Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1927, Page 2

o = THE EVENTNG STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. MOXNDAY, BISHOP CANDLE AUTO INSURANCE MERITS UPHELD Day State Commission, Once Skentical, Now Yields to Ncne in Enthusiasm. BY WiL Automobile BOSTON, ance man himself, Guainted with every this amazingly Wesley B. Monk. Masss missioner of insurance those who viewed the m pulsory automobile liability skentics place to man for the invthing to fear such a law with Family Backbone of Society, He Declares on His Golden Wedding Day. Methodist Episcopal Church- man and Wife Recall Early Struggles. AM ULLMAN. = B URtar 21.—An thoroughly ramification complicated November insur- AC | gy the Associated Press. of | "ATLANTA, Ga. November 21.— DUSiness. | pioy on Warren Akin Candler, senior usetts com-| g pop of the Methodist Episcopal 1MONE | Ghyreh South, and Mrs. Candler were om- | at home today on the fiftieth anniver- Sary of their marriage. Bishop Candler’s golden wedding day found the ranking member of his d nomination’s episcopacy firm in his | belief that “the family is the back- bone of soclety,” with a feeling the modern generation is not sufficiently nscious of the sanctity of the mar- ze relation. ile and Mrs. Candler recalled the carlier days of his service to the “hureh and related that when their first child was born the bishop, then a voung minister, was drawing a salary of $500 a vear. he couple were married November 21, 1877, in La_Grange, Ga., at_the home of Mrs. J. C. Curtright, Mrs. Candler’s mother. When Bishop Candler was 23 years old, in 1581, he was appointed pre- and King ¢ insurance today | his Instead from the insurance in gen gain from without Jegistation Yields first enthusiasm of having enactment companies soclety have evervthing to Mr. Monk declares qualitication Like Frank of motor vehicles jointly charzed the compulsory law, Mr. Monk that it ix not rather no statute. in rlong eral v now Goodwin, registrar with whom he is with administering liab insurance ready to concede perfect in every detail. But, he when its defi ciencies are measured in the scale with its advant there is no ques is vet savs. is R OBSERVES | BISHOP CANDLER. siding elder of a district in the moun tains of northern Georgia. A sieady rise in his capabilities and renown brought him in 1898 to the pre: of Emory College, and the same yea he was elev: at the General Conference of the Meth odist Episcopal Church South in Baltimore. Invitations have been extended to 400 friends to attend a reception for the Candlers at the Biltmore Hotel tonight. tioning its tremendous merit in solv ing the seemingly unsolvable problem of how to compensate the innocent vietim of traflic accidents, scured; no chains (wet or slippery road); other defects, Road conditions possibly contribut- ing are set forth a Defect or obstruction in roadway; road under repair; condition not prop erly indicated; wet surface; muddy surface: snowy surface; icy surface. Weather and light conditions also are specified with equal definitenc e From Illusions, The Star’s representative, to Massachusetts to get ta on the effectivenes nd the reaction to it of various vitally affected groups, found Mr. Monk essentially free from illusions on the who came first-hand of the law ar LIMIT ON TAX CUT and the same thoroughness is ap commissioner is a realist, guided by no | ent in the conditions with respect to fanatical fervor that feads him to|the pedestrians’ part in the accident. zive a one-sided picture of conditions. ; . The v!\l"‘x‘h'm‘(n “\n-ln-‘lll !l;n_no::‘m"l\g‘ tates—how they were established, | thoroush reports on virtuully ever D | highway mishap in Massachusetts in their equity in the light of aimost a | (s aiperience, the insurance com. | the course of a vear will be of infinite e attitude. ‘necessary changes or | value not only in the establistiment of modifications of the law, the need for | & R e ] "“‘\,‘"”‘!"",‘ Pousibla extension—in short, _every mendous part In safety, Mr. Monk | aspect of Massachusetts’ unique posi-| declares, One of the infaentes ach tion, found Mr. Monk emphatically | fra ¥ "‘Y;“”‘/;l;m"\‘ by » 15 acaAl limiting oveme stree T i faceup on 14 highway conditions is a lack of opinton ‘that it will be mext April fReleven B0 S8 Lne DEE e o befors, statistical -proaf of the Jaw's| Massachuceus finde herself caliect BE full merit_will be available: but, when | G40 1yt WoC e b L B e, next April arrives, he has mo doubt | ®¥ft (h¢ wutomoplie 18 NReC L L that this proof will be absolutely con-| str. Monk. should provide suflicient v '"\‘"T“‘:or‘n“‘"‘:’“_‘;‘“;":& ;’r“‘;“"r‘;;‘w s nswer to those w h‘n oppose the law on B e the false ground that it creates care missioner revealed most convineingly | o Sndsl and danger, Ay thaL it jihe fleld of com | need for defending the law hecause, pulsory insura s e 1ts out, it never was intended to The most difficult feature of the whole | pe ho i O ficatuve. The "{":":!