Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1924, Page 5

MARCH : : D. C, FRIDAY, : : ; 'to minimize the effect of the revela. & Senate Hotly Debates Mention Of President'in Oil Scandal Lodge Defense of President From Attacks Resented it both pleasant ana by Democrats, Who Charge G. O. P. Leader Acted Similarly Attempts to drag the oil scandal into the White House and to the desk of President Calvin Coolldge were made in the Senate debate yesterday atternoon. These were resented by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, re- publican, who entered a strong de- fense of the President and character- ized @s “trivial” the telegrams sent sdward B. McLean and signed by the Vresident, which were used as the Dasis of the attack upon Mr. Cool- idge. The President's telegrams were first mentloned in the Senate debate by enator Harrison of Mississippl. After Senator Lodge had replied to th speech, describing it as an “attack” upon the President, Senator Harrison declared it was not an attack, but that he mentioned the McLean tele- grams in the hope that the President Would explain them fully. But other democratic senators, including Sena- tor Heflin of Alabama, pursued the subject, declaring that the McLean telegrams cast suspicion on the Pres dent. Senator Harrison in his speech de- clared that when the American peo ple found out that messages signed by the President of the United States had been sent to McLean cause them further to shudder, to tremble and lose confidence—my God —in this government of ours.” Tt is bad enough,” he sald, men employed. at_the White House <end messages to Ned McLean; when he admits openly, by his confession, that he has decelved the American veople, misrepresented facts, ave, {7 that he has lled about a matter. is bad enough when messages g0 ‘10 MecLean from employes at the White House, when al! this is break: ing when the teapot is boiling over. “It {s bad, too, When secret service codes, known only to the officlals of the Department of Justice, are em- poyed pb‘y Ned McLean and the em ployes of the Department of Justice 1 communicating with each other. t when the facts are revealed that A n, while all this gullt i hegl‘Mm;td upon him, seeks the President of the United States for information and for consultation— here is the message: Brands McLean Liar. 12, 1924— AL vou, 1t was January 11, on day before this message was tran mitted, that Ed Mclean confessced that he told a falsehood when he sa he loaned to Fall the $100,000. The papers were full of it : Relf-confessed liar. Yet the very hext day, over the private wires that Jed from the White House, in which the American people place all their confidence, a message goes to McLean | at Palm Beach. This is the & - Washington, D. C. January 12, 1924 9 p.m. ‘Edward B. M “+palm Beach, Prescott is with whom 1 ®dEL, Signed) CALVIN COOLIDGE! “I hope that some real explanation can be made by the President. With the country In fever heat as it is to- day, it Is incumbent on the Pr to give a statement to remove the suspicion that attached to_that tele- Zram, not that Bascom Slemp, the Eecretary of the President, shall give out a statement, but that the Presi- dent of the United States shall him. eelt give all the facts touching it “I am aware that already there has beep sent out, or given out, from the White House two or three lines, mak- ing some nd of an explanation of cown m orida away. Advise Slemp hall confer. Acknowl- it, they think, but that is given out; Bascom Slemp by Bascom Slemp. - s appointed the man who wa < President after it was shown other house that he accepted money from applicants for appointmen postmasters, and he said he tur over to the republican national com- mittee to help pay the deficit. Bascom is the mun who went to Florida, and ho, a dozen times in hown by the testimony, ate Ned McLean, and Fall was present practically every time.” DUl Asks Question. “I want to suggest to the senator,” interrupted Senator Dill, democrat, Washington, “it it would not be in- toresting for the President to inform the country why he asked Mr. A Lean to ask Mr. Slemp, the Pres dent's private secretary, instead of asking Mr. Slemp directly. What is the relationship that Mr. McLean should be the go-between between the President and his own private ar; [ Canmot understand it at all” re turned Senator Harrison, “and I sin- cerely hope, for the good of the country, and in the interest of re- storing public confidence, that the President will feel that he should give out a statement, under his own signa- ture, and I pray that it will be plaus! ble, and that it will be thorough in explanation of .this whole transac- tion.” Lodge Answers Harrison. son's address, S the telegram was “really a perfectly one and a perfectly explicable He said the President had wanted to consult Mr. Prescott, who was chalrman of the republican com- mittee of the District of Columbia, in regard to District matters. and was informed that Mr. Prescolt was away. . “The matter required prompt ac- tion,” Senator Lodge said, “and the Prestdent wished to find out who was here who could take Mr. Pres- cott’s place and give him the in- formation he desired. He knew that Mr. Slemp would know. Mr. S was away in Florida. did not know where he was. He had been moving about and the President did not have his exact address. “It was past 9, to be exact—and the Presi- dent’s ‘other secretary had gone. He did not know whether Mr. Slemp had left Florida or mot. He