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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
Of CALMET7E
TELLS OF TRAGEDY
Mime. Caillaux Taken From Prison
to~Pai4ce Of Justice-Show-
cred With Attention.

PARIS, March 21-Mme. CaillauX,
gowned in black. sobbingly gave her YER
sion of the killing of CASTOR Calmette
before Henri Boucard. the Investigating
magistrate. this afternoon. The court
room, to which she had been taken from
Saint Lazare prison, was protected from
any disturbance by a heavy guard.
Nine. Caillaux began with a brief his
tory of her married life. Then she re-
marked:
II always took great interest in the
public life of my husband, sharing the
pleasures and the cares of politics.
The prisoners recital was suspended
temporarily when she burst into a fit of
sobbing. On resumins her testimony she
said, speaking slowly:
For two years an abominable cam
paign was directed against my husband,
who was attacked on every occasion,
notably on the charge that he had
secretly ceded a portion of the French
Kongo to Germany, and in connection
with the Agadir incident in Morocco. L
was deeply grieved by these calumnies
which became particularly venomous at
the time of the formation Of the
Doumergue cabinet. The feeling of hos
tility noticed especially at receptions.
My Indignation was aroused beclus
-
probity."
Nine. Caillaux was showered with at
tention today. Her friends and acquaint-
ances having partly recovered from the
shock caused by her act. are now show
ing their interest In her fate. and hun
dreds of them have written to her or
left cards at the gate of Saint Lazare
prison. She received huge bag of
letters In every mail, as well as great
bouquets of flowers, baskets of fruit
and packages of books.
Watchfulness of Guard Relaxed.
Nine Caillaux passed the greater part
of the forenoon answering correspondence,
reading the newspapers and conversing
with her husband and her little daughter.
The sharp watchfulness Of the prison
wardens and the attendant nuns, which
had been called forth by rumors of the
prisoners intention to commit suicide.
has now relaxed. Nine. CaillauX gave no
indication of being morbid or depressed.
She has three cells. one of them serving
as a bedroom, another as a dining room
and a third as workroom. All open
into the same corridor. which is inclosed
by a finely meshed wire netting.
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Movement of Troops i
in Ulster to Protect
Government PROPERTY

LONDON, March 21.-The outstanding
feature of the news from Ireland today
was the disaffection among the officers
of the regular army under orders to pro-
ceed to Ulster with their regiments.
An official communication issued this
afternoon says:
The recent movements of troops in
Ulster are purely precautionary with the
object Of giving adequate protection to
depots of arms and ammunition and other
government property against possible
risks
1t adds: There has not been and is not
now any intention to move troops into
Ulster except for these and like pur-
poses"
The actual number of designations
among the officers was still problemati-
cal, but that it was considerable was
evident from the earnest early morning
consultations of cabinet ministers regard
ing the best means of counteracting the
movement.
The actual fact of this disaffection is
the more discomforting to the military
authorities since the army is already
seriously short of commissioned officers.
Threats of a crisis in the army If a
movement OF regular troops was UNDER
taken against Ulster had long been cur
rent and in some quarters il Is believed
that the sudden marching of limited
number of troops was ordered SO that
the military authorities might gather an
idea as to how widespread the threatened
disaffection was.
Steps to Replace Officers.
Immediately after col. Seely. the Sec
retary of state for war, had been in
audience with King George at Bucking-
ham palace this morning Col. Seely sum-
moned a meeting of the army council,
which took the necessary steps to re-
place officers who had resigned.
According to reports, however. the num-
Der of vacancies is rapidly increasing.
and it seems possible that all the regu-
lar regiments which have been serving
in Ulster. may have to be Withdrawn and
replaced By fresh troops, as both men
and officers have openly expressed their
Discrimination to take the offensive
against men with whom they have been
fraterniZing.
This momentary shifting of the i'm
mediate crisis from Ulster to the army
may give the peacemakers their desired
opening. The return of Arthur J. Bal
four, former unionist premier, to London
has given heart to the advocates of a
have served long years side by side in
the political field and understand and
appreciate each other.
Asquith and Law at Odds.
Premier Asquith and Andrew Bonar
Law, the official leader of the opposition
in the house of commons, whenever they
have come into contact have given en-
bittered displays of partisanship.
King George is taking an active part
in the negotiations. He is not confining
mis- conferences to members of the cabi-
net but has been in communication with
Arthur ]. Balfour and gave an audience
to Field Marshal Lord Roberts after he
had seen the secretary of state for war.
Lord Roberts subsequently conferred at
length with Col. Seeley and the war ONCE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
Final Rites for Frederick T. Martin.

