Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1928, Page 2

LEARY CHARGES PLAY FOR DEFENSE | | {Prosecutor’s Claim of Con- cealed Move Against Him Brings Sharp Rebuke. Puring a dramatic scene in the | surtroom _today James J. O'Leary, | sistant United States district ttor- | oy, charged that the present inquiry that he had intimidated Kidwell, jr.. Fall-Rincl &ht into the | of any erime” de. think there is I can be ar- charges can then be an defend mvse'f. This ial procedure ard is t into the hands of the it vour honor has asked ter be cleaved up before 1 we which 1 ¢ The nd 1 extra udic | tax NCOME TAX UNIT to Vacate Site of Com- merce Structure. for the great e Building. To m Departm way nt of Comme which e ation already has started the income tax unit of the Internal| Revenue Bureau will be moved Feb- vuary 1 from its old wartime wooden building at Fifteenth and B streets to the new National Press Building at Fourteenth and F streets, where it | will occupy six floors, | GETS NEW OFFICES Will Move to Press Building! new | About 1,500 Government workers nd & huge amount of valuable income records, which for years have heen end ed by fire h: d in the | | tinued W d now O'Leary claimed | vet heen made what the cha ing his vaice he had are of exa were. of that right to| arges against me made hy thess defense attorneys. real Iv are in these proceedir O'Leary eaid. deprived Justice Answers O°'Leary. istice _Siddons, replying sharply at the charges had b and that George P. Hoover | el for the respondents had not | to detail in stating. that| Leary had intimidated Kidwell. But | iddons denied emphatically | had been “deprived of | ight to know the charges against | him. The co said that this wa the first time O'leary had suggested that he did not understand the charges. “Kidwell, when he was placed on| the stand. seemed to know or believed | that_he had been intimidated or co- | erced,” said Justice Siddons. { The incident arore while Edward Towers, draftsman in the District] survevor's office, was on the stand Je was being queftioned by O'Leary regarding trips he had made with the | assistant United States attornev on December 17. e testified that he had stood in front of school from which a Burns detective claimed in | his testimony to have seen Kidwell| enter his home. Towers testified that no one could have seen Kidwell enter | his home from that spot. Testimony Upheld. O'Leary was a little slow in develop- i 4ng just what this had to do with the | charges of intimidation and Hoover | objected to further testimony on this oint on the ground of irrelevancy | ;'t was at this juncture that O'Leary | claimed that he was being deprived | of his right to defend himself and even to know what the charges were Justice Siddons said that in view of the statements of the assistant United States attorney, “made for the first lime in court today,” the objection to : ghe testimony of Towers was over- suled, and O'Leary might proceed to @dsvelop his defense against the charge of intimidation. '{"ery earlier today called Mise Puth Teates, neighbor of Kidwell, and \Walter S. Hartman, notary public, to the witness stand. Hartman, who is connected with the | Anacostia Finance Corporation, €or- | Toborated earlier Government testi- mony that Kidwell and his mother said they knew what they were sign- ing when they affixed their signatures 10 an affidavit before him in which they mentioned such suspicions that the juror was being followed by Burns detectives. Miss Teates repeated on the witness #iand statements made by her in an affidavit mfl;l‘ernl:l a “m i) telephone call” when a man's v ln:fl'a’ time in October asked her about | the habits of Kidwell and she replied among other things that he was "1 pretty good feliow and seemed to heip his mother. Affidavits Not Read. Judge Daniel Thew Wright of coun- sel for the respondents, brought out, on a erossexamination of Hartman, that the afidavit signed 'in his pres- ence was not read on that occasion either 1o Kidwell or his mother. He said, however, that he asked them whether the contents of the paper were “true to the best of their knowl- edge and belief” and that the answer was “yves” O eary | | questioned Miss Teates | closely about the “mysterious tele-| phone call.” She said that the man’s voice over the telephone asked her whether she knew a “young fellow named Kidwell.” and when she said she did, the voice arked her whether be “ran around at night.” Miss Teates testified that she replied, “No. he meems to be a pretty good fellow.” Then Mies Ten according 1o her testimony asked the name of the man who was kpeaking to her telephone and the reply came 1t is the credit buresu Not Sure of Date. The exact time when this telephone «#1) occurred was the subject of many questions by counsel for the respond. ents, who sought to obtain an admis- #ion from Miss Teates that it occurred hetore the selection of the jury in the i inclair trial had been completed best they could ket from her, in that eonnection, was that she was not #ure when it took place, McComas Hawken, attorney for Kidwell, was recalied 1o the stand snd testified that Fe had discovered weveral more discrepancies between bhis recolliection and that of Col. James |~ the [to President Callew, which he offered | 5. Easby ¥mith, who represents court in the investigation of the al- Jeged contemps. regarding their inter. | view on December ¥ with Kidwell and | ¥iawell's tather and mother. Hawken #led that he could nov recall, ws | Easby Emith had done, Cxprommn 8 suspicion man who called 8t his house wan one of the men he thought had been fol Towing him | Hawken remembered only that Kid | well M that this men apparently | wvas “looking for him.' snd was not, aimed, an fuspecior of the Pt Inent Hawken 44 not yemember that Kidwell on that occa- won suif he believed he could recog vize mnother man whom he saw at Horan's near-beer saloon as & Burns detective Mrs. Magruder Testifies. Mre Flizsbeth 1. Magruder, stenog- yapher in the ofce of the United Fouten wtiorrey, testfied Just before court sAjourned yestorduy thet whe write one of the disputed aMdavite o1 1he dletation of James 1. O'Leary, Tnited Histew siiorney, in e of Yaward 3. Kidwell, §r vor 1 bween resd Although Ae 10 whiaks her Lewts ement that vl clung A 1he Bad specfieally mpproved of wrtion of 1he sMdsvit, in purpored (o hive decisred Tret he though! be could identify Bar- Poowtewart, Burne operative sa one of e men who had been follow ng bhan aur the trial George P ver of counsel for Eineluir, on crossexsminetion hrought O tee fact 1hat Mie. Magruder hud her wtenographic notes gfler tronmciibing them on the typewriter, every effuit 1o nduce her 10 wey thist e y tld her 1o destroy the niten fu Fhe jusisted wlso thet sody tuld her (o preserve them but thil she would Live dune o except for the fact that they were taken on #orope of paper aud not IB & el LUenogrs phie 1ot eheok Paniel Thew Wriknt u' vanael for N - bk b that Kid- | that | wh sigued 1L only | wooden structure, will be moved. 10 will constitute the first major trans fer to take place in the Federal buill ing prosram here, D. O, FRTDAY. JANUARY 6. 1928, United States Mari to sail for Nicarag! CAPITAL MARINES es from the Washington Navy Var n to battle Sandine and his fellow bandits, and Indian ¥ | i | | The Government has started excava. | | tion on the new Internal Revenue Ruilding, to be located in the triangle | uth of the Post Office Department This new home for the whole Internal Revenue Rureau, according to present prospects, will be completed in two or three years, | Has Warned of Danger. ‘ of the Treasury Mellon 0 warning Congress | of th inger from fire to the in- | valua filex of income tax pers | in the old and fast deteriorating tem porary building wWhich has been in use since (he war. To remove this hazard one of the first structures to be built in the new public building Secretary for ved has be program is to be the Internal Rev- low re lenue Building. The other two, which re goinz along with it at about the | same speed now, are for the Depart- ment of Commerce and Department | of Agriculture. In the meantime the income tax unit was atting on the site of Department of Commerce, Which is | paying thousands of dollars rent in its quarters at Nineteenth and Penn- | ylvania avenue and which the Gov- | ernment is anxious to put into its new home as soon as possible. The move of the income tax unit to the New National Press