Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1930, Page 3

* LOBBY BODY WORK BELIEVED FINISHED Senate Committee Heard 90 Witnesses During Session. By the Associated Press. Ninety witnesses have passed belore the Senate lobby committee during the eight months it has been in session, and a record of almost 2,500,000 words bas accumulated. Its work is now believed to be fin- ished, except for the formalities of pre- senting to the Senate the transcript of Bishop Cannon's testimony, & general Teport on the prohibition investigation and a final summary of the entire lobby inquiry. Starting eight months ago to expose the activities of lobbyists. the commit- tee of five Senators had listened to three Senators—Grundy, Republican, Pennsylvania; Bingham, Republica Connecticut, and Thomas, Democrat, Oklahoma. In addition, Chairman Huston of the Republican national committee, Chairman Raskob of the Democratic national committee, and Josephus Daniels, former Democratic Becretary of the Navy, have appeared. Other witnesses included Representa- tive Tinkham, Republican, Massachu- setts; Julius H. Barnes, chairman of the board of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and Bishop James | Cannon, jr, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Brings About Censure. “Beginning with an inquiry into re- ports of an attempt to bring about the discharge of an employe of the Tariff Commission, the committee found itself two days later investigating the employment by Senator Bingham of Charles L. Eyanson of the Connecticut Manufacturers’ Association to aid in tariff matters. This produced the first sensation of the investigation. Bingham was cen- sured by the Senate for placing Eyan- son on the Senate pay roll and taking him into secret sessions of the Senate finance committee while the tariff bill was under consideration. few days later the second sensa- tion developed from the examination of Joseph R. Grundy, the president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Associa- tion and now Senator from Pennsyl- vania. Grundy was called for an in- quiry into his tariff activities and sur- prised the committee with his testi- mony that certain States were “back- ward” and should “talk darmed small” in tariff matters. After a few more witnesses Claudius Huston, Republican national chairman, appeared for questioning concerning his ‘Muscle Shoals activities as president of the Tennessee River Improvement As sociation. The committee heard testimony that | Huston had received $36.100 from the Union Carbide Co. for the Tennessee Association and that hé deposited it in his personal brokerage account, where it was used for purchasing stocks be- am being turned over to the associa- jon. Examines Prohibition. Chairman Raskob of the Democratic committee was called to testify about his activities as a director of the Asso- ciation Against the Prohibition Amend- ment. He said he had contributed $65,000 to the association and that one of its purposes was the election of wet members of Congress. The committee wound up its activi- tles with an investigation into prohibi- tion. Representatives of the Associa- tion Against the Prohibition Amend- ment, the Anti-Saloon League and the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals appeared before Bishop Cannon was questioned about his 1928 anti-Smith activities. The bishop defied the committee’s suthority to question him about politi- cal activities and the investigators ruled they would not compel him to answer. RADIO COMMISSION ANSWERS COMPANIES Federal Body Declares R. C. A. and Mackay Organizations Have 62 Per Cent of Space. By the Associated Press. Contending that the Radio Corpor: tion of America and the Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. have more than 62 E: cent of all the ether space allotted, Federal Radlo Commission yester- day filed a brief in the District of Co- Jumbia Court of Appeals answering the attacks of those companies on the allo- cation of 40 wave lengths to the Uni- ‘versal Wireless Communications Co. The Radio Corporation, the Mackay Co., the Wireless Telegraph & Com- munications Co. and the Intercity Radio Telegraph Co. appealed to the court after the commission had refused them certain channels for point-to- point communication. ‘The commission’s brief also contends that the appellants failed to appeal from its order allotting channels to the Universal Co. within the 20-day period ired by the radio act. SPECIAL NOTICE ORDER TO ABSIST IN THE ESTAB- lishment of the identity of a most worthy Foung man, information “as to the of ‘the foliowing ho were emploved in the Washing- e early . xeamstre h White. housemaid. . 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The matter which follows below, dis- nesis of the fized ratio cussing the system of appropriations. also erplains 1 weakness of the tump- the fundamen sum_practice and states the points upon 1which the people of the District have resisted its ‘continuation The excerpis. from editorial correspond- ence of The Star by Theodore W. Noves, | Toltow HE partnership in the mainte- | nance and development of the National Capital between the Nation reFrenenud by Congress and the local tax-paying com- munity took definite shape in 1878. The national or active partner at that time took to himself every particle of power in collecting municipal revenues, whether ‘mdil“c‘l-{'l or national taxes. ‘l‘:d in 8 ese Tevenues upon such mu- nmpun‘uwem as he pleased to select without limit u})on his discretion. The sole function