Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1921, Page 2

‘ . - _‘ the stockholéege. GOV, SPROULLIKELY T0 SUGCEED DK BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Gov. Sproul of Pennsylvania is ex- pected here to succeed the late Phil- ander C. Knox as junior senator from Pennsylvania. Except for the tmiely intervention of President Harding, the Pennsylvania governor would have been a candidate in the prima- rles next spring, opposing Mr. Knox for renomination. Only the influence of the President of the United Statex smoothed out a situation in Pennsy vania which for a time threatencd party solidarity. With the death of Mr. Knox the story can be told, for it bears directly upon the choice of his successor. Mr. Knox was happy in the Senate. He wanted 0 be re-elected. He had been Attorney General under Presi- dent Rooseveit and resigned to enter the Senate, only to resign again and become Secretary of State under Pres ident_Taft. But he finally found in the Senate an opportunity to display nis_legal talents to best advantage and fairly reveled in the task of picking holes In the Versallles treaty and league covenant. He was a dominant influence in the “battalion of death” which deter- mined that the United States should never enter the leaguc of nations. Sproul's Rise in Power. Harding would have liked to make M.. Knox Secretary of State but realized that he must choose man who had not been so consplcu- identitied with the _factional tights in the Senate. Mr. Knox was in ill health, yet he was considerably annoyed by reports that his advanced ge was Interfering with his possible lection as Secretary of State. After Mr. Hughes was appointed, the Penn- vivania senator, who had not been devoting himself very much to the ixing of political fences in his home state, came to realize that his seat endangered by the rising in- fluence of Gov. Sproul in republican councils. The governor had been urged to run for the senatorship. Mr. Knox told President Harding the situation. The President invited Gov. Sproul to the -White House. He did mot specify in advance what the subject of the conference would be. As Gov. Sproul enetred the executive offices of the White House | the President stepped forward and greeted him cordial “I want to discuss some matters with you." the President is quoted as saying, “and there's a man here 1 would like to have with us.” At this moment Senator Knox stepped into the room. He had been waiting for the governor's arrival Whatever surprise the sudden ap- pearance of Mr. Knox had for Go Sproul is said to have been immedi ately dispelled as the President put his arm about the senator's shoulders and, according to the story. sal want you to know, Gov. Sproul what strong support I have had from Senator Knox in the Senate. I have come to be largely dependent upon him and upon his sound advice. I would esteem it a great loss not only to myself but to the country if anything should interfere with his renomination and re-election next vea Grants President's Request. Tt is =aid that Gov. Sproul smiled most affably and assured the Presi- dent that he knew of nothing politicay that would prevent the renomination of Mr. Knox. He told the President that Senator Knox would have his full support. Not long afterward the President went to Valley Forge, the home of Senator Knox, and spent a week end. Gov. Sproul, Senator Pen- rose and others prominent in Penn- sylvaniaan affairs came to call on Mr. Harding. Shortly afterward Mr. Knox told his friends here that the situa- tion had been straightened out and that he was assured of renomination. So he went to Europe for a couple of months and had just returned to Washington this week. The signifi- vance of the foregoing story is this: Having persuaded Gov. Sproul to step avide for Senator Knox, the administra- ; tion cannot but put the full weight of its influence behind Mr. Sproul now. The Pennsylvania governor, —moreover, has the power to have himself ap- pointed for the remaining months of Mr. Knox's term. Once in the Senate e would be entitled to administra- tion support for re-election. He is bound to become an important influ- ence in the Senate. He was talked of as a presidential candidate a year | ago and received Pennsylvania's bal- lot repeatedly at the Chicago conven- tion which nominated Mr. Harding. Washington looks upon him as one of the progressive group who is like- ly to take up the mantle of leader- ship in Pennsylvania when Senator Penrose is compelled by ill health to relinquish it. (Oopyright, 1921.) ICE COMPANY MANAGER DENIES OPPOSING SCHOOL Expresses Desire to Know Source of Information in Relation to Tuberculosis Project. Samuel A. Kimberly, local manager of the American Ice Company, in a Statement made today flatly denied that his company ever, in any way, has objected to the new tuberculosis school, which it is proposed to erect r(.uom g his company's plant. Mr. “We have never been approached by any one on this subject. “As a matter of fact. we rbsolutely do not object to the erection of this tuberculosis school. to read Mrs. Chipman's statement to the House District committee yester- day, charging that the American Ice Company was opposed to the new achool, and was instrumental in hold- g up progress on this bullding. T absolutely know that no such action has been taken by any one connected with my company. “The new