Evening Star Newspaper, May 3, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Showers tonight and probably to- Morrow morning followed by fair during tomorrow; temperature for twenty-three hours ended at 1 p.m. today: Highest, 75, at noon today: lowest, 48, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 4, Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 99 999 =J,822. N Entered us second-clase matter 2 post office Washington, D. C. LATEST CLUE TURNS SEARCH FORMARTIN INTO BERING SEA Party With Dog Teams to| Comb Rocky Shore—Na- | tives Tell of Seeing Plane. Father-in-Law as Tammany Leader By the Assoclated Press, NEW YORK, May 3.—Surrogate James A. Foley may succeed his father-in-law, the late Charles F. Murphy, as leader of Tammany, if he will resign from the bench, the New York Times says. Agreement upon the selection of Mr. Foley is said to have been reached in conference of influen- tial members of Tammany. The election is expected at a meeting of the executive committee Wednesday. 'COOLIDGE NOW FACING COMPANIONS TO LEAVE WITHOUT COMMANDER | REAL TEST AS LEADER Ships Scouring Waters Near Chig- nik Report All Efforts Thus Far Fruitless. Have Important Bearing on Campaign. By the Associate FALSE PAS! Alaska, May ult of infommation from ered zlong the ba peninsula that they saw Maj (31 L. Martin, who has been m ing since Wednes head- ed northwestward in the direction of Crignik Lakes and the Bering Sea s calls were broadcast today to all vessels in that northern body of water, and additional parties were | Ciés of Congress in the present sesslon organized to search the rocky Bering |are coming in a bunch—all in the Sea shore. | next six weeks. A party with dog teams will go to- Not since the day he succeeded the v from Chignik to the north side of | 1ate President Harding in office has Alaska peninsula to reh for | there developed such ¢n occasion for Frederick L. Martin, missing | décision on policy. Tha course of the Eloie fiyer, along the Bering Sea. whole Coolidge administration. its . weather early In the morning | Character and object will be d well here, it was be. | charted now and may furnish the that three ot] jators who | basis for discussion in the coming i “'v‘la“!\vl«'nmr" N f .\I;nrch} 17 | presidential campaign. »f False Pass For Mr. Coolidge has before him Southwestern shores First, whether or not to sign the soldier insurance bill. Second, whether to use hLis influence ¥slands d the Al ast as Chignik for Ma in the conferences between the two nouses to prevent the publication of 3.—As a * | Will Have Chance in Nest 6 Weeks to Assert Himself. re sca BY DAVID LAWRENCE, President Coolidge's opportunities | for 1eadership, for for curbing the multifarious tenden- and €hips mbin the Al a Peninsula Maitin, States three and can- the com arou v ) Foley May Succeed | Decisions on 5 Major Bills May| HAS LEFT CONGRESS FREE rtiveness and | £ WASHINGTON, D. C, U. . GRANTS CUBAN PLEAFOR ARMS T0 PUT DOWN REVOLT Hughes Approves Requesfl and War Department Is Ready to Rush Munitions. | POWER ALREADY GIVEN BY CONGRESS FOR SALE Unfilled Order, Legally Sanctioned, Permits Delivery From Surplus War Sipplies. The Cuban government, facing a| “condition of violence” .in Santa | Clara province caused by revolution- | has appealed to the Washington | government for the purchase of a| considerable amount of arms and am- | munition for use by the Zayas forces | against the revolationists, The appeal today was apbroved by | the State Department and forwarded | to the War Department, where it is regarded as certain that the arms | and ammunition asked for will be made avallable to Cuban authorities | withous delay. | In the absence of Secretary Weeks, War Department officials declined to reveal the amount of munitions asked for, but indicated there would be no trouble in filling the order from the "sllb["l)' of excess war supplies held by the Army. Under the proclamation issued yes- terday by President Coolidge estab- lishing an embargo against shipment of ar munitions to Cuba specific | provision was made by which it will be possible for the government to supply the Zayas forces with arms| and at the same time rigidly enforce | the embargo against any commercial shipments of war materials to Cuba which might find their way into the hands of revolutionists. i 1 | OPPOSES SATURDAY. IS THIS THE PRESIDENT VETOES PENSION MEASURE Refuses to Sign Bursum Omnibus Bill on Grounds of Economy. EXTRA BURDEN , MAY eniny WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o 9y NEW STYLE FIVE ALIENS ARRESTED. Perils of Niagara Falls to| Enter U. S.—Fail. | NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. May 3 Five aliens, one a woman, were brought across the upper river from | [ Canada tn a rowboat a mile and a| half above the falls early today only | | to fall into the hands of immigration | | inspectors. John Snyder, sixty-five | vears old, charged with bringing them | into this country, was arrested. The trip across the upper river was | | Braved | FRONT PORCH" CAMPAIGN? 