Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and probably tomor- row; slightly below freezing tonight; somewhat colder tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 46, at noon today; lowest, 38, at 7:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 5. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 No. 29,121. @h WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Sntered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, 1 D. WEDNESDAY, COOLIDGE MESSAGE - REQUESTS 5 STEPS T0 HELP FARMERS Northwest Agricultural Crisis Demands Quick Action, Congress Is Told. FAVORS FINANCIAL AID FROM U. S. TREASURY | ‘Execntive Also Tells Legislators Banks Need- Assistance to Tide Over Situation. rive steps for the relief of the ezricultural situation in the nerth- west, some to be taken by Congres gome by the executive branch of the sovernment and some by private in- terests, were outlined by President Coolldge today in a speclal message to Congress. ‘The steps Include: The refunding of pres ndebtedness of the farmer in territories most seriously affected; Financial assistance through a federal agen to enable wheat farmers to make the change from a single crop system to diversified Tarming. Afd Banking House The restoration, wherever it would be helpful, of the impaired capital of banking institutions in the distressed {gections. The creation by private capital of a substantial financing corporation to assist in the plan of reorganiza- tion. The extension of the time during which the War Finance Corporation can make loans. Mr. Coolidge toid ( that thesa were measures “by which, with- out undue alarm or agitation, but “nevertheless promptly and effectiv 1y, we can bring to bear on a serious though, happily, a localized gency, every resource of the government, and all the which the business and munity can render.” Orgnnized Rellef Needed. “The economic situation in certain wheat-growing sections of the north- west,” the President said at the out- met of his message, “is reaching an acute stage, that requires organized co-operation on the part of the fed- eral government and the local institu- tions of that territory for its solu- Calling attention to the mention he made of this situation in his mes- sage to Congress in December, he continued: reat numbers of individual farm- ers are so involved in debt, both on morigages and to merchants and banks, that they are unable to pre- serve the equity of their property. They are unable to undertake the dtversification of farming that is fupdamentally necessary for {agricultural reconstruction of the area. They are unable to meet their obligations, and thereby has been in- voived the entire mercantile and banking fabric of these regions Many Foreclosures. “Not only have there been numbers of foreclosures on farms, but there are great numbers of farmers who are continuing in yossession on sufferance from their ditors. “Thers have been ereasing bank failure heen introduced lending by the federal government of moneys directly to the farmers for purposes of assisting them in con- Version of their farms on the ba of diversified farming. 1am heartily n favor of these bills, but they do t and will not compass the enfir probiem. “Many of the farmers are, howev. in such jeopardy from their creditors that even with this assistance there 13 no assurance that they would hav a sufficient period in which to work “out the necessary conversion of their ~thods, and it would be useless to ive to this group such governmental assistance if It is to be only for pur- poses of immedlate seizure by the creditors, unding Past Due Debts. ‘Such legislation, therefore, will be of little avail unless arrangements have been effected between the farm- er and his creditors, by of past due indebtedness and interest or by similar means, that the Joans will Inure to the benefit of the \farmer himself, instead of merely to the benefit of his creditors. If such arrangements can be made tie farmer can be given the oppor- tunity to work his way ou present dificulties. If they inade, it is difficult to see how he can benetit from the plan. “In addition te legislation of this character, coupled with the agree- < ing past due the federal large in- ave large and Bills s0 ments which I have mentioned look- | inE to the refunding of past due in- 4 debtedness, it is necessary to con- sider whether any steps can be taken 1o bring financial help to certain lim- fied areas of the northwest in which embarassments and failures among country banks have added to the hardships of the farmers, “The War Finance Corporation is still functioning, but its authority to make new loans expires March 31 of this year. I recommend that Con- 2ress extend until December 31, 1924 the time during which loans can be nade by the