T3TE MORNING OREGOXIAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1921
CONGRESS MAYTAKE
RECESS NEXT WEEK
Tax Revision Bill Will Be Set
tled First.
VACATION TO LAST MONTH
After Passage of Measure tiy House,
Senate Finance Committee
Will Get to "Work.
"WASHINGTON, D. C. Augr. 9. Con
gress, in the light of today's devel
opments, hopes to begin a month's
recess about the end of next week.
After a conference with President
Harding' republican leaders of the
senate and house indicated that both
would remain continuously in session
until the house has passed the tax
revision bill, which Chairman Ford
Tiey of the ways and means committee
told the. president would be reported
Monday.
In that event. Representative Mon
tell of Wyoming, the republican lead
er, announced that It could be put
through the house by August 20 or
possibly a day or two later.
Senate Recesn Opponed.
The president at the conference tori-ay
with Senators Lodge and Curtis
Is understood to have opposed a sen
ate recess before passage of the tax
measure by the house, and the plan
urged by many senators for a three
day recess beginning Monday is said
to have been abandoned.
"Very soon after the passage of the
tax bill by the house," said Mr. Mon
dell, "I believe we cart stand in re
cess for at least SO days while the
senate finance 'committee is working
on the tax and tariff bills. This will
be expediting the public business, for
In that way the finance committee
car work uninterruptedly and make
greater headway." .
Rail Bill Obstacle.
Complete enactment of the farm
ers relief programme prior to the
proposed adjournment, passage by
the house of the tax revision bill and
if a measure to extend the emergency
tariff bill until the permanent meas
ure is enacted, were said to have been
Insisted upon by the president in his
conferences. He also was said to
have expressed the desire for passage
of the administration bill to fund the
railroads debts to the government,
but was represented as reluctantly
willing to let the railroad legislation
go over until after the recess, if as
surances were given of Its enactment
by early fall.
The railroad bill was said to be an
obstacle in the adjournment pro
gramme, but senate republican lead
ers gave the president little hope for
Its early enactment, saying that pro
tracted opposition was assured. The
president, however, expressed hope
that the bill at least might be re
ported to the senate and its consider
ation be given before congress takes
a vacation.
Work on BUI Beenn.
Work on the bill was begun today
by the senate interstate commerce
committee, which heard Director
Meyer of the war finance corporation,
who advocated the measure as a
means of general economic restora
tion. He is. to conclude his state
ment tomorrow and be followed by
Director-General Davis of the rail
road administration.
Agricultural relief measures which
the president desires enacted before
the proposed adjournment are the
agricultural credit bill, the Capper
Tinoher bill to stop grain gambling,
the packer control bill and a new
measure to extend the emergency
tariff law, which would expire No
vember 10. The agricultural credits
measure has yet to pass the house
and extension of the emergency tar
iff law would have to pass both bod
ies. Representative Fordney was satd
to have a resolution prepared for the
latter purpose and democratic lead
ers were said to have given assur
ances of co-operation in its quick
adoption. The Capper-Tincher and
packer bills are in conference with
enactment before the week end re
garded as assured.
Anti-Beer Bill Scheduled.
Other bills whose enactment before
the recess are planned include the
Willis-Campbell anti-beer bill and the
deficiency measure for the shipping
board. The latter, reduced from
$125,000,000 to $48. 500, 000, is sched
uled for passage by the house In a
few days, and by the senate early
next week.
Settlements with the railroads. It
was said today, were continuing at
the rate of $25,000,000 or $30,000,000
a month, but they could not be con
tinued indefinitely without congres
sional action to enable the payment
to be met.
For this reason. It was exDlalned.
President Harding was desirous that
the war finance corporation's powers
should be broadened in order that the
organization might proceed with the
liquidation of railroad paper held by
the railroad administration and pro
vide the funds for final settlement
with, the carriers.
Waiver to Be Demanded.
In connection with the controverted
claims for "inefficiency of labor," it
was made plain today at the White
House that the government would de
mand absolute waiver of this item
in making settlements with the rail
roads. President Harding, it was ex
plained, in his negotiations with the
railway executives, had reached an
agreement that the roads, in pre
senting their claims, would waive ''in
efficiency of labor" In order to make
a final settlement.
Chairman Cummins of the senate
Interstate commerce committee re
ceived today a protest against delay
in the legislation from Alba B. John
son, president of the Railway Busi
ness association.
