The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1921-06-16
early summer in washington Is IKE

early summer In washington In IfkoI
midsummer anywhere else, and so onel
takes, the liberty Of departing from
the literally seasonable truth.
The senators and representatives do
not work shirt sleeved. although there
Is not n man in either house who does
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 u
unhia weather. The new members Of
congress suffer more under the heat
man the Old members. The veterans
are seasoned IN more ways than one.
They have no Illusions about the +
possibility Of getting away early In
tariH bill year and neither have they
Illusions concerning he 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 one has said that llO.OOOOOO
Americans are waiting anxious-eyed
congress of the United States is going
10 do with the taxation problem. The
number Of people concerned in this
Is exactly the number given. hut II IL
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 citf-
zens are more Interested in this matter
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 1t 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, Ii Is the
desire to set the tariff law working
piecemeal II way can be found to
do 1t. This will be something new.
The idea is that II takes long while
To pass a complete tariff measure and
that If approval can be secured for
certain provisions Of II before the
whole measure becomes a law, II will
be 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 It was. This case has
taken sharp turn recently. Col.
Thomas w. Miller the alien property
custodian. who saw high service i'm
France and was given two or three
decorations for gallantry. has charge
today, in a sense, of the Bergdoll mat
ter, for the colonel has issued state
ment as follows:
G. c. 6eredoIps Property Seized.
AT the personal direction of the
President of the United States, and
in accordance witA the opinion Of the
attorney general. 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 or
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 direct
what disposition is TO be made OF this
class of property now In the hands of
the custodian.
II has been held consistently by
the writer OF this from the beginning
that some means would be found to
get BergdOl's person and now II seems
that one of the means OF getting his
person is that Of getting his property.
II IL believed that this draft evader
whom the commander Of the American
Legion declared to be "the one BOche
that We want" soon will find himself
hat ~
prefer prison here to penury there.