school would in no way interfere with our business. I would like to know the source of Mrs. Chip- man’s information, and if some one not connected with the company has been using the American Ice Com- pany's name in opposing this project. T would like to know who it is. The statement is absolutely false and there is nothing to it.” ——e ARMS PARLEY PRAISED. Sons of Veterans Indorse Coming Conference Here. At a meeting of Lincoln Camp, No. 2, Maryland Division, Sons of Veterans, U. S. A, in Pythlan Temple Monday night a resolution indorsing the coming sessions on the limitation of arms conference and pledging the support of the camp was unanl mously passed. One new member was admitted to the camp. The committee on entertainment and membership, which was recently onlarged from five to Seven members, ras several plans under consideration, ‘which, it was announced, it is hoped will maks the coming winter meetings of the camp interestin The committee hopes to have a class initiation some time during the winter, and is bend- ing every effort toward Increasing the membership of the camp. HOTEL SCHOOL DISSOLVED. The Lewis Hotel Training School, Inc., of the District of Columbia, was dissolved today by decree of Justice Hoehling of the District Supreme Court. The action of the court wa: taken on the application of the form- er stockholders, who explained to the court that they have formed a new corporation under the laws of Del- awara having the same name. The school is still bein con:uctea by lvh; Delaware corporation. Attorneys W. B. Guy and F. B. Warder represented [,) famous | ;PLAN LAST RITES FOR SENATOR KNOX (Continued from First Page.) a committes to attend the funeral of Senator Knox: Penrose of Pennsylvania, Lodge of Massachusetts, McCumber of North Dakota, Borah of Tdaho, Brande. gee of Connecticut, Johnson of Cali- fornia, New of Indiana, Moses of New | Hampshire, Kellogg of Minnezota, Me- Cormick of lllinois, Underwood of Ala- ibama, Hitchcock of Nebraska, Williams tof Mississippi, Swanson of Virginia, Pomerene of Ohio, Pitman of Nevada and Shields of Tennessec There were no other speeches, but a date will be set later for Senate me- morial services. The resolutions adopt- ! notification of | fed today also called fe ‘the House of Senator Knox's death and his Senate seat will be draped in mourn= ing for thirty days. The House planned (o adjourn later in the day as a mark {of_respect. Vice President Coolidge issued a state- ment in_connection with the depth of Senator Knox. He said: “The wholé nation has suffered a < loss In the taking away of 1S < He was a man of the action of public affairs with most marked ability and unselfish patriot- ‘ism. It seems impossible to reconcile his ‘loss with these needs of the pres- ent time to which he was so remark- ably trained to respond. at lawyer, a great ster, a great senator. Every believer sound government under the con- stitution and in accordance with the law will mourn his departure. Lauded by President. President Harding today made the {following statement regarding the {death of Senator Knox: The shockingly sudden death of Senator Knox brings a very great {loss to the country. His was a dis- tinetly high place among the fore- most statesmen of America, and he as no lcss beloved as a companion than he respected in his signal public service.” {_ “The death iprives us of | America’s of Senator Knox de- the =ervice of one of A ablest _sia esme: said |Secretary of State Hughes. “He won high distinction at. the bar by his :minent legal ability, and for twenty years he has devoted his talents to the service of his country. He had a brilliant career as Attorney General and Secretary of State, and his work {in the Senate places. him in the front rank of the most filus rious memovers of that body. His death is a most serious loss o the country.” the following statement: “Attorney General Daugherty was notified of Senator Knox's death while he was en route west on gov- jernment business. He will return to Washington at once, arriving Friday morning. The Attorney General was |greatly distressed on hearing of Sen- jator Knox's death. They have been ntimate personal friends for twenty- five years. The Attorney General will arrive In time to go with the congres- sional delegation to Valley Forge Fri- day noon.™ The Department of Justice issued | |LIFE OF SENATOR MARKED -. “x. BY RAPD { Holds But One Public Office Before Ap-, pointed to McKinley's Cabinet—Becomes One of Nation's Leading Statesmen. Philander C. Knox was Attorney General in the cabinets of Presidents 1 McKinley and Roosevelt, Secretary of {State in the cabinet of President Taft, | {and tn the Interim between those two | iofices and afterward was United |States senator. | Senator Knox was an active figure {in the fight in the Senate in 1919 and 11920 against the ratification of the ipeace treaty of Versa'lles. Even when | ithe treaty was being drawn up he !delivered speeches in the Senate and lout of ¥, in which he demanded that {the league of nation's covenant should | be separated from the other part of Ithe treaty. He Introduced a resolu- | ition to that effect which was adopted {by the Senate, and also presented a, jresolution against the appointment of ! iAmerican representatives on the rep-' {arations commisson. He also draft- ied one of the various resolutions sub- |mitted to the Senate for adopting the