Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1921, Page 64

1 S Morley Smith zat in his club, | the very plcture of a wealthy bachelor clubman without & care in the world and almost without am ambition, he ught over with extreme satistac- | his dozen or more excursions | the realm of adventure. Spur- by certain tales he had read in ook he had picked up in the \—a book that likened New York 4 new Bagdad—he had from time time left his comfortable chair, | cred a taxicab and proceeded to \c address chosen entirely at ran- 4. By means always at the dls- \l of & well-dressed man of gen- iely gentlemanly appearance, he 1 entered one home and another | found what he was pleased to call cnture. \dventure, the book had said, lay 1ind every closed door, and Morley ith had found this true, since n eating a meal in a tenement se was & real adventure to one o had breakfasted, dined and | Jped, vear after year, in the best h in New York. At a time when ry one else seemed to be entering service of the Army or Navy se little adventures had served to | tp Morley Smith from feeling that | was entirely out of things. This pleasat May day Morley sith felt unusually pleased with nsélf. The third liberty loan ' i1 just been oversubscribed and he t he had done his part in that ‘1 had thus hooked himself to the r chariot. He had subscribed a cund hundred thousand dollars and: 1 worked on the club's loan com- | tee, actually securing an exact| Ilion dollars in subscriptions among | e club members, including his own thscription. it was evening. and a good dinner ! ped his self-satisfaction. The | vening was unusually warm, and liked this, because there had been mes during the winter when he felt it necessary to complain to house committee regarding the .mperature. The only reply he had ad was that the house committee as very sorry but that it was very fMcult to get coal. The president i the club himself had gonc so far s to bring coal to the club in his mousine, else there would have ‘en one night with no heat what- ver. Morley Smi rtable chair, table at his side. gin rickey,” he =aid to wait>r who came immediately. “I'm very sorry, Mr. Smith,” said the waiter contritely, “but we are out of your favorite gin today. The war, sir; there's none being import- «d now. I can_give you a rickey made with Blue Rose gin, sir. That's <1l we have in the house.” “Beastly bother, this war,” said Morley Smith. “Very well. Tl try Blue Rose stuff. Rotten, I dare h, sitting in his com- tapped the bell on the ‘s not what we would like it to be, sir,” said he waiter. * k k% \ THEN the rickey arrived, Morley Smith found it was certainly not what he would have liked it to be. To his exacting taste it seemed more like gasoline than llke gin. He sipped the drink distastefully. Im- mediately all his perfect satisfaction with himself evaporated. Dolng great things by selling a lot of money- burdened chaps a lot of liberty hond: Tommyrot, that! Buying a bunch ef the bonds himself and feel- ing puffed up about it. It had meant only that he had invested some of his surplus money, on which his bank had refused to pay him any interest whatever. And that was all the war work he had done. He turned to his memories of his adventures, hoping to regain a part of the pleasant satisfaction that had been so glowingly present a few minutes befogpe. '10{ th!i look-d cheap and tawdry. . What had they amounted to? He had gone to some unknown door and had entered, just as any man might enter, and in every caso he had a well fllled purse in his pocket. In every case the solu- tion of the difficulties he had worked himself into so artiiicially had meant handing out money. And he had called that adventure. Jolly bit of rot, what? Any silly ass could get into trouble by knocking at & strange door. and any spoofer could get out of the same trouble by handing out cash. A deep and dire dejection came upon Morley Smith as he sipped the abominable rickey that tasted like gasoline. What ho! his life had been Jolly well a failure, what? Even the comfortable bachelorhood in which he had wrapped himself was a cheap and tawdry method of escaping r sponsibilities when considered through the medium of a Blue Rose gin rickey. He had made a life fight to avold a wife and children and to assure himself utter comfort, and it all culminated in having to drink a rickey that tasted like hair oil. Bah! What about a little shaver about three feet tall, with yellow hair and knees scratched and eyes that could look up trustfully? What about a kid's hand that would cling to his? Christmas and all that sort of thing, | dcn't you know! Jove, if he had had the nerve and had married Cora Flor- ence the boy might be £ tion this minute. An ensign, wha commanding a what-you-call-it of fiving boats. Coming to the club wit ad. “This is my son, Ensign Smith.’ All that sort of thing. Morley Smith moved uneasily In his chair. He had an intuitive glance at how he must appear to hundreds— o well dressed nothing, a nobody in & time of glory. Well! Al right about that; but de could not have stood Cora Flor- ence. He shuddered at the thought of what life with her would have been. Handsome, tall, well filled out, ‘brainy—she was all of those—but a talker! And she was the only wom- an that had ever made an impres- &ion on him. She was the only wom- an he could think of as his wife. JIf he had married Cora Florence he would not have to be drinking a rickey that tasted like gasoline; she would have had his favorite gin in plenty. She would have managed it even if this thick-headed bar co mittee couldn't. She was efficlent— but such a talker! Morley Smith heaved a deep sigh and shook his head as he thought of what a talker Cora Florence was. Some young women talk more or Jess, but Cora never talked anything But more. She talked enthusiastic- ally and joyously and eagerly, but also continuously. No one else ever had a chance to say a word. She was the most tireless talker in the ‘world. As Morley Smith thought of her he could not remember that her talk- ing had ever wearied him, because she was bright and had ideas. Nearly everything she id was worth say- ing, but she thought of so many mil- lions of things to say enthusiastically! Beans and birds and boiled beef and beautitudes and British bustles, if they were in style, were all things she could talk about. If she did not know a single, solitary thing about a subject she could tell you so in the most enthusiastic manner to the extent of several thousand words, and be interesting In the telling. She ‘was a little dai . Nice old ladies often thought she was a little too free In her handling of intimate sub- Jects, but when a person has such Vast stores of talk to pour forth she cannot stop too long or choose her subjects too carefully. be a moment's pa words if she did. Cora Florence was, it is belleved, the first human being to mention nightgowns in public conversation in tihe town of Rhodehampton. She had been talking about Zoraster and had umped to the peach ice creal Fennerly’s, and her agile mind leaped to .nightgowns, and e mentioned that her new ones were perfec dear, with pink ribbons. She viter over six hundred words “about them before she jumped to the new jiovel by George ‘Washington Cable, Yut the fact that she had in her flow of | office he stopped, sealed all the money There might |, tly | sight and not many pedestrians and nightgowns in public left its impress on Rhodehampton and set people say- ing she was a little too daring. * K kX JHE was daring, too, for the reason | mentioned, and she came to en- Joy surprising the staid and more silent; but she was a perfectly harm- |45 those on the Avenue. At the far Toa 4 end of the block. on the corner, was less person for all that. No onelyome great building—a shop or an could ever say he had had a conver-|apartment hotel, but midway the sation about nightgowns with Cora|character of the street had not Florence. No one ever had a chance |changed from the days when the to say anything whatever when Cora was present. She began talking when she awak- ened in the morning. She was the girl who most often had a girl friend “stay all night,” and when she did not she “stayed all night” with some xlrl! friend. She may have thought she liked company for some other reason; but it was 80 she might have some one to talk to the last thing at night and the first in the morning. Her mother was a quiet, repressed lady and her father was a quiet, repressed gentle- an. As Morley Smith considered his ehort love affair with Cora Florence, he thought he saw that he would! have married her if she had not been such a speedy, long-distance talker. £he had been a queen, and the manner in which she wal ariBuin yhith "fi-d‘“?m had she switched her been very taking. ‘By Jove, you kmow,” he said to himself as he sipped his miserable rickey, “she was too much for a chap, what?’ A chap might have stood the | talk, don't you know, but she thought of 50 much to talk about. Ideas, and all that sort of thing. A chap could never keep up. with her. If she had Just talked, a chap could sort of doze oft now then, but she kept a chap’s brain on the jump, what? Like a poke in the ribs, what? Dear old Cora! I say, she was a dear old thing, what? Too bad she talked so much!” He pushed the unpleasant rickey from him and walked to the window. | “0 he exclaimed with an to noyance. “A chap mustn't get thinking. Stirs one all up. He walked back to his chair. It is not much to mentlon, but in a real clubman’s life, when he is well past forty, walking to the window and back is quite an event, just as a disagreeable rickey is a huge catas- trophe, or another chap's letter in one’s pigeonhole in the office is a tremendous affair. At his chair he hesitated. He was stirred as he had been on each of the occasions when he had gone forth adventuring. There was a splinter in his placidity. As a draft across a sleeper’s face becomes a gale, in dreams the gentle unrest that Morley Smith felt now urged him to adven- ture again. He left the unsatisfac- tory rickey standing on the table and walked toward the coat-room. At the he had with him in an envelope and | deposited it in his letter-box. He would adventure, and he would ad wventure unarmed with the rich man's strongest weapon, his money! He found, waiting at the curb, the taxicab he had used on several of | his_previous adventures. “Henry,” he said to the driver, “if | you wanted a great adventuro, where | would you go? | “Well, Mr. Smith,” the driver re-| plied, “I tried it, but they wouidn't take me. One of my less is shorter | than the other, and taey sald I couldn’t march. But I haven't give up hope yet, Mr. Smith. I'm expect-| ing any day to get into the service. I can drive a truck.’ Just so! Exactly!” sald Morley Smith. “The big adventure, Henry? I was only thinking of this eve- ning—' get you, Mr. Smith” said the driver. “If you don’t mind my but- ting in, sir, some of us haye tort of heard of your adventures. Things gets talked about, mir. I saved you some money on one of them adven- tures, if iou remember, sir, and if it is all 1ight for me to say so, I'd Eay it would be better if you left your money somewhere before you start- ed out. “R- h-t-o!” said Morley Smith. “T e ‘Well, then, Mr. Smith, since you ask me what I would do if I wanted | to butt into uomemln{ different than what I'm used to, wouldn't go knocking on doors or ringing bells in the low pai t Maybe that's because I'm plenty used to the parts they calls the slums, but what I would call an adventure would be to try it on one of them palaces up the Avenue. “But, I say, old man,” said Morley Smith, “you don't get adventure on the Avende. Eutler opens the door and asks for your , 1l that . sort of thing.” “Yoa mistake me, Mr.*Smith,* said the taxicab driver. ‘“The areaway door is the door to find adventure at. Below' stairs, sir. B see it, Henry,” said Morley Smith. “All right! Whatever you say, e n. Morley Smith hesitated with his foot on the step of the cab. ‘Drive up the Avenue slowly,” he sald finally. “T'll have a look at the houses, what' * % X %X ‘The cab rolled slowly up the Ave- nue. There were few vehicles in Morley Smith gazed from the win- dow, studying the houses. He knew most of them well.. He knew who lived in nearly all. He tapped on | next street, what?" lead off from of the Avenue, and the first houses were as palatial brownstone houses had first reared their ugliness above the pavement. Brownstone stepd led up to brown- stone stoops. “Stop here,” Morley Smith ordered. The cab did not stop at the house THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D, C/, SEPTEMBER 25, 1921—PART 4. thd glass that separated him from Henry. “I say,” he called, “turn down the The street was one of those that the fashionable part running eastward, brownstone steps, played out and done up. “Aw—aw——" he muttered once or twice, but it was in vain. Cora di not pause. She sped on. He fel Morley Smith had meant. It paused before the second house. “Is this the house, Henry asked. “No matter,” said Morley Smith, and looked up at the house before which fate had landed him. It was not much different from its neigh- bors on either side, except that in some places the chipped brownstone had not been repaired. There was & mat on the stoop with the houge number woven in red. There were flowers behind the curtains in the windows: The windows carried the well-known _cards — food conserva- tion, Red Cross and liberty loan. From u second-story window an American fiag hung flat against the house, considerably faded, and from a short staff above the door a serv- ice flag with one star, bright and new, fluttered. ed the steps and pushed the bell There was & walt, but not'a long one, and a maid appeared. “It you will just step Into the dzawing room, sir,” she said, “Mrs. Tullerville will be down immediately. She is not quite ready, sir.” Morley Smith walked th drawing room. The room opened into through an arched doorway, heavily edged with moldings. The room it- self was quite long and at the far end opened through a similar arch into a smaller room. Neither the drawing room mnor the room behind it (in other days known as the back parlor) suggested in apy way the avenue that was so near. It sug- once been fashionable but that had once been fashionable but that had since remained dormant with furni- ture of another day. Near the door into the back parlor was a huge. old-fashioned _divan with fashioned, tall piano lamp standing at its end, and in one corner of the divan sat a woman, her back to Mor- ley_Smith. She was reading a book and had chosen this position to get the best light, perhaps. She did not look up as Morley Smith entered. although she must have heard him. orley Smith seated himself and waited. The young woman turned a page of her book. As she did so, she looked over her shoulder, and in the full glare of the light Morley Smith saw her face distinctly. sir,” into hurrying toward her, both his hands extended. “Cora!” he exclaimed. Well, you dear old thing!” arose, a smile of baffled memory on | mer face. She took a step toward him, holding out her hand, puszled and trying to remember him. His eager greeting left no doubt in her mind that this was some one she knew or had known well. ‘Well!” she exclaimed, but he sawv the questioning in her eyes. “I [y, you don’t remember me, what?” he cried. ley? of course e did not remember in the 3 ut *how_in the world did you ever know I was here? And where have you been all this long time? The idea, meeting you here! T've just this minute been reading: jknow him because he of exactly the same coincidence in this book. ‘The