Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1924, Page 1

WEATIIER. Increasing cloudiness and night: followed by rain lat tomorrow. Temperature [ ended at today: Hi . at 6:30 warmer to- © tonight or or hours ghest, ), at to- Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 Entered as second-clas: Washingto: post_office E CONFER WITH PARTY CHIEFS AS SENATE NEARS | DENBY QUSTERVOTE -Course to Be Followed if Resignation Demand Is . Adopted Discussed by President With Aides. | i | NAVY HEAD’S FOES SURE OF VICTORY LATE TODAY | Debate Grows Bitter as Hour for] Action Nears—Spencer Declares | Secretary Acted in Good Faith in’ Leasing of Naval Oil Reserves.| Seeretary Weeks, after a lunch- eon conference with President Coolidge, during which they dis- cussed the Robinson resolution re- wuesting the President to ask for the resignation of Secretary Den- by, made this statement: So far as 1 know, the cabinet will remain inta With growing bitterness, the Senate debate on the resolution asking for | the resignation of Secretary Denby entercd todauy upon its final stage The attack on Secretary Deuby for his part in the leasing of the oil reserves was the subjeet of much ¢ sultation today among administration - officials. - ¥acing a probability that the Sen- ate would adopt before tonight a ! resolution asking that the Navy Se retary resign from the cabinet, Sen- ators Lodge and Curtis, the republis can Senate leaders, visited the White ouse and talked over the whole sit- uation with the President, Tater Secretary Weeks, for cloke friend of Mr. Denby luncheon conference with Mr. Cool- jdge. Mr. Wecks, who conferred on the subject Saturday with Mr. Denby, also was consulted during the day by Secretary Slemp. _ The only statement authorized at the White House was that no action relative to Mr. Denby's connection with the oil leases would be taken | prior to action by the Senate on the Robinson resolution now before it ‘What would follow adoption of the | resolution was a aquestion White House officials refused to discu Heretofore. officials have held t the Senate, in requesting the resigns fion of a cabinet member, would acting without authority. The power of Congress in_such matters, they have maintained, is limited o im- peachment. Spencer Opens Debate. + The resolution pending before the Senate when it reconvened today was that of Senator Robinson of @as, the democratlc leader, President Coolidge to request Sce tary Denby to resign. A substitute, merely oxpressing an opinion that his resignation would serve the pub- lic interest, had been presented by Senator Jones, republican, Wash- ington. Opening _the final day of debate, Senator Spencer, republicun, Mis- scuri, opposed tlie Robinson resol tion on the ground that it was “quasi | judicial decision upon an uncomplet- ed inquiry,” and grossly unfair to the | secretar: “The wholec matter still is in hands of our committee,” he “and no formal report of any sort has been had from it. y “Therc has been not the slizhtest dence of corruption on the part of Mr. Denby, or, in fact, any evidence that he had any knowle of an fllezal action. The whole s for this resolution is that he misinter- preted a law which we, ourselves, en- acted.” Analyzes Law Involved. Analyzing the act of June 4. 1920, avy authority over Senator Spencer said it might easily be interpreted as giv- ing the Sccretary the power to ex- tract the oil. “You_cannot ‘develop’ an oil field except by taking out the oil.” he said. “Nor can you ‘usc’ the conténts with- out_bringing the oil to the surface. “Wg¢ gave him the power, clearly stated, to ‘develop by lease or con- tract, as he saw fit, and then went further and added ‘or otherwise.’ Senator Harreld, republican, of Oklahoma, asked if he did not think | the purpose was to restrict this authority to a time when oil was | i ' t in Column ; s nothing of (Continued on Page RAIL LABOR FIGHTS NAMING POMERENE Officials of Three Organiza- | tions Before Senators Probing Oil Leases. ) Officials of three railroad labor or- #anizations appeared before the Sen- ate oil committee today to oppose the | uomination of “Atlee Pomerene of Ohio as special counsel for the gov- ernment in the oil lease suitx After they had concluded their statements, the committes called both Mr..Pomerene and his colleague, Silas . Strawn of Chicago, before it. The railroad labor oflicials who ap- peared were J. Paul Stephe yresident of the Brotherhooc voad Trainmen: W. M. CI yresident of the Order of Railroad Conductors, and J. J. Forrester of the Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks. rge Experience Lacking. They said they had opposed Mr. Pomerene on the ground that he had not had sufficient experience in hipdling that sort of litigation. 