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; 3 WEATHER. ; ¥air tonight, with temperature above freezing; tomorrow increasing cioudiness, followed by rain. Tem- perature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 pan. today: Highest, 45, at naon today; lowest, 31, at 5:30 a.m. today. “From Press to Home Within the Hous” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 25 Entered as seco; No. 29,107, vost office Washington, nd-class matter D C. he WASHINGTON, hening D. o * BONUS LOSING OUT | " BEFORE PUBLIC CRY FOR TAX REDUCTION Congress Seen l!nwilling to Pass Vet Bill Over Veto of President. LONGWORTH IN STAND FOR MELLON PLAN FIRST Conference Tomorrow Night to Test Republican Sentiment Re- garding Two Measures. BY DAVID LAWREN Capitol Hill is just ©f vne of the most unp; s in recent leg pledges to pass are more than cally to ough, but the wave wpinion which has swept the House ®ud Senate is 5o strong for tax re- wision that the ssments to in- @ividual membe cumulating daily. If a vote were taken to Congress Ly feels soldier bonus it! would not become Jaw. Not enough votes would be pelled to override the Presidential . which is inevitable. The lines the bonus advecates have been weakening for several days. fons from all parts of the Juntry have been so emphatic that | yaany members who are not yet will- in% publicly to say they have changed :ve beginning to fall in line with the tactics of Representative Long- worth, majority leader of the House. who wants to give the tax bill right of way and consider the bonus after- | wards. i now the scene edented sit- ative histor a soldier bonus sufficient nu- the measure of public ic The ¥ " arry emba are on how about the Strategy for Tax Cut. | e tax knows perfectly well that once a Lill is passed the chances of reopening the revenue measure to provide funds for the payment of a bonus will be siim indeed. 1f anyone could devise a way to re- leve members of Congress of pledges given at a t when tax reduction Was not thought of as a rival issue, he would change the situation over- might. Mr. Longworth is endeavoring to stall the honus along so that mem- bers will have the excuse that the government cunnot afford it and that the passage of a bill without means of providing payment is a0t advis- lie bonus men have not diminished their campaign in any sense but they realize the strength of the opposition | which has been created and they will hold individual members to their q, fighting them in_ their re- mstituencies if they do not M1 the pledges given. Form Letters Discounted. sp ful One of the most unfortunate phases of situation is the existence of a well meant but poorly conducted at- | tempt to influence Congress in favor | of tax revision and against the bonus, Form letters by the thousands are pouring into Washington, prepared by banks and business houses with the idea of making Congress aban- don the bonus and take up tax re- vision. Senators and members of the House | are rarely impressed by form letters. | They are much more interested in | letters personally written and sin- | rely composed, without Influence | from any business Institutions. As a matter of fact there is a good deal individual Ictter writing going on, and it is having a remarkable effect. The present drift away from the Philadelphia Clean- By the Associated Press, PHILADELPHIA. January exodus of gamblers, bootlegger other notorious characters of Phila- delphia’s underworld was reported in full swing today as a result of Brig. Gen. Butler's orders to the police to clean up the city within forty-eight hours after he had been sworn in by Mayor Kendrick as director of the department of public safety. Ralds eonducted by the police terday afternoon and last night| revealed that many disorderly houses had already closed their places and the proprietors left the ecity. Cider saloons, which had prominently dis- played the “nover closed” signs, were shrouded in darkness early today and not a drink was to be had in any of the establishments that generally had been blamed for flooding the ecity with poisonous liquor. Apparently well pleased ith the initial resulfs of his order, Gen. Butler visited police stations In the tender- ACTION ON GAS-TAX BILL IS POSTPONED; - CITIZENS TESTIFY Committeemen Told Mary-' land Bureau Here Is “Dirty, Dingy, Rotten, Disgraceful.” i After hearing rep of Washington business interests and the owners of automobiles in the National Capifal the House District committee adjourned today without taking any action on the 2-cent gaso- line tax bill, which is commonly call- ed the auto reciprocity measure. It is the unfinished business before the committee when it meets again next | Wednesday. Owing to the iliness of Represen | tive Stuart ¥. Reed of West Virgini; chairman of the committee, Repre-| sentative Frederick N. Zihlman of ! Maryland, who has been fathering | the gasoline tax measure, conducted | the meeting. W. Pearce Reynor, chairman of the traffic committee of the Washinfton Board of Trade, told the committee that he represents one-fifth of the business automobiles operated in the District. He advocated passage of the bill as originally introduced, say- | ing that those he represents do not see why it should be amended, in- creasing by $600,000 the cost to auto- | mobilists in the District. He pre-| sented resolutions passed by the | Washington Board .of Trade on Jan- | vary 4. esentatives i a- | Prefer Tax on Gas. ‘ Mr. Reynor said that automobile ! owners in the District would rather pay tribute to the state of Mary- land than have an additional $600.-) 000 tax burden placed upon them by ! Congress. He was cross-examined by Representative Thomas L. Blanton, democrat, of Texas. Mr. Reynor argued that under the original bill owners of automobiles would pay as they go and the one who used the roads most would pay V bonus and toward tax revision can be attributed in large part to the| rs being written by people | 1 parts of the country to tHeir | representatives in Congress. It isn't the lengthy letter that im- | presses the men on_ Capitol Hill. Brief expressions of opinion on whether | tax revision of a bonus should be given the right of way tell as much as a long argument What Congress | wants to really know is whether the advocates of a bonus are numerical- Jy greater than the advocates of tax reduction, Bonux Advocates Firm. ‘The struggle in the House is by no | means over, in fact, it has not vet reached a climax. The bonus men will try to get consideration for their | measure ahead of the tax bill and will do their best to stall the tax bill and even may attempt to incor- porate the bonus proposals as a part of the tax measure so as to make difficult a veto of the whole thing by the Chief Executive. Much depends on the ultimate atti- tude of the democrats, who, however, are divided at present into all sorts of groups and factions. Unorgan- ized opposition will not beat any- thing in Congress, and for the mo- ment the group in favor of tax re- duction is _ steadily gaining in strength. . With the further ‘help of public ofinion, "the next two weeks will see some conclusive tests of whether the bonus can really be side- fracked in favor of a tax reduction | SHOWDOWN ON BONUS. | 2 I Republicans to Caucus Tomorrow | Night on Policy. House republicans face ‘a show- @own’ on the soldiers' bonus tomor- Tow night, with organization leaders determined to sidetrack it until the vays and means commit: tfax reduction bill. tee renney & At the request of a group of war o cterans a party conference will be eld. Efforts -will be made to have the ways and means committee recom- mend passage of a bonus bill by the end of the month, at the latest, Representative 'Longworth, the re- publican leader, has notified the for- mer service men that their program will be opposed and that an attempt will be made to give the tax bl right of way. He sald late vesterday that he welcomed a showdown and wxpressed confidence that bonus advo- cates would lose their fight. Men- iers of the veterans' group, however, declared afterward they would make 70 change in their plans. Pending a decision ‘the ways and means committee continued its con- sideration today of the administrative Fcatures of “the Mellon tax plan. Longworth Sees Leaders. For an hour yesterday Mr. Long- worth was In conference with Repre- sentatives Johnson of South Daka Fish of New"York and Andrew of Massachusetts, who were active | when the committee on roads was the most. Representative Aswell, of Loulsiana, democrat, told the committee that organized in 1913 he was a member and introduced the first bill for fed- eral ald in road building, and that the purpose has always been to na- tionalize the highway. Representative Aswell recommend- ed the substitution of his own bill, which would deprive any state from participation in federal aid for road building if it failed to recognize the auto license tags of other states. He described as “preposterous and silly ‘he proposed 2-cent tax on gasolin in the Capital city of the nation. de pointed out to: the committee that tourists fram all parts of the country would be taxed in their Capital city. He said that many people in Mary- land have appealed to him saying that they want real reciprocity and are op- posed to the gasoline tax. He said he is going to see the Governor of Maryland and urge that reciprocity be granted without the gasoline tax. He (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) I3 TROOPERS SLAIN | IN PHILIPPINE FIGHT, Constabulary Engage in Battle With Religious Fanatics on Island. | i By the Associated Press, MANILA, January 9. — Thirteen members of the Philippine constabu- lary, including two officers, have been killed by religious fanatics an Bucas; Island, off the northeast coast of Min- danao, according to official advices from Suriago, Island of Mindanao. SIX PERISH WHEN ICE BREAKS UNDER AUTO Search for Bodies Begun Today in Lake Andrews, Min- nesota. By the Associated Pre ALEXANDRIA, Minn., January 9.