knew that Mr. McLean would know where Mr. Slemp was, because he had been with him in Florida. The President, there- fore, telegraphed to Mr. McLean In order to reach Mr. Slemp for the pur- Dose of getting from him the name of the man he desired to see Washington. That is the whole story of the telegram. Says Step Natural. “The senator from Mississippl re- fers to that as something smirching bis reputation, because, I suppose, the telegram was addressed to Mr. Mc- Lean. Into that I see no need of going. I am not discussing Mr. McLean's character, but he was known to the President and it was & very natural way of reaching Mr. Slemp if he were still in Florida, which was not so. That is the whole thing." Deploring attacks upon the Presi- dent, Senator Lodge recalled that the late Senator T!liman, democrat, South - Carolina, had once assailed 'Presi- dent Cleveland, and stated that he then had protested privately to sen- ators on the democratic side. “I think the President of the Tnited States ought not to be at- tacked in this body,” Senator Lodge continued. “I think he is entitled to the tull respect of the Senate In de- bate and of all senators. He is the Bead of the government. Sees Senate Lowered. have no sympathy, I will frankly confess, with the kind of debate to which the country Has been treated | i| 4% Savings Depeits 47 in the last six weeks. I am thor- qughly ‘In faver of investigating whenever there Is good reason to be- lieve that wrong has been dome or that corruption has existed. We have committees appointed for. that purpose. But we have followed the plan here of discussing all the testi- mony and every newspaper rumor in addition, day after day, and with the character of that debate I am utterly out of sympathy. 1 think it is low- oring to the character of the Senate “it will | ‘when | id He was & ident | mp | The President | in the evening—at half- in! in Wilson Case. hour in villification of all sorts of men, whether guilty or innocent, and exchanges of personal vituperation on the floor of the Senate among sen- ators themselves. “I think it is lowering the entire char- acter of this body in the opinlon, of the people of the United States. Therefore, I have no sympathy—in fact, 1 have great dislike—for any' such attack as has ibeen made here today or any such- imputations as have been cast upon the President of the United States ut the present time. I wish, for my own part, to' make this protest against it. Not hogthing has been discovered of any | reflects upon th of the United States, o Premy “E have known the presen dent of the United States for years. 1 know him well both in pri- vate and In public life. His private life, as his public life, has been with- out spot or blemish. The present scandal of corruption or conduct in | office has never come near him. President's Past “Trying.” | “He came into his present great of- fice under the most trylng ciroun- .s!.sn(-es which can beset a President when he goes into the White House, ! and that is by the death of his prede- essor. He found himself, of course, with a cabinet that was not of his election. He found himself with a number of questions, political ques- tions and all sorts of questions relat- ing to this great government which | were not his policles—that Is, they were not his personal policies—and With which he had nothing officlally | to do. The recent charges that have been made and investigations that have been held have surrounded him with all sorts of difficulties and try- ing conditions. think he has borne himself well, very well. Ido not see how any man could bear himself better. You may be assured that he will be as prompt to punish misdoing in the public service as any man who now listens to me in this Senate. He always ha {done it. He did it as Governor of Massachusetts. He will do It as Pres- dent of the United States. He has done nothing 4o justify personal at- tack of any kind. He is entitled to all the respect that the Congress can give him. He should be lifted above the sort of discussion that has been | running through the Senate here day | after day, based on gatherings of the Kut ers of the corri- up from the sort of rumor se ‘story. Many of en exposed that have Presi- | many come here. Little Short of “Outrage.” | _“I think it is little shott of an out- !rage to bring the President’s name in here and treat him as he has been treated today in a place where he cannot speak for hi where he rust to the words of others| he is unable to make his heard among those who | il him. He alone knows all the facts in relation to everything that ; ncerns him. ve said, an un- is not a thing | 1 There that can be brought agalnst him pri- | vately or publicly. His whole life | been uniform and conforms to | the principles which 1 know he holds. | I think 1 can assure the Senate that whatever record leaps to life, he er Wwill be ashamed.” Harrison Replies, Replying to Senator Lodge, Senator Harrison declared he had made no attack upon the President. 1 submitted a telegram,” he sald, | ich was sent by the President, | with his name attached, to Ed Me- | Lean at Palm Beach. 