Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Snow or rain, probably mixed with sleet, tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tomorrow; lowest tempera- ture tonight about 28 degrees. Tem- perature for twenty-four hours end- R ed at 2 p.m. today: p.m. yesterday: lowest, l today. Full report on page Highest, 44, at 2 24, at noon 7 Closing New York Stocks, Page 28. No. 28430. TAX ON EARNINGS IS URGED PENDING - CARLINE MERGER Focht' Introduces New Bill to Provide Excess Profits Levy. UTILITIES COMMISSION BACKING THIS MEASURE Keller Believes Impost Would Off- set Present Differences in Com- panies’ Incomes. New legislation which will make possible a temporary adjustment of the street railway situation in the Iristrict through a direct tax. until the street car companies can -be brought together into a unified street sailway corporation, is the purpose of a bill introduced today by Chair- man Focht of the House District,com- snittee at the request of the District Comissioners. In urging this bill, Engineer Com- nissioner Keller said that the great- est obstacle _onfronting the commis- sion in its attempt to arrive at a fair and just solution of the street railway problem is found in the disparity in the earning power of the two prin- cipal railway companies, brought about in a large measure through the provision of law imposing a tax of 4 per cent on the Cross receipts of these companies. Merger Outlook Uncertain. He points out that the commis- sion has heretofore submitted to the Iouse District committee a draft of a bill providing for a new method of taxation which would be applied to that portion of the net income of the companies in excess of a 6 per cent return upon the fair value of their respective properties, as ascertained by the commission. He reminds the committee that sev- eral bills also have been introduced in both houses of Congress. seeking, ihrough a modification of this plan. coupled with other provisions, some means of effecting a merger of the companies as a prerequisite step in 1he further reduction of the rates of fare. None of these measures has re- ceived the approval of Congress and the prospects of a merger are indefi- nite and uncertain. Direct Tax Upon Earnings. “Until a merger can be brought bout,” the Engineer Commissioner aid, “there appears to be no perma- ent solution of the present difficulty, ut the commission believes that the xcessive amounts now paid to the Papital Traction Company can be re- covered to the public through the mposition of a direct tax upon those arnings, to be levied until the com- panies are finally brought together nto a unified street rallway corpora- ion. “The commission, therefore,” Com- nissioner Keller writes to Chairman 'ocht, “transmits herew. ¢ the bill, with the recomfendation hat its early enactment be urged pon Congresa. Provisions of New Bill. The bill provides that, beginning July 1 of this year. each street raile way corporation operating in the District shall pay apnually in lieu of all other taxes on personal prop- erty and franchises a tax based on its net operating income, as follows: Upon operating incomes each year in excess of 6 per cent of the fair value of the property of each com- pany used and useful for the public service within the District, as ascer- ined by the Public Utilities Com- snission, a tax of 50 per cent of such excess. This tax would be based on the operations of each calendar year, except for the present year, when it Swould be based on the last six cal- endar months. MARY AND HUSBAND BEGIN-HONEYMOON Royal Couple in Seclusion. Musical Program to Be Repeated. ' By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 1.—While Princess Mary and her husband. Viscount Las- celles, were beginning their honey- amoeon in seclusion at Weston Park today announcement was made that | in response to many requests the Jwhole musical portion of yesterday's vedling ceremony in Westminster Abbey would be repeated by the com- bined abbey and chapel royal choirs 1wo weeks hence. Interest in sterday’s event con- tinued today. Hundreds of persons wwaited at the abbey doors from an early hour this morning to gain ad- mittance and view the scene of the Function. \ The newspapers today reported the great achievement of carrying out Yesterday's program in perfect order espite the fact that the crowds con- stituted the largest public gathering cr recorded at any state function. cotland Yard reported that nearly 000 police were on duty, and it was amoflicially stated that the ambulance «orps dealt with 500 cases of fainting, ro densé were the crowds in some places. The west end resounded with song and Jaughter until nearly 3 o'clock | Ihis morning in celebration of the dding. Such crowds had mnot ronged the streets and filled the Jiotels and theaters to overflowing #ince Armistice day. ROBBERY NETS $150,000. Jewels, Silverware and Liquor Among Loot in New York. ARDSLEY - ON - HUDSON, N. Y, Diarch 1.—Jewels, silverware and Jiquor valued at $150,000 were stolen Jast night from the country home liere of Henry Graves, 3d, grandson Entered a3 second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. |URGES SUNDAY GOLFERS NOT TO KEEP CADDIES AWAY FROM CHURCH By the Associated Press. OMAHA, Neb.,, March 1.—Men who play golf Sundays have no right to employ boy caddies Sun- day mornings, because it keeps the youths out of Sunday school, Bishop E. V. Shayler of the Epis- copal Church of Chicago told the public affairs committee of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce in an address jesterday. “The man who plays golf Sun- day is not only desecrating the Sabbath himsclf, but he is com- miting a sin for which he will have to answer some day if he keeps a boy out of Sunday school,” he said. “I like golf myself, but not to the extent of keeping some one away from church,” he added. FUNDS INCLUDED . FORD.C. PROJECTS Second Deficiency Bill for 1922 Reported in House Carries $410,969 for City. Deficiency appropriations amount- ing to $410,969.34 for the present fis- cal year and earlier years for the District of Columbia are recommend- ed in the second deficiency bill for 1922, which was reported to the House today. The amount for the District of Co- lumbia is $72,850 less than the esti- mates of District officials. The total amount in'the deficlency Dbill for the entire federal establish- ment is $108,415,287.13, which is $76.- 503,981.32 less than the estimates. The appropriations recommended for the District include $15,000 for operation and maintenance of Sew- ers and $32,000 for sewer assessment and permit work. &/ $30,000 for Snow Removal. Thirty thousand dollars is allotted to the street department for snow removal caused by the last heavy storm. For fuel, gas and _electric light deficiencies’ of _$10,512.80 for 1921 and 320,000 for 1922 are allowed. There is an item of $1,746 for general advertising in 1921. An item of $1,000 is carried for compensation of jurors in the Municipal Court and $900 for contingent expenses in 1921 and 1922. For the Supreme Court $10,000 is provided for juror's fees, $3,500 for witness fees, $1,000 for pa¥ of bailiffs. For the support of convicts, main- tenance and transportation an item of $50,000 is allowed. For the National Training School for Boys maintenance, 1921, $1.610 is carried, and for the Washington Asylum Hospital and jail for 1920, $1,307, and for 1921, $1,244. Fands for Hospitals. For the Central Dispepsary and Emergency Hospital ¥ s ‘carried for 1921 and $5,000 for the present fiscal year, as against $9,500 esti~ mated by the Commissioners. For the Eastern Dispensary and Cas- ualty Hospital an appropriation of $6,700 is recommended. For the board of children’s guardians, for mainteance of feebie-minded caildren, $1,500, and for board and care of children, $7,200 is provided. The committee refected estimates of $1,000 for maintenance and $33,000 for erection of a new municipal lodging house. For the support of indigent insane $143,000 is recommended. For the payment of judgments $1,400 is carried, and for audited claims, $1,315. 330,000 Water Item. For extension of the distribution sys- tem of the water department an appro- priation of $50,000 is recommended. The committee did not provide $12,- 000,000 sought by the Shipping Board for completion of vessels under con- struction and for expenses incident to the termination of construction work. The request upon the recon- sideration of Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board, according to the com- mittee report, was withdrawn. Included in’the reductions from es- timates i3 $60,198,821.66 requested for the naval establishment. The com- mittee did not provide any direct ap- propriations for the naval establish- ment in the bill, but explained in its report that transfer of funds had been authorized to take care-of press- ing requirements. LLOYD GEDRGE MAY SO0N QU FFIE Premier Dissatisfied Over Weak Support Given Him as Head of Government. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 1.—The probable early resignation of Premier Lloyd George is foreshadowed by the Daily Telegraph, which says that Mr. Lloyd George is much dissatisfled with the present position, and that he feels that he is not receiving the loyal support to which he is entitled as head of the government, and that his influence in the house of com- mons is seriously weakened. There are intrigues against him per- onally, continues the Telegraph, and the deliberate attempt being made to rupture the coalitionl has made his position extremely difficult, and, fur- thermore, there are no present signs of the party differences being healed. “Resignation Inevitable.” The Telegraph's parliamentary cor- respondent believes that the prime minister has written to Austen Cham- berlain, as leader of the unionists, plainly expressing his feelings and intimating that he cannot continue to submit to these humiliating condi- tions. The Telegraph editorially thinks the prime minister is completely justified, and adds: “Continuance of Such treatment as he has received must render his resignation inevi- of the founder of the Atlas Portland Cement