Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Clouded, with occasional showers today and tomorrow; continued cool; gentle to moderate east and south- east winds; temperature for twenty- two hours ended at 10 p.m. last night: Highest, 57, at 4 p.m.; lowest, 53, at 10 p.m. ¥ull' report on Page 20. No. 998.—No. 'LODGE COURT PLAN HOPELESS LEAGUE OFFICIALS BELIEVE Doubt Any of 45 Members of Present Tribunal Would | Support Proposal. 29,230. U. S. ADHESION HELD PRICED EXORBITANTLY Spokesman Points Out Possible Election of Judge Moore Head of Present Body. By the Asociated Press. GENEVA, May 10.—The measure Introduced in the American Senate | by Senaotr Lodge for the establish- ment of a new international court of Justice, as detafled In fragmentary dispatches, clearly created astonish- ment in league of nations circles where the opinlon was expressed that the forty-five countries which adhered to the existing world court ©f jusice would never abandon the Dresent institution merely to obtaln American adhesion to some new and untried tribunal. | Spokesmen for the league court| said that the present tribunal was considered by world statesmen a hap- Py realization of century-old aspir ons, and a useful international in- stitution based on the principle of the equality of state: Because of this the Lodge project is described as both needless and destructive. Judge Moore May Head Court. The spokesman pointed out that the present court is open to the United States without membership | should that nation desire to submit | cases to it, and that an American judge, John Bassett Moore. occupies & seat on its bench. In this connec- tion Judge Moore's election to the presidency of the tribunal was men- tioned as a possibility soon. In some quarters the opinion was expressed that the Lodge proposal | possesses the idealistic advantage of universal acceptance of. compulsory juriediction, but that this condition would probably kill the project in ad- vance, as none of the great powers had as yet accepted compulsory jur- tsdiction for the existing court of justice. The financial commission of the league of nations, which met today, probably will approve the court's an- nual budget of $400,000. The present | docket of the tribunal is cleared, but five new cases are expected to be sub- mitted at the June session. U. S. ACCEPTS RED CROSS OFFER AT REED HOSPITAL Secretary Weeks Praises Plan of Organization to Erect Building at Cost of $150,000. The Secretary of War has accepted the offer of the executive committee of the Red Cross to erect a perma- nent Red Cross building to cost $150,- 000 in the reservation of the Walter Reed General Hospital, on Georgia avenue, to replace the temporary &tructure now in use there. In a letter to the chairman of the Red Cross executive committee, an- nouncing his acceptance of the offer on behalf of the government, Secre- tary Weeks says: “The very liberal offer of the Amer- jean Red Cross to erect at the Walter Reed General Hospital, this city, a permanent building at a cost to not exceed $150,000 has been brought to my attention. “In accepting this splendid gift, please be assured that the War De- partment does so with the keenest appreciation of the generosity of vour organization, “This proposed building will add greatly to the facilities at Walter Reed and will increase the usefulness ©of this institution in a very substan- tial manner.” " FASCISTI IN GERMANY PLAN DEMONSTRATION Ludendorff, Von Mackensen and Other Notables to See Von Moltke Monument Unveiled. By tho Associated Press. HALLE, Germany, May 10.—Unless federal authorities at Berlin or the Prussian government decree an eleventh-hour prohibition, the Ger- fan Fascist organization will carry out their program for an elaborate outdoor demonstration on the oc- casion of the unveiling of a monu- ment to Field Marsh von Moltke to- morrow, it was declared tonight. Gen. Ludendorff, Field Marshal von MacKensen and other celebrities will attend the ceremony, and ad- wance guards of the various Hitler organizations, the Veterans' Corps and the National Student League, were arriving hourly tonight. Gen. Judendorff's arrival was made the occasion for an ostentatious ovation. The local police have announced yhat ample provision has been made 10 insure order, and have notified the Communists that they will not pe permitted to hold a counter dem- onstration. The report that the former crown prince was scheduled 10 participate in the ceremony has peen definitely denied. Raussians Are Released. BERLIN, May 10.