Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1923, Page 2

BRANCH LIBRARY INO APPROPRATION FO - ITEM ELIVINATED House Strikes Out $25,000 ! for Building Site in Mount Pleasant Section. BLANTON MAKES MOTION Tlcxn Member Objects to People “Back Home” Paying for Project in District. | | | Striking . from . the ‘District appro- priation bill an item of $25,000 for pur- chase of a site for a branch public library in the Mount Pleasant-Colum- bia Heights section, which carried with | it authorization for the District Com- | missioners to accept from the Carnegle Corporation of New York not less than $100,000 for érection of a suitable branch library building. was the most important change effected during an SINKING FUND ISNEEDED Income From Investments ' for Years 1923 and 1924 Sufiicient to Pay Interest on D. C. Debt. The District ‘appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1924, beginning July 1 next, carries no amount for the sink- ing. fund, because the District Com- missioners have reported that they will not need any such appropriation. | Maj. Daniel J. Donovan in his an- nual report to the District Commis- sioners as auditor says: ‘On June 30, 1921, the outstanding 3.65 per cent District bonds ampunted to $4,915,750. During the, fiscal year 1922, $196,050 of these bonds were purchased and canceled, leaving the amount of bonds outstandmg on June 30, 1922, $4,719,700. The sinking fund assets amount to $4,563,465.62, thus making the net indebtedness on June 30, 1922, $156,224.38. The District of Columbia has no other form of in- debtedness than that represented by its outsanding 3.65 bonds. “No appropriation is made for in- terest and sinking fund for the fiscal | year 1923, as the income derived from investments in United States bonds is more than sufficient to meet the | | all-day session of the House vester- day. This was the net result achieved by Representative Thomas L, Blanton of Texas, democrat, whe is a member of the House District committee, and who made a dozen or more speeches inimi- cal to the National Capital and the Droper support of the city of Was ign. It was on a point of order by Representative Blanton that the branch library item was elminated, the point being sustained by the presiding officer. May Be Reinverted. There is every likelihood that this item will be reinserted by the Senate, payment of interest on the 3.65 bonds, inor is any appropriation for such | purpose recommended for the fiscal year 1924, “The fifty-year period, for which | the 3.65 bonds were Issued, the issue | I being limited . by law to $15.000,000, will expire August 1, 1924. The sink- ing fund asset, represented entirely | by investments in bonds of the United tutes, will nearly be sufficient to l1ake up the outstanding 3.65 bonds, although a further appropriation, not exceeding $200,000, may be required i for this purpose, the amount of the {appropriation depending entirely upon {the price at which the investments ‘lllh3‘ be sold.” and that it probably will be agreed to | 1in_conference between the two houses. e item read as follows: or the purchase of a site for a branch of the free Public Library in the Mount Pleasant-Columbia Heights section of the District of Columbia, ,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and authority is hereby conferred upon thé Commissioners of the District of Columbia to aceept from the Carnegie Corporation of New York not less than $100.000 for the purpose of erecting a suitable branch library building on such a site, sub- ject to the approval of said Commnis- sioners and the board of libary trustees.” Representative L Michigan, acting chairman of subcommittee in charge of the bill, tried hard to have the item retained. He said Site . Offered at Bargain. “The item provides for the purchase of a site for w third branch of the Public Library in the city. There is one at Takoma Park, and there is one in the Southeast, and this item pro- vides for one in the Northwest in a section that is built up now, quite distant, some three miles from the central ‘library, so that it will serve a great public need to have a library in that section of the city. “The site proposed, 1 am reliably informed, is worth at least $50,000, say 1 am relfably advised, and 1 believe it to he a.fact that the value of the site proposed is at least $50,000. It _is offered to the -District for $25,000.” When Representative Blanton com- Plained that while he lived in Mount Tleasant he thought the people of other parts of the coun including Representative -Cramton's home dis- trict, ought not to be taxed to pay for the branch library or site,in Mount Tleasant, Representative Cramiton re- sponded as follows Cost to Nation, $10,000. “In our. case ‘the late Mr, Carnegie Was not quite as generous as he was with respect to the city of Washing- ton. We are getting iess than one third of the buildink and site from the Carnegie Corporation,.whereas in this case the owner of this land offers it At not over half the real prite. Then the Carnegle Corporation will put on it a $100,000 builaing, . The building will be entirely at the expense of the | Carnegie Corporation, so that the $150.000 site and building/will cost the people of the Distriot:only $25,000, of Wwhich, under this bill, onlv $10,000 will be the part of the United States. As long as our present policy is to share this expense, T do not object to | the government sharing in a branch | library to the extent of $10.000 where the whole cost will be $150,000. “It will not benefit me much, In the Southeast