‘:‘ L v”.';;:'m;)s‘ ';n‘“;*;ag;n;s‘e‘fl\\‘l;"t\;lg‘flk these groups to throw a smoke screen with engazing . Mr. Monk | gvor the whole situatic o deciires that whereas irates. usually | Stcr the who'e siuation. he 2re based upon experience. there was | fir it has boen splendid) no experience in this field, “so a lot {in compensating accident victim (g Jud::?w)zun?‘nl\;ld;: be used” in lieu | wiy b;t even more so—and that in it of exac now R are elements of safety which tran. | T\;aafign:“»: i\r:;:;raflefite:;“t:-;rfin- scend those of all other pieces of motor surey - s - | legislation combined. sary to establish premium levels that | $ were fair and reasonable in the case | Workings of Appeals Board. i of the former and adequate for the | one of featur The Star ins es could | ... ; : BT, T e O Prates a to | TePresentative’s day with Mr. Monk | o e B en wpon the Bay State|Was an opportunity to watch the| Destorists, nor should rates be so low | Workings of the appeals board, which settles controversies between motor out of business. |car owners and insurance companies that losses would drive the campanies | An interesting sidelizht on the | Dilemma Is Ended. | spirit with which all groups have ap- | That out of this dilemma were pro- | proached the Massachuselts ks | g at ay-|afforded in the operation of this board. duced passenger car rates that av-| SRETCEL 10 TA obiration bt (his bore erage 15 per cent lower than DPre-|Goodwin and a representative of the | viously existed—25 per cent lower in |State attorney general's office. Ile Boston itself—is striking testimony |iS no austere hody, steeped in for ot ’the board of insurance experts|mality. On the contrary, it resem- | e compated the premium table |bles a gatherinz in which business| considered the motorist’s interest thor- | men come together to discuss their | oughly, Previous to the enactment of | Problems, interchange ideas, and gen- | the law, less than 30 per cent of ¥ to consider mutual welfure | Massachusetts’ car owners carried | With fairness. 5 public liabijity insurance. If these When the writer, the board Dare considered to represent the better | 2uest, took his seat at the long table | type of car owner and citizen—and |about which the varvious parties to they invariably are so considered—it |the case were assembled, he par- seems surprising that for the “aver-|ticulariy impressed with the age” driver a lower rate should have | mality of*the atmospherc. Of the Bein establehed. three members of the board. one was 1t was, however, and the fact served | Smoking a cigar, another a pipe and | to wipe out the last vestige of the |the third a cigarette. | thought that the insurance companies | The case was that of an owner who Were the primary beneficiaries of the |had junked his old car and canceled compulsory liability insurance law, a | DS insurance. He had given writ- | thought that persisted in some quar- | ten notice of his canceliation on Au o ren it the face of the compani¢s’ |RUSt 11 and had forgotten all about | Vigorons opposition fo enactment of | the Matter until the company notificd i atatite | him on November 14 that it had can- | 1t Massachusetts lacked experience | (eled Iis policy. © The discrepaney be-| upon which to hase the original rates, | (Ve the dates indicated a disagree- it certainly will he in no such predica- | €t a8 to premium and the ‘possible | ment when its first vear of the matization of the driver throuzh has ended and the figures compiled, for a remarkably comprehensive 2nd subject. The Bay State insurance says | the ppearance of having had his simple statistical plan has been evolv- | o te (08T SRR ! plan, of which Mr. Monk is no m« re | j¢" yin (e ' 'coiq the repr Hiveior panies. Thus insurance experience |ance company canceling on him to | Mr. Monk is counting a great deal | or