Company. The burglars, who entered the Jiouse during the dinner hour, took, with other things, two diamond Tracelets valued at $50,000. Appar- ently they worked with gloves, as #n examination of the rooms in “hich they worked failed to reveal &ny tinger prints. The robbery was discovered today by a servant. who noticed a ladder Jeaning agalnat the porch roof, table.” In its further comment the Tele- graph says: “It' 18 evident that a crisis which has been developing for some weeks past 18 coming to a head somewhat sooner than was anticipated, al- though it has long been clearly in- evitable In the absence of some marked change .in the spirit pre- Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) MIRED RESIDENTS WOULD GET RELIEF INPERMIT SYSTEM Amendment to District Ap- | propriaticn Bill Provides $50,000 for Streets. OWNERS WOULD PAY HALF TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS Fund Encourages Good Roads in Front of New Houses Without Any Delays. Lifting of some of the people of the newly developed sections of the city out of the miré which The Star man found them enduring on his inspec- tions of the city is provided for in an amendment “inserted in the District appropriation bill by the Senate com- mittee on appropriations. This amend- ment provides a general fund of §50,- 000 for the Commissioners for paving roadways under the permit system. This provision, if passed by the Sen- ate and approved by the House when the bill goes to conference, will fill a great need which has beeng pointed out by the District authorities and many citizens. In the past few years the Commissioners have been helpless to provide relief in the way of an im- proved roadway in fromt of houses built on newly opened streets. It Is the lack of such a fund in the past few years which has brought about the serious conditions in the newly ?le\'eloped sections which prevail to- ay. Cost $5.000 a Block. The Commissioners can use such a fund in providing good roads in front of new houses upon application of the owners, who must pay half, and it will not be necessary to await for Congress to provide specifically for the improvement. It will cost ap- proximately $5,000 a block to put a solid roadway in front of new builde ing projects, it was estimated at the i District building, and the fund pro- | vided by the Senate committee would allow for improvement of ten blocks a year. This, it was explained, will help materially in providing relief. Such a provision was contained In appropriation bills some years ago, it was explained, but at that time there was a provision that a block had to be 75 per cent improved. The Sen- ate amendment does not provide such a restriction. It was pointed out that such an appropriation would be Treal economy, because if it is necessary to awalt a specific appropriation significant expenditures in temporary surfacing are largely wasted, with quite unsatisfactory results. Under such a fund, it was asserted, such roadways will no longer bhe the anly major public appurtenance to a hous- ing project that the District is uflable to supply for lack of available funds. Increased by Senate Committee, The Senate committee increased the appropriations for specific street im- provements more than 100 per cent over that provided by the House of Representatives. The House provided only $113,600, which the Senate com- mittee raised to $278,500, an increase of $164,900. Five projects which the House re- jected were inserted by the Senate committee, and the latter added one project which was cut out in the bu- reau of the budget. This was the pro- vision for paving 28th street north- west between Woodley road and Cathedral avenue, a street which The Star man found almost impassable, and, according to the residents of this street, the nightly scene of many automobiles stalled. The Commis- sioners asked $16,800 for this im- provement, and the Senate in putting {it In the bill provided for an appro- priation of $10,000. The Commissioners presented an es- timate of $58,800 for the paving of the | west side of ' Connecticut avenue from Chappell road north to Chevy Chase Cir- cle, but it was rejected by the House. The Senate committee amendment pro- vides $45,000 for paving this piece of roadway, but providing only from In- gomar street to Chevy Chase Circle. This side of Connecticut avenue is nar- row and badly cut up, the present road- way being of worn macadam. 2 Estimate Restored. The Senate committee also put back in the bill the estimate, rejected by the House, of $37.000 for paving East Cap- itol street from 15th to 18t streets, the main approach to’the new Eastern High School and now having a roadway of soft, sticky mud, difficult to negotiate after heavy rains. Paving of Rhode Island avenue from 12th to 16th streets at a cost of $45,000 was provided by the Sen- } committee. The House rejected this provision. The roadway at this point is seriously cut up, full of ruts and dangerous for travelers on this highway, which is a feeder to Maryland. The bill as reported to the Senate also had inserted by the committee an appropriation of $17,200 for pav- ing Michigan avenue, 12th to Upshur streets, Brookland, now‘a roadway of badly cut up and worn macadam and v. The House rejected this on also. ving of Randolph street from 13th to 14th streets, at a cost of $10,700, was provided by the Senm- ate committee, after the House had rejected it. This street was found | by The.Star man to have a roadbed of cinders and clay, soft and miry, as well as dangerous in wet weather. 