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GENOA SKIES CLEAR| v A Generally fair tonight row; not much change ture. Te: ture for hours end a.m. today. Full report on page 7. WEATHER. &t 2 p.m. today: Highest, 72, at 2 pim. today;:lowest, 60, at 6 [ Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 31 and tomor- in_tempera- twenty-four WITH SUNDAY ‘MORNING' EDITION Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively ectitied to the use for republication of all sews dispatches credited to it or mot otherwise eredited in this paper and also the local news publisbed berels. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 90,178 l' No. 28495 Eudyes ASHOPESHEGHTEN | NRUSSNSSES Non-Aggression - Pact 'Still Taxing Ingenuity of Lloyd George. 3 FRANCE’S 0. K. MAY END | BELGIANS’ OPPOSITION Conference to End Deliberations on 4] Financial, Economic and Trans- ¥ port Questions Today. @ the Associated Press. i GENOA, Ma} 5.—The economic con- §erence today expected to end its de- Jiberagions on financial, economic and fransport questions. The subcom- anission on economies was expected during the day to make its report to * the full commission, which will prob- ; @bly approve it. P This will leave only political prob- ‘ lems. The Russian question and the . vroposed non-aggression pact. are ¥axing the ingenuity of Prime Min- ister Lloyd George of Great. Britain, but there was optimism today over their possible solution. Delegates Urge Patience. Patience is urged by all the leading delegations and the conferefice is ap- * parently facing a hard pull of at lcast three weeks. The neutrals, and mest of the allied delegations, be- lieve that Belgium's opposition to the terms of the proposed settlement with Russia will disappear incase France decides to give unreserved ap- proval of the allied memorandum to the soviet. It is reported that M. Barthou, head of the French delegation, upon his re- turn from Paris will join in the small confererfce with the Germans which Mr. Lloyd George is arranging. At Yesterday's meeting with Chancellor Wirth_and Foreign Minister Rathe- ‘nau. Mr. Lloyd George is reported to ihave discussed his non-aggression pact as well as _the reparations pay- ment due from Germany on May 31. Many of the lesser members of the tussian delegation left today, svirtually all of the work requiring experts has been completed, and only the delegates and a few ssistants ill remain to fight out-the battle with the powers which has narrowed down to the issue over the nation- alization of foreign-owned property in Russia. BARTHOU LEAVES PARIS. Siy the; Msaseiated Press. e PARIS, May G5.—Vice Premier Barthou, head of tié French dolega-. tion at the economiic gonference, left Paris today for Genoa after his con- ferences over the situation. Wwith Premier Poincare and the cabingt. here. Premier Poincare urged M. Barthou to make an effort to reach an agreement with the allies on the meémorandum to Russia that would satisfly the Belgians and not sacrifice the principle that the private prop- erty of foreigners in Russia must be respected. The French government, it is said by an official of the foreign.office, has entered into no agreement whatever concerning recognition of the soviet ®overnment. It is entirely free, ac- cording to this official, to deal with the question according to the French point of view, which is that the soviet regime cannot yet be regarded as a representative government and that there is no reason for giving it the mioral support which would result from official recognition. The declaration of Dr. ‘Walter Rathenau, the German foreign min- ister, to Prime Minister Llyod George that he saw no necessity for confirm. ing the treaty of Versailles by ac- cepting the French reservations to the non-aggression pact is inte: preted in official circles here as dis- closing the hope of thé Germans that they may nullify the treaty by means of agreements at Genoa. M. Barthou, however, has ironclad in- structions to resist any tendency to encroachment on the treaty, whether in: the non-aggression pact or in other decisions reached at Genoa. TCHITCHERIN IS DOUBTFUL, s BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER., By Cable to The Star and Chicage Daily News. < Copyright, 1922, GENOA, May 5.