Chilled Heart.' have you read it? By Palsworthy. I do Morley Smith mount-; the hall| an old-! In an| instant he was out of his chair and{ The girl dropped her book and| | { I Nithout Coin of the Realm fully. ushered from the mental wreck, collapsed, inane, while Cora_continued to talk eagerly. | could see himself tottering down the talk. for hours . this. attention, numb mally again was beauty have a small mole just at the edge His second was that | she actually seemed younger than when he had seen her last. Wonder- ra! for years, as she was talking now, and “grow younger! person don’t you know, that so much talk, | of her nose. ful that his eyes were becoming glazed, that he could not even try to keep up with her thoughts, entirely and just let her talk and She was haying a grand time, as if she had not had an opportu- nity such as this for many long days. Morley Smith drew a protecting robe of inattention around him and just let her talk. He knew Cora. He knew she would talk on like this HE She She wly, in his nd ] ra doctor, that person, C manage larger Cora’s m without pause. ! Cora pour forth so many words. had never been such a flood. like & drowning man, except that he | felt already drowned—utterly sub- merged and numb and dead in the flood Smaller. than thought, Perhaps, don’t you know. they grew smaller the more you used them. Then he noticed her eyes. They cer- tainly were bluer than they had been, it used a brighter blue. not_remember as clearly as he imag- ined he did. Cora had begun talking at t rate, don't you know! ed and frightened him years before. Same old Cora At d herself king for h dear old thin tected submerged him. lucky i room let; by the chap, off, wi ? Behind him there was a rustle of soft silk and he turned his head. an instant he was on his feet. | was a break in Cora’s talk, as if she had closed the sluice suddenly, and | the woman who had just entered the ame forward, her face smiling and pleasure in every softly traced wrinklet—if lines of a face may be called wrink- Certainl. wrinkles. “Well, she claimed and put her hand in his. “But—but 1 say, old thing!” he stammered. My word!) ZOR ¢ known. daughter, as like the Cora . Morle: * WELL, YOU DEAR OLD! had— his own mind grew less began Yes, actually mouths he said to himself, pro- what? soft and all that sort of thing when 1 came, she might have nabbed me the his was Cora, the Cora he had The other must be her Complete Story by Ellis Parker Butler He could see himself finally door en absolute He He gave up EXCLAIMED, “MY had always been like quiet retreat of in- to function nor- ! he first real thought must have seen a because she used to Talk, talk, talk How could a it? You'd think, and’ Targer, like | but, by outh was smaller— He had never heard She | He felt | smaller i he that. Maybe, like to were But perhaps he did any rate he was glad By Jove, ye she had cam: with silence! I say! er and have proposed he knew &he was Same outspoken, flood of words that “I _say! I'm a Feeling a bit In ‘There prettily rounded y they were not y _Smith! ex- Cora, you dear * X ¥ | most important pieces of legislation to be old | bl him much? Living image of you, Cora."” “Of me!" ghe exclaimed “Cora? Oh, you mean in looks! I have al- ways thought she was exactly like her father. She is such a talker, Morley. She makes my head ache, sometimes. Her father was a won- derful talker.” “By Jove, what?’ sald Morley Smith. Cora Tullerville clasped her hands in her lap. “I hdve never sald it before, Mor- ley, for there was no one I could ever say it to,” she said, “but it was often more than I could bear, when both of them were talking. You have seen how Cora talks—such an end- less stream, overpowering one. Her like that. And _Cora father was ‘would begin when he stopped. Some- times they would both talk at once. I think thero were years when I FRAMING NEW TAX BILLS IS BIGGEST JOB UNDERTAKEN BY THE LAWMAKER! said nothing but ‘yes’ or ‘no’ for Aliayu and weeks and months at a tim “I say! sald Morley Smith, with ex- ceeding cheerfulness. “I think something in me broke du: ing those years,” she said, slowly. do not know what it_was—some bit of my spirit.” T “1 sa; he exclaimed, gayly. “Talk! Nothing but talk!" said Mrs. Tullerville. “Think of years of it!” She was very beautiful, very queenly. “I'm afraid, if you see much of me, she said, “you will think me a poor thing, after all the brilllant New York women you have met. I dread society, for I feel as if I must say a word now and then, and I have been silent s0 long that to talk is painful.” Gin_that tasted like gasoline! The | colorles: unwifed life in the silly chair at the club window! i “I say, Cora, you dear old thin exclaimed Morley Smith. “The per- son that let me in Yyou were ex- pecting some chapp! “Only a man who ix to seil me tick- ets to some affair,” she smiled. “Right-o!” said Morley Smith, cheer- fully. “So how about a run around 1o a roof garden or somewhere? I've a taxi waiting. “It will be nice,” she said. PR LL'CKILY. & man can sometimes bor- row $10 from a chauffeur. ‘When the door closed on them, sit- ting together in the taxicab, Cora Tul- lerville breathed & deep sigh. “I love Cora most dearly,” she said, ‘but it {s a relief to get away from her now and then, Morley. Let us not talk. Let me just sit here and enjoy it in silence—enjoy the silence!"” The silence was all the noise of New York—rushings, clangings, bangings, ringings and shriekings—but not t t Morley |w | They had driven and were coming (D wha other a bit now and th cared for any girl We might get married, whaut? of his last and great. ed in utter silence. —— & 1t was not until they were return- ng to the brownstone house ' Smith ended the mateur adventures. It wi ful night and he had or axi driver to return by th v home—the longest wax up Riverside home through the Morley Smith put his hand on| ark. ra's. “I gay, old dear.” he said, xoftly. g0ood to be with yYou again. 