of the silent partner, the | local tax-paying community, was to pay | for the Capital's upbuilding in taxes, licenses, etc., whatever amount the na- tional partner chose to exact. As a safe- |guard against unjust and excessive exactions from the silent, impotent | partner, the dominant partner imposed upon himself the limitation that he | would exact from the former only 50 | per cent of the total National Capital appropriations; and to assure national liberality in the upbuilding of the Nation's City, which was a basic intent | of the law of 1878, the natfonal partner | agreed that he would pay for Capital maintenance and development the re- | maining 50 per cent of the total of | D. C. appropriations. Progress Under Half-and-Half Law. This wise and just arrangement was ‘maintained from 1878 to 1922, and in this interval converted a Capital of which every American was ashamed into a Capital of which every American is | proud. The congressional joint com- | mittee of 1915 declared after protracted | and exhaustive investigation that the | local partner, the District, had under | the 50 per cent limitation contributed | adequately toward Capital upbuilding, and that if either partner had not con- tributed enough the delinquent was the national partner. In 1922 the definite proportion plan of | contribution for Capital upbuilding was | vindicated and retained, but the ratio | of contribution was changed from 50-50 ! to 60-40, 60 from the local, and 40 from | the national partner. Under the law of | 1922 an up-to-date accounting of in- debtedness, legal and equitable, between | the national and local partners was had, a new balanee was struck, and the | national partner was found to be debted to the local partner to the extent of more than $5,000,000. Lump-Sum Payment Experiment. The 60-40 ratio became the substan- tive law in 1922, and is still the sub-! stantive law, ode or two vigorous and | determined efforts to amend it hlving; failed in Congress. In enacting the | appropriation law for the fiscal year | 1925, however, Congress experimented with a lump-sum payment in lieu of its 40 per cent contribution, as a sweeping exception to the substantive law and in violation of the implied promise of the substantive law that for five years at least the 60-40 ratio should be main- tained. The lump-sum payment practice of appropriation applied only to the items of the particular appropriation bill to which it was attached and was not operative beyond the current fiscal | ear. % For each year since the fiscal year 1925 Congress has repeated this tem- porary exception to the method of financing the District which it had | itself enacted into permanent :ubsun-A‘ tive law in 1922 and protected ever since | against direct amendment. Between this substantive law and this appropriation practice, which is the more honest, the more just, the heu.er‘ for the welfare of the Capital com- | munity and the wholesome development | | of the Nation's City? What are the considerations which push the District irresistibly into des- perate resistance to the lump-sum pay- ment plan? Unsound in Principle. 1. In the peculiar relations of n: tional and local partners in the National Capital partnership the self-imposed | N tion upon the national partner created by the definite proportion plan is essential to the welfare of the local partner as a safeguard against excessive 1 | District taxpayers? THE SU and Practice lation or gross neglect of its Capital obligations. It gave practical expres- sion to its revived sense of this obliga- tion in its undertaking to pay one-half the accumulated funded indebtedness of the District and one-half of future expenses. It took from the District the power of self-taxation and assumed completely exercise of the right to fix the local contribution as well as its own. In thus exercising taxation with- out representation over the District the Nation safeguarded the Capital com- munity by the voluntary, self-imposed pledge that to every doliar collected in taxes from the local taxpayers should be added a dollar from the National Treasury and that the aggregate reve- | | building. This provision protected the District from excessive pl-lx-tlun by causing a tax gatherer, alien to the unrepresented District, to appropriate rom his own Treasury for the District's Wvery dole :—::e;fistflr": tax revenue WOk uager the tax powedr liow the local community increased corre- Spondingly his own' Capital contribu- The law of 1922 retains the principle of definite, related Capital contribu- tons in which the law of 1878 was rooted. That the ratio of this relation was changed from fifty-fifty to sixty- forty did not alter the basic principle involved. The lump-sum payment practice de- stroys all rejation between the national and local contributions and, leaving taxing power in the hands of the United States, deprives the unrepre- sented Capital of its safeguard against excessive taxation by a taxing body in which it is not represented. Under the lump-sum payment practice additional no longer increase, but correspondingly reduce the national contribution, actu- ally or relatively, Teaches a False Theory. 