Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1922, Page 1

Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dispatches eredited 1o it or Dot otherwise credited fn tids paper and slso th local news publisked herein. WEATHER. Showers and thunderstorms this afternoon or tonight; tomorrow, ge: erally fair. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 u. 1:30 p.m. today. Full repo: esterday; lowest, 71, at Highest, 92, Tt on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 No. 28,569. post office Wa: Entered as secord-class matter shington, D. C. PRESIDENT ORDERS MINES TO RESUME; TROOPS WILL GUARD Messages Go Out to Operators and Governors. FEDERAL SOLDIERS TO AID IF NEEDED Drastic Action Geéts the Full Approval of the Cabinet. President Harding late today will send simultaneously tele- grams directing the operators of all bituminous mines shut down because of strike condi- tions to resume operation at once and requesting the gov- ernors of those states in which the mines operate to furnish such military protection as may be needed. If state troops find it impossible to cope with the sit-; uation federal troops,-it was un- derstood. may eventually be em- ployed. Plans for such action by the President were understood to have received . the unanimous support of the cabinet at today’ meeting of that body, at which the industrial situation was dis- cussed in its ramifications. The advices to the mine oper- and will point out the imperative neces- all ators the governors sity for early resumption of the mining industry in the interest of the public, and will also, brief- ly. urge that orderly procedure be observed in the execution of the plan. Plan to Reopen Preliminary plans for to reopen mines closed by the stiTkeé despite failure of the government's attempt to effect a settlement were understood to occupy bituminous coal operators who remained in Washing- ton for another meeting today, lowing their reply vesterday to Presi- dent Harding’s arbitration proposal with an offer to place their properties and serviges at the government's dis- posal. Invited by the President to “return to your mine properties and resume Mines. their attempt operations,” on submitting their reply to his arbitration offer vesterday in which a majority accepted unqual- ifi=dly the plan previously rejected by the miners’ union. the operators. through their chairman, Alfred M. Ogle. later announced that an at- tempt to reopen the mines would be made. . Considerable- production, the emplovers generally believed, would result in union fields in Pennsylvania if nowhere else. May Call for Volunteers. and Ohio The governmnt, it was intimated in official circles today. had fully considered all the possibilities in- volved in its decision to ask that the mines be reopened. The protection of federal troops and the American flag, it was indicated, would be fur- nished if necessary to insure protec- tion where men were willing to work #nd the government itself might call for volunteer. miners of experience now engaged in other pursuits. Beyond intimating a belief that the lack of available skilled miners would make difficult the effort to re- open mines, officials of the miners’ union who remained in Washington today ccntinued silent on the situa- tion. Most of the members of the United Mine Workers' policy commit- tee, whose refusal to accept the Pr ident's arbitration offer was mw certain by a sine die adjournment of their meeting vesterday. had left the city today. John L. Lewis. president of the union. said he would remain over, however, for a day or two. Operators Fail to Agree. Twenty-four hours of almost con- tinuous sessions did not suffice to make the bituminous emplovers a unit for accepttnce of the arbitra- tion proposals of the government, even though anthracite operators last week had given quick acceptance. On a final vote a general letter, accept- | ing the principle of arbitration. and making the tender of mines, whs agreed upon and presented to the President. The letter follows: “We have given most carefui and thorough consideration to the pro-{ posal submitted by you on July 10, supplemented by your statement of July 15, and we are not only in entire accord with your plan to establish a general tribunal to inquire into alll the mcts fn our industry and make recommendations for the solution of our fundamental problem, but we urge that such a plan be put into effect by yo B “We also wish to remind you that we have already proposed the broad principle of arbitration in our pre- vious conferences with the officials of the administration and with the representatives of the miners. We still “stand on that broad principle and are in entire accord with you in that respect. Answer by Districts. “We did have in mind discussing with you certain recommendations as to the machinery to make an arbitra- tion plan effective and to accomplish the result