Milford chronicle., 1925-12-11

IN COluIIuIlSS anu IL lSqulA % u very
strong movement to reject their
plans when reported to the Senate
or the House.
Naturally, the tax bill is the ma
jor legislative measure. Every eff
fort will be made to expedite the
passage of fthe revenue bill in order
that it may apply on the 1925
taxes, the first payment of which
falls due on March Is. Nobody
doubts that the measure will be
subjected to considerable debate in
the House and then in the Senate.
According to the present plans
the World Court proposal will be
presented to the Senate on Decem-
Der 18th, but it is doubtful if a
vote will be taken until sometime
in January or February. The pro-
position is so involved and connect
ed up at times with the League of
Nations that it cannot be disposed
of without a tiresome discussion.
In the House attention will be
given to appropriation bills, al
though the tax measure has the
right of way. Congress will prob
ably adjourn December 18, or 10,
for the holidays so that there is
little time available for actual legis-
lative work.
The budget message of the Presi-
dent transmitting estimates of re-
ceipts and expenditures for the fis-iA
cal year ending June 80, 1927, has
provoked considerable discussion.
It is estimated that the surplus for
1926 will amount to $260,000,0OO.
Prior to the war if appropriations
were made exceeding one billion
dollars the tax payers would be
startled The 1927 budget calls for
expenditures exclusive of postOffice
department expenditures, amount
ing to approximately three and one
half billion dollars.
The President expects that in 1927
there will be a surplus of three
hundred and thirty million dollars
which will bring about a further
reduction in taxes. 1t is interesting
to note that the President does not
claim that the credit for the surplus
of receipts over expenditures is due
to his economy program. He admits
quite frankly that "this qualifying =:
difference between estimates and
actual results was due mainly to
unexpected increases in receipts"
1t is the chief executives conten-
ton, however, that reduction in
expenditures helped :
to swell the total. He is entitled 5
to his opinions, the minority says,
but no partisan credit is given or
asked. 1
With pressure from their local I
districts for Federal buildings, es-
pecially post office structures, :
of Congress find little con-
in the Presidents recon- 9
mendation for a building appropria- n
-ion. This omnibus bill providing =.
for approximately $1OO,O0O,O0O for 8
he erection of postoffices, etc., has s,
been stamped as a pork barrel"
Congress not to pass an act of that
Kind which might be described he N
3ays as a general parceling out of y
avors" The President will ap- ,
prove of a fair measure. s.
Another proposition that Congress
will probably handle as delicately
IS hot Goals is the apportionment "a
ill. This would provide for the re- u
istricting of Congressional divis- q
1ns. There are various factors 81
Jhich contribute to the delay in 81
arrying out this legislation. For
lstance, there are certain constitu- Af
onal questions involved but more EE
lfuential are the factors of jeal- u
usy between the rural and the city az
istricts as to representation in the az
ational Congress. 1t is said if the 81,
Dportionment were made solely on
le basis of population the large 8s
ties would control the congress. ~.
ointment is apparently against x:
creasing the number of legislators 81:
the membership of the House SVs
now regarded as too large and 20
lwieldly In the reapportionment W.
me states would lose and gains sAS
ould accru to the more popular *:
ates. q:
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth 81.
S provided Washington with its ~
oicest topic of conversation for A
years. It begun in the days "a
len she was the belle of the ~:
lite House and today it centers &:
1und here in her role as wife of 81:
, Speaker of the House of Rep ~
3
Tor years Mrs. Longworth has -
.ced the imprint of her unusual 20
'sonality On Washington life. She x:
gone her way sweetly independ- q:
. But now she has obligations so
the entire social world wonder ~
v she will meet them. Though At9
has always had it in her power "a
be a social dictator, Mrs. Long y:
rth has kept aloof from the or 4:
ary social world. Possessing 81: