Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1921, Page 1

Fair tonight and tomeorr ‘warmer tomor; Temperature ended ut 2 p.m. toda 2 p.m. today; lowest, 81, at 5:30 today. Full report on page 21 Closing New York Stocks, Page 23. WEATHER." or twenty-four hours Highe! -ow; slightly Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 8689 No. 28,221, AMERICA TOIGNOR VERSALLES PACT INGERMAN TREATY Negotiations Are Now Under Way to Make Separate . Peace. RIGHT OF FREE ACTION TO BE ASSERTED BY U. S. Allies Informed of This Country’s . Intention—Not Asked to Become Parties. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The United States government is making a separate treaty with Ger- many. The treaty of Versailles will not be submitted to the Senate, With or with- out reservations. ! The new pact with Germany will be' & peace treaty only in the sense that] it will formalily end the state of war between the United States and Ger- many. but it will really amount to a treaty of amity and commerce. Germany has not been asked to re- affirm the treaty of Versailles or to grant again to"the United States spe- cifically all the rights which she gave America under the Versailles treaty. The United States hasn't asked the; allied powers to Sign a new treaty. All the foregoing statements rep- resent developments in the most com plex legal controversy that has ever Taced our government, and if they seem to contradict expectations of the past they must be taken as the Jatest turn in a negotiation which has required our officials to turn from one expedient to another to put an end to the state of war betwecn Ger- many and the United States. T. S. Rights Not Abandemed. riefly, the United States deesn't; :lbfindor{ the rights given her under; the treaty of Versailles. She still claims them. but not by virtue of an American President's signature at Paris, but because of America’s sig- nature to the terms of the armistice, Ihich symbolizes America’s partici- pation in the war. The United States Zovernment doesn’t ask Germany to Teafirm anything and doesn’t ask the allies to concede anything. The program of the Harding wdmin- jstration Is based upon the broad as- sumption that when German; stowed all her rights and properties upon her conquerors she made an “indivisible grant.”’ Th: nt was made to the “principal allied and as- sociated powers.” The United E! was of “the assdclated powers. 3 America construes that act as ir. allles to il ringiple. - Secretaey agree to th H‘ughel enun: the doctrine esrly | in the Harding administration when} he insisted in a formal note to all ihe powers that America derives her- Jights not out of any treaty. but dut of her participation in the war. He Btated this principle in the Yap case, and virtually 8ll the powe ‘hlV. Zicquiesced in that position, theugh it 3s true their acquiescence is not spe- | cifically directed and may vet be the basis for varying interpretations. Alljes Notified. The United States has notified the! allies of the kind of treaty she; 5s negotiating with Germany. That's| 1he courteous thing to do and doesn’t ijmply that America wants the per- snission of the allies. It simply means that America is not attempting to take herself out of the allied group simply Yecause she finds it necessary ta make u special peace treaty with Germany at a belated date. As for the allies. however, the big «uestion remains as to whether they ! J:ave or have not accepted the doctrine | wf prior rights of victorious possession zrowing out of the armistice. A cer- 1ain communication sent by the coun- cil of the league of nations not long ! ago gives a cue to the attitude of the | powers. Trke council was 4sked to consider the question of mandates, particular- 1y the Yap mandate. The council de- cided that inasmuch as the allocation of mandates took place before the! Jeague was born. it behooves the | principal allied and associated pow- ers to settle the dispute first. This is taken here to mean that| the league of nations, as the body ‘which interprets the Versailles treaty. has in effect said that it will not claim jurisdiction over matters oc- | curring prior to the first meeting of the league and will look to the prin- ! cipal allied and associated powers| for decisions on those points. Thi: explains to some extent why Pres! dent Harding ordered Ambassador| Harvey to represent the United Stat on the supreme council, which is com- posed exactly of the principal allied | and associated powers. Question of Mandates. 