NEW YORK. March 21-Funeral serv-
ices for Frederick Townsend Martin, who
died recently in London. were held today
In Grace Church. Interment will be at
Albany, N. Y.
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Spring Temperature Near Freezing

CHARLESTON, S. c., March 21-
Spring. beautiful spring, opened here this
morning with the temperature near freez-
ing and the official forecast calling for
rain or sleet this afternoon.
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A New Defender of Organic Act.

Mr.. johnson. proposing that Congress
shall! now destroy the half-and-half provi
sion of the act of 1873, asserts as if in
justification of this destruction that this
is not the first time that Congress has
violated that law, and he ScoldS this COM
inunity for not recognizing that the
change from annual to triennial assess
Inents in 1888 vitally injured the organic
act. and that the fixing in 1902 of mini
mum two-thirdS basis of iealty assess
mcnt valuation and the exclusion of in
tangible personally from taxable person
atty smashed the organic act into tiny
fragments
Washington is ready to admit that Con-
sress has frequently since 1878 d.sobeyed
and violated the half-and-ha.f provision.
Indeed. the city has complained of such
tufractionS. But the community is as
obtuSe now as II was in 1883 and 1902,
and fails now, as it did then, to discover
any VIC alton OF the act of 1875 in Il
change from annual TO triennal assess
ments, or i'll direction to assessors who
had been, in fact assessing at d third
and half of full value that they must
thereafter assess at not less than two
thirds of full value; or in placing Wash
ington in the list of communities in
which taxable personal property is not
held to include intangible personally.
None of these provisions altered the Sl.u
tax rate, fixed by the organic act: and
the 1902 legislation did not decrease but
Increased the assessments OF both real
ard personal property.
But if Mr.. Johnson. tn" champion
and defender Of the organic act, were
right in his contention that these laws
We're insidious and covert iniractious by
Congress of the act of 1873. would not
the moral to be deduced be that Com
gFess should quit violating the organic
strt2 And not that Congress should in
consideration of past sins sin more and
worse and smash the violated law alto
sether?
The Crime of 1902.
Are We 10 infer that when the act of
1872 reduced the rate Of taxation upon
rea! estate from Sl.IG 4 hundred to 81 Il
hundred they Were seeking 20 avoid the
raising OF that extra Saoo0.n0n or 81 olrb. =
100? If so then they deliberately sought
in 1892 to get through Conercss. and they
did &c: il through. a proposition which
Souid destroy tie organic act of June II .
1873, TO prevent rea! estate from being
taxed at the rate theTvla yroViricri ia or
der that they mi ht not reach u point
in income where they could pay their own
exDenSes.
BY the insinuation of slurring query
nr. Johnson accuses this community of
eftmina,ly conspiring with a corrupt
Congress in 1902 to cut down the tax rate
and the local tax revenues in order to
swindle the nation into continuing un-
necessarily the half-and half arrange
ment.
MIR. Prouty in his speech at the Pub
lie Library formulated substantially the
same indictment of what may be stigma
tized as the crime of 1902.
Mr. johnson has described in convincing
6htail the devious and suspicion breeding
procedure by which through surreptitious
action of the conference committee the
realty provision was forced upon a relic-
tant but finally asserting House, It IS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
Desirable and Urgent.