branch and in the Ta- Xoma Park. branch this policy was followed, and it js simply to follow the policy heretofore adopted, I will concede that the point of order is good, and if the gentleman from Texas insists upon his point the item will have to go out of the bill. But T am going to say fo the gentleman this: That in view of the fact that this '$25,000 will make possible a con- tribution of $25,000 from the owner of the land and a contribution of $100,000 from the Carnegie Corporation. I hope the gentleman will not insist.” { i i i {the repara RUHR EXPEDITION LAID BEFORE FOCH (Continued from First Page.) their arguments, and Louls Barthou of France, the proponent of the de- fault measure, offered no objection to granting the hearing. The German contention, it is known, will be based on Germany's declared inability to deliver more than 80 per cent of the amount of coal provided for in the commissions program for 1922, as she had to import coal heavi- ly in order to supply her own needs. Sir John Bradbury took occasion during the session to say that Eng- and’s deep friendsnip for France con- tinued unaffected by the differences in judgement over the treatment of Germany. M. Barthou replied cor- on behalf of France. r-John is under intense criti ¥ the French press, which attributes te him an important part in the prep- aration of the British plan for a re| arations settlement to which the French teok such strong objection. Premier Theunis and Foreign Min- ister Jaspar of Belgium, who attended ons conference, returned to Brussels today Premier Poincare accompanied them to the station, and there was a loug conversation among the three before the train left. ism Proceeding on Own Program. France is proceeding quietly but firmly on a program of action which $he herself is convinced and which she believes she will be able to per- suade others is the only right course if the reparations.question is to' be settled once and for all. ‘A, person in government circles pdrtlcularly well placed to-speak au- thoritatively” is quoted. by the Echo de Parls as believing that the neutral- ity of Great Britain will be trans- formed to co-operation if the French an proves successful. The same per- nage cherishes a hope of converting merican opinion “There is no reason why the Ameri- cans,” this person is quoted as say- ing, “when we give them an impres- sion of force and energy and, above all, show them that we are not en- gaged in a militarist maneuver, but in a reasonable and well thought-out undertaking, will not change their| opinion.”. { i Poincare Going Ahead. Premier Poincare is going ahead with his plans with a level-headed deliberateness befitting an experi- enced lawyer., M. Poincare had already discussed with President Barthou of the repara. tions commission the course to be followed by that body, which, it is understood, will not be hurried in its action. It s understood that the French premier favors a semi-military plan which is divided into two paris, the first comprising the occupation of Es- sen, where the Krupp works are lo- cated; the second the occupation of Bochum and the establishment of a customs cordon around the Ruhr, to- MISS MACLEOD DEAD. Two-Week Illness of Pneumonia Has Fatal Outcome. Miss Flora MacLecd, a lifelong resi- dent of Washington, died vesterday morning in a local hospital, following a two-wecek illness of pneumonia. Funeral services will be held Mon- €ay afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the mortuary chapel of Wright's un- dertaking cstablishment. 1337 10th street northwest. Interment will be in Congressional cemetery. Miss MacLeod was a_daughter of the Jate William and Katherine MacLeod. Her father for twenty-five years prior 10 his death in 1892 was the curator of the Corcoran Art Gallery. Miss MacLeod was widely known in Wash- ngton. December Circulation Digtrict of Columbia, sss NG NEWROLD, Business Manager of THE EV and SUNDAY STAR, does wolemnly ewe the <coples of the paper during the month of December, as follows; Dass R rieim PR PRSI W Yess adjustments.. Total dally net circulation.... Daily average net paid circii- ation .. cese y Daily avi umbe coples for service, etc. gether with the posting of receiers for the mines and the transporiation companies. However, nothing will be decided without the approval of parliament acting with a full knowledge of the facts. — Premier Poincare will make a full statement of his plan to the chamber of deputies probably on Friday next, He will speak either spontaneously or in reply to interpellations, which Col. Girod and Paul Aubriot have already signified their intention of present- ing. After his statement, the premier will ask parllament to give him a blank check to be filled _ut as he thinks best. The premier's presenta- tion of the situgtion will be.furthe: discussed and definitely will be further cabinet mesting next Tuesday. LAW OPENS WAY TO MEET BRITAIN'S CAPACITY ON DEBT (Continued from First Page.) period. Some importance was at- tached to the visit, just previous to that of the British, of Ambassador Harvey, who was closeted for a short time with the Secretary. A Following the conference, it was an- nounced that the Secretary and the British had discussed to some extent the international aspects of the problem, but that the most of the work would be done at the Treasury Department in business meetings between the two commissions. Secretary Hughes is a member of the American commission. Following the conference at the State Department the Britich com- mission went to the Capitol, where they