—The exact opinion of the Russian delegation on the gen- eral situation at the conference was ex- pressed by Foreign Commissar Tchitch- | erin. The chief Russian delegate con- sented to make an exclusive statement to our friend, Sig Maffii, an Italian cor- respondent, on condition taat the lat- ter give up to him a bed: occupled in a Genoa hotel, as the Russian dele- gation housed at io finds com- munications difficult. The correspond- ent consenting, M. Tchitcherin expressed his views. “The allied memorandum,” he said, “is a step backwards from my letter of April 20 to Mr. Lloyd George. It was_agreed in the conversations at the Villa Albertis that my letter was to be the basis of the discussion and an eventual agreement between Rus- | second-class matter ‘Washington, D. C. ' BEACH GIRL VEXED BY OIL FROM SHIPS, AND CURB IS ASKED The bathing beach girl and the lobster have suffered alke from pollution of navigable waters by oil“burning ships, the House for- eign affairs committee revealed to- day In a report on a resolution Tequesting the President to call a conference of maritime nations to stop it. Aside from the fire hazard re- sulting from the piling up of ofl waste along the docks, the report showed that on the Atlantic, Pa- cific and the gulf, lobsters, oysters and fish of all sorts were «being destroyed to an alarming extent, and that bathing beaches had been greatly damaged-because of the pollution. TOWFALLASWU DRNVES FOE FROM " CANESE CAPTAL Peking Dead and Wounded Abandoned, With Booty, in Disorderly Flight. By the Associated Press. 3 PEKING, May 5—Gen. Wu Pel-Fu was in control of Peking at noon to- day, and Gen. Chang Tso-Lin, whose forces he routed yesterday in a fierce battle south of the capital, was re- ported fleeing to Mukden. Chang's army is retreating in disorder toward Tientsin. Obeervers here believe Chang’s sud- den collapse has ended the hostili- ties. I With 50,000 troops. Gen.. Wu Pei-Fu |encircles Chang Tso-Lin's forces cut- |side Peking yesterday, and after fif- {teen hours of relentless cannonading, machine gun fire and infantry charges, routed his opponent, making himself the master of the situation around the Chinese capital. Casualties Near 7,000. Tonight Wu's forces camped un- molested outside the city gates. The routed “army left behind artillery, munitions, horSes and loaded camels, and its wounded and dead. The total |casualties 1n the day's fighting are i believed to have reached from 5,000 to 000 dead and wounded. '~ Before dawn Wu Pei-Fu started a simultaneous attack on all of Chang Tso-Lin's intrenched positions to the { southwest of Peking. By 5 o'clock the Manchurian general had retired from Changsintien, twelve miles southwest, of Peking’s, gates. = "l’gén 3 .eg fell ‘back to the n river and tried to hold a po- si near the Marco Polo but. under the advance of Wu Pel- 'S men. Ig’s forees fl someé §" on trains eastward for Tientsin 4 others scattering to the hills or pleading that the gatés of the city be opened to give them refége. Fight Near City’s Wall. iBefore noon Wu Pei-Fu had ad- vanced to the vicinity of Fengtal, a few miles east of Changsintien, where Chang Tso-Lin’s troops rallied for the defense. The fighting was thus brought near Peking’s walls, and warning was sent to the city author- ities ‘that soldiers were about.to en- ter the capital. The gates were im- mediatelr closed, only foreigners who had been shut out being permitted to return. Z By “mid-afternoon Wu Pei-Fu had captured Fengtai, thus delivering a decisive blow at Chang .Tso-Lin's stronghold nearest Peking. Soon the rellfln: army had been driven-so far from the city that the firing was less distinctly heard here, although strag- glers continued shooting directly un- der the walls. Wu Pei-Fu'y attack in this sector is believed to have been undertaken concurrently with similar drives at Machang, on Chang Tso-Lin's south- eastern front, and also on his middle front on the Hun river. Consular re- ports indicated that the fighting at those places was/intense. No details were received, but it was reported that Chang Tso-Lin'sarmy was forced to_retire. Peking tonight slept behind guard- ed"walls. The gates were closed and barred, and patrols of soldiers paced to and fro all night with fixed bay- onets. Only gersons bound on official business weye permitted to pass. Railroad communication in all direc- tions had been suspended. RAILROAD PROTECTED. ll‘orei‘n Ministers Demand Com- pliance With Treaty. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI May 5.—A Peking dis- patch to the Shun Pao, Shanghat's leading Chinese newspaper, says the American, British and Japanese min- isters have instructed the naval com- manders of their respective countries to prevent attacks by Chinese war- craft supporting Gen. Wu Pei-Fu upon the Peking:-Mukden railroad, af Taki and Chinwangtao. The Portuguese minister, as dean of (Continued on Page 13, Column 8.) | (Continued on Page 14, Column 7.) Special Dispatch to The Star. _ MADISON, Wis., May 5.