Evening star., 1925-10-19
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

ITn,u further notice Washington 6
favorite indoor political sport will be
the fashioning of tax plans. Areaay
the congressional woods are full OF
them. With this weeks assembling
of The ways and means committee
and the beginning of public hearings
ulans are expected to emerge at
rate comparable only with the fallns
of Autumn leaves. Many of them are
doomed to be just as ephemeral. IN
the House there are the Garner and
Rscharach plans, respectively Demo
cratic and Republican in origin. In
the Senate there are the Smoot and
Underwood plans, respectively Re-
publican and Democratic in concep-
ion. But the tax plan game Is
Young. 1t will not begin to rage in
, full fury till members of House ana
Senate drift back to Washington IN
numbers Then the master minds
will function at high speed and new
the plain people will be evolved over
night. Already it seems certain that
neither party will derive campaign
advantage for 1926 from tax reform.
Republicans and Democrats alike IA
vor sweeping reductions. Democratic
strategy will he bent toward depriv-
| ing Coolidge of real credit for lifting
| the country's tax burdens.
Secretary kellogg is acquiring a
reputation for plain speaking. The
other day a New York banker came
| along to obtain the State Depart,
| ment's view OF a projected foreign
government loan. The Coolidge bar
on further advances to Americas S de-
| linauent debtors had just been pro-
mulgated. In the past, when would
! he overseas borrowers came dollar
! hunting and were inhospitaby re
| ceived. 1t has been the custom for
Wall Street to offer some diplomatic
alibi. The international banker in
question asked the Secretary of State
/ il there were any objection to in
! forming of the real reason
| why she couldn't get a loan in Amer
| lea. Certainly not" said Kellogg.
| Tell her she can get A new loan
when she pays her present obliga-
| tions."
! William Knowles Cooper. general
| secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A. for the
| Distict of Columbia and all points
! near. recently visited Oxford Uni
versity and was invited to attend a
meeting of the American Club there.
| This consists Of the 96 Rhodes schol-
ars at Oxford. When Cooper arrived,
| he found that the program of the
evening was a speech by and recep-
| ton in honor of Emma Goldman.
The Washington boss of the "Y." in
| whom the professional pulpit will
gain an eloquent recruit whenever
Cooper cares to desert administrative
| for evangelical work found an OK
| ford college that still lives in the
| days of 1776. It's presided over by a
dean who is a bitter-ender on the
| subject of the American Revolution.
He has decreed that as long as he is
alive no American REBEL Rhodes
| scholar or otherwise, shall ever cross
! the threshold of his college.
! X r
! Congress will have new baby
! in December In the person of Rep
! resentative Samuel ]. Montgomery,
| Republican of Bartlesville. Okla.
| He will be barely 80 years old when
/ he takes the oath. In college days
Montgomery was demon center.
| guard and tackle on the husky foot
ball team OF the University of Okla
homa. During the World War he
! was a United States marine. listing
as a buck private. and bucking his