made calls of courtesy on Vice President Coolidge and Speaker Gil- lett. ~ There Was no officiai . ar- rangement_for the British commis- sion over Sunday, it was announced today from the Hotel Shoreham, which is their headquarters, *The British commissioners will be rtained to some extent while in hington; according to engage- Dally average net circulation. SUNDAY. Copies. Days, 94783 24 95438 51 24717 Less pdjustments. [rotal Sunday net ciroulation. ~Jae.507 V"i‘{,.o'eal paid Sunday cir- W verage ntmber of Coples for Service, CNEA cessive Average Sunda; tion Advertising Maneger. . ‘;-h:esxbed 2nd sworn_to" before me' this .6th of Januars, AJD. 1923. Seal) - ELMER F. YOUNT. Bl Netary Pubiie. ments already listed. Besides the dinner at the British embassy to- night, theze will be luncheon Sun. day a the Belgian embassy, dinner Monday with Eugene Meyer, jr., man- aging director of the War Finance Corporation; & reception Tuesday at the British embassy, a dinner Wednes- day with Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Wadsworth and _dinner Thursday with Secretary Mellon. President Harding was requested to sound Great Britain as to her willing- to discuss the cession by her to the United States of her possessions in the West Indies, including Trinldad and the Bermudas, in 2 resolution in. troduced yesterday by Senator Reed of Missourl, democrat. It was undertood fhat the territoriss might be accepted in payment of Great Britain's war debt. YNDER Vs E.H. JEMISON VICTIM ' OF LINGERING ILLNESS Assistant Superintendent of Treas- | Another “Shantung Episode” Threatens ury Department Entered Service in 1885. i H. JEMISON, E. H. Jemison, for many years as- sistant superintendent of the Treas- ury Department, and widely known in departmental and commercial cir- cles, died yesterday evening at his home, 1930 lst street northwest, after a lingering illness. Mr. Jemison was a native of New Cagtie. Del. He came to Washington in 1885, entering the service of the Treasury Department. His friendl personality and his abilities were rec- ognized by governmental chiefs ot the various administrations, and he wagy elevated from post to post. until he became assistant superintendent ten years ago. His position brought him into close association with high departmental executives and many prominent con- tractors in the business world, and he numbered . among s stanch friends men of foremost rank in the capital. : He_was prominently identified with the Masonic_fraternity and was a member of B. B. French Lodge, No. 15, F. A. Columbia_Chapter, LiRIA olumbia Commander: No. hts Templar, and Alm: Temple, Mystic Shrine. 'He was af- fillated with the United Brethren Church, Mr. Jemison asked for retiremenf from the federal service a few months ago. when medical advisers declared that his health was beyond recover: Officials _and employes visited his home regularly during his illness, and on Christmas eve his departmental associates sent him_a collective tes- timonial of their affection. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Isabelle Jemison: two danghters, Mrs. Ralph M. Cox and Mrs. C. O. McCul- lough, and one son, W. W. Jemison. The funeral will ba conducted Mon- day at 2 o'clock from the residence. The pallbearers, selected by himself, will be James L. Wilmeth, §. H. Marks, Charles A. Fenner, Charles A. Harbaugh, Charles Fisher and Fred A. Hornig. 4 —_—— DISTRICT STREET PROGRAM SAVED BY HOUSE RULING (Continued from First Page.) the Commisstoners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to open, extend or widen any street,’ and.so forth. That s permanent leg- islation. It does not say that ‘here- after’ they are authorized, it is true. It does not say in the Constitution that you have got to use \he word ‘hereafter’ in order to make it per- manent. “It is clearly apparent that the language gives a permanent author- ity. It does not say for the current year. It is mot in connection with any item in the appropriation act. It is not tied to any specific appro- priation for the year. It is & legi lative provision of a permanent char acter that was put in an appropra- tion act that year. Now, I take it if that is to be conceded, then the gen- tleman will have no objection to the languags in the bill. The language in the bill simply gives the money with which to carry out the authority conferred in the permanent legisla- { Ghatrman Cramton's position was indorsed, by Representative Fred N. Zihiman,’ republican, of Maryland, & member of the House District com- mittee, and by Representative Staf- ford of Wisconsin, republican, who is recognized as a parliamentary. au- thority. Street Improvements Retained. The ‘House in committes of the whole approved without any change the sectlon of the bill carrying ap- propriations for street“improvements. This includes 31 proposals carrying a total of $774,700, - whioh' have been 0. K'd. Here Representative Blanton criticised_what he called favoritism toward “silk stocking” neighbor- . although Chairman Cramton (house, bearing the child in his arms. | plete = reciprocity. oG e ada It clear that the committes She "hurried to Children's Hospital | adoption by the District of had differed from the Engineer Com- missioner and the budget bureau, ex- geeding fncludfng a number of new mtreets, bullt up on either side with small homes, which are relieving the hous- ing congestion. - ‘Approval also was given to the pro- visfon carrying $285,000~ for ‘assess- ment_and.