—All members of the Russtan Soviet government com- nercial delegation who were arrested the recent raid by police on the aquarters of the delegution here Entered as secord-class matter post office Washington, D. C. ment Takes BY N. 0. MESSENGER. President Coolidge. Nis nomina- tion assured beyond peradventure, is devoting his uttention to the construction of the platform upon which he is to run and upon which all Republican candidates for of- fice will go before the people. 1t is well understood, of course, that the essential policies of the party are framed in the convention, but not necessarily by the convention, beyond indorsing what the titular head of the party and the great leaders propose. It is safe to assume platform to be presented to the convention will contain all that the President wants and nothing that he opposes. Republican lead- ers here do not agree with the prediction of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of New Yorfl that Presi- dent Coolidge will find himself in conflict with influential Republi- can leaders over the platform. The sentiment of Republican lead- ers here is that Dr. Butler is on the wrong tack In thinking that the Republican party has any in- tention of standing for modifica- tion of the Vostead act. ok k% The best sentiment among both NAVY FALLS BEHIND, ROOSEVELT ADMITS Says Status Is Now Below That of Britain, But Better Than That of Japan. that the FLEET REPAIRS REQUIRED Comparison Leaves Bases and Mer- chant Marines Out of Account. A Admission that “a fair comparison of the present fighting strength in sbips of Great Britain, America and | Japan would appear to be 5-4- with the American Navy in second place, is made by Theodore Roose- velt, assistant secretary of the Navy, in a report to Chairman Butler of the House naval affairy committee, made public yesterday. The opinion that the American Navy thus has fallen below an equal ratio strength with Great Britain, as provided in the 5-5-3 formula adopted under the naval limitation treaty, ‘was expressed by Mr. Roosevelt In a report commenting, at Chairman But- ler's request. on a recent article in the New York Times by W. B. Shearer, naval expert. The assertion in the article that the ratio of naval strength between the three powers is 5-3-1, with the American Navy in last position, was declared by the assistant secretary to be ‘“greatly exaggerated.” Varying Ratios in Types. Mr. Roosevelt qualified his view as to the present ralative strength of the three navies by observing that “it is difficult to state our exact strength, due to the varying ratios in the different types.” The 5-4-3 ratio which he believes to be a fair comparison of the present strength, Mr. Roosevelt said, does “not take into consideration strategi- cally located and well equipped naval bases which add greatly to sea power of a nation, nor does it take into con- sideration the relative strength of the various merchant marinea" Modernization of Ships. “Plans have been prepared.,” the report continued, for the compiete modernization of our battleships, as recommended in the annual report of the Secretary of the Navy, to cost $30,000,000. Authority for moderni- zation of the six coal-burning battle- ships has been requested of the present Congress. The department asked authority of the present Con- gress to build eight 10,000-ton light | cruisers, also for funds to build three mine-laying submarines. “The Navy is in good shape with the exception of the above-desig- nated deficiencies, which should be remedied. The morale of the per- sonnel, both commissioned and en- listed, is high. The appropriations furnished by Congress are being ap- plied in such a manner as to obtain the very best results.” Condition of Fleet. Mr. Roosevelt in another section of the report, however, conceded that from the standpoint of upkeep the fleet “is in poor condition,” because “Congress has failed to provide funds to keep it in shape” “The Atlantic fleet is practically out of commission,” he sald. “The recent maneuvers had to be broken off because the Wyoming (flagship), Arkansas, Utah and Florida needed to undergo repairs. They are tied up now. Their boilers are in bad shape and there is no money to do the work.” As to the question of operating bases and ofl reserves the report said: “We have no operating bases in the Pacific that are adequate. The Atlantic bases are better, but are not nearly all adequate. As regards pe- troleum reserves, we have a defi- ciency of 68 per cent in the weserve required in the Pacific. The Atlan- tio reserve deficlencies are still greater.” \ $68,000,000 TO DEPARTMENTS. An appropriation bill carrying about $68,000,000 for expenses of the de- partments of State, Justice, Commerce Been released, according to Vos- Zeitung. and Labor was passed yesterday by the Senate, he New Spurt. Democratic and Republican leaders, is that neither party will have the temerity to propose in its na- tional platform anything that even squints toward abatement of the national platform, but that each national platform, but tha teach can be depended upon to thunder loudly for law enforcement—and “let it go at that.”, * % * x Politicians, commenting upon President’s Coolidge’s actual and militant leadership of the party, several evidences of which have been given recently, profess to see his hand in Speaker Gillett's de- cision to make the run for the United States senatorship in Massachusetts. It is thought that his decision to announce his can- didacy was largely induced by President Coolidge. This will naturally carry with it the support of the administration, which will be an asset to Mr. Gillett. It is recalled that when Speaker Gillett was being dis- cussed for appointment as amba sador to the court of St. James, he announced in an interview in * The Evening Star that his place was in the House and that his duty was along the lines of service as (Continued on Page 5 COOLIDGE IS SILENT ON EXCLUSION ISSUE Conferees’ Agreement on Measure Eliminates Proposal Made by President. HOUSE DRAFT STILL STANDS Provisions of Section Become Ef- fective July 1. Faced by the apparently unaiterable | opposition of the House to any delay in operation of the Japanese exclusion provisions of the immigration bill, conferees upon the measure again agreed yesterday to make the exclu- sion section effective July 1, 1924. The agreement has the effect of eliminating completely the proposal of President Coolldge that this gov- ernment endeavor to negotiate the abrogation of the gentlemen's agree- ment prior to the effective date of ex- clusion. As approved by the conference committee, the section prohibiting admission of “aliens ineligible to citizenship” stands as it came from the House. The Senate version would have made the section applicable upon enactment of the bill Will Ge to Semate. The report of the conferees—the third to which they have affixed their signatures since the committee re- ceived the House and Senate bills— probably will be laid before the House tomorrow. It will lie over a day under the rules and then will come up for adoption. Afterward it will go to the Senate. There was no indication from the White House yesterday that the President would take any further step to influence the Senate and House oconferees. Neither wounld White House officials forecast wheth- er the bill would be approved by President Coolidge when finally sub- mitted to him. BATTLE WITH AXES. Woodsman Found Dead and Oppo- nent Nearly Unconscious. By the Associated Press. GROTON, Mass, May 10.—As a re- sult of a duel with axes today in a Groton wood lot Donat Fontalne, thirty-five, of Lowell is dead and his opponent, Joseph Gagnon, sixty, also of Lowell, is not expected to live. Gagnon is In a Lowell hospital. The men were chopping wood at some distance from others of a chop- ping gang. When Frank de Foe, the foreman, went to inspect their work, he found Fontaine dead from many deep gashes and Gagnon about to lose consciousness from wounds al- most as severe. Gagnon was too weak from loss of blood to make any statement. Both men's axes were bloodstained. None of the other choppers knew what started the fight. DAVIS MAKES AIR TRIP. Labor Secretary Goes to Philadel- phia for Vare Dinner. PHILADELPHIA, May 10.—The airplane bearing Secretary of Labor Davis from Cleveland landed at Pine Valley, N. J., at 2:02 p.m. today. The Secretary made the trip to attend a dinner here tonight in hemor of Representative Willlam S Vare. The plane left Cleveland at 9:20 am. and reached Bellefonte, Pa., at 11:235, It left there at 12:01 for Pine Valley. The Secretary motored from Pine Valley to Philadelphia. e TR BONUS BILL RETURNED. Goes Back to White House After Examination in Bureaus. Tbe soldier bonus bill was returned to the White House yesterday after study by the budget bureau, Treas- ury Department and Veteran's Bu- reau. ON CRAMTON PLAN :g WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., COOLIDGE TAKES UP TASK OF FRAMING PLATFORM To Dictate Policies Upon Which Repub- lican Party Will Stand; McAdoo Senti- CITY HEADS READY FOR FINISH FIGHT Absolute Opposition to Sub- stitute for 60-40 System Expressed in Statements. TO TAKE ARGUMENTS TO SENATE TUESDAY Capper fiiguronlly Opposed to’ Rider to Change Fiscal | System in Capital. Absolute opposition to the Cramton amendment, which would substitute | a fixed sum of $5,000,000 in the Dis- trict appropriation bill In lieu of the 60-40 plan, and decision to endeavor to have the 60-40 plan restored in the bill, was expressed yesterday by the three District Commissioners in official