Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1926, Page 6

] » SCHEMING AGAINST ' PRESIDENT IS SEEN Political Moves to Occupy { Prominent Place in Short B Session at Capitol. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Politics will run the Nation's busi- Tess a close race for attention in and out of Congress at Washington this Winter. Over many a major project, mction and utterance at both ends of Pennsylvania avenue, the White House end as well as the Capitol terminal, the shadow of 1928 will loom. There's nothing unusual in that sort of situa- tion. It's the history of every session and political season preceding a presi- dential campaign. The Democrats will omit no opportunity to steer the ship of state in their direction, in the hope that they may capture its com- mand two years hence. The Republic- ens will so comport themselves that ® grateful republic will be inclined to vote them in 1928 a renewal of the lease of power that the G. O. P. has held since March 4, 1921. i No single aspect of the situation that will dominate politicians’ thoughts during the “lame duck” session of the expiring Sixty-ninth Congress excites ns much curfosity as Presjdent Cool- idge’s intentions. Whether “the Presi- dent does or does mot aspire to suc- reed himself is the paramount puzzle. Mis closest counselors assert they are #s much in the dark as anybody else. Most of them expect to remain in the gloom until the end of 1927. They say they will be surprised if anything de- velops during the present Winter that will give any reliable information on his plans. The President has thrown down the gauntlet to Congress on two outstanding issues—tax reduction and farm relief. If his views on either or both of those questions are disry ed, the average politician is ready to consider that Mr. Coolidge will not seck renomination. President Personally Popular. This writer's observations in the country at large would not indicate that the President’s prospects neces- sarily would be endangered by any “repudiation” at the hands of Con- gress. Undoubtedly &tronger with the people than his party is, or that his chief opposition in Congress, the Sen- nte, is. American political history is full of examples of presidential popu- larity gained primarily because the Chief Executive was opposed and dis- liked by Congress. Mr. Coolidge has “sold” himself to the Nation so ef- fectually on his economy and tax re- duction” program that he can stand any number of rebuffs from Congress without seriously endangering his status. One disadvantage that horse him in national knowledged o Mr. Coolidge is nk and file of the might un- esteem is ac- s. That is & ion next year. n people have a passion for blaming d times” on the party in power at Washington. If “bad times” overtake the country in 1928 Mr. Coolidge’s administration might be the political victim of them. Meantime, the only serious opposi- tlon to the President within his own political ranks is based on agricul- tural depression. It is an open secret that plans are act under way to capitalize that depression in the in- terests of men who have their eye on the White House. Most conspicuous in that group is former Gov. Frank ©. Lowden of Illinois. Mr. Lowden is the acknowledged candidate of the farm belts demanding so-called “‘sur- plus legislation” at Washington on McNary-Haugen lines. The Presi- dent’s reaffirmation, in his message to Congress, of refusal to sanction agri- cultural legislation of that character is bound to spur the Lowden opposi- tion into fresh efforts. Two Candidates Looming. To this writer comes a_circumstan- tial outline of certain developments planned for the coming year. “Sur- plus” bills will be launched during the resent session in both houses, but aggressively pushed. Farm lead- and farm politicians contemplate rather the use of the floors in House and Senate mainly as forums for ad- vertising their cause to the public at large. The scheme, as reported, then 15 to make an intensive drive for ac- tual legislation in the session begin- ning December, 1927, in the hope of mming through the desired kind of lls in the teeth of Coolidge opposi- 1ioQ on the eve of the 1928 presiden- tial primaries, in the Spring of 1928, That, according to the information herein under review, is where the Lowden movement comes in. Its sup- porters claim, in consequence of a “survey,” that they will be able to carry enough grain and cotton States for Lowden delegations to prevent the renomination of President Coolidge on the first ballot. That is, to say, they count on preventing him from having n clear majority on the opening roll call in the Republican national con- vention. If that can be done, the strategists who are working on this interesting hypothesis contend that Alr. Coolidge can be “stopped,” and a Midwestern