corporation, and grant xome cxtension of the period for wwhich loans heretofore made can be renewed. General Ajd Advised. ‘It appears to me that it is es: - I(\ 1 that the large business ccnce!:;\ns. such as transportation, the more etable banks, not only in this terri- tory, but In adjoining states, who ccessarily benefit from the prosper- . | after he emer- | sound | actual | providing for the the funding | Republican members of the House ways and means committee offered today to compromise with the demo- crats on the Mellon tax bill and to frame a non-partisan measure, Representative Garner, Texas, rank- ing demoerat on the committee, whom the offer was made by Chair- man Green, did not definitely commit minority members t6 a In the committee. consideration by the committee of the rate schedules and, in the opinion |of the democratic leaders, eliminated |any posibility of adoption ‘of the rate | proposals of Secretary Mellon, which President Coolldge has insisted must { be_kept intact. Mr. Green indicated, despite no actual acceptance of the offer by Mr. Garner, that the republicans would go jahead 'in committee with a view to working out a plan acceptable to the House without an extended party fight on the floor. The offer was made by Mr had 4 | | | ‘REBELS TO PERMIT I SHIPS IN TAMPIGO PORT AT OWN RISK Blockade to Be Abandoned. Foreign Craft Warned of Bombardment Danger. The de la Huerta revolutionists in Mexico preparing to abandon iplans for the technical blockade of | Tampico and to substitute a policy under which foreign commereial craft will be warned that if they enter the zone of possible bombardment there they will do so at their own risk, First word of the change in plan: i reached the State Department tod |in a consular message from Vera ! Cruz, which merely said the blockade are was to be raised, without definitely ' establishing whether the policy would ! be permanent. Previously it had been nnounced that the blockade order would remain suspended until Febru ary 1. | Later, |througn private {can protests against the blockade | would be observed, but that a zone fof naval warfare would be declared in \effect off Tampico, and ships would be notified that if they traversed the lline of fire thev would take their lown chances. Rebel warships will re- main at Tampico, and commerce will be warned that they may at any mo- ment open fire on the batteries set up by the Obregon forces at the mouth of the Panuci river and along its banks. Precedent Is Seen, | De la Huerta leaders at Vera Cruz i profess to see a precedent for such a {course in the “Rio incident” of 1884. |A revolt by the Brazillan navy at that time was followed by an at- {tempt to blockade that port, but Ad miral Benham, in command of United tates naval forces there, protested. An arrangement then was worked out by which ships were warned, as they | will be at Tampico, that they wers at liberty to enter the port, but must stand the consequences to themselves should a hombardment be in progress at the time, : As another step in its efforts to aid the Obregon government, the United tates has ordered discontinued the Sending of mail by steamer to the Mex- jcan_states of Vera Cruz, Campeche iand Yucatan. Hereafter the mail will | be turned over to the Mexican federal | post_office authorities at Laredo for | aisposition or delivery. The action was taken by the Post ent on request of the on Page 5, Column 2.) .- SIEN TZ-MILE PAGT IN'RUM TRADE WAR Hughes and Geddes Affix Signatures Extending U. S.. Right of Search. however, it was learned T The new rum treaty with Great { Britain was signed today at the State | Department. | Secretary Hughes, for the United | States, and Sir Auckland Geddes, the iretiring British ambassador, affixed | their signatures to the agreement, | which provides for extension of the American right of search beyond the three-mile limit and permits British vessels to bring ships’ stores into : American ports under seal. Semate Must Ratify. Senate ratification is required be- fore the new arrangement becomes | effective, but there are indications | that pending that formal approval {the two governments tacitly will fol- ilow a more lenient policy toward each other in dealing with the liquor Guestion—until now one of the most |serious to disturb British-American Telations in recent years, Signature of the treaty today meant the realization of one of the long- | cherished hopes of the dying Baldwin compromise The negotiafions preceded the first dvices that Ameri- | MELLON TAX PLAN COMPROMISE SOUGHT BY HOUSE G. O. P. HEADS, Offer to Frame Non-Partisan Measure Made toi Democrats—Garner Reply Does Not Commit Party Definitely. her the democrats of expected to stand er plan of tax re- ing higher surtax normal income rate than Mr. Mellon's. Mr. Garner