Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1926, Page 2

9 ¥# OPERATORS AGREE THE EVEN WASHINGTO 'CITIZENS' COUNCIL WILL TACKLE 'PROPOSED WATER RATE INCREASE STAR, COUNSEL DEFENDS PERMANENT GAMP ¥ CONGRESS HAS HUGE PROGRAM " FOR DEVELOPING CAPITAL CITY SHIPSTEAD HITS T0 TEXTILE PLAN Labor Department’s Pro- posal Calls for Return to Work Pending Parley. Re the Ascomated Prese All of the textile mill owners in the New Jersey strike area have agreed te the Labor Departm plan f settlement of differ hetween emplavers and emploves The terms call for immediate return work of the 16,000 strikers pending adjustment of o opera ters and emploves’ whose decision would he retroactive to the date the warkers zo hack If these negotiations fail. each side would select an arhitrator and the Labor Department would name third. The decision of thiz committes | of three wonld he hinding FAIL TO SEE COOLIDGE. nee te arievanres ropresentaiives, Refused Andience at White Honse. RUSSELL YOUNG, An audience with President ¢onlidge was today denied to 10 men and women representing the striking em ploves of the textile mills in Passaic, X. 1. when they called to acq the Executive with their trouhl th ask for his moral support tn the settlement of their controversy time The delegation. however, received an andience with Secrstary Davie of the Lahor Dapartment. at which sev eral of his lahor concilintars were pres #nt. and i1 e hoped by these of the visiting lahar group that some good may te It was axplained hy the etvike delegation that their xee President Coolidze was to ac anaint him with what they descrihed as the pitiahle and intolerable cond tions in the textile industry in Pas. cale: ta warn him of the imminent danger of industrial unres: spreading. to other textile centers, and to ask him te give his suppert 1o a regoln tion 1n he introduced in the Senate calling for an investigation of the mill conditions in Passalc. The delsgation was tnrned away by Everett sanders. secretary tn the | Fresident. who, after Ifstening to their | story and pleas for mare than 20 min. | Utes. said that thev shanld present | their caze ta the Labor Department | and that it wae not a matter to bring tn the President’s attention at this time. Alhert Wishnrd, a rollege graduats | and holder nf several dezrees, leader o7 the labor group, who had acted as spokesman in Secretary Sander’s of- fice, said upon leaving the White House that he and his associates were greatly disappointed. Thev were sorry the secretary did not ses fit even to ask the President if he cared tn re ceive thess callars. Mr. Wishord said, and added thai he and his associates could not understand hew the Presi dent could he so husy all of & sndden, whan they read daily newspaper ac. counts nf his receiving or shaking hands with all sorts of people whe have no partieular husiness tn take up with him. ‘Only within the last wesk or 0." Mr. Wisbord declared. “we read ahont the President receiving some cham pion Charleston dancers and later several college gles clubs, and the Delegation BY . previous | | visiting | eagerness nators Evinee Interest. Thig delegation of 1extile workers vesterday made known the Passaic conditions to Senatars Rorah of Idaho, La Follette of Wisconsin and Whasler of Montana. all of whom. it was rep- nted. showed deep intersst in the strikers’ rase. When the Adelegatinn laft the White House taday it at first did not in. tend to follow the suggestion made by Secretary Sanders 1o go 1o the Lahor Department.. hut upon second thought =ought the andienca with Secretary Davis Tt was explained by Mr. Wishord that the principal reason for his Adsle gation not being inclined to sonfer with the Labor Department was that it _considersd the Passaic labor situ- Atinn at heing oo far advanced and tan seriops a1 this time tn take up with the degartment. COOLIDGE CONFERS WITH U. S. ENVOYS ON ISSUES ABROAD (Cantinued from First Page.) gested that if the preliminar: conference were ralled now. and <hould fail ta come tn any satisfac 16ry Agreement. then the league would suffer still further in its prestige. e preponderance of helisf in off efal eircles. however. was that the Jeagne wonld go ahead with the plans for the arms conference. It was poinied out rthat this is the third time that the league haz advanced the idea of an arme conference. that if it al lowed the conference tn go hy the board thie time the leazue would lose the sympathy of a great many people heve and abroad who are heartily In favor of limitation of armaments The council of the league may set the date for the preliminary confer ence early in May. as has heen plan ned. On the other hand. it was re rvalled today that the date of the con- | ference had heen postponed once he. fore on the plea that Germany should frst be admitted 10 the league hefore the ronference was held. Germany haz not hecome a2 member of t league. and there is no chance for her hecoming so untll next Septemher or Jater. S0 the eouncil might postpone the date of the ronference again for the reason of Germany’s non-membher. #hip in the leagne. Work of First Conference. The preliminary arms conference, 1t wae pointed aut foday. has only to decide upon the program. 1o sift out those questiont which the various na- | tions belleve may he attacked with | some eucceas at the canferance proper which rould nnt he held probahl unti] the latter part of 1927. The In terest taken in it abroad was de- seribed ar lese than that in this coun- try. Nevertheless, there s consid- arable sentimant In the ropean nations for a limitation of armaments and hope that “something” may be done. No effort is made here to minimi the serinuspess—from the point of view of the league —of the situation which has aricen out of the contro- vereies at Geneva nver the admission of Germany tn the league and the propessls of various nations to en- large the council by giving a per- manent seat tn Brazil, Poland or one of the ather nations not Now possesa- ing such a seat. The hope is e pressed. however. that the row may be largely on the surface and that the postponement of action now has been taken with a full understand- ng that the present difficulties not only may, but can, he ironed out successuflly prior to Septemher. Brazil's atutude. declining fo yield arms uter Fail ? night—Other itizens' Advisory Council will apecial meating tonight, at which the proposed 25 per cent in ‘rease in Will he dizeussed, An effort was made hy Jesse (. Suter, ¢hairman. 