Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1926, Page 4

HOW MUCH TAXES SHOULD WE PAY. FOR 1927 BUDGET? Are Not Our Property Tax Twenty Miliions and Per Capita $43.21 High Enough? MUST WE INCREASE OUR $1.70 TAX RATE? Fiitorial Correspondence of The Sta BY THEODORE W. NOYES. ' LE 1 the Budget Bu- pre- | and Washi have Jast half yeur be oughly tly considering the sub-} liberal expenditures f wenance and Commissioners. the Advise u citizen Tie ry Counvit, out organizations rean sant all for the and intel jeet of n develn thinking onians en the wise and for i Capital The House of ltepresentatives has colnmen et the budzet v and Bud Stoacte ommissione unsider District bill and lastly, Cons touse and 15 our court pate wiil soon the its decis! thenghtfully d and both of will in conference uls, render final d How much should the Distri fn 1927, and how should this amount be gpportiored among the varied urgent municipal How much of th tetal should the Nation, including the District, pay toward Capital upbuild- ng? How wuch this connection ghould the Nation equitably exact from District taxpayers in municipal composed needs el Al loyal maximum Greater Washington as the City {iful, the City Healthful, the City Wise and the City Good and also a maxi-| mum of far play in the taxation of them for tional Capital purposes by a taxing body in which they are not wish a the Washinz ns of developm of vepresented H Al of Washington desives that the millions necessary o meet the accumu- | lation of neglected war-time munick | pal needs, to maintain adequately the | fine progressive Capital of toda) d| to develop worthily the Greater Wash future shall be a printed and spent. Al Washington also desires with equal fervor that cquity shall dominate the division of | the cost of this great projected develop- | ment between the Nation Na tional Cap local community; and | between the taxpayers of today and those of the future, in such fashion as to cause the latter to bear their fair share of the cost of great permanent tmprovements of which they awong Washingtonians will he the main| beneficiaries. In short, how much of | the cost of great projected improve- ments should we all as national tax- payers pay: how much from our con- tribution as municipal taxpayers of today in current taxes, and how much from the proceeds of the sale of bonds, so that taxpayers of the future way equitably participate? he purpose of these articles is to hring to the attention of Washingto- nians, oficial and unofficial. a few facts and figures, partly from city census bulletins of 1 (the latest) and partly from 19 rate figures printed in the National Municipal Re- view, with comment thereon, which may be helpful in reaching sound and Just conclusions in finuncing the Capi- tal for 19 We hav Assessor Richards' a van's figures of Dis 1926. What is the suggestion of the census figures of 1923 for these other cities concerning the adequacy of Dis- triet taxation in 1926 in comparison with thatof these other cities in 1923 What do the ta ington of the and the < the basis of comparisons d Auditor Dono- ict finances for ate figures of 1925, as printed in the Municipal Review, suggest? o . B Ought the Washingtonian in equity | Washington contends that by either {of $48 | ménts 'BLAST DEATH TOLL twill read one of his stories. ment aluation, like lllinols, Iow: South Carolina, Florida,gte. 1f the exact relation assessed to true valuation of property were ad- { mitted or proved in every city, then the marriage of the tax-rate to the true asse ment would produce as off- spring the truth in regurd to the com- rative tax-burden of cities. But though the reported percentage relation of & ed to true value of property anges from 20 to over 90 per cent, where by law it should be 100 per cent, the degrees of admitted diverzence from the legal 100 per cent Y 80 widely in truthtulness and ac- acy that the readjusted tax-rate re- ns misleading and unreliable. Nevertheless, it is_the purpose of ihese articles to use woth the tax-rate ( yardstick and the total and per capita | tax-levy vardstick to measure the comparative tax-burdens of cities method of measurement its tix-burden 43.21 per capita tax levy, based on | u §17 per thousand tax-ra one of the kno adequate, f the peculiar disabilities under which the District labors its tax burden is harder to bear than that of the average