17 “It is nice, Morley " she said k sy, See ¢ but She did not say a word. not utter a syllabl Smith knew it was » deep upholstering from bruising her) no _doubt. ut his arm behind her, to keep the " he said, and the last n “Right-o! g adventure enc (Copyright, 1921.) OW the Senate Finance Committee Works—Personnel of the Committee. Hearings on Noodles, Graphite, Steel Rails and Ostrich Feathers—The Testi- nony of Experts and a,Bulk of Data on Every Subject Mentioned in a Tariff Bill. | How a Bill Can Travel a Great Distance Between House and Senate Before It I Finally Becomes a Law. WALSH. BY JAMES A. BUCHANAN. HE two bills that will engage the attention of the upper house of " Congress during the next few weeks or months concern tax revision and farift changes. These measures are looked upon by the mem- | bers of the Senate and House as th=: enacted during the balance of this, the extraordinary session, and the regular session of the Bixty-seventh Congress. During the last campaign both parties pledged themselves to revise the method of taxation and also tp reduce it If possi- The tariff, long a favorite battle ery of the republicans, did not occupy the same prominent position that it did in previous campaigns, and while the republicans in _both houses of Congress came to Washington with the thought that the Underwood bill, the present tariff measure, would be changed in many ways, changed their opinion as to [ts being the prime object of legislation, and while it has not been discarded by party leaders, it is merely a secondary measure, and it is doubtful that a new tariff law wiil be placed on the statute books at any eariy date. i Revenue measures su:h as iariff bills, etc., must, by law, originate in the House of Representatives, but the finishing touches are molded by the finance committee of tha Senate, and the applicant for a hearing when he recetves word from the ways ard maans cemmirtes of the House shouid not imagine thui after he has appear- ed before that body his troubles are at an end. In fact, they are just b ginning, for after he has been que: tioned by the chairman, Representa: tive Fordney, and his associates on the committee, he must face &nather or- deal—an ordeal that is mot an un- pleasant one if he knows his sub- Ject, presents it clearly and makes no attempt_at oratory. He must later appear before the finance committee THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE IN SESSIO! they have| tioned by the democrats, and while it might perhaps be I majeste | to state that either the republicans or democrats have even the tiniest thought of gaining a political ad- vantage, yet every one must realize that even statesmen are sometimes human. The members of the com- imposing a tax that would. perhaps, result in curtailing rather than con- tinuing revenue. They seek to strike the middle ground that will permit the reduction of taxes to as low & point as possible and yet produce ufficient revenue to pa: in part, the xpenses of running the government: %0, day after day, the members of the Senate finance committee give | their undivided time and attention to | working out a bill that. perhaps, may R satisfactory to the peop! and | that, perhaps, may meet the approval jof their colleagues and, perhaps, | again may meet the approval of the members of the House of Repre- i sentatives. * * % % \\/’HILE the matter of tax revision was being considered by the finance committee it was mnecessary to have the meeting held in execu- tive session. Had this plan not been | carried out there probably would have been enough witresses coming | to the front to have held the atten- | tion of the committee for two or three years, at least, for from all | parts of the country came letters to i i that this, that or the other plan be adopted. Some of these communications con- tained suggestions of a helpful na- ture, but a great number of them came from individuals, who evident- 1y had but one idea in mind and that was how to get their own tax re- duced. The preparation of this meas- ure was a tedious and tiresome task, and while the members of the com- mittee worked day and night trying to solve a difficult problem, they were of the Senate, where he will have to face Chairman Boles Penrose and highly a trained body of specialists as could be seleqted. > had known as could be, but—as he now saw—not like her at all. Not quite!"T" the same mnose, not quite the same eyes, not as tall. Not nearly queenly. “You remember you used to