'he committee adjourned until to- morrow without reaching a decision on the nominations. Chajrman Len- MCRRY RE AS COMMANDER OF | air i the | tary | that command and “deiached from all { nurse.” | tion. ! famillarize themselves with the opera- { tions of the station and airship before {URGES POSTPONING | matter D' C 27 JAVA FANATICS SLAIN | IN CLASH WITH POLICEl One Dutch Officer Also Killed | When Religious Band Tries to Proclaim New Regime. thie Associated Press. | BATAVIA, Java, February 11.—One Duteh police oflicer and twenty-seven native religious fanatics were lkilled | and many others wounded in a riot yesterday at Tangerang, near Welt: vreden. The trouble begun when forty-one fanatics, armed with swords and knives, declured the: hed to pro- claim a new kingdom of Mount Gedeh. Native police, under the direction of Dutch police’ officials, attempted to the funatics and severe fight- ing occurred before the police gained the upper hand. LIEVED i U.5.S. SHENANDOAH Lieut. Commander Zachary Lansdowne Takes Charge of Airship at Lakehurst. | i i Sweeping changes in the personnel rs at the Lakehurst, N, J.!| and others ussigned to Shenandoah, including | relief of her commanding offi- | cer, Conunander 1. R MeCrary, have been made by Rear Admiral William | A. Moffett, chief of the Navy aeronau- tical bureau, and approved by Secre- | Denby. ! Orders dirceted to Commander Me- | Crury said that “upon being relleved | by Lieut. Commander Zachary Lans- downe, as commanding officer of the ! U. 8. S. Shenandouh, you will regard | yourself detuched from all duties! on boaurd that airship.” the Expect Sea Assignment. Commander MeCrary, who has been in charge of the Lakehurst air sta- tion, was also ordered relleved from present duties Orders are expected to be sued at an early date as-! signing him to sea duty. ! Commander J. H. Kleln also was ordered “detiched from ail duties on the Shenandoah and as executive offi cer of the naval station at Lake- He will assume command of the Lakehurst station. In addition, Commander Klein was ussigned to additional duty under training in rigid airships, and in- formed that his existing designation e student naval aviator will re- Instructions to Plerce. Lieut. Commander Maurice R. Pierce was detached from temporary additional duty on board the Shenan- | doah, und instructed to continue his| regular duties at the Lakehurst sta- Orders to Licut. Commander Lans- | downe sald i “You arc hereby detached from duty | in the bureau of aeronautics; proceed | to such place as the U. S. S. Shenan- doah may be and report on board that airship for duty as commanding of- | ficer of that ship, relieving Com- mander McCrary. You will further | report by letter to Rear Admiral Mot- fett for additional duty in connection with the Navy Arctic_expedition. mmander Ralph D. Weyerbacher, construction officer of the Shenan- was detached “from all duties,” Lakehurst station and “in con- with the U. S. S. Shenan- e will be assigned to another station 2s yet undetermined. Others are Relieved. Other officers relieved and trans- ferred included Lieut. B. H. Kincaid | and Lieut. Commander J. M. Deem, | who was detached from all duty on]‘ the Shenandoah and ordered to re- | port to Commander Klein of the| Lakehurst station for ncw assign- ment to duty. Licut. Commander B. G. Leighton, on duty with the bureau of aeronau tics, was ordered to report to Lieut. Commander Landsdowne for duty as | senior engineering officer of the, Shenandoah. Commander Lansdowne. commanding | ofticer of the Shenandoah, has had ex? | tensive experience in dirigible construc- tion work and i a_ qualified air pilot. | He was the official observer for the | Navy on the British airship R-34, when | it made a successful flight from Eng- land to the United States. He was later assigned to duty at the Zeppelin plant in Germany, where the dirigible ZR-3 now is being constructed for the TUnited States Navy. Navy Department- officials made pub- lic the changes without comment, but it was indicated that they had been made with a view of eliminating such fric- tion as has developed at Lakehurst and to placo others in charge so they might the Shenandoah leaves for her polar expedition. ! SHENANDOAH FLIGHT German Expert Says There Is Not Time for , Sufficient i Preparation. | By Radio to The Star aud Philadelphia Pub- lie Ledger. Copyright, 1924 BERLIN, February 11.