erican community. IS PLACED AT 22 Four Others Seriously Injured, Due to Unexplained Explosion at Coal and Iron Plant. By the Associated Preas BIRMINGHAM, Ala The death list resulting from an un explained explosion of furnace num- of the Woodward Coal and Iron stands at 22 and, in men were reported to be in a serious condition In hospitals. Of the men killed by the explosion Saturday 11 were white and the re maining 11 negroes. The cause of the blast, which burst asunder the huge furnace and sent 100 tons of molten metal swirling across the foundry Hoor, still was un- determined, but ‘the belief was ex pressed In some quarters that it was due to an unexplained internal force. Work will be resumed at the fur nace within a few weeks. it was said. | but no definite time was set for the sesumption of activities on aecount of the extensive construction and repai work made necessary by the explo: sion March ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. TONIGHT. The Writerscraft Club, will meet, 8 o'clock, in basement of the Mount Pleasant Library. Mr. Thurber will ! be in charge of the study hour. in which a printed short story will be read and discussed. Mr. McLaughlin All in 1 the terested in writing or short story are invited study The Social Hyglene Society of the District will meet, 8:15 o'clock parish_house of St 017 Fourteenth street F. Dudley will preside. Rev. M. Cooper of Catholic University | “amily in Culture non Kellogg of h Council will | talk “ Human Wel- fare | The Georzetown Citizens' Assoc tion will meet, § o'clock, in PPotomac Bank H: Maj. Carey H. Brown will speak, | Mideity Citizens' Association will | meet, 8 o'clock, at Thomson School. | Commissioner Fenning will be a spe- | cial guest. | West End Citizens' Association will | meet. § o'clock. at Corcoran Hall, | Twenty-first street at H street. Lieut. | Hanson Weightman. forecaster, United | States Weather Bureau. who served | with the American Expeditionary Force in France, will show how it is done. Potomae Council, Knights of Co lumbus, will meet, 8 o'clock, at 918 Tenth street | James A. Edgerton will speak, 8 | o’clock. in the gold room of the Shore- ham. Subject, “The Inner Kingdom.” Allen T. Burns, executive director of the American Association for Com- munity Organization, will speak on the “Essentials of a Community Pro- gram for Social Work."” in connection with the annual public meeting of the Associated Charities, at Rauscher’s, 1034 Connecticut avenue, at 8 o'clock. All are invited. No collection and no appeal for funds. The Knights of Columbus will give a dinner, 8:30 o'clock, at the Lee House. CITY NEWS Ili BRIEF Col. James 8. Pettit Camp, No. 3, United Spanish War Veterans, will and in comparison with the payments made by taxpayers in other cities pay more or less than was exacted from him in 19262 2, Ought _his tax burden in equity be increased or decreased for 19272 Tax Rate No Measure of Tax Burden. On the theory that the tax rate is a measure of the tax burden, and in the light of the information that the tax yates of other cities are almost all higher than th Washingto- nian, we District taxpayers are in dangzer of falling into a fatal delusion on this issue and of v i difference our tax rate i 20 to 1.40 and to 1.70. izgestion of greater raises and the future. One often sees or hears allusions to Washington's low tax rate, generally fn some conpection like the present, which sugzests the thought that a low tax rate and a light tax burden are SUNONVImous. But no tax conclusion is more firmly established than that the tax rate alone is no measure of comparative burdens; that it has to be joined in sideration with the actual (not the reported) assessment valuation be. fore it approximates a reliable stand- rd of measurement, and that the re. ports from the various cities of the yelation of assessed to true value are in most cases so variant from the facts us to render the proposed stand ard _of measurement absolutely mis- leading. Two Standards of Measurement. There are two methods of compar- ing the relative tax-burdens of cities: (1) By comparison of tax-rates:; and (2 hy comparison of total tax-levies of cit- fes of approximately the same size, and of per capita tax-levies in com- parison between large and small cities. The nominal tax-rate alone is recog- nized by all thinking persons as of no value whatsoever In these