Building was authorized by the Public Buildings | Commission and Will enable con- struction to proceed at a much earlier date on the Department of Commerce Building. Will Have Six Floors. The space to be occupied in the Press Building by the revenue work- ers wili be from the third to the| ninth floor, inclusive. and parts of | other floors. tant from the Treasur street, b Eager to get the Department of Commerce Building under way as soon as possible, the Treasury will n Fifteenth make plans to tear down at once the Lyt he appr old Annex No. ?, as the home of the | income tax unit hae been known. The Treasury has asked the Dis- trict Commissioners to vacate House of Detention, which will be the | only other structure left on the site for the Department of Commerce. | The Commissioners, however, not as vet notified the Treasury as to when the House of Detention can be turned back to the Federal Govern- ment. AMERICAN FACING TRIAL IN GERMANY Portsmouth, N. H., Chemist to Be Tried on Commercial Espion- age Charge. | By the Associated Press. | DUSSELDORF, Germany, January 6 —Guido Meisel, American chemist of Portsmouth, N. hefore a special court here Wednes. day on a charge of commercial esplon. age. With him will be tried two «:wi Imnml alleged to have been his confed: | tor Noi | tral American 1 | man and Walter G. Hughe | inz ended in December. | well knows the advantage enjoyed by ! Sandino and his men in knowing the | country like th {he has been It is but one block dis- | 4¢" 3inotaga, { that the mountair have | the Marine | listments, | fields, | rebel | tio | the | having been in {they were not acquainted | satd erates, | Meisel, & reprexentative of the | Portsmouth Dye and Chemical ( haw been in prison here since June 19. He came 10 Germany last Spring for the avowed purpose of engaging a _chemist for the American firm When negotiations failed, he went to Switzeriand and France, where, it ix charged. he wux in conference with representatives of the German chem feal industry, Juxt as Meisel was about to embark at Cherbourg for America he veceived a telegram from Dusseldorf muggest ing & conference there with a man who was willing 1o accept the post he waunted filled. When the position wus offered 1o 8 German Meinel wan ar- | rested for violating the German law, ' which prohibits the hiring of an em- ploye already under contract. HEARST DOCUMENTS BRANDED AS FAKES BY NAVAL EXPERTS (Continued from First Page) to the Philadelphia Public “1 can’'t yecall,” he “Didn't Avila give | Chatrman Reed pyessed. No, it was some Mexican paper man,” he countered, could not recall the person, Wi you refiched the conclusion that 1t la Yollette Jatter wad un questionably fraudulent, didn't you ko o some source of 1t and woms check” Renator Robinsen, Democrat, Arkansss, unked ledger. iterated you that?" news but he No Under questioning by Henator John son, Jepublican, Californis, Page waid he went 1o the man who gave him the La Follette letter and at- tempted 16 get the original at the re aquest of the Philadelphin - Public Jaduer “Where aid you Johnwon axked. “1 o 1 remember.” Who was he” 1 don't remember.” “IiAn’'t you go to the man who fooled you and give your opinion to Wi “No meet this man?" ‘Holpiulwlar Drug Addicts Urged. An sppropristion of 36,000,000 for construction of & "ospital for Vedersl prisoners who are drug addicts in proposed in & hill by Nepresentative Cochran, Democrat, Missouri It i in line with & #su wstion of A, H Conner, superintendent of prisons. e ——————e— Henry Mason Day iried to prove that Mis, Magruder was not en expert slenographer by giving her a test in open court, When he dictated rather Yapidly & passee from & legal poper whe was able 1o resd I back o L without hesitation, but when he i {orensed Die speed whe acknowledgel that 1L was ton fast fur her, Justics Hiddons smillngly asked her whether she could astimsts the rate of speed which Judue Wright had dioialed but she said ghe could nat make | | | | | | | 'Fourteen from Navy Yard and Ten from Indian Head Go to Norfolk. ship their it of his fel- 24 Marines Their fighting equipment in shape order and all set to show pugnac uff for en. Augustino Sandino Is in Nicarag 10 from Indian Head, M, and 14 from