Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-06
WHAT A CONGRESSMAN SEES
By J. Hampton Moore
Weekly Letter Touching the Washington Doings of Person
alities Familiar TO Philadelphiun
Washington, d. c., July s.

Washington, d. c., July s. I
POSTMASTER GENERAL BURLE- 7
l. SON won his long fight against the
pneumatic tubes ty an appeal to the
President. He had the majority IN the
House, but was beaten in the last real
fight on the floor by single vote. The
advocates of the tubes took advantage
of this situation and prevented re-
consideration which would have ,naoled
Chairman Moon. OF the Postofiice APP
preparation Committee, to whip into line
the country members who had been
caught mapping. The appeal to the Pres
ident was the last resort and when his
veto message came 1t put the tubes out
OF business. Philadelphia, Boston, New
York, Chicago and st. Louis are the
sufferers by his action. Instead of an
underground service, which began in
Philadelphia in 1893 with the admins
tration of Postmaster General wanna
maker. these large cities will now be
| forced to go back to wagons or motor
vehicles to get the malls to and from
| the postoffices. 1t W i'll increase the
congestion on city streeM tremendously.
! the issue is raised between the city and
! country as 1t was in this instance, the
city members are outvoted.
The head Of the pneumatic tube SER
| vice was John f.. Milholland, an aggres-
| sive New Yorker. who was once asso-
Gated with Whitelaw Reid on the New
| York Tribune. The late 1nez Milholland,
! of suffragette fame. was his daughter,
and undoubtedly inherited her fathers
,n1l nj
many friends in Philadelphia. who rail-
lied to the support of the tubes because
| Of their real service to the city. The
| Philadelphia committee which backed
/ the tubes and prepared much or the
data to support them in the earlier
fights in Congress. was headed by the
late George f. Bartol, whose argu-
ment before the Committee on POST
offices and Post Roads, more than
year ago. was one of the most business
like heard by that body. 1t is suspected
that the farmers of several of the states
doing business through the Commercial
Exchange of Philadelphia Will be as
greatly inconvenienced by the elimina-
ton of the tubes as will the Clearing
House Association. which found them
almost indispensable in fastening man
for points outside of the city. Inc
Stockholders of the various tube COM
lose their holdings as the situation no"
presents itself Apparently, they have no
place to go unless it be to the Court or
Claims
A CONTROVERSY VIII h probably
n could be settled by A. Mitchell Pal
mer and Mayer Sulzberger. acting as
arbjtrators. has arisen here in conse'
ouence of a speech delivered by Con-
rressman Walter NJ. Chandler, OF New
York, who has specialized on jewish MS
tory. AS it appears in the Congress
sional Record, Chambers speech groups
many of the noted Jews of the country
who are now engaged in the pubic
service He has included in the fhiia'
!. delphia list such distinguished names as
LEO s Rowe Assistant Secretary of the
. Treasury, the Rev. DIR. Joseph ,kraus'
kopf. who Is serving with Mr.. Hoover
!. on the food commission. and-he
where the controversy arises-the Am
bassador to Japan, Roland >. MOTIFS
It is the inclusion of the name OF Mr
. Morris. a Palmer Mccormick Democrat
which arouses curiosity. Many letters
have been received inquir!ng II Mr.
Chambers information as to MT. NOR
ris's religious predictions are corree'
II has been suggested that the Morrl
referred to was the Hon. Ira NelsoI
Morris. Minister TO Sweden. and tina
is believed to be the fact. but MT
/. chandler insists that his Information
came from high authority. Even Ju
: Inns Kahn of California, who heads TIT
chandler list of notabilities, is unabl
to ycuch for Ambassador Morris.
TNHE internal revenue collector
L Philadelphia reports colectioil
amorntine TO 5000, 900, 900. Those figures
look big, and they are lhey WI swe'
the Federal war chest considerably
and Mr. Lederer has reason to be prou'
of them. but, to speak plainly. they VII
have to be doubled next year. There u
always an accounting at the close o
the fiscal wear, June SO, and up to tina
date we are said to have spent approx
imately 1000, 100000. Pretty big sun
that for fifteen months of war in Eu
rome, 1t went into ship construction
airplanes, equipment CT the army an
navy. and barring such waste and eN
. trayaeance as may have occurred, thi
helped us to land nearly 100000 me
i'm France Mr.. Baker and our Penn
2. sylvaIiia General March keep telling u
about the progress being made in get
ting our boys "over there and we ar
all Interested, but 1t is up to Mr.. McAdo
to explain to us ABOUT the money neeue
to carry out all these plans.
Mr.. McAdoo, backed up by the Pres
ident, tells us our requirements neS
year will necessitate raising $4,000
900, 900 That will make the war cos
including our normal billion-dollar-a
year expense amount to $36,OOOO ,OO
up to June 80. 1919. Is it any wonde
Mr.. Hoover is preaching economy an
the Administration is urging the pee
pie to save and sacrifice? In his test
mony before the Ways and Means Con
|, mittee Professor Sprague, Of Harvard
predicted that s25 900. 100000 would t
J. spent for war the ensuing year. and thi
the people would have to save to ths
extent. If the professor Is right, an
the President says We will need $24
000,000,000, the saving to be expected {
every man, woman and child will
$3.50, and for every family of four 500
That will be rather hard on the Phil;
delphia school teachers. And it migl
be used as an argument for increasir
the pay of the policemen and firemen.
M THE dispute over second-ciass post
i rates brought out some interestir
chat about magazines and newspaper
Publishers who oppose the zone syste
were generally represented. The Anne
ar lean News Company Of New York put
an appearance through Stephen Farrell
the manager so long and SO faVorao
known In Philadelphia as the head of u
Central News Company. Mr.. Farreii