Evening star., 1926-06-13

Department countered with the as
sertion that it was entirely voluntary
with the States as to whether they
wished to take advantage Of it. The
order was designed for use in Cali
fornia, which had requested permis-
sion to use it's State officers to assist
Federal officials in enforcing prohi-
bition. California declined to take ad-
vantage of it. however, because Of
the wide criticism, and the order is
apparently useless.
A bill providing appointment of ad-
ditional Federal judges in nine States
was passed by the House last week
and sent to the Senate. Chairman
Graham, OF the judiciary committee,
explained that prohibition was the
chief cause OF the Legislation, the
dockets Of the courts being so
swamped that 1t was impossible to
conduct court business in certain sec
tions.
The Senate District committee,
which last Winter sought to learn
from coal dealers in Washington what
their profits were, and was refused
information from many of them, has
asked the Department of Justice to
inform it how to go about obtaining
this information. Some of the coal
dealers have questioned the right OF
the Senate to examine their books.
Economic.
For the first time since The war
the Government will be able to meet
it's obligations which fall due June
10, the end of the quarter year, with
out having to borrow more money.
the Treasury Department announced
last week. Securities reaching in
value a total Of $3.50, 100000 fall due
June Is, 1t was announced. but there
is enough money on hand to pay
them, with a balance sufficient TO
finance the Government through the
Summer until September The public
debt Is thereby reduced more than
$500 600, 900. due to increased receipts
from taxes and other sources over the
Treasury expectations.
A plan was proposed by the Ameri-
can Statistical Association last week
to forestall periods Of extensive un-
employment by the collection of all
statistics relating to employment from
State and Federal bureaus every
month, thus enabling employers to
watch the rise and fall of employ
ment, and thereby 70 forecast wide
spread unemployment months in ad.
vance and to initiate movements off
setting its effects.
The Government has begun in
earnest on its big building program, to
be completed in five years and which
will provide needed Government struc-
lures to house Government activities
in all parts Of the country. Fifty
million dollars will be spent in the
National Capital, and plans are al
ready made for the buildings to be
erected here. The money has not
been appropriated. however. and the
actual work on the buildings cannot
start until the House appropriates the
funds, which it will do in passing the
last deficiency measure. Buildings to
be started in Washington this year
include an Archives Building, In
which will be housed valuable records
Of the Government; a Department of
Commerce Building, the present struc-
ture housing this department being
rented: new home for the Internal
Revenue Bureau: enlargement of the
present Liberty Loan Building and
completion of the Department Of Ag-
riculture by joining the two wings of
the main building. now standing.
II USELESS at tIllS time, dCCOTuiItS
to Senator Smoot. chairman of the
Senate finance committee, to attempt
to predict further tax reductions
Nothing definite along such lines can
be known until the operation of the
1926 revenue act has been studied.
The Senator's statement was made in
reply to questions asked him on the
floor of the Senate concerning recent
predictions by some newspaper writ
ers to the effect that another tax re-
duction would come about next year.
Politics.
One of the most interesting of the
primary campaigns came to a close in
Iowa last week when former Senator
Smith w. Brookhart was nominated
by the Republicans of that State for
the United States Senate. defeating
the present incumbent, Senator AL
bert b. Cummins. The victory of
Senator Brookhart, an out-and out in
surgent, is variously interpreted as a
slap at the administration and as a
natural expression of dissatisfaction
over the inability Of the administra-
ton to enact farm relief legislation,
for which the farmers of Iowa have
been pleading. One political writer
expressed the situation picturesquely
by declaring that the farmers and
many of the business men OF Iowa
who have been hard hit by the agrl'
cultural depression determined to
throw a brick through the window at
Washington and picked Col. Brook
hart as the brick"
United States Senator James w:
Wadsworth of New York has burned
his bridges behind him and is enter
ing the race in New York for renom
ination carrying a wet" banner and
Haunting it in the breeze. Threat
ened with opposition from the drys in
up.S State New York, the Senator was
asked last week to state his position
on the liquor question. He did so by
demanding repeal Of the eighteenth
amendment and substituting the sale
of liouor bv the Government in States
which desire it. He declared that pro
hibition has "deluged the country with
hypocrisy and corruption" and that
.'total abstinence through legal com.
pulsion is impossible Of attainment
Former Senator Atlee Pomerene OF
Ohio has decided to enter the race IN
Ohio to secure the Democratlc nom
ination for the United States Senate,
and should he succeed he will prob
ablv compete at the polls next Fall
AGAINST Senator Willis, Republican of
that state. This contest Is expected
to bring another wet and dry
fight to the polls, as Senator Willm is
a dry and Senator Pomerene, II ne is
not classed as wet, is known for
his "liberal" views on the subject.
SENATOR Pomerene voted against the
eirhteenth amendment to the Consti-
tuition.
Senator Lee Overman of North
Carolina. who has represented his
state in the Senate for the last %
years, again has won the nomination
IN his State over an opponent. Nom.
ination in North Carolina is usually
conceded as election.