I'm a letter forwarded with their esti-
mates, however, they stated that this
was done simply on account of the re-
qurement of law. and that they regard
ed the project of the construction of this
power plant and the increasing water
supply as extremely desirable and urgent,
and suggested that the matter be covered
in a separate bill This bill follows out
their suggestions in this respect, and the
Commits issioners strongly urge favorable
action thereon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
NOT WARLIKE MEASURES,
THE GOVERNMENT CLAIMS
Sending Of Soldiers to ireland for
the Protection of Imperial
Property.
OFFICERS QUITTING SERVICE
Tender Their Commissions Rather
Than Go to War Against
Their Countrymen to En-
force Irish Rule.

LONDON, March 2I.-A mu-
tiny OF two companies of the Dor
setshlre regiment, stationed in
Belfast. is reported by the Pail
Mall Gazette. The Pail Mall
Gazette dispatch says: .
when the men of the first ba,-
talon OF the Dorsetshire regiment
were paraded in Belfast today and
notified that they were being
transferred elsewhere they threw
down their arms. A sergeant
stepped forward, saluted the Off
GERS, and said:
We will have no home rule
here.
Regarded as Exaggeration.
This is thought in some quar-
ters to be an exaggerated version
OF the reports OF unrest among
the regular troops in Ulster.
The first victim of the existing
state of excitement in Ireland
was "a soldier at the Curragh
camp, near Dublin, who was late
for roll call. He attempted TO
scale wall of the barracks and
was shot by a sentry. 1t is
thought that the wound will prove
fatal.
The commander-in-chief in Ire
land, Sir Arthur Paget. has ar
rived at the Curragh, where con-
ferences are in progress between
the officers who have resigned
their commissions and the mill
tarv authorities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
Authority Of the Committee.

THAT this committee is hereby author
lied and empowered to send for persons
and papers, to administer oaths, to en-
ploy, if necessary, an additional clerk and
stenographer, and to appoint and send d
subcommittee whenever and wherever
necessary to take testimony for the use
Of said subcommittee.
THAT the subcommittee shall have the
same power in respect to obtaining testi-
mony as is herein given to the said COM
mittee on the Judiciary; and the Speaker
shall have authority to sign and the clerk
to attest subpoenas for any witness or
witnesses
THAT the expenses incurred in this in
vestigation shall be paid out of the con-
tingent fund of the House."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
PLAZA LAND OWNERS
HOLD MEETING TONIGHT
Will Form Plans to Obtain Early
-''''''' Action on Their
Claims.

With the idea of outlining plans for
future steps toward obtaining early ac-
ton on their claims, property owners af-
fected by the plaza awards which were
turned down by President Wilson have
called a meeting tonight to be held at
the home of Mrs. Harriet Storch. 142
E street northeast. The meeting will be
called at 7:3O pm. and in the short time
every effort has been made to notify
every property owner within the area
affected.
will in no sense be a protest meeting
or an Indignation meeting in any way.
1t is described as simply a meeting to
obtain the views of all of the property
owners as to what step should next be
taken in the matter
No Move by Department.
No move was made by the Depart
ment of Justice today to have the plaza
awards dismissed. and Attorney Cen
eral McReynolds declared that he had
ready to make a motion. So far as this
department is concerned, it is de-
clared, there is nothing which it can
do to better the situation as it now
exists.
Since the cases We're returned to the
department following the refusal of Pres
ident Wilson to approve them, no action
had been taken, it is declared:
The next move which would be of any
assistance TO the property holders, it was
pointed out, must come from Congress-.
The only hope for relief seems to lie in
the Sherman resolution providing for the
separation of the claims.
Attorney General McReynolds de-
clared that the cases had not been
brought to his attention since the Presi-
dent refused to approve them, and could
not state whether any further investiga-
ton would be ordered before a motion is
made to have them dismissed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
All Embodied in George Bill.