—Hatred of matrimony by two generations of Farwells has led to “the con- viction here of Hartwell Farwell, rich Dane county farmer and dea- con of the Congregational:Church at Windsor, for the murder of his sister's fiance. Farwell warned his sister not to attempt to marry. After fifty- two years of spinster life love came to her and she announced her “engagement. Farwell killed Philip Housten rather than have another wedding in the family. The jury in the case was, out fifty-four hours, returning its. ver- #ict late Thursday evening. = “I've got plenty .of ~mongy . to provide for my daughters; theéy don’t néed to marry,” James Far- well, father of the convicted man, often repeated to his family. Th Bacy to. his bachelon sop Hartwelln: MARRIAGE HATRED LEADS DEACON TO PRISON, SLEW-SISTER’S FIANCE ‘who became even more bitter to- ward marriage than his sire. A-daughter who refused to abide by the wishes of her father mar- ried -and was ostracised by .her kin. A son wed and moved away. Whern James Farwell died only Hartweil. and Alice remmined. Alice’s love affairs had been snuff- ed short of the altar by her father. The best years of her life were barren of romance. Then a knight who promised to rescue her from ::ll mt::nlonons :-olluon appear- on the scene in the person of . Philip Housten. A casual-acquaintanceship ripen- ed into love and Alice forgot the ‘creed of her father in her new- found - happiness. The brother , took little noti at first of the growing friendship. He believed that his sister was beyond the age of love affairs. Suddenly the _ truth confronted him. Alice an- nounced at she proposed to marry Philip and move to a2 farm her _suitor plahned io purchas& ‘with his savings. ted at the thought of ¢ Alice leaving the Farwell home to wed . & compauslv-lv poor man, with B PERMANENTSTE AT WALTER REED URGEDON FORBES Medical Advisers Recom- mend Razing of Temporary War-Time Buildings. REGARDED UNFAVORABLE BY DIRECTOR OF BUREAU Present Structures Deelnpdv Inap- propriate, and Fire Hazard Is Stressed in Report. Razing of all the temporary war- time structures at Walter Reed Gen- eral Hospital, and constryction on the site of permanent buildings, to make a greqt modern institution for the treatment of soldiers and vet- erans, has been recommended to Di- rector Forbes of the Veterans' Bu- reau by a board of medical advisers as the best method of spending part of thé money authorized by Congress for hospitals. The report has been considered by Director Forbes, and some others, as “unfavorable” in ‘certain particulars, it was said by Col. Forbes today at the bureau. The plan for spending the seventeen million dollars is being worked over, and no definite contracts will be made until the entire final recommendation has been approved by President Harding Report for President. Col. Forbes said he was preparing the report for President Harding, and had not yet decided definitely on where the money to be allocated to the fourth district, including the Dis- trict of Columbfa, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia would be spent. He would not go ahead, the director em- phasized, until President Harding had fully approved the plan. G The temporary structures at Walter Reed General Hospital, it was Jearn- ed, are considered by medical author- ities as_entirely inappropriate for much lohger occupancy; they were built as a wartime emergency, and are rapidly falling into disrepair, de- manding great attention to keep them in usable condition. The greatest objection to the tem- porary structures is the fire hazard, it was said today by-a promiment medical authority interested in Wal- ter Réed. The personnel and pa- tients live fn constant dr of a fire breaking out in the - flimsy wooden and stucco structures, expensive fire apparatus has t kept up to date and ready for emer- &encys PR S $b4 an be Lt T S Owned by Geverament. - The hospital is located on & plot of sixty acres of government- 1and, pointed to by proponents of thg Walter Reed plan as a great argi- ment in its favor. The governmesit would be put to no éxpense to pufs chase & site. Furthermore, the neucleus of a great hospital ¥ already previded, not only in the fing permanent structure already in of eration, but -in the huge heating plant, lighting system, incinerator and other facilities needed as the foundation of any great hospital. The site is a network of plumbing. The site of Walter , picl out years ago, is ideal for a hospital, with accessibility from 16th street and Georgia avenue, and with two railroad stations _in -the vicinity—at Siiver Springs, Md., and Takoma Park. These, it has been pointed out, would be of great value in time of war to detrain patients. & Tne medical personnel at Walter Reed, which has gone through an-ex- tensive training and