1t would provide, If improved, a good roadway from 14th street for resi- dents pf 13th street northwest, the latter street being in the same con- dition as Randolph street. Resjdents there informed The Star man bf ve- hicles and people being stalled while attempting to negotiate these streets. SENATOR ALBERTINI BETTER. PARIS, March 1.—Senator Luigl Albertinl, one of the Italian dele- gates to the Washington conference who suffered an attack of rheumatic fever on board the steamship Paris on his way, from America. was much improved today. His physicians an- nounced he would be able tn resume his journey to Italy within a few days. & ARRESTED WITH PAY ROLL. WORCESTER, Mass., March: 1.— Roger Coulthurst, a bookkeeper at the Hotel Touraine, Boston, who dis. appeared with the weekly pay roll of. :h: hotel yesterday, was arrested here “.today, . - @he Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION APPROPRIAT, TG g L MORE THay MREE ANDAHALF TM.LM:.quS ! ’4, WALE s STEREET EEP UPNAVYRATI ROISEVELTWARNS Fears Disrupting Relations in! Address to Rivers and Har- | bors Congress. A stirring plea that the United States keep up her treaty Navy, if the efforts of this country are to count for peace and justice among the nations, was made by Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of thel Navy, at the opening session today of the seventeenth convention of the National Rivers and Harbors Con- gress, at the New Willard Hotel. “We mustn't expect to make too Egreat economies or we will bust the treaty and disrupt the relationship of the navies of Great Britain, Japan and the United States,” Col. Roose- velt warned, paying his compliments to “sofe-headed pacifists,” as com- pared with “hard-headed pedce lov- ers who made the gredt arms con- ference possible.” Outlines Effects of Treaty. Col. Roosevelt outlined the effects of .the naval treaty, as he termed| it, In 8o far as the United States is concerned, declaring that the United States got the following concrete things out of the conference: “The United States gets & navy sec- ond to no navy In the world. der the treaty :he United States naval relationship Is fixed at the best | position it has ever held, and at a de- creased cost. “We hope that by the treaty we lmve! devised a better method of maintaining peace, because we feel that each coun- try has an absolutely adequate fleet for | defense, but not sufficiently large to un- | dertake aggressive wars. I “In the treaty we have worked grea* for the interests of peace among the v rious nations. Guide Post for Future. “The conference will serve as a guide post for the future. When fric-| tion arises—and we haven't reached the millennium yet—this conference will make the nations willing to meet | together again face to face in open parley.” If Great Britain, Japan and the United States had carried to comple- tion their naval building plans, Col. Roosevelt said, the relationship in| capital ships would have been on the | basis of United States, 100 per cent;, Great Britain, 106 per cent, and Japan, | 87 per cent, whereas by the treaty the ! relationship is on the basis of United States, 100 per cent; Great Britain, 100 per cent, and Japan, €0 per cent.) The position of the United States, therefore, is better than have been without the treaty, th speaker asserted. This country doe not desire to make wars of “aggres: sion, he said, but will fight, as_any other right-thinking nation will fight, for justice and protection. it would | Calls Conference Success. “The conference was & success,” de- lared Col. Roosevelt, who added that ‘a1l statesmanship ought to be just good common sense.’” “We have proved wrong those who said it couldn’t be done,” the asist- ant secretary of the Navy continued. ‘Bat_we have got to guard against (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Today’s News In Brief C:J‘.‘ig‘fi srfnnlster seeks recill,::;gmlr By s, TV S Radigesion o Fos Gaen gt Dlsj:lll':i:.rent bill formally reyu!::e‘da hz‘ D e Aot Trae | “Fage 3 T asts for $430.000 stipeture, Page 4 Griffith aroused by qugstions in dail eireann on Anglo-Irish treaty. ¥ ‘. Page ¢ N hero turns up in New Jer- '‘hanges in government rail policy ef- cfecl.‘lve today. Page : France anxious about American tari action. Fors hg:‘ 5 declares he sacrificed promotion Sl:;::nugh sense of duty. Page 16 suspects to be guestioned Sodagy " " Page 11 Privaté building isspection also un- der fire. Page 17 Citizens indorse Star's street-improve- ment campaign. Page 17 President wants early action by, Con- gTess on government reorganization e d Faze 17 2 ONS, INCREASE O/ foy B { \WireR_ SOPPLY 2z St MwLoN FoR g _ YAP TRAETY RATIFIED. Approved by Senate, 67 to 22, Without Reservation. The Yap treaty was ratified without reservations o amendments at 3:20 p.m. to- day by the Senate. The vote for ratification was 67 to 22. S CANADIAN MINISTER: SEEKS RECIPROGITY W. S. Fielding in D. C. in Ef- fort to Obtain Tariff Agreement. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Canada today made her first move | to forestall unfavorable action by the American Congress in tariff relations between the two countries. W. S. Fielding, Canadian minister of finance and one of the men who ne- gotiated the ill-fated reciprocity agreement of 1911, has taken up with the Department of State here through the good offices of the British em- bassy the question of arriving at an understanding on reciprocal trade. Mr. Fielding himself does not dis- cuss his visit, preferring to make hisj inquiries informally and without pub- licity. But the situation which brings Mr. Fielding here is of the greatest importance to the relations of the two countries and is_com- parable, indeed, to the events of 1911, when President Taft, following the precept of another republican Presi- dent, William McKinley, offered Can- ada the hand of friendship througlr a. reciprocity trade agreement. The American_ Congress ratified agreement, passing a law providing for reciprocity, but through a_series of misunderstanding inside Canada, the Canadian parliament failed to do its part. Tnasmuch as it was Canada which blocked reciprocity in 1911, the feel- ing of the liberal party, which has just come in_power at Ottawa under Mac- Kenzie King, is that Canada should make the first move in showing her willingness to go through with the 1911 agreement. Law Remains in Effect. Curiously enough, the act of 1911 was Lever repealed and remained on e statute books of the American ongress. ‘The House of Representa- tives once passed a bill proposing a repeal, but it never passed the Ameri- can Senate. So if Canada should do now what she failed to do in 1911, the reciprocity agreement would promptly go into effect between Can- da and the United States. But under the terms of the original understanding. each country was to pass concurrent legislation, and it is hardly likely that the Canadian par- llament would take action if it ap- peared thot the American Congress might repeal the reciprocity act, as, indeed, is now proposed in the Ford- ney tariff bill. That bill would auto- matically repeal all previous tariff arrangements, but would empower the President to negotiate new reci-. procity agreements with any nation. Canada’s viewpoint is that it would be far better to make an exception of the act of 1911 and leave it on the statute books so that the parliament at Ottawa might put it into effect than to negotiate a new agreément involving the reopening of all sorts of questions. J The desire for reciprocity in Can- ada is now intense. The farmer group and the liberal party go hand in hand on that issue and together they control a majority in the Ot- tawa parliament. But the viewpoint of the agricul- tural bloc in the American Congress is bound to be influential. Senator Capper of Kansas, leader of the agri- cultural bloc, told this correspondent today that he had not had an oppor- tunity to study the effects of the reciprocity agreement of 1911, buj it was likely there would be some Op- position, from the border states on the northern boundary. “The wheat growers of Minnesota and North Dakota,” said Mr. Capper, ill want protection. They have been asking for it as against Canada, and the interests of these states will naturally be our.first consideration.” The reciprocity question, however, is not entirely local. It relates close- ly to the whole question of trade re- 1ations between the United States and (Continued on Page NAMED TO HEAD MINT. F. E. Scobey, Texas, Nominated to Succeed Baker. ¥. E. Scobey of Texas was nomi- nated this aftesmeen by President Harding to be'director of the mint, 10 succeed Raymond Baker, that | Staf. VASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1922 _FORTY PAGES. SLADMOTAXGUT - INSENATE RIDER $2,000 Exemption on Im- provements Would Lower Total One-Fifth. More thar $1,500,000 would be cut from the tax collections of the Dis- {trict government if Congress passes j the local appropriation bill with thei |Senate rider providing for a new ifinancial arrangement with the fed- eral government. This was the estimate today of Dii trict Assessor William P. Richards, who indicated that the proposed leg- islation would play havoc with the real estate tax bills of Washington |Property owners. a Most of the confusion, Mr. Rich- ards says, would result from the last clause of the Senate rider, which !stipulates that the assessor shall ex- empt the first $2.000 of value in as- sessing improvements. _After study- 1ing the situation Mr. Richards sub- imnitted this statement to Commission- |er Rudolph, chairman of the board [of Commissioners: Less Than 50,000 Bulldings. “The proposition to exempt first $2,000 on improvements