New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-17

early summer in Washington Is like
midsummer anywhere else. and so n
takes, the liberty of departing from
the literally seasonable truth.
The senators and representatives do
not work shi~rt-sleeved, although there
is not a man In either house who Toes
not wish that he might violate the
conventions to the extent Of dropping
his coat into the waste paper basket,
in these hot days Of District of Col
umbia weather. The new members OF
congress suffer more under the heat
than the old members. The veterans
are seasoned In more ways than one.
They have No illusions about h
possibility of getting away early In a
tariff bill year. and neither have they
illusions concerning the possibility of
getting through the summer on an or
binary spring wardrobe. They pre-
pare In advance to dress for the
occasion, and in Washington the oc-
casion frequently is red hot.
Some n has said that 100000
Americans are waiting a~nxious-eyed
and eager-eared to find out what the
congress of the United States Is going
TO do with the taxation problem. The
number of people concerned In this
is exactly the number given. but 1t Is
not to be taken for granted that babes
In arms, boys of the Shining morning
face" period of life. or girls of like
age and like school occupation. or some
millions of the adult Indifferent, care
anything about taxation legislation;
hut nevertheless every member of
congress knows that his fellow citi-
zens are more interested In this matter
today than in anything else which Is
to come before the lawmakers.
New Idea In Tariff Legislation.
Interest in the tariff hides Its head
in the presence Of interest In taxation.
Some of the Democrats say that tariff
and taxation amount to the same
thing, but of course there is the in
slant Republican denial Of this today
just as there has been instant Re
publican denial of II ever since the
party was formed.
Part of the Republican majority In
the house today is seeking means to
put into effect at once the tariff pro-
visions of the new bill as they pass
congress. In other words, 1t is the
desire to set the tariff law working
piecemeal If a way can be found to
do 1t. This will be something new.
The idea is that 1t takes a long while
to pass n complete tariff measure, and
that II approval can be secured for
| certain provisions of 1t before the
whole measure becomes q law, 1t will
be a good thing to put these provi-
sions into Immediate operation. How
ever, this may or may not be done,
and when one says this absolutely I'M
Illuminating thing he has said all he
can say on the subject.
Congress is interested In the Grover
Cleveland BergdOll case today as
deeply as ever 1t was. This case has
taken a sharp turn recently. Col.
Thomas w. Miller, the alien property
custodian, who saw high service in
France and wal given two or three
decorations for gallantry, has charge
today, In a sense, of the Bergdoll mat
ter, for the colonel has issued a state
ment as follows:
G. c. BerodoII's Property Seized.
AT the personal direction Of the
President of the United States, and
In accordance with the opinion of the
attorney general, l will seize such
properly belonging to Grover Cleveland
BergdOll as has been reported to the
alien property custodian as being his
own property, or In which he has any
interest whatsoever. whether owned
and administered personally by him OF
through power Of attorney given to any
member Of his family"
The intention of the alien property
custodian is to administer and operate
property seized from Bergdoll as that
Of any other enemy's property held
by him, until congress shall direcl
what disposition Is to be made Of this
class of property now In the hands OF
the custodian.
1t has been held consistently BY
the writer of this from the beginning
that some mean would be found t.
get Bergdolrs person and now It Seems
that one of the means Of getting his
person is that Of getting his property
II is believed that this draft evadel
whom the commander Of the American
Legion declared TO be "the n Boch'
that we want" Don will find himself
penniless in Germany. and that he ma!
prefer prison here to penury there.