experience during the war and since the war, is equipped to continue such an institution with the highest efficiency, it is said. ‘Treating 1,000 Patients. More than a thousand patients now are being treated at Walter Reed, but in the permanent structure, which is fit to stand, tnere are beds fer not more than 150, at the outside, it has been es- timated. There are not enough perma- nent beds for Army patients, alone. At present the veterans’ bureau has more than 400 patients there. The largest part of the hospital, which extends over the wooded hills and vales of the site, is the temporary structures, consisting of sections- long corridors, from which the wood- en wards branch off. The temporary structures are principally of flimsy wooden or stucco comstruction, and while serving - their purpose admi- rably for:emergency service during the war and i fate post-war period, are now considered entirely inade- quate and unfit. If conditions at Walter Reed were truly known, it was said today, they would be condemned more severely than were those at Fox Hills, which was closed as being unfit for vet- erans. Surgeon General Ireland of the Army, which has charge of Walter Reed ‘Hospital, when interviewed this morning said that the matter of hos- pital construction under the new aj propriation by Congress rested en- tirely with the Veterans’ Burgm:‘ LATEST FIGURES SHOW * BEVERIDGE BY 20,472; WOMAN FOR CONGRESS By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, May 5.—Form: Senator Albert J. Beverid, de- feated Senator Harry S. New by 20,472 votes in. Tuesday's primary for the.republican nomination fors - United ' States senator, -according to complete unofiicial figurss from the - pinety-two - counties in Indi- ana ag tabulated by the Associated Press here today. The vote wag: Beveridge, 205,410, and New, 184;- 938, making the total republican .| Y Complet e in the. con mplete returns in the; con- gressional contests that mfié’. undecided . gave the democratic nomination in the seventh dlatrict,’ virtually the city of Indianapolis, to Joseph Turk, who on’ wine and-beer platform, and in the fifth distriet to Charles A. Bida- man of Terre Haute. Turk's vote was 8,484, against 4,358 for Wood- burn Mason,an avowed “dry,” and Bidaman won. m David ‘Ho: thirtesnth rality- of ne . pre { from 7/ DONT A2 BLAME Yape ME, KIDS "\ gy | ot NO PLACE TO GO. |MOTHER LOVE AND EGGS LURE TO APE, ESCAPED BY PICKING CAGE LOCK By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, May 5.— Mother love is pitted against jungle freedom in the chase to capture or kill Sally, a female ape, which has been frightening residents near Sutro Park since its escape from a side show at Ocean Beach. The ape left her nine-month-old baby when she picked the lock on her cage and swung_into the trees of Sutro Park. The little ape has been tied to a stake near the thicket where the mother is thought to be hiding since police- men, with shotguns, combed the park yesterday. Near the little ape has been set a trap baited with raw eggs, an ape delicacy. Officers have been instructed to shoot to kil if they sight Sally, as she is pronounci angerou: The ape stands between three and - four feet high. —_— MRS. VAN WINKLE CASE IS APPEALED District Supreme Court Ask- ed to Wipe Out Reflection in Trial Record. Lieut. Mina C. Van Winkle, head of the women's bureau, today asked the District Supreme Court to review the findings of the police trial board, which, in acquitting her of a charge of insub- ordination added to its verdict the state- ment that she had not a “proper con- ception of discipline.” Attorney Roger J. Whiteford for the police lieutenant filed a petition for certiorari and obtalned from Justice Hitz an order on the District Commis- sionera. to it fwyithin ten. days, to the court the ntire and complete rec- ord with ail the papers and documents Mrs. VisiWinkle had asked the Com- fiiekionera 1h her appeal from the find- WILSONGRIPSREIN aSeen s AS PARTY'S LEADER the Commissioners had amemed the | EX-President Considers Him- finding In its entirety. self Chief, Despite Bryan, . Upon the receipt of the record the District Supreme Court is asked to di- 6 Cox or Others. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. rect the District Commissioners to strike the record of Mrs. Van Winkle all of the findings of the trial board with the exception of the verdict of not TR IR ‘Woodrow Wilson considers himself K o strike ot the Anding of the Coramicsionike | the leader of the democratic party, alk reviewing the verdict of the trial|other aspirants for that position to board. Mrs. Van Winkle aiso seeks | the contrary notwithstanding. a cons! ration y e court of the entire record, and such determination | .7 !mPpression has been gradually rd “lawfully and properly | Saining ground recently with the her co te growing improvement in Mr. Wilson's against | health, but the letter written to John the District Commissioners. \ - Higaan, ‘whto. asifed’ the.