1924 —-THIRTY-FOUR- PAGES. AGREES T0 $14,400 FOR DEEDS OFFICE| | House Raises Rent Appropriationi | for Recorder More Than $8,000. | DAVIS MAKES THE MOTION ing program in Washington. | President Coolidge in his annual mes- | sage to Congress urged the enactment “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 ptinted. Yesterday’s Circulation, 98,820 PROEETAPPROVED N SENATEREPORT Fire' Hazard and Workingw‘ HUGE U. . BUILDING Conditions Are Emphasized Before Body. $50,000,000 REQUESTED | FOR NEW STRUCTURES | | Expenditure Would Be Limited to| $10,000,000 & Year—Action | Urged at Once. deplorable conditions under | which many of the employes of the government are forced to work in the District of Columbiz, and the fire| hazards faced by priceless records of the government, arising out of inade- quate und improper housing for vari- | ous agencies of the government, are cmphasized in a favorable report sub- mitted to the Senate today by the| committee on public bufldings and | grounds on the bill authorizing the | enditure of $50,000,000 for a build- The report was made by Senator| Keyes of New Hampshire on behalf of | | the committee, and the bill has been placed on the Senate calendar. Every effort will be made by its supporters to get favorable action upon it at the present session of Congress. Senmator Keyes, Chairman Fernald of the com- mittee and others believe that the sit- uation here arising out of the need of | more government buildings in Wash- ington requires heroic treatment. of Such legisiation, and the public| buildings commission, headed by Sen- ator Smoot of Utah, made a strong re- port on the matter to both Senate and House. | ton plan TWO BATTLE ON INCOME TAX RATE SCHEDULE STARTED IN SENATE Senator Simmons Explains Democratic Plan, Opposed to Mellon Proposals. DECKS OF BOTH PARTIES CLEARED FOR STRUGGLE CEN' All Except “Fighting Provisions” of Bill Settled in Eight-Hour Session Yesterday. TLe Senate launchied today into it fight on the income tax rate sched ule, the result of which will deter mine the amcunt cf reductions after this year in the taxes of more than 14,000,000 taxpayers. Senator Slmmons, North Carolina ranking Democrat on the finance committee and author of the income tax plan indorsed by the Democratic conference, outlined his proposa calling for a greater reduction the normal rates than under the M but less of a cut higler surtax brackets. Minor Pol s Cleared. An filled eight-hour session ye with rapid developments dis | Posed of all except the “fighting pro visions of the bill,” Smoot of the finance actarized the income, corporation estate tax schedules. The Democra have agreed in party conference make an almost united stand changes in all of these provisions: A Republican insurgent-Democrati~ coalition appeared vesterday for tt first time in the revenue bill con- sideration. resulting in the openin of tax returns to public inspectior as Chairma committee ch nander of the United d-the-world flight, his income tax returns and the removal| of other feaiures of the bill which anio iting him at Dutch Thirty-two Democrats joined in the are contributing upport of the proposal, which de by Senator Norris, Repu ", a perilous one. The night was darlk, | llows Personal Inspec- . Sxle Iy Anthorined. and many ice floes were being car- | Exuposat 3o pec-| NewiBaiiings Frenesod. | Similar Legislation Also Disap- | ! bor 1 Island, were pr | tain d todzy to continue their journe thee conditions permitted. The teduled stop for the th ¥ 3 a0, 350 miles southuest. o¢| . Third, whether he will approve the were stationed. Orders| Bursum bill passed by both houses tetkniap | providing for increased pensions for rom: Weehit _ | civil war and Spanish-American wa westward and not wait for their com- | veterans, Siatider | _Fourth, whether he wiil sign | MeNary-Haugen bill providing for | the creation of an agricultural ex- Reports received f Cing Cove | POTt _corporatio and machinery POxta eeueived’ froni dc N | whereby the price of wheat and other ed that vessels had searched un- | products shall be arbitrarily raised sfully for Maj. Martin and his | to come up to a fixed ratio with other Sergt. Alva Harve, ‘Co;:};;‘lidx‘l.i’.(h ; - e . s basve. Bfforts| Fifth. whother he will sign the fm- Tbors'and five bays. Efforts migration bill with clauses in it em in Leonard and Adolgo ng direct offense to Japan and bors and Coal, Belkofsky, Velcano, | impairing the good relutions whieh ar an aviofl bays prov un- have existed with that country, - Latest dispatches declared | o the Search Is Fruitless, . alling lly since the armament confer- © ships went as.far as Ivan 1sland | ence and the re st the foot of Paviot Volvano. i jHozeosnt senankke. Overland searching groups Tom Dozen, Chignik returned late yesterday with- s i out any definite trace of the Ameri.