1 In the supreme council henceforth | will America raise all questions which | may relate to mandates or rights! which other powers claim under the! Versailles pact. Instead of a treaty ! with Germany formally lodging all| these, rights in the United States. the | government here prefers to consider! that the rights already are vested in| the principal allied and assoctat powers and that nothing more need to be done about that until a specific dispute arises, when the United Ste ~s | will adopt the same attitude she has taken in the Yap mandate case. Acquiescence in- the position taken | by the United States on the Yap man- date has been informally indicated by ! Great Britain, France and Italy. After the Yap controversy is cleared up it| is not unlikely that Japan' will ac- quiesce in the - broad eprinciple that, America is entitled to be consulted n regard to all questions in the world | relating in any way to the grants of authority or pewer made by Germany to the group known as the principal allied and associated powers. Nations May Not Agree. Other nations may not immediately agree to America’s position, but the United States is going ahead on the B por- tunity to protest or object if they wish. America didn’t exactly ask the other powers their views, but stated plainly the course ‘that was te pursued. and. of course, if foreign governments do not object diplomacy considers /that silence gives consent. It is precisely that delicate st which the negotiations have reached. ihe allies feel that America ds a par- ticipant @n the war is entitled to the same rights under the armistice as America_would have had under the ireaty that followed the armistice? merica has made it clear that she esn’t intend to intervene in European | Jisputes or to assert her influence in matters that are accomplished facts as ctween the other powers, but she does sist that America -shall never be con- sidered as having lost any rights grow- ing out of the European war when those rights in any way affect the interests of.| Germany’s. merchant marine to have | appointed the United States. (Cepyright, 1921) . ) Entcred as second-class mati Dost office Washington, D' & _FORMAL INVITATION FOR REPRESENTATIVE AT SUPREME COUNCIL By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 4.—A formal in- vitation for an American repres sentative to attend the meeting of the allled_supreme council which opens in Paris next Monday was communicated to the American em- bassy here this afternoon through Col. de St. Alaine, the French am- bassador in London. United States Ambassador Harvey, accom- panied by a small staff, will leave for Paris on Saturday. DEFENDS HIS RULE OF RESERVE BOARD Gov. Harding Answers Critics Before Congressional Commission. Gov. Harding of the Federal Re- serve Board, began today a defense of his administration before the con- gressional commission. ‘the board, Including those of John Skelton Williams, former comptrol- ler of currency. Workings of the national credit system, Gov. Harding said. are in the hands of the reserve banks, and over these the board has “general super- vision.,” adding that this did mean “control.” “In law, the reserve banks are pri- vate corporations,” he continued, ‘controlled by their directors. Con- gress did not attempt to establish a central bank, but did furnish a means of mobilizing credit.” West’s Feeliag in 1920, Representative Funk, republican, Illinois, said that in 1920 there “had been a feeling in the west that re- serves were not being made available for their banks.” “The feeling was not warranted,” Gov. Harding said, “and I want to dis- cuss it later. The difficulty was in the unsuitability of some of the avail- able paper.” The question of individual credit extension “clearly, is up to the reserve banks,” Gov. Harding sald. through prejudice or other cause, the district bank refused a rediscount, the ‘member bank might appeal to the re- serve board, but up to that point, we | could not interfere. “It is true that the reserve board has power to change an interest rate on rediscounts after it has been put into effect by a district bank. But that has never been exercisé®."” Mr. Sumsers’ Question. Representative Sumners, democrat, Texas, guestioned ~Mr. Harding’s atatement that “general supervision™ was not equivalent- to- “control.” “I have na doubt t the reserve board tomorrow <an eéffectually re- move fro; - every "ressrve rding said, “but that power is sub- Ject to the rule of resson, and can- net exercised without adequate caus “The Federal Reserve Board has no power to force a district bank to| make a rediscount which its directors | do_not. consider reasonable and safe.” Limits of a member bank’s right to borrow throgh the' reserve system, | the governor explained, were set by & “basic line” charted out of computa- tions of banking resources, but he said the determination was “now no longer important, since progressive rates of | interest have been abolished.” - “There’s no pse denying very large accommodatidns were granted in the fall of 1920,” Gov. Harding continued, “I was sitting at my desk, getting telegrams from one reserve bank ask- ing for rediscounts from another. It was pretty close figuring, trying to keep up the reserves, but there never was a time when one of those requests was turned down.” Chart Is Presented. Presenting a chart, he sald the cur- rency circulatior. was being increased during 1920, and the loan accouts, | too, remarking this was the period concerning which complaints of re- striction are now being,made. “It looked as though our gold re- serves would fall below the legal re- quirements,” he said, “and it was necessary not to alarm anybody as| to the value of our currency. If the United States wishes to go on a pa- per basis, that is the business of Con- gress, not of the reserve board.” G reserves. Gov. Harding said, should be allowed to drop in emer- gencies. but kept up in normal pe- riods, and increased. “I don’t want to suggest that Con- troller Williams