THE MORXIXG OREGOXlAX, THURSDAY, DECE3IKER 21, 1922
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Washington Reform Plans
Held Too Many.
LEGISLATURE TO BE BUSY
Lieutenant Governor CoyJe and
Suoaker Kcetl Both Urge
Leaders to Unite.
PUGET SOUND BUREAU, Seattle,
Dec. 20. Lieutenant-Governor Coyle,
who will preside over the state sen
ate, and Representative Reed, who
will be speaker of the next house,
are both taking advantage of every
opportunity to admonish advocates
of tax reduction that their plans
and suggestions are too many and
too mixed.
The two men who will at least
nominally guide the deliberations
of the 1923 legislature are them
selves strong advocates of govern
mental economy and the lowest pos
eitla rate of taxation that will per
mit the state to cover its commit
ments. While neither is particularly
attached to any one of the numerous
jilans proposed by taxpayers' organ
isiatiuus, both Coyle and Reed have
definite ideas on the subject, and by
previous legislative experience are
qualified, in "a degree, to say what
can and what cannot be dwne with
out neglect of fixed obligations or
sacrifice of efficiency.
Three Plan Runied.
Three complete plans for tax ref
ormation and reduction, coming
from three distinct sources, will be
placed before the legislature. These
are the plans, first, of the state tax
Investigating commission appointed
by Governor Hart; second, the state
federation of taxpayers' leagues, and
third, the state tax limit league.
Kach of these plans has been from
time to time discussed in the corre
spondence of this bureau. In some
respects they correspond, particu
larly in certain recommendations
for cutting government costs. But
when it comes to advice as to shift
ing present tax burdens and opening
up new sources of revenue, they are
all at variance.
H is in this phase of the situation
that the lieutenant-governor and
tli e prospective speaker of the house
find occasion to sound an alarm.
While questions of taxation will
doubtless dominate the eniire ses
sion, it is still true that the legisla
ture must find time for other mat
ters. It is held to be impossible that
any one of the three programmes
should be adopted just as present
ed; and in view of the marked dif
ferences of opinion among the tax
payers it is considered doubtful if
the legislature could work out a
harmony programme that would be
satisfactory to the conflicting forces.
Co-oieration la Urged.
What Coyle and Reed have been
urging is that the leaders of the
various tax reduction movements
get together and work out a plan to
which the whole body of taxpayers
might give united support. Such a
plan would command the attention
of the legislature, with some assur
ance of prompt action. This would
have to be done before the legisla
ture convenes,-and the time is get
ting very short. To do it would call
for the sacrifice of certain opinions
advanced in each of the plans, and.
a general compromise that would
not give any one of the organiza
tions all that it is asking for.
Just now bills are being drafted
which are designed to carry into
effect the multitude of suggestions,
changes and reforms proposed in al
the reports and programmes. Aside
from the report of the state tax in
vestigating committee and the pro
grammes of the two statewide
leagues, further complications, are
indicated by what may be termed
the isolated suggestions and plans
put forward by local taxpayers' or
ganizations and individual taxpay
ers. There is good reason to antici
pate a flood of bills dealing with
taxation and government c"osts that
will be beyond the power of, the
legislature to digest in a 60-day
session.
Both Coyle and Reed are deter
mined that the committees of sen
ate and house to which these mat
ters mtist be referred shall consist
of the ablest men available; but they
are frankly doubtful of the ability
of any set of men to properly han
dle the situation unless the tax
payers and their organizations get a
little closer harmony in their de
mands. FASCISTI ATTACK NITTI
Son of cx-Prciiiter of Italy Saved
Troiii Harm by Duke Carafa.
NAPLES, Dec. 20. Vincenzo N'itti.
son of the ex-premier, was attacked
Tuesday by fascisti, who charged him
with assuming a provocative atti
tude while a band was playing the
fascisti anthem. Nitti's assailants
were about to administer a dose of
objectionable medicine when the
fascisti consul, Duke Carafa, inter
vened, saving him from harm.
TURIN, Dec, 20. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Renewed conflicts
between the fascisti and the com
munists here have resulted in the
killing of ten persons, including two
of the fascisti.
Not long ago the local commun-
A subtle, haunt
ing fragrance of
personality that
Enhances the dif
ference between
you and all others
V I V A UDOU'S
PERFUME 50
ists resumed their openly hostile
attitude toward the fascist!. Yes
terday two fascisti parties were am
bushed and one man was killed and
others wounded. The fascisti there
upon mobilized, attacked the cham
ber of labor and stormed or set on
fire the headquarters of other sub
versive organizations, inflicting
punishment according to what they
adjudged to be the relative guilt of
the communists. The punishments
administered by the fascisti included
clubbing and giving doses of nau
seous medicine.
Among the dead is Municipal
Councillor Feruto, while among the
slightly wounded is Deputy Vin
cenzo Pagella, a Turin socialist representative.
IS. LlllCOlfl HP UP
POVERTY AFTER HUSBAXD'S
ASSASSINATION PROVED.
Four Hitherto Unpublished Let
ters Given Out by Grandson
of IT. S. ex-Treasurer.