— Search began today for the bodies of six persons who were drowned when an automobile broke through the ice while c¥bssing Lake Andrews, six miles southwest of Alexandria, last night. Five of the dead, Mrs. Pearl Glade her two small children and Mrs. Hojo Glade and her one child, were liaving the conference called. He told them that “we have you beaten and will €how you Thursday night.” The discussion was had after it 1ad been announced at_the White (Continuéd on Page-2, Column 3.} ssengers in the machine, and the Pixtn, Fudolph Wolfe, a member of the party who had elected to walk across the lake, pa{luhed while help- ing Carl Glade, husband of Mrs. Pearl Glade, rescue Doris Glade, Cari's sij ter, VICE ARMY SHATTERED, FLEES)| BEFORE BUTLER’S BITTER ATTACK p Under General Finds Gam- blers, Bootleggers and Underivorld Chiefs Fled; Official’s Life Threatened. loin distriet and congratulated the lieutenants in charge on their work It _was well after 1 am. before the new director decided to cgll it a day. He had put fn more than eighteen hours in his first full day on the job The clean-up action in the Ted light district was quick and sure aft- er Gen. Butler had called two of the lieutenants in_charge to his office and warned them that they would bave to “get busy” at once or be “busted.” Twenty-neven Saloons Clowed. Twenty-seven cider saloons were closed, their doors padlocked and the alleged proprietors of two arrested. In many of the places there w neither proprietors, bartenders nor customers, they apparently having anticipated the raids and sought ¢ov- er elsewhere. Some of the saloons were selling soft drinks only. After this work was completed Lieut. Holton armed himsel? with an ax and again led his men forth. This time disorderly houses were thé o Jects of attention and B known be _operating (Continued on Page Word of Father Sends Slayer to was visite Column 3.) Prison for Life| By the Associated Press. JERSEY CITY, N. JI. January ¢ ~——Arnold Anderson, twenty-six vears old. has been convicted of muwmter “because his father, Alvin Anderson, a Brooklyn tailor, who is deeply religious, could not lie on the witness stand, “I asked Arnold if guilty the father testified in a low voice. He looked me right in the ey nd said: ‘I killed him." What he said he meant and 1 be- lieve it was true.” eYoung Anderson was accused of killing Harry C. Moore, a real es- tate broker, in a holdup. The son testified he had told his father he was the murderer in order to shield a partner in the holdup who fired the shot. The jury in its verdict last night recommende mercy and Anderson will be sen- tenced to life imprisonment. GUARDSMEN READY TONIP KLAN WAR Three Companies in lllinois County as Masked Forces Exchange Threats. 9 he was By the Assoclated Press MARION, I, January rhree companies of the Illinois National Guard are on duty in Williamson coun- ty in readiness for any emergency oc- casioned by the alleged growing bitter- ness between the Ku Klux Klan and an #nti-klan faction known as Knights of the Flaming Circle, following a series of prohibition raids. Mass meetings said to have been an- nounced secretly for today by both factions are said by some to have been the real cause for Sheriff George Galli- gan appealing for the troops. The theory was strengthened by the de- parture from here of Company I of Salem, for Herrin shortly before mid- night. Two companies, K of Cairo and L of Mount Vernon, remain in Marion, with headquarters at the county court- house. Sherift Sick in B Adjt. Gen. Carlos Black, who ordered the soldiers into Willlamson county, arrived from Springfield at 3 am. Sherift Galligan is confined to his bed with mumps.. it was from there ves- terday that he telegraphed Gen. Black that the situation was beyond his con- trol and that he feared rioting might start at any time. The sherift’s action followed im- mediately the acquittal yesterday of 8. Glenn Young, former prohibition enforcement officer, and recently deputized for work iIn raids, on a charge of assault in a courtroom in which a large group of his friends had