3. It teaches a false theory concern- ing the relation of Nation to Capital. It obtrudes annually upon the atten. tion of Congress the suggestion of & large cash donation to the Capital, as if the primary obligation of National City upbuilding were upon the local tlxfiilyers and the Nation were only an incidental contributor, a voluntary and benevolent, donor. Since the Nation in tional Capital power and obligation, its responsibility in respect to the Capital has been primary and dominating. As | late as 1916 this relation of Nation to Capital was fully recognized and clearly set forth in the report of the joint sclect committee of Congress, which made the most thorough, exhaustive and able study of the fiscal relations of Nation and Capital that statesmen had given to the subject since 1874-8. As long as all the assets and revenues of the national and local joint contrib- utors toward Capital upbuilding are in | the hands of the national joint con- | tributor, and as long as all decisions concerning the amount to be paid by the joint contributors respectively and | concerning the expenditure of the joint revenue are to be made by the national contributor, the latter must, in equity, | and will in fact bear the primary re- | sponsibility of Capital upbuilding, and | the local taxpayers will be recognized in their true relation as merely inci- dental contributors of tax money, not fixed in amount by themselves, but ex- acted at the pleasure of the other joint contributor. ~ Since all the taxing power remains in the hands of the na- tional partner, no limitation upon the | amount of national payment is required but the self-imposed limitation upon the amount to be exacted from the im- potent partner is essential. Is not the superlative inconsistency, the climax of topsy-turvydom, the | maximum of injustice attained by a | financing plan which places a limit upon the amount of his own money | which may be spent by the omnipo- tent national partner, with exclusive power of legisiation and appropria- | tion in his hands, and removes all limit from the amount which the national | partner may exact for Capital upbuild- | ing from the Impfi'cntrlro:;l partner, the | tection against himself for the powerful partner who needs no protection! A denial of pro- | tection for the weak partner who is ab- | solutely helpless and impotent and who desperately needs to be protected! 4. The lump-sum ent prac taints with unfairness o bay 1.‘1.:; many of the agreements, understand- ings or transactions which it touches, (a) It came into existence as a rider on an appropriation bill in defiance of substantive law as the unlawful off- spring of the Holman rule. | and unjust exaction of contributions for Capital upbuilding by the national [ partner. | The definite proportion plan relates | the contributions for Capital upbuilding | by the mational and local partners so | the District committees and of District | day limitations and delays, but may be | that every increase of compulsory eon- | | tribution by the local partner involves | | a corresponding increase of contribution | by the national partner; while under the lump-sum payment plan every in- crease of compulsory and involuntary contribution by the local partner in- volves a corresponding decrease of the amount of necessary contribution by the national partner. The natural result of the removal of the self-imposed restraint upon the ex- clusively-controlling national partner is to cause him to collect more and more of necessary District revenue from his helpless partner and less and less, elatively, ~from his own purse. Authorized by substantive law of his own enacting to collect only 60 per cent of District appropriation from his | impotent _associate the national part- ner under the Jump-sum payment prac- tice now exacts 75 per cent and the natural and actual tendency is toward ' a continuing increase of this percent- The lump-sum payment plan is un- sound in principle and upjust in prac- tice when applied to the peculiar rela- tions of mational and local partners in | the National Capital partnership. 2. Our contention that the lump-sum ' payment practice destroys the unrep- | resented Capital's safeguard against ex- | cessive and unjust taxation, may with | advantage be elaborate: Destroys Capital's Safeguard. The compromiss law of 1922 coupled with the imposition of new and heavier tax burdens upon the Capital the vitally | important offsetting benefit of reten- tion of the principle of definite pro- portionate contribution, the District’s safeguard against excessive and unjust taxation by & taxing body in which it | 15 not represented. The lump-sum pay- ment practice deprives the District of the only feature of the compromise law of 1922 which is clearly advantageous to_the people of the Capital. The vital feature of the act of 1922 rried over from the act of 1878 is that it fixes a definite equitable stand- ard of national participation in Capi- to the contribution exacted in taxes from the Caj munity, and does not leate this stand- ard to the shifting of caprice. From 1800 to 1874-8 the na | Jocal Capital contributions were in- its pleasure. Richmona. ¥a.: Chnicago. Il ; Pittsburgh, ¥ and At~ tant and Harristucs, P Smith's Transfer & SloraEQ Co., ! a3 Yeu me. Morth 3343. obligation considerably beyond tion's task of Capital build In 18 ey tal com- | tional and ttsburgh, N. Y. beriand, Md. Wice became practically bankrup! v Harristu s, Pa s Gl in performing almost unaided the Na- ing. 78 the Nation confessed its vio- This misapplication of that rule tends | to put the national appropriation for Capital upbuilding in a position where it may not be increased, however right- eously, without running the gantlet of decreased, honestly or dishonestly, with- out the sanction of any committee by hasty unthinking proposals from the floor of the House, adopted by a mere majority of the little