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4 NEW ALIEN GODE - ASKED BY DAVIS ‘Secretary Also Assails Child | } Labor and Urges Change r in Law. Secretary of Labor Davis, in his annual report made public today, asks Congress to provide a less com- plicated method of handling rallway labor disputes than that now ad- ministered under the Rallway Labor Board; to give the Labor Department greater authority and facilities for enforeing better working conditions ®enerally: to make appropriations for the improvement of the immigra- tion stati New York, Boston, Seattle and Franclsco, and to enact a complete new “allen cod vroviding for selection of immi- grants abroad, for exclusion of all non-naturalizable ailens and for en- largement of the work of naturaliza- ton and Americanization, He also renewed his recommenda- tion for an amendment to the Cone stitution empowering Congress to pass child labor legislation. Child Wage Earners. On this point he said: “It is a humiliating fact and crying disgrace to our civilization that we have not %0 far succeeded in eradicating mcl employment of children of tender vears as wage earners. There is nul vossible defense for the breaking of r future citizens on the torture wheel of industry before they have had time to become physically, men- tally and morally fitted to enter the lists of the toi Looking back the twelve- month period covered by the report, Mr. Davis declared American labor had much to be thankful for, but that the federal government must continue its efforts toward “co-op- eration” and recognition of the mu- tual interest of employers and em- ployes. San Eight-Hour Workday. “This has been a great year,” he said, “for the American worker. “It may now be eald that we are within sight of the time when no workman in the United States will be forced to labor from sunrise to sun- set and that we are within a few years of the day when we shall have realized the hope that each man shall have eight hours for work, eight hours for play and eight hours for sleep. Truly, American labor has to be thankful for. ‘We must see to it that conditions in American industry continue to ad- vance, We must encourage that spirit of co-operation, that recognition of mutual T which is already Progress among our N our workers. We are learning that co-operation In industry is the surcst and most feasible road 1o industrial peace, without which we can have no real prosperity. Today there are four parties involved in an industria dispute. ynership, management and th All of these are mutually dependent, and the suctess of any given industry de- pends upon its operation along lines which will insure satisfactory returns to all of them.” Dificulties Increased. Without ‘going into details regard- ing the operations of the Raliroad Labor Board, Secretary Davis declared that “apparently the differences be- tween the management of the rall- roads and their employes have been increased and complicated, rather, than diminished,” through operation of the machinery provided under sec- tion 300 of the transportation act. “The practical operation of that plan,” he continued, “brings about unreasonable delays in the adjust- ment of minor disputes and accentu- ates to the dignity of a contest petty differences with reference tb wages and conditions of labor. The machin- ry has proven unwieldy. It seems to me that some machinery less compli- cated and less cumbersome should be et up to provide for the equitable and expeditious settlement of these disputes through well known and oft- used channels, in order that our trans- nortation system may function at it8 highest rate of efficiency in the inter- ests of the country.” The Secretary pointed out that the | Labor Department is commanded by | law “to improve working conditions” of wage earners, but declared that | Rothing could bo'done in that direc. | tion under present legislation except to investigate, report and recommend. | Even In this field, he added, depart- ment officials are “hampered by lack of specific authority and by meager appropriations.” Protection From Aceldent. “In this connection,” the report con- tinued, “thers i{s at present one out- standing need. That is the need for the protecting from industrial accidents the men, women and children who work. As a preliminary step I would recommend that the department be authorized to organize a thorough | and complete survey of industrial health and accident conditions in or- der that we might have the necessary facts upon which to base an inteili- gent, effective program of health con- servation. “In the improvement of working conditions generally there is one American worker who is sadly hand- icapped. He is the so-called migra- tory worker—the lumberman, the harvest hand, the cannery employe, the fruit picker. As a class these migratory workers are generelly of a high type of citizenship. The men in the lumber industry and those who work in the harvest flelds may be seen, when their season of employ- ment 18 over, haunting the slums of our great cities, eking out a preca- rioua existence, undernourished d .‘dgep(ng in the cheap lodging hous We might do well to attempt some- thing for their relief. It has been suggested that means might be found to Insure the employment of these men in some other industry when their season of regular work has ended. At present we are without sufficlent facts upor which to deal :rlf.h'thfl l;émblem properly. Here, 00, ‘wou! suggest a com - veatigation.~ L4 omplete in: Wants Act Extended. Mr. Davis also recommended that the benefits of the infancy and ma- ternity act be extended to Porto Rioo, Hawail and the Philippines: that the federal courts set up a separate sys- tem for handling juvenile cases, and that greater funds be vald:: the woman's bureau for inquiry into in- fluences affecting woman workers. In recommending more stringent laws to prevent the entry of unde- sirable allens, the Secretary declared the present prohibitive statutes oould not be enforced sucessfully until heavier penalties were authorized. He suggested that, in addition to di portation, those who enter the coun- try illegally be given a jail sentence of not more than a year or a fine of not more than $500. Any alien found in the United States after having been onoe excluded, he suggested, should be made liable to imprisonment for not more than two years or a fine of not more than $1,000. One of the chief sources of illegal entggy, the report sald, lay in the des@rtion of alien seamern from for- el ships in American ports. h} the last fiscal year the number o such desartions reported was 23,194, with those in New York alone total- ing 14,734. In the previous year the number for all ports hed been only 5,879, The Secretary recommended that instead of bringing such allens before & ‘board examina~ tion, as provided under the nt law, the Labor Department bo em- | H HOME, SWEET HOME, 10 BE MOVED SOON Replica of Payne Shrine Will Be Conducted by National Girl Scouts. “Home, Sweet Home," the vine-clad house which has been “squatting” on government property in Sherman square, south of the Treasury, since last June, against the protest of gov- ernment officials, is finally to be moved. This was learned today when it was announced by Miss Lida Hafford, di- rector of national headquarters of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, whose property it was, that the house has been given to the Natlonal Girl Scouts, who will continue it as a national demonstration house {a the interest of better homes. Preparations were being made to- day to move the house from its loca- tion near the White House, where it is estimated the place has besn vis- ited by thousands, to a new site pur- chased by the Girl Scouts for the pur- pose at New York avenue and ISth opposite the Octagon house, now headquarters of the American Institute of Architects. The National Girl Scouts, with Mrs. Herbert Hoover as president, will ad minister the house, it was announced, and will arrange for a personnel to be on hand dally to demonstrate it in the interest of bettes homes in America. Mrs. Hafford, in commenting on the influence the home has had, today de- clared, “thousands who have visited it and cherished it will be happy to know that the lessons in home-mak- ing which it has taught and the im- petus it has given to better homes here and throughout the country are to_continue.” The house was constructed for the General Federation of Women's Cluhs by the national manufacturers, an was dedicated during Shrine week last June 4, by the late President Harding, to the cause of better homes. 