Republican—Lowden, for ehoice—*"put over” on succeeding bal- Vice President Dawes figures in these alleged maneuvers as the next best Midwestern probability. For all of these reasons, insiders are fore- shadowing that farm relief will be loudly discussed, but not enacted, at the sessfon of Congress just begun, (Copyright, 19! l SUPREME COURT HEARS APPEAL IN PAPER CASE Trade Bon;d Seeks to Enforce Orders Against Pacific Coast Assaciations. The United States Supreme Court yesterday heard the appeal of the Fed. eral Trade Commission to enforce or- ders mgainst a number of Pacific Coast paper, associations. The Pa cific States Paper Trade Association,-a weneral organization, #nd the Seattle- Tacoma Paper Trade Conference, the Spokane Paper Dealers, the Portland Paper Trade Association, the Paper Trade Conference of San Francisco and the Los Angeles Wholesale Job- bers’ Association are affected. In the lower courts it was held that while each local association had its own agreed price lists, there had been no restraint of interstate commerce except in a few isolated cases of no importance. Counsel for the commission contend. ed yesterday that in some instances orders taken upon these agreed price lists were filled directly from mills emtaide the State, and it was insisted that this ognstituted violation of Fed- eal laws, Attorneys for the local paper asso- elations asserted that this practice did Dot affect interstate commerce, as the dealers could have filled the orders out of stock, but instead, to save freight and other charges, ordered shipments direct to purchasers from the mills. Chief Justice Taft took issue with ecounsel for the associations on the legal aspects of such shipments, ex- pressing the view that they consti- tuted interstate commerce. Sisarma : Government railroads of India car- ] vied nearly 600,000,000 passengers in the past yeam, . _ . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1926. MELLON ASKS LANIY PURCHASE FOR BUILDING NOW. AS SAVING ‘ontinued from First Page.) « question of the Federal building pro- gram from a broad viewpoint with relation to its importance to the fu- ture of Washington and to the place of Washington among the great capi- tals of the world. Discussing the matter of the kind of structures which will grace the great area facing the Mall from the Pennsylvania avenue side, Secretary Mellon said: “The general character and bulk of the buildings of a depart mental nature differ generally from those already occupying the Mall frontage and these of future possibil- ity of the museum type. A sense of order, harmony and fitness seems to Indicate the separation of these tvpes of bulldings into distinctive general locations. Set Planning Example. “The requirements as to sp: architectural setting, accessibility and the number of people, both employes of the Government and other going to and from these bufldings, are so dis- similar as to reinforce strongly the argument for their collective separa- tion. Again, the buildings on the Mall, although not necessarily finer than those of the departments, should be, architecturally speaking, of a more plastic, decorative and a more gen- erally varied form, suiting their loca- tion in the park. “A large portion of the area desig- nated as the ‘triangle’ will be neces- sary for the accommodation of the buildings now projected. Even if it were not possible to foresce the ulti- mate use of all of the land, neverthe- less it may be stated with conviction that the choice of the site for the buildings, the provision possibly of parking space for automobiles and of adequate road circulation and ap- proaches to the buildings, and, in short, the economic and orderly plan- ning of the area immediately required, cannot be made unless the area is re. planned as a whole for this purpose. It may well be urged also that unl all the land, with minor exceptions, is now taken by the Government, the construction of the new buildings and the removal of the markets as pro- posed will induce a rise in values of the remaining land, making it more costly to acquire. In the Capital an example should be set for the country as a whole in the matter of planning. Our national monuments will attract seekers of the ideal in art. More and more it will become the tendency to establish the headquarters of socleties of literature and art in Washington and to make bequests of collections to the National Capital as w¥ll as to other great cities of the country. Already there is a definite project to establish here in Washington a national _gallery of painting. Thus the Capital may be foreseen as an art center, responding to the desire of visitors from all over the world and sat ng that demand. Paris Is Cited. The example of the great capitals of Europe may be cited, that in par- ticular of Paris. Although