ever got any views from me” Gov. Harding remarked. “but there was no great difference in our views in September, 1920. I'm cu- rious to know what has caused so great a change in the opinions of a man. ave nothing to palliate or con- ceal” Gov. Harding said at another point, “but in considering the board's action during the economic crisis we have weathered just imagine the state of the United States had our currency and banking system collapsed as that of Cuba did.” =~ Near Clask Averted. Gov. Harding vigorously denied charges against the system made by Mr. Williams yesterday, and was forcibly restrained from a physical encounter with his adversary. - Rising from_the audience at the hearing. Gov. Harding demanded au- dience on personal grounds to deny alegations concerning himself made by Mr. Williams. During the bar- rage of heated interchanges he charged across the committee room swinging his fist. He was haited by struggling assoclates just in front | of his adversary, who remained cool. ia (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Today’s News in Paragraphs Mrs. James T. Rison dies of wounds after night's quarrel with husband. E Page Monster U. S. dirigible built in England to sail here August 25. Page Full ‘meeting’ of Irish pariiament called in peace proceedings. Page A bill was introduced i the House, rec- ommended by - the highway commis- sion, . providing for the extension of 14th’ street through the -Walter Reed Hospital grounds. 1 Page ‘White mountain country welcomes Pressident. Page 13 Every school playground thrown open despite slow-coming fund. Page 13 TU. S. attorney at New York faces quis on seizure of ships. Page 16 Fugitive from Russia.says Mrs. Harri- son saved his life. Page 16 Corncobs may soon furnish fuel for operating sfatomobiles. Page 19 ‘Youth says brotheg slew mother, who had ‘refused him fufhiture to wed. ~ Pyge 21 5,000,000 tonnage in 1930, writer says. . Page 38 which has [heard a series of criticisms against “Now, if office_every director and iz ‘bank,’ = WASHINGTON, |RNOTHER PAY CUT ISPROPOSED FOR NAVY YARD FORCE Wage Boqrd Has Recom- mended Reduction of 5 Per Cent October 1. WORKERS TO CHARGE SHIP PLANTS BRING PRESSURE Preparing Data to Prove Conten- tion That Outside Builders Are Trying for Contracts. Reduction of 5 per cent of the pay of all of the 7,000 employes of the Wash- ington navy yard has becn recom- mended to the Navy Department by the local wage board, composed of naval officers at the local gun factory, it became known todey. The cutting of wages, if approved, is to become effective October 1 next. In the face of this proposed reduc- tion in wages, which is an addition to the two already actually taken by the employes since July 1. there has been a daily reduction of the force at the local gun factory. While the wage board. whose re- port is made direct to the Navy De- partment, recommended a general |reduction, the commandant of the local {yard has forwarded a request to the department that the administrative force—that is, clerks and draftsmen —be not included in the wage board's recommendation. However, it was said that he recommended that one more hour a day be added to their working period. ~ This, it was nolnl-] ed out, is a greater reduction than the 5 per cent for the other employes. Subject to a Review. The recommendations of the wage board are subject to review by the general board of the Navy, and that board is scheduled to hold hearings on the matter this month. The {unfons and other employes' organi- zations, it was developed, are plan- ning to make a strenuous fight against any further reductions in salary, pointing to the already seri- ous- decreases in pay which the em- ployes have had to take since July 1. When the hearings are given by the general board, it was learned also, the employes will have many interesting data to present. includ- ing the finformation that the pro- posed wage.reduction is a. part of the plan _of the eastern shipbullders to bring about lowering of wages in the local gun factory as well as other eastern navy yards. and the ultimate reduction of working forces to the point where much of the -vw lwork will have to be let lo’pfl pyard -eontyactors. - > M = | Will Take Rap at:Comgress.- It will be polnted out that the powers of the eastern shipbuilders are being wielded in an indirect but firm manner through their congress- men. It was asserted today by those in close touch with local employment conditions, as a basis for further pro- fest at the hearings, that the recom- mendations of the local wage hoard do mot Indicate that they: complied with the law in reachihg their con- clusion. The law requires the board %o take into consideration In form- | ing its wage recommendations the | salaries paid for similar work by private firms in the general vicinity of the navy yard. Ffhe work per- formed by the mechanical force at the local gun factory is of very high class, requiring as it does a fine grade of machinist work on the deli- | &ate tasks of gun building and | mounting. The report of the wage board indicates, it asserted. that the | board@ook into consideration wages paid to general mechanics and did Pt take into consideration the wages | paid " high-class mechanics on the ! outside. O