statements. The Commissioners will go before | the District subcommittee of the | Senate appropristions committes Tuesday morning. At that time they will urge vigorously that the Cram- ton rider be stricken from the bill and the existing legal basis of fiscal relationship in the form of thé 60-40 Plan, under the act of July 29, 1922, restored. | | { | Hope Placed in Conference. Since the rider has aready passed &! PARIS INDIFFERENT ON ELECTION EVE Composition of Chamber of Depu- the House, its rejection by the Senate will throw the issue into conference. | Hence, it may be possible, the Com missioners indicated that the amend- ment introduced by Representative Moore of Virginia, on May 1, providing for investigation of the fiscal affairs | in the District by a congressional commission which would report back to Congress on this proposition on January 1, 1925, may in the event of a deadlock in conference be considered | by the conferees as a compromise | proposition, The Commissioners do not however, present this possible compromise as their proposition. The fiscal rela- tionship of the United States and the District of Columbia on the 60-40 basis was fixed by the act of June 29, 1922, for five years and taxes were levied for these five years on that basis by the specific words of the statute. Tt is felt that the fiscal re lationship established by this coms promise law should be left undis- turbed for the five-year period, un- less the law is overthrown and an- other substitute, in its place by legislative action of the two houses, after hearings and favorable reports by the District committees. Blew to Fiseal Plans. It is the contention of Commis- sioner Oyster that when the 60-40 plan went through it was to be in effect for five vears. District plans for improvement were made with that in mind, he said. The Cramton amendment knocks these plans into a “cocked hat” Commissioner Oyster announced yesterday that in addition to “stand- ing pat” as an advocate of the 60-40 plan of appropriation he favors a bond issue of about $20,000,000 to cover permanent improvements in the city. This is separate and distinct from any proposition to defeat the Cramton amendment, which sets $8,000,000 as the federal contribution (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) JAPAN GOVERNMENT THOUGHT DEFEATED Returns From Election Indicate Decisive Loss—Hear Premier 'Will Besign. By the Amsociated Press. TOKIO, May 11.—Early returns to- day indicated the decisive defeat of the government in yesterday's elec- tions. The Japanese press credits Premier Kiyoura with the statement that he wil resign if the government is beaten. STOKES WINS POINT. Court Upholds Affidavits in Law- yer’s $60,000 Suit. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 10.—The appli- cation of Attorneys John A. Nugent and Daniel F. Nugent to have por- tions stricken out of affidavits filed by W. E. D. Stokes, owner of the Ho- tel Ansonia, in their suit to recover $60,000, was denied today by Supreme Court Justice Carswell in Brooklyn. The attorneys say the money is ow- ing as part of the legal fee for act- ing as counsel for Stokes in his di- vorce suit against Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes, in which Stokes was de- feated. In his afidavit Stokes charged the lawyers with extortion in obtaining a note from him as part of their fee The Nugents dented his accusation, and moved to have it struck out as irrevelent. —_— France and Japan Confer. TOKIO, May 10.—Franco-Japanese negotiations looking toward an eco- nomic understanding between Japan and Indo-China, opened today. Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Matsu- daira is representing Japan. France is represented by two members of the staff of M. Merlin, governor gen- President Coolidge probably will announce his action on the measure carly this week. eral of French Indo-China. The first day was devoted to procedurs and agenda. ties for Next Four Years Will Be Decided Today. JOAN OF ARC FETE PLANNED | Royalist and Communist Gains Foreseen by Observers. | | By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 10.