| There are dozens of other bills - can aviators. a .| ¥o1ving important principles, but the c route the missing fivers at- tempted was a short cut fo Dutch | [°T¢E0Ing constitute the outstanding Dor “Althoush the gales have|measures Mr. Coolidge sald at the iied and the {emperature has|outset of his administration that he slightly, it was sald here|gjq 2 i {EBiny maon ralent e hurs | 4ld not care to indicato in advance e rom Ao r Tot ¢ They | of action by Congress what his policy did not carry provisions from Chig- | toward specific proposals would be. i\, Chances of killing g As a consequence Congress has gone Tone: “;‘u‘;hn 4 Y die | ahead in many Instances and legislat- from starvation was disclosed by 4| ed without regard to possible action member of & ‘Coast guard crew. Who | by tho President told overland searching parties that ¢ President has tak Jiaj. Martin was presented with _THeIBE SRt line Cakién fiojRotin L Baning pole whils stasing in Seatile| with reference to the making of all Ne u;‘) all U\Dl.\l!‘('algfi and the she) income tax returns public. The Sec- tered nooks along the north Pacific | retary of the Treasury . shore line offer xood fishing el el L s At daylight today renewed efforts |t provision, but Mr. Mellon does were being made by evers one in | ROt have the veto power. the 400-mile area to locate the miss- | has ing flyers. just gone whead with the very | provision which House leaders suc- MARTIN FORESAW DANGER. [[conden ~with dificuliy In defeating. | Whether the provision which per- mits any one to see income tax re- | turns will be retained after confer- ence between the House and Senate | is doubtful, but already there is so AN J. DAVID. dent_of The Star and the aper, Alliance. ITED STATES COAST GUARD TER AL QUIN (by wireless via Chignik, ON BOARD ministration's effort to get a good tax bill has been thwarted. Publicity of income tax returns in CASRRR). SMay 3TE Eri jo | Order to’ prevent corruption Is ap- laska). May 3.—Is another Arctic|pi,yeq ‘but the opportunity for In- tragedy to be recorded in the dis-|dividuals who are not lawmakers to appearance of Maj. Frederick L. | get trade secrets is the chief obj Martin, commander of the round-the- | tion, Under the House bill the world flight? All day today and |formation would be available to con- to business uncer- | ‘The Senate | much left to conference that the ad- | last night the wirel operator on the Algonquin has had his ear to the receiving phones, seeking the i or whatever news there m good or bad—from Maj. E ikely to first reach us over the radio. | 1t is not generally known that Maj. | Martin's flag plane, Seattle, which |, left Chignik for Dutch Harbor I Wednesday morning at 11:30 o'cloc is equipped with a small racio set having a mean sending range of 250 miles, sufficlent to reach our ship, providing the plane itself has not come to grief. The Algonquin is now off Was- uesenski, Alaska, about half way be- tween Chignik and Dutch Harbor and directly in the proposed line of flight We have been cruising twenty-four hours, in and out of the Jiundreds of bays and harbors that dot this barren coast line, on the constant lookout for some trace of the lost flyers, here is a general belief & terrific_storm of the Continued on Page PLANE CARRYING TWO SETS HEIGHT RECORD Macready and Camera Man Reach 31,540 Feet. Unofficially; Pictures Sharp and Clear. here that 1St two the i Column 1.) An unofficial altitude record of 31,540 feet, for two men, was estab- lished and photographs of the earth were made from this level, which is geclared to be the highest a camera has ever successtully operated, in a fight over Dayton, Ohio, yesterday, according to a message received here today by Lieut, George W. Goddard, photographic officer in the office of chief of air service, from the com- manding officer of McCook Field, Dayton. The flight was made by Lieut. John s. Macready and Capt. Albert W. Fievens, ploneer aerial photographer ©of the Army alr service, in the Le Pere biplane, which Lieut. Macready }:as used In an endeavor to capture ¢he altitude record of the world. The pictures were sharp and clear #nd, according to the message, “in- Jicate that clear photographs may be ‘ccured from any elevation obfain- gbls by airplanes S for the past | gressional committees under regula- tions which would safeguard the use of the data by business com- petitors. Under the Senate bill there is no such precaution. Anybody who wants to walk into the Treasury and find out what his business opponents e doing can look at the income tax | returns. ~ They would be as pubMc as | library books: The interesting thing about whole tax situation is the way the prediction of Senator Smoot last autumn has verified. He was against tax revision this presidential | year because die felt that politics and | radicalism would supersede any sclen- | tific plan for tax modification. iTe said then that u combination of insurgent Republicans, together with | the Democratic minority, would be enough to defeat the administration proposals and might result in a tax | bill that would do more harm than | good.” But public opinion insisted al- | most unanimously that an effort_be | made to revise the taxes. The Re- publican leadership has been strug- gling with insurgency. Many regu |lar Republicans have failed to attend sessions of the Senate at which their votes were badly needed, The Sen- |ate bill in the end will be a hodge- | podge, more radical than the House | bill. The supposition that the conter- ence between the two houses will | make a satistactory bill is rapidly growing less plausible, Mr. Coolidge himself has not inter- fered in what Congress has done. - As a result he will receive a bill with many features in it which would justify a veto. In the desire for an early adjournment of Congress and the fear that the President cannot overcome the radicals who hold the balance of power, the measure pre- sented to him very likely will be signed. $5,000,000 BANK FAILS. “Frozen Assets” Given as Cause for St. Paul Failure. By the Associated Press, ST. PAUL, Minn., May 3.—The Cap- itol Trust and Savings Bank of St. Paul, with deposits of $5,000,000, was ordered closed today, A. J. Veigel, gtate superintendent of banks, an- nounced. .“Frozen assets’ was the cause, Mr. Veigel said. ; The bank, which has a'capital of 500,000, is closely allied with (ic A ey 5 been organiced ik De:ongver, 1590, the | The Cuban army was largely | | cquipped with service rifles, machine | | guns and revolvers when it was or-| | ganized. American officers who worked with the Cuban authorities {in organizing the army point out that the practice of selling arms to Cuba has been followed since that time, and sales of munitions to the nCuban government have been legally authorized by Congress. There is an old order for purchase of war munitions still_partially un- filled beforc the War Department at the present, time, under which war maturials have beem sold to Cuba since 1916. Because of these circumstances it will. be an easy matter to cemply Tention tor ThE fansaction Siready exists and no delay is contemplated in exercising it and expeditiously de- livering the quantity of munitions and arms needed by the Cuban gov- ernment for the use agalnst revolu- tionary forces. Difters From Sale to Mexico. The transaction with Cuba differs in this respect from that recently negotiated between the Washington government and the Obregon govern- ment of Mexico. No authorization existed at the time Mexico asked for | arms for use against the de la Huerta revolutionists and the decision in| that case had to be taken by Presi- | dent Ccolidge. The sale to Cuba would be made in line with the policy announced by | President Coolidge when he issued the | proclamation under which more than $1,250,000 worth of war materials | were sold to the Obregon government. | That policy favored the sale of arms | and munitions to recognized govern- | ments of friendly nations, particularly | | in Central and South America, which were in need of such supplies for de- se against revolutionary and other | disorderly elements which were at- tacking and attempting to overthrow | regularly constituted government in- | stitutions. ZAYAS OFF FOR FRONT. | Ey the Associated Press. | HAVANA, May 3.—President Zayas |left Havana today for Santa Clara¢ Province, where armed men are in revolt against his government. He| | was accompanied by Secretary of In- | | terio: iturralde and Gen. Herrero, | chief of staff. | | The president’s departure was kept | | & secret until some time after his spe- cial train, with a military guarg, had | lert the city. It was understood he | | was going to Clenfuegoes, near where | most_of the trouble has ‘centered in | | the last few days. | It was declared by Subsecretary of | | the Interior de la Torre that Presi- | dent Zayas desired to ascertain per- | sonally the exact situation in Santa | Clara Province and that his departure | for the scene of the anti-Zayas out- | break did not mean that the situation was more serious. Newspaper Suspended. The morning newspaper El Sol was | suspended today and copies of the pa- per were seized on the street by po- lice acting on orders of the govern- | ment. It was officially declared that the chief reason was publication to- day by El Sol of what purported to be a message from Dr. Federico Laredo | | Bru, who recently fled from Cienfu- | gos, apparently to aveid arrest on suspicion of implication in the armed | revolt in Santa Clara province. | “An order for the expulsion of Aldo | Baroni, Italian subject and directo: of the newspaper 3l Heraldo, as & | | pernicious foreigner, and the 'arrest| | of Luis Guillermo Gallo on suspicion of being a messenger from Gen. Car- los Garcia-Velez marked the latest moves here. Gallo, a resident of Ha- | vana, was arrested late yesterday on | arrival from Key West, it became known early today. He claimed to be an agent for a tourist agency, and it was reported he had come from St. Petersburg, Fla. The action of President Coolidge in forbidding shipments of arms and ammunition to Cuba, except Such as may be authorized for sale to the Cu- ban government, was described by President Zayas as a great aid in breaking up the rebellious movement, and he predicted an end of the move- ment within three or four days. He then referred to President Coolidge's action as an evidence of friendship for the Cuban government which is deeply appreciated. — $100,000 Fire Reported. PROVIDENCE, R. L. May 3.—The oven shop of the American Enamel Company's plant Yere v ay i 3 (of 8 ¢xcess of §100,60v, timated In | tion. | longer ago than 1920. | of the civil war draw proved by Harding. President Coolidge today vetced the Bursum omnibus pension bill The veto wgs based on the. ground of economy, the executive holding that the measure would entall an un- warranted drain on the Treasury. A somewhat similar bill by Senator Bursum, Republican, New Mexico, was vetoed last session by Persident Harding. Senator Bursum, Republican. New Mexico, author of the bill. announced that an early effort would be made to pass the measure over the veto. He said he thought there would be enough vetes in both the Senate and the kouse.- Réusons for Veto. The President’s statement follows: “To the Senate: I am returning herewith Senate bill 5, ‘An act grant- iug pensions and increases of pen- sions to certain sailors of the eivil and Mexican wars and to certain widows, former widows, minor chil- dren and helpless children of dead soldiers and sallors and to widows of the war of 1812, and to certaln Indian war veterans and widows and to certain Sapnish war soldiers and certain maimed soldiers and for other purposes.’ without my approval “For the next fiscal year the effect of this act will be to take an addi- 8,000,000 of the moneys pald by the taxpayers of the nation and add it to the pension checks of ihe veterans of the wars of 1812, «.f 130 and their widows and dJdependents. | This inthe 'effect. for the Arst vear, but the burden upon the taxpayers will continue for many years to come. While impossible of accurate estima- tion, the commissioner of pensions states that the proposed addition to the pension roll will total apprixi- mately $242,000,000 for the first five | years and $415,000,000 for the first ten years. Holds Expense Unjustified. No conditions exist which justify the imposition of this additional bur- den upon the taxpayers of the na- All our pensions were revised nd many liberal increases made no survivor $50 per month and those in need of regular aid and attendance, which already includes 41,000 of them, draw $72 per month. S others come to need this the law already gives it to them. The act also proposes to extend the limits of the war period from April 12, 1865, to August 20, 1866, so that those who enlisted during this year and four months of peace now be- come eligible for the same treatment as those who fought throughout the war. There are other questionable provisions providing for the pension- ing of civillans, and relating to the pensioning of ' certain classes of widows. “But the main objection to the whole bill is the unwarranted ex- penditure of the money of the tax- payers. It proposes to add more than 25" per centum to the cost of the pension rolls. It is estimated that it would bring the total pension bill of the country to a point higher than ever before reached, notwithstanding it is now nearly sixty years since the close of the clvil war. A generous natlon increased its pensions to well over @ quarter of a billion annually and_has already £6,250,000,000 in 'pensions upon the survivors of that conflict and their dependents. While there has been some decrease in the annual expense, it is now proposed by a horizontal in- | crease to pay all survivees $72 each month, without regard to age, to their physical condition or financial condition. With the other proposals, a new righ record of cost would be estab- lished. Need for Economy. “The need for economy in public expenditure at the present time can- not be overestimated. 