of the probable selection of cabinet secretaries all the people who have criticism (o make pile their letters and telegrams of dissent on the heads of the men whose names have been printed as probable appointees. For instance, the Chicago packers had been quietly working to prevent the appointment of Henry C. Wallace as Secretary of Agriculture, and thought they had succeeded, wher rather positive information that, he would be appointed was made public, They redoubled their efforts ‘and so did certain farmer _orgunizations which are opposed to Mr.. Wallace. Indiana Pelities. Another fascinating sitnation a pelitical vhwromt is that wrl:?c': surrourds the selection of Will Hays, chairman of the republican national committee, who has been mentioned for the postmaster generalship. It for the ramification of which alwa; all understanding. 'Tis hlyd., l;‘o:'?:& stance, that Senator Harry New is afraid that former Senator Albert Beyeridge will enter the primaries and defeat him for renomingtion next year. 'Tis also said that Mr. New would like to be in the cabinet and ‘would like to see Will Hays make the race for senator. Some people who ought to know and who are not themo selves parties to the Indiana contro- versy, say Will Hays will land in the cabinet, not as Postmaster General, but as Secretary of Commerce, i 'The slate which got attention from one. ehd of the Couftry to the other contained the names of A. T. Hert of Hentucky, Hays and . Harry mu{nuty. thres men active in re- ublican politics; able men, indeed; ut men who some: of the critics have said didn't measpre up to the cam- paign promise of the “ablest men in the republican party.” & : ident of | coul ‘wand. ciared that no comsiderable or satis- factory relief from tax burdens counld be ‘afforded until shall hitve 1aid the foundation for such relief by & very Mx,’ot:;l“fle reduction in government e tures. He said it was true there might be adjustments or modifications of the revenue laws that would afford some relief, that would remove certain in- equalities and lighten some burdens, but a very substantial reduction in government expenditures must pre- cede and form the basis for any ma- terial relief or reasonably satisfactory readjustment. Mr. Mondell told Senator Harding, it now develops, that it was going to be extremely difficult to cut the appro. priations for the mext year. ginning July 1 below the appropria- tions for the ie’" which will expire June 30. The best that can be hoped for, apparently, is a reduction of about $200,000,000. In view of this fact it will take some rather sharp financiering to reduce the income tax levy for 1821. Of course, there has been no reduction in the rates for 1920, and the payments for that year, which begin March 15, will be on the same scale as payments made during 1920 on the 1919 income. Expeets Improvement In Year. Mr. Mondell thinks, however, that after another year has elapsed. there will be a big improvement. He based this belief upon a change in the pol- icy at the Treasury Department with the incoming of the Harding admin- istration. Mr. Mondell thinks the democratic administration, represent- ed by Secretary Houston, has been attempting to pay off the war debt too fust. He pointed out that up to i June 30 last we had paid 32 per cent of the net cost of the war, including foreign loan. out of the current rev- enues, or 44.57 per cent if the foreign loans are excluded. Senator Harding apparently agrees with the contention of the republican Jeaders' that the democratic admin- jstration should have treated the $4.- 060,000,000 of floating indebtedness in- cyrred during the war period as a part of the cost of the war, and arranged for its payment over a long term of years, just as the liberty louns are to be paid off. 2 Instead of doing this, however, it has been the policy of Secretary Houston and his predecessors in the Treasury to pay off the floating debt, represented by Treasury certificites, as rapidly as ible. It is, therefore, estimated: that by June 30 mext the four billions of floating debt will be reduced to a bil- lion and a half. 1t will not be the policy of the Hard- ing administration to continue to levy | war taxes upon the people in order to | Sontinue such a rate of paying off the cost of the war. In due course the new 2dministration will proceed to the re- t| the advancing aeronauts were safe at Moose Fac- tory. Before he left, the runner said. it was decided that the rescued fliers should be sent over the Mattic trail with mail packet starting om De- cember 37. Heavy Smowfall Memgee. Some sages of the northland, how- ever, still clung to the opinion that the shorter Abitibi river trail ending at Clute is being followed. In defer- ence to this opinion, a little squad of welcomers remain here, hoping thar they may be first to flash to the world news of the flyers’ safe arival at a railroad. § Further details of the perils and j hardships encountered by the Ameri- cans, as told at Toronto last night by S. A. Bradbury, upon his arrival from Moose Factory, have served to height- en the already keen interest with which .all Ontario awaits the return of the intrepid airmen and their own recountal of their sufferings and nar- row escape from death as they wan- dered for four days through the trackless, snow-blanketed forests of the Hudson Bay country. For a time yesterday weather-wise residents of Cochrane feared the bal- |loonists were about to become lost jagain in a blinding enowstorm which promised to blot out the faint trail they were folowing. The skies clear- ed late in the afternoon, however, and although the snow through which they had to travel was deeper, trap- pers declared it was not sufficient to impede their progress greatly. Plans have been virtually complet- ed to accord the adventurers a royal welcome upon their arrival. g Special Train Is Waiting. Mounted police and newspapermen bave sheafs of telegrama. of con. gratulation for them and special tele. phone connections have been ar- ranged so that they may immediately Teport to Secretary Daniels, Wash- ington, and talk to their wive Rockaway. e A special train, prepared by the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario railway, is waiting to take them to Toronto, where the Rotary Club end other organizations, as well as prov- ince officials, are reported to be plan- ning receptions. ‘ George W. Lee, chairman of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario railway commission, the provineial government-owned railroad system. telegraphed messages of greeting to aifmen. o be deltveres terminal. His message to Lieue S ton said: i “Will be glad to furnish free I - dm‘lk:ce telpe'blhon;‘m .n{fl Rockeway Point, N. Y., or to - ment at Washington. whichever gau may desire, on arrival a e ‘o _the three naval office: the following: e maymrhy on their arrival in funding of the Victory notes, which ma- ture in May, 1923. It is possible also that what remains of the floating debt incurred during the war and forming just as much a part of the cost of the war as the loans represented by liberty bonds will be converted so that the payments may extend over a number of Te. The republicans see no reason Why the cost of the war should not be spread out over the next fifty or sixty “The T. and N. O. railway offers you the most hearty congratulations on your miraculous escape. We rejolced With the rest of the world when we heard the good news of your safety. ‘We have very much pleasure in ex- tending to you free transportation over our raiiway, and hepe you may accept same. With kindest wishes.” years. (Copyright, 1921.) the business world and yet make a fallure of government administra- tion, because of their lack of political insight, theix lack of ability to judge i5 that public opinion says and wants, Mr. Harding will have some political Jeaders in his cabinet. The point is Just how meny he feels will be neces- saty and how many would be looked upon as a preponderance of political talent. : (Copyright, 1921.) ", £ at the psychological moment what it | tion of the desperate LETTER TELLS OF HARDSHIPS. Aeronauts Could Not Have Lived Another Day, Is Réport. By the Asmciated Press. 'NEW YORK, January $—Descrip- plight of the American naval after three fid ianded ia the Tradson bar country December 14 and started working their painful way back to habitation at Factory was re- coived here in a letter from 8. R. (Comtinued on Pige 2, Column-