compari- sons. In most cases it represents the percentage figure which, when applied to the assessed uation of taxable property, will produce the revenue de- clded in advance to be the amount to be expended by the municipality in the fiscal year. 1f the city's tax property is assessed at a high per- centage of its true value, the tax-rate will be low. If the assessment is at a small percentage of the property true value, the tax-rate must be high to produce the same amount of tax- revenue. Low Tax Rate, High Assessment. It results that the States and their cities are divided into two classes: (1) Those which raise their revenue by the application of a low tax-rate to a high assessment valuation of property, @ Ohio, North Carolina, the District. Columbiz and (2) these which lrl'l‘ e 10 & low assess. meet tomorrow, 8 p.m., at 921 Penn- sylvania avenue southeast The Ohio Girls’ Club will not give dance at the usual place, but will operate with the Glee Club of the Ohio State University in its concert and dance at the Washington Hotel Tid: Rev. mont Avenue Baptist Church, preach a special sermon at church Thursday. David's Tribe" J. E. Willis, pastor of Ver- will the Pro-, ceeds for the building fund. All wel- | come. The American Business Club will meet atluncheon tomorrow, 12:30 p.m., at the Burlington Hotel. Rev. Dr. R. T. Willlams of Kansas City, Mo., has opened a series of re- vival meetings at the First Church of the Nazarene, to continue for two weeks. Services will be held every evening except Saturday. . The Daughters of Isabella will not hold their social nreeting tonight, as it falls within Passion week. The Eckington W. C. T. will meet tomorrow, 745 p. at the home of Miss Lillian Carr, 2200 First street, The Central High School Parent- Teucher Association will meet tomor- row, 0 p.m., in the library of the school. Dr. Lois Meeks will speak on nfluences of the Home on Person- ality. The Georgetown Civic Assoclation will meet tomorrow, 8 p.m., at the Phillips School. GoinComfort m_ Baltimore $2.00 From Gray Line fice. 9 Havre de Grace $325 {5) Philadelphia_ $5.00 Bus b .'A.‘:l'. of | |u4,m St. UNDER MITTEN MANAGEMENT Between Park Road and Columbia Road On 14th Street Fine, Modern Store Splendid home for your business or an exceptionally good investment. Story & Company 812 17th St. Fr. 4100 should be | vac | otherwise and still is in effect. | has developed more _diversity IALGIRATIN DAY CHOSEN BY CHACE Circumstances Play Impor- tant Part in Establishing “More Perfect Union.” This i the second of @ series of arii en'an proposii 1o amend the Constiti Tiow ‘ot "fhe. United Siates affecting the Yérma of ongress the Prevident and Vice President. The Third article will appear in The Star tomorrow BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The Founding tention of making March on which the quadrennial terms of the President should begin. In faet, it s intended that the date should be the first Monday in December. 1t was chance and the force of circum- stances that started the Government on that date, which was made law on March 1, 1792, and later written into a constitutional amendment. Since 1795 some 215 proposals have been made by constitutional amend- ment to change the date on which the executive and legislative branches of the Government start their terms in office. The Constitution is silent when the President's term for four years should begin. The Constitutional Convention left to the old (Continental) Congress time and place for beginning the ‘‘more perfect Union.” The ratification of the Constitution by nine States was | long delayed, und it was not until| September 13, 1788, that the Conti nental Congress could fix days for the election of a President, for the counting of the vote and for the term of the Presldent and Congress to be- gin. They March Fathers had no in- 4 the date as to of office fixed “the first Wednesday in next—1789—as the time for commencing the proceedings unde: the Constitution.” Oddly enough nothing was said about the meeting o Congress on March 4. nor the begin ning of the presidential term on that date. But it so happened that “the first Wednesday in March,” 1789, was March 4, and as the Congress holds for two vears and the President for v years, the Fourth of March be- ame a fixed day regardless of the of the week It was intended by the Constitution that the first Monday in December