-permit work, including the|older brothers, aged” five and seven |ferred to. mainfenancé of motor -yehicles, and 350,000 .for paving roadways under the present -system. ! Representative Hicks of New York, who was presiding in the committee of the whole, temporarily left the chai cause the Commissioners are- putting curbing in the center of- Connecticut avenue for several blocks. He was supponted by Chairman -Cramton in ‘his contention that the engineering department -exceeded its authority-in building these “shoulders” parallel to the street car tracks. Represent: tive Johnson contributed the informa tion that Maf. Engineer Commissioner, h: § that these shouldér ‘curbs will 'be ebandoned. < 3 _‘4# ik in 1016. This view shows the Po 4l | as Island Government Refuses to Part “Last With BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Unbeknown to, the western wor™. immersed in European affairs, a new and bitter conflict has broken out In the far east between China and Japan. It concerns Chinese demands for the. evacuation of Kwantung, the province better known as South Manchuria, which Japan h#ids under a 99-year lease, expiring in 1997. The lease was granted by China under group 2 of the celebrated “twenty-one demands” in May, 1915. Peking'’s insistence upon apanese relinquishment of Kwan- tung threatens to precipitate another “Shantung episode” into what the world hoped was a new and amlicable era in Sino-Japanese relations. The President of China, Li Yuan-Hung, likens Kwantung to Alsace-Lorraine, and the Chinese house of representa- tives has p ed resolutions repudtat- ing the treaty of 1915 by which the Japanese became lessees and virtual possessors of the province. The Kwantung controversy, it ap- pears, became acute a month ago, im- mediately following the formal and final evacuation of Shantung by the Japanese. Under the original Rus- sian leasehold of the Liao-tung penin- sula around Port Arthur and Dairen, which czarist Russia extorted from China in 1898, China would have re- covered possession of the territory at the end of twenty-five vears. That period would have expired in March, 1923—two months from this time and it is then that China now is de- manding the restoration of Kwan- tung by Japan. Japanese Press Warns China. The Japanese scout and resist the Chinese claim. They say it {s stimu- {lated by Chinese arrogance and un- justifiable pretensions arising from a mistaken conception of Japanese | magnanimity In giving up Shantung. | The Japanese press, while discuss- | ing China's clamor in restrained lan- guage, nevertheless is firm in insist- ing that it is hopeless. The Chinese are warned that a econtinued demand for Kwantung not only is doomed to remain unanswered, but that it will poison Sino-Japaneeé relations afresh and arrest in the plans of Japan to be helpful in the political and economic regeneration of China. At the Washington conference on far eastern wnd armament problems in 1921-1922, China, through Dr. Well- ington Koo, now foreign minister at | Peking, made formal demand for labolition of all foreign leaseholds of Chinese territory. On December 3. 1921, Mr. Hanihara, soon to arrive in | | Washingtoh as Japanese ambassador, | announced that Japan would give up, Kiachow, the former German terri-| tory in Shantung, but was not in a| position to consider the surrender of | the Kwantung territory on the tip of south Manchuria. i i | centratea ner Foothold.” principal economic, financial and colonization effort. Pur chased from Russia in the war of 1904-1905 at the cost of more than 100,000 Japanese lives and a billion doliars “of expenditure, Kwantung constitutes even a more precious pos- sesslon to the Japanese than Shan- tung. Russia’s leasehold was for- R NEW BRIDGE JOINING CAPITAL AND VIRGINIA ABOUT READY FOR TRAFFIC. The new Georgetown bridge, which was bullt at a_cost of more than two million dollars, is one of the biggest projects In the country was started mac river flowing in the distance, with some of the oldest Georgetown houses China and Japan Wrangle Over Return of Kwantung in the foregrdund. HOUSE MEMBER’S WIFE DIES AT HOME HERE Mrs. Ketcham Had Been Ill Three Months—Funeral Services Today. mally assigned to Japan at the Portsmouth peace conference. The Tokio government declares that Japas nese title to the province was sancti | fied afresh by the Chinese treaty of | 1915. teen years that the Japanese have been “in occupation of Kwantung they have turned it Inté a thriving territory. The South Manchuria rafl- way, which bisects the province from north to south, has become one of the best equipped and profitable proper- ties in Asla. The lease of -Port Arthur and adjacent territory, com- monly known as the Kwantung pen- insula, covers 1,203 squarc miles of area. The South Manchuria railway oper- ates 698 miles of line and owns about fifty square miles of land on either side of the route. More than 65,000 Japanese subjects reside in Kwan- tung, and because of the dominating railways and their generak importance they are virtual masters of the prov- ince. Japan claims that the terri- tory now has become so integral a portion of the Japanese empire's po- litical and economic scheme that its surrender cannot be considered with- in the realm of debatable issues. The province’s two main cities, Port Arthur and Dairen, have been con- verted into prosperous commercial communities, filled with modern buildings and factlities. Both have | been thrown open to commerce and Port Arthur's old-time fortifications, once stormed by Japan, have not been rebuilt. w It was the extortion of the Kwan- tung lease by Russia, with its threat to