another firm." companies are balanced. the records|ciw the point, the appellant was en- zree of sericusness, the insurance|fc- a few minutes discussing various determining traffic accident causation | tion in the wording of the law. | Uniform Cards Used. ing indicated that the board is deter- policy ecanceled by the company. i The hoard settled the matter with | cd whereby every item of experience oy i " rhidy on cannot stigmat this ma by is being catalogued. This statistical | caneoime T’ fonmatize this man by | proud than the insurance comp™nies |(ho' attornes i) b h r " | the attorney general's of His themselves. is applicable to all com- | rueorg is not going to show an insur- computed from it will have a degiee | the prejudice of any Iater attempt he of uniformity heretofore Imposaible. | my meoba ) St giaier attemnt he | upon the experience thus tabulated.| 7he rest of the board agr | D y st he rest o poard agreed, the When the hooks of the 65 insu wyer for the insurance company | of 800,000 motorists measured against | tively satisfied, and after disposal of perhaps 26.000 mishaps of varying de- | the case, the entire group sat aroumd | commissioner of Massachusetts be- |angles of the case and how it might | lieves that the first concrete step in|show the need for a slight modifica- | will have been taken in the United g | States, s Square Deal for Al | To the outsider the whole proceed. | mined to give every one involved a | square deal and that the right tol In substantiation of this position Mr. Monk points out that not only is every fatal or personal injury accident | reported in Massachusetts, but that | they are reported by at least three | persons, on a uniform card. The three | sources from which reports are sub- | mitted include the insurance company. | the participants in the accident and the police, either State or municipal. | The accident report cards leaves noth ing to chance. In includes every bit of data neces to establish a full picture of every mishap On the face of the card, for instance, these details are set forth The city or town in which the cident occured and the specific loca tion; the make and type of car or cars involved: the age and sex of the oper- ator of the vehicle or vehicles in- volved: the driving experience of the | operator or operators: the driver's re- | lationship to the owner of the car: whether the accident involved a pe destrian, train, street car, bicycle, horse-drawn vehicle, a truck, another passenger automobile or a fixed ob. ject; the ag X and degree of in jury of each person figuring in the accident. On the reverse side of the card under the heading “Statement of Con’ | tributing Conditions,” again nothing is left to chance. Every condition 151 | might be a factor in anv *Sznway mishap is fully recorard. Under the| ~ategory “Operating” one finds Too fast for conditions: on wror sgide of road: rizht of way involved: entting in or out of line: skiddinz o siiding: slowing or stoppinz: backing improper turning: failed to stop at | through street: ear ran awav—ne @river #ailed to slenal passing stand nn wrreet passing on curve or hill; passinz on wrong side. drove off roadway: drove throuzh safety zone car parked or standin ac m. Conditions of Vehlele. Conditions of the vehicle fiself that might have contributed include Defective brakes; stering mecnanism E the fi detective; glaring headlights; one or Eleventh and € The start voth lights out; tail light out or ob- was made wuln;m( ceremony. [} infor- | House Committee Likely to Consider Treasury Recom- mendation Minimum. expected to be House ways and Determination is chied today by the means commitice on the total amount of the tax eut to be allowed in the new revenue bill now heing drafted On the eve of a vote on this ques- tion. predictions of the amount varied widely except for an apparent unan- fmity of opinion that the limiting fiz are of $225,000000 recommended by the Treasury would be regarded as the minimum rather than the max- imum amount to be approved While Chairman Green has not def- initely expressed his views, other ad- ministration committee members have said the Treasury proposal would serve a governor in agreement upon the re by { total figure. Approval May Be Ashed. It regarded by them as likely that 1 effort first will be made to have the committee approve the Treasury recommendation. If this 50TH MARRIAGE ANNIVERSARY dency | ted to the bishop's vank | MAY BE SET TODAY | should fail | the next step would he to hold down | the total as much as possible, Democ under Jeadership of Rep resentative Garner of Texas, ranking minority member, however, will at tempt_to hoost the total figure con- siderably above the $225.000,000 mark While the minority has abandoned hope of obtaining a $400,000,000 tax ut. iginally proposed, Mr. Garner today said he would fight for a sonable” reductior May Carry F “I hope we can get Into agreement on the total reduction to be author- ized,” he said. “If. however, we fail to obtain a reasonable figure. we shall be forced to carry our fight to the House floor.” e predicted the total reduction would be 100.000 by the time the jill reaches President Coolidge. Upon agreement on the total re- Auction figure, the committee plans to take up the Treasury recommenda- m for downward revision of surtax rates on incomes between $16,000 and $90.000. After that it will turn its attention to the tax on corporation which the Treasury suggested should e cut from 131;'to 12 per cent, 2ht to Floor. license car owners d:finitely has not passed from the State to the insur ance cor panies. There was the ther indication that all groups recog nize this fact and that like many others which n in the records of the hoard, wsed mere Iy upon misunderstandi In itz every phase, compulsory imce is o simple thing « proportions, Mr. Monk he- In itself, a radical departurs the normal. it may produce ex perience that will revolutionize this field of insurance by a complete re ordering of tha risk classification. It is not beyvond the r m of possibilit he helieves. record may be the bas the premiium he must pay “Massnchusetts has taken her stand on a principle that is faiv and intelli- gent.” he says, “and out of that ex- perience will come the greatest lessons in_automobile history Detailed _improvements, change in this or that ous types of risis may be needed to make the law perfect, he agrees. Only a minority, representing specia! inter- ests now can claim the or unfair, he says, and “time wiil prove its lack of wisdom to even this selfish, short-sighted group. is case sho lieves. from slight ing of CAPITAL’S GREATES rst load of earth of she greate: \ that the ‘ndividual driver's | o of determining | . | non-fireproof incomes | | there will fur- | | | aw unsound | installations of machinery on AR MERGERBILL - HELD N ABEYANCE | Action in Congress May Be Taken if Companies Fail to Unite. the and to & to induce eetric The bill desizned Washington Railway 1l Traction “he failed to pass in the last ses. sion of Consress, may be reintroduced | this Winter should negotiations now |under way to b I mericer meet with failure | dicated today at the Dist | Phe Public Ctilities ¢ Ltemporarily sidetracked sory merzer bill it was in Building ion had mput | grave of ng about a voluntary | consolidate, | Loubts of several of its members as (o | its stitutionality ount of the ap cor and also on ac went determined ef- ort of Harley P Wilson to lead the (ransportation compi into a uni fied operation without resorting to the ase o a legistative cudge! The doubt as to the bill's constitn tionality has been removed, however, by r nt opinion of Corporation Coun sel William W. Bride, who as general counsel of the commission was asked to pass upon its Iezality. After care ful study and analyvsis, Mr. Bride was able to find only one provision which he thought misht be construed as il legal by the conrts and its elimination was suggested This questionable point was one of the bill's so-called “penalties.” which would increase the SI0SS revenue tax of the car compa nies from 4 per cent to 6 per cent for | Ciilure to consolidate by a specific date Mu befere weeks, Bride’s the comm but it was it was explained t might tions i The | PhasizeC that it is anxious to see a merger of the transportation comp: { nies consummated. but that it favors @ voluntary consolidation rather than one forced by congrossional logis lation. Therefore, it is inclined to await the outcome of Mr. Wilson's ef forts before even considering the re introduction of the merger bill, which incidentally was sponsored by the f mer commission, A voluntary me feels, would be f and “could be brou oner perhaps than one legislation. Should the latter cours be adopted. it was pointei out, the ear companies undoubtedly would ght the legislation