Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-05
May BE No Public Buildings
Bill This Session.
BARTHOLDT'S VIEW OF IT
Appropriations May Not Leave
Enough to Go Round.
TAX ON STOCK TRANSACTIONS
Commissioner Smith Proposes Pla1
to President-Difficult of
Just Discrimination.

NO decision mas Deen reached Wne1neT
there will be a public buildings bill this
year. The matter will be allowed to drift
until there is some sort of line on the
probable appropriations by this session
and the revenues of the government for
the next fiscal year
Representative Bartholdt chairman of
the House committee on public buildings
and grounds. after comforting with House
leaders. talked over the subject with
President Taft today. Mr.. Barthodt
told the President there are bills pend
ing at this session calling for appropri-
ations amounting to $70,000,0O0. exclusive
of another S1o.OOO,O0o proposed for new
buildings for the government in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
This total of SsO.0O00Oo, said Mr.
Bartholdt will probably be increased S2O.-
Obopn before the end of the session.
making a total demand for $1OoOOO.OOO of
government funds. In the last session of
Congress, Mr. Bartholdt said, the total
demand was for S112,OWO0O, which was
partly satisfied by the passage of bill
appropriating S26O00.O00.
4 think will wait and see how the
cat Jumps is the way Mr.. Bartholdt
put it.
Dockery Will Be Renominated.
Cladius Dockery, United States marshal
for the eastern district of North Caro-
lima, was presented to the President to-
day by Representative Cowles of that
state. Mr.. Dockery's term as marshal
will expire next month.
He is unanimously Endorsed by the
North Carolina republicans organiza ton
and otherwise, for another term. 1t is
said there will be nothing in his way
DR.. w |. Chamberlain of Rutgers Col
by Senator kean. invited the President to
attend the alumni dinner of the institu-
ton in New York some time next month.
The President regretted that engage
ments which will take him out of town
are already too many. and that he can
not accept this invitation
Senators Brown and Burkett took up
with the President some matters local
to their state. including a pardon for a
man convicted of violating the home
stead laws. Senator Burkett also asked
the aid of the President in putting into
law the Nebraska senator's bill providing
for the inspection of locomotive engine
boilers, which, he says, will save lives.
President Receives Petition.
]. Milton Turner of st. Louis. ex-min-
lister to Liberia. today filed a petition
asking that President Taft call attention
of Congress to bill pending in that body
persons of mixed Indian-negro blood to
the roll of citizens by blood of the Croc-
taw and Chicasaw nations, so that these
persons. claiming descent may share in
the distribution of the tribal property
soon to be made.
1t is claimed that the citizen of mixed
Indian and white blood has been given
his full rights descendant of these
Indians, and that full-blood negroes con-
nected with the tribes were allotted
forty acres Of land. The persons claim
ing an admiNture of. Indian and negro
blood have been enrolled as full-blood ne
groes and thereby deprived of alleged
rights belonging to them.
1t Is held they should be put upon the
same footing as persons of white-Indian
blood. A bill of this kind passed one
house of Congress some years ago.
Tax on Exchange Transactions.
President Taft has before him a report
by Herbert Knox Smith on transactions
on produce exchanges, as they affect farm
products, together with suggestion by
Mr. Smith favoring tax on transactions
carried on by the exchanges.
Mr.. Smith thinks that in some respects
such tax would give constitutional regu-
iation. He admits it will be difficult to
differentiate between good and bad in
exchange transactions.
IF tax law should be so framed" he
says, las to distinguish between future
transactions which are beneficial, which
give the fullest play to the natural laws
of supply and demand, and those trans
actions, on the other hand, which are
carried on under a false and uneconomic
system, much good probably would re-
suit
The commissioner holds that spot and
intended delivery future transactions
are proper that bucket shop transac-
tons are "unqpestionably evil and indie
fensible. and that hedging transac-
tons are necessary and proper being
really not speculation. but an avoidance
OF speculation
President to Talk to Pupils.
President Taft has accepted an invita-
ton to attend the meeting at d. A. r.
Hall February 10 at $50 O'Clock under
the auspices of the George Washington
Memorial Association, which is working
for great memorial to Washington, in
the shape of an immense convention hall.
The meeting will bring together the pu-
pills OF the public high and private schools
of the District and the normal schools
Justice Harlan will preside. Addresses
will be delivered by Senators Lodge and
Burton.
Frank A. Vanderbilt. president of the
National City Bank of New York, called
on President Taft today and discussed
financial and other conditions with him
Mr.. Vanderlip remained with the Presi-
dent some time.
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