the independence of China and its menace to the security of Japan, that led to the Rugso-Japanese war eigh- teen years ago. The Japanese of to- day, though imperial Russia is no more, still look upon the Kwantung peninsula, with its impregnable de- fensive possibilities, as an indfspen- sable bulwark against a possible new Russian aggression. whether the “Bear” wears czarist or bolshevist skin. The western world may rest assured China's demand for restora- tion of Kwantung will not be real- !ized without the most stubborn re-| sietance of which Ni hlel)lnlomal!su express the fear that the Chinese may attempt to organize the same kind of sentimental crusade in favor of Kwantung that they fomented in the cass of Shantung. Such a crusade would naturally be launched first of all in the United States, where there 18 80 deep a reser- ppon is capa- | Last Foothold in Asia. Having restored Shantung and| evacuated eastern Siberia, Kwantung, | or south Manchuria, represents Ja- | pan's last foothold on the mainland of Asia. It is there that she has con- | By the Associated Preas. NEW YORK, January 6. — Mrs. Rose Santera was convicted by a jury vesterday of extorting money from Bd- die Stoppielo and his flances, Katie | Diodati, with the aid of theortical spirits. Stopplelo testified that on the eve of his marriage to Katie his fiancee’ stepmother warned him that evil spirits were on his trail, seeking his death. She induced him, he said, to go to Mrs. Santora, who had quife a reputation in the neighborhood. as a mystic and spirit fixer. Mrs. Santora convinced him and his |BURNS BRING DEATH T0 FERNALD CHILD Nellie Frances Fernald, two and a half years of age, died at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon at Children’ Hospital from burns and Injuries sustained yesterday in a firé at the home of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. C. J. Fernald, 1514 Columbia road. The child was In the basement where the fire started, as & result of wood belng too close to a hot rhace. She was unable to reach voir of kindly feeling for the aspira- tions of the new China. Unless ad- vance indications fail, more will be heard of the Kwantung controversy in occidental reglons before many moons. (Copyright, 1823.) GAVE SPIRIT FIXER $600 TO BURN TO PROTECT HIM UNTIL WEDDING flancee, he testified, that the only way he could keep life long enough to wed was by burning money. So Eddle, he said, gave her money to burn—$600 in one lump and several smailer payments. He also pald for a mystic bodyguard to ride about on the truck he drove, warding off the evil spirits that sought to accomplish his undoing. Mrs. Santora denied the charges, as- serting the wkole case grew out of enmity between Katie and her stepe mother. It took the jury only fifteen minutes, however, to decitle not to believe he She will be sentenced January 19, The maximum punishment is twenty years’ imprisonment. | TAX ON GAS AND $1 REGISTER FEE, D. C. RECIPROCITY PLAN (Continued from First Page.) mittee a copy of a draft of a bill to provide for a tax on motor vehicle fuel within the District of Columbia evidence of the fact that negots ons were now in progress with a ew to the establishment of reciproc- ity between Maryland and the Dis- triot. “J am taking this occasion to in- form you that the draft left with you had actually been prepared by my office and that it is merely in tentative form, my ides being to submit it to a certain number o, well informed persons for the pur- the stairs and escape before the flames had caught her clothing. Mrs. Fernald, her mother, was just returning from an errand when Arthur C. Thurlew came outside the with the little girl in an automobile, 1 o'clock until she expired. Other Child Escapes. Liewellyn Fernald, ‘four yvears ofd, encaped the fire.without injury. Two yedrs, ‘were ‘1n kindergarten and school, respectively, when the fire broke. out. ™™ Dr. Fernald is well known in ‘Washington. - He is connected :with to register his complaint be-ithe Board -of Trade and has been{pil,” active in medical and.clvic. circles for-some time. He. recently xzoyed into - the Columbia road = residence - from 918 D. street southwest. The fire damaged the basement and lower floor of the house to the ex- tent of about $1.000, according to the preliminary police Teport. Damage to furniture and jtems of houseware the water and ci icals used in ex- Hhtianimg 1o pose of securing from them such sug- gestions as seem to be desirable. Among others with whom I was proposing to confer were representa- tives of the state of Maryland, since During the seventeen or eigh- ' MRS. CORA E. KETCHAM. Mis. Cora E. Ketcham, wife 'of Rep- resentative J. C. Ketcham of Michi- gan, died yesterday at her residence, 480G 15th street northwest, after a se- rious illness of three months. Mrs. Ketcham was prominently identified in farm orgaunizatiof work, and was one of the twenty-five women invited to the agricultural conference here last year, She serv- ed as chairman of the subcommittee on home economics at that confer- ence. She has been associated with her husband, who is prominent in the activities of the National Grange; was chairman of the home economics committes of that organization, and at the time of her death was one of a commites of five women of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Also, she was a member of the repub- ljean state central committee of Michigan. Mrs. Ketcham came to Washington April 11, 1921, with her husband, who is serving his first term in Congres: Born at Woodland, Mich., June 23, 