in the courts and therchy delay the merger for several years _Mr. Wilson, it is understood, is con- tinuing his of informal con- ferences with officials and stockhold ers of the two traction companies in i effort to get their views on his merger plan before submitting the final draft to the utilities commission. Plan Public Hearings. Public hearings, it was indicated, will be started by the commission as soon as a completed plan is presented. The Jrm of Charles Hansel, consult- ing engineers, also is putting finishing | touches on the merger plan it has | drawn up for the public utilities com- mittee of the Federation of Citizens' | Associations. Clivton E. Emig, acting | chairman of the committee, announced that a meeting would be held Wed- nesday with the engineers to go over the pian which will e submitted to tiph B. Fleharty, peoples’ counsel, before the commission as soon as it is rveady for public discussion. FEDERAL BUILDING PROJECT STARTED WITHOUT CEREMONY (Continued _from First Page.) opinion has now on for seve not made public, because of fear that interfere with the negotia ated by Mr. Wilson. been more sati ht about netory much forced by series toward the sheds, in preparation for the other work of construction which is to follow. There is great pressure on the building program on account of the dangerously dequate and quarters in which the now houses millions of worth of valuable income tax in Government dolla pape The square directly to the east of the steam-shovel operations alread, kas been condemned..and is being pu chased by the Treasury. Structures be torn down shortly and made for more excavation W . re. Breaking ground for the Depart- | ment of Commerce, which it wa thought also might have taken plac has been delayed for a while, v 10 ¢ or two weeks. The irtment of Commerce is to be lo cated _between 1@ and Ji, Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, and the first ex- cavation, for which the Brenzier con pany also has the contract, will take the shape of the letter zoing around the District Ilouse of Deten tion The District government tion to trying to find a for the Farmers' Market, is also faced | with- the necessity of finding a new | the House Detention, | on the Commerce site, High Tax on Sugar Machinery. SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Re- sublic. November 21 (P).—The Do- sinican Congress today voted appro val of a law imposing 130 per cent im port duties on .the value of sugar manufacturing machinery. the purpose of the measure being to prevent new | th in addi- | W location | tions. Machinery parts for U established plantations will be subject to the former import duties. [ and 70 yards ommission has repeatedly em | . the comnissicn | | highway | and | Pink | Bystander 1 OVEMBER 1927, Pl g the fape Frank L. Comi et Commissioner Taliaferro. Belaw, g Bar cup at the zero mile post on the Ellipse, where the party started. N. R. Hoft, J. Donald Richards, Commissioner aliaferro, T. N. Frost, Thoma EDCATIONOPENS LEE HIGHWAY LINK | Parace of Autos Starts Here and Follows Route to Warrenton. | | By a Stafi Correspondent of The Star. | WARRENTON, Va., November 21.| —Linking by a modern concrete | ot the National Capitgl and | Wairenton—Mosby's “Capital of the Confederacy”—was celebrated hei this afternoon with ceremonies dedi- | cating the new Lee Highway connec- tion between the two cities. A prosperous new era of commerce | friendship between Washington | and northern Virginia was predicted | by speakers before a large crowd of | citizens gathered in a hall near the courthouse, The speakers included spresentative R, Walton Moc State Attorney General John R <qunders, Judge Latham Fletcher of Warrenton and District Comm sioner Sidney F. Taliaferro. The program here climixed a spec tacular automobile parade which be- FIRST claiming Ar-olds: RACE:- s furlon 110 14 .. 