|forkr Reflection Without Warrant. President’s advice about entering the Mrs. Van kle, in her petition, | democratic senatorial primary in after settin| t the finding of the | Missouri, now has been accepted here trial board and the decision of the|as removing all doubts on the ques-| District Commissioners, sustaining it | tion. in toto, informs the court that this| In that letter to Mr. Higdon, the finding and review form part of the |forr °r President suggested that if the official records of the metropolitan |former believed in “my political lead- police force, and of her personal rec- | ership” he would not complicate the ord as an officer thereof. She attacks mm:l..,n I;y ;{“‘ k“ I; m;..eor. the portion of the finding reflecting (Nere ght, as Breckinridge a p 1qw | ClOSe friend of Mr. Wilson's, has al. on her as “without warrent of law | SIO% THCAT of T o S o wres! and in excess of the jurisdiction of|the nomination from Senator James the trial board, without justification |A. Reed, arch political foe of Mr. Wil- or excuse .m“‘in in lllw' or in hcti" F son. She- asserts that it forms a clou o hor “Techrd 1and s & substantial Msahing:Soen) i Letten: fnvasion: of her rights. She says| Democrats hereabouts who profess the ‘board -lacks authority to render|i; ynow all about Mr. Wilson's politi- any ~verdict ~except guilty or mot 2 PO B L A guilty of the charge heard by it. cal thoughts look upon the letter to > Mr. Higdon with deep satisfaction, for TURKS BAR.ITALIAN- i S g - "SHIPS IN BLACK SEA James M. Coxiat the head of the demo-. cratic party because he was the nom- Action Folléws Recent Occupation “of Towns by the Turkish inee at the last convention. The ques- tion reafly asked by. the Wilsonites—: and answered positively by them—is: Whether a man who was twice elect- Vere . Soldiers. ed to the presidency on the demo- cratic ticket, indeed the first: demq- By the. Associated Press. U crat in ahl;ene§g¢§onaiun'tte:.y:mad o CONSTANTINOPLE, May §.—The |consider himself leader of the party 3 = - ainst amother d at whe - Turkish nationallst government at |37 88inst amther delmqcrat who sim. Angora, it was reported here today, geleliud‘ ;‘:; that m:l:r;r :Vlllll):n has forbidden thé entrance of Italian |Jennings an. ran thrice for' the : P residency and doesn’t.believe in tak- ships u_tn:Turkl-h»lnfl sea ports as rng a back seat for -anybody, but it is a rgsult of the recent occupation of a fact that Mr. Wilson has on more the towns of Sokia andiScala Nova, in)than one occasion made it clear that the meander valley in Asia Minor, by | he is:the leader of the party, and'not S tmvfi.u' it - was sald, accuse v k) i & T of Maving connived with Greece| i TWree-Cormered Relatloms. . to di e l)fl ‘TurkAllh urrlt%x;‘ln This attitude on ‘the part of Mr. consulting . Ango, ey e Name the Italians or ot B fioyed:on, Column ting -that the -Greeks :should not py the territory until” the last Italian . soldier embarked. The gora .government, - it was 7aid, has B sXs Drotest againaf ‘what it claims is sn unfriendly -act.on the part of.the Italians. . - ‘BOY, 10, KILLS ANOTHER. Conflicting Stori el'fi_ln‘lhoodng of Tad of Four Years. + CINCINNATI, May. 5.—Robert Lut- kehaus, tem, who shot "and' killed Richard Abraham, aged four, while they -and Rleh:rd‘al ll‘:-ya;rgld ther, George were in_ the Lutke- m- :inrmanu- yestérday, will be examined by .psyclologists of ' the Juvenile. court. ~ Afte ‘anno tod: ing; its prestige? . : thé Magazine of - Next Sunday’s Star’: ‘What ial ;.l - . SR Read, in - er that it was WASHINGTON, D.:C, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1922_FORTY-TWO PAGES. ‘ZPLAYING_ON _/THE STREETS IS FORBIDDEN By oroeR_oF _Twe D.C. TEACHER PAY BILL REPORT IN SENATE Capper Urges Increase as Necessary to a Worth- While Profession. The so-called teachers' salary bill, prepared by the board of education and the superintendent of public schools of the District, was today formally reported favorably to the Senate from the District committee by Senator Capper of Kansas. A written report filed with the Sen- ate by the Kansas senator sets forth in.detail the reasons which actuated the committee in favoring the meas- ure. “The bill provides sn adequate com- Pensation for the teaghers in the pub- lic schools of the Distric. and also suthorizes certain reorgamizations which are vitally hecessary for the betterment of the school system,” Senator