Business Still
Light at Income
Tax Office Here
Nowhere Near Usual Number
of Protests This Year Against
Paying, Says Collector
Allen.
i_
D'ja ever stand In line waiting to
get up to the table In the poslofflce
where the men who make out Income
tax reports are waiting for those who
have made too much money? Well,
that's not necessary this year—yet.
Those who have marie enough mon
ey during the year to be required to
give a. little of It back to the govern
ment discover a. long table on the sec
ond floor covered with blanks to be
filled out.
Tine* or four men are seen talking
together in a companionable sort of/
way. At. the approach of a customer,
one of them takes him in hand and
between conversation about the
weather and crop condition?, the
blank is filled out before the man
realizes it.
“Married? Got any children?"
((notions Bring Smile.
These questions are sure to get a
smile or a look of Importance from
young fellows just through with their
first year of earning.
“It’s all very easy." declare the
trained accountants who aid the tax
payer. “And the majority of cus
tomers don't seem to worry very
much about paying. One fellow who
is paying alimony kicked because he
wasn't getting any return for his
money, but we told him that a wife
was just like a house and lot, it was
a permanent Improvement, and that
seemed to satisfy hint.
“There isn't anywhere near the
number of kicks about paying income
tax this year that there has been In
the past," said A. B. Allen, collector
of internal revenue. “In fact, some
of them feel that it’s no more than
light to give part of their money
hack to tho government. Why
shouldn’t they? Under our system of
government they have been able to
amass quite a tidy sum. They should
be willing to give back part of it to
perpetuate that system of govern
ment.
Form May Be Modified.
Tt Is estimated that more tnan :
4,000,000 persons, or 70 per cent of i
those who are required to file income j
tax returns for the year 1923, are |
persons whose net Income was de- j
rived chiefly from salaries and wages
and was $5,000 or less. Form 1040-A,
heretofore used for reporting net In
come of $5,000 and less, from what
ever source derived has been revised
and simplified in the Interests of this
large Class of taxpayers.
“Reduced to a single sheet, space
conditions necessitated the omission
of several questions relating to items
which are provided for on the larger
form, 1040. A taxpayer who uses
form 1040 A, and who desires to
claim credit for income tax paid at
the source, may modify the form ac
. cordlngly. While Intended primarily
j for taxpayers whore net income was
. not more than $5,000 and was de
rived from salaries and wage*, the
use of this form is not compulsory,
and the taxpayer may file form 1040
where his income is such that the
larger fonn is more applicable.
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Capital Sees Daugherty's Finish
Regardless of Outcome of Trial!
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Mark Sullivan Declares Even Victory for Attorney General
If ill Not Overcome Loch of Public Confidence—Senator
Walsh Held as Ideal Questioner for Committee.
By MARK SI LLIVAN.
■Washington, March 5.—Xn this
Daugherty investigation much is go
ing to depend on whether Senator
Brookhart of Iowa and Senator Wheel
er of Montana happen to have the
parlietilar kind of ability and tem
perament adapted to get the best
I results from a tribunal of this kind.
Senator Brookhart is chairman of
the committee and Senator Wheeler
is to fill the role of chief questioner.
It is no exaggeration to say that the
principal cause of the good results se
cured in the oil investigation has been
the unusual combination of qualities
possessed by Senator Walsh of Mon
tana, who has the position of chief
questioner for that committee. Walsh
has a mind, long 1 rained by legal con
tests with able adversaries, plus tem
peramental straits of dogged persist
ence accompanied by restraint of ex
pression and manner.
The Daugherty committee has given
Daugherty the right to be represented
by counsel, and has allowed Daugh
erty's lawyers to have the privilege
of "limited cross examination.’’ This
privilege is a departure from the prac
tlco of the oil committee. There is
no universal senate rule about al
lowing counsel to appear for per
sons accused or for witnesses. Some
times it is done and sometimes not. In
some past cases where senate commit
tees have givpn the privilege of coun
sel. it has turned out that these out
side lawyers engaged by the person
being investigated, or by some of the
interests involved, have beeji able to
shift the whole color of the proceed
ings, and make the issue seem very
different from what it started out to
be.
Wheeler Lacks Restraint.