treaty with reservations. | Subsequently, Senator Knox was !the author of a resolution adopted by, ithe Senate in May, 1920, declaring ! ipeace with Germany. This also was *\'eloed by President Wilson. Resolution Adopted. When the present administration lcame in Senator Knox promptly ,gfilerml ng:ln 'tm;x resolution for peace ween the United States and Ger- This photograph was taken Mon- meany and Austria and Hungary. This | day, October 10, on the retura of the resoiution was finally amended, large- senator from Europe. ily by Mr. Knox himself, and was put jthrough Congress and signed by {President Harding. The pending Ipeace treaties, negotiated by the ad- ministration, are largely based upon !the Knox peace resolution. H Senator Knox first came into na- tional prominence when in 1901 Presi- dent McKinley appointed him as At- . torney General. He retained that| eign affairs was broad and I know ' office under President Roosevelt un- ' the country will feel his death. { til 1904, when he resigned to accept | Under the laws of Pennsylvania, an appointment as United States sen- ! Gov. Sproul will appoint a successor : ator from Pennsylvania to succeed | !to fill Senator Knox's seat until the, the late Senator Qu { {next state election. No mention w As Attorney General he established | Mmade us to who might fill the place. | @ record for prosecutions of trusts {and combinations and in actions ! | TRIBUTES AT PITTSBURGH. Washington of United States Sena- tor Philander C. Knox. “Personally, I held the greatest af- ction for Senator Knox,” he said. considered him one of the greatest international figures of the day. His knowledge of domestic and for- ; against railroads to prevent rebates ! | and discrimination in rates. | Notable Achlevements. Notable among his achievements jwhile in this officc was his suit) { against the Northern Securities Com- | i pany, a corporation organized for the | purpose of combining the Northern | Pacific and Great Northern railroads. He brought the government action to dissolve the merger and after a long legal fight, beginning in 1902, he {News of Senator Knox’s Death Re- ceived With Profound Regret. PITTSBURGH, Pa.. October 13.— News of the death of Senafor Knox last night was received with ‘pro-| found regret in Pittsburgh. The an- nouncement of the death of one of : : Hague, that the Manchurian railway D. @, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1921 May Fill Senate Vacancy Caused b Death Knox; i s v |EVERY DAY IS TAG DAY FOR THE GRAND JURY, BUT NO PRETTY GIRLS, |Fisht Follows Alleged: Women by Colored New Orleans. “BLACK K@ kLux”, ‘i RISE TO FAME IN RIOT WITH Vvdl"ré‘ Every day is tag day in the grand jury room. No, they do not bave pretty girls holding up the grand jurors for charitable pur- poses, but each- member of that august and important body is wearing a tag nevertheless. The tag i _an identification one und bears the name of ils wearer in bold type. It i8 a scheme of Isuac Gans, foreman of the grand jury, by which he may easily recogniz his associates, and through whic the members do not have to bus den their minds with the names their fellow-jurors. The foreman appreciates the dif- ficulty which twenty-threc men, many meeting for the first time in their lives, have to remembe names, and by his scheme is lieved of the embarrassment of not being able to call the men: Y ber by name when he arises t were taken into propound inquiries to the fore- |that pre ian j ber of shots | stones are alleged | freel olice 1 tions that #ny o criously ourh | tody bore rourhly u Alleged ro whi By the Assorciated Prese, SW ORLEANS, La., | Four arrests followed a s §calls last . end to a clush between twemypAve white youths 1 equal number| of negroes, when pol diplomacy.” This term was intended (o be one of derfsion, but Mr. Knox has since declared that it is a nick- name of which he is very proud. It was his proposal that the arbitral court should be established at The who, accord authorities, huve the name of the and have an uptown everal davs and two 1 ing the ents mnde going ck Ku 4 une hborho Two white 1 charged with to the for be nationalized, and approved the plan for the Central American court of Justice for maintaining peace in Central America. Secretary Knox negotfated arbitr: tion treaties with France and Great Britain. In 1912 he went as represen- tative of the United States to at- tend the funeral of Emperor Mutsuhi- to. of Japan. A feature of his secre- taryship in the state portfolio was the famous dispute with Great Britain over the proposal to exempt American coastwide shipping from payment of tolls for the use of the Panama canal, the aftermath of which was recently enacted when Mr. Knox was again in_the United Staets Senate. He returned to the Senate by pop- ular election November 6, 1916, to succeed George T. Oliver. He con- t'nued to play there a prominent part in the affairs of the nation. As one of the outstanding leaders of the re- publican side, he took his full share of the work and respongibility that fell to the majority in the upper House during the critical period of the war and the equally trying period that has followed the cessation of hostilitles while the United States was trying to do its rightful part in the readjustment of international re- lations. His term of service would have expired March 3, 1923, Born May 6, 1833, Benator Knox was born at Browns- ville, Pa., May 6, 1853. He was the ZroeE, D! head of the propagating bureau, and Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler. and’ will issue an off when it comes into { the facts. Mr. Simn jthat when the charges were { made Clarke and Mrs. Tyler p | { their res.gnations, to be acted upon , after full opportunity has been given for a thorough sifting The revocation of charters at Pensa- !cola, Fla, and Mobile, Ala., was or- dered by the klan, Mr. Simmons testi- fied, after it had been found that SOMéE DErEONS PUIPOTTng 10 bo 10 mbes had violated its best traditions. At Pensacola three men ring robes | oo it i ordered a Greek to le TSI T beieeg sy Raiain gy 1 it never was established, he said, that | jhe S { they were Klansmen, and the charter Ladidlh was restored on urance by the Che e local officers that they wonld keep -Catholic Data Rejec up a relentless fight to find the of- fenders. g becn negroes are said GOV. DRAMATIC MOMENT AS SENATOR GRIPS KLAN CHIEF’S HAND (Continued from First Page.) e e | when the salary was fixed?” asked o & Representative Fess, republican, Ohio. | Declared “Silly Act. “KFourteen of the sixteen members, ;| The Mobile ircident, Mr. nmons I think he replled. = with Ea. | continued: was due “to the silly act eferring to, the contrac ~ia | of & member, who, “imagining he had ward Young Clarke, the wizard said | g J0C70 e WOt | REIAE e, o | e he had been emploved to head the| (hS POWEr b Sepoleon, | posted Kian | o {Pigpagating department. . e hag, that the oranization was preparing |tie eleventh of twelve children—five girls | proater power than the wizard. | to clean up {he town. The notice was and seven boys. He denled the often- |~ “Why, Clarke couldn't chase the im- | 3181cd e 8ald, “by a man who repeated story that his father wasiperial wisard around the imperial [PQ 8€nSel o wealthy, and claimed to be one of:palace like a dog chases a cat and Satt ;-,, = ,'1;:_;‘ Sras those many American youths who get away with it” he declared. ReD- | gimmons de bed fhat whien a mem- were born poor, but won their way to|resentative Rodenberg, still trying 1o | por 150k the luw into his own havds fame and fortune. “Up to the time of find if the Imperial wizard held a 1ife § pf J00 LRSI IU50 T30 OWE, BALCH the civil war my father never received ! job, was informed by the witness that | the ‘organization = > more than 3800 a year as cashier of ‘he would reach that question later. “And b have never vet failed the BrownsvilleBank,” Senstor Knox iy e e O s ald, “and after the war his salary was . 750 @ year 5 g thorities, it I had it, any evide never greater than $1.750 a year.” His| Producing the klan ritual, Stmmons | 00 G50 o0 000 conviction. father was an educated man and sent | read many paragraphs which showed, | €& ; P iep : all_his children to s-hool. T assertad. that ik Kiux Klan's [have been doing everything in that Senator Knox w's named after &|aim was pure Americanism. direction, and no man living can noted Episcopal bishon. Philander| Asked about the total kian member- that 1, pereonally or as head of ¢ Chase. e senator's education was!ship, Mr. Simmons declared it did noy | =D, ever acembied Lo s laid in the public =chools and he was c,c‘zed gu_sooo, criminal. A member’s oath require then sent to college, West Virginia | I might have said we had a millior. {Pim 10 uphold and respect the I University was first chosen. Knox !members, but it did not mean any-{Our ritual, about which so many later went to Mount Union College, |thing,” he added. While the klan |slanderous things have been said, is near Alliance, Ohio, from which he |stood for white supremacy, he denied |copyrighted and filed th was graduated in 18 when he was |that race hatred was part of its creed. |in the Library of Congre L iand vo nineteen years old. The klan, he declared, was no it would not have been put therc, un-, counterpart of the Ku Klux that was |der the eve of the government, if we | SPROUL OF PENNSYLVANIA negro,” Mr works of the kla untrue. Many a' been attributed to the i these were against Ror Jews and neEroes per se g s been n not the P n: man Catholies & I involy arc 1% belie! ne of i hef e de T democr World nd s and those would 7 now fo Scores “Judas.” ferri “at n the klan to conceal. There Referrin, . on the kla the city's most noted citizens brought | many expressions of Sorrow. i Justices of the supreme court of ! Pennsylvania were guests of honor at | today to offer condolence and to make | @ dinner at the Pittsburgh Club, inquiry regarding Mrs. Knox's con- | which was attended by Judge James dition, Chief Justice Taft also was|H. Reed, for twenty-four years alaw among those who called. partner of Scnator Knox, when the Official Washington mourned today | word was received. Gloom was cast the death of Senator Knox. From all { over the affair, as practically every, quarters, executive, legislative, judi- | man present had n associated with cial and diplomatic, came expressions | the senator or,Was ciosely acquainted | of regret at the passing of a notable | With him. = . figure in domestic and world affairs. United States Senator David I Walsh of Massachusetts, princip: Funeral Plans M speaker at the Columbus day ban-| Funeral arrangements, completed | quet of the Knights of Columbus, today, provide for services here and : made the announcement to a large; at the late