mounted two.machine guns for “self protection.” Within the last three weeks federal agents, aided by hundreds of depu- tized citizens, many of whom admit- ted membership in the Ku Klux Klan, have, without the oflicial knowledge of Sheriff Galligan, carried out three series of raids, in which 212 persons | have been arrested for alleged viola- tions of the prohibition law. The last raid was Monday night, when twenty men were arrested. Recalls Herrin Riots. “I don't want this county to be ac- cused again of failing to send for the soldiers in time, said Sheriff Galli- gan in discussing the situation. That charge was made after more than a score of strip pit mine work- ers were massacred at Herrin two years ago. Hardware men in Herrin report that the present crisié has brought the gale of more guns and ammuni- tion ‘than ever before. The Klan recently gave a demon- stration, hooded and gowned, in which the declaration was made that Williamson county was to be‘cleaned up. On Saturday night, December 22, the first spectacular raild was made and 136 persons were arrested for bootlegging. Three men ' were shot. The Ku Klux Klan then claimed to have raised $3,000 to conduct that raid alone, which statement was followed by one by Gus Simons, special officer from Philadelphia, that both klan men and Knights of Columbus par- ticipated. ‘The next day\the road houses and other places reopened, precipitating another raid January 5, in which more than fifty were arrested and some previously under custody retaken. On Monday of this week the raids were resumed. JOHNSON IN CAPITAL. Senator Hiram Johnson returned today from his campaign trip through the middle west and made plans to renew his fight in that section for the republiean - presidential _nomination within a fortnight. Addresses probabl. ‘will be made at Chicago and in Sou! #nd North Dakota. RHCHIE DEMANDS STATESRESISTU. . INVASION OF RIGHTS Governor, in Second augural Address, Asks Maryland Stand Alone. In- i DECLARES PROHIBITION !BIG ISSUE BEFORE PEOPLE Stands for Mellon Tax-Cut Bill. ! Sees Liberty of Citizens | Facing Attack. Special Dispatch to The Sta ANNAPOLIS, Md., January 9.-—De- manding state rights, even if Mary- land must stand alone; denouncing “the encroachment of federal power upon the functions of states”: insist- ing that prohibition enforcement is an issue, involving personal liberties, for the people of Maryland to decide for themselves, and striking out at “the | | federal invasion of the pocket books! | of the people” through taxation, Gov. Albert C. Ritchie this noon delivered his inaugural address and took oath of office for his second successive term, the first governor to be re- elected Maryland since the civil ar i { His open stand on cussed did not come {10 the members of the neral assem- | ibly. the judges of the Court of| {Appeals, head: of the fous d !partments of the state government jana others, who heard his address, | but iudience liste almost | {breathlessly to the frankness tfllll‘ emphasis of his denunciation and his | daring defense of state sovereignty. | Favors Mellon Tax Plan. i In stressing the dangers of tax- ation burdens, Gov. Ritchie declared. I a demoerat, believing with all my | heart that demo ic policies and democratic supremacy are best for my glate and my country. am still in favor of Secretary Mellon's plan to {lessen the burdens of the present fe. {eral income law.” He declared that the taxation is one of the two great uses which are hold- ing back American busine agricul- ture and individual prosperity. Go: Riteh cited as the other cause the lack of FEuropéan markets for Amer- fcan surplus supplies, which condi- tion. he said, could only be remedied /by the reconstruction of Europe. | “One of the contributory causes of | the federal Invasion of the pocket- | books of the people. through taxa- | tion,” said Gov. Ritchie, “Is the main- & tenance of an enormous and growing | overhead of bureaus and commissions, of wHich some are not needed, others should be curtailed and still others do wWork and spend money for pur- poses which should be turned back to | the states, because they belong to the realm of state government. Hits Dry Appropriation. “The most outstanding illustration | today of the latter class relates to| thed enforcement of the eighteenth | amendment. For this purpose the federal government has already ap- propriated $9.379,770 for the next fis- cal year, and the federal budget has just approved $28,500.000 more.” Gov. Ritchie showed that in 1922 the federal government collected in Maryland from all sources a $44.66 per capita tax, or nearly four and a half times as much per capita as the state collected. Why does the federal