the Navy Yard, Washington, left the Capital last evening by boat folk to take ship for the Cen- ttle theater. of the “devil e already ie duty in Nicaragua, but they [ eager for the fray again. These men are Sergt. Stanle R Abe Pogre. Pyts. Willlam Toute. Roy W./Wray, John F. Bec Frank A. Cummings, Morris H. Hol- beng nd us the Fight have d aKosZ Was in ry to September of last itivipates that he will be tion against the Nicaraguan ban. | dits in a month, the wet season hav- The sergeant mroverbiul book, as in the actual zone in which the fighting i now going on He well remembers the days he spe The sergeant points out present particular difficulty, and Sandino, with guerflla tactics, is at a decided advan- tage, but Jagosz is eager to try his Juek again in trying to get Sandino, fates the fact that i¢ will take many men to force the final surrender, Jagosz ha« not seen San. dino, but knows of his ability from the | first-hand experience, Cummings Old-Timer. Pyt Cummings is an old timer at Corps game, with three “hash marks,” denoling as many en- and a breast full of decora- tionx to show service in far foreign Woe betide the Nicaraguan that gets within the range of Cummings' gun sights, for he iy an expert rifleman. He holds decora for service in San Domingo, on Mexican barder, Nicaragua and Manila, foura bronze stars und one silver star. He has a good conduct meda), and 18 a World War veteran, the engagements of Soixsons, Champagne, Argonue and Rellou Wood, with others. He was « member of the old 5th Regiment, & Division, as was Sergt. Jagosz, but the has been more than w rakua and knows the that b yvear in Nie country well, The only officer going from Wash ington s Lieat, J. G. Walraven, who home 1% in Town, W. Va. He H., will be tried |also left laxt night to join the 11th |l Regiment, that is boing ussembled Norfolk, Expects Good Morale. Lieut. Col. Lauren 8, Willis of the Marine Barracks, vy Yard, con: xiders thut the blending of seasoned m n with the recruits will enhance the morale of the contingent Men from the Navy Yard who are to see thelr fiest duty in Nicarngua ohn Adelinan, Trun 1 and Hel Donuld nthony 1 . and Pyis, 1 T, Clark Frederick H. K Carl st, Hurry B, Walter and L. Weir. ‘The men from Indian who are 1o get their first taste in Nicaragun are Guunery Hergt. Ivie W. Lancaster, who is in chur Sergt. John T. Rasch, Corpl Clarence P, Burgett and Pvis. Charles . Burns, John M. Mains and John P, alifvan, BECK DEFENDS RIGHT 70 SEAT Cites Washington and Frank- lin to Prove Pennsylvania Citizenship. ir Head of mervi By the Associated Pro George Warhlugte Franklin were il enre of Bepresct ve James M Beck, w epublican, fny a statement he fled with i Hotse cloctions committes denying charges brought by Dema cratn that he was not o vesident Prennsylvinin ut of his recent election 1o Con, He waid thit and iy Henjnmin 1 to the Washington from the tme he wan ande genersl of the Revolutionary Aty to the snd of hix wecond prenldent fod 16 years, wan “very rarely at Mount Vernon, bhut no ene would ever que ton that e was an inhabitant of Vieginls." Franklin, he sdded, was in Paris for 10 yours and his citizen whip of Pennsylvania was not ques tioned Heck, u tormer the United Statew, declioied ho horn educnted 1 Pennaylvanin w man e g bl weryice, u rostdence in Washington never heen regardod an o forfeiture Wi citizenshin in the Hinta and comn munity tn which he was horn" Belleves Gureett: Misinformed, Hetering 1o Representative (iar veit, the Demorratie House loade who was unsuccessful on th Cong convened in an eff have Beck's citigenship Investignted hefore he wan ndministered the oath Heck wald (hat ) eapecinlly recognize that the distinguished epreser wtive from Tennessae, who sponwibility of this elgibility, wan actuated wirthy Whisan mnlive thut he believed Garrete hnd heen i Informed regniding the facis in the oas, Beck reviewed at 19 $he time he wan wolicitor weneral of Wi s Life up ol Ho o Jagosz, | Nicaragua | his ! He | of | wan Veterans of the Nicaraguan campaign who are returning to join the fray. | LINDBERGH INSPECTS VOLCANOES | ON FLIGI'}EFROM TEGUCIGALPA 3 'Goes “Sight-Seeing” on Way to Managua. Mountains Force Him to ‘ A. LINDBERGH. | After an hour and a half