re- plied by asking if the republicans in- nded to demand adoption of the sentative wh the committes firmly for duction, prop rates and low to k on the ided to con- ineous or in- lastly the income ommitte the m and rate Numerous mation for repeal of the v special taxes, but taken. Republicans Seek Compromise. House republican leaders yesterday continued their cfforts to reach | compromise basis on the surtax | of the Mel submitted xeise action no was a from nt ept | this feature « | measure was no medificatl Treasury the crux deter- ns in revenue of the ) BOK PLAN INQUIRY MARKED BY CLASH BETWEEN SENATORS Reed Asks Miss Lape About Opinions of Award Jury on League of Nations. over, Tow the league of nations broke today at the inquiry of the Sen- ate propazanda committee as Senator Reed, democrat, Missouri, league irreconcilables, sought to de- velop the attitude on this question of the members of the policy committee and jury of award in the Bok world peace movement, There were several sharp passages between Senator Reed and Senator Caraway, democrat, of Arkansas, {when Miss ther Everett Lape, member in charge of the policy com- mittee of the Bok award, insisted upon her right as a witness to pond with more than a mere “yes" or “no" to questions propounded by the Missouri senator. Senator Reed opened this phase of Ithe inquiry by asking Miss Lape for jan expression of her own attitude on the league. She repiied that she was not a supporter of the league |in its present form. but had become an adherent of the league in her “own |mind.” Later she added that she !v\ Id be for the league with the res- ervations proposed in the Senate. | League Not Considered. The witness insisted, however, ¢ in organization of the policy com- mittee, and the jury of award, the one of the ered in any way. “Did you know of any person on the jury of award who was against i the league of nations?” asked Senator Reed. “I @id not know whether th for or against the league, for, have said, their attitude was taken into account when Lhey selected.”” Senator again pressed his question Senator Caraway interrupted to say that, considering the inteligence of the jury of award, “I would naturally think they were interested in some Kkind of a league.” Senator Reed torted that this was a mattr opinion. were as 1 not were of Appeals to Moxex. Miss Lape se Chairman Moses for permission answer Senator Reed's question her own way, and Senator Caraw; protested that the committee was not authorized to go into the subject. Finally Senator Reed said he would not press the question further, as he thought Miss Lape's respons for themselves. adjourned the hearing until Tuesday, instructing Miss Lape to be on hand with certain documents bear- ing on communijcations between Mr. Bok and herself, and concerning se- lection of the jury of award. Miss Lape Testifies. Miss Lape was called as the second witness in a_general investigation designed to disclose the sources of funds expended for propaganda in- tended to influence Congress and the government’s foreign policy. During his brief examination Mon- day, which was terminated ‘suddenly When he insisted that what he has spent in promoting the peace awatd is his private affair, Edward W. Bok told the committee he had left de- tails of operation in Miss Lape's hands and committeemen sought to elicit from her information both as Yo expenditures and the general op- eration of the award organization. On Way to Florida, Meanwhile Mr. Bok is on his way to in spoke to proposal to duplicate his $100,000 peace award to the author of the best plan which the committee might se- lect from the 22,164 submitted in the I contest, was:laid before the commit- |tee by Chairman Moses, who already has informed Mr. Bok that his offer is_“Wholly beside the mark.” Miss Lape traced, step by step, the operations of the award. She sald she first talked about it with Mr. Bok to- ward the end of May, 1923, and that later she entered into an agreement by {which she became the member in { charge of the policy committee. “I introduced to Mr. Bok as possible members of the policy committee Mrs. | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs. Frank Vanderlip,” the witness testified. “We selected the rest of the committee, land after that we formulated the con- ! ditions of the award, which were deter- ! mined toward the end of June.” re- | league question had not been consid- | eral times appealed to | The committee then ! next | Florida subject to being recalled at the pleasure of the committee. His | ! WALSH WILL PRESS: FOR ANNULMENT OF TEAPOT OIL LEASE Says He Plans to Ask for| Resolution Advising Presi- dent to Act. WANTS INDEPENDENT PROSECUTING COUNSEL Declares There Is Widespread Sus- picion Against Attorney. General. tice was given