group of our legis- lators in the House who show an inter- | est, friendly or hostile, in District con- | | cerns. | ~Under its vicious influence the rule |seems to say in effect that in action | upon appropriation bills no substantive legislation can be disobeyed unless |Uncle Sam repudiates some financial | obligation or otherwise makes money | by _the change. | “The rule thus misapplied, while bar- ring equitable increases in appropri- ation, facilitates {he denial or evasion of legal indebtedness: it invites viola- tion with good or bad motive of exist- | | ing substantive law: and it tempts fo | the repudiation of just debt. Unfairness in Respect to Surplus. (b) In appropriating for National Capital purposes the District's five mil- lions of surplus it robbed this fine |action by Congress of much of its merit. It caused repudiation of equitable contribution by the United States in appropriating and expending the Dis- trict’s accumulated treasury surplus. The tax money creating this surplus was collected by authority of the half- and-half law solely to apply upon the District’s half of District appropriations Whenever it came to be expended 1t would be equitable to spend it under the half-and-half law, the United States duplicating it. Under the demoralizing influence of | the lump-sum payment practice the surplus has been expended without par- ticipation by the Nation under any percentage of obligation to enlarge the | surplus fund for the upbuilding of the Capital. Decision that the tax sur- plus, collected under the 50-50 law, | existed unavoldably involved the de- |cision that a proportionate payment by the Nation was equitably due when- | ever the tax surplus should be expended. | But the lump-sum payment practice, as | applied, repudiated this equity, Taints With Unfairness Expenditures for Parks. (¢) The lump-sum payment experi- ment, as practically applied, threatens definite and_unrelated. Each contrib-|to convert the Park Commission law uted what it pleased toward Capital from a benefit and a blessing to the | | upbuilding. The Nation measured its | National own obligation in terms of dollars as| curse, | next to nothing. The local community | | ralsed and disbursed its own taxes a® It measured its Clp:t;l e Capital community into a On its face the National Capital Park and Planning Commission law is broadly national. The terms of the law suggest the patriotic interest in it to the extent of & cent a year conmtribution of every man, woman and child in the Republic. The title to all the land purchased by the Park Commission is yested in the United States. The Park Commission nue should be expended for Capital up- | benefit every time he apropriated from | dollars of tax exacted from the District | 1878 recognized and assumed its Na- | v 1ol Lump Sum Vicious in Principle Record of Achievement Under Fixed Ratio Compared to Unscientific and Unfair Treatment of the District Under Arbitrary Allotment of Last Six Years, Resulting in Present Deadlock on the Appropriation Bill. can under it purchase land in adjacent Maryland and Virginia, as well as in the District. The annual appropriation of more than a million dollars a year, author- ized as supplemental and extraordinary expenditures by the District of Colum- bia Park. Commission law, is directed by the law itself to be pald “from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the general funds of the Treasury in the same proportion as other ex- penses of the District of Columbia. The current ratio was and is 60-40, fixed in the substantive law by the new organic act of 1922, and still unrepealed. | The wholesale exceptions to the 60-40 | ratio involved in the temporary lump- | payment plan of 1925, 1026, 1927 and | 1928 merely suspend the substantive law of 1922 for the year during which the | exceptions apply and do not repeal or | permanently amend the substantive law. The o SPIN s direchon of a ignoring the law’s specific direc! 05\ 40 rl%v’slon of the cost. and by failing 0 masc a specific inc 2 of the lump- sum payment 0 ;lulfyth: law's direc- tion of a national 40 cent_eontribu- tion, has practically rown the whole | cost’ of Park Commission expenditures | upon the local taxpayers. It has con- verted a fine, wise, broadly national project, which the self-deceived District | enthusiastically indorsed, into an unjust and unendurable increase of the local taxpayers’ burden, against which the buncoed District taxpayer vigorously protests. Paralyzes Costly Permanent Improvements. (d) Tt paralyzes all great and costly permanent improvements and all loans for such improvements by creating in a community a reasonable distrust whether the national partner in financ- ing the improvement and repaying the loans will not exact every cent of payment for primarily national or semi- national projects from the impotent local partner, the District taxpayers. (e) It taints with bad faith and hurt- ful injustice the District’s new organic | act of 1922. 