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SENATE APPROVAL
FOR DISARMAMENT
Unanimous Decision on Borah Pro
posal for International Con- j
ference?Amendment Add
ed! to Naval Fund Bill
;
Wjashjngton, May 26.?Unairi- '
?nous senate approval was given to
day to Senator Borah's proposal for
an international disarmament con
ference.
By a vote of 74 to 0 the Idaho sen
ator's amendment was added to the
naval appropriation bill authorizing
and requesting the president to in
vite the governments of Great Bri
tain ami japan to sena represtmui
tives to a conference with represen
tatives of the United States in an
effort to reach some agreement on
diWOTMWtent.
TJie vote was in eonfirmity with
the - understanding reached last
week by administration forces to
give their support to Senator Borah
plan. Besides thte 46 Republicans
and 28 Democras voting for the
amendment, announcements were
made on behalf of many absentees
that they too favored the disatma
f; *nent plan. >
Text of Amendment
The text of the amendment fol
lows:
* "That the president is authorized
and requested to invite the govern
ments of Great Britain and Japan to
send representatives to a conference
wbich shall be charged with the duty
of promptly entering into an under
standing or agreement by which the
naval expenditures and building pro
owun of of said Government to
wit the United Stages, Great Britain
and Japan shall bt substantially re
duced annually during the next five
years to such an extent and upon
; such terms as may be agreed upon
which understanding or agreement
is to be reported to the respective
governments for approval."
Upon passage of the bill the
amendment will go to conference
with the house, but its advocates be
lieve it'will be endorsed and then
approved by President Harding.
..
With the Borah amendment in
corporated, an effort was made to
reach a vote on passage of the bill
late today, but this was frustrated
by debate arising on minor amend
ments. Senators La Follette, Repub
liron, Wisconsin and King, Demo
crat, Utah, also had several amend
l ments pending. The latter promised
^ to introduce several to abolish what
.b? termed "useless" navy yards and
freight "depots. Senator La Follette
made another lengthy address today
in opposition to capital ship con
struction and considerable more de- j
resign last year was the abject of an
amendment introduced by Senator:
McKeller, Democrat, Tennessee. It,
went over for further consideration. J
Senator McKeller and other con- ^
tended that the midshipmen had not
been faUy dealt with in reexamina-;
tions. His amendment proposed that]
that they be renominated and placed'
in grade a year behind their class.
Further negotiations were held to
day between senators on amend-j
ments recently debated to establish!
a new naval supply base at Alameda '
Cal., and for continuing work on J
the Charleston, S. C., projects. Lit- (
tie headway toward an agreement
on the Alameda project was report
ed, but advocates of the Charleston j
work claimed to have assurances
that /before a vote the Charlestor
items probably would be reinstated.
NATIONS URGED
TO FORGET WAR
Church Assembly Favors Disarma
ment Conference?Message
To Harding
Wirvona Lake Ind. May 26.?Call
ing of a conference of the nations
to bring about progressive disarma
ment, was urged upon President
Harding today by the 133rd gener
al assembly of the Presbyterian
cburch in the United States. The as
sembly adopted a resolution appeal
ing for the conference which was
presented by William Jennings
Bryan, who is a commissioner to the
assembly from the presbytery of
Florida.
The resolution was adopted with
out debate after Mr. Bryan explain
ed that it represented no radical
steps in the matter of disarmament.
He ports of numerous standing
committees of the church were rep
resented today. The report of the
permanent judicial committee also
came before the assemby during the
day and the commission's ruling af
firming the process by which the
Rev. John McElmoyle was relieved
from his pastorate of a church at
Elkton, Md., was approved.
The Rev. Mir. MeElmoyle's case
has been before various bodies of
the Presbyterian church for several
ye^rs. He was removed as pastor of
a church at Elkton by the presby
tery of Newcastle wfclch investiga
ted charges that he had performed
numerous marriages of eloping cou
ples who came fom the neighboring
states of Pennsylvania and DeSa
ware. An appeal was taken from the
action of the preabyteiry to the
synods of Baltimore, which re
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bate was in prospect when adjourn
ment was taken tonight. With to
morrow set aside by special order
for consideration of the contested
nomination of David H. Blair to be
internal revenue commissioner, iui
mediate passage of the bill was a
hazy prospect.