1 am for economy. I am against every un- necessary payment of the money of the taxpayers. No public require- ment at the present’time ranks with the necessity for the reduction of tax- ation. This result cannot be secured unless those in ahthority cease to pass laws which increase the perma- nent cost of government. The bur- den on the taxpayers must not be in- creased; it must be decreased. Every proposal for legislation must be con- sidered in the light of this necessity. “The cost of commodities is dimin- ishing. Under such conditions the cost of government ought not to be increasing. The welfare of the whole country must be considered. The de- sire to do justice to pensioners, how- ever great their merit, must be at- tended by some solicitude to do justice to taxpayers. The advantage of @ class cannot be greater than the weifarc of the mation (Signed) ‘' CALVIN - COOLIDGE." bestowed nearly | |ried by the swift current down to | the rapi ove the falls, which start less than a half mile below where the | quintet was landed. Immigration men say that the price per head for smuggling aliens across the upper river is $100. COURT PROTECTS DAUGHERTY WIRES Senate Committee Must Show - Cause Why Telegrams Should Be Surrendered. INJUNCTION SUITS ARE FILED . Stafford Orders Telegraph Compa- nies to Withhold Messages. Justice Stafford of the District Su- preme Court has cited the members of the Senate Brookhart-Wheeler committee to appear before him next Friday to show cause why an in- junction should not be issued to pre- vent them from insisting on the sur- render of private telegrams sent and | received by Harry M. Daugherty, | former Attorney General of the United States during the past three years. Similar court orders were also is- { sued against the Western Union Tele- graph Company, its manager, H. F. Taff; the Postal Telegraph Cable Com- | pany and its manager, T. P. Dowd, to | prevent them from surrendering the | telegrams to the committee. | 1of two suits {or injunction late yes- {terday afternoon by Mr. Daugherty | against the members of the commit- tee and the telegraph campanies. DAUGHERTY EXPLAINS SUIT. For Protecting Telegrams and Test- ing Rights of Committee, He Says. By the Associated Pres ASHEVILLE, C, May 3.—The suit brought in Washington by for- mer Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty was instituted “for the purpose of protecting the telegraph company and to test questions of Jaw whereby it may be judicially deter- mined to what extent a committee, without evidence or authority, ca take over the duties of the court, Mr. Daugherty declared last night in a statement. “The telegrams would be of no service whatever to the committee. Nobody has any business with any telegrams outside of those that are official,” he said. “Telegrams, other than those which are official, pertain | to little, if any, private business, but relate to family and social matters. Some may have been political, though T paid little attention to politics after becoming Attorney General.” ’ HOLLAND AND SOVIET PARLEY BREAKS UP| By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1 BERLIN, May 2.—Negotiations be- | tween Holland and soviet Russia which had been under way here for | a week were broken off today. The Dutch demanded no money | rom Russia, but asked merely aca- demic recognition of Russia's’ pre- war debts. The Russian delegates | replied that they were quite ready to consider payment, but that they could not recognize the debts in principle. This debt question therefore pre- vailed oger other matters, such as Dutch recognition de jure of the Rus- sian government and Russian use of Rotterdam as a port of export. in- stead of Hambursg. Soviet Envoys Adamant. ‘When the _difficult point was reached the Dutch representatives asked that the negotiations be inter- rupted but not broken off. The so- viet ambassador replied that on the basis of debt recognition further con- versations were useless. tion of Premises. se from 68,000 to $14,400 in the appropriation for rent of offices for the recorder of deeds was made by the House in committee of the whole today on motion of Representative Charles R. Davis, Republican, of Min- nesota, in charge of the District ap- propriation bill. Representative Davis explained that Chairman Maddén of the House ap- propriations committee, accompanied by members of the subcompmittee on the District bill had visited premises occupled by the recorder of deeds, and had reached an agreement with the owners, whereby the entire build- ing would be supplied to the recorder | of deeds for $14,400. New Bullding Planned. Chairman Davis assured the House that in a few years a new building would be erected near the courthouse to be occupled- by the office of the | gressional Record. Representagive Chindbloom of Illi- nois told his colleagues that he had recently visited the office of the re- corder of deeds to look up a title and that he never saw a public office so congested and men working under such cramped and practically impos- sible conditions. Representative Blanton rose in op- position to the amendment for the | purpose of discussing hls own pro- posal that the two street car com- panics in Washington should be forc- ed under their