Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1923, Page 5

4 MAY VOTE ON DEBY FUNDING BILL TODAY BSenate Limits Debate to Ten | Minutes for Each Speaker i After 2 0’Clock. ' The Senate resumed discussion of Yhe British debt-funding bill today finder an agreement to limit debate ®fter 2 o'clock and vote before ad- $ournment, even though a night ses- #ion should be required. Leaders, how- ever, expected a vote before night, fincé passage of the measure had een conceded by opponents, and the discussion was described yesterday as hearly exhausted. The agreement confines each sena- for speaking after 2 o'clock to ten fninutes and provides, at the insist- ence of Senator La Follette, repub- lican, Wisconsin, that the-chair shall 3ot Keep a list 0f members to recos- hize for addresses. The arrangement Was offered late vesterday by Senator RNobinson, democrat, Arkansas, after L earlier efforts to bring about a unan- finous consent agreement for a_vote ad been blocked by Senator Reed, democrat, of Missouri, a vigorous op- Yonent of the measure. ¥ The final day of debate opefied with kn attack .upon the bill by Senator J.a Folletfe republican, sconsin, who urged that the terms of the pres- #nt law be maintained. . i Objecting to the 3 and 3% per cent fnterest rates and sixty-two-year ma- nurity term of the British agreement, Ve saild no rates should be accepted lower than those chargeable on Jiberty bonds. He charged both Great Britain and France with “im- yerialistic” policies, and declared Gireat Britain's_ colonies now are }elns charged 5 per cent on loans rom the London government. i The Senator from Utah (Mr. Smoot, pnanager of the funding bill), has as- ured us that it is good business to $ina this loan for sixty-two vears 0 a 3% per cent basis” said Senator| 3.a Follette, “if this is good business why would it not be better business 1o loan to American farmers at 3% Yer cent for sixty-two years? Scores Senator Smoot. “As 1 have listened to the defense ©f this proposed settlement, I have some times thought the chancellor of the British exchequer was speaking, | &0 eloquently and with so much feel- ing does he (Senator Smoot) present the case for the British Empire. He has painted a sau plcture of the t i h people us what part of those taxes go to maintenance of thé greates in the world; what part rep 1he cost of keeping in subjection th veople of India and Egypt; what part as spent for crushing the struzgle of the Irish people for enuine inde- pendence: what part went to Greece for pulling the chestnuts in the near east out of the fire; what part is 10w being spent in the struggle of Hritish _capita and the British government to monoplize the oil of the world.” Propaganda of British and Amer- jcan financiers has been active be- Tind the 'blll, Senator La Follette 8aid, attacking especially the pro- vision allowing Great Britain to use Tiberty bonds in payment. He said this would tend to depreciate the American securities. Senator McCormick, republican, linois, supporting the bill a step | toward world stability criticized the ¥rench Ruhr policy, declaring it had { been “unproductive of any economi r financial benefit to the Frencl &nd_continue Tt would governments of for the most pa mmit_economic the rope have ided to suicide. They are destroying their own credit.and that | of their neighbors. This settlement 1ght to appeal to us partly because it is a lever, 5o to s . upon which we can press for payment of the $5, 000,000,000 due us the other grest creditors. Beyond that it is a Just settlement and takes cognizance ©f the general industrial depression.” Find Granite Slab| WithMessageof | Prehistoric Age SONORA, Calif., February 16.—A slab of granite bearing hlero- glyphics believed to have been carved in prehistoric days has been found by miners more than 200 “Yeet beneath the lava flow which created Springfield flat, the famous gold-bearing area at Columbia, noted as a bonanza town in the gold rush of 1849. The stone is irregular in shape, twelve inches long and approxi- mately nine inches wide. while the characters extending CTOS its face are from three to four inches iigh and regular in shape. Ap- ‘parently it is a plece broken from a larger rock. The stone will be sent to the University of California for deci- phering. R ACTION ON FORD-OFFER IGNORED IN HOUSE PLANS A legislative program for the re- n of Congress, plate action on Henry Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals, is belng worked out by republican leaders of the House. Shoals was not_included in the pro- gram because if was not in a parlia- mentary situation to be oconsidered. He added thzt in any event House action would be a loss of time, be- cause there was no prospect of a| Senate vote on the legislation. TELLS WhY BUREAU MEN WERE QUSTED At a meeting of the Senate com- mittee on contingent expenses yesterday afternoon for the purpose of consider- ing further the Caraway resolution for investigation of the dismissal by executive order last year of twenty- eight employes of the bureau of en- graving and printing, Chairman Calder disclosed information he had received from the White House re- garding the whole matter. The meeting was executive, how- ever, and this information was with- held. Another_meeting of the committee is to be held today, when -the rep- resentative of the Department of Justice who made the investigation of the records of service of the dis- missed employes will be before the committee. - 1t is considered unlikely that the resolution will be reported to the Senate. Senator McKellar of Tennessee, a member of the committee, sald this afternoon that he was strongly in favor of bringing the resolution out. He said he believed the President should put these employes back in the jobs that they formerly held, and that they should be paid for all the time they have been out of these jobs. The Tennessee senator said that the latest order of the President restoring these employes to the civil service status was a virtual admission that they should not have been discharged. 