government stretch forth its hand into the state | of Maryland and require our people | to pay in each year four times as |much as we pay our state govern- ment? 1Is this necessary and is it} wise? Not does the power exist to| do 1t, but should that power be exe clged?” “It is not my purpose to complain | |of an unwarranted invasion of the fed- |eral government of the liberties of | !the Maryland people,” Gov. Ritchie | declared, in_discussing the Volstead | |act. “But it is my purpose to ask | {that Maryland have her day in court, | {and that you do not act until her peo. ple have had the opporiunity to de- | |cide for themselves, as free Ameri- | cans, at the polls whether they want | | this restriction on their liberties, or | whether they do mot. “Prohibition enforcement is only one instance of the encroachment of fed- in fasues dis- | surprise | ti ax present Ito l OFFER 1000000 FOR SHOALS RGHTS Southern Power Firms Plan Leaves Fertilizer Making to Ford and Others. By tie Associated Pross A new offer for the clectric power | be generated at Muscle' Shoals, | Ppromising a return of £100.000.000 to | the overnment over a veriod of fifty | years, was tendered today by the | nine principal associated power com- panies of the southern states The offer does not include the ni- trate plants, which would be left free for the ‘manufacture of fertilizer by Henry Ford. or any, one else who | could come to terms with Congress, and specifically reserves a certain part of the power to be developed at the Wilson dam next vear for the manufacture of fertilizers under-such terms as the government might pre- scribe. Representative Hull of the House military committee really developed the new proposals by his recent re- | quest of the federal power commis- sion to invite offers for the hydro- clectric energy 1o be developed at Wilson dam in 1925 | After the submission of the offer| today Mr. Hull in a statement de- clared the Ford offer “utterly inade- quate” and “of doubtful possible ben- efit” by somparison. He said he | would introduce an appropriate reso- lution in the House. Ford Not Del “It should be pointed out,” con- tinued Representative Hull's state- ment. “that there is nothing in this plan which would debar Mr, Ford | from carrying out his oft-expressed desire of doing something for the farmers by the manufacture of fer- | tilizers at Muscle Shoals. | “The nitrate plants ae still available | to him, with the necessary power, on | whatever terms Congress may decide. want the government to encourage him or any one else. But if Mr. Ford is to engage in the fertilizer business, ! employing the resources of the go ernment, it should be under the same guarantees that would be expected or asked of any other man."” Mr. Hull announced that he would | introduce in the House a resolution to provide for disposition of the Mus- le Shoals properties on the basis of | maintenance of the plants for pre- paredness against war, utilization in time of peace for making fertilizer and use of power not devoted to fer- | i i f tilizer for distribution to the public | (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) WALSHWILL QUIZ WLEAN INFLORIDA Montana Senator Ordered to| Get Publisher’s Facts on $100,000 Loan to Fall. | | | | Acting for the Senate public lands committee in its investigation of the Teapot Dome naval oil lease, Senator ‘Walsh, democrat. Montana, will go to Palm Beach, Fla., tonight to per- sonally question Edward B. McLean, the Washington publisher, regarding his loan of $100,000 to former Secre- tary A. B. Fall Senator Walsh was ordered by the committee to proceed to Palm Beach today because Mr. McLean's physi- cians have certified that a trip to Washington ~might endanger his ! health. The plan for a personal ex- amination was adopted in lieu of the previous proposal to have Mr. McLean submit a sworn statement. * At the last committee meeting Sena- tor Walsh said he would not be able to go to Palm Beach, but today he ac- cepted the committee’s order without objection. = Mr. Fall, as Secretary of the Interior, the lease by which the Sinclair s secured the right to develop the Teapot Dome reserve. His finan- cial affairs recently have been thesub- Jeot of an extensive inquiry by the ittee. ©OPhe committes heard further testi- mony today by W. H. McFarren, bu- Teau of mines geologist, regarding naval reserve No. 1 in California. Sen- ator Walsh asked that Fred C. Dezen- former general land office em- d_in Californis, be subpoenaed, i i 1 dort, ploye: (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) FLORIDA QUTLAW GANG WIPED OUT! | | | i i 1 Deputy and Five Bandits ' Slain in Everglades Bat- tle Early Today. i By the Associated Press. WEST PALM BEACH, Fia., Janu- ary 9.