fhe eastern shipbuilders at a re- cent meeting, according to informa- fion obtained today. took a stand | that wages in the navy vards of the east were too high, and at that time | decided to bring pressure to bear on | the Navy Department, through their cengressmen, to bring about a re- Quetion of wages. Such a reduction, it was asserted, would enable the private contractors to reduce wages 2nd at the same time keep their men | from egoing to the government, and a reduction in force in the government yards would make it necessary for the Fovernment to place much of its work | S3tside, to the benefit of the shipbuild- |ers. The navy yards, even with a higher Scale, have in most instances been able fo underbid the private concerss. The yards on all government work must bid like private contractors for gov- ernment work, and most of the time i get the contracts. Ultimate reduc- ition of the navy vard forces to the point where they can handle nothing but emergency work, it was asserted {in behalf of the navy yard workers, is the goal of the private shipbuilders. Reductions Ailready-Made. ! Some idea of the reductions in wages which already have been taken by employes of the Washington navy yard may be seen from a reading of } the figures here cited. First the |bonus of $240 a year was taken off, |then the closing of the yard for one jday a week takes off $312 a vear, and the proposed 5 per cent reduction, figuring an average wage of $6 a day, which is the way it is considered at | the locy, yard, will take off $93.70 a year. Wigured on a basis of 313 working days a year, this amounts to | la reduction of a fraction over $1.93 day: Aside from these decreased earnings {of the employes, it was further learned |tcday that there has been a gradual |decrease in the number of emploves at.the local yards to what is said to be the detriment of the efficient carry- ing out of the Navy work. This, it was asserted, is a furtherance of | the private Shipbuiiders’ propaganda. | which will force the government to send much of its naval work to the private contractors. Every day, it was pointéd out, some shop in the yard gets a reduction in its force, amounting to date, it was estimated, to about 500 employes. This | method of furloughing only a few employes a day is taken, according to the information obtained, to fl&l tract attention from a general cut of | | employes at one time. When the an- nouncement was made that the navy yards. would close down one day a | ‘week, it was said at that time that this was done to prevent a reduc- tion of employes and thus throwing thousands of people on an already large unemployed market. However, despite the closing order, the reduc- “::d is continuing at the local navy yard. E DEPUTY COLLECTOR. Special Dispatch to The Star. CULPEPER, Va., August 4—L. G. Mitehell of Standardsville has been ‘deputy_ revenge .collector for the county of Madison, to succeed the preseat incumbeat, J. W.-Hudson, D. C, WIFE 15" KILLED IN DAYBREAK FIGHT James T. Rison Is Charged With the Crime After Night’s Quarrel. With five pleces of her skull and 2 hatchet, flat iron and twe revolvers held by the police as evideace of a murderous attack made upon her early today, Mrs. Regina Rison, forty years old, of 317 Pennsylvania avenue died. in Emergency Hospital at noon toda: while her husband, James T. Rison, is held by the police, charged with the crime. £ 5 Motorcycle Policeman R. H. Johnson of the sixth precinct, responding to a eall for help, broke into the room Loccupled by the Risons shortly he: fore 8 o'clock this m and ar- ) i as latter at. at - him. Rison gave up without a struggle when he found himself “covered” by the officer. His wife was taked to Emergency Hospital. Came From Baltimore. The Rison’s lived in Baltimore until about three months ago, when they came here and rented a room in the Pennsylvania avenue house. Rison was employed as a foreman in the local shops of the Baltimore and Ohio Raliroad Company. Their Baltimore address was given as 946 West Fayette street, the wife’s maiden name being Regina Knell. It is said the couple had no children. About 5:45 o'clock this morning, the | time Rison usually got up to g6 to work, T. J. Tighe, the landlord, heard cries from the room. Becavse of the noise of a passing street car, stated, he thought the cries ca from newsboys, but a momen he heard the word “murder, lowed by a scream for help. Hurrying to the door me ater he | DES MOINES CARS IDLE; MANY VEHICLES IN USE Court Order Suspending Traffic for Failure to Meet Obligations Seriously Affects Suburbs. DES MOINES, Jowa, August 4.— Conveyances of every description were pressed into service on Des Moines streets today to provide transporta- tion for thousands$ of workers, fol- lowing the cessation of street car service last midnight. Des Moines street cars were in the |barns in accordance with a federal 'order ordering trafic suspension be- cause the car company was unable to | meet its obligations. Seventy buses, in operation on the main street car lines of the city, were supplemented by hundreds of other vehicles. Citizens of Des Moines faced the eituation in good humor, confident that some solution of the transportation problem would be forthcoming. Persons living in sub- urban towns probably suffered most from the trafic tie-up, which threw. 