which the country and you yourself desire. “In view of the contingencles that confront us and the varying condi- tions in the different coal-producing districte, of the country, our confer- ence has decided tp answer your pro- posal by districts rather than as a whole, and we attach hereto state- ments of the positions taken by, the several districts represented in ' the conference of operators assembled at your re;uut in_Washington. ‘Al the operators of your con- ference unite In supporting the prin- ciple of arbitration and collective bar- gaining and your high motives in call- ing us (u.u“fh ‘And, finally, they say to you and to people SPROUL PLEDGES AID TO U. S. STRIKE POLICY BY STATE AGENCIES Following a conference yesterday at the White House between Gov. Sproul and the President, the Pennsylvania executive issued the following pledge of his state’s sup- port to the federal government in its policies on the strike situation: “Pennsylvania pledges immediate and continuous support to the fed- eral government. I am ready to set in motion at instant notice all organized agencies of the common- wealth to effectuate such measures as the President of the United states may determine upon in what we all must recognize as a great national emergency. “The foregoing is the assurgce which 1 came to Washington to give to the President, and 1 have just given it to him with emphasis. Attorney -General Alter accom- panies me in order that through conference with Attorney General Daugherty a program can be work- ~ed out of perfect co-operation be- tween state and nation.” RAI FORESTALLS NEW MINE BATILE West Virginia Guard Attack- ed—Reports Many March- ing Over State Line. |OFFICERS SEARCH IN VAIN | | et i Tent Colonies of Striking Miners and Families Forced to Move After Fatal Fight. 1 { By the Associated Press. { ! WELLSBURG, W. Va. July 18.—A | |mine guard stationed on the hill jabove the Clinton non-union mine, where vesterday morning Sheriff H. H. Duval and three other men were | killed when the property was at-| tacked by a large force of marchers! from over the Pennsylvania i line, | dashed into Cliftonville early today | | Che WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1922_-THIRTY-TWO PAGES. MORE TROOPS SENT 10 STRIKE CENTERS; VIOLENCE GROWING Georgia' and North Carolina Latest to Act to Protect Railroads. RAIL BOARD STILL TRYING TO KEEP WAYMEN ON J0B Pennsylvania Makes Separate Agreement With Non-Strikers. Cut to Be Accepted. By the Associated Press. C€HICAGO, July 18.—Peace negotia- tions in the railway strike again were to the fore today. E. F. Grable, president of the Maintenance-of-Way Employes’ Union, and various rail- way executives had conferences with members of the Railroad Labor Board in efforts to avoid further walk- outs, and to obtain a basis for set- tlement of the shopmen's strike. 15,000 Added to Strikers. _Although approximately 15,000 sta- tionary firemen and oilers were reported added to the list of strikers yesterday, no further accessions to the strikers were expected, at least until after the meeting of the maintenance of way men’s grand lodge at Detroit Friday. The 25,000 maintenance of way men al. ready on strike would not be outlawed “for the moment,” Mr. Grable said. Reports of violence still were nume: ous, although fewer, and none was very serious. Injunctions _were nted by federal 5 to several rallroads yesterday to restrain strikers from interfering with operation of trail These included Louisville and hville, Morgan's Louigiana and Texas (Southern Pacific) and Transmississippi Terminal railroads at New Orleans, the Missouri Pacific railroad. at St. Louis, and_the Balti- { more and Ohio railroad, at Cleveland. Suits were flled against_interference with shop operations at Toledo, Ohio, Ly the Wabash, and at Montpelier, Ohio, by the Detroit, Toledo and Short Line. Picketing Is Forkidden. Picketing was ' forbidden in injunc- tions granted four roads at Springfleld, 1ll. and a petiton for a similar injunc- tion was filed at Indianapolis by the Chicago, railway. Several hundred members of the sixteen standard Texas railroad labor organizations met in Waco today to discuss the strike and to determine action to take. At St. Paul railway executives an- nounced that roads of the northwest | would start determined efforts to re- Indianapolis and Louisville | with the report that men were pre- | organize theh{ lsho;m <rolll:v||n- ::‘il- i 3 |ure to negotiate a regional settle- Eernsgiony suotE eI tack] | mant of the strike. At Eldorad _Capt. White, commanding-the state| Ark.. four men were arrested in con- fol- | constabulary. quickly sent a force| into the hills, but they returned empty-hatided. A terrific rainstorm | brok® immediately after the alarm | was given and Capt. White express- ed the belief that it had scattered the crowd. 