the time to start the nev sovernment. but the delay in its rati fication pushed over the beginning from December until March—and everything else merely.followed. Thus was established what Senator ts called the “periodicity” of our iovernment Act of March 1, 1392, Cited. act_of March 1, (R. provided: he term of four years for which -osident and Vice Pre hall o elected, shall, in all mence on the fourth day next succeeding the day on which the votes of the electors huve been given.” This provision was Section 12 of the act “relative to the election of a Pres ident and Vice President of the United States und declaring the officer o shall act as President in case of ncies in the offices both of Presi- dent and Viee President.” which act, as it related to the presidential succes: ion, was superceded by the presiden tial suecession act of 1886, but Sec- tion 12. above quoted. seems never to have been repealed by implication or da As early as 1795 a propostion was submitted to change the meeting day of Congzress to the first day of June In 1808 the first Tuesday in April was suggested. Thirtytwo vears later, 1840, the first day of Decem- ber was proposed as the day for the commencement of the terms of mem- bers of Congress. From that time until 1869 no change of this kind was proposed, but in the period from 1869 1o 1924—55 years—no less than 211 amendments to the Constitution were offered in Congress having for their purpose the changing of the time for the beginning of the terms of the President, Vice President and mem- bers of Congress. Wide Range in Proposed Dates. Phe proposed dates ran all the way from the first Monday in December to the last Thursday in April. And among other things those proposed amendments also would have changed the term of Representatives from two to three and to four years, and the term of the President from four to five, to six and to seven years. Some of them would have made the Presi- dent ineligible for re-election to a sec- ond term, and some to a third term. Hardly any proposition ever submit- ted for the consideration of Congress of opinion, or more clearly exemplified the sayinz, “Many men of many minds.” Yet. after 137 years of ex- perience, amendments to the Consti- tution for the same general purposes, but differing in form, as always, still are being proposed. One amendment designating April 30 as the commencement of the term of the Executive and of Congress passed the Senate in 1886, and another fixing the last Tuesday in April pagsed the Senate in 1888, but neither of them was passed by the House. For the latter it was sought to sub- Glasses Fitted al McCormick Medic Flawss miowt College Graduate Dr. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist Marilyns IS dain a Strap of as a smart of Sauterne Lh?liduq::md vamp and on strap and High Parisian Heel. Too chic for words CHIFFONS (Lisle Top) in all harmonizing tints $1.55 3 paire $4.40 L little one- FR=T 1337 F St. N.W.. 4 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON; ; T stitute the 31st day of December and the first Monday.in January, respec- tively, for the commencgment of the terms and for the annual session of Congress, On & motion to suspend the rules the proposition was lost, 129 yeas to 129 nays. Weather Conditlons a Factor. For some time before and after this action propositions to carry the com- mencement of the terms and the meet- ing of Congress beyond the 4th day of March had for their chief object the holding of inauguration day at a time when the weather was more like- 1y to be mild and agreeable for such ceremony; but since the Sixty-second when this proposition was sidered seriously, it has not been revived, the view baing generally entertained and apparently accepted that Congress, by law, could fix the dates for its meeting, a constitutional amendment being unnecessary. Another purpose was to extend the length of the short session of Con- gress. This, however, would not ac complish the purpose sought by amendments proposing to bring for- ward the dates in order to abolish al- together the short session and convene a new Congra shortly after its elec- tion, to do which requires a consti- tutional amendment. A proposed amendment to hold in- auguration day on April 30, for the meeting of Congress annually on the second Monday in January and for the commencement of the terms of members on December 31 was