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Total S926,235 Short of Budget
Estimates and $226,7l4 Less
Than Current Year.
SCHOOLS SHAVED S225.86O:
STREET FUNDS INCREASED
Provision Is Made for Mount Pleasant
Columbia Heights Branch of Free
Public Library.

Carrying total of $22624895 which So2625
the budget S22614 from
the current appropriations the District appropriation bill for the
fiscal year starting July reported the House today
1t is the intention of House Leader Monde and Chairman
Madden of the House appropriations committee take this
for consideration in the House tomorrow with the ex
pectaton that the final will be taken Saturday
The bill reported shows under
budget recommendations for salaries but $10o
compared with the 1923 appropriations shows
the budget estimates of $O0 improvements
which of $ 200 the appropriations for the
fiscal year 1t shows decrease Of S. budget
estimates which decrease of S. appro-
prations for Fairgrounds For the bill carries decrease
OF $4,000 from the budget estimates, which
$4,000 the appropriations for the fiscal year
For the public schools the total appropriation of S66412
recommended the bill reported today $8928 less
appropriation less than the budget recon-
mendation OF this O86OOO found the item for
school buildings and grounds
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5 TO 50 MISSING
|NBR|DGE CRASH
Autos Plunged Into River at
Kelso, Wash. as Span Falls
During Jam.
ONE OF RESCUED DEAD
Lumbering Town Scene of Second
Collapse, Former Due
to Flood.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KELSO Wash. January 4-Names
of eight missing persons were known.
while estimates of the number lost
ran as high as thirty when rescue
parties resumed today their search
OF the wreckage-strewn food waters
old suspension bridge here. bearing
scores of men and women, collapsed
last night.
From fifty to one hundred" pedes-
trians. one truck and at least ten pas
senger automobiles were on the
bridge when it fell. The structure
gave way in the midst of a traffic
Jam caused by a stalled motor car.
Most of the persons on the bridge
were thrown into the swirline river
and many were picked up by boats or
SWAN ashore. After darkness efforts
to recover bodies were futile, al
though the river steamer Pomona,
lured by the hope that there might
be life in the debris, breasted the
swift current during the night to
play searchlight over the scene.
But early this morning no bodies had
been found.
OF those rescued. one man was
fatally hurt and died this morning,
and another Is believed fatally in
jured. Six others were taken from
the water seriously hurt.
County Oficial Missing.
The missing include Ben Barr, coun-
ty commissioner-elect; Mr.. and Mrs.
A. G. Huntington, pioneer residents of
Kelso, and several employees of log
ging camps.
Early today there was a rush of
frantic relatives seeking some word
Of lost loved ones and a constantly
growing list OF missing persons.
The exact death toll may not be
known for several days, as the
swollen waters of the Cowlitz and the
Columbia, into which IL flows about
two miles below the city, may swirl
the bodies of the victims many miles,
The bridge connected East and West
Kelso. A cable support buckled and
the bridge threw trucks, automobiles
and wagons and their passengers into
the torrent, swollen by recent floods.
Many 1eaped to safety as the span
sank.
Survivors told almost identical stories
of the snap and crash OF the falling
structure, the sudden plunge into the
raging river and the battle for life in
the muddy current.
To swim ashore, encountered with
heavy clothing, was a test to be met
only by the strongest and most adept.
Many survivors were pulled from the
river three blocks below the wreckaRe.
Exploration Of the wrec<age was not
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
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u. S. Ambassador
Post Not Causing
Rush in Canada
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
OTTAWA. Ontario, January A.
There is no line forming for the
position of Canadian minister
plenipotentiary at Washington, be-
cause. 1t Is learned, the pecuniary
compensation is far from attrac-
tive.
The amount voted last year for
such a post was $4,000, from
which rent and upkeep OF an es-
tablishment and salary of minister
and his entire staff would be
taken, and when fair apportion-
ment OF this sum would be COM
pleted, in all probability there
would be a request for a deficiency
appropriation.
Then. too. the opinion here Is
that the diplomatic center in
Washington "lives high" and,
therefore. to keep in line, 1t would
be necessary for Candada to ap-
proprfate more money than is pro-
posed. The original request last
year was $4,000, but II was trim
med down to $4,000.
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court, where many presidential in
augural balls have been held, of
steel RACKS for filing government
records. The inaugural ball has been
abandoned for a number of years
$3.OO0.080 Cost Yearly.
New appropriations for public
buildings. the commission RECON-
mended, should be available at the
rate of two or three million dollars
annually. If this should be done,
the commission said. all government
activities would be housed in govern
ment-owned quarters in a few years
The report said that the govern
ment paid $1,135,000 for rental of
buildings in Washington in 1918, and
only $524.000 at present as a result
Of the supervisory work of the com
mission.
Another recommendation OF the
commission called for destruction of
certain historic buildings, including
Polls Theater, to provide space for
three or four new structures. The
commission, in detailing the expense
of renting buildings for government
agencies. said the Department OF
Continued on Page q Column Al
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BY the Associated Press.