1 it Many Alarms in Night. This was only one of many alarms between midnight and dawn. In| every instance, however. they have| { proved false and not a shot has been | | fired in the village since the battle terminated early yesterda { Acting on orders from Sheriff Tom | Duvall, who is filling his dead father's | placa, “the tent colony of striking miners and their families, near the | mine, was abandoned early today. State troopers made the rounds of | the tents and notified the men and | women that they must move out without delay. They lost no time in obeying the order, taking nothing but food with them. The authorities pro- | fessed ignorance as to where they | had gone. | Sheriff Duval said he was deter- jmined to break up the colony and| { that none of the people who had been {living there would be allowed to re- jturn to the tents. i i { i i | 1 Women Seek Rela A number of foreign women, none of whom could speak English, came ! to Wellsburg today from Avella, Pa., the mining town across the border, where the mob which attacked Clif- tonville was formed. Through in- terpreters they said they were search- ing for male relatives who had not| been seen since Sunday night. It is believed identification of zome of the | forty-three prisoners heid here and |in Wheeling will be made through | these women. i | For a time last night Sheriff Duval| believed he had in custody the man | who had killed his father. A pris- | oner, who gave his name as George | Harvey, had identified another pris- | oner as Steve Betts, a miner from Avella, who. he said, shot the sheriff. | For more than three hours Harvey | and the supposed Betts were closely | examined by the authorities, and it| {was not until after 3 o'clock this morning that Harvey, they say, broke down and confessed that the other | prisoner was not Betts. Forced to Join, He Says. They then turned their attention to | the other man, who sald he was Steve Timcadl, a miner of Avella. He de- clared that he had been compelled to |doin the march, and had taken no part | |In the fighting. Questioned as to how he came by his broken arm. he said | that he was lying in the weeds ahove the tipplé when he was shot, and that {he was not even armed. -Deputy sheriffs, however, said they recognized him as one of the attackers who was very active in the shooting -at the tipple. Another missing man was added to the two who were believed to have gone down 1in the ruins of the tipple when inquiry was made for Steve Mall, & commissary clerk at the mine. Mail was seerduring the early stages of the battle, but no ore has been found who remembers seeing him after thy tipple was blown up, State policemen and more than a score of deputy sher night /in the Vlyclnlty “'n: ai’{:'.‘.f.‘m?i, rounding up every man whe able to £1ve a satisfactory sceount ot his whereabouis Sunday night and yesterday morning. F - sons had been m m“::"-; o'clock this morning, and & {1 message from me‘...n‘."""!‘,;:; seven more were on their way to and his deputies ‘Wellsburg. Srossed. thelr Getersm: x| erm! i e o, e B It and with that s S ore nection with the kidnapping of cial agent of the Missourl Plcme | railroad. Extra Troops on Duty. Extra_ police, including seventeen deputy United States marshals, were on duty at Perry, lowa, following an attempt to tamper with a loco- motive. Three units of the Missouri Na- tional Guard were removed from Poplar Bluff, Mo, to an unknown destination. In North Carolina state troops were ordered to Rockingham. Wis- son. Rocky Mount and Durham. Gov. Hardwick authorized the sending of state troops to Waycross, Ga.. following disorders there. Attempts_to operate the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad shops at Denison, Tex., have been abandoned and a temporary repair base estab- lished at Dallas. The Texas and Pa- cific railroad’s branch line from Sher- man Junction to Denison has been (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) WILSON ASSASSINS SENTENCED TO DIE Dunn and O’Sullivan Admit Killing of Field Marshal Month Ago. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 18—Reginald Dunn and Joseph O'Sullivan were sentenced to death today for the murder of Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, who was shot in front of his home on Eaton place last month. The men were con- victed after trial in the Old Balley. Elaborate precautions were taken to | see that no sympathizers with the Irish republicans gained admission to the court. Even the few admitted into the public gallery were carefully scrutinized by the police and those who obtained seats in the public part of the court were well known to the sheriffs and chief officials. Admitted Firing Shots. Both prisoners admitted that they shot the famous Irish soldier last month. The judge, however, said he would treat this statement as plea of not guilty, as the defendants refused to say anything further. Thus,, twenty-six days from the date on which the noted soldier was mur- dered, the