Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1933, Page 10

00000 SAVIG SOUGHT IN HOUSE Four-Department Supply Bill - Cut $5,000,000 Under “" Budget Requests. By the Associated Press. . A record that would show it had cut Federal expenditures $100,000,000 under the amounts requested by President Hoever’s budget beckoned the House yesterday as it worked on one money bill and received another frem its Ap- propriations Committee. ‘The newest measure to go into the hopper was that making money avail- able to run the Depertments of State, Justice, Commerce and Labor during he next fiscal year. It was reported by the Appropriations Committee as the House considered emendments to the bill allowing $345,000,000 for the War Department. ‘The four-department bill carried $103,282,000. Chairman Oliver of the subcommittee that drafted the measure taid that total compared with $108,- 666,000 asked by the budget. Average Cut 5 Per Cent. | ‘The reductions averaged about 5 per | cent for the Departments of State, Jus- tice, Commerce and Labor. Oliver's ccmmittee decided to recommend to the House that 5 per cent less be spent | for prohibition enfcrcement. That brotight the proposed allotment for this | purpose next year from $9,599,000 ap- | proved by the budget to $9,120,000. The committee quoted Attorney Gen- eral Mitchell as having told it that so long as prohibition was a law it should be enforced. The committee agreed, as- serting that change comes by “direction ~—not indirection.” But the cut was made just the same. Again, a reduction in the amount al- Jowed for a new reIongawry at El Reno, Okla., was approved Dy the committee on the basis of a statement by Mitchell thdt there are “impending changes in the prohibition system.” As this bill was reported, Chairman Byrns of the Appropriations Committee Teiterated a previous hope that the money bills can be cut $100,000,000 un- der budget estimates. He stuck to his statement that the cuts already made amounted to more than $60,000,000, despite President Hoover's assertions that the House committee actually had increased the appropriations $35,000,000. Regardless of who was right, there were evidences of a desire to economize. In the consideration of the War De- partment bill, for instance, the House approved a Proviso to prevent the ex- penditure of $1,203,000 on buildings at military camps. ese expenditures had been autnorized by the relief con- struction act. A powerful bloc was or- ganized to defeat the Appropriations Committee proviso, but it failed. The House also approved an amend- ment by La Guardia, Republican, of New York, to prevent the payment of money to an officer convicted of a felony. It increased the allowance for horses from $118,827, recommended by the committee, to $207,327 by accepting an amendment by Chapman, Democrat, of Kentucky. Would Limit Guard Pay, An amendment to the war bill by Representative Cochran, Democrat, of Missouri, which would prohibit pay or allowances to members of the National Guard who are drawing disability al- lowances or retired pay because of dis- abilities, whose disability rating at the Veterans' Bureau exceeds 10 per cent, was approved, 59 to 5. Cochran originally proposed 20 per cent’ as the disability limit, but it was reduced to 10 on the motion of Parker, Democrat, of Georgia. Cochran also woyld have excepted adjutant generals, but this exception was eliminated, 51 to 2, on the motion of Goss, Repub- lican, of Connecticut. I know of 65 men on the emergency officers’ retired roll who are drawing pay from the National Guard,” Cochran said. BROAD POWER FORECAST FOR ROOSEVELT BY 1934 Oliver Report Takes Into Consid- eration Savings Expected to Be Made Through Reorganization. President-elect Roosevelt will be vest- ed with “very plenary powers” of re- organization which will result in “very substantial savings” in the regular an- nual appropriations, according to the repert on the State, Justice, Commerce and Labor appropriation bill submitted to the House yesterday, which will be taken up tomorrow or Tuesday. In his report on this joint depart- mental bill, Chairman Oliver of the subcommittee which is in charge, said: “In making reductions in the budget estimates for 1934 the committee has not been unmindful of the fact that it_is reasonably certain the President Will be vested, before the beginning of the- fiscal year 1934, with very plenary powers to reorganize all departments and independent establishments; elim- e all unnecessary activities; abolish posiflons; transfer appropriations from one Htem to another to the end that largé additional savings may be effect- Many of the services for which appropriations are carried in this bill should be materially affected by the wise exercise of powers so conferred on the President, and the committee feels that very substantial