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¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WEATHER. Cloudsy and warmer tonight and to- morrow, probably becoming unsettled ; lowest temperature about 26 degrees. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 30, at 2 pm. today; lowest, 18, 8t 1:30 d.m. t TFull’ report on page 9. “From Press to Home ! Within - the Hour” | The Star's carrier system covers eve | city block and the regular edition is- delivered 10 Washington homes as fast ] as the papers are printed. [ @k n Star. 6 Saturday's Net Circulation, 92,604 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 2 No., '28,784. LITHUANIACARRIES FIGHTING TOPOLISH END OF PEACE ZONE Class of 1922 Is Ordered Mobilized as War Looms to Two Nations. POLES MAKE FIRSTATTACK IN NEUTRAL TERRITORY Details Are Meager, But Dis-| patches Say Casualties | Are Heavy. ! By the Assoclated Press. WARSAW, February 19.—TFresh at- tacks by the Lithuantans on Polish forces in the neutral zone allotted to Poland are reported here today. It is also said that the class of 1922 has been mobilized in Lithuania. Dispatches last night from both Polish and Lithuanian sources re- ported collisions between forces of the two countries. The Lithuanianj logation In Paris made public a dis-¢ patch from Kovno asserting that Pol- tsh forces had Invaded Lithuanta, aft- er occupying the neutral zone near Orany, and attacked the Lithuanlan troops with heavy casualties. The dispateh added that the Lithuanian government had reported the facts to the league of nations, requesting that steps be taken to prevent an ex- | tension of the conflict. A Warsaw dispatch declared that Polish troops and police assigned to occupy Poland’s. part of the neutral | zone had been opposed by Lithuanian | forces, including regular troops. DETAILS ARE MEAGER. Action by Both Sides Indicated in | Paris Official Circles, | By the Assoclated Press 'ARIS, February 19.—Meager de-| tails of the occupation of the neutral zone between Poland and Lithuania received in official circles in Paris in- dicate there has been actiop on both | sides. Dispatches from Polish sources the foreign office say that as soon s the Poles completed the gccupation of that part of the zone given them by the council of the league.of n tions the Lithuanians began firing with artillery upon the points oc- ipied. t the Lithuanlan legation here it declared the Poles had not only occupied their own part of the neu- tral zone, but had crowded over into the part assigned to the Lithuanians by the league. It also was averred that the Polish frontier guards and officials needed for the administration of the region were accompanied by roops of all arms. contrary to the decision of the Jeague council, which, while allowing the claimants each to administer a part of the zone, intend- the zone should remain neutral as far as military operations were concerned. The impression voiced in French of- ficlal circles is that the Lithuanians are carrying out the threat they made in the league council to resist the oc- cupation of any part of the zone bv the Poles. Lithuania has an army of about 50,000 men. HUGHES HAYNoT ATTEND PARLE Doubts If He Can Take Part in Santiago Pan-Ameri- can Conference. The possibillty that Secretary Hughes will be able to make his pro- posed trip to attend the Pan-Amert- can conference next month at San- tiago, Chile, is becoming more doubt- ful. It was 8aid today at the department that whilo Mr. Hughes {s still de- ferring a final decision as to whether 1t would be wise for him to leave the capital at this time, he feel§ it may prove impracticable to make the pro- Jected visit to South America owing to the general European situation and pressure of other matters in his de- artment. DA he Secretary was back at his desk today after several days' confinement to his home with a mild attack of in- fluenza. e was said to be anxious to ac- cept the invitation of the Chilean and: other South American governments for varlous visits on his way to and from Santiggo, but to feel Increasing doubt that ho could absent himself from the department for the long pe- riod of time necessary or be at-such a distance from Washington while matters in Europe are in their pres- ent confused state due to the Ruhr sltuation particularly. At the moment State Department officials can_see no opportunity for American helpfulness in the Ruhr sit- uation. Suggestions as to mediation between France and Germany which are made in unofficial advices from Europe give no prospect of bearing fruit at present, it was sald, since there is no reason to believe that mediation proposals by the United States or any other power not direct- 1y concerned would be welcome to the French or to the Germans. i Entered as second-class matt: post _office Washington, D. &f MISS LITTAUER’S FIANCE SAILS TO U. S. FOR JOB Doeller Says He Intends to Seek Work and Prove Ability to Support Wife. & By the Ansociated Press. PARIS, February 19.