'The place, by reason of its prominence and the thousands of Americans who have visited it, is known in all parts of the country. It was constructed as a replica of the old home of John Howard Payne, composer of “Home, Sweet Home.” WILL BUILD NEW ROAD. Proposals for completing new rail- road construction in Oregon necessary to remove timber from the Malheur Natlonal Forest in Oregon were filed today with the Interstate Commerce Commission by the Malheur Railroad Company. The corporation proposes to build a fitty-mile line from Burns to Seneca. A previous application from the Oregon-Washington Rallroad and Navigation Company has been before the commission for some time. The Oregon-Washington proposes to ex- tend one of its existing branches as far as Burns. When the connection is made at Burns with the Malheur line the national forest land will have contact with trunk line rallroads. e powered to deport them forthwith. In a summary of his recommenda- tions for increased facilities for deal- ing with aliens, Mr. Davis sald: “In my report rendered a year ago 1 called attention in great detall to the neceesity for providing proper equipment at the varlous immigea- tion stations of the country, particu- larly Ellis Island, Boston, Seattle and San’ Francisco. 1 specifically repeat the recommendations then made. I fegl particularly that the government should construct its own station at Seattle and that the San Franclsco station should be moved from Angel Island to the city of San Francisco, in my report of last year ‘t is pointed out that the cost of overhead of operation alone would be sufficlent to | bufld a new and adequate station on the mainiand and pay for same In about five years. Medical Inspeetion. “In my report of last year I also called attention to the need for more thorough medical inspection at the various ports. I cannot refrain from repeating that recommendation with emphasis. “I recommend the enactment of an allen code, and suggest as the prime features of it the following: “Definite, clean-cut provisions as to citizenship, consistent with our laws on immigration and our national des- tiny. “"The exclusion, as permanent resi- dents or immigrants, of all non-natu- izable aliens of all races. “The requirement that aliens ad- mitted as exempts under our immi- gration laws must maintain their ex- empt status while here, and must when that status is lost either quallfy immigrants under our immigration it of the admissible races and es, or depart. Selection of immigrants of the ad- missible races and qualified classes on the basls of our needs as a nation and economically. “Selection and _Inspection abroad sufficient to avold the return to the land whence they came of large num- bers of prospective immigrants after they arrive at our ports. “The annual enroll aliens 8o long as they remain alies “The deportation promptly of all aliens found within the United States in violation of our laws regardless of the length of time they may have been within.the United States. “The speedy and efficient American- fzation of all naturalizable allens within our gates and the elimination of thoss who oannot be Americanized or naturalized for any reason. i1 pm convinosd that an slien code ‘bas ] these bro: principles an Sarefully framed would piake for bet- ter aliens for America and a better America for, both aliens and citizens,” l‘ | | i { i i THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. EmpassY At santiaco, ce| ENBASSY IN CHILE \HOUSE MAKES UP BRYAN PROPHESIES BONUS FOR SOLDIERS Commoner Says “Fur Will Fly” ‘When Senate Begins Discussing Tax Reduction. Willlam Jennings Bryan predicted the passage of the soldiers’ bonus measure at this session of Congress in an address before a meeting of the National Democratic Club at the Raleigh Hotel last night. Mr. Bryan was an impromptu vis- itor, but when discovered was given a rousing reception a spoke for an hour and a half. He outlined the activities of the democratic party during the past forty years and sald that it would be more active the coming year than ever. He sald that he remembered the time when one could sit in the House and Senate gallaries and go to sleep on account of the monotony, but that it could not be done at any time dur- ing the present session “Just wait until they get on that tax question—then watch the fur fi deciared the Commoner, ~Other sp ik ers included Mrs. Antionnette Funk, Senator Hurton Wheeler of Mon- tana, and Judge Robert Hardison. David A. Pine, president of the Na- tional Democratic Club, presided. MINNESOTA WOMEN START COURT DRIVE Bring Petition Signed by 100,000 to Present .to Senators. Women of an League of first wave The Natfonal Voters loosed the oftensive here today participation in the world court. A petition from Minnesota, sald to contain 100,000 names, as the open- ing gun. It was brought here by five Minnesota women and it will b formally presented tomorrow to Sen aators Magnus Johnson and Ship- stead of that state. The Minnesota delegation also called on_ President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes and told them of sentiment they sald prevalled in their state for the court. Toda: petition