760 personis out ‘of i ent." - The street fommissioner. in antici- pation - of eased - motor yebicle traffic, issued hurried orders for street’ pavement repairs.: MONSTER DIRIGIBLE TOSAILFORTHEL.S. British-Built ZR-2 Leaves { Howden, England, for Lake- hurst, N. J., August 25. The monster British-built naval | ¢ the room | dirigible ZR-2 will sail from Howden, occupied by the Rison’s, he rapped i England, August 25 for its station at on_the door. voler was the only answer he ceived, and he stepped aside and sought a policeman. Policeman John: son answered his call. When he en- tered the room, foliowed by Tighe, he found Mrs. Rison lying on the bed, her head terribly mangled. Her hus- band. loaded revolver in hand, ap- proached the open door, and was in the act of raising his weapon when Johnson rushed him, grabbed the weapon and put him under arrest. Rison Is Silent. Rison was silent and refused to answer any questions, the policeman stated. He was taken to the sixth precinct police station and placed in a cell, a physician dressing a super- clal wound on his head he probably had inflicted during the alleged at- tack. The room in which Mrs. Rison was attacked showed signs of a severe ‘struggle, although it is probable that she had not left her bed. A big lamp had been shattered on the floor, and dishes on a table were scattered. Bottles that had contained what ap- peared to be liquor also were on the table. Two cages, containing. three canary birds, hung on the wall unharmed. A late search of the room today re- | vealed a second flatiron, the few bloodstains it contained making it possible that it also had been used by the wife's assailant. “I will commit suicide if I get & chance,” Rison is said to have re- marked to the police, and the only other remark he volunteered was a request that the police' notify his brother, Henry Rison, 1743 Covington street, Baltimore, of his arrest. Capt. Doyle asked ‘the prisoner if he wanted to make a statement, and his response was in the negative, and he, also said he understood what The clicking of @ Te- | Lakehurst, N. J., the Navy Department announced today. The new Navy ZR-2, formerly the British Zeppelin R-38, will be com- manded by Commander L. H. Maxfield of the Navy on the transatlantic flight, with Lieut. Commander V. N. Bieg. second in command. The other members of the ship's personnel are: Lieut. Commander E. W. Coil, Lieuts. F. P. Culbert, H. W. Hoyt, R. W. Pen- noyer, C. G. Little, C. B. Null, J. B. Lawrence, & R. Houghton, M. H. Es- terley, W. R. Taylor, J. H. Kyger, J. B. Anderson. Clifford A. Tinker and Ensigns J. H. Hvkes and W. J. Me- dusky and Chief Machinist S. S. Hal- liburton. Ship 604 Feet Lon; The ship is 694 feet long, fifty feet longer than the R-34, which made the trip to the United States back in July, 19197 She has a cruising rddius of «| 5,600 miles and a speed of between fifty and sixty knots. A hangar to house it awaits its arrival at Lake- hurst. . 3 Naval aeronautical experts estimate tic trip af between three and five days, dependent on wind and weather con- ditions. Tt was pointed out, however, that the R-34, a slightly siower air- ship, made the trip from Scotland via Newfoundland, a direct distance of 3,130 sea miles, in 108 hours. Will Later Fly Over U. S. Soon after the arrival of the ZR:-2 in this country it is the intention of the Navy Department to" it | tensive filghts over the country, trav- wight mean to him if he made a|eling as far west as the Pacific coast, statement: Had Room Three Months. Mr. Tighe told a Star reporter that the Risons came to his house about three months ago and rented the room. They did their cooking, eating and sleeping in it, the wife using a small gas stove, which rested on a table in one end of the room. Mrs. Rison, he sald, had been in the habit_of visiting Baitimore relatives (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) . in order that the people may see what may be fhe forerunner of -military and commercial lighter-than-air-craft in_this country. The giant hangar at Lakehurst, IN. J., which will house two. ships:waf this size, is_practically completed, as is also a 115-foot steel mooring mast for outside anchorage. Other masts off this type will probably be erected in several’ citles, including Chicago and possibly Omaha and Salt Lake City. ¥ o (Contlsued S PAS& ColumEh s T S INDIAN TRIBES, FOES 271 YEARS,: BURY HATCHET By the Associated Prees, ° - PENETANG, . Ont., August. 4— Friendliness existed today between the hereditary Indian foes, the Hu- rons and Iroquois, whose chieftains buried the hatchet yesterday and smoked the pipe of peace:in the presence of a great muititude gathered on the shores of Pene- tang bay, for the celebration of the coming of the pioneer, Champlain. This ceremony ended a feud that began 271 years ago, when. the fury of the Iroquois fighters van- quished the Hurons from the iand - that is now Ontario. .Warfare raged among them for more tHan . two ‘centuries, but in:recent years 2 “aer.t” AND SMOKE PIPE they were but nominal foes.