Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Falr tonight, near freezing; lowest tomorrow increasing cloudiness, with rising temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 64, at 8 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 39, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on page 4. temperature Closing New York Stocks, Page 25. No. 25437. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. MAIL SERVICE ENDS WHENMUD STREETS BAR CARRIER'S WAY Post Office Department Com- " plains at Many Times i Trucks Are Mired. SENATE PASSES ON ALL ITEMS WITHOUT QUESTION Committee Recommendation for $278,500, With $50,000 Blanket i Fund, Allowed. Mail service is belng retarded by he muddy streets of the Capital city, he Star man was informed by local ostal officials today. Failure of “ongress to provide for the improve- ent of all the streets of the city vhich need paving is delaying the “nited States mails. Continual delay of trucks and the ubsequent expense involved in get- ing them out of the mud out 13th treet way have caused the city post flice to withdraw the mail box on he corner of 13th and Randolph treets. This was declared today to e the first instance in this city where mail box service had to be with- rawn on account of the impassabil- ty of the streets! Parcel post delivery is delayed in hat section owing to the fact that he trucks cannot negotiate the treets, it was said, and mail truck are continually _reporting difficulties in maintaining chedule on many of the streets of he District. These trucks are not n_express-train schedule, and when late the drivers ave to give an accounting. So much trouble was experienced n getting to the box at 13th and ndolph streets, resulting in the mir- ng of trucks and making it neces- ary to send wrecking equipment to ull them out of the mire, that the ast time the collection was made at he box the truck driver took the ox with him. His action was ap- People of the section now ave to go several blocks to mail etters, a service just a little better than might be expected in the most §solated rural communities. But this is in the heart of a built-up section of the city. Senate Told Condition. When the item for the pgving of Randolph street from 13th to 14th streets was being considered in the Senate yesterday Senator Fletcher of Florida called to the attention of the Senate the serious condition of 13th Etreet. “My understanding is that the pub- lic needs. out there would be very much more conserved if 13th street H were paved from Spring road epherd street. Would it be pos- sible to insert a provision for that at this time? I do not knpw whether an estimate has been mage for it or not. “I will say to the senator,” said Senator Phipps of Colorado, in charge of the District bill on the floor, “that there was no estimate made for the paving of 13th street at that point. The subcommittee inspected Ran- dolph street and ascertained the situ- ation there. It is mot quite 100 per cent complete in buildings, bug the buildings are to go up within a year in the remaining section of that street. It was the judgment of the commit- ee that it was best to complete Ran- dolph_street this vear. and to allow the 13th street item tQ come in next year.” “The committee. then,” Senator Fletcher,asked, “has in mind continu- ing the paviug of 13th street, which is now paved as far north as Spring road, 1 understand, on up to Shepherd street? That would accommodate the whole region out there, as I under- stand it. It is a very important street.” Senator Phipps informed Senator Fletcher that the committee intends 10 sce that a provision for 13th street is put in the next appropriation bill, Important Thoroughfare. Thirteenth street, if paved through, svould be an important thoroughfare from the downtown section to Arkansas avenue, within half a block of Georgia avenue. It is now cut through for this entire distance, but it is impassable be- | avoided. The"situation, however, tween Spring road and Buchanan street. There is at present ne other through north and south street between Georgia avenue and 14th street, both of which thoroughfares are traversed by car lines. Street improvements provided for by the Senate committee went through ‘without question, and the total amount yecommended by the Senate committee, 278,500, was allowed. - The Senate committee amendments ‘which were approved by the Senate were - Paving west side of Connecticut ave- || ue from Ingomar street to Chevy Chase Circle, sixty feet wide! $46,000. Paving East Capitol street, 15th to 18th street, fifty feet wide, $37,000. Paving Rhode Island avenue north- €ast from 12th to 16th street, fifty feet wide, $15,000. Paving 12th street northeast from Michigan avenue to.Upshur street, Torty feet wide, $17,200. Paving Randolph street northwest from F3th-to 14th street, thirty feet wide, $10,700. 