—The notorious Ashley-Mobley gang of bank robbers and despera- does, which has made the Florida Everglades its rendezvous for vears, was wiped out this morning by Palm county sherifts and posse. Deputy Sheriff Fred Baker-and five mem¥ers of the gang were killed. The battle was fought near the gang's camp atyFruita in the Ever- glades. The fight started at § o'clock this morning, the officers using a machine gun. . Deputy Sheriff Baker was said to have been working for months to locate the gang, and on several oc- casions had seen ane or two mem- bers, but waited until he had them all in camp. At 2 o'clock this morning he noti- fied the sheriff's office here that all the men were in, and a posse started out in automobiles, well armed, tak- ing along the machine gun, to arrest the outlaws. John Ashley and Handford Mobley were escaped convicts with a long record of robberies, alleged murders and general lawlessness against them. Members of the gang were also wanted by the federal government for high sea piracy. A telephone call to the sherifs office at 11 o'clock said the battle ‘between the officars and remaining members of the gang was still raging. Deputy Sheriff Fred E. Malphuss was reported slightly wounded. Sheriff Bob Baker with a posse of 100 men was reported rushing.to the scene, - . | dence was renewed by the Philippine | the administration of Governor-Gen- | Roxas, IM’CORMICK OPPOSES St ar. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1924—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. as fast as t Yesterday’s he papers are printed. Net Circulation, 97,811 TWO CENTS. Millionaire’s Son Likes Taxi Trade; Goes Back to It By tho Associated Press. NEW YORK, January $.—Francis O. French, son of Amos Tuck French of Tuxedo Park, and first cousin of William H Vanderbilt, has be- come a taxicab chauffeur again. Awaiting a fare today, he as- serted he liked his job and would not again branch out in the business field He became @ taxicab driver last October, but quit his job a week later when the publicity accorded | him induced him to believe he could | be a successful clothing salesman. He continues x member of the Harvard and Knickerbocker clubs. He is earning $55 a week plus tips. FILIPINOS ASSAIL WOOD IN GONGRESS Island lndgpendence Plea Re- newed in Bitter Attack on Governor General. i i | The plea for Philippine indepen- mission here today in a memorial to Congress making severe criticism of eral Leonard Wood. i The petition, signed by Manuel speaker of the Philippine| house, and Pedro Guevara, the resi-| dent commissioner, declared that “the | theories and principles underlying Governor Wood's actions are utterly repugnant to the policies that go to make up the corner stone of Philip- pine autonomous government.” 1 i i SMALL FOR GOVERNOR Says All Other Illinois CAndidaulE Must Declare Position on Executive. Open declaration against renomina- tion of Gov. Len Small of Illinois was made today by Senator Me- | Cormick, republican, of that state in a letter to W. E. Hawthorne, a news- paper editor of Granville, TIL. Senator McCormick said he was “opposed” to renomination of the governor, “and will vote against it." | He added that he had no personal | animus. The senator also declared that all Tllinols candidates for senator and governor would have to make known their position as to Gov. Small. e BATHING GIRLS DRAPED. | NEW YORK, January 9—Six bathing girls appearing twice dafly at the na- tional motor boat show in Grand Cen- tral Palace have been ordered to wear capes so that visitors may devote more time to the exhibits of boats. DAUGHERTY BACKS * HUGHES ON SOVIET Justice Department Has Am- ple Proof of Communist Propaganda, He Says. Attorney General Daugherty declared in a formal statement today. that the Department of Justice had “abundant evidence” to back up the State Depart- ment's recent statements concerning communist propaganda in the United States. The Attorney General's statement was prompted by publication of several letters written some weeks ago by John W. H. Crim, assistant attorney general, saying that the department was without sufficient evidence to bring criminal pro- ceedings awainst communist mpa- thizers in the United States. Denles Crim Informed. It was pointed out today that Crim's section of the departn not in charge of collection of such in- formation and that the duty rested in- stead on the bureau of under direction of William J. Bu “My attention has been dir thé statement of Mr. Daugherty ros. cted.” said, | “to certain publicity supposed to have emanated {rom the Department Justice in connection with the com- munist propaganda in this country and pertaining