Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-10
TAX BILL TO DRIVE
COURT ISSUE FROM
SENATE CALENDAR
Vote on Latter Before Feb
ruary Now Regarded as
Nearly Impossible.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

All chance of vote on the World
Court protocol prior to the considera-
ton of and passage by the Senate of
the taX-reducrion bill-if there was
ever such a chance-seemedl last night
TO have gone a a-glimmering.
Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman
of the Senate finance committee, hopes
to have the tax bill ready for report to
the Senate by Thursday and to have
it taken up for debate by Monday of
next week Failing this, he expects
that the bill certainly will be ready
by Monday, January IS, and that 1t
may be up for consideration a day or
two later.
There is no disposition on the part
of the pro-court Senators to hold up
the consideration of the tax-reduction
bill until a vote can be had on the
court, Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin.
in charge of the protocol, said.
However, Senator Lenroot expects
prompt action on the tax bill in the
Senate. and its passage in that body
certainly by the middle of February.
Then he will press again for action on
the World Court.
The debate on the World Court was
delayed three days last week by the
Nye, appointed Senator from North
Dakota, whose right to be seated has
been challenged. The Nye case will
occupy part if not all of the session
of the Senate tomorrow, and on Tues
day there is agreement to consider
further the nomination of Judge Wal
lace McCamant of Oregon, under at
tack by Senator Hiram Johnson.
Under such circumstances, 1t appears
that the opponents of the World Court
will have no difficulty in shutting of
debate on the court until the tax bill
is taken up.
The proponents of the court, how
ever, are not discouraged by this pros
pect. They insist that they have the
votes for ratification and that a vote
will certainly be reached at a COM
paratively early date.
KIan Against Entry.
While it has now developed that the
ku klux Klan actively is opposing ad
herence to the World Court, opposition
from an entirely different source also
appeared yesterday. Some of the
Senators received copies of the Hiber-
nian, attacking the proposal that the
United States adhere to the court.
Speeches for and against the court
were made late yesterday afternoon
in the Senate by Senator Walsh OF
Montana and by Senator Williams OF
Missouri, Republican. Senator Will
liams, while declaring his desire for
light" in regard to several matters
relating to the court, clearly showed
his opposition to American adherence
in a series Of questions which he pro-
pounded to the Senate. 1t has been
expected for sometime, however, by
supporters of the court that Senator
Williams would be found voting
against the protocol when the show
down comes.
Yesterday Judge Daniel F. Cohalan
Of New York. who had charge of the
campaign of former Mayor Hylan for
denomination last Fall, conferred with
a number of Senators, voicing his
opposition to the entry Of the United
States into the court, and seeking
means of building up the opposition.
Walsh Answers Critics.
Senator Walsh's address to the
Senate was Ais third in support OF
the court He answered many of
the objections which have been made
by opponents of the court to the
entry OF the United States in the tri-
bunal. He pointed out that the
United States Government has several
times joined with the League of
Nations to launch needed reforms,
and that the President has just &C
cepted an invitation from the league
to send American delegates to pre-
liminary conference on limitation of
armaments. He criticised the position
of those who held that this country
should have nothing to do with the
World Court because it's establish
ment was provided for in the covenant
of the league.
Our Government" said Senator
Walsh, has just accepted the invita-
ton of the league to participate in
the preliminaries looking to world
conference on the reduction of arma-
ments. How could it do otherwise?
1t could not brave outraged public
opinion at home or abroad by refus-
ing to attend A delegation, headed
by a distinguished eX-member of this
body, now serving in the House, by
regular appointment represented the
United States, upon invitation of the
league. in a conference assembled at
it's call last Summer, at which was
drafted convention for the super
vision of international trade in arms
and ammunition and in implements
of war.
"Our country was officially repre-
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