CBy Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK. Dec. 20. Four
hitherto unpublished letters of Mrs.
Abraham Lincoln, written shortly
after her husband's assassination,
were shown to the Tribune corre
spondent by a grandson of General
Francis B. Spinner, then treasurer
of the United States.
Three of these letters are to Gen
eral Spinner, and one is to Lincoln's
son, Robert, phrased in formal busi
ness terms and relating to a busi
ness matter, but substantiating also
other letters indicating the poverty
of Mrs. Lincoln following her hus
band's assassination.
The first communication to Gen
eral Spinner, dated Clifton House,
Chicago, December 30, 1865, refers
to the sum allowed by congress to
Mrs. Lincoln earlier in 1865. It reads:
"General Spinner:
"My Dear Sir: Mr. Wentworth
called last evening and proposed
writing you today, relative to the
J:'6,00u in 7-30s, the remaining
f2000 in money, I trust, notwith
standing the arduous duties of your
office, your health remains good. I
am very gratefully yours.
MARY LINCOLN.
With this letter was a receipt for
2. 00 issued by the Adams Express
company to General Spinner for a
packet containing that amount, to
be sent by the company to Mrs.
Lincoln."
The two other letters to General
Spinner are as follows:
"Chicago, January 11, 1866.
"Dear Sir: Since you were so
kind as to collect the money com
ing to me in 7-30s. I in
close you the draft Indorsed to your
order for that purpose. I will leave
it to your discretion as to which of
the issues to take at the present
price. The draft will purchase
$22,000 listed bonds and leave some
margin. Please send me a draft for
the surplus. With kind thanks for
your service, I remain, yours truly,
"MARY LINCOLN."
"(Private) Chicago, July 23, 1866.
"Dear Sir: You will kindly par
don my long delay in refunding to
you the $10 you loaned to Mr. Will
iamson on my behalf. For your
consideration pray accept my
thanks. At the same time may I
trouble you to have sent to Gait &
Brothers the remaining sum due
and in return receive their receipt?
Also, will you return the receipt to
me? With high respect, I remain,
very truly yours,
"MARY LINCOLN."
The letter to Robert Lincoln,
marked "private and confidential"
and dated Chicago, January 1, 1866,
reads:
"Robert Lincoln: Thinking it was
likely you would attend to Mr.
Wentworth's request as soon as
practicable, I wrote you in what
form to send the money. As this last
was my only reason for writing, I
will trust to your friendship for not
saying you have received a line
from me on the subject. With as
surance of high esteem, I remain,
your truly, MARY LINCOLN."
LIQUOR BAN IS ATTACKED
IMMEMORIAL USAGE IS HELD
TO FAVOR ALIEN SHIPS.
Appeal to Supreme Court Against
Three-Mile Limit Rule Based
Upon International Rights.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 20.
The decision of Federal Judge Hand
at New York, holding that foreign
vessels cannot bring intoxicating
liquors into the territorial waters
of the United States, was attacked
as contrary to immemorial .usage
and unwarranted by any present
law, in a brief for the foreign lines
filed in the supreme court by George
Wickersham, ex-attorney-general.
Summing up his reasons for ask
ing that tho lower court be re
versed, Mr. Wickersham declared
that although the prohibition
amendment and the Volstead en
forcement act apply to the United
States, and all territory subject to
itg jurisdiction, they do not operate
to constitute regulations of internal
affairs of foreign merchant vessels
coining within American waters.
Immemorial usage, the brief as
serted, established the right of such
vessels to carry beverages as a part
of their stores or supplies for the
use of passengers and crew, and
that something further than any
law now in statute books would be
required to prohibit continuance of
that custom.
Mere possession of liquor on board
a ship, lawful in its inception, can
not become unlawful, Mr. Wicker
sham argued, the moment the ship
crosses the three-mile limit into
American territorial waters. He as
serted the presence of these liquors
on board while the ship is in Ameri
can waters and on her progress
from the three-mile limit to her
dock and return was not transporta
tion within the meaning of the pro
hibition amendment or the enforce
ment ..act.
Monkey Antics Aid Longevity.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20. Making a
monkey of oneself in daily exercises
will insure longevity, acording to
ur. u. J. caddis of Chicago, secre
tary of the National Association of
Osteopaths, speaking here tonight.
Dr. Gaddis suggested taking exer
cises corresponding with the antics
of the monkey, such as swinging
the head lower than the body, to
acquire and maintain health. He
added that human beings should.live
100 years.
Bishop Quaylc to Enter Hospital.
BALDWIN, Kan., Dec. 20. Bishop
W. A. Quayle of the Methodist
Episcopal church, who is critically
ill at his home here, will be taken
to a hospital at St Joseph, Mo., next
Tuesday if his condition has im
proved sufficiently. This announce
ment was made yesterday by Mrs
Quayle after a Consultation with
Dr. William J. MoGill of St. Joseph.
DHY DECISION UTILIZED
RUM-RCXXER FACES STATE
AND FEDERAL, CHARGES.
Full Kigor of Prohibition and
Tariff Laws to Be Invoked by
Enforcement Agents Here.