—The utter indif- |terence of the man in the street as |to the result of tomorrow's election, at which the composition of the | chamber of deputies for the next four | years will be decided, was the out- |standing feature of the final hours of the campaign for the American observer tonight. Aside from the scattered tracts and ballots from the ky in behalf of two war-aviator candidates—on opposing tickets—the day passed with a singular absence of election stunts and no torch-light parades were planned for tonight True, the city was beflagged with the tri-color and gay bunting, but it was a mere coincidence, and the decorations Were in evidence because the national fete of Joan of Arc will |be held tomorrow. A few streamers over the saloons in which candi dates had established campaign head- quarters and the ever-present bill- boards plastered with declamatory or defamatory posters and cartoons were the only visible signs that to- morrow would be anything but a good day to go fishing on the Seine. Poils Open at 8 A.M. The polls open at 8 am. and close at 6 pm The voters may bring their own ballots, accept them from party workers outside polling places or get them within. Many ingenious tricks have been tried throughout the country to hand ballots contain- ing the names of the first thres or four candidates of their chosen list, followed by names from a list dia- metrically opposed. Thus the na- tional bloc in the first Paris district today charged that some Royalists were trying to slip over one of their own candidates by that practice. The chagrin of any simonpure Republi- can who finds that he has unwitting- 1y voted, through this means, for a candidate championing the restora- tion of the monarchy can easily be imagined. The general belief of well-informed observers is that both extremes—the Royalists and Communists—will make distinct gains, perhaps even doubling the former's seventeen and the latter’s thirteen seats in the outgoing chamber, and that change in the intermediate groups may possibly leave M. Poincare withopt a homogeneous majority such as was returned for him in the 1919 elec- tion. In this case France would be po- litically akin to Great Britain and Ger- many wherein neither the House of Commons nor the Reichstag has any one party a sufficient majority for control. Aside from in the third district of Paris, where former Premier Painleve's left bloc candidates have come out in favor of a general cancellation of the (Continued on Page 7, Column z.) MOTT SCHOOL AFIRE; LOSS PUT AT $7,500 Two Alarms Bring Out Police Reserves; Origin Is Unde- termined. Fire breaking out on the lower floors of the Mott School, 4th and W streets, early today assumed threatening pro- portions before firemen, responding to two alarms, could check it. The origin is undetermined. The fire apparently started in the low- er southeastern corner of the structure, eating its way to the upper floor, and gradually spreading through the lower floor. Dense smoke caused by varnish on the desks, hampered the firemen. Damage is estimated at about $7,500, unofficially, although a thorough inspec- tion will be needed to give the loss more definite on. Fire Chief George Watson and reserves from the eighth Police precinct under Lieut. Sul- livan responded when the second alarm | was sounded. airplanes which | Star, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 11, 1924.—106 PAGES. TODAY’S STAR Part One—40 Pages. General News—Local, National Foreign. National Political Survey—Pages 4 and 5. Schools and Colleges—Pages 26 and 27. Spanish War Veterans—Page 31. At the Community Centers—Page 32. Veterans of the Great War—Page 33. Fraternities—Pages 34 and 35, Army and Navy News—Page 35. D. A. R. Activities—Page 35, Parent.Teacher Activities—Page 36. Radio News and Gossip—Page 37. Sunday School Lesson—Page 38. Part Two—14 Pages. Editorial and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Girl Scouts—Page 10. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 11. News of the Clubs—Page 11. Boy Scouts—Page 11. Reviews of New Books—Page 12. Around the City—Page 13. Part Three—12 Pages. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Music in Washington—Page 5. Notes of Art and Artiste—Page S. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6 to 11. The Civillan Army—Page 12. Serial—“Mistress Wilding"—Page 12. Part Four—4 Pages. Pink Sports Section. Part Five—8 Pages. Magazine Section—Features and Fiction. Part Six—12 Pages. Classified Advertising. Financial News—Pages 10 and 11. District National Guard—Page 12. Graphic Section—12 Pages World Events in Pictures. Comic Section—4 Pages, Mr. Straphanger; Reg'lar Fellers; and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff, Mr. e FOREST AGAIN BLAZES. Troops Called to Combat Fire in Arizona. DOUGLAS, Ariz, May 10.—A forest fire which originated early Thursday morning in Pridham Canyon, in the Chiricahua Mountaing and which was believed to have been extinguished late yesterday has broken out anew, acoording to word received here. A call for troops to combat the con- flagration has been telephoned to Camp Harry J. Jones here. MOROCCANS DEFEATED. Spanish Troops Dislodge Rebel Tribesmen From Position. MADRID, May 10.