—Willlam E. Doeller, flance of Miss Catherine Loulse Littauer, is bound for New York on board the steamer President Polk, according to the Herald, which says that Mr. Doeller intends to get work and prove that he is able to sup- port a wife. When Col. William A. Littauer of New York, the girl's father, recently withdrew his appeal to the courts for prevention of the marrfage it was understood that Miss Littauer had promised not to marry for scveral months. 25 PERISH IN FIRE 8 PROBES BEGUN Twenty-Two Patients and 3 Guards at New York Asylum for Insane Victims. 19 BODIES RECOVERED Deaths at Other Blazes in or Near City Bring Toll for Day to 31. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 19.—Eight Inquiries were under way today into the tragedy on Ward's Island, a littie Jutting rock in the swirling waters of Hell Gate, where yesterday fire Swept a ward of the Manhattan State Hospltal for the Insane, killing twen- ty-two patients and three male at- tendants, Nineteen bodies had been recovered before dask and removed to the city morgue, but six more remained In the ice-covered ruins. These, it was feared, had been cremated, and Supt. |Marcus B. Heyman expressed doubt whether more than charred ever would be recovered. The blaze was believed to have been started ty a terrific blast in Hell Gate which broke the Insulation on rla‘([‘tric wiring, causing a short cir- cuit. bones Calm After Fire. A curlous hush pervaded the island during the night. The bedlam of cries and ravings which ordinarily might have been expected was entirely lack- ing. The whole population of the state’s asylum presented a phlegmatic calm after the day of sorrow, a day on which the insane acted most sanely. The one unit of the seventy-five on the island that was attacked by jflamés housed the most violently in- sane—men of homicidal tendency, who might at any moment have leapt at_the throats of their rescuers. But leap they did not. A few strug- gled as guards tried to push their way to safety through the smoke and flames, but not a single attack upon an attendant was reported. Investigations Begun. The fire marshal's office was the scene of today’s first investigation. Summoned there at 9 o'clock were the three attendants whose effective work was chiefly responsible for the rescues—James Hills, the attendant- In-charge of the ward; Michael Camp- bell and John Curry. Later these men were ordered to report at the office of Medical Exai iner Norris, Meanwhile the state arcnitect, with a force of men, was aiding in probing the debris, while C. Floyd Haviland, chalrman of the state hospital com- mission, was making & further exam- ination of the ruins before submit- ting his report to Gov. Smith. The possibility that the district at- torney’s office might launch a fifth in- vestigation also loomed. The sixth investigation was being directed by the hospital's board of managers. Short-Circuit Blamed. A seventh investigation, concluded last night by city detectives, resulted in a report to Detective Capt. Carey that the fire in all probability had been caused by a short clrcuit caused by the Hell Gate blasting. Brig. Gen. Edward Burr, in charge for the War Department of the dredging of Tell Gate, declined to comment on the theory that blasting by the dredges was the original cause of the fire. He sald if this theory was advanced seriously he would in- augurate an investigation also. Dr. Haviland supported Dr. Heyman in his contention that the burned building was greatly overcrowded. For this reason 175 patients were transferred to other state institu- tions since January 1, but this only partly relieved the congestion. War Veteran a Vietim. A funeral barge moved down the East river shortly before midnight carrying to Bellevue morgue the nineteen bodies that had been re- covered. In only five cases were ientification possible. James R. Hines, orie of the patients who per- ished, was a veteran of the world war. His wife sald he had ret from France with his mlna'ir":.":'l'} impaired. Mrs. Hines said that her husband had escaped from the island two weeks ago by hiding in a boat. Stopping at his father's house, he ob- tained some fresh clothing and then Contnued on 2, Column 4. Policeman Thrashes Boy, 16, On Court Order for Stealing| Special Dispateh to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., February 19. —Corporal punishment today was meted out to James Bole, colored, sixteen years old, because he ad- mitted when he was arraigned in the police court his guilt of the ta of two gold watches from the winter quarters of & carnival. of the timepleces and.had sold the other. The lad has been With the company only two weeks. Justice Duvall asked him If he would rather go to a reform school or take a “taning.” to be administered one of the policemen. The boy sald he dld not know, whereupon the court declded for him. The lad ‘was oroug! repentant er the _WASHINGTON, D.