"All Of the foregoing recommendations
are embodied in the bill as introduced
by Mr.. George. Section of the original
bill provided for the abolition of the
permanent fixed. tax rate of one and one
half per cent on real estate and the sub
stitution therefor of a f1uctuating rate
to be fixed by the Commissioners in ac-
cordance with the revenue needs of the
District. In lieu of this section =, the
majority of the committee substituted a
section which fixes the tax rate absolute
ly at one and one-half per cent The ma
jority also incorporated in the bill an en-
tirely new proposition, viz, the taxation
of personal property and presumably for
the purpose of procuring a larger tax
base, 1t provided for the taxation of per-
sonal property not heretofore subject to
taxation in the District.
while the bill as originally introduced
treated only of the assessment for taxa
ton of real estate, and properly So be-
cause no investigation has been conducted
into the assessment of other forms of
property. nevertheless in order to remove
all possible doubt as to the likelihood OF
personal property being for any reason
taxed at a higher rate than real estate,
the signers of this minority report have
provided in the proposed substitute that
the same rate of taxation shall be levied
in the same manner as upon real estate.
Glasses and Amount Unchanged.
THE classes and amount of personal
property subject to taxation at the pres
ent time have not been changed in any
way by the substitute, but remain eX-
actly as they are at present. We think it
unwise, without thorough investigation.
to provide for the taxation of additional
kinds and classes of personal property.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
Charges Submitted to the House.

Representative Park said, in present
ing the impeachment charges:
Il rise to a question of the highest
privilege and of the greatest Importance.
By virtue of my office as member of
the House of Representatives impeech
Daniel Thew Wright, an associate JUS
tice of the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia of high crimes and
misdemeanors. 1 charge him with hav-
ing accepted favors from practitioners
at the bar of his court and of having
permitted counsel for street railway
company to indorse his note while said
counsel was retained by said street rail-
way company in business and causes
before his court.
Il charge him with performing the
service of lawyer and accepting a fee
during his tenure Of judicial office in
violation of the statute OF the United
States.
Il charge him with collecting and
wrongfully appropriating other peoples
money.
Il charge him with purposely changing
the record to prevent reversal OF causes
wherein he presided
Il charge him with bearing deadly
weapons in violation of law
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
APPROVE THE BILL
FOR POWER PLANT
Favorable Report by Commisa
sioners on Projected In
crease in Water Supply.

A favorable report on the bill of Sena-
tor Norris of Nebraska providing for the
construction of a power plant on the
Potomac river for the purpose of provid-
ing Washington with an increased water
supply, and generating electricity for
governmental and municipal uses, was
sent TO Congress by the District Com
missioners today. The estimated cost of
the project is $15,O21. eco.
At the time of preparing the estimates
for the needs of the District for the next
fiscal year the Commissioners gave con-
sideration to the Great Falls power pro-
ject, but concluded that the District $
revenues were insufficient to permit of
the inclusion Of such an item in the bud
get at that time.
Substance Of Report.
In their report on the Norris bill they
say:
when the Commissioners were prepar-
ing their estimates to Congress for the
ensuing fiscal year there was submitted
to them, through the Secretary of War,
an estimate of 81 100000 to be applied
to the portion of this project which pro-
payable one-half from the funds of the
United States and one-half from the rev.
enues of the District of Columbia, with
the statement that the Secretary of War
would submit an estimate of $1,000, 900 for
the portion of the project which involved
power construction.
THE Commissioners found that they
would be unable to include this amount of
$1,O00,000 in their estimates and at the
same time care for the pressing needs of
the District of Columbia ON other ac-
counts, without exceeding the total net
revenues of the District of Columbia
plus 100 per cent, which they were for
hidden by law to do. They We're COM
PEELED, therefore, to omit the item from
their estimates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
APPEALS TO HOUSE
TO |MPEACH JUDGE
Representative Park Asks In
quiry Into Conduct of
Daniel Thew Wright.
CHARGES ARE SIMILAR
TO THOSE OF COOPER
Misconduct, Judicial and Otherwise.
Constitute List of Ac-
cusations.