1 know the President too well not to feel sure that he will seq that full justice i3 done to these employe sald Senator McKellar. “I believe that in the end they will be fully re- stored and will receive their back a P harles B. Brewer, the representa- tive of the Department of Justice who investigated the records of the twenty-eight employes of the bureau of engraving and. printing dismissed last year by executive order, appear- ing before the Senate committee on contingent expenses today, told the committee that there was nothing against any of these 8ismissed em- ployes. 5 No action was taken at the meet- ing of the committee this morning on the resolution offered by Senator Caraway of Arkansas providing for an investigation of the dismissal of these employes by the Senate civil service committee, The committee on contingent expenses is to meet again either this aftérnoon or tomorrow and_will have Mr. Brewer before it again. ————— MENER UFCONGRESS TOMAKE ALASKAN TRP Secretary Weeks announced yester- day that he had [nvited hold-over members of Senate and House mili- tary and appropriations committees to make a trip from New York, via Panama canal, to the Pacific coast and Alaska, sailing from New York about the middle of April. The purpose, he said, was to let them see for themselves the nature of the pub- lic works in progress along the route. The trip will be made on the Army transport St. Michiel, the vessel to carry Army freight to San Francisco and Alaska, and the members of Con- gress will pay thelr own subsistence, Mr. Weeks said, so that the trip in. volves no added expense to the gov- ernment. Returning from Alaskan ports, the party will leave the ship at Seattle to_proceed to their homes by rai Mr. Weeks hopes to make the trip himself, but was not sure that he couid do so. He estimated that it would take the St. Mihiel about six- ty days to reach Alaska and return to Seattie. their service in the new Congress and who deal in committee with public works appropriations have never seen the construction undertaken at the Panama canal, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and other Puget sound points and in Alaska. The THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1923. SOCIETY MEN GET - FO0D TIPS IN JAIL La Monfagfle 'Brblhers Learn That Dinner Can Be Had for 11 1-2 Cents. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEWARK, N. J, February 16.— Doing their bit as “horrible exam- ples” to other society bootleggers, the four La Montagne brothers were routed out of their cells at 7:30 o’clock this morning, after a long, cold night away from the bright lights of Broadway. The dingy Essex county jail, where the La Montagne boys are government guests, boasts no tiled or mirrored bathrooms, but, neverthe- less, the boys made an effective toilet and sat down to their ,breakfast of cereal and milk, bread and “mighty good coffee,” looking almost as dapper as they did when they first reached the portals 6f the-penal institution on vesterday. The boyvs suffered a disappointment today. They were told on arrival at Essex jail that a beneficlent federal government allowed 75 cents for the maintenance of its prisoners boarding with the county wardens. “We ought to do fairly well on six bits per diem,” one of the brothers commented with a shrug of the, shoulders. Find Food Ch But today they were told that “two bits” was plenty enough for food and that the other four bits would go for lodging, chaperons and a small profit to Essex county for its trou- bles in caring for the federal prison- ers. Breakfast for the four La Mon- tagnes was served this morning at a cost of 41 cents a piate, osts 1133 cents & plate, with no ‘couvert” charge, and no govern- ment tax for cabaret trimmings. Sup- per is served table d'hote at 6 4-7 cents per person, making a total for the day of 22 4-5 cents, occasional extras bringing the average for the feeding of prisoners up to a quarter. The La Montagne boys never dream- ed that one could do one's self so well on such odd bits of pocket change. entirely different idea of food values when they get back to club and cafe life in the early summer. When a dinner of roast pork, lima beans, po- tatoes, bread and butter, and coffee with milk and sugar, can be had in jall for 11% cents, why pay $4 or $5 per cover on Broadway? Apparently the one simple way to solve the high cost of living is to go to jail. It is a far cry from the smart so- clal and club life of New York to the dull monotony of pacing the corridors of Essex gaol, but the mil- lionaire La Montagnes are taking it philosophicaily. ~Their friends are suggesting