- C, SENATORS DECLINE | OFFER OF MANSION TOVICE PRESIDENT! Committee, Thanking Mrs. Henderson, Unable to Au- thorize Expenditures. $15,000 YEARLY NEEDED FOR MAINTAINING HOME i Committee Declared Divided as to i Possibility of Procuring & This Sum. The committee on public bulldings and grounds of the United .States Senate this afternoon reported ad- versely on the proposition of Mrs. John B. Hendergon to -turn over the Droverty at 2(01 16th street for the o! e ice et stafen President of the 'he committee communicated this fact to Mrs. Henderson in a letter slgned by Senator Bert M. Fernald of Malne, chairman. The letter| stated that the committee was united in expressing appreciation of Mrs. Henderson's mungicent offer and the patriotic spirit which prompted her. The adverse report was necessary, it Wwas stated, “inasmuch as there 15 a division of opinion in the committec e possibility of sec funds for maintenance.” e The letter follows: our generous offer to prese: Bovernment with the beautifu) new $300,000 residence on 16th street as & home for the Vice President, in mem- ory of your husband, John E. Hender- | son. late United Siates senator from Missour, and your son, John B. Hen- | derson, jr., has been for several days | junder Consideration by the public ngs and gr - e o grounds committee of “The committee are united in expres- stng appreciation of this munificent offer and the patriodc spirit which prompted it. We are, however, compelled to re- port adversely on the proposition, inas- much as there is a division of opinion in the committee as to the possibiiity of securing funds for maintenance. i If accepted, it would become nec- | essary either to increase the salary |of the Vice President very materialiy or to appropriate direct a sufficient |amount for the upkeep of the estab- | shment, which, according to your estimate, would approximaute $15,000 amnually, and, as it is the polley of this Congress to practice the strictest | economy " and to retrench expenses wherever possible, the committee | feel that either step would be Incon- | sistent at this time. | On behalf of the publie butldings committec, I desire to tender apprecia- tion of this proffered ift to your gov- groment, and our regret that*he com- mittee feels constrained to degline royally generous offer.” £ el BRITISH TURN OVER CONTROL OF RHINE | STRIP T0 INVADERS | By the Associated Press. COLOGNE, February 19.—The Brit- ish today turned over a six-kilometer strip on the western end of their zone so as to give the French and, Belgians complete control of the double-track raflrcad line from Dues- seldorf, a short stretch of which ran through the British area. | Order Terminates Tomorrow. DUESSELDORF. February 19.—A new order issued by the interallled | high commission in the Rhineland glves German customs officlals in that territory untll tomorrow to decide ‘whether they will accept an offer of re-employment by the French or be dismissed. The expulsion of Dr. Gruetzner, president of Rhenish Prussia, for writing an “impertinent” letter to Gen. Beaussain, Belgian commander | at Duisburg, removes from the occu- pled area a prominent German official and has caused something of a stir among the civillan population. The letter that resulted in the ar- rest of Dr. Gruetzner was in protest against the imprisonment of Ober- burgomaster Jarres of Dulsburg. Dr. Gruetzner In this communication is alleged to have referred to the forces of occupation as “bandits.” Fine Paid With Seised Marks. Gelgenkirchen's fine of 300,000,000 marks, assessed upon the town as a penalty for the shooting of tw French soldlers, has been paid out of the 110,000,000 paper marks which the Freach seized when they took over the rallroad station and the rathaus. The French also appropriated 250, 000,000 marks in Trier. It was said this money was to be used for the benefit of the striking railroad men. The French will turn it to their own raflroad operating account. The German police at Essen are to return to duty and, for the present at | Jeast, will be allowed to retain their arms. The French, however, will re- main established 4n police headquar- ters, which they took over after the | restaurant brawl of last week. The boycott against the soldiers at | Essen and _ Recklinghausen is evi- dently growing weaker, for stores in both sections are beginning to accept the French as customers, J. H. Hammond Reported Next By the Associated Press. ‘HONOLULU, February 19.—It is reported in Tokio that John Hays Hammond, mining engineer - and millionaire, is to bs"named Ameri- can ambassador to Japan, to suc- ceed Ambassador Charles Beecher Warren, according to the cablegram from Tokio received by ghe Japa- per Nippo Jiji of Hono- SEEK WAY T SAVE U. 5. GIRLS' HOME, Senators, Led by Fernald, Will Consider Removal De- mand by B. & 0. Road. ONE MORE YEAR URGED New Legislation Necessary for Property to Be Bought by ! Government. [ Sepator Fernald of’ Maine, sheir-|- man of the Scnate committee on pub- lic bulldings and grounds, has called # meeting of his committee tomorrow. articies veritten aft of the prohibition question. 