Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-07
Washington, Sept.

Washington, Sept. Z.
TT HAS been interesting to watch the
L moves of the Treasury Department and
Congress in connection with the SS,o0O,0oO,-
600 revenue bill. Gentlemen who have
come from Philadelphia representing mer-
camille. financial and industrial interests
are well aware that the bill which the
Ways and Means Committee has prepared
must go through the scrutiny of the House
and will he subject to attack in the Sen
ate, but they have not been able to follow
the curves of the two sets of Democrats
who have been maneuvering to avoid the
criticism that is expected to come up from
various sections of the country when the
provisions of this intricate measure are
widely understood.
It is really no secret that efforts have
been made "to pass the buck'-that Is. to
say, IL need be, The other fellow did
it," The star performers in this thrilling
economic drama have been the Secretary
Of the Treasury and the chairman of the
Committee on Ways and Means, the gen
tleman from North Carolina, Mr.. hitchin'
and keener pair of blades have not been
unsheathed in public life in recent years.
Both sides are to be given credit for stand
ing by their guns until the last horn blew.
The result was one of those compromises
in which each side goes away with the
feeling of the tiger in respect to the lady.
Harmony" was the watchword at the
close of the negotiations, with the eXpecta-
ton that Republicans would join in the
chorus.
CONS of two members of the Phiadel-
~ phia congressional delegation are now
doing service "over there" Captain Edward
G. Costello and Lieutenant Harvey Moore.
The son of the Fifth District Congress-
man, who is attached to the Sixteenth
Regiment. Field Artillery, Fourth Division
has been in France since May and has
seen some hard fighting. Lieutenant
Moore, who is connected with the Fifty
fifth Infantry, was kept in Texas drilling
raw recruits until about month ago, and
although he has arrived on the other side
has not yet been heard from. These young
men entered the army through the second
officers training camp and in their earlier
service did" Chickamauga Park together
COME New York Italian newspapers have
~ been agitatng financial assistance by
the United States to the Government OF
Italy This matter was taken up with
the Treasury Department, and through
Mr.. Leffingwell, Assistant Secretary, the
gratifying word has been received that
since the entry of the United States into
the war the United States Government has
advanced to the italian Government all
the money it needed to pay for all pur-
chases in the United States made by or
through the Italian Government
As we have a large Italian constituency
in Philadelphia. most OF them in sections
Of the city where men like Sheriff Ransley
and Select Councilman Trainer are lead
ers, It is worth while quoting the royal
Italian ambassador, Macchi di Cellere, who
conferred with Assistant Secretary Letting.
we'll on this question
mo one better than myself" says the
royal ambassador, might appreciate the
valuable assistance, especially in the finan-
cial way, granted by the United States
Government to Italy. Cooperating In close
relations with you. I have had the oppor7
| tunity to appreciate not only the efficiency
| of the help rendered by the United States
| Treasury but also the extremely friendly
feeling toward my country, which, person
ally, inspired you in the solution of kall
| the questions which We're connected with
| the prosecution of the war by Italy. l
| cannot express to you how much I regret
that an Italian has. upon a self-desire,
taken an initiative step which might ap.
| near as directed TO solicit further assist.
| ance from you"
! ItaIian.born citizens Of Philadelphia who
| {ba mi
| in France may be assured, therefore that
the Federal Government is doing its full
part in a financial way to back UP the
| boys "over there"
| SEvERAL years ago Meyer L. Casman
| - a Jewish boy residing in one of the
| river wards, was nominated by the Third
| District Congressman TO cadetship al
| West Point. Casman had been highly rec
| ommended by his friends and neighbors
and by those who were his associates at
the Central High School, where he had
| made a record in athletics. He went to
| West Point with q determination to win
and overcoming all obstacles, was grad
uated this year and sent to- Camp A. A
Humphreys, Virginia.
| There, along with the other graduates
he was given a two weeks intensive fin
ishing training. At the end of three weeks
he came out third man in the very good
grading in list of the first thrty-seven
West Point men. This puts Casnan in
the Corps of Engineers of the United
States army, which is regarded a very
high honor. 1t is now Captain Casman
| u. 5. A.
TIME religious denominations are certain
l. Iy busy in this war. They have their
representatives at the camps and wherever
the soldiers and sailors congregate. Down
here in Washington the Baptists, about
| nnn nm 80 than, tI,roueb fbair North ~