of fying | I came to the first voleano, which was { extinet. T flew around it and observed . ” | it carefully, as it wus the first 1 had 'S rip from Tegucigaina | ever seen from the air. 1t consisted was ght flying with perfect | of three concentric craters within one weather and no difficulty of any sort. | jarke one, Trees were growinis in the T flew high most of the way to Man. | craters, wo 1 suppose it must have agha, because of the mountains and ong_been inactive. DU S bl | think T averaged about 5.000 feet, | on {he map und found that it wo8 Every dny's fight I have had in the | goee. d i 4 Latin-America has shown me some| The second voleano was only half a | new phase of bemutiful scenery, of | mile distant. and it was probably | which 1 had always heard and today | about 2,000 feet lower. It had a large: | { te probably half a mile in meter, and was fairly level at the bottom. Inside (t was entirely e ered with green sod, but had no trees The third voleano was 15 miles far- ther on and T was extremely interested RY COL. CHARL By Tropical Radio MANAGUA, Nicaragua, January 6. most were the volcanoes of which I | saw several after crowsing the borders {of Honduras and Nicaragua at the | River Negro which runs Into the Guit of Fonseca, lin it becaude it was active and smok | 1t was not my first view of vol | ing heavily. canoes, but it was the fArst time I had land no trace of vegetation. had a chance to fly over them and 1| burning on one side and this was very took advantake of the opportunity to | vellow which it took from the sulphur. | |do & little xikht-seeing on the way. |1t was throwing off dense fumes. 1| Time Change Affects Schedule, hlmn:m: |v’\'l'r -Ahl'hmxmnd lrl..n nh-\i« 1t i 1 Isft Tegucignipa at 11:36 yester. | It MIEht have been passible to Ko Cown | |day moming and-nlanned to be into it, but I feit T did not have time | ! gun at 2 o'clock. However, I did | fOF that. | | not know there was 20 minutes' dif. | Saw Many Others. | ference in time, and when T landed 1| From there the route seemed marked discovered that 1 was behind the by volcanfie which were smoking all | achedule planned here. {uround. The last one was Mombo- | As ‘Tegucigalpa has an elevation of tombo, close to Managua. 13,000 feet and the surrounding moun- | During the journey [ flew as high tialng has 6,000 feet, it Was necessnry | as 11,000 feet, und at Leon as low as climb steadily from the start to | 1,000, where I saw people running to them. | went to 8,000 feet and | see the plune. I circled around the ved there most of the time until I/ town two or three times. then up again was well fnto Nicaragua [and kept a high altitude until I was The course followed lay straight | nearing Managun from ucikalpa to Ison, an impor-| Managua was casy to plek up be. tant Nicuraguan town near the Pacific | cause it ix on a lake. The fleld is well [ coust, where 1 would be able to pick | marked and has plenty of room to up the railrond and follow it to my | land dextination I was very glad to meet the Marine There wis A fafrly stff head wind, fivers on my urrival here. 1 was not but not enough to seriously cut down | troubled by alr currents on the jou Ly running time, Inav and noticed & number of avail uspects Extinet Voleano, {able landing places, more in fact the at any time since leaving Mexico City. Just we I wan getting out of the ! ** SN AUC IS N ek ucizalnn, and mountaln country, it wiy of the |y e e e Might, 1 the Gult o Fansecn on | MG 0 Sk Otiona wecome v oright. It v w picturesque body o 0 o i - me | of water with volcanic iaund rising | [ (he Peoble of Nicuragua on land {from ite midst. From theve on the " | Pacific was wimost continually in Canadu sight dimly on the western horizon @AM, Luntil 1 Innded ) It had no foliage at all | It was | yright exica 1028 in the United Sttaes. Liba Contral st Sauth oo apd the British Dominis New York Times Co AL HEhts werdted many Philadelphia clubs "'SENATOR-ELECT leT” i hich he i 4 member: declared he had | | ansessed and taxed in that :«uyi HERE FOR BALLOT QuIZ| | tsabisi 1 and 1927 and added that 1 “these are (he fucts e | ‘Appurently, they wera so recog | Insull Will Also Testity Before 1 by the clectorate,” he continued, | at the election