Capper said in his report. “It {s the Belief of your committee that the salary of the school teacher in the District of Columbia should be sufficient to make it possible for the teacher to make a living, to occupy a position of respect due such public servants and to keep abreast with the educatienal thoughts and develop- ments of the times.. The comp: tion of the teacher should be sufficient to make the profession worth while for men and women of the highest ype. Inereases Temporary. “The Increases ~granted to the teachers of the District of Columbia by successive appropriation acts have | been ofsa temporary nature. Your committee feels that a salary sched- ule authorized by appropriate legis- lation is necessary in order to defi- nitely assure those entering the teaching profession in the District of Columbia a compensation of a fixed character. In the estimation of your committee this compensa- tion should-be sufficlently large for the beginner to attract the proper character of persons into the service and the increases established should be commensurate With increased competency in the service and suf- ficient to make the occupation of teaching a career worthy of those who engage in this work. In the capital of the nation education should be so dignified and compen- sated as to establish a reasonable standard for the country in the rec- ognition of .the service of the teacher. “This bill makes provision for the educational employes of the board of education. Employes of the board of education other than the educa- tional employes are covered under the provisions of the reclassification bills now pending. ‘Various Authorizations. “Legislative authorizations carried in the bill other than those relating to - readjustment of the salaries of existing positions may be summarized as_ follows: “Legislative authorization of stand- ard salaries of employes is provided. At.present the salarieg of employes are fixed:annually by 'appropriation bills. “Authorized standard salaries are provideds for :activities which have developed in the school system since 1906, such as junior high schools, community .centers, administrative prineipals and examining board. 1. “Compensation of principals of ele- mentary schools by ‘session room pay' is abolished. Division of ele- mentary teachers in salary classes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 is abolished. “The inadequate automatic increase of $25, $30 and $40 per annum, ac- cording to the Balary class, is re- 'Plaged .by o uniform annual increase of $100 per annum for all teachers. . ‘““The'employment-of annual substi- ‘tute teachers 'is authorized.” . The report contains a number of :| tables, ‘presented during the hearings on the bill, which show that the pay ot the District. teachers is below that of the great majority of cities com- parable tv Washington. ‘The estimated increased cost of the gopuu salary increases is given as 30,025 during the fiscal year 1923, d the* imum increased cost is jl:hcod as_ $990,5615 in the fiscal year “The :réport- also gives a complete stailed alysis of the bill as re- ported:. ILIPINOS NEED: FUNDS. “MANILA; P, I, May 4.—Maj. Gen. Wood, Goverror of the- Philippines, | today’ cabled- to Washington .urging Officials there to expedite passage of a bill pending in Congress authoriz- .ing the Philippine government to in- créase its bonded indebtedness to 10 r:r -cent of the assets valuation of e Philippines. : Mwould allow & lotal bonded y. Wi indebtedness of approxim: jects: .Nll’ -held in abeya ey .?f% 'of funds, pending actment "of '1he_measure. £ S 2% ensa- | Rad TWO CENTS. PLAN TO RUSH D. C. TAX RAISE IN SENATE ENCOUNTERS 'A SNAG Amendment May|$10,000,000 to Run Escape Point 50 Years, Plan of of Order. Commissioners. MR. PHIPPS MOVES IT.| LETTER ADVOCATES GO TO COMMITTEE| TAX INSTALLMENTS Viee President Coolidge Inte this afternoon overruled a point of order made by Semator Harrison of Missigsippl against the fiscal Urges Using $5,000,000 Surplus as Working Capital. After a week of careful study, the District Commissioners today for- warded to Congress a compromise plan by which the city government could be put on a cash basis without 80 heavy a tax burden as would re- sult from the proposed amendment to Semator Underwood thenm sug- gested that the motion to ref: pted by the House to the Senate committee on appropriations was mot the proper procedure, but that the Distriet 11 should be referred to the e s U O ions |the District -appropriation bill, as amendment. agreed upon in conference. Semator Phipps accepted the In substance, the plan which the suggestion and the motion to re- fer the bill with instruecti earried. The report from the