Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-12-12
A Weekly Panorama of Events in the
National Capital
nv PETER KEEGAN)


(By PETER KEEGAN)
MOT even the election caused as
much stir in Washington as Pres
ident Coolidge's trip to Chicago as an
ordinary passenger in an ordinary
Pullman car on a train following a
regular schedule. There are many
who agree with the President in feel
ing that his was a wise economy and
valuable lesson to the whole coun-
try, while others maintain that it was
unidentified for the President to travel
except in a private car, and that the
country expects its Chief Executive
to do things a little more elaborately
than the ordinary citizens. The Pres
ident, however, is well pleased with
his "eXperiments" in reducing the eX-
pense of his office and there are IN
dications that part of the $4,000
allotted him for travelling expenses
will be turned back to the treasury.
THE Supreme Court will be present
ed with a real tangle when it
comes to rule in the cases involving
the publication of income tax returns.
The government has obtained indict-
ments in New York, Baltimore and
! Kansas City against newspapers
which published the returns, alleging
| that they have violated the law,
while, at the same time, the treasury
is maintaining in the District of Co
lumbia courts, that it has the right
to make the returns public and that
the Constitution is not thereby violat-
ed 1t is obvious that the govern
ment cannot be right in both cases,
but it is up to the Supreme Court to
| determine which position is tenable.
SEPTEMBER Of this year is now
- looked upon by Administration
| leaders in Congress as the best time
for holding the first session of the
| Goth Congress should an eXtraordin-
aly session be deemed advisable. BY
| that time, the treasury will be able
| to give authoritative information as
to the results of the new tax law and
will be able to make definite recon-
mendations as to further tax reduc-
tions Everybody agrees that it
would be useless for the Administra-
ton to bring forward any new tax
program in the current session. There
is not even certainty that the l925-26
appropriation bills can be passed be-
fore March 4th.
ALL the talk during the presiden-
! trial campaign Of possible dead
lock in the electoral college has re-
suited in proposed legislation prOvid-
ing for presidential succession in the
event that an inaugural day should
come around without a duly qualified
occupant for the White House. The
present law only provides for success !
sion in the event Of the death or re-
moval of the President or Vice-Pres- !
ident, the members Of the Cabinet be- |
ing designated, in order of rank, to
fill the Presidency.
THE Teapot Dome expose has had |
one good result, at least. Secre-
tary of the Interior Work is plan
ming the creation Of a Federal Oil |
a permanent oil supply for the Navy. |
The Commission would comprise the |
Secretaries of Navy, War and Com
the Interior Department. AS all bat |
tleships and other war vessels will be |
oil-burning in the future, the pre-
serving vi Iue udIloll > vi supply ia"
become a pressing government prob
lem.
MRS. Mary T. Norton, who will rep
resent New Jersey in the House
Of Representative in the next Con-
gress, will be asked to leave her hat |
in her office when she formally occu
pied her seat. One of the Houses |
standing rules was shattered when
Mrs. Norton paid her future col
leagues a visit the other day. She |
wore her hat on the floor of the
House, something that has always |
been prohibited in the American Con-
gress. Mrs Norton will be the only |
woman in the Goth Congress.