men who fired the fatal.shots were -convicted and the death penalty imposed on them. This constitutes a record in England, where murder trials usually are completed more quickly than in most countries. Stgtement Not Public. | The attorney general's case for the prosecution required barely half an hour to present. Before opening the defense, Artemas Jones of counsel for the prisoners asked that Dunn be al- lowed to make & statement. The state- ment was handed to tte judge, who de- clared it to be a political manifesto, Justifying the right o kil\ and that h therefore, could not allow it to be read. The court said Dunn could give evi- dence if he wished. The defendant's counsel ' thereupon asked the court for a short adjourn- granted.. When the attornéys returned Mr. Jones announced that the defend- ants took the view that owing to the i i penin ' WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 3 WONDER .& | WOUL-D. AT ANYBODY 0 PUT METo \Associate Reputed Impersonating Him At Seashore. Kameneff Declares, However, Health Is Improved. By the Associateid Press. LONDON, July 18.—An Exchange { Telegraph dispatch from Stockholm today quotes the Riga correspondent | for the Svenska Dagbladet as saving he has been reliably informed that Premier Lenin of soviet Russia has been murdered. The correspondept says it is be- lieved the soviet premier was poison- ed ona train while journeying to a Caticasia bathing resort. According to the correspondent’s informant, the assassination is attributed to repre- sentatives of radical communists now in power in Moscow. The Dagbladet's correspondent, says i the Stockholm dispatch, was inform- led that Premler Lenin's body was {thrown into a river early on the i morning of July 3. The premier's body was said to have been thrown from a train while crossing the bridge over the River Don at Rostov. According to the message, one of Premier Lenin’s attendants, a member of the executive committee of the Third Internationale, reported as an accomplice in the assassination, HUGHES TO BE NAMED HEAD OF U. S. MISSION TO BE SENT TO BRAZIL The honorary mission which will attend the Brazilian centennial ex- position will be named by President Harding this week, and will be headed by Secretary Hughes, it was announced today at the White House. It was stated that Mr. Hughes undoubtedly would accom- pany the mission to Rio de Janeiro. An “outstanding” major general, an admiral and two others will make up, with Mr. Hughes, the member- ship of the mission. DOVER RESIGNATION § NOW CONFIRMED President Feels Official Was OQut of Harmony With Treasury Policies. Elmer Dover of Tacoma, Wash., has tendered his resignation as assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of internal revenue and customs, it was officially stated today at the ‘White House. President Harding was said, how- ever, to have been too busy to take the matter up as yet and was under- stood to regard the severance of Mr. Dover's connection with the Treasury as not of sufficient importance to take precedence over the important industrial problems now facing the administration. % ¢ President Harding was represented as feeling that Mr. Dover's resigna- tion was founded on the theory that the assistant secretary was not in harmony with the administrative pol- icles of the Treasury Dmrmum: PRESlDENT "PLANS 'WORK. President Harding has “no plafs for the ‘summer except work,” it was stated at the White House to- day in denisl of reports that he cor templated establishing & summer ‘White Ro:lo In & suburb of u\;un‘z; ington and expec| make trips- g:mam:.mrm_uu | g R Lenin Is Reported Poisoned, Body Dropped Off Trainin River ture,” Hermann Fischer and Edwin ' How: . | NEW YORK AIMING BLOW AT PRIMIARY Model Republican State Con- vention Sought, to Win Approval. ROOT IN CHAIR AT START Success to Be Weapon in Hands of Opponents of Present Method of Choosing Candidates. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. Staff Correspondent of The Star. NEW YORK, July 18.—Republican leaders from all sections of New York state are here today in attend- ance upon the meeting of the repub- lican state committee to fix the date of the convention to nominate a gov- ernor and other state officers. The convention will be calied for Septem- ber 27 and 28, to meet &t Albany. That will be an’ epochal ‘occasion, being the first convention to be held since New York amended the primary law to provide for the nomination of state officers by the convention sys- tem instead of by direct primaries. Its proceedings will be watched with much interest by statesmen and poli- KOLAIL LEN. now impersonating the soviet pre- mier &t a bathing resort. NEARLY READY TO WORK. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, July 18.