3 For paving 28th street northwest from Woodley road. to Cathedral avenue, $10,000, $50,000 Extra Fund. The Senate also allowed the com- ittee amendment giving the Com- missioners a fund of $50,000 for pav- ing of roadways under the permit #ystem. This item, If it remains in the bill after conference, will pro- vide a fund which will enable. the Commissioners to pave some of the Dad streets without the formality of Eoing to Congress for a specific street improvemnt. 1t has been estimated that this fund, at present prices, will yermit the paving of appreximately 2en blocks. The “projects which sthe House of Representatives allowed, and which also were passed by the Senate, were: ing 15th street northeast, from t Capitol to B street, thirty feet wide, $15.000. Paving Ingraham street northwest, (s-astmo( 14th street, thirty feet wide, 7.000. Paving Upshur street, New Hamp- siire avenue to 4th street, forty-five feet wide, $8,400. . Paving 15th street northwest, H to I streets, seventy feet wide, $16,800. Paving Yuma street northwest, 38th fo 39(h streets, thirty feet wide, £5.000. Vi street Paving Varnum street northwest, (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) - » | Clare apd East Limerick. pan-American conference is to J pela. o : WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1922—THIRTY PAGES. Wives Locked Up With Jury [PIISONISFOUND Two Days; Husbands Storm Court Special Dispateh to The Star. .ST. PAUL, Minn., March 8.—“Never would I allow Mrs. Preus to go through such an ordeal.” This frank statement by Gov. J7 A. O. Preus of Minnesota has given such added velocity to the storm which has arisen here over the confinement of seven women and five men for two days and two nights that it was free- Iy predicted today there would be no more “mixed juries” in this county. To this extent, therefore, the fight of women's organizations for an ab- solute equality of rights with men has received a decided setback. The privileges of citizenship represented by prolonged jury duty have outraged the feelings of seven St. Paul house- holders and sown the seeds of an or- Banized movement against some of the outcroppings of universal suf- frage. Jury Hung for 48 Hours. The jury of seven women and five men selected to sit in judgment in the case of the state against George Thoemke, charged with stealing an automobile, was “hung up” for two days and two nights before a verdict of guilty was returned. No sooner had the jury been discharged with the usual thanks by, Judge F. M. Cat- {1in than a great hue and cry went up. Husbands of the women serving on the jury didn’t mind doing the house- work and caring for the children dur- wives were herded into chain gang formation and locked with the men in one jail room, where there were no screens or curtains to shield the feminine section of the improvised TROOPS IN LIMERICK AGREENOT TOFIGHT? Await Efforts of Leaders to Persuade Insurgents to Leave City. By the Associnted Press. LIMERICK, March 8.—Large forces of regular Irish republican army troops are now in Limerick decupying the William street barracks and five other barracks. They have also taken over the local jail. British troops are still occupying the new barracks and the ordnance building. The ordinary police daties are being performed by Irish republican army regulars. The city was quiet today and the population in general appeared more composed than at any time since last Sunday's invasion by insurgent Irish republican army forces, .who com- mandeered the principal hotels and are still occupying them as billets. Substantial reinforcements for the republican Tegulars came in last night, 500 men_arriving from East They were accompanied by an armored car. Nearly coincident with the coming of the reinforcements was the arrival of Richard Mulcahy, the dail minister of defense, and other provisional gov- ernment representatives, who began negotiations with the insurgent re- publican troops. Strong hopes were expressed that an. understanding would be reached making it unneces- sary to use force in bringing about the withdrawal of the invaders. Pend- ing the outcome of the negotiations it was agreed that netther side should interfere with the other. DE VALERA IS DENOUNCED. Urged to Speak and Condemn Ac- tion at Limerick. | By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, March §.