to that publicity al- of ready made public by the Department | of State. Gave Hughes All Facts. “I beg leave to call attention to the fact that some time ago, and before any publicity had been given out, I announced that the Department of Justice would give out no information in connection with this propaganda; that jhe Department of Justice would i furnish the State Department, as it has done, all the information in its possession, and that publicity on the subject would be given out only by the State Department. “Personally, I have given out noth- ing for publication since making this announcement nor authorized any- body else to do so. “I have only this to say further. Apart from the question of prosecu- tions or of technical requirements to meet the provisions of particular statutes, it should be clearly under- | stood that the Department if Justice with respect to communist ganda, directed from Moscow. countr; WILL TRUST MOROS. Wood to Allow Them to Handle Own Affairs. By the Associated Press MANILA, January 8.—As an aid to the handling of the problem of ad- ministering the Moro peoples of these islands, an increasing number of Moros will: be appointed to office in dindanao and Sulu, Gov. Gen. Leon- ard Wood finnounced today Gen. Wood also announced that Moro leaders would be detailed to arrest any Moro sought on criminal cha#frges instead of constabulary, as at present, It is stated that Dato Santiago, leader of a band of Moro fanatics, which killed ten persons in Mindanao last October, had offered to surrender. Santiago has been in hiding nearly three months. propa- . in this Steady Drop in Street Car Riders, Records of Bot h Companies Show Nearly 5,000 Less Patronize Traction Systems Daily This Year Than Last—Increase of Autos One 0‘/ Reasons. Street car riding is on the decline in Washington, according to figures ob- tained today from the records of the Public Utllities Commission. During the year just closed there was a fall- ing off of mearly 5,000 in the daily average number of pay passengers car- ried on both systems. ‘Walter C.- Allen, executiye secretary to the commission, believes there are two oltstanding reasons for the reduc- tion .in volume of street car trafflc, namely: The gradual cutting down of the war-time personnel in the govern- ment departments and the comstant increase in the number of automobiles. In this connection, Engineer Com- missioner Bell announced today that before the end of this month the com- mission -will.make public-a statement showing the financial condition of each public_service corporation at the end of 1923. Figures compiled by R. G: Klotz, traffic engineer of the commission, relative to street car traffic, show nt.n in 1923 the daily nlv;rlxa'r‘mmber of pay passengers carried on the com- bined lines of the Washington Rail- way and Electric and the Capital Traction companies was 412141, as compared with 416,882 in 1822, 'The average daily total number of pas. sengers ‘carried in 1923, which in cludes free transfer patrons and those who travel on passes, was 522,000, as agalnst 629,000 in 1932. % In 1920 the two companies carried 436,863 pay passengers a day, or 24,- 000 more than were carried last year. In 1920 the total daily average of ali passengers was 552,242, or 30,000 more than last year. . | prepa it was | IHOUSE COMMITTEE APPROVES RATES OF CLASSIFYING BOARD Schedules Will Be Followed in Fixing Salaries of All U. S. Workers Here. 1925 INTERIOR DEPT. APPROPRIATIONS STUDIED Representative Cramton Explains Apparent Large Increase Ask- ed Over This Year. The House appropriations mittee today adopt gard to the cl d a policy in re- ssification of salaries in the District of Columbia on the basis of the classification act ap proved March 3, 1923, in accordance jwith allocations established by the personnel classification board This policy was adopted in repor jing out the Interior Repartment ap |propriation bill, but Chairman Mad- |den said that the same policy would {apply generally to all the appropria |tion measures, The classification act of 1922, ap- proved March 3, provided ‘that the estimates of appropriations contained in the budget for the fiscal year 18 should be submitted in with the rates of salarles in the co pensation schedules set foh in that act and that the rates in the new act #hould not became effective until July The classification act changes the er- tire method of fixing salaries for per- sonal services in the District of Colu: | bia, Chairman Cramton of the sub- [committee reporting out the first appro- |priation bill. explained. Tt takes from {the administrative officers the pow | they had heretofore to determine |the rate that may be pald under lump sum