—Maj. August von Parseval, leading German aero- nautical expert and the Inventor of the semi-rigid dirigible adopted by the German and British armies before the war, discussing the chances of the projected Amundsen and Amer- ican polar flights, declared his beliet that the expedition with the Shenan- doah had far greater chances of success. The American Shenandoah project is of far greater importance, though in von Parseval's opinion the Shenan- doah is too small to carry the neces- sary equipment for the crew to os- cape from the Arctic on foot in case the airship breaks down or is forced to land in the polar, wastes. He - earnestly warned, however, against attempting the flight this ! Former Official | panies of infantry, a machine-gun | { company, 1(hlrty-thlnl division {Carlos Black, state adjutant general, ! Flaming Circle, a faction to oppose f Williamson county ¢ Fh WASHINGTON ARREST EX-MAYOR INHERRIN MURDER Had Justi Been Sworn in as Jury Fore- ! man to Probe Crime. —_— | | By the Associated Press. HERRIN, Ill, TFebruary Former Mayor A. T. Pace was arrest-| ed today on a warrant charging mur- | der after he had been sworn in as| foreman of the coroner’s jury to in-! vestigate the killing Friday night of Constable Caesar Cugle, “dry raid leader.” Fuce was charged with com- plicity in Cagle's death. Turbulent Willlamson county. scene | two years ago of the massacre of | more than a score of non-union coal ! miners and lately of an Internecine | warfare between “dry” Ku Klux Klan | an@ ‘“wet” anti-Klan factions, today faces the prospect of a declaration of martial law and a strike of ap- proximately 4,000 bituminous miners employed in twenty-seven mines, i 11— | More Guardsmen Due. | It is belicved generally that with | the arrival of additional national guardsmen the county's law enforce- | ment will pass into the hands of the | military instead of having them act as now under. the direction of W. Il McCowan, held to be the only county | officer functioning as such. State troops en route here will| Dbring the total in Williamson county | to approximately 1,700. The troops ordered to proceed here include the 130th Infantry, composed of southern Illinois units, and the 132d Infantry, made up of Chicagoans. At present there are five companies of guardsmen in Herrin; three com- | one troop of cavalry on foot. and a headquarters company at Marion, and three unmounted troops of cavalry and a headquarters com- | pany at Johnsten City. Veteran in Comma: Maj. Gen. Milton J. Foreman of Chicago, who was a colonel in the| in the world ar, will command the troops order- cd into Williamson county. Gen. Foreman was ordered here because ' he is a lawyer as well as soldier, said who also is here. No untoward incident occurred last night in' Willlamson county, accord- ing to reports to the military author- ities here carly this morning. The troops have placed machine guns in strategic positions in the three towns over which they are exercising mili- tary control, and guards have been thrown about the courthouse at Mar- ion, and the city hall and hospital here. 300 Citisen Deputies. The citizen police deputized by S. Glenn Young, acting chief of police of Herrin and an admitted paid em- ploye of the Ku Klux Klan, continued their patrol of Herrin ‘streets last} night and this morning. Youns ! stated he had deputized about 300 | such men. Regular police badges for that number were not available, so a tinsmith fashioned a number of six- ointed tin stars as an emblem of their aul":“;:!ltayynunx who led the series of “dry” raids in_Willlamson county which resulted in the arrests of ap- proximately 2,000 persons and the formation of the Knights of the the Klan dry raiders, and it was in a flareup of the intense feeling engen- ! dered by Young's activities that Caesar Cagle, constablo of Herrin, | was killed Thursday night and feeling reached a high .pitch which necessi- tated the soldiers being ordered into for the second time within a month. HONDURAS QUIET: Revolt Has Not Developed Serious Fighting, Is Report. The situation in Honduras remains in doubt, but State Department ad- vices indicate that the reyolutionary movement has not as yet developed into serious fighting. e TROTSKY REPORTED BETTER. MOSCOW, February 11.