call me that?” the woman asked, pleased. She spoke slowly and as if choos- ing her words. It was as if it was difficult for her to speak. The girl, however, had begun again. explaining how Morley Smith had {come and how she had not known him at all, but thought she must know he 1 adore him. The manner in which he- fathoms the human heart! So deep and so true? Just hear me talk- ing like a literary review! I suppose I read it somewhe “Yes, dear.” the woman Cora sald, rather wearily. The girl Cora was not to be stop- ped by anything so slight as that, howi , or heard it at'She knew now, she sald, ever. seemed to Bhe talked on, rushingly. how _she a club. That's why we are here, but ! to think she knew him. T expect you know all about that, or | Feowas that old photograph she had “Ah, just so!” said Morley Smith. ejaculation. 8he hurried on in the full tide of speech, pouring out her words at tremendous speed, inter- little laughs and throwing in an “Oh!” or & “Say!” now and then as sheé leaped from one topic to an- other. he seated herself on the divan in, without pausing in her rush o rds, and Morley Smith seated himself in a chair, much as he had in the old days when Cora ‘wag too full of things that must be said to take time to ask him to be seated. * *k kX derfull Morley Smith felt the same brain strain he had felt in the old years, his poor head three laps be- hind in the effort to keep pace with Cor talk. If anything, Cora had speeded up since he had seen and heard her last, and if -nythlnf. he was slower and less alert, He found ‘himself missing whole topics as rushed over them, and not ye grasping wh topic before last. Morley 8mith hed & feeling that very soon his head was going to begin aching fright. CHE was a wonderful talker—won- { you would not have hunted us up.” | gaen once or twice, and e had met le—— And so on, and The girl did_not pause to hear his |50 Many PeoP H you ley, tating g7 “Oh, mother ognizing the hint. “But I say,” sald Morley Smith to Cora, “it's jolly to see again!” is good to see you again, answered, in the sam “Cora—you were read- sh g way. Mor- hesi- the girl arled, rec- “And we were just having such a nice talk!” But she took up her “L say, but book and went ou u look top-hol said Morley Smith, when the young had o talking machine lenced. In a been minute, thus s he thought, this Cora would begin. talking, too. “Do 1? Thank you. ButIam tired. She was!ronted with greater * %k Xk ¥ 'HE members of tle finance com- mittee are not amateurs in the tter of handling a subject. All of them have long since cut their eye- teeth 1 them have given much time to the study of questions that affect not only the country’s welfare, but also the matter of raising funds with which to conduct the business of government, Probably never in the history of th country has any body of men been con- roblems of a financial nature, conditions brought about by the chaotic condition into which the world has been plunged by the, late war. For the benefit of those who have fmagined that the members of the finance committee have been on pleas- ure trips during the time when Cori- gress took a rece p to the present writ! it 1s but just to state that the members of this committee have held sessions every day during the recess period, and when they have not beea -engaged in listening to the Secretary of the Treasury, statisticians, mone- tary experts or other men of experi- i ence, they have been working on the roblems that confront thom, either n their offices or at their home by night, and no matter what the result may be of their labors one must, in all candor, state that they nave beun earnest in their endeavors. The members meet at the call of Chairman Penrose, and each man is requested to give his views on this subject. This means a mulllng over of the different phases of income tax- ation. To the man who haz made a study of corporation taxation will assigned that portion of the work, not to deliver, however, the finished prod- uct of that division of labor, but to bring into a somewhat concrete form the political world. All of | ™% not deluded into thinking that when the measure came up for discussion on the floor of the Senate, later to be pa exact form that it left the committee. Each member in his heart knew that some ope was waiting to lampoon it. Another handicap was the fact that al though a number of the legislative ex- perts appeared, these men did not al- vays agree. One item estimated to yield a reve- nue of $6,000,000 annually was the portion devoted to cosmetics, and even the learned solons looked askance at each other when this item was men- tioned, because milady, ever jealous of her prerogatives as a voter and citizen, must be considered in the framing of the bill and both political parties are fully aware that the vote of the female is as deadly as the male. {Taxes and surtaxes, whether to be retroactive or not, and a thousand and one problems arose during the six weeks of tax revision consideration by the committee. Innumerable briefs were read, financial tables and reports carefully scanned and a thousand and one other methods of securing in- formation were adopted. While the tariff measure has, been put to one side, the matter