savings under the @mounts carried in its recommendations will follow.” -Will Address Girl Scouts. GAITHERSBURG, January 21 (Spe- eial) —Miss Margaret Hall, field cap- tain of the Girl Scouts, Washington, D. C., has been announced as the guest speaker at the next meeting of the Gaithersburg Troop 69 here Tuesday DANCER HELD IN FUR SALE Accused of Advertising Coat Was Seal When It Was Rabbit. Miss M Hipple, dancer, of the 3400 blocknz! Fourteenth street, was arraigned before Police Court Judge Ralph Given today on a charge of fraudulent advertising. She was re- leased under $300 bond for a jury trial February 1. Mrs. Lora E. Orange, Takoma Park, Md., charges that she bought a coat from Miss Hipple which she had adver- tised was Hudson seal and later found it to be dyed rabbit, worth less than the sum she paid for it. Miss Hipple's arrest was brought about when Mrs. Orange sought advice of Louis Rothchild, director of the Better Business Bureau. DEPORTING CHINESE S BIG U. . BURDEN Huge Cost Revealed by Doak as Exodus Continues From Mexico. k says the exodus of Ol Fom Mexico into_ the. United States and the shipment of these aliens from this country to China at the ex- pense of the Government during the last two years has proved to be a “frightful problem” for the Labor De- partment to handle. “Testifying before the House Appro- priations Committee, the report of which was made public today, the cabinet official said that during the 1932 fiscal year the Government de- ported 2,195 Chinese residents of Mexico to China at a cost of $282,381, and ex- pects to ship an additional 2,073 Chinese during the fiscal year of 1933 at a cost of $248,000. “It's going on all the while,” said the Secretary. “Sometimes we think we have it stopped, but it breaks out again. The Mexican people are very much to the Chinese, and they have a tremendous lot of Chinese in Mexico.” Falils to See Relief. When Representative Oliver, Demo- crat, Alabama, tried to offer Doak some sympathy and at the same time ex- press the hope that the number of Chinese fleeing from Mexico was dimin- ishing, Harry E. Hull, commissioner- general of immigration, rushed to the support of his chief. “They are running just as heavy today as they were two years ago,” ex- claimed Hull “They are?” questioned Oliver. “Yes, indeed,” answered Hull. Oliver reiterated that he thought the exodus was diminishing. “T had a very peculiar experience my- self along that line,” Hull asserted. *I was_trying to find out what was hap- pening on the Mexican border, and I asked one of the experts, and he said it had largely ceased. Then I asked Mr. Wagner, and he looked up the figures and found that in four months the number was 691. Then I asked my expert and he had to throw up his hands and say he was mistaken.” “Six hundred and ninety-one Chi- nese?” questioned Oliver. “Yes, Chinese; 691 in the last four months,” answered Hull. “Chinese coming _over Mexico,” interposed Doak. Answering Oliver’s request for a brief history of the whole matter, Doak said: “We became rather active a couple of years ago on getting Mexicans out of this country, and there was a general exodus of Mexicans. Then the differ- ent communities in the Southwest, on account of the depression, took steps to repatriate a great number of Mexi- cans and sent them out by trainloads. Chinese Excluded. “When these people went back to Mexico they were facing a really seri- ous economic _situation, and some of those states (Mexican) passed Chinese exclusion acts, and while the Mexican government said they were perfectly willing to take them to the courts and take them out, they had a general exodus and we found them on our doorstep. We tried everything in the world to stop it. We sent some of them back. They denied to Mexican authori- ties that they had ever been in Mexico and Mexico sent them back to us. “So we had to take them as we found them, and, as Mr. Hull has correctly stated, we thought it would be over very shortly, but the first four months of this fiscal year have demonstrated that there is little let up.” The Secretary explained that it cost the Government $120 for each Chinese deported after they were picked up, just “wandering around” on'the border. “So it appears,” observed Oliver, “that since they know how charitable we have been, if they want to go to China, all they have to do is walk across the line, let some of your officers pick them up, and then they are sup- plied with expense money home.” “Well, it is not exactly that,” Doak explained. “They have no desire to go back to China, but they find themselves excluded from Mexico and on our door- step, and we find them that way, too, fix‘xd we have to do something with em.” EXPLORER TO LECTURE Roerich Museum Official to Talk on Himalayas and Tibet. Miss Esther Lichtman, vice president of the Roerich Museum, New