in { District of Columbia will have the | eftect, I believe, of cutting down the tax on real estate about one-fifth, or ! more than a million and a half dollars. *“The number of brick buildings and | stores in the District is about 56,000, { There are 20,000 frame dwellings, 88 hotels, 70 theaters, 1,000 apartments valued above $20,000, and 12,000 sta- bles and garages. The total number of buildings of-all classes Is less than 90,000. ] f there is an exemption as noted jabove, it will apply to large as well as !small. and it can be roughly stated | that 50,000 buildings will average the $2,000 exemption, or a total of about $100,000,000 in assessment. “A mere examination of the numer- ical assessment books will show that Tow after row of houses in the north- east, southeast and southwest will be wiped from the assessment list, leaving, of courSe, the land to be assessed. The effect will be to have buildings in the northwest part of the city bear the burden of taxation 80 far as improvements go, and, of | course, the other effect is that a greater burden will be borne by land values.” the the Fear Result of Rider. ‘While the Commissioners made no official statement of their views on the Senate rider, it is understood they fear the results of destroying the principle of a fixed ratio of ex- pense between the federal and Dis- trict governments. The Senate rider abolishes the 60-40 arrangement and provides that the federal Treasury shall make up what is needed above District taxes to meet the appropriations. Another clause fixes the tax rate at $1.75, which will further reduce District revenues, ; Assessor Richards also called at- tention today to the fact that the $2.000 exemption clause would re- lleve from a large amount of taxes landlords who own many small rental properties. ‘Will Call Bill Up Soonm. The District appropriation bill will be called up for action in the Senate at the earliest opportunity, Senator Phipps of Colorado said today. Sena. tor Phipps is chairman of the sub. committee which redrafted the bill and he will have charge of the measure on the floor of the Senate. The Senate is engaged in the con- sideration of the treaty with Japan regarding the Island of Yap, upon which it is to vote tomorrow. Senator Cummins, has urged that the bill in- creasing the number of federal judges be taken up next. It may be a day or two therefore before the District biff"can come up in the Senate. How- ever, Senator Phipps is prepared to call it up when opportunity offers. In reporting the bill to the Senate, the Senate committee on appropria- tions. recognized the justice of the contention that the bonded indebted- ness of the District—the 3.65 bonds— should be met equally by the federal government and by the District. The committee amended the pro- vision of the bill relating to the in- terest and the sinking fund for these bonds so that they should b2 pay- able one-half out of the revenues of the District and one-half out of the federal Treasury. 20 In substituting the so-called Jones bill, dealing with the fiscal relations of the District, for the House 60-40 plan of appropriating, the commitiee | Member of the Associsted Press The Associated Press is excluaively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited i1 this paper and also the local news published berein, All rights dispacches of publication of special bereln are also reserved. GIRL BANDIT CAUGHT IN FIGHT WITH POLICE AS MAN IN RAID FLEES SYRACUSE, N. Y., March 1.—A girl bandit, armed with a repeat- ing rifle and a revolver, and ac- companied by a man equally well armed, raided a store in the vil- lage of Camillus, near Syracuse, early today, and in the residential section of Syracuse engaged in a running gun battle with the po- lice, which ended in the arrest of the’ girl and the escape of her comrade, The girl under arrest is Myrtle Bates, twep’ -two. According to the story or Ernest Monica, taxi driver, the girl and the man en- tered his car in the center of Syracuse and ordered him to drive to Camillus, The girl covered the driver. At Camillus _ Benjamin Hart, grocer, was shot and seri- ously wounded. Returning to Syracuse, the taxi- cab was trapped by seven patrol- men. Firing her rifie and_pistol, the girl covered her comrade's es- cape. She refused to give the man’s name. $100,000 DAILY L0S§ THREATENING U. 5. Break in D. C. Water System Would Leave Thousands Idle on Salary. Should a break occur in the Wash- ington conduit bringing the city water from Great Falls, or in the Lydecker tunnel, which takes the Georgetown reservoir water under the city to the filtration plant, Uncle Sam would find a hole cut in his pocket through which would dribble | away more than $100.000 per day in the loss of salaries alone to clerks who would not be able to work. Not only this, but the loss through los time, necessitating “catch-up” work, would be incomputable, Capitol Hill, with the House, Sen- ate and legislative auxiliaries, would be forced to suspend operation im- mediately. The city would be de- serted within forty-eight hours, it is