today in the Senate by Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, |that e wiil ask the Teapot Dome in- | vestigating committee to report a reso- lution advising the President to insti- tute proceedings for the annulment of {the lease of the Wyoming naval re- {serve to the Sinclair interests. The senator added that he also would ask that the resolution pro- vide for special counsel to prosecute the case, independent of the Depart- ment of Justice, because of a wide- spread *suspicion throughout the country against the Attorney Gen- eral’ Friendship for Fall. |, Senator Walsh sald that whether | this “suspicton” was a misfortune or @ fault of the Attorney General he was not prepared to He added | that there ior d been a friendship | between Mr. Daugherty and Albert B. | Fall, former Secretary of the In- | terior: that they had been cabinet | membere together, and that he be- lieved the Attorney General would be glad to be relleved of the matter, The announcemént by Senator Walsh camc after Senator Caraway, mocrat, Arkansas, had failed again get Senate action on his resolu- tion proposing cancellation of the! Teapot Dome lease. He moved t- is- | charge the investigating com.iittee | from further consideration of the res- | olution, but Chairman Lenroot’s point | of ')_l‘lll-r that the motion would have 1o lie over for a day was sustained There was more than two hours’ de. [bate of the whole naval oil reserve leusing, during which sharp attacks {were made on Fall. i Caraway _began his attack ring it was apparent the nted with cor- say. I | | i | i | | | | rup ‘It was a_transfer of public prop- erty for a_private consideration,” said | Scnator Caraway. “I thhink every one familiar with the record of the investigution committee will concede this." WAtlf6ut mineing of words, Senator Caraway reviewed the testimony, lay- ing particular stress upon what he sald was_the “admission” of former Interior Secretary Fall, thal he had taken $100.000 to Texas from Wash- ington and had used it in enlarging ris ranch holdings in New Mexico, | Source of $100,000. | “T know,” the senator declared, | “that somewnere tn connection with { that lease this $100,000 came into the possession of Fall Commending Archie Roosevelt for coming before the committee to pre- isent information which had come into |his possession, Senator Caraway turn- | ed his attack on G. D. Wahlberg, | private secretary to Harry F. Sin- clair. “When Roosevelt asked Wahlberg if | | Fall had been bribed in connection with the lease,” Senator Caraway said, “his reply was that ‘bribery is a harsh term, but maybe somebody loaned him money. T know I have in my possession $68,000 in canceled checks given by Sinclair to the fore- man of Fall's ranch. | Attack on Wahlberg. Reciting Roosevelt's testimony that Wahlberg had told him that he was | unhappy and knew that “they will| want me to lie for them,” Senator Caraway sald: “God bless his soul, to their expectation.” The Arkansas senator characterized as “idiotic” the explanation of Wahl- berg that Roosevelt had misunder- stood him about the checks, that he had referred to “six or eight cows.” “I wonder how he accounted for having the cows cancelled,” the sen- ator sald. Sure of Corruption. . know, and there is not a senator |¢) this floor who does not know, that !th.. contract was entered into for a corrupt consideration,” continued Sen- ator Caraway; “that it was the buy- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) DENES PINGADT 0UTFORPRESIDENT Spokesman for Pennsylvania Governor Announces Posi- tion After Conference. | he lived up| | i By the Associated Press. | "HARRISBURG, Pa, January 23— | Reports that Gov. Pinchot would be {a candidate for President this year | were disposed of by Speaker Jay C. | Goodnough of the state house of rep- | ' resentatives after a conference with ' | the governor today, by the state- | ment that “for some time it has been | known among the governor's friends JANUARY { march played b 23, THE LENIN'S BODY BACK INRUSSIAN CAPITAL Casket Carried Five Miles Through Crowded Streets While Nation Mourns. By the Assoclated Press MOSCOW, January 23.—The body of Nikolal Lenin, late premier of soviet | Russia, was brought to Moscow this | afterncon from the little town of | Gorky, in the distant suburbs, where | ruggle for life after a long ili- ness ended late on Monday. On the| shoulders of his comrades of the | council of commisars, his coffin was | carried nearly five miles through | streets guarded by soviet troops to| the House of Unions, where it is to rest i state until the funeral cere- monies. The day was cold and dismal, but as | the casket, uncovered but for a lid of thin glass, was carried through the | streets, the windows, roofs and ga- | bles of the houses, the adjoining | fences and all places of vantage off the thoroughfares, on wkhich all traf- fic was stopped, were crowded with thousands of silent onlookers, More than 20,000 members of par- liament and the communist part: and delegations from various depart- ments and labor unions gathered at the railway station where the train bringing the body, drawn by loco- motives, the upper part of which were wound with red and black rib-, bons, drew itno the station quietly and promptly at 1 o'clock to the slow and solemn music of a funeral v the soldiers’ bands. Keep Denth Watch. 