ID! the Associated Press.
PARIS, January 4.-Premier Poin-
care sent a cable message today to
ambassador Jusserand, in Washing
ton' asking him to see Secretary of
state Hughes in connection with the
statement made to the Associated
Fress yesterday by Baron Won Rosen-
oerg, the German foreign minister, on
the German truce proposal, which
premier Poincare contends showed
that the principal object OF the nom
war pact proposed by Germany was
to obtain the evacuation of the
Rhineland without the payment OF
reparations
Premier Poincare's message asked
Ambassador Jusserand in taking up
the Rosenberg statement with Secre-
tary Hughes, to make the following
observations:
First-That the object Germany had
In view in making the proposition
was manifesily, las admitted by
Baron Won Rosenberg" to get the
French to evacuate the left bank of
the Rhine before the Germans had
fulfilled their reparations obligations.
Absurd to Pretend.
Second-That it is absurd TO pre-
toAo lndt pelore entering the league
OF nations Germany is not subject to
all the clauses of the treaty of Ver-
sailles that bear Germany's sigma
ture and that she is free today to at
tack France.
Third-That the proposition for nom
aggression against France, Italy and
Great Britain would leave Germany
entirely free to attack the smaller al
lies of France, notably Poland and
Czechoslovakia. and even neutrals
such as Denmark, to recover possess
sion of territory inhabited by Danes
and Poles, and to begin again to pre-
pare her hegemony over Europe
I'VE know very we'll right now"
says the premier cable message,
that the day Germany will want to
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MISS HARJES IS KILLED
IN HUNTING ACCIDENT
Daughter of Banker Falls From
Horse, Strikes Head on
Tree.
BY the. Associated Press.

BY the. Associated Press.
PARIS. January 4.-Miss Hope
Harjes, daughter of H. II. Harjes of
Morgan, Harjes & Co, the Paris
branch of J. p Morgan & Co., has
been killed in a hunting accident at
the Harjes country place.
Miss Harjes yesterday was riding
a polo pony which became frightened
by the hunting horns and the dogs
employed in. the chase She was
thrown from the pony, and in falling
her head struck the stump of a tree
She died few hours later
Miss Harjes was twenty-four years
old,
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SEEK MISSING PLANE
IN CHESAPEAKE BAY

BY the Associated Press
The Navy seapIane 5000, which
wns reported missing while en-
route from Philadelphia to Hamp-
ton Roads, was located today at
York Spit lighthouse, Chesapeake
bay, unchanged. Boafswafn's Mate
w. j. DAILY, the pilot, said engine
trouble md inclement weather
made it advisable to make a land
ing.
ANNAPOLIS. Md. January IA
squadron Of four submarine chasers
OF the Mosquito feet, attached TO the
Naval Academy, Is today securing the
waters OF Chesapeake bay and the
tributaries for a seaplane which nut
out yesterday afternoon from the the
army proving station at Aberdeen
Mo, bound for Hampton roads. Va
Failure OF the craft to reach her
destination or to report as to her
wherea6outs caused the Navy Depart
ment at Washington to call on Of
ncials OF the Naval Academy this
morning to institute q search. who
the pilot OF the plane ID, or whether or
not 1t carried any passengers, was
not stated.
The bureau of naval aeronautics. In
Washington. has no fear for the SAFE
ty OF the seaplane reported missing.
The ship carried Boatswain w. Il.
DAILY and Aviation Machinist's Mate
q. H. Garland, both of Hampton roads,
who were en- route from Philadelphia a
to their base. Engine trouble devcl-
oped near the Army proving ground
and they were forced to land there.
The bureau, however, believes the
flyers again encountered engine trou-
BILE and have alighted at some out
of-the-way place.
The seaplane is, q model N41, AS a
matter of precaution, however, the
bureau requested the Naval Academy
to search for the plane. .
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q u q TT ers was
recomm ended in
a report to Con-
gress today by
the public build
ings commission,
of which Sena-
tor Smoot. re-
publican, Utah,
is chairman
E C o n o m v
through rental
savings was the
basis of the rec
o m m endations,
w h ich included
also a proposal
for erection in
the historic PEN
g on building
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SENATE TO TAKE UP
ROBINSON PLAN FOR
PREPARATION ENVOY
President, Lodge and Har-
vey, Withholding Opinion,
Do Not Ban Plan.

