Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1935, Page 4

A—4 “xi LOBBYING PROBE FUND THREATENED Representa{ivg Wearin De- clares Committee Action Is Waste of Money. By the Associated Press. { Dissatisfied with the House Rules Committee's handling of Howard C. Hopson, utilities man, Representative ‘Wearin, Democrat, of Iowa announced today he would introduce a resolution to withdraw the committee's funds | for investigating lobbying on the Roosevelt utility bill. “The committee hasn’'t acomplished anything,” the young Iowa d{armer said. “Hopson undoubtedly was one of the chief offenders. But the House committee has failed in two days of | cross-examination to bring out his activities as one of the chief advisers | and one of the principal offenders in the field of the holding companies.” Wearin contended that the rival Senate inquiry being conducted by Chairman Black had made the major disclosures agpd that what the House body had done was just a duplication of effort. “Why under those conditions,” he asked, “should we continue to spend the taxpayers' money? Let's save some money.” The Iowan was an advocate of a provision in the utilities bill ecalling for mandatory abolitivi: of some hold- ing companies. This was rejected by the House despite President Roose- velt's support for it. | Lobbv ((:'gnngued From First Page.) Committee tagged him with yesterday. Followed by a retinue of reporters and aides, Jurney cruised in and out of hotels without success. Then, in the lobby of the Shoreham, the Jurney entourage encountered Rep- resentative O'Connor. Angry at what he considered the Senate Lobby Committee’s “horning 1n” on the Hopson hunt, O'Connor told Jurney: “Hopson's in my custody. I've got him. Nobody else has got him. No- body else is going to get him.” Jurney departed, fingering his Ma- lacca cane. A group of hotel residents and merryvmakers who had watched the meeting with interest drifted away Later Jurney entered the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel and was inter- viewing the manager. No, Mr. Hop- son was not registered there. Yes Mr. Hill was. “There he is.,” a newsman sang out. Across the lobby was Hill. entering the cocktail lounge. Hat in one hand, cane in the other, Jurney sprinted for that room. Hill had just sat down and was toying with a pretzel when the sergeant at arms drew up. “I'm the sergeant at arms of the Benate,” said Jurney. “I want w serve a citation on you.” ! “Yes, sir,” said Hill, chewing the retzel. Courtesy Is Paramount. “Do you know where we might find | Mr. Hopson?” Jurney asked. "Nn 1 couldn't say. I have no “Thank you Jurney made for his limousine to continue the hunt | Hill said Jurney’s technique in serv- | ing the summons was “very lovely But the whole case, he said, was “a ' terrific legal situation over something that doesn’t amount to a hoot in hell.” After serving the citation on Hill, | Jurney's search for Hopson then ran | into Virginia. The Senate party roared into Alexandria and pulled up at the George Mason Hotel. Efforts | to find Hopson there, however, were fruitiess and the group returned w Washington, Hill denied testimony before the Black committee that he interfered | with a committee investigator who | sought vainly to serve a subpoena on | Hopson Tuesday. The subpoena final- | ly was served yesterday as Hopson left 8 session of O'Connor’'s House com- | mittee, Senators Wait in Vain. A But Hopson did not turn up before B no the Senate group in response to the | HALE document. After waiting some hours | Chairman Black went before the Sen- | ate and obtained the contempt cita- | tion. | “There is a manifest attempt to trifle with this hearing on the theory that some men are bigger than the| committee,” Black charged. | The threatened contempt proceed- ings were the first since the case in which Jurney and Willlam P. Mac- Cracken, Assistant Secretary of Com- merce in the Hoover administration, engaged in a famous “hide and seek” chase months ago. . MacCracken eventually went to jail for contempt. Most Cited Have Gone to Jail, Few men have gone to jail at the hands of the Senate without fighting in court, but in the end most of them | DIETERIC have had to go. One of the battles was waged by Harry F. Sinclair, wealthy oil man, who was cited for contempt for failure to answer questions of the Senate committee in the famous oil investiga- tion of 1924. Sinclair was served with an order of arrest by the Senate, but got a writ of habeas corpus from the Dis- trict Supreme Court. Finally, in 1928, Sinclair had to go to jail for a six- month term. Robert W. Stewart, another big oil man, was cited in the same oil cases. He also fought in the courts and | motion to delay tax legislation until | next session: SI .)00 000 Income Requires Expert To Compute Tax! By the Associated Press. A man with a net taxible income of | $1,500,000 would have to be good at arithmetic to figure out just how much he owed the Government under the tax plan now being considered by the Senate. ‘The answer to the problem is $893.