—War Min- ister Trotsky, who has been lil at Tiflis, is improving, according to word recelved at the Kremlin. He root 8ald there were 310 other persoms | year. as the time is too shért for tire | will return to Moscow before his two- W be beard in oppusition. uecessary preparations, { moith Fekve: expires. {und 2 GUARDS | He added that he believed the plot ! them, hand to hand, and threw them | were soon in the thick of the fight ¢ erng ’ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, MONDAY, SPEECH OF COOLIDGE WILL BE BROADCAST ‘WCAP and WEATF to Join in Send- ing Out Important Political Address Tomorrow Night. President Coolidge’s speech at the | National Republican Club banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in W York tomerrow night will be broad- cast jointly by stations WCAP in| Washington and W New York. it was announced to Chesay, peake and Potomac Telephone Company officers, This is the first address to call him from Washington since Mr. Coolidge umed the presidency. In view of the ecent political devolopments and the an- noun of Mr. Coolidge, it is expected that his address will be of the utmost significance and im- portance. . Senator Wadsworth of New York ! te Senator Elsberg, also will | speak ut the banquet. KILLED INPRISON RIOTING 1,000 Prisonérs Attack Offi- cers—Gateway Wrecked in Pittsburgh Penitentiary. | | | By the Associated Press. | PITTSBURGH, February 11.—Two prison officers were shot to death and a number of convicts were wound- ed, more or less seriously, today a riot at the Western penitentiary. \ After an hour's fight, during which |y riot guns, tear gas bombs, clubs and bricks were used, the prison guard, assisted by the county detectives and Pittsburgh police force, succeeded in quelling the disturbance, which start- ed when the convicts used explosives in an effort! to dynamite their way to freedom. No prisoner escaped. Tho dead are: William Pieffer, as- sistant deputy warden. J. A. Coax, an overseer. Warden J M. Egan reported that the plot was born in the minds of four or five “bad men” recently trans- ferred to the prison here from th Eastern penitentiary to be disciplined. 1 was engineered by a quartet of con: | viets known as “The Four Horsemen.” They had help from the outside, the warden declared. ‘Wall Blown Away. Prisoners, numbering more than 1,000, had just breakfasted and were about to go to their tasks in the work- shops when the blast ripped the main gates and 2 section of the wall, rocked the entire Woods Run district, shat- tered windows and caused residents to flee from their homes. Pieffer and Coax were nearby. They started on a run for the hole in the wall, but were intercepted by fifteen convicts who, disarmed them, beat them and then shot the officers with their own guns. _The prison yard became a battle ground as other prigoners and other guards joined in the fight. The guards Concentrated near the gates and threat- ening the prisoners with the sawed off shotguns, ordered them to their cells. But the explosion had signalized an at- tempt to escape, and with liberty in sight they were stubborn and showed fight. . Send for Hel Even the prisoners in their cells added their voices to the contusion, shouting and beating upon the walls | and bars and crying defiantly to the guards in the tiers. A few of these convicts got loose, but the guards met back-intd the cells. When it became evident that the guards in the yards were not faring &0 well a call for help went out to the city, and the county and city officers With this large force at his dis- posal Warden Egan took command. He stationed the county detectives on the walls while guards and patrolmen took up the battle in the inclosure, The prisoners used pistols and any- thing else lying around loose. The officers, trained to handle such men, bore in and soon. got the upper hand. The convicts were backed against one of the}firly stone walls, and after a brief and-to-hand struggle the prisoners gave up. They were driven back to their cells, and Warden Egan immediately called together the prison board so that the leaders of the re- volt could be punished without delay. ! 