charter provision to give transportation for a five-cent fare. He declared that 70,000 school chiliren are now compelled to pay cents for street car rides. Has List of Names. In advocating a Distriet tax rate of $2.50 he showed pictures of an estate whose owner he sald he The court orders followed the filing | could not mention by name on ac- | Eovernment. count of congressional courtesy, but that the owner of that estate has | declared his intention of defeating | the Cramton amendment which changes the fiscal relations between the federal and District governments by establishing a fixed contribution of $8,000,000 instead of the 60-40 pro- portionate arrangement. Representative Blanton said he has a list of senators and members of Col gress showing what property they own in the district, and that if they persist in an effort to keep the tax rate at $1.20 he will print that list in the Con- i record. Failed on Pointx of Order. Two attempts to force a G5-cent street car fare in Washington through limitations on the $41,120 appropria- tion for the Public Utilities Commis- sion, made yesterday by Representa- tive Blanton, failed when points of order were lodged against them by Representative Cramton of Michigan and Chindblom of Illinots. Representative Blanton _proposed withholding the entire appropriation from the Public Utilities Commission until it ordered & return to the b-cent Representative Cramton of Michigan ihe Washington Railway and Electric Company and the Capital Traction Company. The point of order that this was legislation on an appropria- tion bill was sustained. Cramton Wins Point. Representative Cramton won his |fight, which has extended over sev- eral months, for protection of motor- men and conductors on the street cars against open vestibules in cold and stormy weather. The House in (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Rum Runnera and the U.S. Coast Guard BY BEN McKELWAY. The story of a thrilling week's cruise aboard the cutter Seminole, patrolling “Rum Row.” Beginalng Monday in The Evening Star )| bia” The bill as reported to the Senate| provides for the expenditure of not| more than $10,000,000 in any fiscal yoar. The buildings particularly rec-| ommended inciude those for the bu- reau of internal revenue, the Depart- ment of Justice, the general account- | ing office, the Department of Agri- the general supply committee and independent office buildings to house the alien property custodian, the bu- reau of efficiency, Civil Service Com- mission, Federal Power Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Commis- sion of Fine Arts, International Boundary Commission, International| Joint ~ Commission, United States Tariff Commission and other miscel laneous units. Report By Keyes, In his report, Senator Keyes said: “The committee believes the adop- | tion of this bill will lead to a well | ordered and dignified housing of the | government's various departments, | bureaus and independent establish- | ments in the District of Columbia. The necessity for the adoption of a | building program has long been | recognized by all who are familiar with conditions under which many of | the government activities carry on | their work. Unless early action be taken by Congress to relieve tha| present situation, it is only a question of time. and a very short time at that, until the government will find | itself in an impossible situation, due | to the rapid deterioration of the so- called temporary war buildings | | ““There are now in existence twelve of these structures, ranging in floor area from 30,000 square feet to 300,000 square feet. They are veritable fire traps of the flimsiest wooden con- struction and present a constant and most dangerous fire hazard. Several | of them are literally crowded to the roof with priceless and irreplaceable records, the destruction of which would mean a staggering loss to the | ‘That there have been o serious fires in these structures to | date is due entirely to elaborate pre- cautions taken by the officials in charge of them Life Limit Near. “Aside from the fire menace, there | is the undeniable fact that they can last but a short time longer and only then by the annual expenditure of considerable money for their repair. In fact, only a few months ago one of these buildings, Treasury Annex No. 2, 14th and B streets, became so di- lapidated that the advisability of abandoning it altogether was con- sidered. Fortunately, however, funds were available with which It could be temporarily repaired, and for the time being a serious situation was averted, serious, for the reason that |a portion of the bureau of internal | revenue occupying the building had no funds for renfal, there was no other government space to which ft could be transferred, and even if it had had funds no privately owned | space could be found for its use. “Aside