—Leo Kameneff, president of the Moscow soviet, upon returning today from a visit to Pre- mier Lenin, told the correspondent that the premier was so improved | ticians at Washington on account of in health now that it was only a|its possible bearing upon the im- matter of a few weeks until his|pending fight between the supporters health would be fully re-established.'of the direct primaries system and ou would hardly know he had jthe advocates of a return to the old | been ill7 said M Kameneff, “there convention. i is so little difference between his . appearance now and before his ill- e Trosuem ness. | The convention of mext September he doctors mow permit him to|will be in the nature of a test of the reccive visitors every other day.) return to the old plan. There has been a “try-out” of the primaries system, | with conflicting _views among _poli- iclans the country over as to its merits and defects. The primary is not only stanchly defended in many sections of the country as the best way to deal with nominations, but. as is well known, there is a strong sentiment, whose "leadership rests among mem- bers of the House and Senate, favoring extension of the primary system to the nomination of candidates for the presidency of the United States. & New York will take the lead in the fight to return to the old plan and against any possible further extension of the primary. It is proposed to show in the September meeting how much better things can be done. It is proposed to make it an impressive aftair/ Elihu Root is to be temporary chairman and the speaker of the assem- bly permanent chairman. For that matter, however, whoever should be permanent chairman, the first aim of the powers that be will be to carefully avold any methods of procedure which would give the ene- mies of the convention system the right to point to the New York con- vention as an example of the defects of the old system. News of his recovery has been a mo: unpleasant surprise to those foreign journals which several times have had him deat RATHENAL SLAYERS I DOUBLE SUGDE End Flight in Turret of Ship| When Pursuers Chop Down Door. By the Associated Press. HALLE, Prussian Saxony, July 18. —Rather than give themselves up to the police when on the verge of cap- | i Kern, sought by the German author- [ ities as the assassins of Foreign Min- Time Held Propitious. ister Rathenau, shot themselves last! The time is propitiols for present- evening in the turret of Saaleck Cas-!ing a picture of a state convention at tle, near Badkosen, to which they had | its best—an unbossed;affair, for the | been tracked. republican party of the state of New The two men were found with fatal| York is bossed by no individual now, bullet wounds in the head .after the There is no big, outstanding figure police had forced an entrance to the|Wwlelding autocratic power, but a tower by chopping. down the door | Eroup of leaders by counties and sec- with axes. They still wore the cloth- | tions, who advise and counsel rather ing described ‘in the warrants for|than dictate. . thelr-arrest. Looking over the faces of the state The discovery of the hiding place of ; Committeemen at todsy's meeting one Fischer and Kern followed a report Wt:fl)‘(dgfl‘;(inll; such _men es Fred- brought to Halle Sunday. evening by | eric reiner. of ie_county, Repre- two holiday tourlsts that they had|fontyiive Shell of St Lawrence coun: seen a light in the castle, from which Harmmond of Onondaga, F. J. H. the usual occupant, Dr. Stein, a|Kracke of Kings, Willlam L. Ward of writer,. was_known to be absent. An/| ‘Westchester, 8. Koenig of New iR investigation by the police ensued, Contlnued,on Page 3, Column &) but reinforcements had to be awaited before they were able to gain en- CHARLES R. MILLER DIES; N dispatches -All rights of pubiication of special herein sre _also reserved. I Yesterday’: * MURIEL McCORMICK, HEIRESS TO MILLIONS, TO BECOME MILLINER By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 18.—A mil- linery shop will be opened in Chi- cago next fall by Miss Muriel Mc- Cormick, daughter of Harold F. ficCormick and granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller. Miss McCor- mick confirmed the report that she was going to enter business, after being told that Chicago had heard she was going to open such an es- tablishment here. Although heiress to two fortunes, Miss McCormick, who has been a guest of Mrs. James S. Stillman, said she was golng to become & business woman because she loved style creation. She first became attracted to the art during the de- signing of her costume for the presentation of the French play “Le Passant,” in Chicago, in which she made her stage debut in the part of the boy lover. Miss McCormick will return to Chicago in a few days to perfect her plans for the opening of her shop. PROBE CAN GO BACK 10 JULY 1, 1674 Department of Justice Gives Opinion on D. C. Fis- cal Relations. MAY USE AUDIT OF 1911 Decision Presented to Senator Phipps by Special Assistant Herman J. Galloway. The joint select committee of