1o which Presi- = y Haynes, Willebrandt, Anti-Raloon League. Ca of the Nationa Prohibition and other leaders submitted 1o private Interviews wii gave their candid opinions on forcement and 1 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1923—THIRTY-TWO PAGES |\ Will Prohibition Succeed? Yes! In 20 Years, President Thinks Officials Convinced That Enforcement of Dry Laws Is Task for a Generation. 10 Years, Taft Believes. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. (This i the firat of a series of seven a0 exiaustive stud Harding, Prohibiticn - Commissioner Ansistant Attorney General Wasne B. Wheeler of the W. H. Stayton Amociation” Opposed to the writer and iaw en- outlook.) o Many. people in! the United States, prohibition is a novelty, some- thing new, sqmething suddenly im- , Dosed. . | l -Envoy to Japan|: mothing . to consider the ‘Bituaudh which hag arisen in regard to the dormitories for woman employes of the government, located on the Union station plaza, due to the fact that the Baltimore and Ohio railroad is insisthig that the buildings be re- moved from this land. Senator Fernald is strong!y in favor of having the dormitories retained at least for another year or two. He sald today that his committee would try to work out a plan whereby an agreement could be made with the Baltimore and Ohlo to permit the re- tention of these dormitories for the present. He expects to have before the committee tomorrow the head of the housing corporation, which has charge of the dormitories, Cengress Only Salvation. Only an act of Congress can save the homes of the girl workers who occupy the rooms in the government | dormitories on“the property of the Baltimore and Ohio raflroad at the Unlon: station. i Investigation of the situation today developed the following facts: The condemnation proceedings whieh would have transferred the land to the government were without result because the railroad and its holding company refused to accept the award of the second board of condemnation, There is in the Treasury, already appropriated, $1.798,139.27 ' for the purchase of this property. Practically all of it is money offered to the Bal- timore and Ohlo raflroad, and which it has refused to accept, as it is about $200.000 less than the amount it de- mands. Doubts Right of T. §. : The Attorney General has express- ed the doubt as to whether the TUnited States would have the. right at this time to force the.rallroad company to accept the second award. The Attorney -General suggested as one solution that proposals be in- vited from the owners and, if found acceptable, to'appropriate a sum suf- ficlent to purchase the property at the price set. _ The government, by abandontng the old award‘of condemnation, has not_forfeited its right to 'furthe condemnation proceedings and acqui sition of the property by virtue of eminent domain. The Attorney General sald that the ractical obstacle to the-acquisition: of the land. is the act of October 22, $914, _ which - forbids the payment therefor of ahy sum.in excess of its oost plus 8 per cent interest. He sald that since ‘the owners.have refused to accept this it was impossi- ble under existing legislation to ac- Quire: the ‘property. . Ho did say, that repeal of -this proviso in the- act would remove the obstacle. Hits HeatingPlant. ; While square 681,%bounded :by E street, the Plaza, Delaware avenue and North“Capitol street, is_the only plece of Baltimoré and Ohioiproper- ty occupied ‘ by dormitories . proper, square. 633; bounded by C, ‘D ‘and North Capitol streets and New Jersey “also™ Baltimore and Ohlo .- contains the heating ‘plant PrOR ey hole system, and thus if the government s forced to abandon this t will ‘preclude the use of the dor- mitories on land dlready acquired by the government, unless it {s decided to incur the heavy expense of moving ting plant. m’l?h::: l':: ‘t’wo other squares,and.a gortlon of anothér which .are owned avenue, But {t {sn't. ‘The librartes are full of books, pamphlets, speeches, legal records of prosecutions and statistics all the way back to 1827. All kinds of prohibitory laws from local option to licensing of saloons and dru stores have been put on the statute books of the various states of the American Unfon for nearly a century. Wisdom in Experiemce. You can talk to the leaders of both sides today and both groups will in- sist ‘that before you make up your mind whether prohibition 1s a good thing or a bad thing the experience of the past should be carefully e: amined. As for conclusions, the “wet” will argue that the record shows FRENCH GIVE OUT HEAVY FINES; IMPRISON WOMAN Arrest Wife of Editor for Refus- ing to Follow Expelled H Husband. By the Assxciated Press. ESSEN, February 19.