1001 e Tines'me 110 abelladile’ Bootton Cruelty vank Bastone and Wm. McQuade eutry. | JOND RACE— £1.300 maidens: all ages: L mile and 70 yards. Love Messaze Quandry General Wavne.. Rounde Dwyer's Way Spirit of Senge.’, Rough Sea Also ehgible Rim ... Buddhi a Frances J.. THIRD RAC Ridge Purse £1.300 Wl up 10 Patr 0% M 108 Ar 110 Wi 104 110 106 the Bay | 6 furlongs. | 100 | 101 | e 10t | at 1 Do, Poly ...... Clean " Play FOURY Marsh P K Spear Ro Water Lad Bye and Bye. Wellet The Diver Leonard B." Centaur TH nanolis Purse RACE—] 1ye; e §1.400 olds and up the 112 106 106 103 Carlaris .. Leg: Lisht View tockhawk Kenophon 103 XTH RACE—P) olds and op Cockrill *Maxiva Grippeminii Wheatstick .0 Dimple Dunkie n M. . . aclsrone’ Tntrepid hock Nomad 3 Fred &7 Marche Militaire 10| 109 $1.4100 miles, Reau Geste. Golden” Hawk FArno . *Houston Ky Harris. Aversion Aleo eliiz Fenlight . i $1300: miles *Real 4 ontc] o aDavenport " hael B Also_elizibie i Rock claiming: ear olds and up Delhi Boy Curotoise Gilhert Cok Powder e O'Neill Tt ea Lady twodd attle Vinee Polloi Margaret St L Point Walfe and Mra W. H. Denham entey o allowance claimed oudy. track fast rtist M | 1927 Buy Now Mail Early for Better Service Sev hundred local school chil- dren took part in the parade here, the route of which traversed a num- ber of the principal streets. Com- mittees in charge of the celebration follow: Washington O'Connell, Thomas E. Garrett, T. Frost Richards, Advance committee—J. Green Car- ter, C. C. Pearson, William 1. Gaines, Dr. W. N. Hodgkin and Dr. J. T. hornton Parade committee—Ra A. MelIntyre, P. B. Smith, P. Richards and James C. Ambler Parking committee—W. Woolf. N. Ilatcher and R. T. Hedszpeth. Luncheon committee—C. k. Tif- fany, F. G. Anderson, John and Herman E. Ullman. 47 JAILE| Communist Literature Secret Banquet. WARSAW, November Forty-seven _persons ind a quantity of Communist litera. ture was seized at ington and followed the route of the new highway through four co Special ceremonies of welcome were iged as the procession entered Ar- | ton, Fairfax, Prince William and | avquier counties. | Halt at Lyon Village. | At Lyon Village ihe cars halted | in front of a silken ribbon, stretched | ross the road. To siznify Arlin ton County’s welcome, Miss Hazel | Vicroy of Clarendon @i the burrier and State Senator I all voiced a brief welcome. % dele- mation then proceeded Falls Church. Heading the \zton County group were Senator Ball Clarence A. Ahalt, president of the Arlington County Chamber of Com merce, and Milford Witts, secretar: of the chamber. The party arrived in Falls Church about 10 o'clock. Here Fairfax County held a short welcome cere- mony and its citizens joined in the parade, with M. E. Church leading the contingent. Alexandria’s delegation met the caravan in Fairfax. This new addi- tion to the parade was composed of cars carrying Harry Hammond, I. C. Goodnow and W m A. Moore, vepresenting the Alexandria Cham- | ber of Commerce: L. E. Roland. D. . Book, Charles C. Carlin, jr. Hugh Clarkson and F. Clinton Knight of |the tenth anniversary of the the Retail Merchants' Bureau and J. |revolution, according to reports re: P. Quarles, A. H. Thomas and J. Wil- ceived here today. liam May of the civfe Bureau, Police consider that the arrests wil Welcomed at Bridge. Prince Willlam county stag welcome as the procession e at Bull Run Bridge, and here the de was augmented hy more| SIGHT NEW COMET. automobiles. | DBERLIN, November 21 (#). Another Was | comet, invisible to the naked eye, sit staged at A M D committee — M. ank, ¥ and J. S, W D IN RAID. | i 21 activities of in Mlawa section. Communists ribbon ceremony Buckland about dress of greeting. ing features of the ; parade was a|Hamburg Universitys sroup of sputtering “gasoline bug- | Schwartzmann and Watch. zies” of former day representing | g automotive progress of the past two | decades, The cars joined the cara-|yith a distinet nucleus. Its daily . . b A van a few miles ont of Warrenton. |ment has hoen very slight move- to 1t them venture to far from base |the earth. ce, Arlington Left to rizht, Mrs. J. C. Jenkins, | s K. Frank, E. M. Garrett and | Thoma Seized at »).— were arrested secret banquet it Mlawa yesterday in celebration of viet severe check to the increasing the,| A new | . nooN. | yated in the constellation of Pisces Judge Fletcher delivered a short ad- |(the fishes) and with the brightness of {a star of the thirteenth to fourteenth One of the picturesque and amus- | magnitude, has been photographed st Professors The comet appears on the photo- zraphic plate as a nebulous formation e o b proving The committee in charge was afraid | (hat it is an enormous distance from ITH TWO-THIRDS ULE FIGHT HALTED “ffert to C-ange Convention Procedure Unlikely, Says New York Times. By the Associated P NEW YORK, New York Times todav 1t Bak learned from an authoritative source that friends of Gov. Smith will mak no effort to change the