1874, Mrs. Ketcham was educated in the 'migh school at Nashville, Mich., graduating in 1895. She then became a teacher in the public schools at Nashville. She married Mr. Ketcham June 30, 1897, at Nashville, and had three children—Mildred C., twenty- two years old, and John @, jr, and Ruth M., twins, aged eighteen, who, besides her husband, survive her. Brief funeral services were held at the residence this morning at 11 o'clock, in charge of Rev. James Shera Mont- gomery, chaplain of the House, and Rev. ‘Randolph of Foundry Methodist Church. The body was taken to Hast- ings, Mich., for burfal. WILL M. TIPTON DEAD. Son of Late Senator Had Many Friends in This City. Word has been received here of the death, in San Jose, Calif., December 15. of Will M. Tipton, son of the late Senator Thomas Weston Tipton of Nebraska. Mr. Tipton had many friends in this city, where most of his bovhood was spent. He attended Emerson Insti- tute, while here. For many vears he was a member of the court of pri- vate land claims in Santa Fe, N. M. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Alice Stevens Tipton: and a daugh- ter, Mrs. George N. Spencer of Den- ver, Col. Dr. Frank B. Tipton of this city is his nephew. ASKS YANKS’ RETURN. Resolution, by Senator Reed for Immediate Rhine Withdrawal. Under the terms of a resolution in- troduced in the Senate yesterday by Senator Reed of Missouri, democrat, President Harding would be request- ed to take steps to bring the Ameri- can troops now in Germany back to the United States immediately. Dur- ing consideration of the Borah amend- ment in the Senate, which would have added to the Navy blll a request to the President to call an international economic conference, Senator Reed offered his proposal in regard to the troops abroad as an amendment to the Borah proposal. D. C. CADETS IN WAR GAME Students Watch McKinley Boys Defeat Columbia Junic-s. team representing Company A of Mec- Kinley Manual Training School, un- der the lemdership of Capt. E, A, Keller, opened the annual war map ggmes of the Washington High School Cadets_ . yesterday afternoon in the Franklin School by defeating a team f | composed of members of Company L. g_g th]e ?Dlumbll Junlolr High School. e losing team was in comman, ca_lxg‘t,. Harold Sgot!‘; - e e scene of the mythical battl was laid at Gettysburg, the uy:xtm: civil war battleground. Col. Wallace reparation of the bill was inspired Ey a.proposal on their part for com- based upon _the lumbia f a 8§ tax. - fir® " Mackall and his associates their recommendations, and|and remained at her bedside from|pnaye just left me after & conference of some duration, in the course of which certain modifications were sug- gested-for the bill, which I am now proposing to discuss with my col- leagues of the District government with the other persons above re- It is my hope that final agreement as to. the text of the -de- sired bill may.be reached within a. comparatively short time, -and, s soon as this agreement is reached, it will give me pleasure, if you desire, to furnish you with & copy of the POST FOR FRED S. LINCOLN. The Commissioners yesterday named’ Fred S. Lincoln, president of the Chevy Chase Citizens’ Association, a member of the indorsement committee of wel- fare organizations. He succéeds C. A. e total figur: to double | Aspinwall, who resigned. The purpose iattoner. nas promised | the. amount StAted as & resdit of |of the committas is o prevent fraudu. lent organizations e rom soliciting publie a o M. Craigie, U. 8. A., professor of mili- tary science and tactics in the high schools, umpired the game. CITIZENS PLAN MEETING . TO PUSH SCHOOL NEEDS The citizens’ school committee five will call a conference of the seo. enty-nine civic organizations respon- sibie for its creation probably some tima next week, at which it is planned to map out a program of procedure in pushing school legislation which will come up in the Senate.. The in.. tention of the committee to call the conference was: made known at a meeting yesterday in the office of its | chairman, Henry H. Glassie, in the Union Trust building. The committee is interested pri- marily in having restored In the school estimates the {tems cut out of the original budget of the board of edu- cation, particularly those affecting the building program. Dr, Abram Simon, president of the school board, will be asked by the committee to appoint & permanent ‘eitizens’ sohool committee, E I Railroads qu! Put $700,000,000 in New Equipment By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 7. — Indica- tions of record expenditures by the nation's railroads for new equipment and improvements for the current year were pointed out today by the Railway Age, which stated it had received information that twenty-seven roads planned to spénd more than $350,000,000 this year. Officials of the railways repre- \senting abput 40 per cent of the nation's ckage were reported planning even greater expendi- tures than now decided on if con- ditions: were favorable. Using reports from twenty-seven roads, the Rallway Age estimated $700,000,000 would be spent this Yyear by the country's railways. This sum, the magazine safd, would exceed that of any year in the last decade, except 1917. “In general” the Rallway Age said, “those roads are most active Wwhose recovery from the period of federal control has been most rapid and whose earnings and credit are high. BAN ON CONTRACTS HITTING OPEN SHOP, Attorney General Rules Dis- ‘crimination Against Union Employers Is Conspiracy. Agreements and contracts haying for