"A voluntary vacation for congress
without this enactment would mean
an involuntary vacation without pay
for hundreds of thousands of indus
trial employes." said Mr. Johnson,
announcing that his organization, to
expedite the measure, would refrain
from testifying at the hearings.
, Mr. Johnson also urged that the
question of reducing railroad rates
be not involved in the credit legisla
ton. Congress, he argued, had re
ceived no mandate to reduce rates,
which, he contended, should be left
witn the interstate commerce com
mission. BOY THIEVES SENTENCED
Judge Dcich Lectures George Abdie
Before Setting Penalty.
"Tour mother would be far better
off and freed from continual worry
if you were in Jail from now on."
District Judge Deich told George
ADdle, naDitual onenaer. when he
appeared yesterday to plead guilty
to a larceny charge. Abdie has but
recently been graduated from th
juvenile court stage, but has been, a
constant offender In forgery and
larceny lines.
"I have believed in the past that
there was some good in you and re
fused to send you to Jail when others
told me you were incorrigible," con
tinued Judge Deidh. "But you have
never shown any appreciation of leni
ency. Even now I dislike to impose
a jail sentence, but I will give you
what shall amount to a jail sentence,
for I will fine you $99. which sum
you may serve out in jail at the rate
of $2 per day." -
Russell Amundsen, partner of Abdle,
was fined $89. Both pleaded guilty
to the theft of blank checks from the
Blue Point Oyster company, owned by
Abdie's uncle, Sara Mackln, though
forgery of a $2$ check was the
original charge on which they were
arrested.
LUMBER MEN HAVE ROW
WESTERN PIXE ASSOCIA.TTOX
IS ALMOST DISRUPTED.
Independents Favor Removing Of
fice From Portland to
Spokane. v
- SPOKANE. Wash., Aug. 9. (Spe
cial.) In a wordy fight between rep
resentatives of the Weyerhauser lum
ber interests of the inland empire and
Independent lumber manufacturers,
the Western Pine Manufacturers' as
sociation was threatened with dis
ruption today at a meeting of the or
ganization. The battle was the climax of a five
year dispute . over standard lumber
measurements. The question of re
moving the head offices of the associ
ation from Portland to Spokane, for
mer home of the organization, was
injected into the dispute as a side
issue, with the independents appear
ing to favor the change.
At a point in the discussion a physi
cal encounter between two dis
putants was averted only by the ef
forts of other members of the asso
ciation. The Weyerhausers charged that the
independents had not been living up
to the standard measurement re
quirements, cutting their lumber
wider than the rules provided and
thus offering unfair competition. The
independents charged that the Weyer
hausers undersold their competitors
and it was necessary to violate the
standard requirements in order to'get
business.
The independents indicated that
they might adopt a raised price scale
for thefr one-fourth inch scant lum
ber if the Weyerhauser officials would
promise to protect the regulations in
their own mills.
NOTED ITALIAN COMING
GEXERAIi PIETRO BADOGLIO
IS TO VISIT .PORTLAND.
Chamber of Commerce and Civic
Organizations to Join in En
tertainment Programme.
Civic organizations, the Portland
Chamber of Commerce and leading
Italians of the city are making prepa
rations for the entertainment of Gen
eral Pletro Badoglio of the Italian
army, who will arrive here on the
morning of Wednesday, August 17,
and remain until' the evening of the
following day.
The general Is the most distin
guished visitor to come to 'Portland
from Italy in many years. He entered
the war a major of artillery and be
came a general through merit on the
field of battle. Among his military
exploits was the direction of the at
tack on Mt. Sabatino, which resulted
in the fall of Gorizia. In the victory
of Vittorio Veneto, which caused the
Austro-Hungarian empire to seek an
armistice General Diaz had the co
operation of General Badoglio. The
general is now a member of the su
preme council of the Italian army.
His visit to this country is official
and is conducted by the state depart
ment. The general will be accom
panied by his "chief of staff, Colonel
Sicilanl, who also has a military rec
ord of distinction.
The Chamber of Commerce with the
assistance rl Albert B. Ferrera, Ital
ian consul in Portland, will have
charge of the entertainment of the
general. The exposition committee
will have a part in the programme.
S LADEN . IS .REASSIGNED
Brigadier-General to Take Com
mand of Fort Sheridan.
THE OREGON! AN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, JX C, Aug. 9 Brigadier
General Frederick W. Sladen, former
ly in command at Vancouver Bar
racks, Wash., and later commanding
the officers' training camp at the
Presidio at the outbreak of the war.
has been assigned to command of the
post at Fort Sheridan, 111.