Assurances of immediate consider
ton for the resolution Of Senator
Robinson, democrat, Arkansas, pro-
posing American representation on
the reparations commission were Civ
en- by administration Senate leaders
today after Chairman Lodge of the
foreign relations committee had con-
ferred with President Harding and
Ambassador Harvey at the White
House.
Senator Lodge did not express any
bility of adopting the resolution, but
neither he nor any other administra-
ton leader evinced any hostility to-
ward it. Immediately after his visit to
the White House he called a special
meeting of the foreign relations COM
mittee for tomorrow to consider the
proposal.
The committee chairman acted Just
before the beginning OF what ap-
peared likely to develop into another
general debate Of the administration's
foreign policy on the Senate floor,
and while Ambassador Harvey, called
home from London for consultation
on the reparations crisis. was con-
tinuing his conferences with high Of
ficials.
Although much significance was at
tached to the quick call for a COM
mittee meeting, 1t was said at the
Capitol that President Harding had
not given an opinion on the Robinson
proposal. Senator Lodge said his
meeting TODAY with the President and
Mr.. Harvey was preliminary to other
conferences to be held later.
Senator Lodge also declared he was
entirely agreeable with the sugges-
tion of Senator Robinson that the
resolution be referred to the COM
mittee, and 1t was indicated that the
first work of the committee would be
to secure information from Secretary
Hughes regarding the status of the
administrations negotiations on the
reparations and other questions in
volved in the European situation.
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S3O,ODO,O()D IN j. S.
BUILDINGS IS URGED
Smoot Commission Recon-
mends Congress Provide
Comprehensive System.
PLANS ARE OUTLINED
Appropriations of $4,000, 900 to
$3,o0o,0OO Per Year Are
Suggested.
PLANS ARE OUTLINED

Immediate authorization OF from
s25.0Oo,ooo to s3O.ooo.o0o for erection
in Washington of buildings to house
government agencies now in rented
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PRESIDENTS HANDS TIED" !"

Arkansas Senator Chides Repubn-
cans for Lack of Confidence.
Senator Robinson said:
THE resolution of ratification re-
specting the treaty between the
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WEATHER.

Fair tonight. with temperature near
freezing; tomorrow cloudy and un-
settled. Temperature for twenty-four
hours ended at 2 pm. today: Highest,
80. at 4 pm. yesterday; lowest, "a, at
1880 pm. yesterday.
Full report on page 20.
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Continued on Page 2, Column 8. )
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Streets to BE Improved.

The thoroughfares for which specific
appropriations are made follow:
Northeast-For paving Rhode Island
avenue, 18th street to District line.
Atty six feet wide, 100000.
Northwest-For paving west side of
Connecticut avenue. Ingomar street to
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make war ii will be on the smaller
nations that she will throw herself
Her plan of non-aggression would
leave her free to do so and would pro-
hibit us from going to their help"
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(Continued on Page q, Column
Evening star., 1923-01-04

The Stars carrier system covers every
city block and the regular edition is
delivered to Washington homes as fast
as the papers are printed.
Evening star., 1923-01-04

The British experts sat up half the
night preparing the memorandum for
distribution among the delegations,
but, according to Excelsior, the note
was only an answer TO Premier Poin-
cares objections to the British plan
(ContInued on Page 4, Column g.
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and ubiquitous Roy Murnian, alias
kid" Murnian, became -dfsplea
with something Mr.. Wanless said,
therefore gave him a poke with his
hard-boiled fist. The indications
were that Kazmier, IL not Murnian,
was under the influence of hard
liquor. For some reason, hard to
explain, Murnian did not get into
the trouble personally.
Wanless swore out q complaint
against Kazmi He pleaded not
guilty and was turned loose under
$20e bail. His trial was postponed
time or two, then he sneaked
into court one day last week, plead
ed guilty and was fined as stated,
The hard-boiled roystert- was per-
mitted to pay his fines In Install
ments.
Kazmier and Murnian, when In
toxicated about a year ago, beat
up Herb I. Schell, Proctor drzg-
gist, in a chop suey joint on West
81 -s<,s.si. . ,ss.,s .:. Ss,s..l
ard direction set IN, requiring q
delicate and expressive operation for
mastoiditis. Both OF the hard-boiled
cutups eventually received work
farm sentences, but they were turn
ed loose before expiration OF Their
terms.
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HAMMER PAYS SMALL fine
Rard-boiled Crony of kid Murnian Is Permitted
To Pay Fine on the Installment Plan After
Pleading to Assault on Wanless.