1 The understanding when the act of June 29, 1922, was agreed upon by House and Senate viewed that act as a compromise measure, disposing for many vears of our troublesome fiscal relation issues. The District’s contribution toward Capital upbuilding was increased from 50 to 80 per cent; its tax rate on intangible personalty was increased 66 2-3 per cent, and the foundation was laid (though intent to increase was dflsT claimed) for increasing its realty tax: it was deprived of exclusive credit for large sums of miscellaneous receipts hitherto solely enjoyed, this action in- fiicting a heavy loss, and it was com- pelled to accumulate from its tax money | of immediately succeeding vears (every cent of which was needed to meet the urgent wmunicipal needs of the day) a fund of millions to provide in advance for meeting the first half-year expenses of 1927-8. - In partial compensation for these | drastic exactions the District was to enjoy specifically for five years and in- definitely thereafter the benefit of ap- proximate certainty as to its rates of proportionate contribution; in order to spare the District all controversy for these five years over ratios and tax rates the law in specific terms levied in ‘ad- vance this tax “for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1023, 1924, 1925, 1926 and 1927, indicated how the tlx‘ rate should be automatically fixed and directed that the proceeds should be applied to the District’s 60 per cent con- tribution and to the building up by 1927 of a surplus to put the District on a cash-paying basis. The District was thus to be spared for a long period hurtful deadlocks over ratios between House and Senate, Which annually en- dangered the District appropriations and undeservedly prejudiced ~House sentimgnt against the Capital com- munity. Unjust and Hurtful Discrimination. The District has been compelled to | carry out faithfully all the provisions of the five-year program that mean loss and injury to it; but in appropriating for the fiscal year 1925, Congress nulli- fied for that year the 60-40 provision of the law of 1922 (the only pledge in the compromise distinctly -beneficial to the District), by attaching to that bill the vicious and demoralizing lump-sum ayment rider. P e all-powerful national partner has in each of the fiscal years since that of 1925 repeated this unjustly and discred- itably discriminating exaction from the impotent local partner. VpVhen Congress ceases to enact this annual exception to the law of 1922, the 60-40 rate directed by that law will au- tomatically operate and the promised era of peace, good will and good faith will be enjoyed. $ s The vicious influence in the direc- uou of repudiation and bad faith of the ump-sum payment practice is further suggested in the exaction in full from | the local partner, the District taxpayer, | of the final payment on the parkway | connection between Potomac and Rock Creek Parks. At first the Nation paid in full for the national parks to which it secured title. Then for parks at the Capital it exacted from the District tax- payers 50 per cent of the cost and later 60 per cent. But in this parkway case the final payment was made solely from | District tax money. | No Offsetting Benefits for Injuries Inflicted. | 5. There are no offsetting benefits to the injuries inflicted by the lump-sum payment practice. All the predictions of ‘evil concerning it have been 100 per cent fulfilled. Not one of the benefits promised for it has been enjoyed. ‘Washington was tempted to assent to surrender its safeguard of national pro- portionate contribution by the assur- ance that if a fixed lump-sum payment were made by the Nation, the taxpayers would have practical control of the question of the amount of tax money to be raised by themselves, of the forms of taxation to be adopted and of the objects for which their tax money should be spent; that since none of their tax money came from the Nation or national Treasury they could, with few limitations, raise and spend their own money to suit themselves, domi- nated neither by Budget Bureau nor Congress. Our experience has demonstrated that the lump-sum payment practice has given no greater freedom in any respect | whatever from the rigid supervision and | arbitrary control of Budget Bureau and Congress; that it has not increased a particle the District’s power o partici- pate in its taxing and appropriating legislation. Congress still has and jeal- ously exercises exclusive power to deter- | mine how much it shall be taxed, in | what forms it shall be taxed and for what purposes its tax money shall be expended. With gross unfairness it gives back to the Nation its pledge of proportion: ate contribution which accompanied ni tional seizure of the Capital's power of self-taxation without restoring to the District this self-taxing power of which it had been deprived. Its practical effect is to place & maximum limit on | the contribution of Uncle Sam, who | needs no protection, and to remove the limit entirely from the contribution un- der compulsion of the local taxpayers, who, impotent, desperately need protec- tion from the unchecked exactions of the national partner. Some of our leg- islators at the time of the adoption of the lum | | might throw 60,000 votes, TUESDAY T0 SOLVE JERSEY 6. 