General Sladen has been attached
to the American expeditionary force
in Germany for some time, but is
understood now to be on his way
back to this country.
Brieradier-General Ulysses G. Mc-
Alexander, ex-Oregon Agricultural
college officer, who especially dis
tinguished himself in France and was
acclaimed the "rock of the Marne,-"
has been assigned to the command of
the Sixth infantry brigade with head
quarters at Camp Travis, Texas.
FLOWER SHOW PLANNED
Northern Curry County Community
Club Sponsors Event.
MARSHFIELD, Or.. Aug. 9. The
Northern Curry County Community
club will give a sweet pea and dahlia
show and bazaar at Langlois August
13. and following the show will pre-,
sent William Lille, a Royal High
land Scotch entertainer. He will be
assisted by local music and home
talent.
Mr. Lille has entertained from one
ocean to the other throughout the
United States and Canada and is said
to have the largest display of high
land garments of any man on this
continent. He composed a song for
the shipbuilders during the war and
has made records of a number of
his compositions. The funds wh'ch
are received by the club will be'snent
for the good of the entire community.
Highway Unit Completed.
McMINNVILLE. Or., Aug. 9. (Spe
cial.) The construction work on the
Three Mile lane and the highway be
tween McMinnville and Dayton has
been completed. It is thought that
the road will be opened for travel in
th'e latter part of August. The La
fayette bridge, on the Portland-Mc-Minnville
highway, is under construc
tion. This bridge is to be made with
steel girders and concrete spans. The
paving on this road has been com
pleted from Portland to Dundee and
from McMinnville to St. Joseph.
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AUTO TAX LOOMS AS
MEiCETOIMG
Unpopular Measure Likely to
Be Put Up to President.
CONGRESS SCENTS DANGER
Political Shoals Threaten Passage
of BUI Requiring Trucks to
. Keep Up . Road Beds.
BT MARK SULLIVAN.
(Copyright by the New York Evening
Post, Inc. Published by Arrangement.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 9.
(Special.) If President Harding were
a man of less equable temperament he
might readily have sighed as he bent
his back into the mass of things and
men that clamored for his attention
on his return from liis brief vacation.
Chief among the many things, which
would all seem big if they were not
overshadowed by one, is taxation.
That subject now has the right of
way and there is little doubt that
sooner or later congress will pass the
responsibility from it to the admin
istration, just as it has- already
turned over to Harding other things
that were difficult and politically
dangerous. In fact, congress has al
ready made Harding take on his
shoulders responsibility for the de
feat of the bonus act and that was
wholly a matter of taxation.
From the point of view of congress,
the difficulty about taxation is that
what is sound is also unpopular. One
of the principal protests that has
arisen over Secretary Meilon's pro
posal has been directed against the
suggestion that automobiles should be
taxed $10 each. That would be a di
rect and not inconsiderable tax on
several millions of persons who, by
their standing in their various com
munities, compose as substantial a
body or voters as there is.
Courage Required by Mellon.
It took no little courage for Sec
retary Mellon to propose that tax
and it will take more courage for the
administration to stick to it, but the
immense volume of public and private
automobile transportation that has
grown up in recent years -ought to
bear its burden of the expense that
has been put or will be put into road
construction. One of the several dif
ficulties that beset the railroads is
the fact that the automobile truck
to a certain extent has been subsl
dlzed in competition against them.
When a railroad makes a freight
rate it must include an allowance for
the upkeep of the roadbed, all of
which the railroad pays, but when
the competing automobile trucks
make a freight rate they do not need
to include an allowance for the up
keep of the roadbed. The roadbed of
the automobiles is maintained by gen
eral public taxation. It is quite true
that the automobile has been taxed
with increasing heaviness in recent
years by local, state and city author
ities. In some sections, in fact, the
automobile has been made to bear the
full cost of local road construction
The theory that the automobile should
at least bear the burden of road con
struction both local and national is
reasonable enough, although there is
a difficulty in apportioning the tax
equitably among automobile and
truck owners who use the roads in
greatly - varying - numbers and with
different degrees of wear and tear.
Danger in Measure.
Within theadministration the sug
gestion has been made that if it were
practicable the automobile makes de
sirable a restoration of some varia
tion of the old toll gate system by
which automobiles and trucks could
pay on a mileage basis for their use
of the road.