York, will lecture on her personal experiences in the Himalayas and Tibet at a meeting of the Washington Roerich Society, Monday, January 30, at 8 pm., at the Sears, Roebuck Art Gallery, 1106 Con- necticut_avenue. Miss Lichtman was a member of the Roerich expedition which spent three years of exploration in the Himalayas and Tibet. Mrs. Beale R. Howard, here from evening at 7:30 o'clock. president of the society, will preside at the meeting. LOWEST PRICES IN 20 YEARS! WHY WAIT! BUY NOW—SAVE MONEY ! closed hearings THE SU IPROHIBITION FUND %2 ASKED IN HEARING Mitchell Opposes Nullifying Law Still on Books by Cut- ting Supply Bill. Denouncing any attempts to “scuttle and nullify” prohibition by withdrawing appropriations while the prohibition laws still are on the statute books, At- torney General Mitchell has called on Congress to continue to enforce pro- hibition until it is repealed. Testifying before the subcommittee of the House Appropriations during on the Department of Justice appropriation bill, the attorney gencral reiterated his suggestion that whatever changes are to be made in the prohibition law “should be made as promptly as possible.” The testi- moeny was made public today. Lively questions were debated at the hearing during testimony, with Repre- sentative Tinkham, Republican wet of Massachusetts, holding forth at length to criticize drinking by prohibition agents, the hunt by prohibition agents for Col. Raymond Robbins, while At- torney General Mitchell and Col. A. W. W. Woodcock, director of prohibi- tion, stoutly defended their positions. Nine Agents Killed, Enforcement of prohibition is be- coming more and more hazardous in re- cent months, it was devel , with testimony from Col. Woodcock to show that nine agents had been killed in line of duty during the year, and six of his men killed or murdered since | July 1 of last year. During the year, Col. Woodcock reported that 13 citizens “were killed by our men in their en- forcement of this law.” “I have tabulated here, giving an account of the circumstances under Wwhich each of these killings took place,” sald Col. Woodcock, referring to the killing of citizens by prohibition of- ficers,” and I may say that I do not belleve that in any more than one of those cases have the State authorities felt that the kiling was unjustified, and had begun a prosecution.” Explaining use of firearms by agents, Col. Woodcock said “the rule has been rigorously enforced that our agents can use weapons to protect their lives, or to protect the life of some one with them, but they are not allowed to shoot. as ordinary law officers are, as, for instance, to stop a fleeing fugitive or something of that sort. We would rather catch him in some other way than shoot him. I think that we are enforcing & much more rigorous rule than is usually applied to other police officers.” ‘Would Make Two Changes. “If we commence to make any| change in prohibition,” said the attor- ney general, “two things are desirable from the standpoint of the law en- forcement officer; eliminating, of course, ill-considered and hasty action, I think what changes are to be made ought to be made as promptly as pos- sible; and secondly, we ought to com- | mence at the right end, and if we are | going to make any change in the pro- | hibition system, we ought to make the | substantive changes in the law before | e commence to eliminate law enforce- | “Such changes as are to be made,” he said, “ought to be made in the substantive law before they are made by scuttling or nullifying the laws and leaving them on the statute books.” “If you are in doubt as to what is going to happen to prohibition,” said Representative Tinkham, “let me solve that by telling you that as far as Fed- eral prohibition’is concerned, it is going to be entirely done away with.” | “Assuming that to be s0,” replied | the Attorney General “then I think we ought to maintain the appropriation until the time does come when Federal prohibition is done away with, and the moment it does come, your Attorney General will cease to expend any | money and will turn the appropriation | back into the Treasury.” Representative Oliver Concurs. While Representative Oliver said he concurred fully in the views of the Attorney General, Representative Tink- ham pursued the subject further: “You realize, perhaps the present stuation,” he said, “in the next Con- gress there is very likely to be a strong attempt to make no appropriation for prohibition whatever.” | Reminding Tinkham that if the ap- | propriation bills pass this year the problem would not be up for new ap- propriations until the Winter or Spring of 1934, the Attorney General sai: “I have heard it said that some effort was to be made by the National Gov- ernment under the Democratic program to restrain, under the interstate com- merce power, all illicit