the char- acter of tiw® cities of Washington and ~| Paris differa: in respects favoring the embellishmeint of our own Capital, Paris, besicas being a capital, is also a great busim3ss and industrial center. Under the Hpussmann plans of devel- opment of Par.is, during the period of some 30 vears, beginning about the middle of the ia'neteenth century, the sum of $180,000a000 was spent on the opening of thoraughfares and in gen- eral civic embeltishment. A similar sum was authorWed for further de- velopment at thes beginning of this century, and in between those periods other great sums vvere authorized and spent, estimated in sl as upward of half a billion dollars. “The Great War (hlayed . the later program, although tkw work involved has been and is beingx slowly carried out according to plan. It is generally recognized that the reak’y splendid na- ture of city development in Paris is responsible in a large duvgree for the number of visitors and thait this work has contributed very largvly to mak- ing Paris the artistic comter of the world. “In the plan of future development of Washington the treatment of the great triangle of land soutlt of Penn- sylvania avenue to the *fall will play an important part. A. -elly, the character, height and desigit of the great front to the south strvtching from Fifteenth street toward thwe Cap- itol musi be carefully considered as a whole. It may be said to be the real frame o background of the Mall, with its muscum buildings and memorials, present and to come. Opportunity must be given to treat it as a whole in relation to the Mall. The problem of location of buildings today, although it involves difficulties, is made less dificult by the existence of the general plan of the commission of 1901. Cor- responding the work in the future will be rendered easier and less costly if the plans of today are made with foresight. Needs Close Study. “No expenditure of the magnitude contemplated under the new building bill should be undertaken without a comprehensive study of the entire sit- uation. As has been outlined above, many features must be taken into con- sideration, but the outstanding one fs that the public buildings, as finally located and constructed, should place Washington in the forefront of the architecturally beautiful cities of the world. This result can only be ob- tained by a thorough and comprehen- sive study of the entire subject. No building should be locatéd or its archi- tecture decided upon until study has been made of its effect upon the neigh- buildings may well be located * * ¢ south of Pennsylvania avenue along Fifteenth street to B street, on the land already purchased and awaiting such occupation. “3. Both sides of the Mall, with the exception of the space needed by the Department of Agriculture on its grounds, should be occupied by mu- seums and other buildings containing collections in which the public gen- erally is interested, but not by depart- ment buildings. “4, The space east of Fourteenth street between Pennsylvania avenue public buildings.” Program’s Present Status. the building program activities, Secre- ‘ary Mellon said: “‘Congress has authorized a program for the location and construction of buildings to accommodate the depart- ments and other executive offices now housed in temporary structures and 1 privately owned bufldings, and has limited the area of purchase and loca- tion to the space between Pennsyl- vania and Maryland avenues, Fif- teenth street and the Capitol. “Within this area the Government has already acquired the squares be- tween Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall, Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets; the square bounded by Eleventh, Twelfth, Little B and C streets, and the block bounded by Tenth, Twelfth, Little B and B streets. This area is available for the construction of de- partment buildings already authorized by Congress. “Congress has also provided for a site within the specified area for an archives building and for its construc- tion. Congress has further provided for the extension of B street east to the Capitol, thus throwing into the Mall all of the area east of Sixth street and south of B street, and providing two buflding sites facing both Pennsyl- vania avenue and the Mall. Within the specified area the Government owns the Post Office Department build- ing and the Center Market. Urges Economy Purchase. “The available sites in the re- mainder of the area will be required for Federal activities now occupying pri- vate buildings or temporary Govern- ment structures, so that all of the land included within the limits set by Con- gress must be acquired. From motives of economy all of these squares should be acquired at once. Otherwise Gov- ernment purchases made piecemeal will enhance the value of property