0. P. RACE Wets Lure of Simpson and Possibly Morrow or Frelinghuysen. ___(Continued. Pirst Page) pletely. There is no contest in the Democratic primary, which leaves Fiague free to act if he wishes. Power of the “Grand.” If Prelinghuysen or the Morrow backers peal plenty of “grand” off the old bank roll, it may have real effect | at_the last minute. If all the church people—which in Jersey is another way of saying all the drys—line up for Fort, it may tip the scales s0 as to bring him in a winner. Whether Hague will undertake to throw Democratic votes into the Re- publican primary is a question which will be answered on election day. He it 15 esti- mated, if he chooses, to one of the can- | didates. It is urged that he is likely to do this for Frelinghuysen because of his friendship for Jesse Salmon, Re- publican leader in Essex County, which includes Newark. Salmon is said to have delivered a dozen Republican votes in the State Legislature against Republican_“ripper” I tion, which had the effect of five or six hundred of Hagues henchmen off the payroll. The report is to the effect he has already ymised Salmon to “deliver” for Prelinghuysen, Salmon's candidate. Salmon, by the way, is the only Republican leader of magnitude who is standing with Frelinghuysen in this fight. The rest are with Morrow. On the other hand, Mr. Hague might undertake to give Fort his Democratic votes on the theory that Fort, a dry, would be an easy mark for the wet Democratic senatorial candidate, Simp- son, next November. ‘The Democratic boss, however, s much more concerned over the election of a Democratic governor next year than he is eoncerned over the election of a Democratic Senator this jear. Some of the Democrats here feel, therefore, that Hague may in the end keep hands off in the Republican primary Tuesday. New Jersey elects a governor every three years. The Democrats have been par- ticularly successful in electing gov- ernors on that account, for guberna- torial election falls in a presidential year only once every 12 years. Walter Edge was elected governor in 1916. The Democrats thereafter elected governors until 1928, the next presidential year, in which the gubernatorial election came around. In national affairs, the State usually goes strongly Repub- lican. Today it has 10 Republicans to 2 Democrats in the House, and 2 Re- publican Senators. Morrow Camp’s Worry. The Morrow camp has been worried in recent days over the possibility of | Mr. Fort's winning, according to reports, | One of these reports, which appears to be well substantiated, is .to the effect that only a few days ago Senator Baird and Senator Kean called Jesse Salmon, the Frelinghuysen leader in Essex County, to confer with them in New York and sought to prevail upon him to get Frelinghuysen to withdraw from | the race in favor of Morrow. Whether Salmon could have brought Frelinghuy- sen to withdraw is, to say the least, ex- ceedingly doubtful, but the report has 1t that Salmon just laughed at the Re- publican Senators, who are supporting Morrow. The story is retold merely to show the state of bewilderment even among the leaders as to the final out- come. Most of the political wiseacres are predicting the nomination of Mor- row, some by 50,000 to 75,000 votes. So far as the Hoover administration is concerned, it has not been particu- larly involved in the primary race here. Mr. Morrow in his addresses has spoken pleasantly of the President and has praised him heartily for helping to bring about the London Naval Confer- ence, which Mr. Morrow claims was a great success. He speaks of the con- ference with considerable authority, as he was an important member of the American delegation. Mr. Fort, & close friend of the President, has not failed to stress his devotion to the Chief Executive and to praise him for the | stand the President has taken in re- gard to prohibition. Frelinghuysen worked hard for the election of Presi. dent Hoover in 1928. The only phase of his campaign which might be con. sidered in any way antagonistic to the Hoover administration is his declara- tion of opposition to the entry of the United States into the World Court. The President is expected to urge the Senate to authorize the adherence of this country to the court under the “Root_formuls It is quite true, how- ever, that the stand taken by both Mr. Morrow and Mr. Prelinghuysen on the prohibition issue is at odds with the stand of the Hoover administration. Rejects Lindy Influence, Mr. Morrow, whose son-in-law is one of the most widely known and admired young men in the country, Col. Lind- bergh, has declined to “win by a son- in-law.” In some of his speeches he | changing the appropriation practice—a urpose which they predicted would be accomplished—was to enable a taxing body in which the District is not repre- sented to increase the local tax burden at its pleasure, unchecked by the re- quirement that every such increase shall be reflected in some measure in national taxation for Capital upbuilding. Authorized by substantive law to col- lect only 60 per cent of District ap- propriations from the local taxpayers it is now collecting about 78 per cent. The prophets of evil were the true prophets. The maximum national contribution is made definite during the time in which Congress refrains from dimin- 1shing it: but all limits are declared off in respect to the local contribution, and it remains definite only in the demon- strated certainty that the local tax bur- den will be largely and steadily in- creased, and that the local taxpayers will not participate at any time in the decision of the amount of the increase, the methods of taxation by which the increase is secured and the purposes for which the tax money is spen THE PARROT 1643 Conn. Ave. Luncheon Tea Dinner Automatic Storage Gas Water Heater Made in 4 Sizes $50 - $85 Plus Installation SOLD ON THE Easy Payment Plan disavowed any the District's change of appropriation practice, and predicted that there would be no in- Other legislators frankly an- their purposes in 24-Hour Service. | millionaire should SENATOR SHIPSTEAD IS UNIQUE IN AMERICAN POLITICAL LIFE Minnesotan, Without Party,; Is Dominating Figure in ' Ranks of G. 0. P. Succeeds * With Mississippi| Task Where “Regulars” Are Helpless. BY WILLIAM HARD. The unique personality of the mo- ment in American