- Returning to. the .domain where - once his ancestors ruled, the big canoe of Chief Ovide: Stoui of the Hurons slid upon the. sands. of* Penetang bay yesterday, and 3 mo- ment later Big Chief Andrew Staads, leader of the Mohawk tribe of the Six Nations, stepped ashore. The chieftains, in full re- galia, with great feathers in. an are above -their straight black locks, met in the shadow of birch-bark tepee. “Now we:go kill moose together,” said the Huron to the Iroquois,: ‘when ‘they had puffed at the pipe of - and buried the ‘war . hatchet beneath a-hyge red bowl- | the time required for the transatlan- . THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1921-THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. 1., PEACE LEADER, SAYS PRESIDENT Declares America’s Example Will Guide to End of All Wars. LANCASTER. N. H. August 4.— Confidence that American institu- tions are more @gmly implanted than ever before and that in the near fu- ture America’s example will lead all the nations to permanent peace was expressed by President Harding to- day in an address at a welcome dem. onstration. 'in Lancaster The, coming disarmament confer- ence, the President sald, “gave prom- ise of an international agreement that would end wars and turn the atten- tion of mankind to constructive and beneficial pu y!tfi e - asked for the support of the American le i the government's gver_the recomstruction period ad- !to its highest ability. j The President's speech was deliv- ered from his automobile in Conti- nental uare here to a crowd of several thousand. who had come to hi%hlm ‘welcome to the White Mountain country. He was cheered many times while he was speaking, and after he concluded the crowd broke police lines to crowd about him and shake his band. - Mr. Harding began his speech with a tribute to the beauties of tne New Hampshire mountains and 4 word of personal praise for Secretary of War .Weeks, at whose home. on Mount Prospect here, the President is tak- ing his vacation. Mr. Weeks, the President declared, was one of the “most practical and courageous” men he had ever known in public service. SENSATIONAL TURN TAKEN INSTEPS 10 Irish Republican * Parliament to Be Called—Reply to Lloyd George Soon. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, August 4.—A full meeting 'of thie Irish republican parliament is to be called. The official announce- ment of the call, with the date for the {issue of .the Irish Bulletin. 1t is reported the reply of Ulster to overtures by ‘the, Sinn Fein has been | received, and is not favorable. The call for the meeting of the par- liament, with all members present, in- volves the release from. prison of twenty-five members of this body, and it'has been declared the government is willing to facilitate their attend- ance. : The belief had been expressed amonk the Irish leaders that the rewas no use in summoning the parliament until the “attitude of Ulster had been finally defined. The inference in political circles here, therefore, is that the answer of Ulster has been received. This answer is reported to be unfavorable, the Bel- fast leaders declining the Sinn Fein overtures, although these overtures had the sympathy of the British gov- jernment, it is said. ‘REPORTS ARE CONFLICTING. Dublin and Belfast Disagree as to Communications. By the Associated Press. - LONDON, August- 4—The Irish sit- uation ‘took a sensational turn today when it was-announced in Dublin that {Pamon de Valers and his associates had decided to summon a full meeting of the Irish republican parlidment to donsider - the ! British ‘government's Irish peace proposals. Jt has becn repeatedly stated in Dublin that the- dail eireann would not be summoned until Ulster's atti- tude had been learned, but coincident with the calling of a meeting of this body come’conflicting reports from ‘Dublin ‘and Belfast concerning Ul- ster’s_position. In.Dublin it is reported” that Ulster has been -onnng:d u:li has 3“;-;01! answer unfayarable to the Sinn ;:ln overtures, while in Belfast, after trial h .fiwmm ministration would serve the nation | meeting, will be published in tonight's | Rattler Checked at Parcel Counter Now Roams N. Y. Station | NEW YORK, August 4—Some- where in the Iabyrinthian pas- sages of the Hudsom terminal bullding today there roamed a five-foot rattiesnake—an welcome temant of the big sky- seraper since lust Tuesday. A porter, who first saw the snake ecrawling over a tele Phone booth and sounded the alarm, drew down on himself a variety of sarcastic remarks— until his tale was verified by a circus man who found that one of three smakes that he had | checked at m parcel counter had | escaped. OPPOSES CLOSING OF 14TH STREET AT HOSPITAL LINE mendation Embodied in Bill Introduced in House. Another step was taken today in the controversy over the extension of 14th street through the Walter Reed Hospital grounds and the pro- posed closing of several streets in the vicinity of Walter Reed Hospital. Chairman Focht of the House Dis- trict committee today introduced a new bill to conform with the recom- mendations of the highway commis- sion of the District. The bill is a combination of the two bills previous- ly introduced, one by Chairman Kahn of “the House military affairs com- mittee, to close certain streets and alleys within the area of the Walter Reed General Hospital, and the other introduced by Chairman Focht