semator's home at Valley : assemblage. ~He said of Senator, Forge, Pa. Services will be held here { Knox, in part: i at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning at St. | ‘Senator Knox was a national: John's Episcopal Church, with President | figure and was a great Secretary of Harding, cabinet members, senators|State. He was a senator that any; and representatives, members of the | state could be proud of. He was un- diplomatic_corps and others promi- | assuming and spoke seldom in the, nent in political, professional and so- | Senate, but when he did speak he ut-| cial life in attendance. | terea ' opinions of unquestionably Members of the Senate foreign re- | value. He was a man of remarkable lationy committee, on whicn Senator | £ood judgment. and whose American. Knox had a leading place, are to be | ism and patriotism always were un-| the honorary pallbearers. The active | sullied.” ! pallbearers, all personal friends of | Judge Reed, who had been closely ! the family, will be Maj. Charles Wil- | associated with Senator Knox for son, Ma; Reuben Clark, jr.; Wil-| more than a score of vears, said: i llam Watson Smith _of Pittsburgh,| “Words can scarcely express the! Frederick D. Faust, Walter E. Clark, | Ereat shock, the profound sorrow, the | _ President Harding, accompanied by Mrs. Harding and Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, his principal aide, called at the Knox home shortly before noon i won the case in the United States circuit_court. Mr. Knox also waged a notable fight against the combination of seven beef corporations, against whom he brought action in that year (1902), charging them with being in con- spiracy In restraint of trade. He obtained injunctions against the de- fendants, which were made perma- nent on appeal to the United States Supreme Court and the combination was ordered to be dissolved. Proceeds Against Railways. Soon after Mr. Knox instituted pro- ceedings against fourteen railroad corporations, charging them with be- ing in combination in restraint of trade, and finally won all the suits. His friends declare that he was a pioneer in the movement to control corporations. It was upon his recom- | mendation that Congress amended the laws against the railroads, so as to punish them for granting rebates, extend the authority of courts to en- join the carriers against making dis- criminatory rates and permit the fed- eral courts to give precedence to cases of great importance to the pub- lic. These actions made him a pow- erful factor in the war against unfair practices by corporations, which was | the outstanding feature of that period l:lf President Roosevelt’s administra- on. 1 Ambition SteliBe Lawyer organized in the south after the civil| He then took up the study of law in war. Pittsburgh and was admitted to the| “The Ku Klu g bar in 1875, From early youth his in- |fraternal order,” said the wizard. tention and aim was to be a lawyer. | “There is no invisible force tha: While attending college he got ahead | creeps around in the night seeking to of hlsfclunses and went into a printing | harm peopl office for a year. He read law in Pittsburgh with H. . Charges Denied. B. Swope, one of the most successful | Sweeping denial of charges that the and able men then at the bar in west. u Klux Klan contained within its) ern Pennsylvania. After he had grad. ;Tanks a lawless band of hooded hood | uated from college his father died, (¥ L - and 1t was necessary for him o go to vizard Simmons, Who read a prepa work, so young Knox took a job as|®‘Turning squarely upon members clerk in the Brownsville Bank. He{who had listened intently for nearly remained in the bank one year, re- two hours to a dramatic defense of celving 3700, of which he saved $600.|the organization, Mr. Simmons de- This paid his way into the profession'clared that. here in the in which within twenty-five vears he : presence of God." he wanted the world amassed a fortune. While studying to know that if one-thousandth par v ve o B es were true, he would L DR e e T "“’I%rz‘r‘-‘\:lfi?‘ifixl together the grand is a_ patriotic and n, council of the klan. for the purpose Firs of forever disbandin n every sec- K >: ate in the da 1 practice of law he was made assistant. ihe committee the klan welcomed the district attorney for the western dls nvestigation, but protested against | ing House | trict of Pennsylvania, and that is the: 8ttacks in same of the pending only public office he ever held befor -esolutions. 5 Lawlessness. he became a member of McKinley's No Room for Li cabinet. % “There is no room in our organiza- ' Mr. Knox, as lawyer, cabinet mem- tion for those W take the law into ber or senator, never made pretense he declared, bang- own hands thele “ive have been charg- had unything nothing in it but love of country pure Americanism.’ Held Protestant and Non-Political. The charve that the klan sousht to obtain officers of the law as mem- bers was characterized by the impe- rial wizard “as a tremendous indict- ment against the honor of Americun citizenship.” Denying that the klan incited to riot, he d had_representation. The Ku Klux Klan Protestant and non-politi zation,” he said. political power. rewards for capture of law breaker: posing as klanemen, and i how where it has pro aid for those needing vears I have been with the arder 1 have received only $12,000, and m. Atlanta homeo was the gift of mem bers, most of whom subscribed less than a dollar. If the Ku Klux were a lawless band there wou'd not be such a growth of membershin. ciuding _leading citizens y communitics, north. east and south.’ Denying that offici { the organi- zation received | or bonuses. are spending money of the klun in fur i ing and enlargement of I r Uni- ity, Atlanta, Ga. We have spent. is purely a 2l org: not se: It In the ial six Mr. Simmons the her build eclared no riot had Tums was made yesterday by Imperial [occurred in any city where the klan @ {him fror by Hearst Mr. Simimoy {turning tov Anderson Wris taformer klansmian, who wrot series of articles about the or fticn. said: “Ju fth i {found by fon W for money formation paid this a week storics, betrayed Chris silver, g0 there Heumst paper C. Ander @ former klansman. w ved his oath. My i is that the Hearst papers man $£5.000 cash and $160 he worked on the agreed 10 prote and other Wing from storics bei and any dan tich stories, 1 le libelous | fals, EFUNERAL‘OF H. B. WYNNE. |Services at St. Paul’s Catholic | Church, Burial at Arlington. for Henry T, erday at Gar- conducted &t tomorrow will he in be t riaking mornine, hurch. wher pariors unt n it will be 1 Jow reonien: former Governor of Alaska, and W. F. Martin, the senator’s secretary. ! After tomorrow's services the body will be taken to Valley Forge to rest senator’'s country home there. Serv- {ices will be held in Valley Forge Me- { morial Chapel Saturday at 2:30. The Friday night in the book room of the | | deep personal loss and grief and the! His own views on these powerful { feeling of what the death of Senator {combinations were expressed in an! { Knox means to this state and nation. jaddress at that time, in which he de- | He was a great lawyer—an instinct- [clared that overcapitalization was the | ive lawyer.” most conspicuous evil feature of the | “By the death of Senator Knox,” |trusts, but that other factors which | Robert S. Von Moschzisker, chief jus- |contributed to their il effect upon | {tice of the supreme court of Penn-|the public were lack of publicity of | of being an orator. While he made a:ing the table. forcible argument before a court, and marshaled arguments strikingly in the Senate, he never was a jury pleader. He never posed as a public speaker, | professionally or over cof- |tion ¢ gars. His work as a lawyer |it might surprise ! was chiefly as a counselor and adviser, | know that the grow 12 with everything from the wave of low reonier £igh prices o the sweeping march of | ool weevil. It has been charged that our primary nimhwas lll:lll\lgfl- fon of the megro in the south. BUj o record and expenses pertaining to this committee 104y ;0 " Upiversity ; also the entire re- Hattin ‘re;‘l"g',‘.}"’“fi“rfi‘r‘{:;u-ims and expenditures of the kian,” spending: N nin e v the sum of $1 . Renders Financial Statement. He introduced into the record the “en- {in the Un in thg Pi body will be interred in the chapelsvlvania, declared, “Pennsylvania has| where President Harding spoke last!lost one of her most distinguished | operation, discrimination in prices designed to eliminate competition, a 1 vi i Klan h: . i in this he was eminently success- X d"the east than in the south and added “The university is not scctarian; it membier of the al Lesion. 1 was very much surprised | summer during a week-end visit at ithe Knox home. As a mark of respect Capitol irags lwere at half staff today, to rem: for thirty days, the official mourning period. Mrs. Knox at Semator's Side. When Mr. Knox was stricken Mrs. Knox and the senator’'s secretary were near the senator and hurried to his aid. Dr. Samuel Adams was sum- moned immediat but he found Mr., Knox beyond medical aid. Senator Knox returned to Wash- ington only last Monday night from a trip to Europe with Mrs. Knox and he attended the sessions of the Sen- ate Tuesday and yesterday. Leaving the chamber about 5 o'clock yester- day afternoon, the senatér took an automobile ride through Potomac Park and stopped on his way home to purchase tickets for a theater per- formance last night. Reaching home, the senator went to his library, where he remained until summoned to_dinner. President Harding, Chlef s Justice Taft, Senator Lodge of Massachu- setts, the republican leader; Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania and other friends and close associates of Mr. Knox were soon notified of the sen ator’s death. The news came as a shock to all officlal Washington, for {the senator through his services, first as Attorney General under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, and later as |Secretary of State under President Taft, had a wide circle of friends. Death Wholly Unexpected. ‘While at the Senate yesterdey Sena- tor Knox apparently was in the best of health, although he had been somewhat overtaxed lately in con- nection with Senate work with ref- erence to restoring the technical | state of peace with Germauy, Aus- tria and Hungary. He was the author of the peace resolution bearing his name, and one of the Senate con- ferees in adjusting it with the Porter resolution. The resolution was and it was under it that President Harding negotiated the pending treaties of peac with Germany, Aus- tria and Hungary. ‘When Congress took a recess late In August Senator Knox left for Eu- rope with Mrs. Knox for a vacation and was absent slightly