re- maining in private ownership, and these increased prices must be paid on later acquisitions.” Thg first projects designated for early construction, Secretary Mellon reported, were buildings for the archives, Internal Revenue Bureau, Agricultural Department, Liberty Loan, Department of Commerce, and boring buildings to be built in the fu- ture and the carrying out of the com- plete plan.” General considerations governing the program as a whole, as laid down by the Public Buildings Commission in 1917, were repeated by Secretary Mellon as having his approval. They are as follows: h: Public buildings, other than those of the executive departments, should face the grounds of the Capitol. “2. New executive departmental Government Printing Office. Other than to give the general location of all of these except the printing office as being in the triangle area, the Secre- tary did not specifically designate their positions in his report. The Public Buildings Commission in a re- cent meeting, however, definitely set their locations. Other Federal functions which See- retary Mellon said it would be advis- able to include in the triangle area were named as the Department of and the Mall should be occupied l’lyX i Reporting on the present status of Justice, the Department of Labor, the General Accounting Office and the in- dependent establishments of the Gov- ernment. . Secretary _Mellon also _reported progress in the building program out- side of Washington, for which a na- tion-wide survey is under way. Some construction has already been started. PROSPERITY TIDE NOT TO EBB, SAYS MELLON REPORT (Continued from First Page.) be called the liquidity of bapk assets. This trend has in no way endangered the strength of our banking system, but it is a movement which may re- quire care, lest it go too far.” He also suggested that there might have been some overbuilding, but called attention that this and other unhealthy situations, including the land boom in Florida,” had subsided without serfous injury. Likewise, the bumper crop may hurt the growers temporarily, he said, but on the other hand it will give the textile industry an opportunity for “recovery.” Urging the necessity for maintain- ing adequate tax rates until the real measure of present prosperity amrd power of the present revenue bill had been made, Mr. Mellon said he had no objection to returning this year's prospective surplus by a credit to in- come taxpayers of 30 per cent on each of their first two installments next year, a proposal presented to Con- gress by President Coolidge. i LONDON CLEARING HOUSE IS DUE TO TWO LAZY MEN By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 9.—The Lon- don Bankers’ Clearing House, through which checks for £40,437,119,000 passed during 1925, is really the outcome of two lazy bank clerks’ ideas. Before the clearing house was estab- lished the collection of checks was a laborious affair, each bank sending messengers to another bank to cash checks over the counter. About the year 1770 two clerks, each going to the other's bank, happened to meet in & tavern, and it occurred to them much trouble would be saved by exchanging checks and settling the difference in cash. This arrangement worked so well that other clerks copled it, and in r the yard of the Five Bells house, near Lombard street, be- came the recognized meeting place for clerks to exchange checks. Eventually bankers adopted the lazy clerks’ idea and rented a room for the purpose, but actual. rules were not drawn up till the beginning of the nineteenth century. In 1854 joint- stock banks had become §o strong they were admitted to the clearing house, which now handles all checks passed through the banks, strikes a balance each day and credits or debits their accounts at the Bank of England. Frequently more than a million checks are passed through the clear- ing house in a single day. Lansburgh & Bro. “TOY WORLD—FOURTH FLO Mechanical Train 98¢ An Empire express train, with locomotive, tender, car and circular track. Electric Range $7.50 It has white ename! door and splasher—and four aluminum cooking utensils. $24.50 Lincoln Auto, $16.50 Blue enamel finish, running board, fenders, bumper, windshield and headlights. Felix, Dancing Cat, 98¢ An amusing toy, with guaranteed spring mech- anism. Black velvet dress. Velie Auto, $7.95 With disk wheels, cushion tires, bumper, headlights and motome- ter. OR”—A WONDERLAND FOR CHILDREN, Santa’s List Grows Long—" Each day he adds more and more fascinating toys for the list of little Washington boys and girls—all of whom are very, very good! And his budget feels no strain! Century Bicycle, $34.75 With double-trussed motor- bike frame, handlebars, New Departure coaster Duco finish. on deferred brake and May be bought payment plan. Cowhide Football 98¢ Rugby shape—real leather with heavy rub- ber bladder inside. 