1 1924 - THIRTY-FOUR ¢ Foening Star. PAGES. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 98,758 TWO CENTS. NEW BRITISH LEADE. IEx-Crown Prince Reported in Berlin; Stays at Own Flat By Radio to_The 1 News. BERLIN, Januars Former Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm reported to have returned to Berlin Tuesd: and spent the night at his flat at Kaiserdam. It is not known whether he in- tends to rem: long, but Ger- mans declare: “Certainly he has: come for skating An {interesting fact §s that no movement of the former erown prince is possible without the con- sent of the Prussiun government ZHLMAN REPORTS GAS-TAX MEASURE Gives Tables Showing Ex- pected Gain in Revenue for D. C. Uncer New Plan. ¢ is The majority report from the House District committee on the gasoline tax, which is expected to result in reciprocity on automobile tags be- tween the District of Columbia and Maryland, was made to the House to- day b: ntative Fred N. Zihl- man of N Repre: tative Zihlman points out that the lowering of the present reg- istration license tag fee and the ex- emption of motor vehicles from the Only Lenin's widow, his mother and !personal property tax up to the sum some of his most intimate associates ‘of $1,000 has been in the communist party kept the! death watch in the Gorky Villa' throughout the night. As this little | group walted the coming of the es- cort, there Were pouring into Moscow (nue that showed P mourned the dead i;nqs of the District most. a flood of telegrams that the world chieftain deeply. The messages came from organizations of workmen in | many citles of Iurope, from the com- munists of all natfons who venerated Lenin as the high priest of their po- litical and economic faith and, as for- mal condolences, from some of the governments which have recognized the soviet federation. Vast Russia herself, from the far- flung villages of Siberia to the towns of the Crimea, is dazed by the pass- ing of her premier. Village commun- | ist committees in distant districts awoke this morning to receive the . news. Some of the peasants hate! Communism, but most of them placed their confidence in Lenin. All ‘night the tclegraph instru- ments clicked and the wireless buzz- ed as reports went out and as the government in Moscow gave its di- rections to its lieutenants in the provinces. “Lenin is dead. Rally about his name ard memory and ‘carry on his policy.” This was the purpose of the messages. The “house of unions” is not far from_Moscow's great Theater Plaza| and in this square, beneath red flags draped with mourning_creve, a huge crowd began to gather with dawn, waiting behind police lines for the hour of 7 this evening, when thei public will be admitted to view the body as it lies in state. The govern- | ment authorities, under the direction of Dzerjinsky, head of the cheka and chairman of the funeral committee, are prepared to handle the hundreds of thousands of Russians who until Saturday will march by the body—a crowd which may rival In numbers that which passed the bier of King Edward. { Trotsky May Attend. It is not vet known whether Leo! Trotsky, who is ill, will be able to attend the funeral. Leaders of the communist party have advised him of the death of his famous comrade, and they expect he will exert every, effort to be at the services if his health permits. [ pproved by the of Columbia Commissioners, in line with the policy adopted by many of the tes as a more just and equitable method of raising reve- from motor vehicles, putt tion upon those classes use the streets and District urden of taxa £ cars which Gas Tax Widespread. Thirty-five states now have a gaso- line tax, the report shows, and all the states within one hundred miles of the District have adopted this method of raising revenue from motor vehicles. The following States now have a gasoline tax: Alabama, Ari- zona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, i Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana. Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, ew Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsyl- vania, South Carolina, South Dakot: Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont Virginia, Washington, West Virgini: and Wyoming. In addition to these, the Zihlmau report says, the states of Iowa, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin have passed similar laws, which were Vetoed by the governors of those states. i The District Commissioners have estimated that under the current law they would receive a reventfe of ap- proximately $480,000 for the year 1924 the from rgistration tags and’ $475.000 . property tax on auto- from personal . trucks, a total of mobiles and $955,000. Would Increase Revenue. Last year statistics were gathered as to the use of motor vehicles' fuel in the District and it was estimated that with a two-cent per gallon tax on gasoline, a revenue resulting from the enactment of this bill would be approximately $1,000,000 It is estimated, the Zihlman report says, that there are approximately 100,000 automobiles and trucks in the District and that of this number about five-sixths are assessed at less than $1,000 and would be exempt from the personal property tax under the pro- | visions of this bill. “The committee feels that this form of taxation is fairest to all auto- mobile owners and users in the Dis- trict, as it places the burden of taxa- g the | R. MACDONALD TAKES OVER GOVERNMENT New Premier Names Minis- ters and Calls His First Cabinet Meeting. B tho Assocated Press, LONDON, January 23.—The labor | ministry headed by J. Ramsay Mac- idonald as prime minister formally : took office at noon today. The members of the retiring Bald- | win government visited Buckingham | Palace in the forenoon, and shortly afterward Prime Minister Macdonald | and his ministry arrived at the palace {and received their seals of office. Premier Macdonald, wasting no time in getting the machinery of his gov- ernment to work, called a cabinet meeting for this afternoon, at which it was understood the policy to be presented to parliament when it re- assembles would be considered. New Minixtry Personnel. Personnel of the new ministry fole lows: | retary for foreign affairs. John Robert Clynes, lord privy seal and deputy leader in the house of commons. Lora Parmoor, lord president of the council. Viscount Haldane, lord chancellor. Philip Snowdexs, chancellor of the exchequer. Arthur Henderson, home affairs . Thomas, onies. Stephen Walsh, secretary for war. Sir Syaney Olivier, head of the India office. Briz. Gen. air_minister. Viscount Chelmsford, the admiralty. Sidney Webb, president of the board of trade. John Wheatley, minister of health, Noel Buxton, minister of agricul- ture. Willlam Adamson, Scotland, C. P. Trevelyan, board of education Thomas Shaw, minister of labor. Vernon Hartshorn, postmaster gen- eral. Col. Joslah Wedgwood, i for the duchy of Lancaster. | F. W. Jéewett, commissioner i works. When Stanley Baldwin proceeded to the palace for a last official au- | dience, his approach to the precincts jof royalty was made. like his first, in !a humble taxicab. He started’ to !walk through the park, but had to hail a cab as a refuge from the peo- ple who pressed around him. Soon after his departure Mr. Macdon- .1d descended in the palace yard from a private motor car. The Scottish prime minister—as he now {s—at- tred in frock coat and silk hat neg- lected nome of the conventionalities of s office. He might easily have been mistaken for a dour Scotch university pro- fessor, which he is in_ temperament and learning, but with him went two of his colleagues, James. Henry mas and John Robert Clynes, true to the proletariat, typified by bowler hats and_ short jackets. {tended in their capacity councilors, for a privy council was presided over by the ki g <t which Mr. Macdonald was = @ in as a privy councilor. Mr. Baldwin, spent half an hour in the royal presence; his successor, as . was natural, had a much longer audi- ence. Parliament finished its deliberations {by adjournment of both houses until February 12. Almost the only busi- Tess of parliament was to receive the king's reply to last night's address, in_which the king sai “I thank you for your loyal and dutiful address and will at once give it my careful conslderatio; Macdonald Again Called. Later in the afternoon Mr. Mac- donald again was summoned from a {meeting of the labor party to the secretary for secretary for the col- Christopher Thomson, first lord of secretary for president of the chancellor of Ramsay Macdonald, premier and sec- | They at-| of privy | PROTEST SHSS0 OMISSION IN D ¢, SURPLUS REVENUES | (:ommissionersv Want Senate Committee to Add Sum, Making Total $5,263,758. ACCOUNTANTS ARE HELD TO BLAME FOR DEDUCTION Maj. Donovan’s Report Sets Forth, in Detail, Items Believed Due City. The bill now pending in Congress fixing the surplus revenues of the | District at $4,438,154.92 deprives the | eIty of $825.603.69 to which it is en- | titled, the Commissioners declared in