4 FEBRUARY 1 COOLIDGE IS READY FOR NEW YORK TRIP :Speech Tomorrow Night Seen Important Step in Fight for Nomination. s were completed at White Iouse today for Presi- dent Coolldge’s trip to New York to- morrow, where he {s to make a brief ddress late in the afternoon at the pening of the new quarters of the Women's National Republican Club, and u longer address in the evening ,at the Linecoln day banquet of the National Republican Club. The FPresident will be accompanied by Mrs. Coolidge, Bascom Slemp, his secretary; E. T. Clark. his personal secretary; Commander Joel T. Boone, White House physictan: Representa. tive and Mrs. Snell and E. C. Geisa- ner. The party will occupy a special car, to be attached to the rear of a regularly scheduled train that will Jeave the Union Station about 11:30 in the morning and which is expected to arrive in New York shortly before 5 o'clock. The return trip to Wash- ington will start about midnight, the party arriving in the Capital early Wednesday morning. First Politieal Speech. The presidential party on arriving in New York tomorrow will go di- rectly to the Women's National Re- ublican Club and after spending bout ha!f an hour there will go to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where the executive will rest prior to attending the Lincoln day Lanquet in the same jhotel, which will startabout § o'clock. speech that the President is to r 4t the bunquet will be his first ninely Wolitical utterance since ing President, and will be taken * many as the keynote of his cam- paign for the presidency. While his address will primarily serve as a eculogy of Abraham Lin- coln, the President, it is known he will take occasion (o express himself clearly and forcibly on a number of national and political issues. Has Bearing om Race. It is the opinion of many of the President’s intimates that this speech will be the most important one he { will make prior to the Cleveland con- vention and that it will necessarily have a most vital bearing upon his candidacy. It is not thought likely that Pres- ident Coolidge will leave Washing- ton for any length of time this win- ter as has been anticipated by friends of the President. At least this is the opinion of those who have been with the President lately and have approached him regarding a_ “little trip south” to play and rest. To such inquiries the President is represented |as having replied to the effect that there are far too many matters of great importance pending in Wash- ington that require his personal at- tention and presence here to permit him to even think of leaving the job for only a few days. Phipps Gives Invitatien. Senator Phipps of Colorado was discussing the possibilities of a southern trip with the President to- day and when he left the White House he said he felt very confident that Mr. Coolidge has abandoned any idea he may have had of taking a short vacation between now and spring. Senator Phipps said that at the re- quest of the officlals of Augusta, Ga., he extended to the President today an invitation to be the guest o honor of that city in the cvent that he should go south. Senator Phipps ex- plained that the last time he was in Augueta he was requested to give Mr. Coolidge this invitation. Richard Washburn Child, who re- cently resigned as ambassador to Italy, and who retires from the diplo- matic service tomorrow, called on President Coolidge today to pay his respects. Mr. Child will hold his con- cluding conference with Secretary of State Hughes tomorrow. BALDWIN RE-ELECTED. Again Unanimously Chosen as Con- servatives’ Leader. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 11.—Stanley Baldwin was unanimously re-elected leader of the conservative party to- day. e DEAN OF CARLISLE DIES. LONDON, February 11.—The death is announced of Very Rev. Hastings Rashdall, dean of Carlisle since 1917 land a famous modernist churchman. He was sixty-six years of age. Dean Rashdall was a noted lecturer at Oxford and published a number of works, chiefly op doctrinal subjects. Star. 1924—THIRTY PAGES. TRICUT MEASIR PRESENTED WITH 3 MINORITY REPORTS Provides for Complete Reve- nue Revision and 1923 In- come Rate Reduction. MONTH’S DEBATE DUE, HOUSE MEMBERS THINK Eleven Republicans, Democrats and Frear Bring in Different Opinions on Proposed Reductions. The revenue hill was formally re- ported to the House today by the ways and means gommittee, which has | had it under consideration since the opening of Congress. The mrasure will be taken up for consideration on Thursday with about a month of de- bato in prospect before it will be passed. The bill as reported by Chalrman Green, provides for complete revision of the federal taxes and a 25 per cent reduction in the 193 personal income taxes payable this year. Three other reports were tnade, however, the dif- ferences centering on the income rates, with particular reference to the surtax edule. which was re- ported on the lines recommended by Secretary MeDon. Eleven republicans submitted one of the additional