last November 1 Committee Probing Il- cted by nn overwhelming ma and 1 polled substantially the linois Vote. Vote ax my associntes on the jority, wime | ket By the Aswo Frank 1, | Hlinols, wh [oath of ofice by the Senate, [ here today o appear tomorrow hetore tie wpeciul Senate campaign funis committee at the reopening of hear mgs on his primary ex Sumuel Insull, Chicago public wtili- tiew official, who contributed $125,000 to Smith's campaign chest, and hi personal attorney, anlel Schiyler, wlso are to go hefore the committes at the same time inan effort to purge them selven of contempt chavges by giving informution heretofore withheld an to other contrlbutions by Insull in the Hinols primary campaign in 1924 Oncar | 15 Carlstrom, attorney gen ernl of 1linots, and & specinl commit teo of the Hnois Lewdslature ap pointed to urge the senting of Smith are others Who will be heavd by the [ Rpectnl committee | | . Cltes Conntitution, “Unless the most important ants of the Government are to be de nled the chief rights of citizenship | they must be nccorded the right to & resid e In Washington as well ax In State with which they have been eviounly Identified. This has been msistent interpretution of the vived merv “Our constitutionsl torm of Govern ment In 8 matier of practical adap {thom, and the vight of a remldent of hington, expecially 1t he be en « In the public wervice, to have wldence in some Ntate, where he ceive the ot basle rights of shonld not only he recoR nized but, inomy opinion, should be Fneonrnged CPDis I Iy case, and it the com. | mittee and later the House of K tatives should place n narrow, tatlon upon the Conniitution should wecept without any resent ment, for 1 1ecognize that the quce Hon Is not free from difieulty. " The searchlight wsed on the wy Ahip Mikasa when Admiral Togo was 1 command of the vessel In the hat Of the dapan Bon 26 Years nge has 1 teen instalied in Yokohama for nuvigation akl T T TRy Help Washington's Sick Children | Come to the CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CHARITY BALL Willard Hotel Monday, January Nine $4.96 of Your 85 Goes to the Hospital For Tickets, Apply at 1928 F Streat SANDIND'S BATTLE | each arplane, shall also 4 Northwest, or Telephone Main 7418 R T Y e LIEUT. J. G o left Washington la Join the 11th Regiment of Marines, zm aring at Norfolk, Va., for service n ORDERS REVEALED Papers, Captured by Ma- rines, Show Rebel’s Military Knowledge. By the Associated P The orders for battie lssued by Sandino for the fight at Ocotal, cap- Marines, reveal some mili- ze by the rebel leader. w to attack Ocolal, company of chiefs i Maj. Quecada attack: The first ry and the second the ¥ ¥ In their quarters o Simon Jigen and shall attack the avia n camp and shall put 3 pounds of dynamite fve hol pounds with tured by tary know m San- the ainst again: ) camp and shall p of dy » in h one of fu ch and then will be thrown far up into t “Gen, Calgado shall be in Ariving out of the houses a o responsible people may lden “Each soldier has the bearing two riftes, that is to say and one more. Likewise, every puny shall carry the greatest possi amount of war fmplements “The attack shall he Fridav wk aum, next day being Sa We shall de t from loek am, in the direction of Fernado “It s probibited to drink lauor and the one who does so I shall ve colve It as it It were an outrage to our countey, “Supplies shall vond to Honduras Ten members v will remain int charge of be ot 1 ¥ who his m obligation at he hidden on the of Salgaro's com n AL the entrunce to o “Let it be complied. C(Stkned) « O SANDINOM 'MAGRUDER IN TILT ON PRICE HE GOT FOR NAVY ARTICLES @ontinued from Fiest Page) from the room unless the admiral was SHOWIL EEoater conrtesy Miller asked 1 the Endlana member Was referiing o him and Updike re Pied that the “record speaks for it welf Magruder told the committeo that the New York Navy Yard shoukd be shut down, us It was of ne militavy lue and constituted a hazard to merclal shipping Conthining an explanation of his PUBLRROE Charges of waste in naval adiministeation atnival testified that the Hoston wid Philadelphia Navy Yards coult take over the datios of the yvanl at New Vark and eftect SV o the Government. GOniy cortinin