After stalling around for couple
or weeks, Edward w. Kazmier plead
ed guilty to assaulting James Wan
less with a blow from his unruly
fist. The court imposed a fine of
800 and costs and it was so ar
ranged that Kazmier could pay the
penalty to Frank Hicks on the in
stallment plan.
To man up tree, it looks as
II the tougher you are, the better
you are treated.
On or about June %, C. ]. Bon
well, TAI E. Superior St., A. B.
Kelly, Mrs. BonweIl and Miss Melba
Trombly were driving on the Two
Harbors road one mile from Lake
wood.
A car driven by Ed. W. Kazmier
came bowling along with such speed
and reckless driving as to take a
rear wheel from the. BonweH car
and throw the disabled machine
over into the ditch. Mrs. Bonweu
-ssrEcr7,1 -,--O s-zs---.rft,
%tsg S'rombly's back and Shot lders
were strained. The men W re bruis-
ed, but not injured.
Games Wanless, a prominent On
1uthian, came afohg and stopped to
Bid the injured. Kazmier, who was
accompanied by the irrepressible
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was strong supporter of McGarry's
lost cause last fall. The jackpine
statesman and his bag of campai :.
booze camped many days in Coler-
aine in that Inflated campaign. Col.
Hank and Bro. Lammen were lJyal
to the Laird O. Glengarry and he
felt at home in Coleraine. 1t was
one of the few places in Cass
and Itasca counties that the notori-
Gus free-lover, exponent of post.
dated checks and adventurer in
politics felt at home. But P. H.
McGarry is another and very old
story.
: Many of the proietariars blame
Col. Downing for the fact that
they bought Harron stock, some Of
the Pan-Motor junk, thereby max
ing practically total losses. Col.
Hank was a strong booster of those
shares, which were started around
here at 81 a share. His position
here and his strong boosts in
fluenced many to their loss.
Many who feel like forgiving Col.
Downing for his poor taste and
judgment in the matter of the
automobile stock, cannot overlook
his protection of his son-in-law,
Eddie Amundson, in rank fraud
that he perpetrated on this long
suffering and very susceptible COM
munity.
When Eddie Amundson was court
ing the pulchritudinous daughter Of
Big Boss Hank, he owned Dixie
Flyer automobile. He was shy on
cash for his approaching nuptials,
hence decided to rattle his car.
Tickets were printed in an ag-
gregate of $1,000. Their sale was
started with the representation that
the rattle would be pulled off
Jan. /, 1922. After the scheming
Amundson had raked in about $500
from illegal~-sale of Illicit rattle
tickets, he welded the fair daughter
of the Big Boss, loaded her into
the Dixie Flyer and swiftly wheeled
away to Miami, Florida, where he
spent his honeymoon, all at the
expense of the poor suckers In
Coleraine.
Had Eddie Amundson not been
son-in law of the Big Boss, he
probably might have been arrested
and sent to Jail for pulling off @
rattle, which is against the law,
If not arrested for fraud.
Even now, nearly two years since
the boys were bilked, there. is strong
talk Of making complaint to-" the
nroner authorities s.'-r' =
Once upon a time, Col. Hank went
fishing up north. He let his auto
mobile engine run all night and
explained that funny stunt by claim
ing that he was sunstruck. All the
wise boys in Colerain }. declare that
the Big Boss was moonstruck, but
that fishing trip is another story.
Thus endeth the first chapter
concerning the life and adventures
of Col. Hank, the Big Boss, in the
model and moral village Of Coler-
aine.
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not one or the other, but both.
One can not gain by the mis-
fortunes of the other. Business
in general can gain nothing by
cheap labor and farm prices
below cost of production.
Lawyers, doctors, dentists need
a prosperous people to prac-
tice on. Grocerymen and but
cheers need customers who can
buy. A miIlionaire's stomach
is no bigger than working
mans. &
II believe that labor has a
right to organize that its pros
perity may be insured SO far
as possible by its own efforts
by all legal means. I am op-
posed to the use of govern
ment- offices, including the
courts, to bolster up the big
employers side of indust ial
disputes. Property is entitled
to the rights guaranteed by
the constitution and no more.
Workers are entitled to rights
expressly stated in the consti-
tuition, and it is the business
of government to guarantee
them in these rights. I further
believe that the government
should assume the full func-
tions of protecting both life
and property and that private
armies or so-called gunner
should not be tolerated any
where under the American
flag. It is a reflection on us
as a people of law and order.
IMPERIALISM.-"I am op-
posed to imperialism anywhere
and everywhere. Without i'm
perialistic policies we do not
need a great navy and a large
standing army. We need only
moderate expenditure to en-
able us to keep pace with the
developments in war methods
and sufficient defense against
possible aggression on the
mainland of the United States.
There never has been q case
where colonial empire has not
cost the plain people more in
blood and treasure than it was
worth. A few profit and the
many pay the bills.
RAILROADS.-"The rail-
road problem is one that will
come before the next session
of the senate. Many rates on
agricultural products are con-
IscaJury afiu cuuiu % re-;
aseed, it seems to me, with
things as they are. But private
ownership seems to be unable
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senatorships as. q protest
against this vicious deflation
policy and the equally vicious
initiation policy Of the pre-
vious democratic administra-
ton. I am for helping bust
ness run on an even keel. I
want the debtors dollar to be
as good as the creditors dol
lar. I do not believe In a dol
lar worth 50> cents in 1919
when a farmer contracts q
loan and worth 100 cents in
1921 when he Is asked to pay.
The dancing dollars do no one
any good except the large fl
nanciers and spectators. We
common people need q money
system and a credit system
that will keep business run
ming on an even keel.
Many of my good friends
think Of the federal reserve
system as too bad to be rem
edied, but to my mind wrong
management is more at fault
than the system itself. It was
designed to extend help to
borrowers at times when we
thought a panic might be ap-
preaching. It did provide a
more elastic credit system than
we had prior to 1918. But
power for good is also power
for evil. The federal reserve
board, instead of helping us
with renewals when prices
sagged a little in early 1920,
sent out a demand in April of
that year that the Northwest
pay up two billion dollars at
once. Instead of preventing a
crisis, it brought it on. That
was a case of rotten manage
ment. Deflation was started
by the democrats and was con-
tinued as normally by the re-
publicans.
"If elected, I shall do all ]
can to produce a better senate
attitude on the money and
credit question and to provide
a better management for the
federal reserve board. You can
depend on me to say mo- to
the appointment of any man
to that board who is not for
keeping business on an even
keel.
HIS STAND ON LABOR
1T am as much against labor
deflation as ] am against
farmer defisJion. Tne strength
and bsppiness Of a nation de-
ponds on the prosperity of its
city workers and farmers
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FATHER WAS WISE.