more than three weeks. He sought to reach| ‘Washington in time to vote on the Panama canal tolls repeal, but ar- irived some hours after the vote had ibeen taken. He told his associates ithat while he had been benefited by {his vacation he felt somewhat tired. Senator Knox's last important ad- |@ress in the Semate was in support of his position that Congress had the power and upon it devolved the duty to end the status of war by resolu- tion. Close Friend of President. As an intimate personal and polit- jcal friend, Senator Knox was close !in the confidence of President Hard- !ing, with whom he served in the Sen- ate. sought his advice in recent months, especially as to means of restoring peace with the central powers. The senator’s influence and advice were said to have been*largely responsi- ble for the selection by President | Harding of Andrew W. Mellon of thlburth a® Secretary of the Treas- ury. GOV. SPROUL MOVED. Gives No Suggestion of Possible Successor. HARRISBURG, October = 13.—Gov. Sproul was deeply affected. tonight when he learned of the death in | sons, and this nation has lost a great !tendency to monopolize trade in their man at a time when his peculiar fit- lines and failure to appreciate that i ness for the great problems which they owed any service to the public. face the world is most needed.” “My purpose,” he declared. “is to show that we are not hopelessly help- CALLED A GREAT MAN. less to deal with serious problems which confront us.” Given Credit on Camal Deal. Mr. Knox has been credited by some with _having “actually rried Ithraush the purchase of the Panama canal for $40.000,000. which was an : 3 {achievement of the Roosevelt admin- Jemnines (fir’szgkl:rh;(“m‘f‘:m?" ©Of {istration. As Attorney General, Mr.: e e M e ‘Knox | KNOX went to Paris and ascertained s A T Evenr memoOX | that the new Panama Canal Company | {held a clear title to convey the canal. HELD l" AssAULT cAsE. l’l‘hl! enabled the United States -to proceed with the purchase. Mr. Knox was appointed United Negroes Admit Fight With George' Roper, But Deny Robbery. W. J. Bryan Deeply Mooved on Hearing of Knox’s Death. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., October 13.—William | { iGeal devotion, and the senator's beau- ' Asserting that the klan could nog Honored by Universities. {40 “anyihing outside of its lodge: i » cept by specific orders of I Besides recelving the degres of |TOOM’ XCCRI 1Y 5€L Yoo i | A. M. from Mount Union College, Mr. | membership in line, Mr. Simmons; Knox has the degree of LL. D. from |added: that institution and also from Yale, i 'F fore God, I have never elgned|poop and the teaching and inci P ylvania and Pittsburgh unf ny instructions that could be ithe fundamentals of pure Americ Hen"and Trom Washington and Jeffer. strued or carried out as a violatlon 0113 gevelopment of correct citizen Son and Villanova colleges and the 1aw: The Klan does Bok, (00 p,e“h' “Many of the faculty and trustees ar military honors will be a part of th.- | burial service. MAIL EARLY PARTOON. Postal Bulletin Has First Such Drawing. ar~d in the Bulletin vesterday for the first the first of a series to drive the public facts about the dressing_of mail. early n preparation for tk does not teach nor even touch the Ku Klux Klan; the only two courses that are compu'sory is a course in the fun- damental of our civilization, which are the tenets of the Christi; using the Holy Bible as a bas H 3 i {teach lawlessness; instead we not even members of the klan. They are "’g;?:!'yleym;r -(;r:rtem::: admittea to | Tespect for the law. among the leaders in educational work | the bar he married Miss Lillie Smith, | Kian Has Own Probe. in the south and would not he connected Aaughter of Andrew D. Smith of| At times there was intense quiet in | with an institution or organization that | Pittsburgh. They have three sons and | the room, and at one of these mo- |wns even faintly tinged with what ha one daughter, Eleanor, wife of J. R.| ments the witness, rapping the lahlo.! A cartoon been charged against the klan. “The charge is mi The bulletin is ganized to preach and h religious | Post Office 5 {intolerance and especially that we are masters and er :| l Tindie. The sons are Reed, Hugh S.: declared that mo man could charge and Philander C. Knox, jr. The home ' disorder in any city where the klan life of the Knox family was one of | was well organized. The klan, the witness testified, conducting an_investigation of its own into charges against Edward Young Clarke, imperial kleagle and tiful mansion’ in’ Washington and his farm in Valley Forge have been the scenes of much social activity. Best Ki the Oldest passed at this session of Congress, | The President had frequently| States senator in 1904. As Secretary ! of State in President Taft's cabinet! Two colored men are under lrreutl in connection with the reported as he inaugurated an active policy of aiding the extension of American | trade with foreign countries, which' sault and robbery committed on| George Roper and his wite, 2516 13th | street, near Belmont and 14th streets | Sunday night. They deny there was iany attempt made to rob Mr. Roper | was characterized as “dollar diplo- macy,” a designation intended in de- rision, but of which Secretary Knox afterward declared he was proud. He proposed that an arbitral court be es- tablished at The Hague and that the