10 have the councll consider the vaise. which the District appropri ation bill as reported ta the House Adirects the Commissioners to put into effect July 1. at its regular weekly hold meeting last night. but a lengthy dis. | russion on the bill aholishing the fee <vstem in the offices of the Recorder of Deeds and the Register of Wille neces- sitated a delay. Mr. Suter said the roposed boost In water rales was a matter of utmost importance an vuld take precedence over othe maiters pending before the councll, Mr. Suter vead a memorandun the council explaining that the pro- viso for higher water rates had heen inserted in the appropiration hill to meel an expected deficit in ths water | revenues for the next fiscal vear. due to the fact ment is not consume that the Faderul Govern. paying for the water ft It fs estimated that the| United States nses 18 per cent of the fotal amount of wator consumed in the Distriof annually. The memorandum alse pointed out the the Federal Government. which hax A capital investment th the District’s water supply tem, has not contributed to itx maintenance since 1917, and that the upkeep has heen hoine entirely by the water consumers, 1f the Fedwial ¢ | ment paid for the water it ¢ the memorandum added. It would not he necessarv 1o ralse the water rates, In considering the water situa the council, at the suggestion of Daniel J. Donovan. Districr auditor, will study the testimony of Engineer Commissioner J. Franklin Rell and nther afficials at the hearings on the appropriation bill before the House suhcommittee. n was ot these hearinzs that Commissioner Rell | urged that the mainienance of the watar suply svsiem he provided for aut of the general revennes of the Distriet Instead of out of the water revenies of the Disirict. He sug gested an Increase in rales as an alternative to this plan “The hill designed to put the offices | of the Recorder of Deeds and the Regisier of Wills on an apropriation hasis by aholishing the present fee| svstem was approved by the council after a two.and-one-half hour discus. sion A report submitted b Dr Havenner. Theodore (‘ogs. well. deputy recorder of deeds. and Distriet Anditor Donovan appeared hefore the council in connection with the discussion. With several modifications, the conneil also approved a favorahle re water rates In the District | | tin | plete in Effort to Have Issue Discussed Last Night—Special Session Summoned for To- Bills 0. K.’d. on the bill fiic act. The {port of Dr. lavenner amending the Diatrict t hill has passed the Hons The council found ita chief objec- | tion_to the bill in a provision defining | tramP, which sald it should inelude | pedestrains and animals of all de- | seriptions, at rest or in motion. Thix provision was amended so as to duce its latitude in controlling pedes. :Il'lfl"‘l. The other amerndment pro posed A vestriction on fines for driving withont an operator's permit. The bill provides for a fine ranging from $2 10 $40. BE ANSWERR CRI Denies Heads on Arlington County Water, Differ With Chief. Kug.neer Commissioner J. Frank- Bell today answered the eriticism of Asu K. Phillips, consulting engineer, o his attitude on the bill v the extension of the Dist water supply into the sanitary tiet of Avlington County, V: Writing to Maj. Gen, Ha hief of engineers of the 1°, oner Rell, said: here was an article in last night's in which a corvespondent from Clare . Va. stated that my atti tude on the bill to supply Arlington County with water was critical of the Secreiary of War. i< is the mutter consulied you, and we the bill 10 supply with water shoy the arrangement the Commissione of the bistriet of “olumbia with the approval of the Secretary of War. in recognition of the fact that the Commissioners have charge of and = responsihle for the water revenues and that the Sec vetary of War should have the right 1o decide what engineering arrange ments should he made or to deny the application should & national emergency or make such tead helieve that aceord “I would appreciate it if you would call this te the attention of the Secretary, if you deem it desirable to 10 so. Col. Bell fnclosed a statement in his letter showing the astimited ax penditures of the water supply and Aistribution systems to June 30, 1927, when the new aqueduct system should he complete. The engineer Commissioner has for some time Insisted that It would he in the interest of good administra tion for the District 10 fix the water rates for the Arlington County con- sumers. on which 1 greed that he amended so that action advisable, of being at varfance. 1 oul views are in com- SENATORS TOHEAR D.C.ISSUES TODAY 14th Street Extension and| Sale of Firearms Among Pending Questions. | | | 1 i A number of local citizens are ex. pected o attend a meeting of the Sen- ate District committee this afternoon to protest against the plan of giving officials of Walter Reed Hospital the right to prescribe the conditions under | which Fourteenth atreet may be used | when it Is extended ihrough the hos. pital reservation. . Legislation for the extension of this | thoroughfare has been pending for several yvears. but a few weeks ago It was changed to provide that no street | cars or motor husses would he allowed | to operate over that portion of the | strest within the hospital houndaries. The revised plan also would give Wal. | ter Reed control over trafic regula- tions. The committes also will take up this afternoon the long-pending queation of restricting the sale and posseasion of dangerous weapons in the Distri recommended by the Commissioner: Police officiala for vears have heen call- ing attention to the need for more stringent legislation on this subject as a crime preventive measure. Another hill acheduled for considera- tion wonld permit the National Press