transportation of liquor from one State to another that does not want it, and it is pos- sible you will have to make some ap- propriation even if you limit Federal activity to that.” Reiterating his conviction that the niplpropdnuom should continue until changes are made in the 3 - torney General remarked: “It is not a problem I will have to deal with. for which I feel some sense of relief.” In response to Tinkham's suggestion that the Government save from $3,000,- 000 to ‘1,020,000 a yel; by releasing 'rom 1 leaving o criminal statute on the statute books,” said Mr. Mitchell, “and ref to cannot see any justification or - sistency in running a pardon mill as fast as you them in the f the law.” vod i mmw“ Drinking Policy. ing the question of by prohibition agents in the 1&"‘5‘:‘“& Representative Tinkham drew from Col. ‘Woodcock an explanation of the policy in this matter. “We have a rule” sald Col. Wood- cock, “a Tegulation in the bureau that no one can drink liquor unless it has been authorized in advance by the ad- ministrator for that district. There are plenty of districts which never authorize it at all. The administrators in New York, in the Chicago, in St. Paul district, and to a lesser extent in San Francisco, have found that some authorizations are necessary. We can- not check up accurately on the amount of liquor which is actually drunk. We do have statistical records of cases which are made by the purchase of drinks. In the month of October it shows that 7.9 per cent of the cases made in the United States were made in that way, but that does not mean in any sense that the liquor was con- sumed. I+have absolutely and rigidly enforced the rule against drinking. Drinking means dismissal in the Bu- reau of Prohibition, without any excep- tion. I do not think that there is so ;“ll.:h liquor drunk, even in line of luty.” Asked by Tinkham for the number of dismissals, the prohibition director said that frcm July 1, 1930, when he took charge, down to October 15, 1932, there was a total of 45 dismissals for this purpose. The Representative agreed with the prohibition director in the wish that courts should “accept ob- servation evidence.” There was an ap- p;npflntmn of $125,000 last year for Raising the question of Col. Raymond Robbins, the prohibition leader whose mysterious disappearance caused many agencies to search for him, Representa- tive Tinkham asked Col. Woodcock: “Is there any authority of law that gives you the right to expend money when a prohibitionist disappears?” bins case we did because his family made a complaint that he had been kidnaped by bootleggers, and was being held by bootleggers. That seemed to furnish us with the authority to find those bootleggers and a search for Robbins could be justified only as on a basis of ferreting out viclations of the national prohibition act.” Denies Stretching Authority. “Is that not rather stretching the authority that you have?” questioned ‘Tinkham. “Well, sir, I think we would do that for any one, whether it was Raymond Robbins, or any one, Congressman,” re- sponded Woodcock. “Suppose Bishop Cannon should dis- | appear,” suggested Tinkham, “would you feel that you could spend public funds to find him?” “Oh, no, not at all.” responded Col. Woodcock. “I believe you missed the point that this was a complaint by a citizen definitely stating that her hus- band had been kidnaped by violators of the national prohibition act.” “It seems to me,” continued Tink ham, “that that is stretching your au thority pretty far, because any one could make such a report and' you might become, instead of a Bureau of Prohibition, a bureau for the discovery of disappearing prohibitionists.” “There was some basis for the charge,” insisted Woodcock. “It ap- peared that some bootleggers left the vicinity of this man's Summer home in time to be at New York at the time that the man disappeared. There was some basis for it. We would not have undertaken it had the complaint not been made.” Asked about “wire tapping,” the At- torney General declared: “I think it is a practice that ought to be strictly limited and I certainly am opposed to | completely abolishing the power of the Federal detective to use it.” Col. Wood- cock testified there were 102 cases of wire tapping during the year. out of a total of 90273 cases made. Wire tapping was seriously questioned by ‘Tinkham, but defended in its restricted use by both the Attorney General and prohibition director. Nearly half of Portugal is waste land and a large part of the remainder is covered with Mediterranean oak forests. WATCH REPAIRING BY EXPERTS The repair of your watch does not complete the trans- action between us, but estab- lishes our obligation to fulfill our guarantee of service. All Parts Used in Our_ Repalr Depart: it Are Genuine Material BURNSTINE'S 927 G St. N.W. DIAMONDS