from these facts, there is no valid reason why the business of the United States government should be transacted in buildings which are in appearance, comfort and conven- ience no better than wooden barns. “In addition to the practical con- siderations of fire hazard, mainte- nance cost and usability of these tem- porary bulldings, there is the hu- manitarian consideration of the work- ing conditions of the government em- ployes. Many protests have been made to the public bulldings com- mittee and to the public buildings commission concerning the deplorable conditions under which employes must work in these temporary build- ings. In the summer they are in- tensely hot and in the winter it is difficuit to keep them warm. It is felt | by your committee that the govern- | ment is obligated to give its employes | in the government workshop here in Washington reasonably decent, if not comfortable, working quarters. “The government is a tenant in its Capital city to the extent of 367 307.52 annually. Numbers of these buildings are poorly adapted to gov- ernmental uses and are so widely scattered over various sections of the city as to make the transaction of busi- ness exceedingly cumbersome. Econo- my and good business administration demand that all activities of the gov- ernment be housed in public build- ings, located with due regard to the wapid and efficlent transaction of the public business. It is confidently be- lieved that the buildings provided for in this bill will make it possible for the government to vacate all rented | culture, a national archives building, |, | up toa m | per_cent at $200,000. ebraska, and carried, 48 to The House had voted to open thes returns to inspection by certain « gressional committees, and the - ate finance committec had approve! this provision with the addition of power to the committees to make public “any relevant or useful formation” obtained from the returns Democratie Schedule. The Democratic income tax sched ulé advanced today provides specifi- cally for a reduction in the present normal rates of 4 per cent on i comes below $4,000 and § per ce above that amount to 3 per cent ou incomes below $4.000, 4 per cent © incomes between $4,000 and 35,000 and 6 per cent above that amount. It calls for a surtax rate beglr at 1 per cent at $10,000 and gradu mum of 40 per cent, w would apply on incomes over $500,00 The present surtax rates start at | per cent at $8.000 and scale up to 30 The Meilon plan, reinserted in tle blil by the Republican members of the finance committee, calls for normal taxes of & per cent on incomes beiow $4.000 and 6 per cent above and a sur- tax schedule gtarting at 1 per cent on $10,000. graduating up to 25 per cent at $100,000. Admitting lack of support for the Jiellon plan, Republicans are preparing for a compromise, Many favor a stand for the Longworth compromise adopted by the House, providing for normal rates of 2 per cent on incomes bei $4,000, 5 per cent on incomes betw $4,000 and $8,000 and 6 per cent on in- comes above that amount. The surtax rates in this plan start at 1% per cent at $10,000, graduating up to 37% pe: cent at $200,00 WAREHOUSE BLAZE | MENACES ORPHANAGE 150 . Children at St. Vincent's Re- moved as Fire Becomes Dangerous. |FOUR ALARMS TURNED IN Flames Discovered Shortly After 2PM One hundred and fifty children were removed from a wing of the St. Stephen's Orphanage 4sylum, near 4th and Channing streets, this after noon when a fire in the warehous: of Barber & Ross, nearby, assumed dangerous proportions. The fire was discovered shortly after 2 o'clock, and when firemen reached the building it had gained such headway that a second alarm was turned in, closely followed by a third and fourth, bringing twelve engines, four truck companies and the water tower. Chief Watson responded to the sec- ond alarm. The first battalion and Deputy Chief A. J. Sullivan and Acting First Battalion Chief Watts also re- sponded. e Y. W. C. A. CONSIDERS VOTING PRIVILEGES Delegates to Convention Discuss Proposal for Amendment to Constitution. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 3.—Delegates tu the natlonal convention of the Youns Women's Christian Assoclation de- cided today whether to extend voting Privileges o girls of creeds not now eligible to vote. The question came before the con- vention yesterday in the form of an amendment to the constitution, but after a brief debate it was laid over untll today. < two-thirds vote is necessary to carry the amendment and the proponents of ‘the change are not confident that they can obtain the necessary number. Membership in the organization now is open to girls of all races and religions, but the right to vote rests only with those who are mem- bers of churches eligible to mem bulldings in the District of Colum- bership In the Federal Council of the 4 Churches of Christ in Americms