The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09
Washington Bulletins
By Associated Press

By Associated Press
 Washington, December S.-Isauro Gabal- bion and Jaime C. Deveyra, resident
 Philippine commissioned, called at the
 White House today to express apprecla- ton for the recommendation of freedom flor the Philippines as made by President
 Wilson in his annual message to Con gress.
 Generalization of all appropriation measures in the Senate appropriations committee to conform to the new House
 plan was proposed today by Senator Curtis of Kansas. republican whip. His proposal will be taken up Monday.
 Taxes collected by the government dur
 ing October increased by about s16, ,S5o, ,OOO over the same month year ago, ac- cording to reports compiled today by the bureau of internal revenue. Collections for the month amounted to Sl99, ,637 O0O compared with $1S3, ,2S6,OO0 in October. l9ll. Collections from the beginning of the
 fiscal year, however, showed a decrease of about $161 100000 as against the cor responding period of 1919 From July 1 to October 3i the aggregate receipts were S1 392, ,000OO0 against $1, ,553, 600 during the same months of 1913.
 There are many instances in which In- dians released from government guardian ship have been victimized by "unscrupu- lous exploiters' who made plans to ''rCo the Indian even before the latter hal received his certificate of independence, '' according to the annual report of the Indian commissioners, made public to- night The bureau On this ground |. governments wards, which it says has been increasingly agitated for some years. A preliminary survey of possible sites for the Roosevelt monumental memorial to be erected in Washington was made today by Col. William B. Thompson of 1 New York, president of the Roosevelt | Memorial association and the National
 Fine Arts commission. Designs for the monument have been submitted, but un- | til one is accepted no actual purchase Of a site will be made.
 Conversion of the old battleships Ala | bama, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin | has been recommended to the House
 naval committee by Secretary Daniels. Mr. Daniels said the battleships, now out 1 of commission, could be converted into
 oil barges at a cost of s6.0o0,0o0, or less than the cost of building new fuel ships
 Another of the proposals for relief for the income taxpayers declared to be sub ject to losses by recent commodity price declines, was put before the Senate to- day by Senator German, democrat, Of | North Carolina in a joint resolution. 1t would cover the current year provisions of the revenue law, effective in 1919, which allowed inventory losses on goods in stock to be subtracted from staple in- come as reported in preceding or subse- quent years. It was referred to the | finance committee.
 ] special message giving the complete expenses of the American peace com mission during it's work abroad. was transmitted to the Senate today by Pres ident Wilson. The total expenditures amounted to $1 ,651 191 09 from December h. 1e1S to December f. 1920 The amount actually paid out was s17o3,7l2 06, but re- payments and gains in exchange reduced
 this by $s2,72e97.
 President Wilson has completed his recommendations with regard to the
 boundaries of Armenia and has forwasd- ed them to the League of Nations ln ses-
 sion at Geneva, it was said today al
 the state department.
 l Pension disbursements for the fiscal year 1920 aggregated s21S 295,3l4 according to the annual report of Commissioner | Saltzgaber of the pension bureau, mace public today. The figures showed a de- crease of about $9,0OO0oo from 1919 totals land the report recorded the death during the year of FIST Civil war pensioners, leaving 243.520 soldiers of that war on the pension roll in addition to 29O,lO0 CIVIL war widows.
 Arkansas has been transferred from the
 Fourth army corps district to the Sev- enth army corps district. It was said today at the war department that the change was made for tactical reasons having to do with the allotment of Ma Iticnal Guard troops.
 | Further elimination of obstacles Tor trade with Russia was forecast today Tn an announcement at the state depart ment that Acting Secretary Davis had begun a series of conferences with treasury officials looking to removal of the embargo on exchange transac- tions It was emphasized that any meas lures adopted would in no way indicate closer political relations with the soviet government.
 l Equitable settlements were nA0ie Tor the reconditioning of ships used as transports during the war upon their return to their owner, Col. J. J. Brad lev assistant chief of the army trans fportation service and port commander