House on the fiscal relations provision of the Dis- trict appropriation bill was laid be- fore the Senate by the Vice President at 2 o'clock today. During the reading of the proposed new fiscal relations plan, Senator Poindexter of Washington jnter- rupted to say that it was a matter of very great importance and would un- doubtedly take some time to consider. At this point Senator Curtis of Kansas urged that it was a matter of 50 much importance it should be re- ferred to the Senate appropriations committee for conmsideratioh before being taken up in the Senate. “This is an amendment agreed to in the House said Senator Curti “It does not come to us as part of the conference report. It is of such great importance 1 think it ought to be referred to the committee. If it had come to it as the part of a con- ference report I have no doubt that it would be subject to a point of or- der on the ground that the conferees had put new matter into the report which was not in the bill as it passed either house. The full committee should pass on this” Senator Jones of Washington, one of the conferees, pointed out that the Senate fiscal relations amendment had been so broad that he doubted very much whether the conference agreement would be subject to a point of order. + Semator Norris’ Stand. Senator Norris of Nebraska an- nounced that he would yote against this proposition of the conference, because it did not contain a provision in the original Senate amendment exempting from taxation the ' first $2,000 on any real property. He said that he would vote against any con- ference report that admited that fea- ture. “I have noticed’ in the District a reat fuss about the poor people who are going to have to pay more taxes, said Senator Norris, “but the oppo- nents of this new proposition do not say anything about this exemption. Such an exemption would ‘increase the taxes on other property. The ob- jections have been made by members of the Chamber of Commerce and {bankers and wealthy men in_the name of the poor. But they have i never mentioned the proposed exemp- | tion except to condemn it K Senator Phipps of Colorado, in charge of the bill, said that the con- ferees had proposed that property be assessed at full value, 50 as to bring about the taxation of large property owners, instead of on the two-thirds plan. He insisted that the conference plan would result in a reduction in the poor man's taxation. “The man who is escaping and the one who ought to be taxed is the specu- lator in real estate,” continued Senator Norris. “The specuiator gets his profit at the expense of the man who toils. The man with a home who puts a new shingle on a house is penalized for the benefit of the speculator. who is hold- ing property vacant for speculation. The effect of the proposed exemption is to make the speculator sell or improve the vacant property.” Moves to Refer. At this point Senator Phipps asked to have the fiscal relations amendment referred to the full appropriations com- mittee, apparently abandoning the plan to jam it through the Senate. Senator Harrison of Mississippi ob- jected to the reference at'this time and began a speech attacking the ap- pointment of Nat Goldstein as col- lector of internal revenue in St. Louis. Senator Harrison is opposed to the conference agreement on the fiscal relations, and may withdraw his ob- jection later. When Senator Harrison finished his speech the fiscal relations provision was temporarily passed over. The Senate then agreed to the House ac- tion_on the water supply, the sinking fund interest, the playgrounds, the appropriations for the Dunbar and Armstrong High schools, etc., which retained these items in the bill with certain modifications. On- motion of Senator Phipps the Senate receded from its insistence on its amendment to purchase the Pat- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) GYPSIES OFFER BABY FOR $25 FINE; SHOCKED JUDGE MAKES TRIBE PAY getting somebody to make re- pairs,” he said. The. caravan chief insisted the girl had bought the tires from a “whiskered -colored person.”