Manchurian raflway be neutralized, and approved the plan for the Cen- tral American court of Jjustice for | | and declare that only ore of them was | maintaining peace in Central America. | involved in a fisht with hi:n. | _They are Robert Cole years old, 1208 V street, and Arthur R. Bradford, twenty-three years old, §26 Callan street northeast. Coles told Inspector Grant that he and| Roper exchanged blows, while Brad- | ford said hd and a white man acted 1 as peacemakers. Coles told the inspector that he and Bradford were passing along the | street on their way home and that he and Roper brushed elbows. Roper, he declared, asked him what was the matter. ' He said he asked whom he was _addressing, and sald Roper struck at him. Blows were passed, Coles sald, and | Bradford and a white man geparated them, Both men under arrest declared no attempt .was made to rob Roper. Lieuts. Stott ahd Emerson, Sergt. McCormick and Detectives Walsh and King arrested the colored men, and they probably will share in_the re- | ward of $100 offered by Columbia Heights Citizens' Aassociation for the capture of the men involved in the af- falr, with the Columbia Helghts re | ent. —_— | TEACHES MATCHES’ USE. Believing that children, who are nearing the “teens” will come in con- tact with matches and fires in spite of all_warnings, Miss Elizabeth Ma- hon, director of the Blcomingdale playground, is devoting her time dur- ing fire prevention week to instruct- ing boys and girls in how to handle matches and how to conduct them- selves around fire. Every afternoon for the remulnderi of the week Miss Mahon will gather {the youth of her playground about her and teach thém safe methods of building fires and putting them out. On the Mades playground, in the | northeast, Miss Pearl Kogar, director.l is having her boys and girls write essays on fire prevention. Miss Mahon’s campaign of education in the handling of fire is being con- fined to the older children who are in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades at_school. She is impressing upon the smaller children the fact that they should not touch matches or go near fires in any form. On all of the city playgrounds talks are being made to the children on the objects of fire prevention week. 1 He negotiated arbitration treaties made a notable trip to Central Amer- ican countries, Colombia and Vene- zuela. In 1912 he was assigned to at- tend the funeral of Emperor Mutsu- Lito of Japan, as representative of the United States government. One of the features of his secretaryship was the dispute with Great Britain over the proposal to exempt Ameri- can coastwise shipping from payment of tolls for use of the Panama canal. Appointed as Senator. ‘Mr. Knox left the Roosevelt cabinet July 1, 1904, to accept an appointment from Gov. Pennypacker of Penn- sylvania as United States senator to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator S. M. Quay. In 1905 he was elected by the legislature for the full senatorial term of six years. Wide as has been Senator Nox's service to this country, he is today and probably for all time will be re- membered best for the work he did as Secretary of State in President Taft's cabinet, to accept which post he resigned from the Senate in 1909. The State Department was able to meet the unprecedented and most try- ing demands of the world war and the reconstruction period because the en- tire structure of this branch of the government, through which all po- litical relations with the rest of the world are transacted, had been rebuilt by Secretary Knox. He reorganized the Department of State from top to bottom, with a view to making its service to the country more effective, employing men of fitness and capacity in the consular service and encourag- ing young men of education and abil- ity to take up diplomacy as a career. As Secretary of State Mr. Knox made special efforts to strengthen the friendsl and commercial relations between the United States and. the Latin-American republics. With this end in view he made an extensive tour of the Central and South Amer- ican countries fn 1912. Much of the Pan-American good will and the all American commercial developments of recent years are directly traceable to the spirit of mutual istance and confidence granted at that time by Secretary Knox. Proud of Dollar Diplomaey. His inauguration of an active policy of alding the extension of American trade with other countries gave birth to the characterization of *“dollar cwenty-two |l with France and Great Britain and, | - Saturday Banking Hours: 9:30 A.M. to 12 5:30 P.M. to 8 P.M. The Largest Savings Department of Any Bank in Washington - Lincoln Said: “Tell the miners from me, that I shall pro- mote their interests to the utmost of my abil- ity, because their prosperity is the prosperity of the mation and we shall prove in a few years that we are indeed the Treasury of the Woeorld.” The Man With a Little . Cash in Bank —is usually on speaking terms with success, while the “free spender” is using his brain trying to determine why opportunity never knocks at his door. Save while you earn, open an ac- count now. own Banking institutions i= Washington Ten Thousand Sheets for $2.25 Four rolls of 2500 s standard size, 5x53{ heets each—big sheets, inches. Almost a year’s. “supply for the average family. A. P. W. 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