thnes of (he day. he added, can ships enter and dpave the New Yok yavd Magruder velterated that the s month MWooand the Chavleston B U, vierds also should be abolished Bt under quastioning | Kepesents tive Miller, Hepublican, Washington, he sall he could not give apecitic HRures an 1o the saving by abanden MERE of these twa yards and (he New Vork yand Former Athletio Star Dies, PHUADRLPHEA, Joniaey 6 IV AR Krensleln, A1 tare Unbversity af Poniwy vanin star and ane of the greatest athleies of Wi fme, died in the W ilkex Baie, ' General Hospital today, - | the Dix PRESERVE PLAN OF PROPORTIONATE PAYMENTS. (Continied from ¥ . OFFICE UNDER FIRE | permit the 6040 provision of the law | £ 1922 to go automatically into effact, | (d) Tt paralyzes all great and cost peemanent improvements and this injustice will be corrected. Qenator Klng Plans Move }0 Paralyzes Costly Permanent | s | Abolish Post and Trans- Joans for such improvements by er ‘ ating. In a communit reasonable | | Improvements. fer Duties. | distrust whe'her the national partner | m financing the improvements repaying the loana Il not | Levery cent of payment for primarily | L natio or tional pro from the irpot I partner, the Distriet taxpayers. (e) It taints with bad faith and hurt- ful injustice the District’s new or- | ganic act of 1922, 1 The understanding when the act of Tur ., 1922, was agreed upon by House and Senate viewed that act as a compromise measure, disposing for many years of our troublesome fiscal relation fssues. The District's contii- bution toward C al upbuilding was creased fram 50 to 60 per cent: intangible perso 3 per cent, d (though in-| disclaimed) for r it was de- exclusive for large sums of miscellaneous receipts hithe o solely enjoyed, this action inflic ing a heavy loss, and it was com- pelled to accumumte from its tax money of immediately succeeding years (every cent of which was nee el tc meet the u nt municipal need of the day) a fund of millions to | vide in advance for meeting the first [ half-year expenses of 1927.%. Tn partial compensation for (hese {drastic exactions the District was enjoy specifically for fixe years and in definitely t fter oh enefit of ap- proxi s to its rates of | prope contribution: in orde to sps District all controve for these five vears over ratios a X rates the law in specific terms vied in advance this tax lor each «f the fiscal years ending June 3 , 1925, 1926 and 19 cated how the tax rate should | smatically fixed and di the proceeds should be District’s 60 per cent | to the building up by 19 plus to put the District on a ecas paying basis. The District was thus 1t to be spared for a long period i porary hurtful deadlocks over ratios between | House and a1l | estab | endangered the Di wpropriations | gut of the triang and undeservedly prejudiced House | vania avenue to sentiment against the Capital com- | Federal builling p | munity. H tee decided 1t today’s meet tion of a permane A abolish n te Distric move to to the elerk of the and committe on of th Unjust and Hurtful Discrimination. The District has been compelied to | carry out faithfully all the provisions of the five.year program that mean loss and {njury to it; but in appropri- | ing for the fiscal year 1 Con ess nullified fo r the 60-40 prov pledge Penet King of Utzh to make a study of the request of » have exempted from historic old Octagon Hot ith and N now owned by the architects. Fearful of Precedent. Several members commiitee ind pathetic to } to the District), € to that bil the vici oralizing jump-sum payment rider. @he ail-powerful national partner | has in each of the fiscal years since { that of 1 repeated this unjus {and discreditably discriminating exac- !tion from the impotent local partner. When Congress ceases to enact this annual exception to the law of 19 the 60-40 rates directed by that law will automatically operate and the promised era of peace. good will and good faith will be enjoyed. | (D The vicious influence in the di- | rection of repudiation and bad faith of the lump-sum payment practice | turther suzgested in the exaction i | full from tha local partner, the I trict taxpayer, of the final payment on by attac m the ca C. Baldwin, to coopern ttee in a possible effect