their purpose the maintenance of | an “open shop” labor policy are held to contravene the conspiracy clauses of the Clayton act under a ruling of Attorney General Daugherty, made known here yesterday. While occasioned by a specific situa- tlon relative to the buflders’ ex- change of San Francisco, the decision is declared to be sweeping in its scope and to cover generally, for the infor- mation of federal district attorneys, all phases of combinations affected either by labor against employers or vice yersa. The ruling was regarded as of espe- cial interest at this time in view of the repeated reports that several projects of more than ordinary size might be undertaken with clauses in the contract setting forth a definite policy toward employment. Documents Submitted. It was learned that the - ruling was drawn after the attention of go ernment officials was directed to for- mal charges that members of the San Francisco exchange had agreed among themselves not to sell construction materfal to contractors who gave preference to union labor in filling their roster of workmen. Documentary evidence which was declared to support the charges and was alleged to show that pressure was_brought to bear on contractors employing union labor was attacked when the charges were submitted to certain members of Congress and to the Department of Justice. The United States attorney at San Francisco was Instructed officially to investigate and take whatever action seemed necessary on the ground that such an agreement would constitute 2 clear case of illegal conspiracy. D. C. REPRESENTED AT CLUB OPENING, Many Washingtonians Attend Blue Ridge Rod and Gun Celebration. Formal opening of the new home of the Blue Ridge Rod and Gun Club, across the river from Harpers Ferry, in Loudoun county, Va., is being cele- brated today by the club members, Wwho have left their business and professional. offices in this city to spend the week end there. The attractive building, which re- places and almost duplicates in ap- pearance the former clubhouse that! was completely destroyed by fire No- | vember 19, 1921, was turned over by the contractors to the building com- mites about a week ago. The many features of the new ‘home will be in- spected by the members during the day, and & special dinner will be pro- vided by the chef this evening. About thirty-five members of the club were expected to be present to- day, according to Charles E. Hood, secretary Mr. Hood, with Henry D. Crampton, president of the club, and about fifteen other members left Washington yesterday afternoon for the clubhouse. Twenty or 80 more left today, most of them on a special Pullman car which left Unfon sta- tion at 9:10 am. The special car will bring the members back Sunday aft- ernoon. No_special program fin observance of the opening or dedication of the clubhouse will be held, the member: devoting the day and evening to try- ing out all the new equipment and added facilities which have been in- stalled Fires were kept blazing in the two great stone fireplaces on the first floor, one in the main lounge and the other in the library adjoining. The new heating plant for the entire bullding also was—tested, as this was a feature not possessed by tho for- mer building, While the building itself nas been finished, the grounds are yet to be landscaped. This work will be car- H. Small, 3d, a member ¢®™the club. PLANS CURB ON ISSUE OF TAX-EXEMPT PROFITS Senator Brookhart Would Prevent ‘Wholesale Declaration of Divi- dends to Avoid Tarif. As a preliminary step toward leg- islation to prohibit the issue of tax- exempt stock dividends by corpora- Slona. Senator Brookhart of Towa, re- publcan, yesterday made public a list of stock dividends issued by 328 cor- porations. The list had been com- piled by the Federal Trade Commil sion. Senator Brookhart said he w. convinced legilation could be enact- ed to put a stoD to this practice, by which corporations are avolding the payment of income taxes. The total amount of these stock dividents issued by 338 corporations was $2.149,161,425, issued in the\year 1922. Under the decision of the United States Supreme Court these stock dividends are not’ subject to the in- come tax. Among the stock dividends issued were the following: American Electric Heater Company and Atlantic Refining Company, 900! per cent. : L. S. Ayres Company, Indianapolis, 400 per cent: Bartapress Compan: MELLON INATTACK ONTAX EXEMPTION Renews Plea for Passage of Measure Amending United States Constitution. VIEWS GIVEN IN HOUSE Denies States’ Rights Will Be Curtailed by Ban on Tax Free Securities. Urging adoption of a constitutional amendment to prohiblt further is- suance of tax’exempt securities, Sec- retary Mellon, in a letter presented yesterday to the House, declared the tax-exempt privilege, with the facility it 8ives to borrowing, “leads in many cases to unnecessary wasteful public expenditures,” which in turn is bringing about “a menacing in- crease in the debts of the states and nation.” Mr. Mellon's views wers given in response to a letter from Representa- tive Green, republican, Towa, author of the resolution, asking for an ex- pression as to the wisdom of a pro- posed amendment by Representative Garner, democrat, Texas, which, the Secretary said, would tend to make the legislation Ineffective. Secretary Mellon said the constitutional amend- ment would not infringe upon the rights of the states. This was quickly challenged by Representative Garreti, Tennessee, democratic leader, who d clared the Secretary was the only “responsible