—Helen Maske, a German woman, has been sentenced to six months in prison by a French Tourt-martial for fallure to obey an ‘order 'to leave the occupled area on account . .of activities against the forces »¢ occupation. The wife of the editor of the Aachen Free Press has been arrested because she refused to obey an order to fol- low her-husband, who-was recently expelled. Labor Leader Jalled. Dr. Guyenz, the union labor leader in Eseen, who issued an appeal to the German merchants and hotel and res- taurant proprietors to refuse to serve the French and the Belgians, has been sentenced to two years' impris- onment and to pay a fine of 8,000,000 marks. Threo German court officials at Bochum have been arrested-for op- posing the French. The stores in Bochum were closed in protest, and there was a similar closing at Bot- trop, where Ober Burgomaster Bauer was arréstéd for refusing to deliver coal. ‘Three telegraph officials at Duesseldor! have been arrested. New baycotts and strikes of protést have been declared in. Essen, Dort- mund- and Bochum districts, accord- ing to' German sources, as the result of arrests. . - The French authorities announced today that they- had plenty.of railroad cars and other .equipment for the transportation- of -fuel to :France and Belglum, but that it ‘was'heing found difficult to induce the Germans to load the:cars. SRR prohibition canuot be enforced and makes for a gradual diminution in public respect for law and the oath | of public " oflicials. Converscly, the “dry” will say that when you have read all that has happened on the | Bubject in the last fifty vears you WwHI be convinced that tnc movement { had been. from the outset the inspir- ation of the best citizenry of the na- | tion and that the varied forms of | restriction imposed by the states did | not always permit of real enforce- eral government was lacking and ymt .“fl‘}'thln' which occurred be- fore 1930 “was only ap srgument for the peed of an amendment to the federal Constitution. - So the writer will concentrate not on the moot questions of the past but on the actual situation tofay. now that a liquor amendment is in the federal Constitution and an enforce- ment law {8 on the federal statute books. To get at the facts he sought the ald of both sides in the hope that the iInformation obtained might en- able the reader to form his own con- clusions. For the object of this series 1s not to champton either the view. point of the extreme prohibitionist who doesn’t even like to discuse the hypothetical _ circumstances under which Jight wines and beer might be made an exception to the Constitution and law or the viewpoint of the “wet” who makes no distinction be- tween one kind of intoxicant or an- other and says the whole thing is an (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) Ship Bill Foes Win Battle to Block Final Vote Proponents of the administration shipping bill lost a strategic battle today, the Senate voting 44 to 42 not to table a motion by Senator Ladd, republican, North Dakota, to lay aside the shipping legislation and take up the filled-milk bill. EX-DRY AGENT CALLED T0 DOOR AND KLLED By the Associated Press. + CLEVELAND, Ohio, February 19.— Carl Metta, thirty-four, until recently a government prohibition agent and who, in_his three years of federal service, had made himself thoroughly feared by local {llicit whisky runners, was summoned to the door of his home at daylight and shot to death, apparently by a bootlegger enemy, police believe. The assassin fired three shots, two through the head and one into the lung. Metta quit the federal service last October, rather than accept a trans- fer to Toledo; because his family lived here. Since that time Metta has been & deputy marshal in enforcement of prohibition, for D. J. Zinner, mayor of Fairview village, & suburb, and police'bélleve thatithe man who slew him was among those Metta had ar- rested recently in Zinners service. 'l'lhs slayer escaped without leaving & clue. Answering a knock at the door, Metta evidently recognized his caller, for Mrs. Metta heard her husband ask: “Have you been ‘pinched’ again?" Then she heard a man order her hus- band to “Put up your hands!" and then the three shots. When Mrs. Metta reached the-door her_ husband was " Take The Star 5:30 Edition Along Home With You .. It has the last: word about all;the affairs of the day—reliably: feported. Featuring especially Finan- cial and-Sports:News and the Court Program for tomorrow. the Baltimore and’ Ohlo railroad. || owever, these are not occupled by any government ‘activity. They are squares 682, bounded. by the plaza. Delaware avenue, 1st and D streets northeast, and square 684, bounded by New Jersey avenue, C, D and.1st streets northesst. ~ The Baltimore For Sale by newsboys and m‘fllflm‘hm tln'cl_ty ~(Ocutioued on Page 3,-Columa 33 Sunday’s Circulation, ment because the power of the fed- . L 1 Senator New Out Of Running for Dr. Work’s Post President