of the House District committee at the re- quest of the District Commissioners, authorizing the extension and widening of 14th street from Montag G h's Recommendas The new bill follows the line recom- mended by Lansing H. Beach, chief of engines who wrote to Mr. Focht as follow: “The highway commission of the District of Columbia has carefully considered H. R. 5824 (the Kahn bill) jand H. R. 5679 (the Focht bill intro- duced at the request of the District Commissioners.) “The highway commission is of the opinion that 14th street should not be closed through the Walter Reed Hos- pital grounds, as, if that were done. it would leave only two highways— Georgia avenue and 16th street— available for north snd south bound traffic, which is almost certain, with he growth of the city, to_amount to grester “volume ~than could be or should be handled by these two streets. “It will be necessary and advisable to have the other streets within the limit of the hospital grounds closed. as provided for in H. R. 5824 (the | Kabn bill). Fourteenth street should. { however, be kept open, for the rea- sons stated above, which should have such grade that the traffic will prove as little inconvenience and annoyance to the hospital as possidle. “It is, therefore,-recommended that H. R. 5824 and H. R. 5579 be united in one gbill, using H. R. 5824 for the first sectlfon of the combination bill, after slight variations, and H. R. 55679, as ;:firr(led, for the remainder of the Provisions of L The bill which Chajrman Focht in- troduced today, “by request of Lan- sing H. Beach, major general, chief of engineers, member of the highway commission of the District of Colum- bia,” proposes: leys within the area known as. the ‘Walter Reed General Hospital. and to | authorize the extension and widening of 14th street from Montague street to its southern terminus south of Dahlia_ streef, Nicholson street from 13th street .to 16th street, Colorado | avenue from Montague street to 13th GAIN IRISH PEACE street, Concord avenue from 16th street to its western terminus west of 8th street west, 13th street from Nicholson street to Piney Branch road and Piney nch road from 13th street to Blair road.” The redrafted bill says that in or- der to provide for the necessary ex- tension and additional bulldings to be erected at the Walter Reed General streej.and alleys included within the area§ bounded by 16th street on the | west. Alaska avenue on the northwest, | Fern street on the south, Georgia ave- nue on the east, and Aspen street, as | platted on the official survey map on the south, be vacated, abandoned and closed. The portions of public streets within this area thus abandoned are known as 13th_street, 15th street. Dahlia street, Dogwood street and Elder street. ~ The bill provides that when 14th street shall be opened for fraffic ta the southern boundary of the Walter Reed Hospital grounds the control and -jurisdiction of that part of 14th street as laid down on the plan of the permanent system of highways of the District which lies’ within the hospital grounds (am Army reserva- tion) shall immediately pass to the Commisgioners of the District. There As a special provision in the j bill intrdduced today “that‘the grade {of the .street through the hospital grounds shall be subject to the ap- i proval of the Secretary of War.” —_— CREDITS BILL PASSED. { Will Aid Farmers Through Exten- E! sion of Loans. The Senate today passed the Agri- cultural credits btll, designed to aid the farmers of the country through an extension of credit by .the war finance corporation. A number of amendments were adopted, and the bill finally passed without a roll call. Senator Sterling immediately moved to take up the anti-beer bill and make it the unfinished business of the Sen- ate. ORE SHIPMENTS REDUCED. 4—Freight passing through | American and Canada canals here dur. | ing July*totaled apbroximately 4,000, ing month last year, according to the monthly tonnage report. The trafic tons. < Passenger traflic showed change from a year ago, 10,609 per- sons being carried east and- 11540 westward. The greatest decrease in freight tonnage was in ore shipments, less than half the amount carried eaStward in July, 1920, being hauled last month. The total was 4,356,760 tons.. This, however, was an increase little Highway Commission Recom- | “To vacate certain streets and al-| Hospital, all public streets except 14th | SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., August | the ; {000 tons less than for the correspond- | jeast and west amounted to 8,138,583 ' 00 tons over June of this|. TWO CENTS. $230,000,00 CUT NECESSARY IF U.S. AVOIDSNEW TAXES Secretary Mellon Warns House Committee Expenses Must Be Slashed. COST OF GOVERNMENT FOR YEAR, $4,550,000,000 Even With Suggested Reductions, Says Internal Revenue Should | Yield $3,570,000,000. A cut of more than $250,000,000 in the ordipary expenditures of the government this fiscal year is neces- sary if additional taxes are to be avoided, the House ways and means committee- was informed today by Secretary Mellon. On present est mates, he eaid, the total government cost this year will be §. 