that the y8 may have been “double-crossed,’” that they probably pleaded guilty in the fed- eral courts in New York with the idea that they were to be let off with fines alone. But there is not a peep on this subject from thy Rene, the great international phlo player, is in for four months, and it will be June 15 b¥fore he has a chance to throw a leg across the saddle of a blooded pony. Willlam P More Home lfi Builders N —are realizing that it pays to stint elsewhere, if need be, in order that = the Best Plumbing may go £ into their abodes. f Colbert Plumbing sets the standard and is the kind you'll always beZ= thankful for installing. Our Fiktures Display will inter. st you. = MAURICE J. COLBERT Heating—Plumbing—Tinning 621 F Street Phone. Main 3016-3017 M B 1 N G Dinner | ‘They are going to have an! A.~and: Morgan E. are also ‘in for four months. Montagu, who was in Purope at the time the conspiracy to ‘violate the Volstead act was con- cocted, is in for nnl{ two months and will be out April 15 to-enjoy the first burst of spring. None of the brothers will get any time off for good behavior. This ‘concession only runs in favor of prisoners serving six months or longer. ‘The La Montagne boys, heavily in- terested inidistilieries, pleaded guilty to having conspired to furnish liquor to a large and very recherche dinner at the exclusive Racquet and Tennis Club in New York city. - They seemed to find conslderable consolation today in the fact that they have begun their penance in tfie penitent season of nt. URGE APPROVAL OF SEHOOL STE The District Commissioners in a let- ter to Senator Ball, chalrman of the District committee, today strongly recommend the passage of the Phipps bill, directing the District Commis- sioners to erect the proposed new school for turbercular children on the so-called Upshur street tract. The Commissioners say in their let- ter: “There i8 probably no local legisla- tion now pending before Congress which is of greater importance than EISEMAN’S 605-607 7th St. Other Prisoners Curlou: “Well, we are here and we might as well make the best of it,” remarked Rene to Warden Richard McGuinness, who has entertained many other dis- tinguished prisoners as host for Uncle Sam Please Note That We are Located Between F & G Sts. Match Your Odd Coats With Our Special TROUSERS Save the price of a suit by match- ing your odd coats and vests with our special trousers. We have hun- dreds of pairs for you to choose from, making it easy to find just 1 the pair you need. All colors. All materials. All sizes. Money and Business — Money is to business— ‘What food is to the body— What reading is to the mind— ‘What exercise is to the muscles— ‘What blood is to the heart— What breath is to our lives— Money is the' very life of business—which makes the selection of your Bank of vital importance if you are to grow and prosper. FEDERAL-AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK W. T. Gallther i John Poole Chairman of the Board 1315 F STREET President Announcing—The Arrival of Hundreds of Pairs of Women’s New and Wonderful Spring Footwear. Alaska' railwayproject also will be inspecied, the ship calling at St Michael as its most northerly port in 1 K. r. Weeks sald the congressional trip had no connection with the hopes of President Harding that he also could make a trip to Alaska during the summer. PRING $[° HOE- TYLES or Women Hirsh’s bring to you their own Fifth ‘Avenue of authentic 1923 Spring Styles. this, and the Commissioners make this personal appeal to you in the confident expectation that you will lend your assistance in the matter.” “The Commissioners have an appro- priation of $150,000 to erect a school to accommodate tubercular children, of which there are now about forty. At ‘present these children are quar- tered in the Hamilton School build- ing, which is unfit for the purpos “Wfhe Commissioners selected #ite named in this bill as the proper place to erect the new school. Pro- tests were made against the selection and_the matter was taken to the court. On February 5, 1923, the Court of Appeals held that eite had been dedicated to the use of the tubercu- lar hospital and the Jjunior high o school, and that the promised school for tubercular pupjls could not be lo- cated upon it without additional legislation by Congress. The Phipps bill is still before the District committee, and @everal hear- ings'have been had upon it. In view of the fact that only a little more than two weeks of the present ses- sion of Congress remain, and in view of the congested legislative situation, it does not appear probable that ac- tion on the bill can be taken before adjournment of Congress. e J. ‘Walsh, first postmaster-gen- erat of the Irish Free State, started his dareer as a clerk in the post office in Cork. ATTACKED_BY ASSASSINS. Governor of Oaxaca, Mexico, In- jured; Federal Guard Slain. MEXICO CITY, February 16.—Man- uel Garela Vigil, Governor of Oaxaca, was attacked and seriously injured yesterday by unknown assailants as he Was entering his residence here 'he newspapers express the belief that the attack was the outgrowth of political quarrels. The police found the body of Jose 1. Gomez, a federal deputy, near the scene of 'thé disturbance. papers say he probably was shot by the governor's assailants. 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