appropriations and changes ths existing law with reference to salaries {fixed by specific statutory law exee for statutory permitted {stand by the classification act conformity 1 Uniform For First Time. | In previous no uniform ru {has prevailed in appropriating for sa |laries in the District of Columbia, Ttep resentative Cramton pointed out. The |larger percentage of such salaries has { béen carried under lump sum appropria- tions and the rates of pay were de terminable by the head of the bureau jor department while the smaller per- ‘v‘en( ge of salaries has been carried {under specific statutory appropriations ‘ekmer at rates fixed by statutory law |or at rates established from year to | vear in the appropriatin act. | The House approprations tee, adopting its policy ation of the Interior ment appropriation bil {from the statutor method and has app: {sum as recommende, {for the offices that have heretofors been on a satutory basis. While this chauge in method of appfopriation is a marked deviation from the former practice in connection with statutory salary appropriations, Representative Cramton says. it is hecessary and ‘full_\ warranted in connection wi | the putting into effect of the classi- fication act by which duties are made the basis of pay. The classification act, provides, in determining the com | pensation to be established initially for employe: der the act, that the ‘Lbl!llng i shall be the base pay plus auy bonus the employe is re | ceiving “It will be observed.” !sentative Cramton. “in the case of several appropriations in this bill ;(hill the amount recommended for the {fiscal vear 1925 shows'a considerable |increase over the sum appropriated lin_the Interior Department appre |priation act for the fiscal year 1924 | This. is attributabe to the fact thal jthe $240 additional compensation er {so-called bonus. is appropriated in {one sum for the entire departments lin a separate act for 1924 and_is {allotted by the Secretary of the Tn- iterior to the several bureaus offices. . Explains Increase. years, commit and Depart . has departed appropriation. priated in lump in the budget in | said Repre “The actual increase. therefore {der the classification act is not u the | has abundant evidence to support the |difference between the base pay for iposition of the Department of State 1924 and the amount 25, recommended |for 1925, but the difference between {the combined amounts for base joy !and bonus and the amount reco \mended for 1925 | *The increase for the department | the Interior due to the enactment of | the classification act is $510,985. This sum is not all reflected in the appro priations recommended. Decreases i1 'Dtrs')nn'l and other reductions have absorbed the major part of the in- | crease, so that the amount finally re | flected in the appropriations in the | bill_on account of the classification act is approximately $200,000." The hearings on the Interior De partment appropriation bill contair Statements showing by bureaus end offices the salaries in the District for the fiscal year 1924, separated accord- |ing to base pay and bonus and com { pared with the initial rates fixed for the fiscal year 1925 in accordance with the classification act. In connection with the appropria tion for salaries to carry out the pro visions of the classification act, and the conversion of the statutory ap- propriations into lump-sum appro riations, the House appropriations | committee is of the opinion that some reasonable restrictions should be i placed upon the appropriations recom- mended in the bill to safeguard their expenditure under the authority granted In the act to administrative officers to make automatic promo- tions from one salary rating to an- other within the classification gradef and that such restrictions be imposed by Congress were contemplated by the act, in section 7. New Law Studled. i “Considerable study and thought | has been given to the method to be pursued in making appropriations for | salaries under the new law,” Repre- sentative Cramton said. “The genera} conclusion arrived at.is that' any method of appropriating for such sal- aries different from the one recom- mended in the bill, would encounter difficulties during the first and ex- perimental year of the law that Would probably result in embarrass- mens and confusion that would not permit a fair and reasonable func- tioning of the law. “The committee has concluded, therefore, that it would be more ad- visable for the coming vear to appro- priate by the lump sum method to pay the salaries fixed under the law and to accompany - that method of appropriation with a’general limita- tion on the appropriations in the bill (Continued on Page 2, Column 4)