a report to the Senate District com- mittee today. The city heads ask the committer to add an amendment to the bill un- der which the District would get credit for this additional sum, there- by bringing the surplus up to $5, 263,758.61. The Commissioners transmitted with their report a statement from Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor, in | which he sets forth clearly the {tems { that make up the $825,603.69 and the reasons why they should be credited i to the District. | Sees Accountant's Mistake. “The joint select committee,” wrote Maj. Donovan, “employed certain ac- countants for the purpose of making | the accounting investigation Into the fiscal relations betwcen the United | States and ‘the District of Columbis pursuant to the requirements of the | District appropriation act referred to. { “It will be shown that the report !of these accountants, through a mis- understanding by the accountants of the character of certain IIEmsHil‘» cluded by them in their report to ithe joint select committee, tended to mislead that committee into reaching a conclusion that deprives the Dis- trict of Columbia of the sum of $825.- 602.69, which should be a part of the surplus revenues of the District in the Treasury on June 30, 1922, and added to the amount of surplus reve- nues found by the joint select com- mittee as belonging to the District on that date.” After presenting his detailed argu- ments in defense of each of the items that make up the disputed sum, Maj. {Donovan told the Senate committee in conclusion that if the bill passes in its present form It would be impossi- Ible for the District auditor and the | controller of the Treasury to correct the | aiscrepancy. Must Credit Items Now. “If it were the case,” he said, “that the transactions represented by that amount occurred at dates later than |June 30, 1922, the situation would re- |solve itself into certain bookkeeping entries that it would be within the authority of the controller general's office and the auditor of the District to make in order to bring about a proper adjustment. “But this is not the case, as the transactions all took place on or be- fore June 30, 1922, and the legal pre- sumption would be that the conclu- slons of the joint select committee, it adopted into law by Congress in the form of Senate bill 703, disposed of the District’s right to this sum of $825,603.69, as a part of its surplus Tevenues in the Treasury on June 30, | | i Following is Maj. Donovan's analy- =is of the $825,603.69 and why it be- longs to the District: Reasons Sum Is Claimed. “The total of $825,603.69 is made up as follows: “l. The sum of $169,505.85. This amount represents revenue collected by the District of Columbia and de- posited in the Treasury of the United States during the fiscal year 1822 over and above appropriation and other charges against the revenues of the District for that year. In other words, the District of Columbia collected and deposited in the Treasury of the United States in {the fiscal year 1922 §169,508.85 more GRIS DE NFRE iParent Loses Life Trying to Rescue Baby—Father Se- verely Burned. | By the Associated Press. | POTTSVILLE, Pa., January 23— mother and her four daughters, rang- ing in age from one to sixteen, were burned to death in a fire at Middle- port, five miles from here early to- day when their home was almost completely destroyed. Andrew Har- villa, the husband and father, was severely burned in attempting to res- cue them. | Mrs. Harvilla lost her life in an 'heroic effort to save Mer children. With part of the house a raging furnace, she dashed inside and to the second floor, where she seized her ty of these areas, should in thel i y in England. r own | ministry in Englan | Orgnnizations Represented. In the meantime the party dif-| palace when he presented to the king one-year-old baby daughter from her igterest extend a very large measure of aid in remedy of this situation, und that creditors even farther afleld, such as our insurance companies and others, should co-operate fully. “In 'those agricultural sections in which numerous bank failures have contributed to the distressful condi- tlons it must be recognized, how- ever, that there is a distinct limit to the scope of the assistance which ihe federal government can render. Government agencies cannot properly make loans upon insecure collateral, or to banking Institutions whose capital is impaired. In certain sec- Yions a more drastic remedy may be ecessary. “It may be necessary, on a well or- ganized and extensive scale, to pro- +lde systematically for the restora- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) ~ The retiring premier's desire to conclude this step toward a better | understanding between the two greal English-speaking nations was almost