Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1927, Page 31

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 15, 1927. %WILL TEST COURT RIGHT. States has the constitutional power to sh a crime committed in a port of a forelgn country will be decided under an appeal authorized today by the Department of Justice from a de cision of the Federal Court of the | eastern district of Pennsylvania. $25,000,000 More Here and AUTOTAXKLLED Mellon Also Overruled in Re- | n by sections, would deprive the ury of $33,000,000 in revenue. » debate and voting on the in-| 2 x was not without an echo | | of the long controversy that has waged | |over charges that a well organized {lobby has been maintained here in an S effort to have the levy repealed. It ] came from Chairman Green of the e commit i | had “floated” $& ffort to have the tax eliminated wdded that he wished he had time to | | tell the “whole story” about the propa- bills about in_ their He |! STIMSON GIVEN 0. K. Senate Committee Favors Appoint- ment to Philippines. The nomination” of Henry L. Stim New York to be governor | meral of the Philippines was ap | oved today by the Senate Ifl‘rilnl'ler‘ committee and a favorable report was | sent to the Senate. son of '$100,000,000 for Other Projects Held Necessary. ailor on a e vessei was in the harbor horn, Italy Mellon slation ington $100 Secretary *of the Treasury *°e8 Mo obstacles ahead of le adding $25,000,000 to the W rublie building program and 100,000 to the program the country. Expressing the hope and belief that the two measures reported out of com ittee yesterday to the House soon Will become law, the Secretary empha- | sized. that there was need of both of them, The $25,000.000 Ellfott bill for ac auiring the land in the so-called Penn 7 «vivania avenue triangle passed both | as lo houses of Congress last - in dif: ferent form, Mr. Mellon d out it was evident that it would re- ceive approval again this vear Would Effect E Thle additional $100,000,000 for the construction of Federal buildings q a 55,000,000 1hroughout the country, the Secretary (b fixed at $23,000.000. as <aid, was sorely needed, not only from {that the 000.000 re the standpoint of accommodation for | he” bud i Dost offices, custom houses, courts and | ¢ U 50 other activities, but 1l TR e Bk gy the economy which wou 5 At the present time, high rentals ernment activities for pr bulldings because the cies have outgrown Construction bulldings will ac : saving of money, Mr. Mellon explain ed, as the rent is so high it costs more OVer a period of years than the cost of new bufldings ' The first $100,000,000 which Con gress authorized in the publi ings program for the to the $15,000,000 left \Il;austaglhorlmuon. has allocated to relieve cong: in hun- sresentatives dreds of cities throughout the coun- | g it ragan i ot try. Construction is proceeding on G G that ‘m',;l,, these projects and will be ed for: sers were prep: ward. The additional $100,000.000 is | PRACHASCHS were Drep needed if the Federal Government in o tends to function properly in quarters and save high re: Architects Have Meet Plans for developing the triangle went forw. Treasury Board of sultants, from different p country, gathered at the T: continue their studies Dlan of developing the triangle under | ~# unified architectural composition has been approved by the Treasury. | Fine Arts Commission. the Public Buildings Commission, and is being , worked out by the Board of Con. sultants. A number of proposed sketches for projected buildings to be erected in | the triangle in the future, and prospectives of the entire - triangle were before the architects in their office adjacent to the private office of Secretary Mellon. The Archieves Building. which is the third already authorized by Con- STeSS to be erected in the triangle, will probably be one of the structures to | receive the closets scrutiny. as the | Treasury hopes to proceed with con. | structing it as soon as plans can be developed to harmonize with the tri- | angle plan and the land can be ob- *tained. | The other two projects in the tri-, angle already started by excavation | are the Internal Revenue Building | and the Department of Commerce Building. throughout Delegation Asks President Budget Bureau. Restoration of $5.000,000 to ped off was recomm nies. that amounts for i and harbo; for because by Chief Forester. 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