—The rebellious Moroccan tribesmen have been dis- lodged from their positions at Sidi Mesaud, which menaced the Spanish front, said an official statement on the military operations in Morocco today. It adds that the offensive will be resumed tomorrow with the aid of airplanes. No mention is made of losses among the Spahish troops, but the beliet is expressed that they are “not great” Gen. Sanjurjo, who was at the head of a column during the Spanish re- verses in Morocco in 1921, is about to leave for Melilla to take up his new post as commandant general there. Plans App By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 10.—Plans to broadcast the entire proceedings of the Republican national conven- tion, which opens here June 10, have been approved by the full Republican national committee. and negotiations were opened today with broadcasting stations in several cities to broadcast the convention proceedings to per- haps 20,000,000 people in all parts of the country by means of telephone service and radio. The plans to put the convention “on the ai¥" as now outlined will “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. ‘I test mounted to white heat in the roved to Radiocast Entire Republican Convention | President PRIZES FOR ORATORS | AGAIN NEXT YEAR| The Star Would Stimulate Study of | Constitution in D. C. High | Schools. | THIRD JUDGING TOMORROW Conclusion of Preliminaries in| Present Contest on Tuesday. So stimulating to the study of the | Constitution is The Star's oratorical contest proving that this paper Is privileged to announce a second con- test in the local high schools next year, along lines similar to the present one. Whether or not natiomal competi- tions are held in the future, The Star, | in view of the widespread interest in this year's event and its bellef that the interests of good citizenship are served by stimulating the youth of this city to the careful study of the Constitution, which is the foundation of American institutions, will offer prizes as an impetus to further stu- dent activity. This means that The Star oratori- cal contest will take its place in the high school year along with other competitive events of great import- ance to student bodies. As the work of the board of judges, | consisting of the Justices Siddons, Robb and McCoy, got under way last week the interest in the present con- high schools. So far three students, winners in their respective schools, have been heard individually, with five more to be heard this week, two tomorrow wnd three Tuesday. Awarded Cash Prizes. Each of these contestants has been awarded a prize of $100 by The Star for being adjudged the best second- ary school orator in his or her school From the eight the judges will select the grand prize winner, who will represent this city in the national | contest to be held in Memorial Con- tinental Hall June 6, when President Coolidge will preside. Students and faculty of the bigh schools are enthusiastic in their | praise of the contest, and the bene- | fits derived from it by all concerned. Miss Sarah E. Simons, head of the department of English of the Wash- ington high schools, last night said: “The oratorical contest which is being conducted by The Evening Star has aroused great interest in both the student body and the faculty of each of the several high schools of this city. I shall not consider the intrinsic worth of the contest, its value in calling the attention of the pupils in a very real way to the meaning of our Constitution, but shall confine my remarks to a word or two concerning its worth to the stu- dent of English from the technical and practical points of view. Modern Life's Demands. “Modern life demands of our cit- izens ability to face an audlence and speak intelligently and intelligibly to varying groups of men and women. During the world war Adjt. Gen. Mc- Cain reported that many men falled to qualify for the officers reserve be- cause of thelr inability to articulate clearly, and-he expressed the hope that in the future greater emphasis be placed upon the basic principles of public speaking in the training of our youth. Surely, then, high school students should be trained “to speak (Continued on Page 14, Column 1.) give virtually every radio set owner in the country a chance to hear the proceedings if the broadcasting sta- tions agree to the terms. George F. Moran, chairman of the press executive committee of the na- tional convention for Cleveland, has opened negotiations With stations at Kansas City, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Providence, R. L; Atlant Dallas, St, Louis and Omaha to sup- ply the full convention proceedings. It is already certain broadcasting will take place from Cleveland, New | far in general tax revision as | taxes on FIVE CENTS. TAX BILL PASSED WITH ALL MELLON PLAN ELIMINATED Republican Senate Leaders Threaten to Ask President to Veto Measure. CUTS CURRENT INCOME RATES BY 25 PER CENT Entire Democratic Program A proved in Upper House by Vote of 69 to 15. Stripped almost of every vestige of the Mellon plan and clothed th Democratic program, the tax redu tion bill was passed yesterday by t Senate, 69 to 15 As a result it goes to conference f adjustment of differences with tii House, with its life at stake. Reput lican organization leaders in the Ser ate frankly admitted they would recommend veto of the measure t Coolidge, if it was n transformed by the conference. The President had asked Congres for the Mellon plan. Although hi views were not made known on th bill passed by the House, which ried only the remnants of the Mello scheme, he has voiced specific opp sition to some of the provisions ir serted in the Senate. Provisions ef Bill. The Senate bill goes practically tha passed by the House. It provides gexn erally for A 25 per cent reduction in incom« taxes payable this year. Repeal or reduction of most of the special excise and miscellaneou taxes. A 50 per cent permanent cut in the incomes below $8.000 and 4 general reduction in the tazes or higher incomes. The maximum sur tax rate would be cut from 50 to 40 per cent. A 25 per cent reduction on earn=i incomes up to $10,000. Fifteen Vote “No." Administration leaders opened the attack on the bill yesterday before passage, and fifteen repub cans voted against it while three others were paired against it. Chairman Smoot of the finance committee declared the Senate in re- modeling the bill had cut taxes b: $111,150,000 beyond the reduction recommended by the committge, and that as a result, “instead of a $50 1 000,000 Treasury deficit next yea under its operation the governmen: faces a $161,000,000 deficit which w be increased to $475,000,000 if the pending extra appropriation bills be come law.” Senators Moses, New Hamps and Brandegee, Coanecticut, Repub! cans, served, notice that “in view of the total destruction of the Mellor plan,” they would not support the measure finally unless it was tranc formed in conference. Delay Now Expected. The measure probably will not taken up by the Senate and House conferees for final adjustment of dif- ferences before Tuesday, and Chair man Smoot expects it to take twu weeks to reach a settlement. The vote on passage was Democrats—Adams, Ashurst, Bay ard, Broussard, Bruce, Caraway, Dial Dill, Ferris, Fletcher, George, Gerry Glass, Harris, Harrison, Heflin, Jones of New Mexico, Kendrick, King, Mc Kellar, Mayfield, Neely, Overman Pittman, Ralston, Ransdell, Reed of Missouri, Robinson, Sheppard, Shields Simmons, Smith, Stephens, Swanson Trammell, Underwood, Walsh © | Massachusetts and Walsh of Montans | Republicans — Borah, Brandegee Brookhart, Bursum, Capper, Curtis Dale, Fernald, Frazier. Gooding, Hale Harreld, Howell, Johnson of Cali- | fornia, Jones of Washington, Keves | Ladd, McLean, McNary, Norris, Oddie Shortridge, Smoot, Spencer, Stanfield Sterling, Warren, Weller and Willis Farmer-Labor—Johnson of Minne sota and Shipstead. The opposing votes were cast by | Senators Ball, Delaware; Cameron. | Arizona; Colt, Rhode Island; Cum mins, lowa; Edge, New Jersey; Fess Ohio; Lodge, Massachusetts: McKin- ley, Ilinois: Moses, New Hampshire Norbeck, South Dakota; Pepper and Reed, Pennsylvania; Phipps, Colorado Wadsworth, New York, and Watsor Indiana; all Republicans. The following pairs nounced: Stanley, Democrat, for; Ernst, Re publican, against; Owen, Democrai, for; McCormick, Republican, against and wheeler, Democrat, for; Elki Republican, against. Of those absent it was announced the following would have voted for passage: La Follette and Lenroot, Republi cans, and Copeland, Democrat. No announcement was made for the other absentees: Edwards, Democr. and Couzens and Greene, Republicans Debate for Three Hours, Two of the three hours of debate possible yesterday under agreement entered into previously, before vot ing on amendments and the bill, were consumed in a fight to remove the Treasury proposal providing for limitation on deductions in relation to incomes from tax exempt securi- ties. It was rejected, 45 to 37. Thix removed from the bill practically the last part of the program recom- mended by Secretary Mellon. In the closing minutes Democrats completed their income tax schedule. obtalning an increase in the persorial exemptions so that all heads of tam- iltes would be allowed $2,500° Jn the were an- York, Pittsburgh and Washington, local convention officials said. present law heads of families with (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) _ ¢