is the first of several such expressions the League Voters plans in its campaign for American participation in the world court. WELLER GIVEN PLACE ON BIG COMMITTEES Maryland Senator Honored by Number of Important Assign- ments in Upper House. SENATOR 0. E. WELLER, In the assignment of committees in the United States Senate, Senator O. E. Weller of Maryland was placed on the committees on banking and curfency, on commerce, on naval af- fairs, on the District of Columbla and on manufactures. It is the general rule in the Senate that & senator is placed on not more than one or two major committees, but Senator Weller is on three or four of greatest importance. Senator Weller is the ranking repub- lican member on the banking and currency committee, being the next tn order of promotion to Senator McLean of Connecticut, who iz now the chair- man of this committee. He {8 on the commerce committes, which has charge of. all legislation relating to foreign commerce, includ- ing the rivers and harbors bill, the merchant marine shipping bill,” etc. This |5 a very valuable committee for the development of Baltimore's com- merce. His assignment to the great com- mittee on naval affairs is llkewise of much Interest to Maryland, because of the location in Maryland of the Indlan Head proving ground, and a number of other Navy and Army es- tablishments and activitles which are located in the state. Senator Weller is a graduate of the Naval Academy. He also is on the District-of Colum> bia committee, which is of impor- tance to_the counties of Maryland ad- Joining Washington, and on the com- mittee on manufactures, which is of value to the manufacturing interests of Baltimore and of the state, for American | of Women | ‘. | | i | burden. | The CO0LIDGE MESSAGE WAPPED BY AL Calls It “Counsel of Dor- mancy” and Dismissal of Veterans’ Bonus Claims. By the Associated Prese. LOS ANGELES, Calif.,, December 12. —President Coolidge’s message to Congress was called “a counsel of dormancy,” and his opposition to a bonus for ex-service men characteriz- ed as a summary dismissal of “just claims for consideration,” in an ad- dress by William Gibbs McAdoo before the Democratio Luncheon Club and Wom Democratic League here to- day. The former director general of railroads derided the President’s pro- posal for a veluntary consolidation of these systems of transportation as a “seven-year itch for reduced freight and passenger rates with no assurance of relief at the end of the trial,” telling his hearers that “what 1s needed is not seven years of delay, but action.” “The President’s message,” said Mr. McAdoo in part, “is largely a counsel of dormancy. Nowhere {3 there the stimulating call of progress. The world fs in commotion and vital domestic problems press upon us for solution, but no effective program is offered for the alleviation or correction of domestic jila, nor is encouragement given for in- vigorating international policies which will pen world markets for our sur- plus products, tend to promote economic Stability or encourage peace and tran- quillity between nations. Approves Tax Cut Plan. “The most affirmative part of the President’'s message I8 the recon mendation of tax reduction. The whole country favors tax reduction. The democratis party has stood con- sistently for it since the signing of the armistice, and should co-operate, vithout regard to partisan consider- in any effort to ease the tax This effort should be di- rected, not alone to a reduction in the gross sum of taxation, but to an equitable distribution of the burden. President’s indorsement of the proposal to put a lighter tax on earned incomes, namely, those pro- duced by the sweat of the brow and the toil of the brain, than upon un- arned {ncomes, namely those which me from investments, mendable. “This proposition was first made ation, is com~ by the democratic Secretary of the Treasury in 1918, and was offered in 1921 as'an amendment to the revenue bill by Senator Harris of Georgia. It was defeated by a vote of thirty- six republicans to twenty-one demo- rats on the ground, as stated by enator Penrose, then chairman of the finance committee of the Senate, that “ ‘The question of earned and un- earned incomes was most exhaus- { more. tively considered by the committee, by the Senate and by the Treasury Department, and the opinion was nearly unanimous that any such pro- ion is impossible of administra- What has produced this extraor- dinaty reversal of opinion on the part of the Treasury Department and the administration? 