- 000, but it takes more than 30 com- putations to arrive at it. i First, there's the flat “normal rate” | of 4 per cent on the whole $1,500,000. | That’s $60,000. Then, one must start at the bottom | referee, Wwhich, said the spokesman, is | other departments in the building, of the surtax schedule. This applies | a 4 per cent tax-on the portion of the | income that falls between $4.000 and | $6,000. The tax on that $2.000 is $80. | Then the surtax begins to increase by brackets. On the portion between $6,000 and $8,000 it is 5 per cent, which is $100. This $100 is added to the $80 previously figured out. making a toial surtax—so far—of $180. The figuring is carried on similarly through more than 25 brackets. For instance, the portion of the income be- tween $750,000 and $1,000,000 is taxed | 58 per cent, or $145.000. On the part between $1.000,000 and $1,500,000, the tax is 60 per cent, or $300,000. | When the taxes on all these surtu orackets are added, they total $833.000. That, plus the normal tax of $60,000, makes $893,000. SHIP BILL REPORTED ouT The Senate Commerce Committee once again reported out the reused\ ship subsidy bill yesterday, but mem- | bers expressed scant hope of having it enacted this session. While none would be quoted other than to confirm Chairman Copeland’s | earlier statement that it was “up to the Whte House” to say whether the | bill was desired, there was free pre- diction that the most likely action would be to extend the present mati subsidy contracts until January. Tax Roll Call Senate Defeats Effort Put Off Action at This Session. Following is the roll call on the 55- to-19 vote by which the Senate reject- ed yesterday Senator Vandenberg's to FOR DELAY, 19. REPUBLICANS. 11. SCHALL STEIWER TOWNSEND VANDENBERG WHITE DEMOCRATS. 8. LONERGAN OORE TYDINGS WALSH AGAINST DELAY, 55. O’MAHO! OVERTON PITTMAN RADCLIFFE REYNOLDS ROBINSON RUSSELL SCHWELLENBACH SHEPPARD SMITH HOMAS JOkla.) THOMAS (Utah) TRAMMELL A ‘WHEELER PROGRESSIVE, 1. LA FOLLETTE FARMER-LABOR, 1. SHIPSTEAD GUFFEY HARRISON HATCH HAYDEN KING Mattresses Remade The Stein Bedding Co. 1004 Eye St. NNW. ME. 9490 finally won. 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He called the impending con- versations the “last chance for peace before September 4 because if nothing | 1s done here the League of Nations Council must consider the question in the light of its obligation under the | covenant.” Eden is opposed to granting Iln!v political ~domination of Ethiopia. His economic proposals are said to be | broad enough to furnish a basis for | One of Eden's proposals | settlement. is said to be a system of capitulations mmuar to those of China and Turkey, Some foreign consuls enjoy extra- territorial powers in Ethiopia, but expansion of the plan would benefit | Italy. Neither France nor England, ! signatories with Italy to the 190 treaty, seeks economic rights. ETHIOPIAN FIRMS CLOSE DOORS By the Associated Press. ADDIS ABABA, August ls—co'n vinced that war is inevitable, a num. ber of Ethiopian business firms sus. pended business today. Their most valuable goods were sent to Djibouti, French Somaliland, for storage to avoid confiscation which is | regarded as certain if Italy lnvadu the empire. Having lodged a protest with the League of Nations against an arms was true, and that I could go down and take a taxicab right then if I wished. So I did.” Mr. Humphries has been a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association | for 23 years, he said, and is also a “Had & very | member of the Illinois Bar As.xoria- | tion, besides being counsel for several interesting time. We went out to| large corporations. He was in Wash- lunch together. Then the young man | ;0.0 on” business in connection With asked me to go back and visit his | h“ o, office. We got there, and several | ‘N® other men drifted 1n. They began| His amusement over the situation was evident as he recounted it in the asking me questions about utilities. Naturally, I defended them, being a |lobby of the Harrington Hotel this | morning. utilities counsel myself.” ; ERNE | = “Do actually look like Hopson?" ‘Do you think $75,000 I ) | gou think'$35.000 s anndily | NS - ord certatily nevec thought high fee for a utilities counsel to - | recieve on a single case> " of it before “‘No’ I replied, I've heard of higher fees. In fact I've received a higher one.” | “Then,” Mr. Humphries stated, | | “two secrotams came in with news- papers. “‘That's the man,’' one of them said. By that time I knew l.hey‘ thought I was Hopson. “I told them that it was my !m- pression that I came to the building | of my own will, and could leave under the same conditions. They said that Hopson (Continued From First PIEP\ | Mr. Humphries said. | | embargo which he alleged various na- | have levied against Emperor Haile Selassie busied himself with fortifying the national defense | on the north against Italy’s threat. 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