1 could have gone further. I could have said that the White House had been in con- stant to with MeLean: that | White House, through its officials, had notified McLean at Palm Beach the exact moment that np, the President’s private secre- v. had left the White House for Florida that McLean was kept i touch with Slemp movements, { “The senator from Massachusetts, after going to the White House, tells | the Senate and tells the country thit N ean in such clo: touch with the President of the United States ! that, even though the President might not know where his secretary was, McLean would at all times know, and because the President did not know where Slemp was when he should have know that he telegraphed to McLean asking him to advise him about the situation, and so on. ' Sees Suspicion in Action. i uspicion does attach to Slemp, for | {Slemp ‘was down_there in company , with Fall, eating, T believe, for twelve | days at the same table with Ned McLean and with Fail. Slemp can- | not give out a statement here that! removes the suspicion. 1 am glad that the Senator from Massachusetts has seen the President and he has made the statement he has, the country will accept it as true, for | I do not want my Presdent, T care not | to what party he may belong to be | enmeshed in this awful thing that almost topples down the very pillars | upon which this government rests.” Senator Heflin, democrat, Alabama, | followed Senator Harrison, and it was ' during his address that first reference | Was made to Senate attacks agalnst | President Wilson. Inferrupting the | speaker, Senator Caraway asked if | the record showed that when Presi- ! dent Wilson was being assailed that | the senator from Massachusetts came | to_his defense. replicd Senator | Mot e was_leading the charge | Zains e was right i -1 front of the nghe. " | ent In the fore Recalls Sherman Speech. Senator MeKellar, democrat, Ten. | nessee, interrupted’ to say that i 1919 he had “heard the meanest. the most vicious and the most insulting attacks that I ever heard fall from mortal lips on the part of Senator herman of Tilinois, against the then Proiident of the United States. and For Rent Entire 6th floor, contain- ing approximately 5450 sq. ft. of space, and 5 desirable rooms on S5th floor of 14th and G Sts. N.W. Apply to Superintendent '‘JUNDER UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION ‘ Safety and Interest - | ~ Guaranteed i| 5% Certificates of Deposit5 % Banking Hours: 3:30 to 5 Pab. THE DEPARTMENTAL BANK 1714 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. to have its time taken hour after) A Bit of the Past By_Star’s Former Carriers. “More than fifty years ago I found tions and the disclosures made in the debate in this body with'reference thereto.” Referring to Senator Lodge's refer- ence to Senator Tillman, Senator Dial of South Carolina declared it “would verhaps been in better taste for the profitable to sell senator from Massachusetts not to The Evening Star,” writes Bryan H.|have opened the grave.” Stickney, 1443 Chapin street north- west, “Dr. L. M. Cites Wilvon Attacks: “If he is looking for & precedent,” Senator Dial said, “under which one Taylor, living at |gsenator, or senators, could attack or 7th and M streets, was one of my regular custom- ers, most of whom have now passed beyond. H. C. Knapp, 1228 Farragut street northwest, now assistant foreman of the Washington Times, writes that he was a Star car- rier in 1870 and 1871 in Northwest Washington for Agent Living- “One of my subscribers,” he says, “told me if 1 would put his pa- per upstairs in_the vestibule he would reward me on New Year day. So each day, rain or shine or snow, I would climb & spiral iron staircase and porch to do this. On the day of my eward he sent me, by the hand of his small daughter, a 10-cent ‘shin- plaster.’ " Several old route boys have men- tioned in their reminiscences Ofen- stein’s blacksmith shop, wherein, on inclement days forty and more years ago, they would wait for their bun- dles of Stars. This shop is still standing at 215 B street northeast, its sign reading “C. Ofenstein, Black smith and Wheelwright.” It is a ven- erable place of business, for it is list- ed in the city directory of 1860 as * B street, east of the Capitol. Bot a word of criticlsm from any republean senator was uttered.” No, it makes a lot of difference whose 0x is being gored,” responded Senator Heflin.” “I said some time ago.” continued the Alabama Senator, “that we had trailed this thing up toward the ite House, wo had located it in the backyard, and if they did_not mind we would get it Into the White House. Now we have the operator at the White House and private operator one and the same man, Thinks Slemp Sent. “The plot thickens. Then Mr. Slemp goes to Florida, for what pur- pose? I do not think he told the com- mittee for what purpose he went. That is plain talk, too, but I think it is the plain truth. 1 think Slemp went on a mission, that he was sent te_see McLean. The President says to ‘See Slemp. {e does not wire to see McLean, but he wires to th ‘big bos vith the cipher code in hi: pocket, with his commission as an agent in the Department of Justice and a dispenser of patronage in the District of Columbia and the Pre: warm friend—he wires and asks him to ‘See my sccretary and ulvise me with whom 1 should con- fer back here!’ “The Senator from Massachusetts, interrupted sted that the President c cated with McLean in order to reach his secretary, Slemp. 