politics is Senafor Shipstead ‘of Minnesota. No phenom- enon like him has ever before been | reported on the national political sky. His unexampled remarkablenesses are | at_least three. | First, he has really no party at all| and yet sweepingly carries his State. Second, he calls himself a ‘Parmer- | Laborite” and yet dominates the struggle for the nomination for United States Senator among the Minnesota Repub- licans. ‘Third, he is assailed as a “rad- ical” and “bolshevik” and yet gathers in the enthusiastic suffrages of mer- | chants and manufacturers and bank- | ers. It i5 coming to be a current| prophecy that he is the destined symbol | of a new non-partisanship—or a new | merging of scattered old party frag- ments—in_the m:ho’le Sflifig"“ 0 the Mississippt down to & depth of nine feet all the Way Trom . Lo nneapolis? Who, this “bolshevik™? b Succeeds Where Regulars Failed. The business administration of Her- bert Hoover could not at this time ap- parently see quite so deep as nine feet, It tentatively awalted further scientific soundings by engineers. The regular Minnesota Republicans in the House of Representatives could not persuade the House to dive all the way to a con- tinuous and completely authorized nine- | {m bp:mm T;l!hhe;’n who did it was nemy of business,” Mr, - uu;f. y less,” Mr. Ship: | one, Mr. Shipstead competently | represented the aquatic naplr-&e)na oy; our great Northwestern inland dry em- pire. Alone, he filled the upper reaches of the Mmis&lp&l with nine feet of water in italics (indicating new matter) on page 26 of the rivers and harbors bill as ultimately reported to the Sen- ate by its committee on commerce, He is all for human justice and in- troduces bills to bridle the passion of judges for issuing injunctions and jail- ing citizens without juries, He is all for the esthetic architecture and intro- al:tl‘es!gi,lll,s for l:eluu{ying the residen- nes of private property in Washington. He is all for inte}:mt);onnl freedom and strives to rescue the Hai- tians from our alien rule. He de- nounces the League of Nations as an | engine of militaristic, imperialistic, predatory, piratical, etc., powers. He hurls the World Court into the same | SENATOR SHIPSTEAD. flery furnace of radical wrath. He votes for equalization fees and for de- bentures and for every other forward form of agrarian rrowruslve revolu- tion. He is a terrible man. Also, though, he does every possible decent business chore for Minnesota at Washington effectively and promptly. He is a splendid man. Mr. Schall, seeking renomination to the Senate, says in it ke has al- ways done his best to be ilke Ship- stead. Mr. Christianson, desiring to wrench Mr. Schall's senatorial seat from him, says in effect that he will move it on the Senate floor always to within 1 inch of the inspiring whispers of Shipstead. Meanwhile, Shipstead goes out to the summit of the Blue Ridge In Virginia and associates with his most loved companions, trees, and gives him- self his greatest pleasure, serene con- | | templation. Has No Political Party. He has no political party to send to the aid of either Mr. Schall or Mr. ly 8 'y ld up his hands—and no party to tie his hands. He is the free- est man in American politics, and in- creasingly one of the most powerful. e is slow in gesture, slow in speech, tinged with a certain apparent m- posity of manner, shiningly colored with a humor which drawls and crawls like molasses, infinitely deliberate, in- finitely strategic, absolutely surefooted, absolutely sincere. He has an almost Lincolnian faculty for long rumination. for matured design protracted far into the future and for the expression of serjous policy in whimsical parables. He is a Norseman who is as American as the primitive prairies of the covered wagon. Progressive, he also is antique. That is the combination to which our political history teaches us we give the widest wings of fame and fate. has referred to the storles told about his family in a whimsical way, and one of these stories has had it that Col. Lindbergh never flew to Paris at all on | his famous trip, but remained in a night club while the reports of his flight were being broadcast. reference, however, Mr. Morrow has left his son-in-law out of this campaign. _The fact that Mr. Morrow is a|mil- lionaire does not appear to milltate against his candidacy here. New Jer- sey is rather used to being represented in the Senate by millionaires. Further- | more, Mr. Morrow is decidedly not high hat.” He does not look as a look. He dresses well, but unostentatiously, and cares nat if his trousers are baggy. In this he ‘is the antithesis of the Democratic candidate, Alex Simpson, who is ways a fashion plate. Both men are short in stature, Simpson even more so than Morrow. 