- Jus-* tice Bob couldn't recall any such ' “cullud puhson” in the neighbor- “Twenty-five' dollars fine and four dojlars costs,” he said. The gypsies were aghas ‘was * much ed conversation and & searching of dirty pockets. At last $20 'was produced. “She’ll pay it all or go to jail,” said the judge. “We pay fine with babbee,” he purred; “babbee®worth $§25.” Justice Cole hadn't been so shocked since the dsy he. met the westerner who had never eaten spoon bread. He was speechless. _Meantime’ the mother of the baby conferees agreed on would require the people of the District to raise $3,000,000 a year for five years In excess of current appropriations, so that at the end of that time the Dis- trict would be on a cash basis. At the present time the District borrows from the federal Treasury during the first ten months of the fiscal year and reimburses the Treasurw When.taxes are collected, in May. I visable and Inequitable. The Commissioners, in their first public uttersnce on the tax question, say they have no fault to find with the desire to put the city on a cash basis, but they declare it is “inadvis- able and inequitable” to require the residents of Washington to accom- plish so large a task in the shor space of five years. The compromise of the Commissioners is, briefly, as follows: First, use the approximately $5, 000 of surplus District revenue now in the Treasury as the foundation for a working capital account. Second, permit the District to issue about $10,000,000 worth of bonds, to be retired gradually over & period of fifty years. Third, change the existing law so that property owners will be required to pay half their taxes in November and half in May, instead of paying the full amount in May. Proposal Sent to Congreas. The Commissfoners sent s copy bf their proposal to Senator Phipps yes- ‘terday afternoon and to Representa- tive Charles R. Davis this morging. The letter follows: “There has been so much public dis- cussion regarding the propesed change in the fiscal relations hereto- fore existing between the federal government and the District 6f Co- lumbia that the Commissioners feel called upon to present their views. “In the past at hearings on the Dis- trict of Columbia appropriation bill, as well as on other occasl it has frequently been asserted, appdrently in criticism of the present fiscal re- lations, that the tax rate in ths Dis- trict of Columbla was lower than in other American cities of correspond- ing size. While this may be 86; névér- theless the tax rate has in recént years been more than sufficiént to produce reverue adequate to @éfray the District's portion of the public ex- penditures, authorized by Congress, to be made in the District of Columbia. To raise anything more than this, while it might reduce the disparity between the tax rate in the Distriet of Columbia and other cities, would quite obviously be productive of n8 useful result, but would merely léad to the accumulation of an idle surplus in the federal Treasury. Ready to Accept Decinfons. “At all times the District Commiis- sioners have, as is their duty, stood ready to apply any rate of taxation that might prove necessary to meet the obligations of the District of Columbia, and if the tax rate is noticeably low, it is merely because it has been judged fair that the United States, which occupies so large a part of what might ordinarily be taxable property in the District of Columbia, should contribute to- ward the cost of its government. Had appropriations for the District of Columbia been larger the tax rate would have been correspondingly higher, though not necessarily equiv- alent to that prevailing in other jurisdictions, the-difference in favor of the District of Columbia being due, in the first instance, to the quite equitable participation of the federal government in the payment of the expenses of the city and, second, to the fact that the government of the city is conducted upon a very eco- nomical basis, especially so far as concerns the salaries of its im- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) s was l \ Special Dispatch to The Star. s ‘WILLIAMSBURG, Va., May 65— Gypsies offered a baby in pay- ment of a $25 fine assessed against a buxom Romany girl in, Justios*’ Bob Cole’s court here. ‘Was tRe charge that of borrow- ing a 1 er’s horse for the cara- van, or of impolite palmistry, or eating with their Knives? No. The charge against the Lady Babbie of the party was that-of stealing three prosaic auto tires. Gypsies have long since given up covered ‘wagons in favor of the fiivver. ‘When the justice heard the baby offer of the Magnificent Mumbo, or whatever they call the chief tterer of the patteran, he suf- | began to:howl. 3 Pered the second shock of the day. “Pay the fine” demanded the He had been sitting in his court judge. ‘The town sergeant wriggled, the the newl: ved e i A whole courtroom squirmed. - There Duke of Gloucester street, wonder- ing what Pat Henry or old King Carter would say If they could revisit Williamsburg today. ‘A traveling salesman, one “who sold soap instead of prophecies, presented the case. “Judge,this gal here:stole three - tires from my car while 1 was of 1 ‘was more digging into more dirty - pockets. s “All_rl’, judge,” said“the chief at last; “we got twenty-nine dol- A Willlamsburg ‘has - >