of gra quest. Mr. Octag: old Washington, » wus used as the Execy Ly President M years, after the W burned in 1814, a reiie of period. | the parkway connection between Po- | tomac and Rock Creek Parks. At first { the Nation paid tn full for the national parks to which it secured title. Then for parks at the Capital it ex- |acted from the District taxpavers 30 per cent of the cost and later 60 per nt. But in this parkway case the inal payment was made solely from istrict tax money, No Offsetting Benefits for Injuries Inflicted. & 5. There are no offsetting benefits | to the injuries inflicted by the lump- | | sum ment practice. Al the predic- | tions evil concerning it have been 100 per cent fulfilled. Not one of the !-'m;lfiu promised for it has been en- {joyed. | Washington was tempted to assent | to surrender its safeguard of national proportionate contribution by the as. | * surance that if a fived lump-sum pay. ment were made by the Nation, the | taxpayers would have practical con.} House may trol of the question of the amount \\(' N 3 on en the burden to th {tax money o be raised by themselves, { the forms of taxation to be adopted | * sbjects for wh be tax money or national with few that ame from the ke empowe: wing the con tup Cong a ] years agu, experienc that the has given n respect whatev viston and av Bureat increased power to ng and | TEMPERATURE ON RISE. Will Reach 33 Here Tomorrow. participa wopr us and sive pow shall be rms ft shall be taxed and f poses its tax mo alously dete: exe: tion eatie o " t DORC & has Dev TER, Englan as Handy, o h ¥ The been confined i | Hite better, b I Distriet of Columbin sppae thon DUl abandon the ¢\|\‘(hl:“:ln LT et ® don acennta Lessen at Onee Injustiees of Lun Swim Plant D A T — 10 SINN DT RUOR ROt tespog APBIOPEALION Kot ris should be made 1o e upby Taw to iwtrict 1 tax 3 e aubstantive por cent of from the loo now vallecting date o UG Gl s grusser v Nl 10w revent Elariag tnequilt W prevent glaring s O gress shoult (1 Mwnwma\nl:\h\ Both an general and spocifie §rommis he basie homp sl paywent; ) o relude great natonal e semit natioad xmhwu fom the Diatrket Nl a0 BARCH Themt on some sther supps DL o wording the (lems this eveie o Bt vet fwh the exiet wethod of Ilmnwh\k I rolation te e swous ol contribution by Nation and Caploat e on (he ity Wi |4 1N PARRONSS to the inaistence ' AT, shonid i i th & unfairness it gives hack . pledie propor- | u which accom. national seiture of the Capi power self tax withour § I | restoring to the 1y thix selt. | N | taxing power of which it had Deen | deprived. Tie i A maximum W of Unele Sam protection, and to remove the it compulsion of the local iavpavers, | |\\V o, mpotent, desperat ed pro- | ton from the unchecked exactions | At the national partner. mie of ou { silators 4t the time of adow | Of the Inmp sum paym prav disavowed ARy RN O inciease W'y tax buvden by the change of appropriation practice, and predict od that there would be o increas Other legisiators frankly any n} that one of thelt purposes in chang | g the appropriation practice - puy powe Whivh they predicted would be | avcomplished =was to enable a taxing Doy 1 Which the DNSErict ix ot rep | resented to increase the focal tax by [ don at ita pleastrr, unchecked by the reguirement that every such increase | Shall bo reftleoted In some Wational taxation for Captt | tng, Auth W catlect o Appropriations Wavers it s | vent, | The prophets of evil were the tru Pronhets | The s hmim national contritution 119 mades detinite duving the time tn [ WHICH Cangrons yeframs from dimim Bhing 1 but all lanits ave declaved ORI vespent o the lacal cantribution Fand 1t vemaine definite only in the demonsated Certainty that the locat [ 1ax bue otk Wit B largely aid stowdily | ncrensed. and that the looal tay [ Itvera WL NOE parkioiate a8 ARyt | v e i o be Db, ur &0 v [T (he dovision of the amonnt 68 (he | waninum of contributhan, o th Hersase, 1he methods o Gxation By caumption that (8 in .._Wh"“ a WHICK the nervass 18 secuved and the | loeal par ho Al oo (00 NS P TOr WK The T IONEY 15 | tavthoth, - 1 By Seberneta o et or oAl B b Ve au wll":fl\;.\.\\ RN ANBALL AF el faves aank the pat et ““:‘ :uo-fi!\lhllhh\mawh towant moders REGISTER OF WILLS -