reports, arguing more vigorously for the 25 per cent surtax maximum than did the chairman, who | has openly suipported a maximum rall" of 35 per cent. The eleven were Representatl Hawley, Oregos Treadway, ssachusetts; . Youns, North Dakota; Tilson, Connecticut; Bacharach, New 8 Hadley, Washington; W Mills, New York; blom, Illinois, York. i and Crowther, Frear Files Report. Representative Frear of Wisconsin, republican insurgent, submitted a separate report arguing for retention of the present surtax maximum of 50 per cent and a greater cut in the nor- mal taxes, while Representatives Mc- Laughlin, Michigan, and Timberlake, Colorado, the other republicans on the committee, abided by the report! of the chairman, The eleven democratic members of | the committee signed the other report, which places the suFtax maximum at 44 per cent and calls for greater cuts | in the mormal income tax rates than | provided for in the Mellon schedules. | Ghairman Green, In submitting the committee report, which was adopted | by a strict party vote in the commit- tee—although three of the repu Means, including Mr. Green. are known | to favor its amendment—declares the income tax reductions provided for in | the bill as submitted will bring an annual saving to taxpayers estimated | at $341,440,000 after it is in full o eration, as compared with the est mated 1923 income returns, together with an estimated reduction of $2 000 in 1923 personal income taxes payable this year. Redaction in Revenue. | The reduction in estimated revenue | will be distributed as follows: Nor- mal tax, $91,600,000; surtaxes, $101.-1 802 900: ecarned income, $89,500,000, ! and miscellaneous or war excise taxes, many of which were repealed, | $108,040,000. This will be offset by increases resulting from limitations| put upon capital losses and certain deductions limited to tax-free in-| come, which, it is estimated. will bring in $49,500,000 additional revenue | annually. The normal tax on the first $4,000 of taxable income ix reduced from 4 (Conuinued on Page 3, Column 3.) EDERAL SOLDIERS = . { Take Possession of Mexican Port After Evacuation by Huerta Troops. { | By the Associated Press. i VERA CRUZ, Mexico, February 11. —Mexican government troops arrived in Vera Cruz at 10:45 o'clock this morning, taking possenssion of the city after its recent evacuation by the rebels. ‘WIN VICTORY IN WEST. Federals Cross Lerma River Under Heavy Fire. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, February 11.—Fol- lowing closely upon their success on the Vera Cruz fromt, government forces have achieved an overwhelm- | ing victory in the west, defeating the rebels on the banks of the River| Lerma mear Ocotlan after eleven hours of furious fighting, a mes- sage from President Obregon states: | Federals crossed the Lerma near| its mouth on the eastern side of | Lake Chapala, gaining a foothold for 2 continuation of their march against Cuadalajara, the rebel stronghold to the northwest. The rebels, President Obregon's message states, had fortified the right bunk of the river, and, aided by the natural advantages of the position, put up & Stiff resistance. The gov | ernment troops moved to the assault Saturday morning, crossed the river over a bridge made of barrels-and | pneumatic tires, under heavy 'rebel fire, and attacked the fortified heights, which they nicknamed “Death’s Balcony.” Aviators bom- barded: the rebel positions, in some cases flying as low as 100 feet over the trenches. The fighting continued until 6 o'clock at night, when the rebels are declared fo have hoisted a white flag and sounded bugles calling for a parley. Heavy casualties were suffcred by both sides. the federals losing 300 in kllled and wounded. | continued, | ministration including ENTER VERA CRUZ ; | than you expected, but 1 do not think | +and possessed tion is delive; “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- red to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday's Circulation, 98,150 Sunday’s Circulation, 112,108 R —— * TWO CENTS SINCLAIR TO EMBARK FOR AMERICA TOMORROW' Courier Carrying Tickets for Pass- age on President Harding. Formalities to Be Waived. By the Associated Pre PARIS, February 11.