official” willing to ad- vance that claim. Sees Menace in Exemptions. The argument was made by the Treasury Secretary that the large amount of tax exempt securities 2 menace to taxation and to the cou try's resources and prevented the free flow of money to industrial and com- mercial enterprises. “1 note that in suport of his pro- posed amendment, Mr. Garner has stated” Mr. Mellon wrote, “that under the resolution as reported by the ways and means committee, the United ~ States might discriminate aguinst the bonds of a state and in favor of the bonds of a railroad or in- dustrial corporation, and that his amendment is proposed in order to prevent such a result. “I am glad to be abie to write you first, that in the judgment of "the Treasury the resolution in the form reported by the committee would of itself prevent discrimination of th character, 8o that the amendment proposed 'by Mr. Garner is unneces- sary, and second, that to adopt the amendment proposed by Mr. Garner would probably nullify both sections and make the whole constitutional amendment ineffective. States’ Rights Protected. “Whatever opposition there is to the proposed amendment to restrict fur- ther issues of tax exempt securities rests, 1 think, upon misunderstand- ing of the subject and effect of the amendment, and_ this, in turn, harks back to the old" controversies .about states’ righis and the powers of the federal government. 1 can say with- out hesitation that separated from these old prejudices and taken from the point of view of the facts as we have to face them today, the proposed constitutional amendment involves no question whatever of states’ rights and makes no attack whatever on the credit or borrowing power of the states or their political subdivisions. “The amendment would apply with absolute equality to the federal gov- eroment on onc hand and to the states on the other, and in the inter- ests of the general welfare would put exactly the same restrictions upon future borrowings by the fed- eral government as upon future bor- rowings by the states and their po- ltical subdivisions.” From the point of view of the states themselves, Mr. Mellon said he be- lleved it was clear that the con- tinued issuance of tax-free securities saved nothing to the taxpayers of the states “and that in the long run it brings heavier taxes.” These . debts, he wrote, constitute a constantly growing charge upon the taxpayers of the states “and will ultimately have to be paid, principai and interest, through tax levies upon these taxpayers.” Green Resolution Again Up. Consideration of the Green resolu- tion which would authorize submis- sion to the states of an amendment prohibiting further issuance of tax- exempt securities was begun in the House prior to the Christmas holi- days, but after a day of discussion republican leaders decided to delay action on the measure. Receipt of Secretary Mellon's let- ter revived the discussion yesterday, Mr. Garrett, in a brief speech, declar- ing that while every one recognized in Secretary Mellon a mag of great pow- er and intellectuality, his ipse dixit upon this legal question was not con- clusive. “When one has studied the legal propositions involved,” he added, re- ferring to the states’ rights issue, “he cannot fail to say, though he will say it respectfully, that such an asser- tion of the Secretary of the Treasury is preposterous. No attack upon the credit of the states when you give to the federal government the power to tax-tbat credit? No attack on the credit of the national government when you give to the states the pow- er to tax the national government's credit? Questions Mellon's View. “Of all who have argued this ques- tion the Secretary of the Treasury so far as I know is the only one who has ever asserted that it did not affect the rights of the states, and in turn did not have the power to affect the rights, the credit and strength of the federal government ftself. \ “I do not want to charge thé Sec- retary of the Treasury with dema- goguing. He is not that type of a man. Yet it is singular that he should use the words ‘old prejudices’ in con- nection with the discussion of this or Before 200 interested students a|ried out in the early spring by John |matte U. S. BUSINESS MEN TO ASK SOLUTION ON REPARATIONS (Continued from First Page.f present in Washington at that time, and, although a program for the ting has not been decided om, it T belleved that this opportunity to iscuss the reparations question will not be overlooked. ° ‘Officlal announcements at the White House and the State Department yes- terday, in_which it was made clear that the United States government had done all it could do at the present time and had no new project in mind for the settlement of the reparations tangle, appeared to free the hands of business leaders, and make it pos- sible for them to go forward again with their plans for a disinterested study of Germany's capacity to pa. Thege plans were held in, abeyance by Mr. Barnes pending official nego- tiations by the government and the outcome of the meeting of the allied premlers in Paris. MEXICAN WOMEN GET VOTE. MEXICO CITY., January 6.—The 300 per cent; Beechnut Packing Comi- pany, 400 per cent. ey Great Britain's coal production this ear will bs between 240,000,000 and 45,000,000 tons, the gTeatest for nine year | womien of the state of San Luis Potosi are given the franchise under a measure which has been adopted by the state legislature. The meas- ure was sponsored by the governor, Rafael “Nieto, former federal secre- tary of treasury. v v ¥