—Freeman's Jour- nal, discussing the Limerick situation today, dealt with what it described as “Eamonn De Valera's silence” and i said editorially: “De Valera, so far as is known, has taken no step to correct the deeds of hot-headed persons, who, pretending to be his followers, have invaded i Limerick and quartered themselves in | that city as its inhabitants. Thanks to the self-control of the rank and file of the Irish republican army, ac- tual evil results so far have been in is impossible and full of danger. Conflict at the present mo- ment would be an outrage on the Irish nation and its name throughout | the world. It behooves De Valera to | speak and let the world know where he stands.” | the city SHOT DEAD IN STREET. Another Outrage in Belfast as Dis- orders Are Resumed. N By the Assocated Press. BELFAST, March 8.—Another fatal shooting occurred this morning in the continuation of the disorders which have been in progress several days in Belfast, and which resulted in four deaths yesterday. A sniper on Antrim street shot and mortally injured one man, William Johnston, and slightly wounded another man. —_— LLOYD GEORGE RECOVERS. Presides at Meeting of Cabinet. Takes Up Soviet Famine Loan. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 8—Prime Minister Lloyd George, who has been suffering from an attack of bronchial catarrh, had sufficiently recovered today to preside at a meeting of the cabinet. Sir Arthur Balfour, lord president of the copncil, was present. It is understood the principal ques- tion considered was a proposed loan of £350,000 to the Russian govern- ment for famine relief. e i LADY ASTOR HERE IN APRIL Will Attend Women’s Pan-Ameri- can Conference in Baltimore. LONDON, March 8—Lady Astor, says the Pall Mall Gaszette today, will go to the United States in April. She plans to attend the pan-Ameri- can _conference of women, to be held in Baltimore, and the convention of the National League of Women Vot- ers, in connection with which the ing the day, but when at night their | dormitory, the end of duty as good citizens was reached. ~ No More of This Thing. In consequence a notice that is as- sured the support of most of the mar- ried male population, and a few of the promised in marriage as well, has Dbeen unofficially, but none the less firmly, served, (o the effect that there will be no more of that sort of thing in these parts. One of the irate husbands so vehe- mently outlined to Judge Catlin his position as an American and a tax- payer that he narrowly escaped cita- tion for contempt. Throwing caution to the winds and forgetting that he was addressing “the majesty of the law,” the indignant spouse made full use of his unexpurgated vocabulary and declared that neither his wife nor himself would ever serve on a jury, let the penalty be what it would. “Never have I been thus spoken to in my official capacity,” sald Judge Catlin today, “but 1 was convinced that under the circumstances the man was not responsible and I allowed him to ‘get away with it I believe it did him good. Five Go After Sheriff. Five of the husbands went after Sheriff John Wagner and informed him that hereafter he need waste no time with jury summons for them. The “shocking" details are just com- ling to light. Sald Mrs. Josephine Brown: “When they put us in the jail the first night we just sat around on the edges of the beds and talked about the case until we were nearly dead. Then some one mentioned going to Lam sure it was a man, bed. NEW TREATY SUPERSEDES LANSING-ISHII AGREEMENT President Informs &nata’ Four- Power Pact Does Not Re- fer to China. The Lansing-Ishii agreement has been completely superseded by the nine-power treaty relating to China, | now before the Senate, President Harding informed the Senate today in response to the recently adopted Borah resojution. The executive added that the four-power treaty did not refer to China and does not di- rectly- bear upon the Lansing-Ishii notes. “The so-called Lansing-Ishii agree- ment,” the President declared in a letter to the Senate, “has no binding effect whatever, either with respect to the past or to the future, which is in any sense inconsistent with the principles and policies explicitly de- clared in the nine-power treaty. “The negotiatien of this treaty,” the referring to the nine- “4s in itself the most pewer pact, formal declaration of the policy of the executive in relation to China and supersedes any executive understand- ing or declaration that could possibly be asserted to have contrary import. £ the Senate assents to u:huunfi the principles and policles which t! treaty declares will be supported and enforced by a binding international agreement.” e BUSINESS BLOCKED BY MUD N VIRGINIA Short Rations Required for Central Section, Where Stores Lack Supplies. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., March 8.—Reports received here today by the News Leader from rural sections, principal- 1y counties and town in central Vir- ginfa, indicate that many of these points are mud-bound as a result of frequent rains and snows which have visited the sections since early in January. In some sections business is re- ported at a standstill and merchants, Iunable to reach the railroad stations to obtain goods shipped them, are putting their customers on short ra- ! tions. In many counties physicians are said to be unable to reach their pa- tients, even by horseback. Little Help From Sunshine. Rural Virginians declare that the present conditions have existed since the beginning of January and that it has been little helped by recent sunshine, because with the sunny days have been mingled days of excessive rainfall. State Prohibition Commissioner Harry B. Smith, whose home is in Cul- peper, reported today that country merchants in the hills and mountains north of the Southern railway line between Charlottesville and Wash- ington are unable to reach the rail- road stations and get their freight. They have been compelled to - limit their customers to five pounds of sugar at a -time and to correspond- ingly restrict the sales of other mer- chandise. Business Suspended. Central Virginia is knee-deep in mud, according to reports. Business in that section has been pra®tically suspended for two months. In many _instances, physicians have been una- ble to reach their patients, as horses, after a few miles of travel through the mud, have refused to go farther. One physician is reported to have said that his practice is limited to the people in his town whom he reaches on foot and to the country people he is able to give advice to over the tele- phone. i On the highways few automobiles are moving in Virginia. One country merchant stated today that he had seen but three automobiles pass his store in a month. MURDERED IN MEXICO. s American Slain at Los Naraios, -But Assailants Unknown. ', Alexander Matherne, an'*American citizen, was murdered by unknown persons at Los Naranjos, state of Vera Crus, on the night of March 6, the State Department was advised to- | be|day by Vice Consul Hickerson, at Tampico , £ e IN 98 PER GENT OF BOOTLEG WHISKY Commissioner Haynes Adds New Facts in Star’s Amaz- ing Rum Traffic Revelations. CHIEF SULLIVAN LAUDS WAR ON BOOTLEGGERS Mr. . Oyster Favors Specific Law and Jail Terms for All Such Violators. Perils besetting the imbiber of hootleg whisky were forcibly demon- strated today by a statement of Pro- hibition Commissioner Haynes; who told The Star that only 2 per cent of the liquor analyzed by chemists of the prohibition forces is found to be drinkable. The other 98 per cent is roison. Of course, the poison runs from the deadly type to tbat which is only temporarily injurious. But in the thousands of gallons of bootles whisky seized by prohibition agents the general average is only 2 per cent liquor that may be taken with- out harm. Haynes Emphasizes Danger. “The poison contents of hootleg Whisky cannot be too strongly em- phasized,”” Mr. Haynes sald today. “Continually we find whisky brought in after raids which would be deadly if taken in sufficient quantities” In Washington. there is a prohibi- tion department storehouse, in which there are hundreds of gallons of whisky, bottled as genuine whisky should be, but which are only bootleg preparations and which contain wood alchpl or formaldehyde or large quantities of fusel oil. An interesting anecdote is told by Commissioner Haynes to {llustrate what the bootleg whisky drinker may expect. Never Drinks Own Stuff. A group of agents raided a still in a mountainous section not far away from this part of the country. They ‘got plenty of mash and plenty, of al- leged liquor. One of them, #n ex- pert, on examining the liquor said to the prisoner: “Great scott, this stufr?” The manufacturer was shocked at the question. “You bet your life I don't,” he re- plied in disgust. “This is made to gell. 1 wouldn't risk my life with a drink of it.” ~This case, :u@lfl-l‘. to prohibjtion awthorities, Js not exeeblfgntl: Tt is typical of the manufacturer of boot- leg poison. + Polsonows Liquor Kills Five. - In Washington what the officials of the health department are marveling at 1s the fact that only five died dur- ing the year of 1921 from drinking poisonous liquor or whisky with a de- natured aleohol base. Why more deaths did not occur is regarded as miraculous. A casual sur'vey 6f local hospitals shows that virtually every hospital in the