Harding was said by his friends today to have virtual- ly decided not to appoint Senator Harry 8. New of Indlana to a place in the cabinet. For a time the Indiana senator, who failed of renomination and re- tires from the Senate on March 4, was under consideration as a suc- cessor to Postmaster General Work when the latter is transferred to the Interior portfollo. It was in- dicated today, however, that Mr. New probably would be given some other place. He may be made Gov- ernor of Porto Rico, succeeding E. Mont Relly, who has resigned. The President's reported inten- tion to make Mr. New Postmaster General developed _ opposition among some Indiana republicans, | and today Representative Will R. Wood of that state, who 15 chair- , man of the republican congres- sional committee, made a formal | protest to President IHarding. { | SURPLUS DISPOSAL PLAN IS INDORSED Senate Committee Reports Favorably Phipps Proposal as to $4,438,000 Fund. | | ‘The Phipps proposal to carry out the recommendation of the congres- sional joint committee in regard to the $4,438,000 free surplus District revenues now in the Treasury was reported favorably to the Senate today. Senator Ball today polled the com- mittee on the Phipps amendment and submitted the report of the commit- tee, following its signature by the members. The Phipps amendment is to be offered to the third deficlency appro- priation bill when that measure comes to the Senate from the House.| It was referred to the District com- mittee o that a standing commit- tee of the Bcnate might pass upon it and give it privileged status. Under the rules of the Senate, after being favorably reported by a standing committee, it will be in order to offer the Phipps amendment to an appro- priation bill. BIENNIAL LOG-JAM INPEDES CONGRESS BY N. 0. MESSENGER. The Sixty-seventh Congress enters today upon the closing fortnight of its existence, with the prospect of the remaining twelve legislative days before the 4th of March being full of incident and -endeavor. The biennial log-jam of legislation prior to the! constitutional ending of a Congress !s forming in the legislative waters, with the certainty that a number of bills will not go down the chute, but will be left high and dry. Main interest centers about the mer- chant marine bill, of course, the pres- ent stage of its prospects taking on the aspect of a fascinating gamble. The odds would be classed as against its passage by the Senate, but with enough chance existing to warrant taking a sporting risk upon. House to Act on Farm Credits. ‘While the Senate is in the throes of this great struggle the House will devote its attention during this week to the subject of farm credits legis- lation, to the proposed constitutional amendment advancing the date of in- auguration and the meeting of Con- gress and to a great mass of bills deemed of high importance. No prospect of an extraordinary session looms at this time. Only the fallure of one of the great govern- ment supply bills would be deemed by the President, according to re- peated statemen{s at the White House, sufiiclent to summon the next Cong: into being before the first Monday in next December, the con- stitutional date for its automatic assembling. shape now, the two most important of those remaining unenacted—the Army and the legislative—schduled for completion this week. In the 1ast hours a final deficlency bill will be sent to the President for signa- ture. It is hoped to agree upon the con- ference report on the British debt bill and have it in the President's hands by the end of this week. The Norris resolution submitting an amendment to the Constitution relat- ing to inauguration and Congress' meeting date will be escorted into the i House by a special rule assuring its| prompt consideration. ——— 98,522 TWO CENTS. _ ZHLMAN PLEADS FOR HOUSE ACTION ON TEACHERS' PAY Women Crowd Corridor as He Seeks Another Day From Committee. DECISION IS DUE TODAY, FOLLOWING CONFERENCE First Increase Since 1906, Reper- sentative Emphasizes—Appeal Gains Support. While a large delegation of womer, representing {mportant organizations, 8tood in the corridor outside of the rules committee room today. Representative Fred N. Zihlman of Maryland made & strong plea to that committee for an- other day in the House to be devoted particularly to the teachers' salary bill, He was strongly supported by Repre- sentative Willlam A. Rodenberg of I nols and Representative Royal C. John- son of South Dakota, both members of the rules committee. The committes is meeting this afterncon to declis what actfon it will take on this and other pleas made to It for tims on the important pending legislation before Congress adjourns, In Behalf of Foecht. Representative Zihlman appeared in behalf of the House District commit- tee fn the absence of Chairman Focht, whose wife Is 1ll in Garfleld Hospltal, urging action upon the resolutlon in- troduced by unanimous direction of the House