WATCHES SINCE 1866, FAMILY OF RASPUTIN furlough, in addition. Or if the 10-day IFPAY IS CUT AGAIN Ship Inspection Offiial Holds Service Conditions Near Hysteria. Legislative and administrative fur- loughs have produced a condition that “is close to hysteria and there is no need for hysteria in this country,” as- serted Dickerson N. Hoover, assistant director of the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, in testifying before the House Appropriations Committee on the department’s 1934 supply bill,~ In the committee’s report made pub- lic today, Hoover warned the legisla- tive group not to flirt with disasters that might occur on the high seas that could have been avoided had his bu- reau's field service been properly equipped with ship inspectors. Fears for Effitiency. Beside the 30-day legislative furloughs already taken by his employes, he said they faced administrative furloughs of from 10 to 28 days. He said he be- lieved this plan all right up to a cer- tain point, adding that: “I hold that if the Steamboat In- spection Service is to apply a furlough like that, it will destroy our efficiency. We shall not have sufficient force to carry on our inspections and that means this: We shall have to discon- tinue the intermediate inspections at some places. Well, they might say, i you got through this year and you did not have any disasters, it shows you did not need the intermediate inspec- tion. | “Well, it may not happen this year, | but as it goes along and the results ac- cumulate, it will show its effect in dis- asters that could have been avoided. “In the case of clerks, the situation | is even worse. With the shortage it will be necessary for every clerk in the field to take an administrative furlough | of 502 days and 10 days’' legislative legislative furlough is applied it will be necessary to furlough for six months | 29 clerks—from January to June 30. | “You can see that in the case of the | clerks in the field—there is no office | at the present time which has, or ever has had, the proper number of clerks. If they are to be cut still further, what is going to happen to this matter cf making investigations and the like? Most any of these stenographers here | can tell you in the case of trials and investigations, the notes roll up. They must be transcribed. That is what these clerks in the field do, and yet they are a poorly paid lot of clerks, Wonders Why They Stay. “I wonder why they stay. The do g0 out at times to admiralty firms and | the like to get positions that pay « great deal better. “I am not arguing against the fur- lough as reasongbly applied. but we must apply it this way or dismiss. But the effect of it to date is bad for thi reason: There is all over this country today a feeling of uncertainty. It is not as bad as it was, but it is stil] bad. and that uncertainty comes about by ack of knowledge of what is going to happen. “As I go into the field, they say ‘What is going to happen to us”’ ‘Are we going to lose our positions?’ 1 do not tell them what I tell you here Eventually the order must be issued and it goes out, but I say to them that we have hopes that something bette: is in store for us. That is true as to conditions, and it is true as to matters | stated in the President’s message. | I am not arguing against the cle doing their part of the cut, but it : duces a condition that is close to hy:- teria and there is no need for hysteria in this count Radio telephones, a library, | special car for “cuiture and {among the features of a “luxu now running between Moscow and Tif- lis, Russia, the trip being made in 76 hours. 2% FEARS DISASTER MITCHELL TO LEAVE SUCCESSOR FUNDS Says 1933 Appropriafion Was Apportioned on 13~ Month Basis In Department, Attorney General Mitchell s leaving no “lemon” to his Democratic suocessor March 4 in the form of a prospective deficit for the department. He 50 informed & subcommittes of the House Committee on during closed hearings on depart- ment’s estimates for the next fiscal year. Reminded by Representative Tink- ham, Republican, of Massachusetts, of the anti-deficiency law, the Attorney General told how long '{,‘I he had turned down'a proposal which might have left his successor with a big deficit on his hands. “When the 10 per cent cut was made in our 1933 appropriation,” sald the At- torney General, “it had such a desper- ately bad effect on our work in many ways that I think suggestis were made to me that we spend more proportionately for the first few months of the year, in the hope that Congress might recant and give us a little more at the end, and I flatly refused to do it. “I did not see any justification in having a reduced appropriation go through and then turning around and proceeding on the theory that we were going to get some more. 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