1If they oppose each other, it will be the battle of the “little glants.” Simpson is a lawyer, a spe- cial attorney general, appointed to | prosecute the notorious Hall-Mills | murder case. He has made money at Outside of this | Saloon League admit that. The pro- hibitionists’ only chance here is to nomi- nate & dry in the Republican primary. That chance they have because of the large number of drys in the party in New Jersey. But Mr. Morrow is going wdhl\'c some of the dry voters in the | end. Under the State law, each candidate is permitted to expend in his campaign $50.000. Returns of expenditures and receipts have just been made by the candidates. Simpson, the Democrat, has spent nothing. Fort has reported he has spent $43,000 and received $43,086; Morrow, between $44,000 and $45,000, and Frelinghuysen has expended $46,847 and received $49,897. Frelinghuysen contributed his entire fund for his campaign. Mr. Fort put up $24,000 of his own money and his wife added another $5,000 to the Fort campaign fund. It was not yet clear where the Morrow money came from, for the details of his report are not available. All three of the candidates, it ap- pears, are well within the $50,000 limit set by the State law. The Senate slush fund col ittee, however, th its the law. He is a stump speaker, a self- educated man, but widely read, and | also a linguist. He spent a year in the | French Sorborne. | In some quarters an effort has been | made to make it appear that Mr. Mor- row is & New Yorker, not a Jerseyman. As a matter of fact, Mr. Morrow hi lived in New Jersey for the last 27 years, although he is a native of West | Virginia. He is no “carpet bagger” in | ny sense of the term, so far as Jersey is concerned. He has been appointed to important commissions by various governors, and had a hand in prison reform and in the framing of the State workmen's compensation law. A final drive has been made by the drys to picture the candidacy of Mr. Morrow as a deep laid plot of the tre- mendously rich men of the country. Their argument is that if the country can be made wet again and a tax placed on liquor, the millionaires will escape much of the taxation they pay now under the income and corporation taxes. Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale, a dry, has been imported into the State to spread this report. New Jersey is a wet State, take it by and Marge. Even officials of the Anti- | | | s. ni Wrist Watch With Band Special. .. .. 33& $18.00 Elgin or atch Wi i Band....... *12 $35 Illinois 17- Jewel Wrist Watch With ,25 Band. . $50 Gothic Jar-Proof Wrist Watch With Band. . di E. G. Schafer Co. 215 13th St. N.W. @ 18 kt. solid gold mounting, carat solid gold mounting, investigators, is looking the situation over in Jersey. 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Ladies’ 75 Olle-hlf rnt ‘filul blue-white Ladies’ diamond -on!ill,‘ 100 amond mounting........ 25 $65 Blue-white solitaire diamond TREASURY SURPLLS 1S DUE TONORROW Second 1929 Income Tax Payments Expected Easily to Cover Deficit. | By the Associated Press With a deficit of $240,625,630 in United States Treasury on June 12, | ficials looked to receipis from the | ond instaliment of the tax on 1920 | comes to be recelved tomorrow to bring | In_enough money to enable tflnm— | ury to complete the first full Hoover’s administraf of President with a surplus. Secretary Mellon and his subordinates have expressed confidence that the Gov- ernment would end the year with a sure | plus, possibly not as large as the $186,« 000,000 balance of last year. From present indications it will be more than $100.000,000, but Treasury officials have declined to estimate what surplus they expect, contenting themselves with the statement that the Treasury would mot have a deficit. For the fiscal year which ends Jun 30 the Government has collected s total of $3,457,920,019, while it has spent in the 11 months and 12 days s total of 33,89!‘.2;2.6’“ Receipts for the same period of the previous year were $3.352,145,093 while' the er;e:flmn- were $3,521,011,774. Income Tax Forges Ahead. Of the collections for the year, in- come tax has forged steadily ahead of last year, which was hailed as a ban- mer year and piled up $1.919,005,2351, approximately $108,000,000 more than collected in the previous 12 months. Customs _ receipts, however, have dropped off about $40,000,000 this year to a total of $531,000,000, although mis- | cellaneous internal revenue has - creased by $20,000,000 to $591,991,000. The second installment of the 1929 tax, due on Monday because of June 15 falling on Sunday, is expected to amount to $500,000,000 or more, which will assure that the total income of the Government for the year will amount tc approximately ~$4,000,000,000. mglm u;_e p'ym"m‘; of the income tax e Treasury tomorrow more than $1,500,000,000 will department durl ment will receive $450,000,000 from the sale of certificates of indebtedness and will pay out $540,000,000 for maturing certificates and about $90,000,000 in- terest on the public debt. Treasury Calculation Sustained. ‘The huge collections of income this year 1\!‘/! borne out in e nner made last Fall. the ofe 860= in. amount. Whether the tax reduction will be continued for another year has not been decided by Treasury officials, It was made for one year only and Secre- tary Mellon said then he hoped condi- tions would permit it to be continued for 1930 incomes. He has not since ex- pressed himself as to whether it would be feasible, GEN. BROWN TO SPEAK Maj. Gen. Preston Brown, “fll: chief of staff, will address the class duates of the Command and Genersl taff School "at Fort Lea Kans., Wednesday. He will make the trip from this city and return, in an Leland 8" Straratnan, Arme Ak Corpe . Stran: X stationed at Bolling Field. MARSHALL HOUSE and The Emerson and Cottages, York Harbor, Maine. Golf, York Country Club, 27 holes ; bathing, orchestra, elevators, fire sprinlg- lers.—Advt. EDISON STEWART WARNER RADIO SETS' Sold on Easy Terms Your Old Set in Trade There are none Better and Few as Good. GIBSON’S 917 G St. N.W. $10 Newest Designs Wi.ch Lvlld::" Wrist at i | R ’7-12 14.Kt. Solid Gold Wrist Watch $35 Waltham or Elgin Wrist Watch. $ 2 5 Special. . . $60 Elgin or Waltham Wrist Watch With Band...... 45 KAHN OPTICAL CO. 617 Seventh-$t. N. W.