Ruilding being erected at Fourteenth and F =treets to axtend above the pres. snt height Hmit that Rrazil regards herself as the | grestest of the American nations hold. | ing membership in the league. and | regards herself as a leader of Ameri. | can affairs In the league, and wishes | 1o assume still further that leader- ship. Still another view = that Brazil has acted with the support of and at the suggestion of oth members of the league, particularly the Latinized | group. which includes France. Italy and Spain, In their effort to offset the | entrance of Germany into the league and membership in the council. A wsimilar cleavage may occur at the proposed arms conference in the event that an effart 1= made. for ex. ample. to arrive at some uniform methnd of military service and a pro- posal Is advanced to do away with ronseription. The Latinized nations have conscription. while the United States, Great RBritain, Germany and nther North European countries do not. The preliminary arms conference ia expected now to take place in Geneva, as has heen planned from the first. The controversy between Russia and Switzerland, - which threatened to bring about the transfer of the confer- ence to another eity, possibly Paris or The Hague, has simmered down and is quiescent. Rut should it spring up again. location of the conference so that Russia would participate is con sidered essential.. for a conference, with Russia antside, wanld he idle, NOONDAY LENTEN SERVICES B.F.KEITH'S THEATER 12:30 to 1 O'Clock SPEAKER TOMORROW Mr. Hulbert A. Woolfall Conducted by Rev.John H. A.Bomberger DEFENSE RESTS N LIQUOR TRAL Shields Does Not Take Stand. Johnson Charges He Was “Framed. On advice of counsel. Daniel . Shields of Johnstown, Pa.. did not take the stand in his own defense in the conspiracy case with Maj. James F. Johnson, former attornev in the prohibition unit, which is on trial be. fore Justice Stafford and a Jjur Criminal Division 2. The men are ac- cused of bribing employes of the bu- reau to furnish information for secur- ing permits for hreweriea in Pennayl- vania in 1924, Attorney James 8. Fashy-Smith, representing Maj. Johnson, rested his case with the testimony of his client, who claimed to have been “framed” by agente of the Government placing $250 in hix coat pocket while he was reading a newspaper in a local hotel. where the alleged trap was sprung. The cross-examination of Maj. John | »on by Assistant United States Attor- Fihelly ended with the admission | the ney by Johnson that he had told agents he had been In possession of the money for some time. He admit- ted that statement to he a falsehood and the prosecutor excused him from the witnesas atand. After a conference hetween Attor- neys Percy Allen Rose of Johnstown and Michael M. Doyle of Washington. two lawyers formerly connected with the prohibition unit were summoned As wirtnesses for Rhields. These wit- nesses, Harvey L. Rabbit and John W. Maher, told of the methods in vogue in the Prohibition Bureau for securing blank applications and obtaining as- sistance from clerks in flling them out. Mr. Maher sald the blanksa were “freely distributed on request.” ‘'ounsel then announced the defense closed without calling Shields. The afternoon session was devoted to arguments of counsel and the case will probably go to the jury tomorrow. Maj. Johnson declared yesterday that Saul Grill. a prohibition agent, paid $20 for a quart of whisky in an effort to entrap the accused. .Johnson sald that Grill came to his apartment and invited him and Mra. .Johnson to R0 to dinner at a roadhouse in Wash- ington. Grill inquired If Johnson had any liquor, and heing answered in the negative aald he knew where he couli get it. A chauffeur was summoned by Grill, who gave him a $20 bill with directions to buy two pints of whisky. The liquor was secured and the messenger was allowed to keep the change as a tip. According to the witness, the whisky was consumed at the din ner in the roadhouse., Whisky was also In evidence during a confer ence with Grill and other agents in a New York hotel. Maj. Johnson aid. and fowed freely at a dinner in that elty. whers the hill amounted to $28 or $30. In Philadelphia. Grill alse 100k the witnesa to dinner and fur. nished high balls, the jury was told. providing | Avlington County | would he made by | the state of the water | LEITER TRUSTEES; Charges Made by Sister One Will Be Disproved, Platt Declares. ot By the Ansociated Press. CHICAGO. March 17.— Joseph Leiter and Willam 1. War testad trustees of the vast estate of Levi Z. Leiter, ploneer merchant | prinee of Chicago, were pictured to- day at a Ruperior Court hearing as careful and diligent conservators. The Countess of Suffolk, sister of Jomeph Lelter. seeks to have her brother ousted from trusteeship he- cause of “gross mismanagement and dereliction of duty,” while the torney for three of her neices, cluding lady Cynthia Mosley, a cent visitor her upled Warr's name, terming him a “tool” of Leiter. cy Russell Platt, counsel for took up item by ftem, th s in the long double arraign- ment_made in opening statements by the plaintiffa’ counsel vesterday, and atated evidence would he adduced to turn each issue in favor of Leiter and Warr, i K Warr was appointed as a “working trustee,” to do “'the dray-horse work” in connection with administratian of the estate whose present value hak been eatimated al from $50.000,000 to $100,000,000, said Platt. After the death of Seymour Morris, | one of the five original trustees under | the Levi Leiter will of 1904, there arose a pressing need for some one in intimate contact with the property and able 1o devote much of his time | to it | lady Suffalk xubmi | of tour bank president | who conld not act in capacity. Warr was termed an able, honest {man whose integrity and devotion to | | duty never had heen questioned | previousty. The complaint against Leiter men. tioned xales of stock 10 abtain monex to further his Wyoming ranch in. terests, and Platt told Judge Denis E. Sullivan that the stock holdings were sold hecause they had de preciated to an extent equal to the | income for that particular