Announcement that prohibition of
ficials will take immediate advan
tage of the recent decision of tho
supreme court, upholding prosecu
tion in both state and federal
courts for violators of the liquor
laws, was made yesterday by Frank
B. Mitchell, legal adviser of the
local dry forces. Tom Ryan, ar
rested several days ago at Medford
with a car filled- with smuggled
whisky, gin and champagne, will
be the first to feel the effect of the
high court's decision. Ryan is to
be prosecuted at Medford under the
state dry law, then turned over to
federal officials for prosecution in
the United States court here.
Ryan's case will have two distinc
tions. In addition to being the first
under "double-barreled" prosecution,
he will not be held in the United
States court under the somewhat
lenient Volstead act, but will be
charged with a violation of the new
1922 tariff act. He will be the first
man to be prosecuted in Oregon for
smuggling liquor into the country
in violation of the recently enacted
tariff measure.
"It is only by such relentless
prosecution that we can expect to
break up the traffic in smuggled
liquors," said Mr. Mitchell yester
day. "The validity of prosecution
in both state and federal courts
for violations of the liquor laws
have been upheld by the supreme
court of the United States. The new
tariff act, which was passed ex
pressly for the purpose of stamping
out the rum-runners who smuggle
liquor into America from foreign
countries, is our strongest weapon."
Ryan was arrested when he
stopped in Medford for a meal. In
his automobile were found 12 cases'
of high-grade liquors. Papers in
dicated that he had purchased the
liquor in Canada and was transport
ing it to California. Other docu
ments in his possession showed that
he was regularly engaged in the
rum-running business.
Yesterday afternoon Kr. Mitchell
completed arrangements with Dis
trict Attorney Moore of Jackson
county, whereby Ryan will be held
to answer to the state courts on a
charge of possessing liquor. As soon
as this case is disposed of Ryan will
be transferred to Portland to face
the charge of smuggling liquor.
Since the enactment of the na
tional prohibition act and until the
passage of the new tariff bill the
smuggling of liquor into America
could be construed only as a viola
tion of the dry laws. The new law,
though, specifically, defined the
smuggling of liquor and provides a
prison term of two years on con
viction. Ryan's case will be one of
the first brought in America under
this statute.
SCOUTS TO BE REWARDED
Yule Party Planned for Boys Who
Helped in Astoria Disaster.
The Boy Scouts of Astoria, who
performed such excellent service
following the fire, when they acted
as messengers and even took the
places of the guards on several cold
nights, will not be forgotten this
Christmas.
A committee of ex-Astoria women,
under the direction of Mrs. Willis
Duniway and Mrs. Charles W. Ful
ton, will give the scouts a big
Christmas party, at which there will
be an excellent dinner, a tree with
useful gifts and many other fea
tures.
While the girl reserves, their
junior friends and the younger chil
dren will be taken care of by the
Elks this Christmas, the boys and
girls of Astoria more than 12 years
old will get their Christmas cheer
through their old friends and -neigh
bors now residing in Portland.
The party will be given on the
recommendation of the Red Cross
and relief committee of Astoria.
ROAD LEVY PROTESTED
Douglas Taxpayers' League 'Wants
Reduction, to One Mill.
ROSEBURG. Or., Dec. 20. (Spe
cial.) In protest against the pro
posed levy of one and a half mills
to raise market road money, the
Douglas County Taxpayers league
today recommended that the pro
posed levy be reduced to 1 mill. Last
year the court levied 1 mills and
the amount was J6000 more than
enough., to match the state appor
tionment and Douglas county's
share of the surplus. The league
contended that the county court
has no lawful right to levy more
than enough to meet the 1 mill state
levy and the small surplus which is
also apportioned.
It was also recommended that the
money derived from automobile li
cense fees and the forest revenue
be placed in a redemption fund to
retire road bonds.
Rivers, Harbors Bill Pressed.
ROSEBURG, Or., Dec. 20. (Spe
cial.) Representative W. C. Hawley
today telegraphed District Attorney
Neuner that the lower house is or
ganized to put through the pro
posed $57,000,000 appropriation for
rivers and harbors in spite of the
recommendations of the budget bu
reau that the appropriation be mate
rially reduced. The telegram from
Mr. Hawley is in answer to a num
ber sent from here in an effort to
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retain the appropriation for the
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pressed the opinion that the bill in
its present form will pass.
Two Nominations Confirmed.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 20.
The nominations of Louis M. Hall
to be collectors- of customs at St.
Louis and of Alexander Lindsay Jr.
to be associate justice of the su
preme court of Hawaii, ' both of
which failed of confirmation at the
recent special session of congress,
were confirmed Tuesday by the sen
ate. Chinese Hit by Auto.
ASTORIA, Or.; Dec. 20. (Special.)
-Willie Lum. a 14-year-old Chinese
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today driven by Victor Seeborg, city
commissioner elect, as he was walk
ing along . Exchange street in the
burned area and was severely, al
though not dangerously, injured.
V. S. Official Resigns.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec 20.
Carl A. Mapps, solicitor of internal
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confirmation by the senate of his
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day. Nelson T. Hartson, formerly of
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months, has been elected to succeed
Mr. Mapes. who will practice" law.
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