1If this provision Was nearly impossible of administra- tion in 1921 why Is it possible of ad- ministration in 19237 Supports Bonus Request. “The President opposes any increase in the pay of the soldiers who fought the war to victory. Although great reduction in the X burden can be made and the reasonable compensa- tion proposed for the soldiers and \ilors can be provided at the same me, the President is determined *hat justice shall not be done to the var veterans. ‘Their just claims for consideration are summarily dismissed, but the President {s strong for the main- tenance of the Fordney-McCumber tarift bill. which gives favored trusts, monopolies and combinations in restraint of trade a subsidy estl- mated at more than three billions of doilars per annum, or twice as much as it will take to pay the soldiers' bonus In cash. For privilege, every- thing: for the defenders of the coun- r. nothing. he President declares that no important duty rests on the government than the adequate care of sick and disabled veterans, and vet there is no word of reprehension for the grafters who have disgraced the Veterans' Bureau and have stolen or misappropriated funds which were set aside to take care of the men and women who suffered the loss of health and became permanently injured In the service of the nation. * & o “The President offers no construc- tive thought on the railroad problem, perhaps the most important domestic problem confronting the nation. He generalizes somewhat vaguely about the value of consolidations and sug- gests that the railroads be given au- thority to voluntarily coneolidate.” Mr. McAdoo declared the consolida- tion proposal of President Coolidge gives little promise of relief “for the farmers particularly, and for the peo- ple of the country as a whole, from the present ex ive cost of railroad transportation.” Reforms proposed by the Executive to overcome the con- fessed failure of the Esch-Cummins bill, Mr, McAdoo said he inaugurated in ' his administration as director general of the railroads, but that they were “thrown away by the Esch- Cummins act, which restored every wasteful and uneconomical practice which federal control had abolished.” BILL ENDS CANAL -TOLLS. Repeal of Panama canal tolls, so far as they affect American coast- wise shipping, would be provided in g nm introdiced today by Senato Borah, republican, Idaho. Y ‘The measure was referred to the cammltteg on interocsanic O, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1923. AROUSES U. 3. PRIDE Property Costing $150,000 One of Finest for Purpose Any Nation Possesses. The new American embassy at Santi- ago, Chifle, purchased by the govern- ment of the United States in 1922 and considered one of the finest embassy properties owned by any government in any capital of the world, has just been further beautified and improved by the construction of a new street along the entire east front of the property and named by the municipality of Santiago “United States streef William Miller Collier, the American ambassador, s exceedingly proud of the property. In a letter to The Star Ambassador Collier sald: “I would like to have our eountrymen know what a fine property we have here and I hope it will be an_example and an_incentive for the purchase of other embassies by the United States in other capitaln” He added that the Chileans “are just as proud of it as we are.” Bought at Reduced Price. The structure cost its builder §700,- 000 in American money. It was com- pleted while the owner was in Europe selecting furniture, when misfortune overtook him and he became crippled financially. The house never was oc- cupied by the man who erected it and his furniture was not sent to Santiago. Then th- property went upon the market, ' t there was no purchaser at a price che owner would accept. Mr. Colller negotlated for a long time. He had at his disposal an appropriation of $130,000. Terms finally were reached, the owner agree- Ing to sell for $160,000. The neces- sary funds were secured from the Department of State through an ap- propriation and the property was purchased last year. It consists of a large lot of about 160 feot frontage and 300 feet depth, situated on the Calle (sireet) Merced, fronting on the _beautiful Park Forestal, along the border of the Rio Mapocho, at the foot of San Cristobal The range of the Andes as well as the Coast range is in view. The situ- ation is the finest in Santlago from the residential standpoint, while the place also possesses the advantages of accessibility and of comparative nearness to the government offices. Three Bulldings on Ground: There are three separate and d tinct buildings upon