city has treated large numbers of alcoholic cases caused by inferior liquor. Police Chief Lauds Drive. Maj. Sullivan, superintendent of po- man, do you drink lice, today said he was fully in accord : with The Star's campaign against the sale of poisonous liquor. “Not only am I in favor of suppress- ing the sale of poisonous liquor,” he told a Star reporter, “but in favor of sup- pressing the entire traffic. “I believe in showing the bootlegger no leniency,” he added.” He is a menace to soclety, always preying upon the ‘weakness of the unfortunate, and should be put out of business. I am in favor of imposition of the maximum penalty in all cases of bootlegging. “There will be no let-up in the crusade against bootleggers,” he con- tinued. “The department is working steadily every day in the week and Sunday in an effort to break up the traffic and eradicate the bootlegger. Pushing War on Bootlegger. “The work is being done consist- ently. There is nothing spectacular about the raids, but the police are arresting such persons practically every day.” Maj. Sullivan favors a chemical analysis of all liquor purcHased from bootleggers, and in cases where poisors are found in the liguor, he stated, he thinks there is ample law to reach them, suggesting that they might be prosecuted under the HaY- rison narcotic law. To show that the police are not asleep on the job, Maj. Sullivan pre- sented 'the report of the work of the department for the month of Feb- ruary, showing a total of 218 arrests for alleged violations of the Volstead law. . Seigures during the month included 838 quarts of whisky, 4 quartssof gin, 13 quarts of alcohol, 8 quarts of cider, 947 potties of peacn extract, 310 gal lons of mash, 58 bottles of cognac flavoring, 475 gallons of wine, 1,540 CONFERENCELOST IFAPONER TREATY FALS DGE SAYS |Te||s Senate Failure to Ratify Will Endanger Nava] Limitation. “The defeat of the four-power treaty would mean the failure of the conference,” Senator Lodge, repub- lican leader, chairman of the foreign relations committee and member of the American _delegation to the ‘Washington conference, warned the Senate today in a speech urging ratification of the four-power Pa- cific pact. The four-power treaty, he said, provided for the termination of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. He said the ‘termination of that agreement was the main purpose of the treaty. Anglo-Japanese Pact Feared, The * Anglo-Japanese arrangement, Senator Lodge deciffted, was regard- ed by the American delegation as “the most dangerous element” in this gov- ernment’s relations with the far east. He asserted that if the four-power pact, with its clause abrogating the alliance, failed, the naval limitation agreement also would be endangered, resulting in “failure of the confer- ence.” . - No entangling commitments are contained in the treaty, he asserted, can traditions. He characterized it as “only an experiment,” but added that it was one that must succeed if the United States is to make good its professed desires to take the lead in guiding the world toward peace. Speaks Frankly to Senate. { Declaring he desired to “tell the | Senate with entire frankness” the motives which actuated the American delegation, Mr. Lodge said: “For a month and more before the conference met the American delegation was in session almost every day. We tried to determine and mark out the {course which the American delegation, with whom rested the responsibility of initiating all the work of the conference, should follow. The delegation was in complete accord as to the policies to be pursued. The shadow of politics or of personal feeling never rested for a mo- ment upon our deliberations. “The American delegation were united in the Gesire to secure results from the peace of the world, reduce in some meas- ure the burdens of taxation imposed by the existence -of armies and fleets and thea competition of armaments and pro- tect the future peace and safety of the | United States. In Terms of Peace. “We were of one mind in agreeing that if we were to have any nreasure of suc- cess we must think in terms of peace and not iff terms of war. It was our earnest hope that in a portion of the earth’s surface at least we could do something to substitute the assurance of peace for tae arrangements and cal- .culations of war. “Actuated by these beliefs and by |Deputy Sheriff Hemp estimates that this spirit, we were clearly of opinion |there were thirty men in the. party. that there lay before us three great;Hemp and the other two guards had | oblectives, to be attained. One was the termina- {tion of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. | The