vear from Wyoming interests. Sales of the de. pressed stock prevented the estate | paying a high income rax that year, the loas of {1 offsetting the Wyoming land sale fncome. He admitied that the issues of stock sold were valued at much hizher prices today, Is Large. ed the namen all huay men, the necessary Ignore E; Lady Suffolk room from her her Again st across the brother. Mrs, Calin sister who supports! a and Mrs. Leiter. greeting was exchanged. Mrs. Camp. bell and Mra. Leiter again industri wusly plied needles and thread 1o pleces of tapeairy they started working upon veaterday. The courtroom. seating abont 100 persons, again was stormed. Today's visitors included some from Chicagn'a blue book. three of whom accompanied the Leiters, [HEAD OF UNIVERSITY LAUDS MODERN YOUTH “St. Patrick found inspiration through a dream in which he heard volces cryving, ‘We pray theé, hely | youth, 10" come and walk among e | as hefore! " President William Mather | Lewin of orge Washington Uni- | versity said at the noonday lLenten services Keith's Theater today. Many pessimists today are fnding | much to criticlze in the attitude of modern vouth, he said, and they are for a return of the vonth of another | Reneration. Ruch criticiama are not peculiar to this time, for records show that similar opinions were heing ex. pressed 6,000 vears hack, Mr. Lewis sald. President Lewis continued: ““Temp- tations today may be intensive he. cause of the complications of modern life. but they are in substance the same as have alwavs existed. The very Intensity of the tem brought it about that | youth “have huilt up finer resistance evident. “The outstanding And of adult today is for a spiritual awakening. for an attitude shich will cause us to turn to the Young Man of Galllee with the words |t. Patrick's dream.” C. T. Jewel presided at today's se sion and Rev. John T. Huddle pr nounced the henedietion. Hulbert A. Woolfall, voung stu- dent at the Virginia Theologieal Sem- inary, will he the speaker for to- morrow. The service tomorrow has heen designated am “young peéople’s day,” and the xponsors of the meet- ings urge all young people to attend. RITES FOR GEN. SANGER. need of vouth Funeral services for Maj. Gen, Jdoseph Prentice Sanger, U. 8. A., re. tired, who died at Walter Reed Hos.! pital Monday, were conducted at St. John's Episcopal Church today ar 11| elock. Rev. Robert Johnaton, rector, officiated. Interment. with full mili- tarv honors, was in Arlington Ceme- tery. Honorary pallbearers were Maj. Gen#. C. 8. Humphr James. Allen, ‘Andre Brewster, Willard Holbrook and_Andrew Hero: Rear Admiral R. G. Davenport, Brig. Gen. Charles Mc- Cawley, Col. Alexander Rogers, J. R. Peabody, Edward McCauley, chibald Hopkins, Woodbury _RBiair, Reginald Huldekoper and Walter Rruce Howe Gen. Sanger, who. was in his eighty- aixth year, was a veteran of the Civil \War, the Spanish-American War and numerous military expeditions. He! was twice hrevetted for meritorious service. United Rtates Attorney Gordon to- day took steps to end the litigation which Mrs. Magdalene Welch has waged for more than four years against the United States Veterans' Bureau to recover. compensation for her hushand, Jack Floyd Welch, a former service man who was adjudged insane by a jury In the District Su- preme Court February 18, 1921. Maj. Gordnn filed an application asking the {court to decjpre Welch restored to hie | tormer legal status and to discharge | his committee. - Through Assistant United States | Attorney Rover, Maj. Gordon points out that Dr. A. P. Noyes, then acting | superintendent at St. Elizabeth's, re- ported September 17, 1924, that Welch had recovered and been discharged from the hospital. calls. attention to the suit by the com- on ber request for a permanent seat An the league council, ie variously in- terpreted here. One view taken is [} Every One Invited—No Collection mittee against the United recover $3,392.50 na due under an in. | surance policy to her husband and declared that it is necessary for the ’ Restoration of Status of Welch, Ex-Service Man, Asked by Gordon The prosecutor States to protection of the United Stases in the litigation, which ia scheduled for trial late in March. that an order be passed restoring Welch to hia legal atatus and taking hix affairs out of the hands of his committee. Mra. Welch has heen an almost| dafly visitor to the court and has| twice heen taken into cuatody and de- tained for ohservation of her own mental condition at Gallinger Hos- pital. On two occasions she was brought hefore a lunacy jury. which | disagreed at one time and found in her favor, declaring her sane on the other occasion. Mrs. Welch has dis- agreed with her lawvers and yester- day asked Justice Hitz to discharge her present counsel from further serv- ice in the case, Intimating that she would trv the case herself. Justice Siddons issued a rule on Mrs. Welch to show cause tomorrow why the legal status of her husband should not be restored and why she should not be removed as his com mittes. | whose motion the $5! {many visitors to the Capltal, as well | { the tourist camp is erected it wonld ! {hat it the money Is put into a perma- | | tourist camp. when it would be claime: | trier, | the {charge of communi {held at the Dunbar High { that the proceeds BUILDINGS FOUGHT mees smporsms s Large Scale, Slated Grant Supports Zihiman Against Potomac Park Operations. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Elaborating on the L/Enfant plan for the Natfon's Capital City, drafted in 1791, a well co-ordinated program for w’thnon development to meet present day needs and bufld ade- Quately for the future is being put through, She legislative mill. Part of this is being workea through the present session of Congress and & larger part will be in shape for pas- sage in the Sixty-ninth Congress. The question of starting permanent construction work at the tourist camp In East Potomac Park was dis- cussed pro and con today hefore the House committes on public buildings and grounds. Maj. U. 8. Grant, 3d, engineer officer In charge of public bulldings and public parks, apoke in support of the jolnt resolution Intro- | In the last session a bill was passed duced by Chairman Zihiman of the |establishing the National Capital House District committee, which wax | Parks Commisaion, to get steady de- elore the cewiilise 1o widers. 