Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1927, Page 4

e MOOT SEES TAXES CUT 300000000 Size of Slash Dependent on Appropriations Re- quired, He Says. With various groups placing di ferent estimates on the amount of t: S asury could stand P2 tha coming session, Senator Smoot Repus::tan that the extent ol depend on how far Con appropriating for spe that may be urged upon it. goes in projects After mentioning Mississippi flood | ¢ control, Senator Smoot said that if Congress authorizes such undert: ings as Boulder Dam and the Colum- bia Basin project or the St. Lawrence Canal, the chances for tax reduction will dwindle. He indicated that he thought a tax cut of approximately $300,000,200 or slightly more, would be possitie If there are not too many appropriation demands Hits Nuisance Taxes. Senator Smoot, who is chairman of the Senate finance commit is an authority on tax matters in Co eSS, favors reducing the corporation tax | more than he be- taxes the in from 131 per cent to 12 per cent. He said also lieves the so-called nuisance that bave been in effect since war should be given attention alloeating the reductic 2 In his capacity as chairman of the Public Buildings Commission, Senator Smoot, who just returned to the city from Utah, expressed a desire to see the Government's big building pro gram in the Capital go for jdly during the next two years. intends to reintroduce the bill to au thorize purchase of all remaining pri vate land in the triangle south of Pennsylvania where the new Federal structures are to be grouped. This measure was one of those caught behind a buster at the close of the I Program Is Pushed Tn answer to quer t0 how soon the new Department of Justice Build- ing would be started on the site of Center Market, Senator Smoot s that, while there are other buildinss | ram that' could be started an the Justice structure, the nment, on the other hand, is| anxious to get the entire program started with as little delay as possible. While it may not be necessary at the coming session, the Senator indicated | bility of speeding the | ating for the building program. TAX CUT AND FLOOD CONTROL ARE HELD NEEDS BY PIERSON| (Continued from First Page.) that adversely af- n trade with that na- tior. Mr. Pierson =aid that the Federal Reserve System “will be subjected to attack in the coming session of Con gress,” and urged that the chamber and the business community be armed “with indisputable facts to meet such onslaughts.” He recommended that the chamber volce its faith in the “essential soundness of the system” and urge “that its continuance is essential to business advancement.” .. A statement amplifying the recent demand by the chamber for a $400,- 000,000 tax reduction, whichlast week ‘brought from President Coolidge the opinion that such a figure is #00 high, ‘was made by Piersaon. Pierson pointed out that the $400,- 000,000 figure was reached in a refer- endum among the 1,500 trade associa- tions and Chambers of Commerce which comprise the national organiza- tion, and emphasized the decisions of individual groups were made with a full picture of Federal revenue and budget facts before them. President Coolidge, according to Pierson's interpretation of his re-|s marks at the conference of newspaper representatives last week, took the position that $400,000,000 would be a dangerously large reduction and would handicap the Government if a slowing down of business should also deplete anticipated Federal revenue. “A reduction of the corporation tax will strengthen the country against competition, which is increasing from abroad, and thereby permit the con- tinuance of employment of prosper- :-‘ Pierson replicd in this connec- ion. 400 HUNT RIVER VICTIM. Body of 70-Year-Old Virginia ‘Farmer Believed Under Driftwood. {Special Dispatch to The Star. ¢ LURAY, Va., October 17.—Searchers for the body of Mayberry G. Sedwick, 0-year-old Springfield district farmer, ho was drowned in the Shenandoah River Thursday when his horse was #wept off a bridge by high water, num- bered 400 this morning, but no trace has been found. It is believed the dead man has been weighted down by driftwood. John Sedwick, youngest son of the farmer, has offered a reward for recovery of the body. The river, which was seven feet above normal the day of the drawning, is now within two feet of Jts usual stage. . 3 nx = & ' Abe Martin Says: ! Hain't it great £ wake up Monday mornin’ an’ find th’ family intact? Copyright, 1027.) —_— ' Thin]dng of building a home? —then you owe it to yoursclf to see —before making a selection ;Woodecl Home and Villa Sites Lithograph Plat of Sites Upva Request Hedges & Middleton Inc. Realtors | be a mere administ: U.S:EMPLOYMENT PROJECT ASSAILED William Dudley Foulke Con- demns Suggested Systems for Appointments to Office. Declaring that the providing an employment system for the deral ce of the United State repealing the Federal Serv. bolishing the Civil Service on and a number of other wtal agencies, and substi- an entirely new system of personnel” appointment and ation, was unconstitutional, Willlam Dudley Foulke, who was member of the Civil Service Commis sion under Theodore Roosevelt, today nded the whole plan *a perfectly scheme for administering the Government.” “The bill appears to have heen pre- pared in blissful unconsciousness that there is such a thing as the Constitu tion of the United States,” he said; “that by this Constitution the Presi dent, with the advice and consent of | the Senate, must appoint all office | except that Congress may by proposed act cers in the heads of departments or the courts of law. Fault in Commission Plan. “But the employment commission which Is to appoint this dir ‘The them- the head of any tment. Employment selves are inferior, to be appointed the President alone. And yet the power of appoint- ing (his omnipotent director fided to these inferior officer: Constitution will not allow this. “It may be a very good thing to have one or two members of the commission rise by promotion from the competitive service, Mr, Foulke said, but to put the whole thing in charge of an unknown man appointed for life by these methods, would in all probability wreck the entire service ystem. The ystem Reduced to Absurdity. “This is the competitive system re- duced to an absurdity, for the man who is in charge of this enormous body of public employes ought not to tive officer. He should also be familiar with the politi- cal situation which his office demands. Nobody has ever contended that whe political duties are involved the offi- cial performing them should be select- ed by competitive examination. The da of Federal Civil Service Com oners have been very quasi-political not Republican Democratic, but political in the sense that it is part of -their function to re: any onslaught in Congress or elsewhere upon the merit system and to promote and extend it by legisla- tion, by Executive Order, by propa- ganda and by all other means in their power. Obstacles Are Outlined. “Even if the Employment Commis- sion were a department appointed by the President, by and with the con- sent of the Senate, still it could not neither the President, the courts nor | STAR, WASHINGTON, Son of Luray Girl’s Slayer Befriended TEXT BOOK RAPPED By Sam Buracker, Father of Victim pecial Dispateh to The Star. LURAY, Va., October 17.