One. thing that the administration is
determined on is that there shall be
no further federal aid for road con
structions unless the local authori
ties make adequate provision for
maintaining the roads after they are
built.
The automobile levy is but one of
many difficulties inherent in the big
job that the administration has of
putting through a sound tax measure.
On this subject there are possibilities
of party splits in congress and popu
lar resentment at the polls beyond
anything else that the administra
tion must do.
More School Room Needed.
MYRTLE CREEK, Or., Aug. 9.
(Special.) The school board of the
Myrtle Creek school district have in
mind the calling of a special election
during the prese'nt month for the pur
pose of voting bonds for building n
addition to the present school. The
growth of the Myrtle Creek school
has gained such proportions that ad
ditional room is imperative, and the
board sees no way of meeting the
issue other than by bonding the dis
trict and building more room, which
will, if undertaken, consist of two
upper and two lower rooms and a
basement.
Losses Will Be Equalized.
KELSO. Wash.. Aug. 9. (Special.!
To determine the amount of loss
by property owners within the Wood
land diking district, the Cowlitz
county board of equalization will
make a trip of inspection there to
morrow. Property owners have pe
titioned for a reduction in their as
sessed valuation on the grounds that
the valuation was placed on the sup
position that the land was protected
from flooding, and the dikes broke,
resulting in loss of the crops as
though no dikes existed.
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bottle. (The average bottle elsewhere con
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You can always count on strictly fresh milk
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WASHINGTON STREET at WEST PARK
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TAX ROLLS SHOW 4 MILLION
INCREASE IX YEAR!
Real Property Assessed at $3 85,-
120,803 Vtility Companies
to Fight Assessments.
BOISE. Idaho, Aug. 9. (Special.)
The total valuations for the state
of Idaho as reported by the county
auditors and placed before the state
board of equalization in session here
today shows an increase of $4,621,583
over the total valuation a year ago.
The total assessed valuation for 1921
as reported shows real property for
the 44 counties is valued at $358,
120.803. Agricultural land values of the
state, as shown by the combined rolls,
are $76,945,383, of which irrigated
lands represent $52,185,284, and dry
farms $22,871,338. Timber land is
valued at $19,811,360. It is admitted
that valuations the state over must
be raised this year.
Governor Davis said: "With taxing
bodie9 hard pressed to secure ade
quate income "for running expenses
within the legal limit for levies, there
is but one thing to do to equalize
the valuations upward. There . is
some gain shown in the abstract
total, but some counties which we
have raised year after year are com
ing again with the same old low
figures. They must come up. Other
counties are very high because they
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local revenue. For their own good
must be high to provide sufficient
rather than to meet the state's needs
the low ones must be raised."
It is evident that the railroads and
other utilities corporations will make
a strong fight for their conception
of equal assessments. They are pre
pared to make verbal arguments
supported by voluminous tables of
figures to show that in many coun
ties of the state they have been
asked to bear much more than their
share of the tax burden.
GUILT DENIED1 IN COURT
Spokane Man Charged With First
Degree Murder Arraigned.
SPOKANE. WasS.. Aug. 9. Loui
Adams, charged with slaying Joseph
Gunasclo here last Thursday, entered
a plea of not guilty to first-degree
murder charges when arraigned in
superior court here today.
The shooting of Gurascio is said
to have grown out of a feud of six
years' standing between the two men.
J. D. SHARP, AGED 90, DIES
Former Portland Resident Passes
Away at Pendleton.
PENDLETON, Or., Aug. 9. (Spe
cial.) J. D. Sharp, 90 years old, died
at the home of his son. Dr. J. E.
Sharp, here this afternoon. Death
v. as ascribed to old age. Mr. Sharp
had made his home here for the last
six months. He lived in Portland
until last April, when, following the
Basra
ampers
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death of his wife, he joined his son
here. -
Mr. Sharp had lived In the west
since 1881, most of the time in Port
land. He is survived by three sons,
M. C. Sharp of Vancouver. Wash.;
C. C. Sharp of Seattle, and Dr. J. E.
Sharp. The body will be sent to "Van
couver for interment.
NEW FARM BODY FORMING
Deposed Grange Master Reports
Organization Cmler Way.
SPOKAXfe Wash.. Augr. 9. (Spe
cial. new alignment of farm or
ganizations, putting- the Washington
state grange and other "progressive
farm organizations" under the wing
of the National Farm council, is now
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