If these lawyers are men experi
enced in court work, they can some
times do this by sheer ingenuity in the
art of cross-examination and ability
to take quick advantage of psycholog
ical situations as they arise. Sen
ator Brookhart when in action seems
a man of fairly placid temperament.
He is a lawyer, but his experience in
that profession has been far short of
that of Senator Walsh. Senator
Wheeler is also a lawyer with some
experience as a prosecuting officer,
having-served five terms as federal
district attorney in Montana. In some
of Ills recent somite speeches on
Daugherty. Senntor Wheeler hud a
lack ot restraint that did not help
the case. For example, he said that
Daugherty was a friend of Doherty,
Sinclair and McLean. If Senator
Wheeler had omitted the first two
thirds of that assertion, lie would have
been less subject to having his ac
curacy questioned, Tsnd If he had dwelt
at length on the Intimacy with Mc
Lean he would have had plenty of
material with which to support his
allegation.
Will Probe "Ohio Crowd."
A good deal of the Daugherty in
vestigation Is expected to deal with
the activities of what Washington
sometimes refers to as "The Ohio
crowd.” By this phrase is meant
a number of old friends and associ
ates of Daugherty and some old as
sociates of both Daugherty and Hard
ing. According to the charges just
beginning to be made, a number of
theso men came to Washington In
tho trail of the Harding administra
tion, or set themselves up elsewhere
and took cases pending before various
government departments. In these
cases, according to the charges, the
value of these men to their clients,
and their capacity to get big fees,
rested rather more on their presumed
Intimacy with Daugherty or Harding,
or both, than on their real ability
and experience. These stories will
now be subjected to the test of ex
amination under oath. If there is
even a fraction of truth in some of
them as told in the gossip of Wash
ington, the Itaugherty Investigation
should reveal some tilings not only
scandalous, but also contributing to
the gayety of nations by their dram
atic quality and occasionally their
amusing quality.
This particular field Is only a small
portion of the charges against Daugh
erty's competence to tie head of the
Department of Justice which the sen
ate committee will investigate. It is
anticipated that a part of Daugh
erty's defense will be In the form of
turning on some ot his critics and
"showing up" requests made to him
by senators and others for some
friends who wanted jobs; and some
other friends of senators or others
i whose pressing need was not a job.
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Trial Will Be Daugherty's End.
It is the Judgment of Washington
that however Daugherty may tie able
to say “You're another," and even
prove it, nevertheless the net result
of the investigation will not reverse
the lack of public confidence wdiich
rests on the judgment that Daugh
erty Is decidedly not the best possi
ble man for attorney general.
It Is also the judgment of Washing
ton that the Daugherty Investigation
will lie long drawn out, and that
every additional day of the length of
it will be unfortunate for Coolidge. It
is assumed that since Coolidge seemed
unwilling to go the whole length of
actually forcing Daugherty out be
fore the Investigation began, he will
hardly do so now until it ends. In
some quarters, at least, it is felt that
every additional day of a prolonged
Investigation, with Daugherty still in
office, will tend to give rise to a feel
ing that Coolidge did not share the
public emotion of emergency and
urgency about having the beat possi
ble man in the attorney general's of
fice in a lime of crisis when so much
depended on the able and energetic
carrying out of the functions of that
office.
Rum Fleet Is Loaded
With $8,000,000 Cargo
New York, March 5.—The Istar,
leader of the rum fleet, has anchored
12 miles off the New Jersey coast.
A total of $8,000,000 worth of liquor
is In the cargoes of the rum fleet, it
is estimated. This is expected to l>e
sold with the opening of the spring
trade.
The return of the Istar brings the
fleet up to the numerical strength of
the recent Christmas holiday season.
Recently only six to eleven ships have
swung at anchor along the new 12
mile limit, the others having been
driven to sea to ride out the winter
gales or to foreign ports to obtain
fresh cargoes.
Coolidges Name
Used, Savs Heflin
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Alabama Senator Claims Me-1
Lean Telegram Discussed
President’s Attitude.
itontinuril from ruse One.)
oil committee, and more than 00 were
selected for reading into the public
record, probably tomorrow, as being
relevant to the Inquiry.
After the committee had adjourned
until tomorrow, Senator Walsh, demo
crat. Montana, chief prosecutor in
the inquiry, made a formal statement
indicating opposition to the confirma
tion of Samuel Knight of San Fran
cisco to be special government coun
sel in the court action for the re
covery of California oil lands operated
by tho Standard OH company of Cali
fornia and others.