of its prep- aration is even a more interesting study than that of thé bill devoted to tax revision. Tariff bills must be so framed as not only to protect, foster and encourage American industries, but Ialso to produce & goodly number of dol- lars from foreign manufacturers. It also must be so drawn as not to stifie Ccompetition; it must take the middle ground. Ll!,'r the visitor drop in at one of the hearings while the tariff is up for discussion. Taking the portion h of the bill devoted tc ea crockery, etc., the division termed achedules. The one we are discussing is schedule 2. Representa- 1 * % ¥ X mittee must weigh well the result of | senators and representatives urging | | | LEFT TO RIGHT: SENATORS CURTIS, DILLINGHAM, LA issuing from a mouth day after day | = 2 e = ; SRS RS s s | Ear UTter year. would wear the | PENROSE, DR. ADAMS OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY MELLON AND SENATORS SIMMONS, REED NI mout| stream issuing from a cave, Jove! The eternal stream of Cora's talk } flowea over and around Morley Smith | ference of wages in this country and | abroad. He advocates other argu- | ments similar to those used by his predecessors for years past, From time to time he is interrupted by senators who would have him go| into greater detail as to this or that phase of the industry. They have at their elbows documents that cover cvery phase cf the subject under dis- cussion. At one of the hearings held during the last days of the session, just be- fore recess, a man appeared—not on the crockery schedule, however—and | confessed his inability to answer a cuestion that was asked. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, acknowledged to be the world authority on tariff matters, answered the question and cited back the phases of the matter for thirty or forty years. Those who were to appear later before the com- mittee looked at each other in amazement; on the face of each was registered a vow that he would when he returned to his hotel, study up thoroughly on his subject before he_appeared before the committee. To return to the crockery schedule. After the high protectionists had had ! their inning the men representing the { importers presented their case, taking | the _position that certain lines of goods, some produced in this country and others not, should have placed upon them a tariff sufficient to pro- duce revenue, but not a tariff that would prohibit absolutely their in- troduction into this country. So on, back and forth through dif- ferent branches of this industry, the a guments went, briefs were filed. speci mens of ware shown and the witnesses departed for their hotels to speculate upon the impression they had made and as to their chances in securing the | things that they had asked for. Day in and day out these hearings| continue. Nails and noodles, graphite | and gum, bones and bottles, cardamon ; seeds and hyacinths, steel rails and ostrich feathers, lip sticks and loco- motives, cattle, wool, hides and a thot sand and one other items are dis- cussed. * X * ¥ INALLY the bill takes form and is reported to the Senate. It is really the House bill, but the framers of the measure in the lower branch of | Congress would not recognize it be- cause of the numerous changes that have been made. The bill is reported out of the committee to the Senate and takes its place on the calendar, where it either called up in_turn or is made special business. When it finally appears on the floor of the Senate it ia a subject for much de- bate. Every Senator Is interested in some phase or other and each one is trying to protect _the interests of his state. The late Winfleld Scott Han- cock, a candiate for the presidency & number of years ago, made the statement that the tariff was a local issue. People nowadays, grown to realize that, to a certain extent, the tariff is a local Issue. Senators from Louisiana desire that the cane growers be protected, 8o they can secure a larger price for their sugar. Men from the western states, where wheat is grown, de- sire that the interests of their con- stituents be conscrved. Senators rep- resenting the cotton belt of the zouth are insistent that the cotton raiser be | protected. Statesmen from New En {iand and other manufacturing cen- ters are likewise insistent that their {constituents 1ave thelr full share of protection. Finally, after numerous days of de- the bill passes the Senate. As however, { nomic problems. FOLLETTE, SMOOT, McCU MBI By National Photo (9 The chairman, Boise Penrose of Penn sylvania, is @ political and legislativd genius, and although for the past year he has been constantly under the card of physicians, his mind lost non of its keenness. Ax he sits at th head of the committee table yo note a rather large man, whose man ner is like that of the president of 4 great corporation. He has no u for oratory; he wants facis & wants them quic and while manner is snappy s not unkiny The next member of the is Porter J. Me from who is thoroughly agricultural aad commerc the nation, quiet of dem; a keen analyst, a man who is neve ruffled in debate. The next member is Reed Utah. one of the keenest studenis o the Senate, a man whose « has been devoted to th The n a