District committee seeking for another day for District legisla- tion for the mpeclal object of passing the teachers' salary bill epresentative Zillman emphasized that this will be the first increase granted the teachers since 1306. He Baid that the District commlitice unanimously favored the legislation and is & unit in demanding an op- portunity to call this measure up iu the House. Losing Best Teachers. Representative Zihlman showed tha committee that the District schoo!s are losing the best class of teachers and that it is imposible to get train- ed recruits on account of the inade- quate salaries. After tho hearing was aver Repre- sentative Johnson told the group of organized women who were walting in the corrldo¥, “We #té going to put this legiclation through because v have the votes to do-it:” . When Representative Zthiman had made his statement of the case, Chait~ man Campbell of the. rules commit- tee asked why this measure had not been passed sooner. Representative Rodenberg volun- teered the Information that ir was because “we have madé a foot ball out of District day.” He pointed out that the District’ has lost at least four days in the House on account of deaths, legislation of pressing gen- eral importance and other reusons. “Ilive in Cleveland Park,” he told the committee, “and had to take my boy out of school because he was thers only half the time. I want my boy to have more a 50 per cent education,” Representative Rodenberg said. Far From Model Representative Rodenberg warned the committee 'that tho schools of the District are far from belng the model Institution that we boast about. He sald that the teachers are receiving very low pay and that out in his country the public schools are paying 30 to 50 per cent more to teachers. “This is a matter of great importance and needs immediate at- tention” he said. Chairman Campbell said that he agreed and was enurely sympathetio to the legislation but was trying to find out why actlon had not been had sooner. He smd to his own personal knowledse it was impossible two years ago to get through the corridor to his own office on account of delegations of women demanding just such legislation. Representative Johnson criticized the District of Columbla for taking up time in the House with other matters which provoked consider- able debate. Representative Zihlman pointed out that on last District day the 14th street extension bill was call- ed up late in the day when a personal filibuster was conducted by Repre- sentative Manuel Herrick and after time had been consumed by eulogies on Lincoln’s anniversary. Agreed on Legislation. Representative Zihlman explained that the teachers' salary bfll had been passed only thirty days ago by the Scnate and that it teok a ilttle time to get consideration in the House committee, and that officials, teachers and the parents all agreed upon the legislation. Representative Rodenberg called the attention of the committee that there was a large gathering of woman delegates of important asso- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3. Charges New York Clique Buys And Sells Influence in Congress Charges that a clique of lawyers in New York city buy and sell the Influ- ence of senators and representatives without their knowledge was made today before the House rules commit- tee by Chairman Albert Johnson of the House immigration committee. _ *“There is in New York city,” said Mr, - Johnson, “a place absoluetly known as the ‘den of forty thiev & buflding full of lawyers who make a living representing to persons that for stated sums they can obtain the influence of members of Congrese. Pald 31000 for “Influemce.” “I know of one case where friends of an immigrant were told that for $1,000 the influence of a cértain mem- ber of the House could be had to get the immigrant into the country under bond. I know that the member of the ‘House has no knowledge of this mat- ter. These lawyers got the money and got the man in undoer bond with- ! l | out ever going near the representa- tive whose Influence they claimed they could obtain.” “Why hasn't that, case been prose- cuted?” agked Chairman Campbell. “Tt will be prosecuted,” replied Mr. Johnson, “just as soon as possible. “It should have been prosecuted without delay,” declared Mr. Camp- bell. - “This is a _matter of vital im- portance to every member of Cone gress.” Only One of Many Cases. Chairman ' Johnson returned that this wag only one of many cases that had been called to his attention and that he was working on them “night and day.” The immigration committes chalr- man was explaining the provisions of the proposed new immigration re- striction law, for which he was.urg- ing privileged status in the House. He déclared that this law would do away with:-the practice of admitting aliens unler bond, and that he be- lfeved that 1f the House passed it Senate action could be obtained bee fore the end of this session of Cone gresa’ g