Evening star., 1937-01-06
MAPESB|LL SEEKS
T0END6|[4ORAT|0
ON D. c. EXPENSES
Measure Is Resubmitted as
Committee Prepares to
Submit Report.
FOUR-CENT GAS TAX,
INCOME LEVY PROPOSED
Other Bills Seeks Weight and
Inheritance Taxes for
Is District.

As President Roosevelt's Special
Committee on Fiscal Relations COM
pleted its study Of the troublesome
question, Representative Mapes. Re-
publican, of Michigan today reintro-
duced q bill designed to repeal pro-
vision in substantive law requiring the
Federal Government to pay 40 per
cent Of the expenses of the District.
The report of the Special Fiscal
Relations Committee, which WASH
tngton hopes will recommend an
equitable Federal payment and end
the controversy over this question. Is
expected to be transmitted to Con-
gress in q few days.
The bill to repeal the fixed 60-4o
ratio, which Congress has ignored for
many years by appropriating an ever
decreasing lump sum as the Federal
payment, was one of five Mapes-
sponsored bills in both the Seventy
third and Seventy.fourth Congress.
He also has reintroduced the other
four bills.
Gas Tax Boost Asked.
One Of the four would increase the
tax on gasoline from two to four cents
Q gallon. Another would substitute
an income tax for the present levy on
lntangibles.
The third would impose a weight
tax on motor vehicles and the fourth
would establish an inheritance .tax
In the District.
Mapes, who headed a special House
committee which Investigated the fiscal
relations subject some years ago, be-
lieves his five bills will have bett0
chance than ever to be enacted at
the present session. In this conpec-
tion he pointed to the prospective set
tlement of the long battle over the
amount Of the Federal obligation, cou-
Piled with the serious financial situation
facing the District in the coming fiscal
year.
A number Of other District bills also
we're introduced today.
Representative Keller. Democrat. Of
Illinois sponsored one similar to that
introduced yesterday by Representa-
tive Kennedy. Democrat, Of Maryland
providing for outright repeal Of the
red rider" to the 1886 District appro-
priation act. Keller, who is seeking
appointment on the District Commit
tee, last session took an active part in
the light on the rider. which bans
teaching Of the facts Of communism In
the schools here.
Compulsory Vaccination Hit.
Another bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Lemke, Republican, of North
Dakota would prohibit the making Of
any form of vaccination or incubation
q condition for admission to any pub
lice or private school or college in the
District.
Lemke also sponsored q bill which
would give judgment debtors, mort
eagers and subsequent lien holders the
right Of redemption from the sale of
real estate in the District by judg-
ment creditor or . mortgage after a
foreclosure sale. In addition, the
measure fixes the amount OF the COM
mission allowed to mortgage companies
for management Of incumbered real
estate.
Representative Chapman, Democrat,
Of Kentucky introduced q joint reso-
luton authorizing the Secretary Of
War to inscribe on the wall Of the
Memorial Amphitheater Building in
Arlington Cemetery eight stanzas Of
Theodore OHara's poem, "Bivouac
Of the Dead" The resolution au-
thorizes an appropriation Of $3.50 for
tho work.