next was an agreement between the five principal allied and asso- ciated powers seated at the table for three dominant purposes (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) Charles, Jewels All Pawned, Forced to State of Beggary BY WILLIAM E. NASH. blé_to Tire Star and Chicago Di By O e Copyright, a7 PARIS, March 8-—Ex-Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary has reached a stage of beggary in his exile on the Island of Madeira, ac- cording to reports which reached Paris today. . The once proud monarch.is forced <o accept: the hospitality of his landlord, a generous ‘Portuguese ‘who owns several estates,on-Ma- deira. He has not evén® enough money. to buy food for his wife and seven children, and the eighth: child s expected soon. Charles has used up all the money he was able to rake and scrape by pawning his jewels and is reduced to a state of abject - (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) poverty. His uncle, the old Em- peror Francis Joseph, is supposed to have left a fortune stored uj n British banks, but Charles en unable to find any trace of it. ‘While some Frenchmen show scant sympathy for Charles in his plight, one writer offering the sug- gestion that he take up a collection in the United Staf others think the allies should do something for him. Those in the latter class realize thdt thousands of people in central Europe still regard Charles as their rightful sovereign and feel his sufferings”as their own. The' Matin publishes an article demanding that the allies agree on a small pension, which will en- able the Hapsburg family to live ‘at Yeast as comfortably as former Emperor of Germany or _former King Ferdinaid of Bul- garia 3 and no provisions contrary to Ameri- | conference waich would promete the | | B e S The Associated the use for rep paperand also dispatches Member of the Assoclated Press Ptess s exclusively entitied to ublication of all news dispatches eredited to it or not otherwise eredited in this the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special hereln are also reserved. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 93,633 TWO * CENTS. DISTRICT APPROPRIATION BILL PASSED BY SENATE WITH RIDER Jones Amendment Adopted—--Tax Rate Fixed at $1.75 Per $100—More Funds for Schools, Parks, Police and Firemen. The District appropriation bill as passed by the Senate yesterdny was ment to conferemce today by the House. Unanimous consent was given to disagree to all Senate amendments and {o ask for a conference with the Semate. The committee pointed for the House are: Repre- sentative Davis of Minnesota, chairman of the subcommittee, who framed the bill; Representative | Evans of Nebraska and Repre- semtative Ben Johnson of Kei tucky. The District appropriation bill, car- rying the Jomes rider changing the | fiscal pelations of the District, was passed by the Senate laté yesterday.! The bill now goes to the House for| action on the Senate amendments and, | eventually, to conference for an ad- justment of differences between the two houses. The bill passed the Senate carrying | all of the amendments recommended | by the Senate appropriations com- mittee and two or three other amend- | ments offered by senators from the | floor. The bill carries a total of $23.- 3.50, as it passed the Senate, or | $3,558,144 more than as it passed the House and $21,980 more than when re- | b ported to the Senate. A final effort was made by Senator DISTLLERY RARERS GET2,O0GALLONS Band of Thirty Swoops Down in Rain and Wind on Mary- land Warehouse. ~ Special Dispatch to The Star, FREDERICK, Md., March 8.—For the second time in a year the govern- ment warehouses at the Outerbridge Horsey Distillery Company, Inc., at Burkittsville, Md., was raided. ap- proximately 2,100 gallons of whisky in barrels being taken, this morning | by a gang of robbers. The robbers swooped down on the offices of the dis- tillery this morning at 12:30 o'clock, and overpowered the three guards, John Hemp, deputy sheriff; William Harp and John Maddock. While the three guards were bound and tied, eighteen or twenty men broke doe'n the doors to the warehouse and began rolling barrels of whisky into trucks. The robbery was conducted during the height of a rain and wind storm which swept this county this morning. just completed a tour of the distil- lery property and were seated in the office, when the door was brokeh open with a twenty-pound sledge. The raiders were not masked, bt all car- ried' revolvers. = The guards were bound with rope, thrown into a cor- ner and three men placed on guard. Hemp estimates, by the sound of mo- tors, that there were, at least, three trucks and probably half a dozen other cars. Value Placed at $35,000. It is understood the government ‘warehouse carries about 1,000 barrels of bonded: whisky. In the first rob- bery, September 9, 1921, 1,100 cases of whisky were taken, the estimated value of which was $45,000. The value of this morning’s haul is estimated at about $35,000. The raiders left the distillery about b5 o'clock. Deputy Sherift Hémp succeeded in breaking the bonds on his arms and then re- leased his companiony. Hemp, accom- panied by 'John Weightnight, in an automobile, ‘went to-the home of C. T. Meyer, president of the.distillery com- pany, and l}rtlfle? hhln :l"tll:: r'}‘:h;fi' es leadin; 8 a;]lenllonc cut/ty the raiders. Meyer notified She A. Jones of Frederick of the robbery. The raiders warned the guards!not to attémpt.to make an outcry. Hemp " (Continued on Page 2, Column §.) Harrison of Mississippi just before the bill passed to have the Jones rider stricken from the bill on the ground that it was general legisla- tion on an appropriation bill, but the point of order was overruled by Vice President Coolidge. Jones Rider Adopted. The Senate, in adopting the Jones rider, struck from the bill the House provision that 60 per cent of the expenses for the District should be paid from the District revenues and 40 per cent from the federal Treas- ury—the method which has been used in appropriation bills for the “&st two years. The Jones rider does away with any ‘fixed proportion to be paid by the federal government. It provides: “That the general expenses of the District of Columbia shall be charge- #hle to and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. “For the fiscal year 1923 and an- nually thereafter the rate of taxa- tion in the District of Columbia shall be fair and reasonable, and the rev- enue derived fram this source shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous reve- nue. “Until otherwise provided by law the rate of taxation in the District of Columbia on tangible personal property and real estate shall be per $100, and other taxes shall as now provided. “The appropriation of an_gmount (Continued on Page 3. Column 3.) PLANNING TO RUSH VOTE ONBONUS BILL |Republigan Leaders Reveal Scheme to Shut Out Amendments. Republican leaders disclosed today that ‘they were considering a plan to put the soldiers’ bonus bill through the House under a suspension of the rules which would shut out amendments of any kind and limit debate to forty min- utes. Under this plan a two-tairds vote would be necessary to pass the measure, but leaders believed on the basis of pres- ent sentiment among members that this majority could be obtained with votes to- spare. Monday, March 20, will be the next rules suspension day. Army Bill Up First. The Army appropriation bill will be taken up before the bonus measure, !it was said, probably on next Tues- day. This probably would mean that in any event the bonus bill would be put «over until the week following. Representative Mondell of Wyoming, the majority leader, said today he did not think tke statement made yester- day at the White House that Presi- dent Harding had -not changed his position set forth last month in his letter to Chalrman Fordney of the ways and means committee was .to be taken as an indication that Mr. Harding was prepared to veto the bonus measure as now drawn, with its bank loan provisions in lieu of 4he cast bonus. See Only Slight Opposition. Despite some criticsm of the meas- ure in and out of Congress, Chair- man Fordney and his co-workers be- leve it will encounter only com- paratively feeble opposition in the House unless there is an unexpected reaction ‘among’ the great majority of members who have been insistent that some sort of bonus legislation be enacted at this session. Just what will happen to the bill in the Senate appears at this. time to be more or iess problematical. There the measure will be open to amendment and also to unlimited debate, and it is regarded as more than probable that it will be subject- ed to change in some important par- ticulars. Since President Harding advised the House committee to pay the bonus with a sales tax or post- pone . the legislation, it is expected that sales tax proponents in the Sen- ate will renew their fight for that kind of a levw. < T ¥ {80000 APPOINTEES 100.5.JOBS FACING | LOSS OF PENSIONS Attorney General Rules Presi- dential Choices Not Entitled to Retirement. 