the grounds, all of them completed last year, namely, the palatial main house, a smaller building containing twelve rooms to be used for the chancery, and an at- otractive porter’s lodge. The main house is three stories in height, of sandstone finish and equipped with all modern improvement, 1t_con- tains & spacious entrance hall, library, salon, music room, baliroom, dining room, billiard room, two grand marble staircases and a large number of bedrooms, with a terrace garden upon the roof. Upon this terrace garden 1,200 people may be entertained at once. Architecturally the house is of great beauty, having numerous porticos, piazzas and terraces; while the In- terior is richly finished in marble iand imported American woods, with an abundance of carving and ornate paneling. One of the striking views at night from the embassy building Is the il- luminated statue of San Cristobal, a mountain, just at the edge of Santi- ago. It carries the impression of an angel of light high in the skies. By day may be seen the many moun- tains which almost surround the city, some of them with perpetually snow- clad peaks. MEMORIAL BRIDGE DRAWINGS READY Commission on Structure to Span Potomac at Arlington Meets at ‘White House Monday. ‘There will be a meeting in the office of the President next Monday of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commis- sion, of which the President is chair- man, to approve the architectural drawings for the bridge to span the Potomae river between the Lincoln Memorial and the Arlington national cemetery, and to determine upon a program that is expected to expedite matters. Inasmuch as the position of the proposed bridge, which when com- pleted will probably be one of the handsomest spans in the world, al- ready has been approved by the com- mission, following the decisions reached at Monday's meeting, it is thought likely that immediate appro- priation will be sought to start in motion the actual work. Those on the commission besides the President are Frederick Gillett, speaker of the House; Senator Bert M. Fernald and Representative John . Langley, chairmen of the Senate and House public buildings commit- tees, respectively, and Col. C. O. Sher- rill, officer in charge of pubiic build- ings and grounds, executive officer of the commission. MACARTHUR WILL FILED. Paper Was Written Aboard Ship During World War. The will of Commander Arthur MacArthur, U. 8. N. who died De- cember 2, was offered today for pro- bate. The document was written on board the U. S. S. Chattanooga dur- ing the world war. The entire estate is devised to his wife, Mary Henry MacArthur, who elso 1s named as et CL Toric Lenses a.fi- M“I 1814 G St. +_ctty_Club HEAD COLDS Conquered in 5 Hours Every trace of the sniffling, depress- tng Hoad Oold will g0 n 8 Hours or less with Dr. Platt's Rinex Prescrip- tion, 'a naw treatment which gets at the internal cause ¢n fAe dlood. Com- plete relief guaranteed in 5 hours or your money back. On sale in this city atPeoples Drug Stores.—Advertisement. YOAL ‘We hamdle only on ANTHR';“C‘I"F:! and bi- tuminous coal, afl lump soft coals, .coke and kindling wood. B. J. Werner 923 New York Aveaue COMMITTEE OND.C. All the Members Named, With the Exception of One Republican. Selection of the personnel of the House District committee was com- pleted today with the exception of one republican place, which was left vacant “with a purpose.” The one republican position filled today by the subcommittes from the committes on committees, which re- ported this afternoon to the full com- mittee on committees, was given to Representative Clarence J. McLeod of Michigan, who is the youngest| man ever elected to the Americun Congress. The three democratic places which were fllled in & conference of the @emocratic members of the ways and | means committee and reported to a democratic conference this afternoon are: Representatives Everett Kent, Pennsylvania: Henry L. Jost, Mis- sourd, ‘and Allard H. Gasque, South Carolina. Personnel of Committee. The membership of the District committee is as follows: Republicans—Chairman, Represent tives Stuart F. Reed, West Virgini Frederick N. Zihiman, Marylan Florfan Lampert, Wisconsin; Oscar Keller, Minnesota; Charl ; hill, ~ Massa gerald, Ohio husetts; Roy G. rnest W. Gibson, mont; Edward M. Beers, Pen vania; Henry R. Rathbone, Gale H. Stalker, New York, and Clar- ence J. McLeod, Michigan. Democrats—Representatives Chris- topher D. Sullivan, New York; Thomas L. Blanton. Texas; Ralph Gilbert, Kentucky; William C. Hammer, North Carolina; ‘Charles F. X. O'Brien, New Jersey: Stanley H. nz, Ninois; Everett Kent, Pennsylvania; Henry L. Jost, Missourl, and Allard H. Gasque, South Carolina. Sketch Picture of Memberw. Representative McLeod was born in Detroit, Mich,, and was educated at the University of Detroit and Detroit College, where he received the de- gree of LL. B. He was admitted to the bar of Michigan and the United States district court in 1919. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1918, and saw service in the aviation ground school at Cornell and as ser- geant, military intelligence division. He was commissioned second lieu- tenant in the military intelligence division, and holds a commission in the United States reserve. He is married and hay two children. This is his second term In Congress. Formerly a Machinist. Representative Kent after graduat- ing from the Bangor, Pa. High school worked for sometime as a machinist, vise benchman, construct- ing hoisting machinery and as a newspaper reporter. He taught a country school onc term and was later ‘principal of the Roosevelt School in Bangor for one term. While teaching he prepared fo of law and entered the T Pennsylvania law &chocl €tudying law he supported hix and paid all expenses by selling cos in carload lots to manufa:turing plants He has been practicing law in Ban- gor and when elected to Congres was counsel for eleven municipalities He was solicitor for the board of prison inspectors of Northampton county from 1312 to 1915 and county soliciior of Northampton county from 1920 to 1923. He is married and has three children Representative Jost is a graduate of the Kansas City Law School. He was for two vears assistant prosecut- ing attorney of Jackson county, Mo.. | and mayor of Kansas City from 1913 to 1916. Representative Gasque Is fifty vears old. He gained his education by at- tendingg - country schools threc of four months each year and worked on a farm during the remainder of the vear until he was eighteen years of age. He worked on & farm and taught in the country schools until he was twenty-three vears old, at which age he entered the University of South Carolina, from which he graduated in He was principal of a graded school n Columbia for one vear and was then elected county sup education of Florence was president of the State Teachers' Assoclation and also of the state county superintendents’ association, For eight years he was a ynember of the state democratic executive com- mittee and for four s county chairman of the democratic party. For ten years he was city chairman of the democratic executive commit- tee. He is married and has four chil- dren. C. OF C. LAW COMMITTEE HOLDS SESSION TODAY Body, Investigating Juvenile Court Conditions, Meets in Homer Building. The subcommittee of the law and | legislation committee of the Wash- ington Chamber of Commerce ap- pointed to investigate conditions in the Juv “e Court of the District of Columb.a, is meeting this afternoon | in the chamber’s rooms in the Homer Bullding, 13th and G streets north- west. It was announced that the law and legislation committee would be at the chumber's quarters at 8 o'clock Fri- day night and the manufactures com- mittee at 12:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. The chamber will hold its regular meeting at the New Willard Hotel Tuesday night. { "~ STONELEIGH COURT Connectfcut Ave, Cormer L St. Washington's most exclusive apartments. Available for lease, n few desirable house- keeping and nop-housekeeping APARTMENTS. Furnished and unfurnished, spectally priced by the month or on yearly fease. 'Aleo for TRANSIENT rental, two and three room non-housekeeping apartments. RESTAURANT. ESTABLISHED 1842, The Recognized Standard of Modern Piano Manufacture We _invite you to see and Dear our Petit Grand and re- produciog planos. Used _pianos low price ing_some of our own make, but slightly used. Sold Direct From Factory BRANCE WAREROOMS 1108 F St. N.W. 3. CONLIFF, Manager Cost of Cathedral Figured in Detail ‘The following table shows approximately the cost of vari- out portions of the cathedral: ory and roof—I1st, 2d and 3d bays of choir at $150,- 000 per bay, $450,000. (Por- tion mow under construction 20,000 per bay.) Fourth hay, complete ahove ID;;. $300,000. floor, $280,000. Central tower, $3,000,000. Extension 1o Bethlechem Chapel to crossing, $150,000. Crypts, $250,000. North and south transepts— Outaide bays and facades floor, eac! Jorth poreh, $100.000. . West towers, each, $500,000; $1,600,000. Bays of nave and alsles, each, $400,000; $3,800,000, Narthex, $300,000. T $10,760,000. (Chapelx in outer aixles $100~ 000 each, fincluding _mection