Con- gress, appointed to “inquire into all matters pertaining to the fiscal rela- tions between the District of Co- Jumbia and the United States since July 1, 1874, in an opinion of the Department of Justice formally ren- dered todzy, is fully authorized to make its investigation beginning at July 1, 1874, and, furthermore, the committee may use the audit of 1911 or not. The opinion was presented to Sen- ator Phipps of Colorado, chairman of the joint committee, by Herman J. Galloway. special assistant to the At- torney General. The opinion, as rendered by Mr. Galloway for the Attorney General, d me as follows: “You have orally requeste the attorney assigned by the Attor- ney General of the United States from his regular force to represent the United States before your com- mittee in accordance with the pro- visions of sald act (public act No. 256 of the Sixty-seventh Congress). for| my opinion upon certain questions w’r’ncervnlng vour duties, which ques- tions will be hereinafter stated. ““The part of the act creating your committee and which the question here involved: “:A joint select committee composed of three senators to be appointed D: the President of the Senate, and th sepresentatives to the Speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives, is created and isx author- ized and directed to inquire into all matters pertaining to the fiscal rela- tions between the District of Colum- bia and the United States since July 1, 1874, with a view ol ascertaining and reporting to Congress what sums have been expended by the United States and by the District of Colum- bia. respectively, whether for the pur- | pose of maintaining, upbuilding or beautifying the said District or for the purpose to conduct its govern- ment or its governmental activities and agencies or for the furnishing of conveniences, comforts and necessi- ties to the people of said District. Neither the cost of construction nor the maintenance of any building | erected or owned by the United States for the purpose of tiansact- ing therein the business of the gov- ernment of the United States shall ! be considered by said committee. And in event any money may be or at any time has been by Congress or other- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) 1S ARE OPENED FOR NEW CONDUIT Baltimore Corporation Ap- pears to Have Submitted Lowest Figures. The Arundel Corporation of Balti- more appeared today to be the low bidder for the construction of eight miles of conduit for Washington’s new water supply system. A force of clerks in the office of Maj. M. C. Tyler, engineer officer in; charge, was busily engaged today checking and compiling the figures | submitted yesterday by a number of | contractors. While the task is not complete, Maj. Tyler said premilinary scrutiny of the bids indicates that whe Balti- more concern gave the lowest figure on the entire eight miles of work. Bid to Be Recommended. Within a_ week or ten days the major will recommend to Gen. Beach, chief o engineers, the bid he belleves should ' be accepted. A contract should be closed and work started s, LONG N. Y. TIMES EDITOR -Meantime, the trapped assassins ap- peared on the balustrade of the tur- Gave Forty-Year .lirvlu—l.md- ed as Oné of Country’s Ablest ret, greeted passers-by with bravado and cheered for Capt. Erhardt, head of the notorious reactionary Erhardt battalion. GOV. REILY WINS IN PORTO"RICAN COURT!; Supreme Jurists Vote Four to One in Execu tive’s Favor in Con- troversy With Unionist. te of four gut of some time in August. i N t is, the plan of the engineer office (ollu'v‘e work going on from three points simultaneously in order to complete the huge ssibl r"O'@I!{n‘n.top: were invited to bid ither on the eight miles as a whole or on any third of the distance. It is understood that the Arundel Cor- poration submitted bids on each sec- tion and on the job in its entirety. 2,000,000 Comtract. s contract or contracts fo be let at this time will run well over $2,000,000. from Great Falle is approximately nine miles, so that the work about to .be started will cover practicqlly the gmre distance. ’ The total cost of the new water is material to| e appointed by ! water main as| Net Circulation, 84,549 TWO CENTS. TAX ASSESSMENT IN DISTRICT BEGUN ONFULLVALUATION Annual Levies Will Be Placed on 50 Per Cent Increase. OLD FIGURES TO BE USED AS CALCULATING BASIS Rate on Realty This Year Prac- tically Equivalent to Year Before Last. Decks are cleared for action at the District building for the annual tax assessment, following conference yesterday between Commissioner Ru- dolph, Auditor D. J. Donovan, Asses- sor W. P, Richards and Collector of Taxes C. M. Towers. In assessing property to the full value, it was decided at the confer- ence, the former two-thirds assess- ment valuation will simply be in- creased by 50 per cent of its own figures, thereby giving a 100 per cent assessment based on the