defeat- ed in the House, 49 yeas to 128 nays, in the Fifty-second Congress (Record, 252, p. 499). A revival of the agitation for an amendment such as the one under consideration was cotemporaneous with the consideration of the so-called ship subsidy bill in the last sessfon of the Sixty-seventh Congress, following the election of members to the Sixty- eighth Congress. Concurrent Resolution Quoted. The germ of the proposition was contalned in a concurrent resolution offered in the Senate by Senator Cara- way, Democrat, of Arkansas, in which the so-called Norris amendment was incubated in the committee on agri- culture and forestry, of which Senator orris was chair . This was a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Senate to the effect that members of Congress defeated at the recent election should abstain from voting on anything but routine legislation, and that chairmen of committees not in sympathy with the people’s wishes, as expressed at the polls, should resign from their respective chairmanships. When presented on the floor of the Senate, Mr. Caraway asked that the resolution be referred to the com- mittee on agriculture and forestry, stating: "1 presume that by ordinar [: amentary procedure the concur- rent resolution wouid go to ¢he com mittee of judiciary, but I wish to ask that it be sent to the comniittes on agriculture and forestr: The resolution was so referred Legislative Counsel Quizzed. Here it might be well to quote from a recent hearing before the House subcommitiee on appropriations on the legislative bill the statement of one of the legislative counsel as show- ing the power and authority exercised by an individual senator: Mr. Colline—You serve the indi- vidual memb@rs of the Senate, do wou not? Mr. Lee—To : is done in the House. That Is due L0 LWo reason: In the first place, there are fewer Senators than Mem- bers. But the more important reason is this. The Senate works through individual members to a_greater ex- tent than the House dc Their committee action is not anywhere near as extensive as committee action in the House. One member takes a great deal more responsibility.” Individual Responsibility. It is quite unlikely that the C: away resolution was ever copsidered by the members of the corrmittee cn iculture and forestry. And it is more than likely that Senator Norris alone took the responsibility for re. porting his own proposcd wrendment to the Constitution in lieu of the Caraway resolution. What a travesty on legislative pro- cedure—denying to the judiciary com- mittee, composed wholly of lawyers, its natural and rightful jurisdiction over a proposed amendment to the Constitution and placing it in the hands of one man as chairman of a committee whose jurisdiction was to- tally frrelevant to the subject. By such process the judiciary committee or its chairman could with equal logic consider and report on farm problems. greater extent than Following a custom of many years’ standing, the Montauk Club of Brook- lyn is arranging to give a dinner on April 23 in honor of former Senator Chauncey M. Depew, who on that date will reach the age of 92 years. NO EXAMINATION 55 000-22- 34240 Tosurance Casts gt Age 30. Send Date of Birth for )1_Information. Insuran LeROY " GOFF Ipuranee 610 Woodward Bldg. Main 350. There's a fihish on men’s clothes, Footercleaned, that stamps the wearer as a well groomed man. Footer-cleaning eleans; water- white bensine removes every bit 0- grease and dirt. Hot-dry steam sierilises the fabric, and careful pressing re- moulds the suit r coat to.its original shape and fit. Minor re- pairs made, and- buttons re- placed at no extra charge. ey hoamed ... $1.50 $1.50 TOPCOAT, dry Fr‘lpm Now for Easter cleaned .............. FOOTER’S Cleaners and Dyers 1332 G St. N.W. Main 2343 D. 0, MONDAY LONG DELAY AHEAD FOR ARGTIG FLIGHT Wilkins Expedi_tion Must Await New Landing Gear Be- ing Rushed From New York.. Special Dispateh to The Star and American Newspaper Alliance, FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 22. Although both of the damaged air- planes of the Detroit Arctic expedition will be ready for flight again within a few days, the expedition will not be able to make its flight into the un- known Arctic until the arrival of a new undercarriage which is now being rushed from New York. Progress in repairing the landing gear of the two ships has gone ahead 