prominent po ey arly training in the House of Reple him during the time that he has been i the Senate, and he h: ipated i numerous tariff de! et Jooked upon as one of the hardes| working members of the Sen, * k k 3 HE next member is from Vermon William P. Dillingham. He h: been a member of the Senate for ok twenty years and his calm judgme has won for him an enviable reput: tion and, like his colleagues, he hal made an exhaustive study of tari matters. George P. Ml necticut came to the Se and was re-elected in 1916. The earl part of his life was devoted to th| practice of law and the study of m ufacturing conditions as they affe ed the United States. Mr. McLean j an authority on the cost of manufac tured_articles, both in this countr and abroad. Charles Curtis of Kans: the republican whip in the Se served for & number of years in th House of Representatives and recognition of his ability was sent t the Senate. Like his colleagues of the committe he has particip d i numerous_ta debates, James X Watson of Indiana, recently returne to the Senate, is another member Wh) served for a number of years in th House of Representatives, being B one time the republican whip of ‘ths branch. Senator Watson is one of th Dbest informed men on legislative ma ters in the Senate. The next member is William M. Cal der of New York, who served a num ber of terms in the House. He is we] versed in business affairs and iy hard-working committeeman. He constant_attendant at the session The next republican member of t committee is Howard Sutherland West Virginia, who also served in t House before becoming a memhear the Senate. During the earlier part his life he was the editor of a repy; lican newspaper in West Virginia. i seldom engages in_ debate, connnin his activities largely to work in t different committees of which he a member. The ranking democrat member of the committee is Furnifol M. Simmons of North Carolina. was elected to the Senate in 1901, r elected in 1907, 1913, 1918. John Sharp Willlame, the next de: ocratic member, also served for nai years in the House, being elect from his_district without any opps sition. The next minority memb: is Andrieus A. Jones, a lawyer a stock raiser of New Mexico. ~Senat Jones, like his colleagues, is a ded a ru tional the House of Repr that body accepts or rejects tl with the Senate amendments. If it is rejected, as it usually ts, the measu is sent to conference and conferees appointed, one set to represent the House, the other the Senate. These student of political affairs, and mal ters that particularly affect the we and southwe: e those in which specializes. He is a forceful, dire| speaker. Peter G. Gerry, the youn est member of the committee, 18 mocrat from Rhode Island. ¥ erved as a member of the House the Sixty-third Congress and a Morley,’ she said, “I am afraid I the facts and figures that will be es- tives of the pottery industries from two sets of conferees meet and take up the bill, schedule b: ule. erward wi ected to the Sena she fully at she had said sbout will never be quite rested is a year and & half sinte my hus band die I ] daughter, what? thing?" not not know him, -0!" said Morley Bmith cheer- But of course, she's your what? You would be mar- ‘Tutterville, ““Fullerville,” she supplied. You did Morley?” or some- ‘I never knew the old dare have marr Yy, led him, - 4girl, what? She does not take after | by the republicans and cross-ques- ~ v or you would Core. But the sential in forming the bill in irts en- tirety. Another man may be more familiar than his fellows witn another phase of the question, and to him is in- trusted a certaln portion of the ;";“' and so plece by piece the Ml shi is .:?' & finished product, but it s a tangible nnamin{ on which the members may work, then the afore- Trenton, East iverpool, Ohlo; ‘Wheeling, etc., take the stand. Chair- man Penrose or Senator McCumber |may be in the chair, or perhaps Sen- ator Reed Smoot may occupy the po- ition at that moment. The pottery man is called to take Lis place beside the long table. ives his name and the firm, corporation Dr.mmp.ny he represents and to ad- Finally, they report to their pec- tive bodies as to an agreament or disagreement, and so it goes on back and forth until a bill satisfactory to | h each branch of Congress is evolved then, if the party in power has its members suficiently well lined up, it passes both branches and is submit- ted to the President for his approval P mentioned of the government | vance reasons why the pottery indus- | or veto. and are called fi to give [try of the United States should have| The finance ecommittes of the Sen- their opinion, They are questioned [the benefit of a high protective|ate is composed of sixteen members— tarift. He lays stress upen the - ten republicans and six democrats. 25 i James A. K term In the Senate March 4, His work since coming to the Sen brought him into national gr.o inence and he is a forceful del q David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, democrat, was eiected lieutenant go ernor of Munchn-:llu in 1113, a year later was elec nd was reslocied to that ofice. 3 was elected to the United States Se ate in 1918 to succeed the DI Secretary of War, John W. Weeks,