figures which were made during the last biennial assessment of the hoard of appraisers. This assessment holds good until the close of the current fiscal vear, when new appraisals will have been com- pleted and new essed values pre- sented. | | To Be Based on 01d Figures. Assessor Richards said today that as far as was humanly possible the { property of Washington taxpayers up to this time had been assessed at {two-thirds value. and the full valus assessments on which the new tax rate is based for real estate will be ! simply 100 per cent valuation of property based on the figrres now in his office. Therefore when a man ns 2 home whose previous assessed valuation. w; $6.6 under the old | two-thirds assessment plan. the fig- lures will simply be changed by add- | ing one-half of this amount to itself, | bringing the total to $10,000 The District tax rate on realty this vear is practically epuivalent fo the { tax rate of year before last, when it | was set at §1 per $100 th of | property assess. at two-thirds value. | The present tax rate of $1.30 per $100 { worth of property- assessed at full { valuation is the exact equivalent of | the former rate, it was declared by Assessor Richards. Tt means a slight increase over the tax rate of last year, ag was announced some weeks ago when the new figures were hand- ed out. { Total Appropriations. . The total appropriations of the Dis- trict for the fiscal Sust closed, amounted to §24.495,482.02. OF this amount the sum of $14,696.490.78 was charged to revenue of the Dis-. trict of Columbia The total appropriations for the District for the year of 1923, which | has just started. amount to $23.521.- | 589.80, of which $14.218.641.88 s | chargeable to the revenues of the | District. In addition to the lasi- ! named amount, however. the District | will have to provide a portion of the | necessary amount to put the govern- { ment on a cash paying basis by July ( 1.1 Using the present appropria- | tion totals determining that ; amount and uming the pavment | of all taxes in two installments. one | in November and the other in May. | the further sum of $3.000,000 must be Wherefore, in raised in the five years. {an additional $600.000 ix tacked onto | the amount the District must raise | during the fiscal year 1923. bringing | the total tax levy to meet all charges | up to $14.818.64138. red Ithe sum of $14,69 of year's lev Estimated Revenue. The estimated revenue of the Dis- triet for 1923, coming from sources other than real estate and tangible i personal properties. $4,350,508.85, leaving $10.465,113.03 tg be raised upon assessment at full value of real estate and tangible personal property. The application of the §1.30 rate for cach of these types of taxes will pro- duce the required sum, according to Auditor Donovan. it must be remembered that 40 per cent of certain miscellaneous items of revenue. such as Police Court fines and other similar sources of revenue, will be retained by the United States, clipping about $480.000 more from { money which otherwise would accrue to the District credit. This amount. ! necessarily, will have to be raised in {another way. 3 The net result of the raise in in- tangible personal property taxes fro mthice-tenths.of 1 per cent to five-tenths of 1 per cent and of the ! fall in the tangible personal property | from $1.82 per $100 to $1.30 per §100 fwill mean the addition of $228,000 ito the revenues of the District. 'To explain more fully, the increased rate of the intangible personal taxes will bring $670,000 additional into Dis trict coffers, but through the net re- duction of the tangible tax 442.000 will flow out. Realty Taxes. As far as realty taxes go, during the last fiscal year at the rate of $1.82 per $100 worth of property exactly $5,608,600 was raised, with the two- thirds assessment value holding good. This year at a rate of $1.30 per $100 under full assessed valuation, approx- imately $9.555,000" is expected, an in-- crease in realty taxatation of $945,400 It is finally pointed out that were it not for the fact that miscellaneous receipts of the District were cut $480,- {000 by the District bill, this money golng to the United States, and if the necessity for raising $600.000 to place the District on a cash basis in five years were removed, the figures for this vear would If anything be lower than last year. The District’s share af appropriations for 1921-1922, amounted to $14,696, 490.78. This left a surplus from $14,- 865,999.63 raised by all taxes last year of 159,508.85. This surplus :. carried forward and becomes a e t to the District, in the fiscal year 1923. Tt lessens somewhat of the burden on realty taxpayers, and the money raised from the revision of the per- sonal tangible and intangible tax rates also helps out, giving the sum of $228,000, ch would not be coming without it. Therefore the t budget 'lth'nllll '3;“‘.::2 amounts to y of last year