80 rapidly that the one-engined plane, the Alaskan, will be able to fly Wed- nesday, while the Detroiter, the larger ship, will be in condition a few days later for further test flights while waiting for the new and stronger landing gear. The Alaskan was dam- afed during a test last Thursday, and :!he Detroiter in a similar mishap ¥Fri- lay. Repairs to the Alaskan have been made by welding the broken parts. A few tests taxing over the landipg fleld ‘Wednesday will prove whether the re- paired job is safe for landing with a small load. If it proves safe, freigh- ting of gasoline will commence at ance. Serious Disaster Averted. Parts forwarded from New York will be necessary to put the Detroiter in condition to take off with the 1,000 gallons of gasoline which are needed on the planes exploration around the unknown polar region. All avaflable engineering facilities at Fairbanks have been placed at the party's disposal. Examination of the scene of Fri- day's crash show that the big plane had a narrow escape from far more serious disaster. It would have turn- ed over completely had not a bank of snow held the nose of the machine. ‘We were cheered today by a mes- sage from II. S. Evans, of Detroit, general manager of the board of con- troll, to “go ahead with the job.” All :’he men are working strenuously to- ay. (Copyright. 1926. by North American News. vaer Alliance.) N NEAR MOUNTAIN TOP. North Dog Sled Train, Beset by Many Diffi- culties, Makes 17 Miles Daily. Special Dispatch to The Star and the North American Alliance NEAR SUMMIT, ENDICOTT RANGE, Alaska, March 21 (By Ra- dio) —Struggling through driving snow that cuts like needles in a temperature 12 below zero, the De- troit Arctic expedition’s overland party of 11 men and 68 dogs is near- ing the summit of the Endicott Mountains on its way to Point Bar- row. Six days of treacherous weather have slowed down the party, but tonight we are at longitude 154, latitude 68. Frequent halts have been neces- sary to repair sleds broken in smash- MARCH ing through the Ice of overflows covered by deep snow. Untll we achleve the summit we are com- whd to relay our sleds of supplies. ur men travel ahead on snow shoes pounding down the snow to make a trail, behind them comes the lead sled, pulled by 26 dogs and han- dled by five men, one on the gee-pole dand four pushing to move the load, light though it is, up the steep grade. Frozen Faces Common. The six other teams follow with their load of supplies and equipment, including cameras, radio and scientific fnstruments. The dry snow, drifted 2, feet deep, makes traction difficult for our dogs, who are repeatedly burfed in it. Game 18 scarce, and we are travel- ing too steadily to permit members of the party to do any hunting. We are covering about 17 miles a day up the mountain sides, making camp as late as light conditions permit, Frozen faces are a dally occurrence, but we have had no other injuries and all four white men and seven natives are well. As soon as we reach the summit 6 natives and 22 dogw will turn back to Tanana. The rest will press down the northern slope and over the Are- tie plain to Barrow. (Copyright. 1926, by North American News- vaper Alliance.) NAVY STATIONS FIGHT INTERFERENCE CHARGE Commandants to Listen In to Try to Find True Sources of Trouble. A counter publicity campaign to exculpate Navy radio stations gen- erally from unjustified charges of in- terference with broadeast entertain- ment programs been inaugurated by direction of Capt. Ridley McLean, chief of Navy radio. Commandants of all stations op- erating powerful radio sets have been urged to work out plans for “listen- ing {n” on the broadcast wave bands and locating interferences of which the radio public has complained. During the recent international broadcasting week a special board ap- pointed by the commandant of the submarine buse at New London, Conn,, devoted nine nights to eaves- dropping on the radio broadcast wave bands and succeeded in tracing all but two of the numerous alleged Navy set interferences 1o other cause: RITES FOR COMDR. SMEAD Naval Officer Who Died in Panama ‘Will Be Buried in Arlington. Funeral services for Comdr. ter A. Smead, U. 8. N, 10 died at Colon, Panama, will be con ducted at the Fort Myer chapel to. morrow at 11 o'clock. Capt. E. W. Scott, Chaplain Corps, U. 8. N., will officiate. Interment will be in Arling- ton Cemetery, with military honors. Pallbearers will be Capt. Ralph M. Griswald and Comdrs. David MecD. Le Breton, N. H. Wright. Herbert H Michael, Andrew . Pickens and Forde A, Tod. e Mayflower Council, No. 11, Daugh- ters of Amer will hold a card party Tuesda. pan, at 711 D street. 8 who March | i AMARYLLIS SHOW WILL LAST 8 DAYS Annual Exhibition, Opening Wednesday, Expected to Be Largest Yet. thirteenth annual awmaryllls ghow in the Department of Agricul ture greenhouses. Fourteenth and B streets, will be thrown open fr 10 the public Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock and will remain open from 9 ght days, closing Wednesd b, . at 9 p.m. Mrs. William M. Jardine, wife of the Sceretary of Agriculture, will have u private showing of these blooms in & riot of coloring tomorrow morning, which will be attended by leaders in the cabinet circle and several hundred other people prominent socially in the Capital, Friday is to be the special day for members of Congress, with members of their familles, when Secretary and Mrs. Jardine, with Dr. Willlam A. Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, and Mrs. Taylor, will re- ceive the visitors. 1,100 Plants in Show. In the show thi plants, with four or five of the vividly colored trumpet-shaped blooms to a plant. Some have eight or nine blooms. This year there are guite a number of seedlings flowering for the first time, and these will be an espe- cially attractive feature of the exhi- bition. The amaryllis is native to South American countries and during the past 14 years the Bureau of Plant Industry has been tryving to popu larize the plant in this country. These annual shows have gathered together a larger variety of amaryllis blooms than have ever been exhibited any where else in the world. A distinot achlevement of the spe- cialists in the Department of Agi culture has been the production of i pure white amaryllis bloom. The dominant color of the amaryllis, or knight's star flower, is a brilliant red. Last vear there- were more than 36,000 visitors at the amaryllis show and the attendance this year is ex pected to break that record on ac- count of the larger variety being shown. Dr. William A. Taylor, with his as sistants, today inspected the bLlooms selected for display and pronounced them the best show of the kind ever arranged by the department. The year are 1,100 Reinstated by Executive Order. An executive order authorizes the reinstatement of Mrs. Maud S. Pher- son in the classified cf service “as a stenographer or clerk without regar to the length of ne she has been separated thereform.” he is the widow of William R. Pherson, former Iy connected with the Interior and easury Departments. ved in the Interio re than eight vy resigned in February, 1919. “The Civil Service Commission concurred in her 1319-1321 F Strest STORE NEWS FURBERSHAW TO ASK CONGRESS FOR BACK PAY Claims $1,000 for Tihme in Jail in Slaying of Bootleg Suspect Would Aid Victim’s Widow. Special Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, March Joseph Furbershaw, former Washington pro hibition agent, who shot John Buon gore at Ilavre de Grace, and subse quently was acquitted of murder in | the Tederal Court Lere, came to Balti {more Saturday to see United Stat Attorney Woodenck “I want the records of my case,” he sid, “1o use to get my back pay o $1.000 for the seven months 1 was in jafl.”" Since his acquitta) he has been living in Washington. He explained i1 I8 necessary to get the consent o Congress for his back pav, and that his court records must be provided “I understand.” said Furbershaw “that there’s a bill in Congress mow to make remuneration to Buonsore’s widow. IUNl come up me time the bl for mv does, and 1 intend to do all I push through.’ Furbershaw married a French gir when he was serving with the United States Armay fn France. s wifs | still "in France, with their son and ughter. “I'm anxious to get m pay, because I want to use it to brinz them to this country the ferme agent stated. RELIGIOUS DISPUTE ENDS Mexico to Withdraw Troops From San Luis Potosi After Agreement. MEXICO CITY h (2. Special dispatches San Lufs Potosi report that representati the Cathollc church and the goverr ment have reached an agreement ad justing the differences regarding the number of Catholic priests permitter to officiate in that city. 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