Evening star., 1922-11-07
FISCAL RELATIONS
STUDY FUND ASKED
Board of Trade to Renew Ap-
peal for Joint Citizens
Committee.
PLAN SEARCHING INQUIRY
Finances Will Be Required for In
vestigation of Subject and
Filing of Brief.

In the belief that the business men
Of Washington do not fully realize
the value of the work of the joint
citizens' committee on fiscal relations
between the local and the United
states governments. the Board OF
Trade will make a renewed appeal
for funds to support this committee
The matter was taken up yesterday
ct a meeting of the board of directors
Of the board. Theodore w. Noyes and
r. +. Coliaday. both members of the
committee. made brief addresses.
:; Making Exhaustive study.
The committee is now making an
Exhaustive study OF the conditions
surrounding the surplus of So.0OO.o0o
that lies to the credit of the District
In the Treasury of the United States
end over which controversy now
ragss in the House and senate This
fnrGlves investigation OF the fnahces
of the District and the federal gov
ernment from 1873 TO the present
time.
although members of the committee
are doing this untiring work without
Compensation and for the benent OF
the whole community, THIS lnfestsa
tton and the fling Of a brief on the
subject will require finances, and IT Is
for this purpose that the Board OF
Trade and other civic organizations
tn the District are seeking fundS.
Juasmuch as 1t is a matter whicn
effects every taxpayer in the Saiionai sd
sapitai the directors of the board
teeI that the small sum asked, not IN
excess OF three dollars per person.
will be speedily forthcoming from the
membership.
Will be selected to address the annual
meeting of the full board. to be heln
Monday night at the Willard hotel
on the subject OF the Joint committee
and to explain fully the value OF the
work of the committee.
Nine New Members.
Nine new members were added to
meeting yesterday. They are yohn
e. ". Reall. Charles f. Ebel. Floyd
G. McCarl. T. Edwin Norris, II. e
McCeney. Il. h. Nyse. Austin N Porter.
Chaplin 4. Bsuman and Joseph
. Oden s Smith was appointed by
President Thomas Bradley u repre-.
sent the board at the celebT3&ion OF
Merchants Association Of New York
to be held AT Madison Square Garden
Friday night. November II.
President Bradley was also author
fzed to appoint delegates 10 attend
the eighteenth convention OF the Ma
tional Rivers and Harbors Congress
which will be held in this city Decem-
ber and !.
Asks Surety Bend fer Autoists-
Herbert l.. Davis. in a letter to the
directors. asked that a surety bond
for all automobilists be made COM
pulsory with the granting of Ii
cense to operate a motor vehicle
The matter was referred to the law
committee of the board, Alexander
Wolf. chairman.
o. r. Moore, chief examiner OF the
NATURALIZATION service, was the prfn-
cipal speaker at the meeting last
Eight of the American ideals COM
mittee Of the board. He character
fred the appropriation OF $4,000 for
current expenses for the Americana
zation school as "niggardly' and as
serted that with a larger appropria-
tion the attendance at the school
could be greatly augmented Hor-
ace J. Phelps, chairman of the COM
mittee. said that efforts would be
made to secure increased appropria-
tion in the next term.