Administration leaders expressed
hopes that it would be adopted late
tomorrow or Friday but there was a
possibility of delay until next week.
Among minor amendments adopt
ed today was the committee pro
vision for creation in the navy de
partment of ' a special bureau of
aeronautics with a head selected by
' the president.
Another amendment by Senator]
Smoot, Republican, Utah, adopted
would authorize the department to j
continue publication of the "Ship- j
ping Bulletin" for the benefit of
marine and other' interest. The
amendment provides that it be sup
plied to subscribers at actual cost
Miout $1 a day;
Reinstatement in the Naval acad
emy z.i Annapylli cf 110 milshipmen j
who "flunked" and were forced to
verst;u vne prc&uywexrjr
peal was then taken and the judicial
commission afBrmed the action of
the Newcastle presbytery in dissolv
ing the pastoral", relation between
McElmoyle and the church.
. / .* '
The permanent committee .on va
cancy and supply reported that the
demand for ministers during the
last year had been suqh that practi
cally all men able and available for
pastoral service had found suitable
fields. Among resolutions offered by
the committee and adopted by the
assembly was one declaring that for
full time service of a pastor the an
nual support should be not less than
$1,800 and manse for a % married
man and $1,500 for a single man.
An ' overture recommending that
commissioners to the general assem
bly be elected for a term of two
years was referred for a pesbyterial
vote which will be taken before the
next meeting of the assembly.
Among the committee reports
presented today were those on heme
missions and theological seminaries.
The latter diclosed that at present
relatively few students are attend
ing the seminaries. At one insrtitu
tion it was said there were only
three students to every teacher. The
assembly voted to authorize the
moderator to appoint a committee
of five members to consider the sit
uation in the seminaries.
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INCOME TAX IS HERE
TO STAY IN OPINION
OF BOIES PENROSE
Washington, May 26.?Belief that
advocates of a general sales, tax plan
ultimately to make the consumption
tax pay the way of the government
was expressed today before the Sen
ate finance committee by F. B. Fair
child, professor of political economy
at Yale Univerity He declared the
issue raised was whether the sales
tax could supplant the income tax as
the chief burden bearer.
Chairman Penrose declared that,
so far as he knew, the income tax
had come to stay. Senator LetfoUette
Republican, Wisconsin, took issue
with him, however, saying that he
felt that "we have reached the be
ginning of the end of the income
tax when a sales tax becomes a part
<vf +Ko tcvotiiio awtflm."
Mr. Fairchild proposed, as & part
of the tax polcy, adoption of a con
stat anal amencbnent permitting
states to tax federal bonds and the
federal government to levy on the
state securities. It -was said that such
a plan would serve the dual purpose
of raising additional revenue and of
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EUROPEON CONDITIONS .
DESCRIBED IN REPORT ,
TO PRESBYTERIANS
St. Louis, May 24.?American as- I
si<fto.TLce as needed to preserve Pro
testantism on the continent of Eu
rope.
"Unless there is help from Amer
ica, tfce churches cannot go on," the
report -continued. "With, adequate
help there is an opportunity not only
to continue, frit to attain a place of
pywer and use-fulness in advance of
pre-war conditions."
A plea for liaising a fund of $65,
000 for French and Belgian relief
was made in the report. A total of
$ L0,OOO has txien sent to Prance for
erecting a church at Coxnpietrne in
memory w> iresoyterians kvlled in
the war, and ^15,000 was a&H^d fpr
the edifice. t
?-Watch the hibel on your paper and
renew your subscription promptly.
checking the flotation of state se- 1
entities.
. Mr. Fairchftl said the action could
not be construe as an attack on the
sovereignty of the states.
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