estimated, on account of the water | shortage. The governmental pay roll for resi- dents of the District would probab continue, but the cost of the em-| ployes' idleness alone would amount | to $100,000, based on figures submit- ted by Budget Director Dawes to the President with regard to the cur- Trent vear’'s estimates. The ‘Library of Congress would be forced to close its doors. The bureau | of engraving and printing, which | uses water not only for power and | { other burposes, but also for the| operation of certain inon washing and cleansing machinery, would im- mediatly have to suspend work. H Printing Office Would Close. The government printing office, de- riving the power which turns its| presses primarily from the water which later turns into steam power, would be unable to continue work. | The capital city would become the, desert city. The Union station would | be crowded with cutgoing residents to points where water might be ob- | tained as long as locomotives could | keep their water tanks full on arrival | in the city. The situation is almost incompre- | ible. Yet the reserve storage facilities for water have been so constantly inadequate for the drain- | ing of the system-that the Lydecker tunnel, carrying water beneath the city as an artery of the heart operates | in “the human system, has not been | inspected in seven vears. because of the impossibility of draining the sys-| tem. i Different from the heart's artery, | however, this tunnel would not be able to telegraph by the nerve sys- | tem any frailty or possible impair- ment of its efficiency in order that efforts to repair it might be started | speedily. Wherefore, if a break | should come. and the possibility is | recognized at the present time as| ever-existent on account of the im- | possibility of proper inspection at shorter intervals, it will drop down on the city like a bolt and work | gigantic harm instantaneously. Sanitation without water. the present and only iiness, is This fact is recognized | by Dr. William Fowler, health offi- cer of the District, and his assoclates, | who have made direct statements of | the obvious conditions. But, regarding the computable loss in salaries to the government of the ! United States in case it were obliged ! to suspend departmental activities | because of lack of water or a break | in the local water works, estimates | of the current yearly .salary roll | submitted to the President by Direc- ! ior of the Budget Dawes disclose | che foflowing allocations: Great Loss in Salaries. The loss on Capitol Hill and at the | government printing office would be on an anuual rate of $4,058,351 or on a daily rate of $11,118. This includes the Library of Congress, the annual salaries of employes and officers amounting to $466,173, and the Senate and House of Representatives em-| ployes and officers, with an annual pay roll of $1,230,000 and $2,179,478, re- spectively. . The salaries and expenses of the State Department in Washington run to $965,595 annually, making the daily loss in case of the shutdown approxi- mately $2,645 per day here alone. The War Department proper figures for salaries and expenses are on a daily ratio of approximately $15,467, while the Treasury Department would Jose approximately $8,243 per day of idleness. The other departments and losses on account of salary losses alone fol- low: Navy Department, $5915 per day: Interior Departmenf, "$14,268; Post Office Departthent, $8,07: partment of Agriculture, $17,384; Vet- erans’ Bureau, $18,729; the District government, $3,173," and the Depart- ments of Labor, Justice and Commerce and Shipping Board in all, $4,070, ex- clusive of the bireau of smvestigation of the Department of Justice. 12 BROKERS INDICTED. Additional Firms Named for Ir- under | stem of clean- | | makes provisions for the us2 of the surplus revenues of the District, which have accrued in past years and which amount to more® than $4,000,000. The committee’ proposes that these surplus revenues, which represent the excess revenues of the District over the amount called for to me=* appropriations, shall-be ex- pended for the benefit of ths District in addition to current revenucs of the District. > regularities on Market. NEW YORK, March 1.—Twelve more | stock brokers were indicted by a su- preme court grand jury today for ir- i jand that at | Pres | the atmospher: { bloc will oppose { American Legion, Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 94,424 TWO CENTS. PRACTICALLY KILL ANY CASH FEATURE OF SOLDIER BONUS Republicans of House Com- mittee Plan to Eliminate Immediate Payments. EXPECT TO DRAFT BILL SOME TIME THIS WEEK Fordney Hopes to Remove All Cause of Controversy—Sub- committee Named. Eliminatio of the cash feature of the soldiers’ bonus virtually was agreed upon today by republican members of the House ways and means committee, Chairman Fordney announced that a special subcommittee of x had been named by unanimous agreement to “work out some plan that would not entail any large drafts on thef federal Treasury within the next two years.” Such a plan would