through to axis and up to roof.) WAIL FRAUD QUIZ HOLDS TRIO HERE. Missourians Arrested in Pri- vate Pullman on Cheyenne Indictments. ‘Three arrests on indictments in Cheyenne, Wyo., were effected yester- day in a case which, postal Inspectors allege, Involves one of the most in- tricate mall frauds. Ned McNab, R. W. Skipper and Al- bert Campion, all of Kansas City, Mo., were taken from their private Pull- mau car in the yards of the Pennsyl- vanla rallroad, opposite the bureau of engraving and printing. The car was fitted up elaborately for the comfort of “prospective patrons.” According to Postal Inspector Coch- rane of Kansas City, who swore out the warrants on the basis of the in- dictments, the evidence included al- legations that the men had represent- ed then Ives as representatives of a large ofl company, anxious to ob- ain leases from individuals owning land in certain sections of Oklahoma. The ol company is said to have claimed it could not obtain land from the government, but could lease it from individuals. $ay Fee Was Charged. The men not only represented them- selves as the representatives of the oil company, it is charged, but also exacted a service fee for picking out the land for alleged prospective vie- They could get the land for individuals who could leass it to company. The charge 'is that misrepresented themselves in they were agents of the oil and that the land which exacted a service fee for picking out was not really oil land at all, on the basis of a geologist's report in Oklahoma, but simply cut timber and According to the postal inspector, the men represented themselves as government agents also in land deals, They were arraigned befors United States Commissioner George H. Macdonald, who set bond at $3,000 in each case. Deputy Marshals Weaver and Clark- son_accompanied Inspector Cochrane in making the arrest. Judge T. T. Ansberry, former repr sentative from Ohio, was retained as counsel by the men arrested. A for-| 1 denial of any fraudulent scheme was issued through Judge Ansberry last night. The men plan was open and aboveboard and any one carrying on transactions through them was fully acquainted with all details, A Debt Futurist. From the New York Evening Mail. “Owens s always promising to pay back that money I lent him, but he never does,” “Owens is an artist at that sort of | evidently Dainty Gifts for Christmas Unusoal showing of dainty pleces of fur- piture Dot to be found elsewhere. Boudoir Lamps, Chairs, Book End many othe useful gifts. CORNELL WALL PAPER CO. 714 13th N.W. Main 5373-5374 a_futurl the “LABEL” is the It signifies QUALITY, STYLE and good judgment to the recipient of any man’s gift. 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Washington must set the mark for the remainder of the country to shoot At in the matter of subscribing to the fund to build the National Cathe- dral, according to teme by Newbold Noves, local campaiz manager, in announcing that will be no set quota for th The campalgn formally ope day night with a dinner at the Willard Hotel “The national goal Cathedral ndation,” he $10,000,000. gton's that amount is represented by a 1 auestion mark for many reasor is the first time in the hist cathedral building that a na campaign has been undertaken. old world cathedrais were bullt by subscriptions of the nafghboring eom- munity. They were sarily dreds of years in building. to finish the building of in five years To do th country must help. W' do to build the upon Washington coming campaign of the de gy tam |for the rest of the country to sho. Cross-Section of Nation. In.a sense Washington cross section of American wealth and its residents are citizens of every large city in the United States. For that reason a Washington campaign tales on many of the aspects of a country- wide appeal. More than four million dollars has been raised for the thedral, most of it in Washingt much more can be collect days is a matter which we of the campaign committee wish, very frankly, to leave to the citizens of Washington to decide. We feel very sure that the answer of the com- munity to the « be Washington building the nationz be a splendid inspiration of the country to reach $10,000,000 within time. How d in ten Funds Go to Bullding. Because the expenses for th ington campaign for Cathedral Foundation ar. a fund raised for this friends of the cathedral ington campaign comm to assure contribut nations will appl bullding of the cathedral Careful estimates have of the cost vortion of the cathedral down to the individual stones. 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