0,000,000, of which $3,830,000,000 must come from taxation. Even with the este tions, Mr. Mellon saig: the revenue yield for the year “could not safely be permited to fall below £3,570,000.000, the estimated yield under exfsting law.” New Effort Indicated. The Treasury Secretary told the committee that actual expenditures for the first full month of this fiscal year indicated that unless there was an sextraordinary new effort to re- duce expenditures” the estimate which the Treasury had presented might be reduc- internal regarded as conservative. Ordinary expenditures for July. he said. amounted to about $322,000,000, as against $307,000,000 for July, 192§, while the current deficit last mont] §25,3113.000.000, as against $76,000,000 n the same month a year ago. “An analysis of the prinoipal of expenditure for July, 1921" the Secretary continued, “shews that $59.- 000,000 was on account of the War Department, $56,000,000 on account of the Navy Department and $32,000,000 on account of the Shipping Board expenditures are to continue at any- thing like these rates. the estimates will be greatly exceeded.” Sees Increase in Revinion. Excluding the suggested increase of {1 cent. in first-class mail rates and the two-cent tax on bank checks, Mr. Mellon estimated that the proposed |revision of the tax law would bring a tota] yield this year of $3.620.000,000 and $3.283,000.000 in the fiscal year 11925, His estimates are assumed on the following changes: Increase in the corporation inconf® tax 1o 15 per cent, as of January 1. 1921 (or January 1, 1922), and the re- peal of the two-thousand-dollar ex- emption. ; “eXcess Profits’ tax, as g”.v}-mury 1, 1821 (or January 1. Increased collections of back income and profit taxes. An increase on the tax on cigarettes and smoking and chewing tobacco. Repeal of the transportation tax upon freight and passengers; the tax to be reduced one-half January 1. ;:;3. and entirely repealed January 1, An increase of the documentary stamp taxes, by approximately duub- ling the present ratés so as to yield an_additional $30.000,000. The license tax upon motor vehicles, averaging about $10 aplece, and to be graded according to powe: Repeal of the tax on ice cream and fountain drinks as of January 1, 1922, Revision of the income tax rates, with 2 maximum surtax rate reduced to 32 per cent. Repeal of the so-called Iluxurv taxes on wearing apparel. carpets, rugs, trunks, valises and the like. Two Sessions Yesterday. Republican members of the committee |held two extended sessions yesterday.\ | aiscussing with Dr. T.S. Adams, a Treas- jury tax expert, the grouping of various | administrative features of the bill and jother changes which would make for | simplication in determining taxes. Chair- |man Fordney said some very helpful | suggestions had been received. | If the suggestion made by Treasury i experts are followed the old bill will be |largely rewritten. This probably- would gelay its presentation to the House con- siderably 'yond the time | expected. Thrae Chairman Fordney and other mem- bers emphasized the magnitude of the task before the committee, and they say it is proposed to go very carefully into all phases of the sub- iject, since the bill is expected to stand for a number of years. Rail- road financing is only one of a list of subjects coming in for careful study, and after the majority mem- bers have agreed upon am_approvi- mate total of the revenues needed next year they still will have before them the task of reaching an agree- ment as to what tax changes are to be made. Members Now Apart. Apparently the members now are somewhat far apart as to the actual amount of taxes that it will be nec- essary to raise. It has been esti- mated that the present law will yield approximately $5.700.000.000 this fiscal . but _revisions -sug- gested would reduce this tagal. All members of the committee are mnot yet satisfied that this can be done with safety. | " Since the Treasury suggestions for | new taxes were presented on Mon- day there has been evidence of an increasing opposition to a repeal of the excess profits tax, but apparently those championing this change in the law do not believe that this op- position has reached such propor- tions as to threaten defeat of the ; plan. : 'ASSISTANT T0 SUCCEED PHILLIPS AS ENGINEER l J. Blake Gordon, assistant sanitary engineer of the District, will be ap- | pointed sanitary engineer fo, succeed Asa E. Phillips, who has tendered his resignation to become “effective Au- gust .16, it was intimated today by the Commissioners. The formal ap- pointment probably will be made by the Commissioners at the regul board meeting tomorrow morning. Mr. Gordon has been in the Di trict service simce 1900, with the ex- { ception of about seven years—five years of which, from 1905 to 1810, he ‘was in private business. The two other years he served in France as a draftsman in the office of the chief i engineer of the American expedition- ary forces. Mr. Go is a native of George- own and 'is forty-one years old. He lives at 1507 30th street. In 1903 he graduated from George Washing- ton Univerity receiving a B. 8. de- gree. The following year -he ceived a C. E. degree from the uni- versity, after completing 8 post-grad. uate course, in which he gpecialized in _water supplies and sewerage. He is a member of the Americen So- clety of Englneers. - i,