81 18 on the Senate calendar where ‘The history of the $50.000 appro- | Preferve desirable valley and wooded ey o tinier i Abmiv | tracts, But Congrews has never mp- Lo Uhe touriat camy | Provriated more thun $600.000 a year e wan. given by |oUL of the $1.100,000 annually author- and Representative ""l“ by that Jaw. b, of Michigan, on n the present (‘ongress enlarge- 400 wan put into | Ment of that commission is sought the appropriation bill laat year. j o assure a continuous and consistent o _{”',.,_m i the commitiee to. | d8velopment and beautification of the Aay that It was understood In the || @Pifal. Under that measure it ir h.:”"., before the appropriations|hoPed to get the beat advice in the commitiee that the greater part of | (V'N!rY on the building up of sWash- ington and fo get on the commission this money would be expended for a ! 5 ywunn‘m-m buillding having a rest | \Ghreseniatives from Maryand and | Vi : oom apd sitting room and general | \\T&Inia to advise in the planning for the metropolitan distriet. T(I.lnmlmnl::}, facilities for the automo: | Phix meazure has passed the House bile tour |and is on the Senate calendar, where There are good reakons now foriy yi prohably be reached in about not having East Potomae Park per- | 0 B0t manently a large autc iobile tourist camp, he suld, because such a camp | Is necessarily unsightly. and. lying ax it does on the main rallvoad entrance {0 the city from the South. it must | make a disagreeable i ) ita present v hoth Maj. Grant Cramton, Republ New Avenue Likely. ‘The extension of the (apitol grounds to Union Statlon, with & new avenue from Union Station to the Peuce Mon- ument, as originally planned by the ax (hreatening the plans (0 make Fast | JEMlAn commiasion In 1901 ang Potomac Park & great publlc plav-| o 4"0, lally since 1912 when con. ground for the citizeria of the District. | 414 sapecially since 1912 when con He aino explained the plana In can. | | LO08 B0 PHoOe e o this aession templation for_ providing tonrist | ol han pansed the meanure campe on ail the main arterien of |, 0 ilng completion of the pu approach to the Natlonal Capital. 10| chage of privately owned land. part the proposed permanent bullding for "oy dy (E00R S aiplea by Govern: 1 have 1o recelve considerable alteration | ":"::\:':;'L"fi ""‘“dm"':'l :‘:"::‘:‘I ';{'“""“"“'{"':‘ nse an a fleld houne for sporta When | -y, "¢ 00 e "comittee on public. build- the touriat camp eventualiy moved | o Jn4 rounds héld & hearing ves away'from thi location. He eatimated | \N€ And Krounds held o heaving ver that the present camp would Be| jeqiic:" ivat the committee will vote moved in five ta ten years. »a in favor of the measure. Maj. Grant advised the committae esxion on ure authorizing an appropriation of £600.000 1t complete the work of the Nock reek and Potomac Parkway Commission by acquiring the rem: ing land for a connection het n mittee that the informal planning | hese tho great i e ymmittee. which is co-operating with | ™ - oney he taken .entirely from the the National Capital Park Commission, , TONes . e ati 1 urptus funds of the District. The made up of rep e ot The Dia | Senate Distriet committee approved e e Imforees min |2 amendment by Senator Phipps mmendatione in aupport of the | Which would have the costx paid an i3 the 30.50 principle. Thia is now await- Zihlman resolution 1o prevent perma- | nent construction work at the tourist ing action on the Senate calendar. eamp. Mr. Cramton urged the committee New Ruilding Urged. not 1o take afrmative action that | The public buildings bill. which has would prevent providing proper ac. |already pased the House and which commodations for the hundreds of 1% on the Senais calendar and =i touriata visiting Washington during | Probably he acted upon in a B hext 10 vears. He pointad out | weeks (following the Italian debt). that the appropriations commitgee last | Provides $50.000.000 for new Federal Vears favared putting $40.000 ar mare | Puildings in’ Washington. This will into such A clubhouse as'the tourists | FE2UIL {0 a big improvement in the need. Capltal City, hecause it will make pos- DUNBAR DANCE CANCELED. ! nent structure, it would later be usad | as an argument agalnst moving m-i d that_such a large investment should not be ahandoned. He told the com aible the removal of tempora trap structures that are evesores nd a public menace. Senator Bruce of Maryvland, has an amendment pend- ing to erect these new huildings along Pennsyivania #venue, This would he a start on fulfilling the Government's plan for many vears, which has Iaid a dead hand on properties along the south side fn the Invitations have Mrs. Gabrielle Pelham. in | ¢ center work iy the colored schools. to cancel a St.| Patrick's dance which wps 1o he!of this great main street of the Na- chool by |gon and prevented improvements by the Dunbhar High Center Social Clubprivate capital, so that it now pre- on March 20, {santa a general dilapidated, run-down Mrs. Pelham sald today that she | appearance. had warned the membera of the so-| The widening and extension of B cinl club that they must observe cer-! sireet northw the Lineoln tain rulea. In fnvitationa sent out' Memorial along the north side of the to the March 20 dance. she reported | Mall is aiready authorized under the to Mra. Cecil Norton Rroy, in charge | Arlington Memorial Bridge act. This of community center work. these'ix (o be made the great Boulevard of rules were violated fo that she was | Heroes, along which all great corteges compelled to call o the dance. She|from the Capitol acrose the Arlington siaies that since plans were made ! Bridge fo the siient city of the dead for the dance, it will he held March at Arlington will pass. Representa- 26 at the Lincoln Colonnade, jtive Underhlll, Republican, of Massa- It Ix stated that the invitations for chusetts has a bill pending, which he the canceled dance gave