—The ex- traordinary instance of a father be- friending the son of a man who mur- dered his daughter was a topic of dis cussion throughout Page County, Va., when it became known that Short, eldest son of Thomas Short, who convicted a week ago aying of Es: samuel Buracker, father, had returned together to West Virg where they were working side by side when news of the tragedy veached them. Short will serve 20 vears, and his nine children, Roy excepted, will be taken care of at the county poor farm pending efforts of the Juvenile Court to enter them in a children’s home at Richmond. There were 14 of the Short children, but five and their mother are dead. Short and Essie Buracker were engaged, it was testi- fied at the trial, and Short was said to have been on a 10day drunk just prior to the night two weeks ago when he crept to a window of the Buracker home and shot the girl be- cause, it was said, she had refused to marry him. Short’s defense was that he had been a sufferer from fits and did not know it if he shot the girl. For several days he was a fugitive, but surrendered. Upon receipt of news that his daughter had been slain, Sam Bu- racker, with Roy Short as his sympa- thizing companion, returned to Luray without knowing Tom Short was ac- cused of the crime. Throughout all their double grief thelr friendship re- mained true, and together they have returned to their labor as apple pic ers, Buracker assuring the slayer's son he will look after him, now that he is fatherless as well as motherless examination from the head of the list_for two reasons: st, the director of personnel is not an inferior officer. He has cl of the appointment, promotion, fer and discharge of practically every one in the entire civil service of more than half a million and could no more be considered an inferior officer than could a member of the cabinet. If he is not an inferior officer, he must be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the but whatever his_ status, s selection cannot be limited by re quiring that he should be appointed from the head of the list. 'he method of appointment of the director of personnel fs, therefore, wholly unconstitutional, but the pro- vision for the removal of the director of personnel is not only unconstitu- tional but ridiculous. Provision of “Sectior ‘hree prov serve unt*, he dies, igns, retires or is removed for inefliciency and mis- conduct according to the procedure prescribed in paragraph 16 of section ection 3. es that he shall 5, which requires him to investigate | and render a decision upon his own removal. “Could any absurdity go further? The director must remove himself or he cannot be removed. He may become an imbecile, violently insane or crimi- nal, yet by paragraph 16 he must prescribe the procedure for Kicking himself out, then make the decision whether he has to o or be trans- ferred, demoted or reprimanded.” “Is ‘there any one so mad as to dream that any Congress in its sober se would pass such a bill as this?” Suggests Law Amendments. In declarin, nt administra- tion of the civil service law capable of improvement, Mr. FFoulke put forth the following suzges “The power given to heads of de- partments to sclect one of the high- est three on eligible lists has been, and continues to be, grossly abused, and, particularly in the Post Office Department, has led to the prostitu- tion of postr and rural carriers’ position; sed profit of Copgr and of local political organizatio For this the Civil Service Commission is in no wise responsible; but the evil can be corrected by the issuance of instruc- tions by the President to appointing officers that the present practice of secking the recommendations of Con- appoint 1412 Eye St. N.W. Frank. 9503 the director by competitive gressmen must be abandoned, and ILK, asit comesto you, is a complete food. There should be no separation of cream from Milk, as the whole Milk contains every food element necessary for the growth, development and stréngth of your children. 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See Mrs. Simpson at Cathedral Man- sions, South, for reservations, or— MCKEEVER-GOSG 1415 K Street Main 4752 that the appointments must be made of the person standing highest on the list. “A provision in the proposed law prescribing that the director of per- sonnel shall have th sole jurisdiction over removals, demotions, suspensions, transfers and other disciplinary mat either with or without the assist- ance of a trial board, and that the head of the office should be deprived of all right to say which of his ap- pointees should be discharged or re- tained, would be highly disastrous to discipline.” Condemned by Two Presidents. “P1 idents Taft and Roosvelt, both warm friends of the competi tem, and_with the widest exper in administration, regarded this sys- as dangerous and P.2sident Taf : much o0ppo: from the man: ing officers the power of | missing subordinates and gives it an independent body.” President Roosevelt wrote me concerning a pro- posed model law, taking away such authority from the appointing officers. ‘L regard the proposed law as seek- ing to establish a cond much worse than the spoils s e the proposal or any proposal resem- bling it adopted I shall resign( from the National Civil Service Reform League) and shall state that nothing proposed "y Tammany during my life- time Lus begun to approach in mis- chief is proposal.’ Mr. Foulke said that the whole eme for a reorganization of the jovernment personnel is the outcome some- they out, who, when they se thing in public affairs which do mot like, immediately cry here ought to be a law.” . “The President and his executive officials can thems make rules limiting their own di tion and pro- viding for the appointment by com persons do the pro- to man on the list. 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