—Harry F. Sin- clair is expected to embark on the steamship President Harding at Southampton for New York tomorrow. He and his party left Paris last cve- ning for London, and the steamship company is sending a courier to Cher- bourg with tickets for them. mean- while telegraphing an authorization to the steamship officials at South- ampton to permit the party to board the steamer without the usual pas- sage papers. CLASSIFYING BOARD SCORED BY EXPERT; ABOLITION IS URGED Meriam of Research Institute! Would Give Work to Civil Service Body. Abolition of the cation board and duties to the Civil sion are rccommended sentative Lehlbach of New Jersey, chairman of the House committec on reform in the civil service, by Lewis | Meriam of the Institute for Govern- ment Research in u special report upon u survey of the minutes and records of the personnel tion board. Summarizing his recommendations, | Mr. Meriam stuted: “The personaly classification board should be abol- ished and its duties transferred to ome other agency that has the public confidence and respect. The ageney recommended is the United States Civil Service Commission. “In the interest of harmony, econ- omy and efliciency,” the summary “all central personal ad- the establish- ment and maintenance of systems of | eficiency ratings should De placed | under one agency, the Civil Service Commission. Sees Two Remedies. Mr. Meriam states that as far as! he can see only two legl personal classifi- transfer of it ice Commis to Repre classifica- in cdies for the situation are available| and states them as follows: “1. A resolution directing the board to make a new allocation for the District of Columbia to Classes, established and defined under the grades, and to submit a renort for the field gervices containing compen- ation schedules consisting of defini tions of services and grades to be gccompanied by class specifications n the form prescribed by section 3 of the act. 2. An amendment to the act abol- ishing the personnel classification board and transferring all its pow. ers and duties to the Civ Commission or sonie other one agency nossessed of public confidence and| respect and competent to handle mat- | ters relating to personnel. If such a transfer is made all jurisdiction efficiency ratings should bej to the Civil Service Commis- Attacks Board's Record, Speaking of the personnel clas cation board, Mr. Meriam states: record to date is such that no on hold it in high regard. It would even seem preferable to have the whoele classification job frankly assigned to the burcau of efiiciency than to con- tinue the present farcc of a board | that_is scarcely functioning at_all.| Mr. Moffett and the Civil Service Com- ! mission should either he entircly re- Jieved of ail responsibility for a job | that they cannot indorse or commend, | or clse the commission should b | given full undivided responsibility | with respect at least to classific ion | proper. ome other arrangement, conceiv- ably, might be arrived at with re- spect to fixing the salaries for the| eral classes of positions after the fication is complete. The Civil ! 7 fon is the onl agenc. shown any | \' N ~al conception of the re quirements of the “The Civil Servic present constituted great opportunitics service and it o be trusted with the whole ification job. In | my opinion nothing in its long record | reflects greater credit upon it than the record of its representative on this otherwise hopeless personnel | classification board, Callx Board Failure. In his letter transmitting his find- ings, made at the request of Repre- sentative Lehlbach, Mr. Meriam stated: “In making recommendations 1 may have gone somewhat further Commission as @ ix realizing its for constructive any one who has given time and ef- fort to securing & good system of personnel administration can examine these records in detail without arriv- ing at the conviction that the person- nel classification board is a failure | and that the administration of the classification act should be given to Gome competent ugency qualified to deal with personnel administration of public confidence and respect. I recommend the Civil | Service Commission as the agency fulfilling the requirements.” ‘Summarizing the situation with re- spect to classification in the District of Columbia, Mr. Merfam reported that the minutes and records regard- ing the classification of the positions in the District reveal the following: “1. By a two-to-one vote the rep resentative of the bureau of the bud- get voting with the representative (Continued on Page 13, Column e GRIFFIS BACK INU. S.; | HONORED IN NEW YORK, | Man Who Tried to Kidnap Berg- doll Given Reception at City Hall. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 11.