a closing |is preparing to press in the next ses- hour later than ia permitted by the sion. for purchase of several squares community center: that an objec-'on both sides of Pennsyivania avenue tionahle advertising feature was!just west of the Capitol, to allow for used, and no statement was made ;the straightening of R street, the 114 R0 to Aup- [ squaring up of the Mall, which pageant to be ! originally designed by Washington the colored highiand L'Enfant as a grea public graden nd will result in cleaning up one of the most disgracefully unsightly sec- | tiona of the city. right where great parades and pageants start, A\ : Two plans have bheen prepared by |the engineer officer in charge of thin rivers and harbors district. hy direc- [ tlon of Congress. for devélopment of | the water front. There is now being |worked up a composite plan for | presentation to Congress at thin se I slon. Suggestions for treating a water | front boulevard have juat been made the park planning committee of the ational Capital Parks Commission. In connection with the water front | development comes the demand from {civil leaders in Washington that the | touriste’ camp in Kast Potomac Park must not be permanent. A vear ago the appropriation bill carried $50,000 ffor starting permanent Cconstruction on this site. A resolution is now pend- Ing_hefore the House committes on public buildings and grounds to pre. | vent this permanent construction. | Washington welcomes the touriat Ruesta, hut it is felt that there should he camp sites provided on all the principal avenuea of entrance to the city, because the Potomac Park site while convenient to touriats from the | South. is very inconvenient for tourists from ather dl;elcllona. urchase of land in- Klingle v west of Rock (‘reek and unfiercu:ll:l: Connecticut avenue s about complet- ed after long vears of negotiation, Piney Branch Park in Dange Extension of the rk |along Piney Branch, no:hun. f:;: Ithe Tiger Rridge ar Sixteenth street | to link in with Wért Stevens, where (President Lincoln stond on the jramparts under snemy fre, and i following . the line of old Piney Branch, which I8 now piped as a sewer, I8 In a precarious situation. Condemnation proceedings have been atarted within the: limits of the ap- propriations. I money s not ap- propriated soon to buy the land near the bridge, contractors will ill in and !block up the arches of the' bridge. This Piney Branch extension, when coupled with Rock Creek and Potomac { Parks, would afford to through trafic jroute for the territory between |Sixteenth street and Georgia avenue iinto the downtown section without hittin cross currenta of congeated trafc, The low level roadway through Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway 18 heing huilt as appropriationa are made available, following the of the bridle path which has just heen placed in use. The old Civil War forta encircling the City of Washington are going to be linked together in a rt Drive” as_Congreas makes funds {labl Opening up Fourteenth street as a great Aavenus of entrance to the Capital from the north, and making available for residential development a large territory in nearby Maryiand. 1= provided for in A measure which is unfinished business before the House on the next Distriet day and which Flaws caused port of the Spring held in April In schools, ’l“oda_v in Congress Senate, Agriculture committee held an- other hearing tedar on the Hau- gen co-operative marketing bill. The judiciar: committee held hearings on pending nominations for office in Alaska. : Forelgn relations committee held an executive session. 1 e and elections commit is in session to cansider ° Bursum - Bratton senatorial contest, Kenator Bratton succeed. ed Senator Rursum from New Mexico. Several er Front Plans. bills, including the ex- tension of Fourteenth arreet through Walter Reed Hospital grounds, aré being heard hy the Senate Distriet committee this afternoon. . Senator Wheeler of Montana addressed the Senate on the long- and.short-hanl _bill. after which the Interlor Department appro- priation bill may be taken up. Houne. \House expects to complete con- sideration of $33.700,000 District ap- propriation hill today The last of the hig Government supply bills was reported to the Tlouse today. when the appropria- tions committes recommended $16.- 406.727 for the legislative establish- ment which inelndes the Capitol and the Library of Congreas. House District committee favor- ably reports three bills, and fixes time for a vote on the Underhill and Fitzgerald workmen's compen- sation bille one week from today, At 11:30 a.m. Public bulldings and grounds con- ducte hearing on measure intro- duced by Chairman Zihlman of House District committee to pre- vent permanent construction work at the touriat camp. aftairs commlittee holds & on repair of naval vessels. Interstate Commeérce committee continues hearing ‘on raliroads. Foreign affairs committee in ex- ecutive session conducta hearing in Fish resolution for erection of a monument In France. Ranking and eurrency committee holdx hearing on Baltimore bank hin. Military affairs committee’ holds vegular meeting in executive ses- ston. Committee on agriculture con- tinues hearing on agricuitural re- lfef measure, Merchant marine committee holds hearing on Bacon bill to amend the shipping act. Committee on mines and mining continues hearing on mine rescue work. Committee on irrigation and rec. lamation considers several mea-s nres in executive session, Present and Next Sess | Alno nearing enactment is the meas es, Co-ordinated and on for Consideration in ions. is to be taken up by the Senate District commitiee this afternoon. Acquisition of the Mount Hamilton tract for a national arboretum, which would make a beautiful entrance to the Capital City from the North and East, is provided in a bill which was favorably feported by the Senate com- mittee on agrieulture and is now | awalting action on the Senate calen- dar. The Senate committee Increased | the amount of appropriation author- | ized from $300,000 to $500,000. This measure is awaiting action in the| House committee on