Representative Park of Georgia i'm
peached Judge Daniel Thew Wright of
the Supreme Court of the District of Co
lumbia today on the floor of the House
of Representatives, offering a resolution
of inquiry into the several charges made.
The resolution was referred without COM
ment to the House committee ON the
judiciary, which had previously declined
to act in the Wright case unless the pro-
ceedings followed the channels marked
out by the Constitution. The rather i'm
pressive impeachment proceedings on the
floor of the House are but another step
to force acton on the charges against
Judge Wright which We're sent to the
House judiciary committee few days
aso by the attorney General. The inn
parchment charges and the resolution
presented to the House are similar to the
allegations made recently by Wade H.
Cooper and which are now under the
scrutiny of the grand jury, but some of
the original specifications were not read
by Representative Park today.
Representative Park made two attempts
to impeach the judge before he actually
got the resolution to the Judiciary COM
mittee. He arose just before the House
adjourned last night and started to make
a charge, but the House adjourned quick
ly, as many members wanted to get
away, and there was not q. quorum. He
arose today, a few minutes past noon,
reading the charges to the House from
the cleared space in front of the Speak
to the judiciary committee without de-
bate. The House voted aye In per-
functory manner, and resumed regular
business again at 1915.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
Judicial Misconduct Charged.

Il charge him with judicial misconduct
in the trial of writ of habeas corpus
to an extent which provokes a reviewing
court of the District of Columbia to justly
characterize a trial as a travesty of JUS
tice'
Il charge him with arbitrarily revoking
without legal right the order OF a judge
OF concurrent jurisdiction appointing
three receivers so as to favor his friend
by appointing him sole receiver
I charge him with being guilty of vari-
Gus other acts of personal and judicial
misconduct. for which he should be i'm
peached
Il charge him with being morally and
temperamentally unfit to hold judicial Of
fee"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
Text of Resolution.

The resolution was as follows:
Resolved, that the committee on the
judiciary .be directed to inquire and re-
port whether the action Of this House
is necessary concerning the alleged Off
cial misconduct of Daniel Thew Wright:
whether he has accepted favors from
lawyers appearing before him; whether
he has permitted counsel for street rail-
way company to indorse his notes while
said counsel was retained in business and
causes before his court; whether he has
performed the services of lawyer and
accepted a fee during his tenure of
judicial office, in violation of the
statute Of the United States; whether
he has collected and wrongfulIy
appropriated other peoples money
whether he has purpo3ely changed the
record in order to prevent reversal of
causes wherein he presided; whether he
has borne deadly weapons in violation of
law whether he is guilty Of judicial mis-
conduct in the trial of a writ of habeas
corpus to an extent which provoked a
reviewing court of the District of Column
bia to justly characterize the trial as a
"travesty of Justice. whether he has
arbitrarily revoked, without legal right,
an order of a judge of concurrent juris-
diction, appointing three receivers, so as
to favor his friend by appointing him
sole receiver; whether he is morally and
temperamentally unfit to hold judicial
office, and whether he has been guilty
of various other acts Of personal and
judicial misconduct for which he should
be impeached.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-21
WEATHER.

Fair tonight; Sunday cloudy,
probably rain or snow in after
noon; rising temperature.
FULL REPORT ON PAGE THREE.
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Text of the Minority Report.

The minority report says:
This bill as originally introduced by
Mr.. George was the result Of an eX-
haustive examination into the question
of the assessment and taxation Of real
estate in the District of Columbia con-
Quoted by a special subcommittee of the
House District committee.
THE results of the examination are
fully set forth in a report signeds by
all the members of the investigating
committee, namely: Ben johnson, Henry
George, jr., w. A. Oldheld, William c.
Redfield. c. o. Lobeck, Cyrus A. Sullo-
way, l. c. Dyer and Victor L. Berger.
That report recommended number
of changes in the laws relating to the
assessment and taxation of real estate
in the District.
"The more important changes urged pro-
vided for full value assessments; annual
instead Of triennial assessments: repeal
of the fixed tax rates Of IL per cent.
leaving the tax rates to be determined
actually in accordance with the require
ments of the budget; substitution of
twelve field assessors for the three assist
ant assessors on field work: the creation
of a board Of appeals from which the
fed assessors should be excluded; the
restoration to the Commissioners of pow
er to remove for cause the assessor or
any of the assistant assessors; the estab-
liShment of an assessment roll and the
transfer Of the duty of making bills from
the Office of the assessor to that of the
tax collector.