6,400 NOW RECEIVING ANNUITIES ILLEGALLY Will Also Lose Money Paid Into Fund to Date—Secretary Fall Seeks Remedy. The Attorney General has just de- cided that none of the 0,000 presi- dential appointees in civil service is entitled to the benefits of the retire- ment act, Secretary Fall of the In- terior Department announced today. The Secretary is charged with the enforcement of a retirement act. At least four-fifths of the ruitants, or 6,400 employes, who now receiving annuities under the law, are receiving them illegally, Mr. Fall stated, according to the decision of the Attorney General. There are about 8,000 annuitants now on the rolls. an- are Puts Stop to Certifieates. Secretary Fall stated that no more certificates of retirement would be issued to civil service employes who hold positions by presidential order rather than by competitive examina- tion. A survey has shown that there are 80,000 employes in the civil serv- ice not by competitive examination, but by executive order. The 80,000 presidential appointees not only are deprived of the right of being retired, but will lose all the money which they have paid into the retirement fund to date. Has Prepared Bil Secretary Fall announced that le {has prepared a bill for Congress looking to the remedying by legisla- tion of this most unusual situation, which has arisen by reason of the decision of the Attorney General. Secretary Fall said that while he was intensely sorry for those hit by the order, he could not but agree that the Attorney General had properly con- strued the law. Issuance of certificates of retire- ment to the affected employes was suspended March 1. It is believed that monthly checks to the 6,400 re- tired employes who have been ruled to be illegally receiving' annuities will be cut off practieally at once and that these employes will find them- selves both out of the government service and lacking any pension whatever. Bombshell to Employes. Secretary Fall said that he bglieved legislation by Congress is the only way to cure the situation, and that in h opinion a prellduqlial order tending to correct the evil would not be effective for those classified prior to the time of the passage of the retirement act. The announcement of Secretary Fall will come as a bombshell to the whole civil service, especially to government _employes here. While officials of the retirement bureau of the pension office_would make no comment on the ordér today, not hav- ing been officially advised. and not having been furnished copies of the decision of the Attorney General, it is understood that the work of the retirement division will be seriously hampered by the decision. Number Unknown Before. It was not generally understood un- til today just how large a proportion of government employes are in the service by presidential order rather than by competitive examination. Sgcretary Fall declared today that he was not in disagreement with any- body in regard to proposed changes under plans for the reorganization of the department. He said there had never been the remotest thought in his mind that if the forest service were transferred to the Interior De- partment there would be the slightest effort to overthrow the policy of con- servation of forests on the public do- mains. He said he did not know of a change in the forest service that he would make, except, possibly, in the position of director. PUTS BIBLE IN SCHOOLS. SPRINGFIELD, 11l March 8.—Per- mission would be granted-for the reading of the Bible in the public schools of 1llinois under a yprovision adopted by the state constitutional convention framing a new constitu- tion for the state. T!m vote was 52 to 8. The adoption came when J. W. Pifer, !former .governor and a delegate, changed his vote to give the measure the required fifty-two votes after taking the floor twice during the de- bate to oppose the provision. Under a decision of the state su- preme court on religious liberty the Bible at present camuot % read in the pubilc schools. iFASCISTI IN GUN DUELS WITH THE SOCIALISTS IN STREETS OF GENOA By the Associated Press. GENOA, March 8.—Tension be- tween the fascisti and socialist elements, which has been smolder- ing for months, culminated In sev- eral pitched battles and gun and revolver duels in the streets of Genoa last night. The labor unions declared a gen- eral strike in protest against the burning of the building - occupied by the labor organ Lavora, by the fascisti. The ul“o:ds !gr';lrl‘h:‘fl ‘l rade and travers e principal :l‘reeu. but their parade was broken up several times by fas- cisti attacks. . The unionists, attempting to hold a meeting, were dispersed by the royal guards, whereupon a free- for-all fight ensued, in which re- volvers and clubs were the princi- pal weapons. More than a score of policemen were injured during figh and some of them were repo) dvine today, e