agriculture, fol- | lowing the agricultural relief meas. | ures. with An 8 eclaimed in nection with the ! stia flats profect, which will he completed below Benning Bridge in! two vears. Authorization ix now | sought 1o start layving the foundation for the sea wall from Benning Bridge to the District line, Stadium Also Asked. Congress also has heen asked for authority to form a quasi-public hold- ing corporation to build a stadium 1o neat 100,000 persons on public land. the coat 10 he amortized over a period of vears and then the stadium to re vert to the Government. No site has vet been nelected. Plans are also being prepared for Congress for extension of the Botanic ardens south of the Capitol to im. prove that section of the city between | ‘he Capitol and the river The long_contemplated project of a great houlevard from the city to Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon in receiving serious consideration. It | will be acted upon by the Presidents commission planning a ftting_cele. bration of the hicentennial of Wash- ingtona birth, with a view to having it ready when the world comes here to pa Dilerimage to Washington's tomh n 1932, The director of public roads js now making & survev of the route for this houlevard by direction of the House committee on roads. HOUSE ROW STARTS OVER TUITION PLAN IN D. C. MONEY BILL _(Continned from First Page.) | . i ‘he Mount Hamilton tract connects | | potnt ~ COURT ADVECATES =Senator Quotes John Quincy | Adams Against U. S. Entan- | glements in Europe. Byt Assaciated Preas CHICAGO. March induce America 1o join the World | Court show history repeating Itself, for similar efforts were made a cen i’ ago. 1.~ Efforis 1o of Minnesota teld the Conk Connty Republican central committes lant night. One hundred years ago, when the idea of polit- feal demaeracy was challenging the old order of political anta- eracy, he sald. rope entersd inte a serfes of treaties finally terminat- ing in the “Holy League nf Pear and the congr of Aix-La-Chapelle, which the T'nited States was asked to join. In July. 1820, John Quiney Adams in instrue tions to the American Ambassador to St. Petersburg. said regarding this league of peac: Clites Policy of U. S. Since 1783, political system of the United States is essentially extra European. To stand tn firm and cautious inde- pendence of all entanglements in the European system has heen a cardinal of thelr policy from the psace of 1783 1o this day. “Yet in proportion as the importanca of the United States ax nne of the members of the general seciety of clvilized nations increases In the ayes of the others the dificulties of main taining this system and the tempta tions to depart from it increase and multiply This pronouncement was followed | by the enunciation of the Monrae | doctrine, said Senator Shipstead. and he added: “This was reaffirming the foreign policy of George Washington and the have adhered for Senator Shipatead. 140 years. Question for Americans. bill under consideration law. Mr. Begg permanent who s known in th present Congress as the “Watchdog of the Treasury.” vigorously opposed the Cramton amendment and attacked the appropriation committes for attempt- Ing to put permanent law as a rider on_an appropriation bl Mr. Cramton finally restored peace hy withdrasving his amendment on | the assurance given by Chairman mittee that within two weeks some xort of & bill for & pe et tlement of the fscal refations he- tween the Federal and District gov- ernments would he reported to House. Mr. Cramion had criticized the District legislative committee he. cause it had had his bill before it tor three vears without taking ae- tion. Representative Sproul. Republican, Kansas, offered an amendmeni. the effect of which would he that the Na tional Government would contfibute nothing in the Distriet appropriation bill toward the support of the Federal eity. Chairman Funk. of the suhcom mittee on the Distriet budget. who is handling the District bill in the House. opposed Sproul's amendment. xaying that finds no sentiment among bers for the Government repudiating its just part in_supporting the Na tional Capital. The amendment was loat. | "When the new legislation providing | for an attornex at & malary of $6.000 in the Public Utllities Commission hudget was reached, Mr. Zihiman of- tered an amendment to change t title 10 “people’s counsel.” Mr. Mad- den made & point of against this. which was sustaine Mr. Blanton said he was in favor of the Zihiman amendment. “We have & corporation counsel,” Mr. Blanton sald, “who is too much impressed with his title and fs acting as a cor- poration counsel. If we had a peo ple’s counsel maybe he'd live up to the title and act for the people.” Would Hold Up Salaries. The anti - evolutlon amendment would provide for withholding the salary of any teacher or school offi- clal who permitted the teaching of disrespect for the Rible. partisan politics or that ours is an form of Government.” Mr. Madden ‘made the point of order againat this ameéndment and the fight for it was 14 by Representative Blanton. Repreaentative Lehibach, Republi- can, of New Jersey, presiding in the committee of the whole, sustained the point of order with such a con- cise and positive atatement that the House applauded him vigorously. The House again applauded when Mr. Blanton lost an appeal from the deci- sion of the chair by a vote of 48 to 2. Representative Zihiman was unsuc- censful in an effort to amend the bill 80 A% to include a provision for pav- ing Alaska avenue from Sixteenth street to the District ln No Changes Made, Resider agreeing upon a lump-sum appropriation of $9,000,000 as the Federal Government's toward the expenses of the National Capital, after a motion by Representa- tive Cramton. Republican, of Michi Ran, to make the lump sum perma nent legislation had been withdrawn, the House in committee of the whole vesterday approved without change the appropriations listed below. Executive offices, Commissioners. clerks, etc. (in in defictenc, Building, care of, $60,660; fuel, etc., $33.500; assessor's office, $156,240; Li- cense Bureau, $19,020: identification tags