wrecked by the delay of some of the | dominion governments In giving their approval, but the last of them con- Geddes was ordered to sign. the treaty immediately Geddes Leaves Soom. The hour of signature colncided al- most exactly with receipt of news that, Baldwin had turned over the affairs of the empire to his successor. For Sir Auckland Geddes, too, signa- { ture of the treaty which he helped to jnegotiate was the last official act to be performed as ambassador to the United States. Later in the day he had an_engagement at the White House to present his letters of recall. Miss Lape sald the policy committee 1set to work to present the matier to ! that he would not be a formal can- | aidate for President and would not tion upon that class of cars that forences which have been bitterly | maes most use of the roads and streets aired during the recent official con-!and relieves from taxation those cars | national organizations having head- :ask for Instructed delegates from | sented yvesterday and Ambassador | | quarters in New York, and held a meeting with their representatives. . The organizations, she said, included the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association, of which former Justice Ciarke 1s president; the Foreign Policy Association, the American Bankers® As- Sociation, the ~Federal Council Churches of Christ in America, the | New York Peace Society, the World international committee of the Y. M. C. A, and the Association for the Ad- | vancement of Colored People. These organizations were asked to ln-me members to the advisory council and to lend the ma- chinery of their organizations for a of | Court Union, the Co.onial Dames, the | | Pennsylvania. The governor himself declined to, discuss politics. Since Gov. Pinchot’s recent an- nouncement of his plaus to ask for the nomination this spring of state! legislative candidates favorable to | tis prohibition enforcement program, reports have been frequent that Mr. Goodnough would conduct the leg- islative campaign for the executive. Mr. Gocdnough said that although the Governor plans to tour the state Fas attempted, its policies and plani it is not intended to seek *“ d: (Continued on Page 3, Column 4) picked” members of She legislature to the national ferences and discussions will be subordinated. After the dead leader is buried the all-Russian soviet con- gress will formally decide who is to try to fill the vacant place. Troops of the Moscow garrison with fixed bayonets were scattered' {about at points for blocks around | the raflway station and the house of . m unions this morning, keeping the | streets clear of traffic in preparation for the arrival of Lenin's body. I No one was allowed to pass except the members of the official funeral party and its invited guests. The streets through which the cortege co-operating | to set forth what his administration |was to pass from 10 o'clock on lay in a de: ing the Siox wliis wence await e premier's last journey capitak which are only used for pleasure and in_going to and from work,” the Zihlman report says. Table Presented. Appended to the report is the table issued by the California State Auto- obile Association, showing the.aver- age mileage and gasoline consump- tion of automobiles. Representative Zihlman analyzes this table and say that it shows the average amount paid under the gasoline tax for ordi- nary automobiles would be $10.34; for Commercial automobiles, §25;" {Gr taxh cabs, $40; for non-residents, $6: for light the names of his ministers. His own people gave the new premier a crib and was making her way to the stairway when she was overcome by warm welcome when he emerged smoke. from the palace. In the back bedroom, over the “Are you prime minister, Mac?’ Kkitchen, Eleanor and Julia were shouted an old man. Mr. Macdonald found in bed overcome and burned inodded. “I.congratulate you from to death probably as they slept. the bottom of my heart,” shouted his Another daughter was found u=esr supporter. . the bed. where she had evidently Another called out: “You've got a crawled in a confused effort to es- |good job now,” and the labor leader cape from the smoke-filled rooms. !drove away, lifting his hat in the A fifth daughter was probably sav- very best statesmanlike manner. ed from a similar fate because of a In the house of commons, Mr. visit to her grandmother where she Baldwin merely announced that the spent the night. government had tendered its resig-, When the firc was discovered, Mr. nation to the king and that its'and Mrs. Harvilla rushed out into resignation had been accepted. he street in their excitement and All_interest is.focused on the per-|immediately returned, but the hus- | {Continued on Page 5, Column 6.2 ~{Continued op Page &, Columa &) bend was driven back by the fames