Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1924, Page 15

SENATE TO FIX TIME l FOR BONUS AND TAX| Republican Leaders CaH Confer-‘ + ence Tomorrow as Committee Reports Both Bills. LEVY SLASHED $434,720,000 Smoot Says Incrcased Receipts| Will Cancel Apparent Deficit. | 1 congressional approval of legisl: fiscal program (l\-i volved in the soldier bonus and tax uction bills was put up to the ¢ vesterday when the finance mmittee sent the bonus measure on the trail of the revenue bill to the | !senate floor. Republican leaders immediately | alled a party conference for tomor- Tow to -determine which measure would be given priority, while spokesmen of the two parties prom- { ised carly both bills. ! approved as passed | by the House without the formality of u vote. At the same time, Chair- man Smoot made public a report estimating the revenue bill as| framed by the committee would cut| yiaxes in the next calendar year| 1330.989,444 below the amount which will be needed to meet government ex- nenses, Will Overcome Defleit. ' This did mot take into considera- | tion, Mr. Smoot later declared, the 135,000,000 h it estimated will bg ired to meet the cost of next year. The “ap- ithe bonu Iparent defi ch the revenue bill predlct 1d b “would cau offset by increased return: In go lernment revenue as a of the proposed tax revision. | Despite the dispute over the cost of the bonus bilk and whether the ‘funds will be available to pay for it lits passage by a comfortable ma- liority has been freely predicted The bill, which providea fo ‘payments to veterans not e is b | vador, " THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. APRIL 13, $687.71 Is Contributed To “Roxie Radio Fund” Collected by The Star A total of $6S7.71 hax been re- ceived to date by The' Stars “Roxie Radlo Fund.” Acknowledgement the following addis seriptions: L. B. Smith. . Leuixa K. Garges. . Amelin Spruexsel. . Elizabeth Behren Henry L. S H.W.N.. .. i Employes N Publixhing Com) United Veterans, Warx, G. dren - of the ‘Toronto Apartments e FORMER PRESIDENT DIES. | Raefael Iglesias of Costa Rica Passes Away in Salvador. SAN SALVADOR, Republi¢ of Sal- April 12.—The death at Jose, Costa Rica, of Raefael Igl former President of Costa Rica, announced here today. more than $30 in adj compensation and twent \dowment life insurance Senator Simmons of ranking democrat on mittee, announced would proposs an am. honus bill the orporate an option “This proposal is to have considerable support, ticularly from demos < The revenuc bill sent to the Nenate floor woufd cat revenue re- eipts next calendar year by 720,000, Chairman Smoot de ‘his report submitted yestergay House bill,.it was estimated, would have cut revenue by $446,000,000. I Cost_of the bopus bill has been variously estimated government actuaries at from $2,202,000,000 to $3,800,000,000, spread twenty | years, with an estimated annual cost of about $100,000,000. from over TRY TO SLAY FLORES. Presidential Candidate Attacked by Assassins. NOGALES, Ariz tempt to assas: Flores, governor of Sinaloa, was made 4t Guadalajars while he was en route to Mexico City in interests of | /the campaign for the" presidency of | 'the republic of Mexico, according 'a dispatch received here todsy from Mazatlan. h Details of the attack are lacking it is not known whether the governor | of We Carry a Complete Line of FLORENCE OIL STOVES Challenge Refrigerators Armstrong Linoleum Sellers Kitchen Cabinets Kroehler Davenports Thompson Bros. 1220-26 Good Hope Road Anacostia, D. C. Phome Linosln 536 DAUGHERTY HEARINGS POSTPONED FOR DAY Committee to Decide on Action i Against Brother - Before | Resuming Sessions. WILL CONFER WITH STONE %Seek to Learn Attitude on Prose- | cuting Charges.” intermission tomorrow in its rings was arranged vester- by the Senate Daugherty { mittee for a double purpose. The committee first wishes to de- ‘rAll.\ on action it may take against M. S. Daugherty, brother of the for- mer Attorney General, for blocking | its search into bank records at Wash- I Court House, Ohio, and it com- harges which its testimony y be considered. ospect that the investi- gation itself may be curtailed by the Senate wds held out in connection with the tentative arrangement to discuss matters. with the new De- partment of Justice head. Chdirman Brookhart, returning during the day from the expedition into Ohio, where access to records was refused Friday by the Washington Court House Bank, planned to go over the situa- tion with his colleagues and to wait for the return of Senator Wheeler, democrat, Montana, from a speaking trip to Chicago- before announcing the new program. No hearing was held yesterday. Members of the subcommittee which went to Ohio were anxious upon returning to force contempt proceedings against M. S. Daugherty, to citz him before the bar of the Sen- ate, and possibly also to ask the dis- trict attorney in Washington to in- dict him, as Harry . Sinclair was indicted in-the Teapot Dome investi- gation. His refusal to allow the sub- committee aceess to records in the Midland National Bank after commit- | tee members had made a trip to his | own town, that such inspection might {not hinder its ordinary business, was Handsome overstuffed tapestry 3-piece saite k’ shade and lamp for table; com- 119 Dlete outht Here is an opportunity to secure enough high-grade furniture to outfit your home, complete, which you can buy on the one of these separate room outfits may lowest, easiest terms ever offered! Any for $1 19—and all you have to said to have cleared the casc of any '| doubt.- Hold Move Unimpeortant. Injunction proceedings against the senators resorted to by the bank, sen- ators sald, would probabiy be adjust- ed by the Department of Justice. The effect of the issue of a temporary | restraining order against the com- mittee from the Ohlo court of com- mon pleas was said to be legally un- important. . | In the meantime the many wit- nesses summoned by the committee, which includes Howard Manington of Ohio, who resided in “the littlo green house on K street,” will be required | to wait. There was a suggestion yes- terday that testimony expected from some of them might be heard by 1924 — PART 1. - 13 representatives of Attorney General Stone in order that ériminal proceed- ings might be instituted. TEAPOT CASE DELAYED. Sinelair Counsel Given Extra Week to File Reply. CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 12.—Ex- tension for one week for the time for filing in federal court the answer of the Mammoth Oil Company to the government suit for annulment of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve lease was announced this afternoon. The extension was granted by agreement between counsel for (he Mammoth Company and the spe-ial government counsel, Owen J. Rob ris and Atlee Pomerene. The exten:ion ends Saturday, April 19, HORSES RACE 100 MILES. i 100 in Endurance Test-—One Ani- | mal Falls Dead. | JENOS > BUENOS AIR April 12.—One( A delegation headed by Senater M hundred horses aced for twelvi Kinley of Tllinois was informed by hours arougd a -meter track in|georatars ? ) a speed and endurance contest at the [ SSCTelary Weeks yesterday that he Hippodromo here today. 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