Senator Walsh said he had been
"reliably Informed" that Knight was
attorney In California for tho Equit
able Trust company of New York, “a
Rockefeller bank," and that should
this prove to he the erase this would
lie basis for a fight against senate
approval of the president's appointee.
Means Subpoenaed. »
Special government counsel in the
oil lease annulment suits were unable
to complete the necessary papers today
for Institution of Initial civil litiga
tion in those cases, but it was Indi
cated that action would not bo long
delayed.
During the day a move was made
in the oil committee to endeavor to
get at tho facts as to reports that
Gaston B. Means, as a secret agent
of the Department of Justice, had In
terested himself In the oil matter or
had obtained information regarding
It.
A eubpoena was issued for Means
by Acting Chairman Ijadd at the re
quest of Senator Dill, democrat,
Washington. Means, who no longer
Is connected with the Justice depait
ment. Is under Indictment in New
York on a charge of conspiracy to
violate the Voletead act.
The telegrams delivered to the
committee today from Palm lteach
still leaves Incomplete the tele
graphic records which it seeks. Mes
sages from th« New Orleans and
Three Rivers, N. JM , offices still are
to he examined as are telegrams
from the Washington offices of the
two telegraph companies.
Some disagreiment arose In the
committee today over the admission
of certain of the Palm Beach mes
sages, but It was not Indicated Just
what their subject matter was. Some
senators took the position that they
were not relevant to the Inquiry, but
others insisted that they were and
finally carried their point.
More Code Wires Found.
Several more code telegrams were
found and apparently were in the old
cipher of the Department of Justice
which was used in the famous
"Mary" and other telegrams cx
ehanged between McLean's employes.
These will be decoded by cipher ex
perts of the army signal corps.
There was nothing in the mes
sages to cleur up the Identity of tlie
fruits—"peaches," apples," "apri
cots" and "cherries '—to which there
were references in telegrams at
ready made public. Committeemen
said McLean's employes would be
asked as to this.
There was little communication be
tween the Florida resort and New
Orleans after Albert B. Fall, former
interior secretary, moved on to the
latter place where E. L. Doheny In
formed him of his purpose to disclose
to the oil committee that Doheny
had loaned him $100,000, senators
said.
Menip Referred To.
Many of the telegrams were dupli
cates to those already furnished the
committee from Washington, but
some filled lti missing links. There
was found the telegram from which
McLean was to eliminate the odd
words so as to determine its mean
ing.
This message, sent to the publisher
by J. F. Fitzgerald, an employe.
railed attention that there were two
stories une that McLean was too
ill to come to Washington to testify,
and the other that he was playing
golf in Florida. Senators and there
was inquiry as to how these might
lie reconciled.
There was further mention In other
messages about the trip to Florida of
j C. Bascom Slemp, secretary to the
president, and some references to
William J. Burns, chief of the bureau
of investigation in the Justice depart
ment, who has testified he wanted
the publisher to resign ns a ft a year
secret agent of the bureau so as to
avoid possible embarrassment to At
torney General Daugherty,
Andrew Sawyer, Former
Lincoln Mayor, Dies
Lincoln, March 5.—Andrew J. Saw
yer, pioneer lawyer of XAncoln, a for
mer mayor of this city and a former
stale senator from Lancaster county,
died shortly after midnight Wednes
day morning. He was 79.
Mr. Sawyer had been in falling
health for months and his life for sev
eral days had been despaired of. He
was federal district attorney for Ne
braska during the administration of
President Cleveland and participated
in some of the Important legal battles
in the courts of the state.e
Son of Albion Milk Man Is
Killed in Fall From agon
Albion, Neb., March 6.—While de
livering milk In Albion, Joe Schlenkie
left his 6 year old boy in the wagon
while he went into a customer's
house. The team, being accustomed
to the route, started on to the next
stopping place, before he came out.
The little boy fell under the wheels
and tlie wagon passed over his body.
He died 24 hours later.
Dental Credit System.
Columbus, Neb , March 5.—Platte
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system in order to prevent persons
from going from dentist to dentist
without p.'iTin*? their bii>*. Th« Platt#
County Dentist society, however. wU»
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