3-coin Bank, $2.25 ‘Will take nickels, dimes or quarters. Teaches children thrift. Cash Registers 98¢ For the youngsters who love “playing store.” Rings sales. ‘ Combination Game Board, 98¢ Plays 12 interesting games —checkers, India steeplechase and others. Coaster Wagon $4.95 With 16x36-inch body, 10-inch disk wheels and roller bearings. Fourth Floor—Lansburgh's—8th Street SO0 [CE BLOCKADE ISNEARLY ENDED Key Ship in Jam Stretching 20 Miles Pulled Out by ) Three Tughoats. By the Associated Press. SAULT STE. MARIE. Mich., De- cember 9.—Three powerful little tugs and the giant car ferry Ste. Marie brought the greatest ice block- ade in the history of Great Lakes nav- igation nearly to an end yesterda) While the big railroad ferry was smashing into the ice barrier, the tugs hauling ahead and swinging from side to side, yanked the steamer Gen. Gar- retson out of its ice moorings in West Neebish Channel and opened the way for the movement down of the great fleet of grain carriers that since De- cember 1 had been caught in a jam of ice that closed the “bottle neck” of lake navigation routes. Ships Stretch 20 Miles. ‘With the deliverance Tuesday of the steamer Coulee at the head of a string of more than 100 down-bound graln carrfers, the Gen. Garretson became the “key log"” of the jam. L ing at an agle across the West Nex bish Channel, the Garretson blocked the path of the grain flotilla, stretch- ing out for 20 miles astern toward Sault Ste. Marie. When the tugs “lifted” the Garretson out yesterday afternoon they towed her into open water and soon she was proceeding to Lime Island under her own power. The end of the blockage started Tuesday when milder weather fa- vored the rescue efforts and a fleet of Furniture Carpets Lamp, with marble Regularly $13.50. Special.... Mahogany Boudoir Regularly $3.00. Special Bed Lights, georgette lined si in various colors. Regularly $3.75. Special, €ach.spmae:onncooe Lapis red. Crystal Crystal and Pearl Necklaces. Lamps, shades in rose, taupe .and gold. Special Mment of Gift Jewelry Pear] Chokers, Pearl Graduated Necklaces, Pearl Rope Necklace, Slave Bracelets in gold and mounted with Jade, Lapis and Carnelians. Novelty Chokers, Pendant Necklaces, Jade, Chokers, Gas Pipes Yield Gasoline When Lines Get Mixed By the Associated Press. HUNTINGTON, . W. Va.,, Decem- ber 9.—Residents of the Marshall College section of Huntington yes- terday reaped a rich harvest of &asoline from their gas pipes when the pumps at the Standard Oil Co. storage tanks became cohnected with the mains of the Huntington Development and Gas (o. Several hundred gallons of gasoline were pumped into the gas mains. Representatives of the oil com- pany and the gas concern were unable to explain the occurrence, but it appeared that pumps un- loading several river barges of gasoline were connected with a gas service line instead of the gasoline pipe line. Stoves below the levels of the gas mains spouted gasoline, while many of the residents were said to have drained quantities of auto- mobile fuel from meter connec- upbound coal carriers was liberated. With the coal carriers started on their way efforts concentrated on the down- bound channel and the steamer Coulce was “snaked out.” Darkness ended the rescue efforts Tuesday, but the mild weather held through the night, and, with dawn, the Ste. Marie and the battling tugs went at the task again. Some of the upbound fleet of coal carriers have passed the locks here for Lake Superior ports, while others have tled up here to wait for coal, their bunkers having been exhausted during the long siege in the river. Not a pound of coal is available here, however, untll the Lake Carrlers’ As- sociation arranges for the purchase of the cargo of one of the fuel-laden ves- sels and empties it on local docks. Automobile Parking Service &?, . Yoses & Sons Established 1861 F Street and Eleventh Lamp and Art Gift Shoppe Metal Bridge and Junior Floor bottom. - $11.50 . tea caddies, with taffeta $2.50 $3.25 Pictures, in intere Regularly $2.00. 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Dal Her unmasking came when she cashed a check in Bismarck without having sufficient funds in the bank She made good the amount and paid a fine, but authorities were suspicious and called in a nurse and physicians Discovery followed. Known as “Bob™ Watson, Mrs. Halling lived here for more than a vear, doing a man’s work. She sail she didn't like farm life. “Why, I've been wearing clothes ‘and working as a man for years,” she told police. “Men's clothes cost a lot less than girl's clothes, and besides, posing as @ man, 1 could travel with my husband and get jobs along with him. I've been wearing: men’s clothes ever since I was a little girl. 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