1 believe the record will show that Slemp swore that when he left Washington he di not expect to see McLean, and meeting with him was purely accl- dental. Now, I do_not like to see Ir. Slemp left in such an embarrassin, uation, and 1 hope somebody wil explain his testimony.” Walsh Enters Debate. Taking exception to Senator Lodge's jtaement that Senate debate in the ditions of that ¥ of Monana declared that “everybody what s the trouble about has been a_ serious i. “It has been in cital of revelations made lands committec that the country and, of distressed the Senator ssuchusetts; and now he to utilize the just reverence at the people of the United States ave for the office of the President of the United States, and the respect ve for the present incumbent. shocked urse, have Match Your Odd Coats With Our Special TROUSERS 4.65 And Up Save the price of an en- tire new suit by matching your odd coats and vests with our special trousers. Hundreds of fine all- ~wool trousers to choose from—the largest variety of patterns and shades in ‘Washington. . All materials, such as flannels, tweeds, serges, worsteds, cashmeres, etc. -All sizes, from' 28 to 52. Go to Eiseman’s for-trou- sers; get the pair you need at the right price. EISEMAN'S 605-607 7th Street | MeLean’s | i i did attack a President of the United States, he would not have to go fur- ther back than the last few years, when he and a great many of the senators on his side of the chamber most cruelly and unjustly_criticized former President Wilson. They were unrelenting in their efforts to dis- credit that high official in here for several years. So 1 think propriety should have led him not to go back for precedents heyond our, own term of service In this body. Senator Caraway brought up the visit which Senators Fall, republican, ew Mexico, and Hitchcock, demo- crat, Nebraska, made to the White House during the iliness of President Wilson to obtain a report as to his condition. “I recall, if the public prints ma bo trusted” he said, “that Albert B, Fall assailed in the most vicious lan- guage the President of the United States and that the Senate appointed him, @ known enemy of the President of the United States, to go to his slck chamber and turn back the covers to see whether or not he was feigning illness; to see whether or not he was capable, mentally and physically, of exercising the dutics of the President of the United States, and the senator | from Massachusetts never rose in his place to criticize, condemn or com- plain about that sort of conduct. Denounces Lodge Stand. *And now, when somebody call at- dention to the fact that the Presi- dent of the United States is in com- munication with a man who every- body knows is trying to protect people who have sold the public re- sources of this land, the President of the U'nited States has immediately as his defender the senior senator from Massachusetts, who deprecates, who condemns, who excorfates people who dare to mention that the President might at least tell why he should be in communication with & man who was the go-between between Fall and Doheny, who helped Doheny try to concoct 4 lie to conceal the truth from the Senate of the United State: and_we all know It now." After a sharp exchange with Sen- ator Lodge about the Fall visit to Prestdent Wilson, Senator Carawa sald he wanted to withdraw an language offensive to the republican leader, and then added: "But 1 do not know anybody who is 80 little justified in trying to read people a lecture about the sacred- ness of the President of the United States when everybody knows that Woodrow Wilson slaeps in his grave tonight from the abuse, the unjusti- fied attacks, launched against him as President of these United States. In defending himself against these at- tacks, he went to his death.” Refers to Lodge Visit. Recalling Senator Lodge's state- ment that the President was doing the best he could in the present situ- !rsg;;‘\wh‘;afll rm;- ation, Senator Caraway referred to » ulgaria, March ~—The the visits of Senators Lodge and Pep- | government Is continuing to arrest per to the White House to urge that|Macedonians in its program to pre- “It is a little inconsistent,” he said, | The Macedonian refugees’ organiza- “when a man is doing the best he |tion, numbering 600,000 adherents, e B mething hse. " Daugheriy | has Drotested to Premler Zankoff protested that he did mot want to|that the refugees of all other na- be drnnve;i ovarb;flrd. Alnd }hen ‘fl: tionalities are welcome in Bulgaria, nator from Pennsylvania eted as maving (hat the question |and asked why an exception is made of whether 1t is just or mot is mot|in the case of the Macedonians, who the question. The ’3,"" 1s, it is for ! the good of the party. “Now I want to say another thing about the President and his telegram. I do not know why it was that every- body, including Burns and Mary and Duck, who wanted to get in touch with_anybody in_Florida, had to call up Ed McLean. He was the universal solvent, 8o far as information was concernied. I think it is the most startling statement I have listened to that the President of the United States had lost his secretary and could not find him until he’ could, find Ed McLean. . i Mentions Denby Cuse. . “But that s not all. If the Pnn-' dent's message of congratulation was in responte to a message that he had received congratulating him for refusing to drop Denby over-! board, that very telegram is in exis- tence., He might have produced it and Saved himself making an ex- planation. One was that MclLean was congratulating him on & speech that he had not delivered and would not deliver for some hours yet, and when that did not suit and would not fit, they sahl it was in*answer to a congratulatory message congratu- lating him* on keeping Denby. 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