make unneces- sary any immediate bonus financing and would remove the cause of con- troversy in the House over the bill. The special subcommittee will meet this afternoon, and Mr. Fordney said it was the belief that a measure could be made r v certainly within two or three d He added that it was possible that details of the bill could be worked out at the first session. -Mr. Fordney heads the subcom- mittee, and the other members zre tepresentatives Green of lowa; Long- worth of Ohio; Hawley of New Yor! Treadway of Massachusetts, and Copley of Tllinois. : Before deciding to appoint _the subcommittee the majority membe: again canvassed the whole situat The compromise finally reached was d to have been by unanimous con- ent. _While the majority members were in_session, Representative Fish, publican, New Yor ident Harding a suggested amendment to the proposed soldier onus measure, which would limit the djusted compensation pay to re- cipients of vocational training, those drawing compensation for disabili- ties and to veterans who certify to their unemployment in making appli- cation. Three-Hour Talk Faila. “I am authorized to say that the committee has come to no conclusion,” aid Chairman Fordney of the way and means committee, after the re- publican members had spent three hours trying to adjust their views re- garding soldier bonus proposals that could be presented to the House with recommendations that they be passed. “There ix nothing to be given to the newspapers today,” Mr. Fordney added. It was understood that there was a neral discussion of the whole ques- tion of finances, acrimonious at times, the finish the situation was just where it was before the spe- cial subcommittee tentatively agreed upon a special tax program. which subsequently was disappr-ved by ident Harding. It was said that the possibilities in- cluged a postponement of the whole question for a month, in the belief that the delay would serve to clear but several membere were understood to look upon such & program with disfavor. Sales Tax Plan Blocked. The discusgion yesterday was re- ported to have revolved largely around the proposition to write into the bill some kind of a financing pro- vision that would meet the Presi- dent’s views at ieast half way. The sales tax sugg by the President and rejected by the special committee last week by an overwhelming vote was not pressed particularly, it was said, and the impression went out that some members had in mind a special tax program. Sales tax proponents were under- stood to be hopeful that this program would be worked around to the sales tax, but leaders of the ugricultural that. They take the position that the honus can be financed out of the proceeds from the refunded British debt. As the republican werc assembling to eration of the bonus, Nider, national committeemen resume consid- Hanford Mac- commander of the and John Thomas Taylor, vice chairman of the legion’s legislative committee, discussed the bonus situation with President Hard- ing at the White House. They said afterward that they were “perfectly satisfied” with the results of the con- ference and expressed confidence that there would be no delay in the enact- ment of the adjusted compensation legislation. They added that the Presi- dent was “heart and soul” with the le- gion and understood its position fully. COMMISSIONERS URGE BANKING LAW FOR D. C. . Letter to Focht Tells of “Impera- tive Need of Authority Over State Institutions. The District Commissioners have asked Congress for a new general banking law. In a letter to Chair- man Focht of the House District com- mittes, Commissioner Rudolph says that the Commissioners desire to im- press upon Congress “the imperative need of authority to control the for- mation and opening for business in the District of a banking corporation organized under the various state laws.” He points out that there is mno banking law in the District similar to the banking laws of the states, and hence there is no official here who has the power to inquire into the or- ganization of a proposed commercial state bank that seeks to do business in _the District. The_ absence of adequate legisla- tion, Commissioner Rudolph says, has resulted in thir'v state, chartered in- stitutions coming into the District. in addition to tuese state banks are fifteen national banks and six trust companies. The purpose of the proposed law, Commissioner Rudolph says, is not to narrow or restrict competition nor to prevent the reliable and re- sponsible persons possessing _the requisite knowledge and skill from entering the field of banking in the District in competition with exist- regularities disclosed in District At- torney Banton's investigation of ‘bucket shopping, which followed fail- of a number of brokerage firms, §:-n of the defendants were with-) Bala N 9 ing institutions, but to place the en- tire banking situation in this city more completely under the authority and control of a re: ble official who is clothed by law ‘with the power to guide the interests of the invest- ire and the banking public.