rule requirin 4 two-thirds vote to nominate the can didate for President at the Demoeratic national convention. The Times. which Smith, says a survey nolitical situation has convinced (riends cf the governor that there fittle likelihood of his opponents get ting a block of more than a third drs wnti-Cathelic delegates. The governor's supporters, the ar ticle continues, believe that azitation against the two-thirds rule would pro voke ill feeling that might prevent the ! zovernor’s election, skould he be nomi- | nated, and that it would be well, for the sake of party harmony, to avoid ny conflict over the rule, Jarring a change in the situation. ! the Times says. the zovernor's friends here are convinced he will have a two. thirds majority After the early hallots, the ar! «ocs on, the zovernor is expected b his friends to win considerable support from Southern States. Enforcamnent of the unit rule by direction of the state conventions, the article poinis wit. might prevent a number of Swith votex heing east by some of the Scuth orn delegates. Becaus> of a desire to show courtesy to favorite son and other candidates there will be no fizht for Smith votes ymongthe delegates from Missourt, Ohio, Maryland. Indiana, Montana and Nebraska, the article say ' SMITH AND VARE ARE FACING BAN FROM U. S. SENATE rst_Page) Novi sayvs ber 21.—The is friendly tc of the nationul Te A _from F (Continu recurring reports have suggested that Senate sentiment on the slush fund cases had changed. Many Senators formerly opposed to seating Vare and Smith were said to have come around o the view that “constitutional re quirements” demand their admission. The alleged ahout-facers were quoted as feeling that the Pennsylvanian and the Illinoisan. whose joint primary expenditures ran into the millions, should be admitted, investigated by their peers and then ejected if inquiry justified ejection. Democrats’ Position. Names of Southern Democratic Senators were freely used in this con- nection. ‘They were represented as having undergone attacks of cold-feet on the States’ rights issue. Some of the Dixie solons were suspected of having succumbed to the fear that snator David Aiken Reed., Republi- car. of Pennsylvania, who will lead the fight to seat Vare, might carr: out his threat to open up certain ques- tions involved in the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments!. Senator Wil- liam H. King, Democrat, of Utah, has been recorded in favor of admission of Vare and Smith, to te followed by investigation-and, if justified. eventual expulsion. But the Democratic-Republican-Pro- gressive phalanx, which musters any- Where from 55 to 65 votes in the Sen- ate, is now depicted as virtually a solid front against admission of the Pennsylvanian and the Illinoisan. There may be a few backsliders—like Senator Blease, Democrat of South Carolina, but an overwhelming major- ity is counted upon to support the barring resolution. Fear New Newberry Issue. When the roll is called. there are strong indications that many Repub- | licans will be found voting in favor of Kkeeping Vare and Smith outside the breastworks till they have heen inves- zated. The G. O. P. is anxious to dodge another Newberry issue In the 1928 presidential campaign. Repub- lican votes to seat Vare and Smith party leaders know. would not on affect the national ticket, but would seriously Jeopardize numerous Repub- lican Senators up for re-eelection next 'vear. Many Senators who voted zainst ejecting Newberry in 192 were themselves thrown out of office at ensuing State election 1Copyrizht 192 ] Important Factors Why the American Security is the sands of persons both in and out of Washington. 1 Five convenient banking offices. choice of thou- The largest Trust Company in the Nation’s Capital. Over thirty-eight years’ experience in the successful con- duct of banking and trust business. The largest capital, surplus and undivided profits of any local financial institution. A staff of officers fully qualified to advise wisely on all financial matters. A board of directors composed of leaders in many phases of business. MERICAN SECURIT > AND _ 15th and Penna. Avenu BRANCHES: Central—7th and Mass. Ave. N.W, Northcast—8th and H Sts. N.E. TRUST COMPANY o [ Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits Ovér $6,700,000 Southwest—7th and E Sts. S.W. Northwest—1140 15th St. N.W. TOTAL RESOURCES OVER $38,000,000