for vehicles, $17.500: collector's nffice, $38,140: auditor's office, $87.540; corporation counsel's office (including for 1926, $3.000 in deficiency act), 840,04 coroner's office, salariea : contingént expenses, $5, welghts, measures, etc., office of, sal- $36.860; contingent expenses, 0; Engineer Commissioner's of- fice. $407,880; central garage, $4,70 municipal architect’s office, $40,420; heating plant, District of Columbia repair shop, $1,600: Public Utllities Commission. $30,620: board of ex- aminers, steam engineers, $45 nce, department of, $1 ‘s office, salaries. $72, veys, permanent highway system. etc., $3,500: employes' compenaation fund (including for 1926, $5,000 in de- he 11 fic’s office appropriation for 1926 in deficlency acte), $100,000; free public libary, including branches, aalaries (inclnding for 1926, $1,800 in deficiency Act), $182,300; substitutex, employ- ment of, $3500: Sunday opening, 1$3.000: miscellaneoun expenses, $82,500, Contingent and miacellaneous ex. penses totaling $225.806, and including the following: Contingent expenses, general, $50.- 800; printing annual reports, $4.80¢ motor vehicles, purchase, maintenance, $102,156: postage (including for . $4.000 in deficiancy act). $26.000: judicial expenses, $5.000: advertjsing, general, $6.000: advertising notice of taxes in arrears $5.500; removal of un- safe buildings, $500; coples of wills and ? | Zihlman of the House District com- | the | appropriation ! Mr. | the mem. | contribution | i chase. condemnation, - |cluding these items: ficiency act). $12.000: director of trdf- | “Am oon as we hegan to deviate | from that poliey we hegan to have he love and respeet of mankind turn {ed to suspicion and hate. The ques i tlon for the American people now i= whether we shall change that ! poliey that has proven so bensficial I'té thi= country or continue on the iroad on which we have neow started |16 Hink ns up with the political sye |tems of Europe and the detnur thar {leads no man knows where, “The people must decide. | heliave, that the old road that we hava heen !traveling so long is the road that Vleads 1o peace. and that ix the road that I think we ought to travel.” ROBINSON FIRM FOR COURT. | | By the Assuciated Press EAST ST. LOUIS, NL. March 17.— |Renators conducting the public cam paign againkt the decision of the Sen ate on the World Court iseue were taken to task here last night hy ator Robinson of Arkansat. the Memn cratic leader in the senate. cally Senators Borah aho. and Reed. Demn erat. Missouri. as the leaders of this campaign, Renator Robinson declared in an address before the (‘hamber of Commerce that the efforts 1o use this issne 1o defeat Nenators supporting the court “is riain in the end of bringing _humiltion 1o the inter | meddlers.’ The world tribunal. he said. has “justified itself to the world.” and a Senator who proposes no suhstitnte renders no service fruitful of hene fits, now or hereafter. hy undermining the confidence of nur people in the ecourt.” Senator Robinson said it was hath “amazing and Amusing to read the in temperate and wrathful Asclaration attributed to the Senator from Mis s when he declared that the adep tion of the resolution of adherence {was ‘outrageous, iniquitous, idintic and imbecilic. “Gag_rule” was not' inveked in the World Court Aght.”” he continued, add. |ing that opponents had had ample i time to prepare for the debate which ithe Senate by a vote of 72 to 3 had decreed should open last:Decembar. inferior | other papers, $500: Recorder of Deads, | office rent, $14.400: public employment | sérvice, $8.600: hiatorical places, mark- ing tableta, $500: smergency fund, 1$4.000: refund of erronecus collections, 1 $2,000; and uniform State laws confer- ence, $250, | Street and road improvements and | repairs totaling $2.331,150, and inelud ing the following: Asséssment and | walks, curbs and alleys, $300.000; pav ing roadway# under permit syatem (in cluding for 1926 $20,000 in deficiency lact), $25.000; regular (including for 11926, $160,700 in deficiency act), $183.- 100; gasoline tax, roadl and street fund (including for 1926 $426,000 in defiei eney act), $R42,500; strests, allays and roads—not assessad. grading. $50,000; rondemnation. $1,000; amall parks. pur i"hl e or condemnation of, $5.000; streets. avenues and alleys, repairs (including for 1926 $150,000 (n de. | ficiency act). $600.000: sidewalks and |cur round public reservations, et. | $16,000; suburban roads, repairs, §195,- 1000: District fish wharf, improvements, 1 $10.000; bridges, construction and re. pair, $65.000; Highway Bridge, opera- tlon. $19.400: Anacostia River Bridge, Francis Scott Key A trees and parkings, 000, and publio convenience sta- tions, $33.250. $1,447,000 for Sewers.” | | For sawern a total of $1.447.000 wax approved, including these {tama: Claan !ing. repairing and operation of asw | age plumbing service, $260,000; matn !and pipe sewers and rceciving hasine | dneluding, for 1926, $20,00 in deficioncy |act), $175,000: suburhan sewers. $580. 000 assessment and .permit work (in cluding. for 1926, $255.000 in deficiency | act), $400.000; right of way, pur- ete. (including. for 1926, $750 In deficiency act), $2,000 Anacostia main Interceptor. $10,000 {upper Potomac interceptor, §50.000. For collection and disposal of refuse | total of $1.442,560 was approved. in Street-cleaning division, salaries, $57.560; dust preven | tion, cleaning and snow removal, $4 000; refuse, disposal of. $935,000. For playgrounds the total appropria Ition of $162.805 was approved. which {includen these itema: Salaries, $87.928; sontingént expenses, $43.000: sxpen, of school playgrounds - Summer months, $21.00 maintenance and operation of swimming pools, $4.000: bathing heach. Seventh and R strests, rmit work. side the electrical department the (otal of $952.240 includes: Salaries, $95,840; general supplies, repairs, etc.. $33.800; placing wires underground 135,200 police patrol system, extension.: ration, ete., $: ;. Hghting, $750.- : replacing lighting facilities, $4n. fire-alarm system. extension, afc., al lead-coverad cables. quipment, police precinct Ne. 13, §4,200,