—Corliss Hooven Griffis of Hamilton, Ohio, who was released recently from prison in Mosbach, Germany, after serving part { fect good fa lagreement previou ADOO, DEFENDING POST WITH DOHENY, SAYS FOES AIMED TOHURT CANDIDAGY Democratic Candidate, on Stand in Senate Probe, Holds Connection With 0il Firm Perfectly Proper. WARM APPLAUSE GREETS APPEARANCE AT HEARING Glad Name Brought Out, But Was Indignant at Method Used. Says Former Employer Appears Guilty—Was Never Asked foi Advice on Leases. In an atmosphere surcharged with political tension, William G. McAdoo faced the Senate oil committce to- day and cxplained his connection ith the Doheny interests. At the very outset he read a pre- pared statement charging that had hie not been “prominently mentioned in connection with high office,” his iname never wouid have been brougit into the inquiry. He declared he had acted in per- in accepting a re- tainers’ fee as counsel for Doheny after he left the cabinet, and in the course of a long cross-examination reasserted forcibly over and over his assertions that the attack made on him had been purely political. Mr. McAdoo declured that he h. severed his professional relati with M. Doheny on February alter the oil mugnate las the committee. that the matte irrelevant to the subject-m: f your inquiry,” he said i “but 1 ha to come here and giv uch use and for such have in the vestigation.” ¥ value as the pursuit of your i Greeted With Applause. When he appeared in the committ, room, accom David Roci well of Ohio, manager of his cari- paign for the democratic presidentiu nomination, the former Treasur Secre was greeted with a burst applause, which continued for minute or more. He smiled and bowed as he made his way to a ‘seat to await tne call of the committec. £ Senate crowd. ] sworn as all witnesses Chairman Lenroot said after he called Mr. McAdoo to the stand. Do you desire tn make u statement committee sked the chair- ter the oath had been admin- iste self under a battery of McAdoo adjusted his and replied by reading his statement. foned rator Walsh, demo- . Montana, Mr. McAdoo said he re- cned as Secretary of the Treasury mber 16, 1915, and gave up of director genera s on January T law in firm accordan the in of Cotton & o with an de. Began Service in 1919, “When did you begin service wi Mr. Doheny?" asked Senator Walsh. " was the reply. had been any ar- rangement while he wasg in the cabi- net to enter the service of Mr. Do- heny, Mr. MeAdoo replicd in the negative, adding that he had not met Mr, Doheny until after he haul retired from office. resignation as Frankiin, > had advised ican affairs, say that if t this matt added. would have gotten into this 3 Mr. McAdoo said Doheny was taken in saving that his here for the Doheny compani ed with the pas§ing of the Wilson administration. In 16 uppeared before v of State Fletcher to express the hope that the Meican policy of the Harding administration would be as vigorous as was that of the Wilson administration. Asked of Doheny “G Asked by Chairman regarded Mr. Doheny guilty” as Mr. Fall in e Lenroot if he ually as the oil leaso | matter, Mr. McAdoo said: “Not equally. But I think he's guilty of a very serious matter. Of course, 1 don't undertake to express a judgment until your evidence is mpleted. Therefore, T say it ap- former Secretary said naturally ad felt some indignation that his name had been brought into the in- tigation. 1 think any lionest man would feel precisely the same way.” or Dill, demoerat, Washington, wanted to know if Dolieny delivered the $100,00 ainer paid M Adoo's New York firm satchel. di r.” replied Mr. Mc- to me in the form ] Lenroot sajd he wished 1o explain “outside of the record” that { the questions which had been put to Mr. Doheny and which had resulted Mr. McAdoo's em- the disciosure of ployment as counsel had been at the request of ator Reed, demoerat, Missouri. “It was in these questions that your nan brought out as one of his counsel.” Chairman Lenroot said. “Do you think this committee would have been justified in refusing the request { Senator Reed?” Approves Committee Action. “No, sir,” replied Mr. McAdoo. am glad you brought it out. I hope the committee will continue its in- vestigations and bring out all the “r of a sentence for complicity in a plot to kidnap Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, American draft evader, arrived liome today on the Albert Ballin and was ven a reception at city hall. facts. T think the matter of my em- ployment is absolutely and wholly irrelevant to this inquiry, as it Is nog {Continued on Page 1, Column 2.) N