"Father!" The weeping girl plead
ed piteously. Father! Why don't
you let me marry George and take
him into the firm? Why, oh, why?"
The business man raised her head
tenderly. II feel for you, darling"
he said. II do needs George in my
business could use him, and will,
If he says the wcrd, but, daughter,
l think can hire him cheaper than
1 can support him." And with a
gesture of pitiless finality he drop
ped the subject.-Richmond Times
Dispatch.
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THE PREACHER GOT HIS.

A clergyman who took keen de-
light in gently poking fun at the
unm 'ried young women OF his
congregation, was one day exptLnd-
ing to a group of eligibles on the
subject of old maids.
"You know" he -tated, faceti-
usly, there's a difference between
an old maid and a spinster. A -old
maid is a woman who has never had
a chance to get married while a
spinster is one who has had the
chance but declined"
Then I must be a spinster,"
quickly rejoined one of the youI-s
ladies. Several preachers have pro-
posed to me-"
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THE END OF TT.

Two dour Scotch elders were
engaged in a heated argument
concerning a knotty point of doc
trine while on their way to church
one Sunday morning. AS they were
nearing the church MacTavish broke
into a long harangue of MacDon-
AIDS, with: Mon, mon, II you'd
only follows your arguments to
their logical conclusion .. :"
mon, alive" retorted MacDon-
aid, do you no ken yon cemetery's
filled wi logical conclusion?" "
Evening star., 1923-03-25

Most of these instruments
have been thoroughly re-
newed by our factory service
department. Every instru-
ment sold will have full ex-
change value within one
year.