Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1924, Page 26

FREAR TAX PROPOSAL OPPOSED BY MELLON Becretary Does Not See Way Ciear to Levy on State and City Bonds. REASON OF SURTAX CUT Other Measure Unconstitutional, He Holds. Becretary Mellon s opposed to legislation suggested by Representa- tive Frear of Wisconsin “taxing the tncome on state and municipal secur- tties now existing and requiring that the statute be not held vold without the concurrence of at least all but one of the Supreme Court justices, and that it shall continue in full force and effect irrespective of the decision of any Inferior court.” 230,000 Farmers Lose Their Land After Boom Period More than 8% per cent of the farmers who owned land In 1920 and more than 7 per cent of the tenant farmers in fifteen corn and wheat producing states have lost their property, with or without out legal process, due to purchase during the boom period, unwise investments or other causes. This estimate, based by the De- partment of Agriculture on replies to a special Inquiry to 2,400 farm- ers in the upper Mississippi valley, indicated, it was announced today, that out of a total of 2,289,000 owner and tenant farmers in the section considered, more than 108,- 000 lost thelr farms or other prop- erty through foreclosure or bank- ruptcy, more than 102,000 lost theirs without legal proceedings and nearly 373,000 retained their property only because of the len- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D.. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1924. 600,000 ALIENS IN U.S. | @250 HELD UNASSIMILABLE Department of Labor Official Urges Pressure of Ameri- canism, ““There are 600,000 foreigners in this country who can't speak English, have no desire to do ®so and never will unless they are made to,” de- clared Theodore Risley, assistant solicitor of the Department of Labor, in an address before the public utili- ties committee of the civic section of the Woman's City Club at the club Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Risley summed up the immi- gration question and told of the need of control and restrictions put upon foreigners in coming into this coun- try. Up until the year 1885 immi- grants from sections of northern Europe formed the principal influx nfmforelz‘ners into this country, he sal Conversely, he explained, since 1885 giplained. “They do not lfke to till a Neceady, legislative chair- man of the Arrlias Hos ey abor, traced labor conditions from the days of serfdom down to the present time and stated that organ zation of labor was the only mea had ever been able to obtain better- ment of their working conditions. Miss Mary Anderson, chlef of the woman's bureau, Department of La- bor, told of the difficulties of organ- {sing woman labor and securing a “liv- ing wage for women." Mrs. John Steele presided. RED MEN’S MODERN HOMES 2,500 Apaches to Abandon' the ‘Tepees and Hogans, Twenty-five hundred Apache In- dians now living on the Fort Apache Indian reservation in Arizona, are golng to abandon their tepees and Fogans for the modern home. Plans have been completed through the bureau of Indian affairs for the erection of frame houses for the In- dians, who are said to have proven the most backward of all the tribes in making progress toward civiliza- tion. More than 100,000 feet of lum- ber for the houses has already been DAWES AND YOUNG HALT SPECULATION Any Statement by Them Will Be Made Formally, They Declare. By the Associated Preas. PARIS, January 10.—Any state- ments emanating ‘from Brig Gen. Charles G. Dgwes and Owen B. Young, unofficial representatives of the United States on the expert committee to investigate Germany's situation, will be issued formally by them. This announcement was made in the following communication signed by .Gen. Dawes and Mr. Young: “The American experts up to this time have made no statement of any kind to the press. Whatever they || have to say now and hereafter will be by formal statement. “They have been invited by the reparation commission to sit as mem- business committee concerned with facts and constructive inferences to be drawn from them—that thelir work should be conducted with a possible expedition and that there al{\ould be daily and continuous ses- sions, BARS CRIMINALS’ INFLUX. New York Fears Philadelphia Clean-Up Will Send Jrooks. NEW YORK, January 10.—New certain suggestions. The American experts comé as private citlzens, without instructions and without ob- ligations of making reports except to the reparation commission. They have no preconceived plans, simply hoping in the plans developed by others they may be of assistance. “There is one statement, however, which they have no hesitation in making at this time, and without consultation they assume it repre- sents the sentiment of all ‘the mem- bers of the committee, as well as public sentiment everywhere, to wit: “That time is an essence of this sltuation—that the committee s a York's “dead line” for crooks, whick heretofore has warked off only the lower tip of Munhlllnn yesterda: was tkrown about the “white Neher district from iCth street to Harlem, 28 police took drastic precautions tq prevent an invasiomsof criminals flaes Ing Philadelpnia’s clean-up. A nown criminal arrested on sight. - " oro ordered —_— “Man_cannot serve two mast 2} quoted the good deacon. ~But we are told that time is money, and many & man serves both," replied the unre- generate backalider. OIN CHRISTMAS | SAVINGS CLUB of the cut by a sawmill owned by the gov- ernment on the agency. nearly all ‘of the immigrants have come from sections of southeastern Europe and western Asia. Thirty- | = two per cent of these return to their native country. It is their nature to I i bers of the expert committee which iency of creditors. 15 asked to develop facts and make The losses, the department found, were relatively more numerous in Montana, North Dakota, Colorado and South Dakota than in the east nortn central states. This was revealed in a letter from the Secretary to Mr. Frear, made public Yesterday, in which Mr. Mellon outlines @t length his reasons for opposition to_such legislation. Expressing grave doubts of the constitutionality of the proposed bill, Mr. Mellon summarized his position as follows: “First, vour bill makes an inde- gensible discrimination between se- curities issued by states and munici- palitice and securities issucd undery muthority of Congress; second, it con- ficates, without compensation, prop- erty values which have been paid for by the investor; third, it would ceriously disturb the state and fed- eral government finances, and finally the entire proceeding would most probably be vain and.the time utterly wasted.” Mr. Mellon said he agreed with Mr. Freer that the proposed consti- tutional amendment “permitting the taxation by the federal government of incoma from state securities sub- sequently Issued and giving recipro- cal rights to the states” did not reach the $11,000.000.000 of fully tax-exempt securitios and hence would not be a complete remedy. He had, therefore, made his surtax reduction’ proposal,' Mr. Mellon said, 80 as to make further investment in tax-exempt securities less desirable, “for the most compelling reason in the world—that is, because the in- vestor will be given an opportunity to make more money out of produc- tive business lhan out of unproduc- tive tax-exempts.” RICH COAL MAN DEAD. MIAMI, Fla., January 10.—Michael W, ‘Bovle, seventy, wealthy coal opera- tor of Scranton, Pa., died at his apart- ment at Miami Be: His body will sent to Wilkes- Barre, Pa., this evening. His son, John F. 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