Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Partly clodjy today and tomorrow; moderate temperature; gentle north- erly winds. Temperatui ty-two _hours ended at night: Highest, 47, at 4 36, at 10 p.m. Full report on page 5. No. 991.— No. 29,181. 6. 0. CASH BOOK, SCRUTINY PLANNED Upham, Party Treasurer, Called—Denies Knowledge of Sinclair $75,000. RECACLS $3,000 GIFT BY TEAPOT OPERATOR Hays Places Donation at Higher Figure—Sinclair Refuses to Testify. Bvents in the oil Inquiry moved aexin vesterday with dramatic swift- n Harry F. Sinclair, lessee of Teapot! Dome, refused point-blank to answer | . 2ny more questions put by the Senate nvestigators, who certified the fact to the Senate with a view to contempt proceedings. Will H. Hays, former chairman of the republican national committee, tified that at his solicitation Sin- clair had agreed to contribute $75,000 o help wipe out the $1,600,000 deficit of the committes after the 1920 cam- vaign A subpoena was Issued for Fred W.| T'phawn of Chicago, treasurer of the| republican committee, requiring him to bring to Washington all records of the committee bearing on any and all campaign cotributions received from | Sinclair. Simclair Hits Roowevelts. After refusing to answer ten specific gquastions put to him on the witness - stand, Sinclair upon leaving the com- mittee room issued an eight-page statement in which he attacked | Theodore and Archie Roosevelt and others who have testified before the committee. . At the outset Hays denied a that Sinclair had contributed shares of Sinclair ofl stock to wipe out the republican committee deficit, characterizing it as being "“as false | in content as it is libelous in pur- pose.” Other high spots of this tes- timony were: That he and his brother, Hinkle | Hays, bad had a “pureiy pers»nal” transaction in bonds with Sinclair nd that the committee was welcomg examine his private records of that ansaction That while he was Postmasater Goen- eral in the Harding administration the law firm of Hays-und Hays of Sullivan, Ind, 9f which his brsth was a member, was counssl for Sine clair in Indiana.” Denies Stock Domations. That no stock of any kind was wsed as security for loans to the re- publican national committee, at ieast | * while he was chairman. That the naval ofl leases aever were discussed at any meeting of the cabi- net at which he was presen. That he had no knowledge while he was in the cabinet of any execu- tive order tran®ferring the naval oll reserves from the jurisdiction of the Department to that of the In- r Department. * Hays said he asked Sinclair to contribute toward wiping out the committee deficit in 1923, more than 2 vear.after he left the cabinet. This was about a year after Sinclair ob- tained the lease of Teapot Dome. After being directed by unanimous vote of the committee to take the! witness stand for the sixth time, Sin- clair apnounced his refusal to sub- yoit’ to further questioning in.a long prepared statement, which he read into the record. Not. Afraid to Testify. “I @o mot decline to answer any question upon the ground that it would tend to incriminate me,” Sin- clair sald at the outset, “because there is mothing in any of the facts or circumstanceMof the lease of Tea- pot Dome which does or can incrimi- nate me.” Reciting that he already had been before the committee on five different | occasions, the oil magnate reviewed many of the facts of the case as pre- sented-to the committee yesterday ty his counsel in urging that he be excused from further attempts to ex- smine him. He then concluded with this declaration: “You and the.body from which you derive your authority have already sat in judgen on these questions and remjtted tuem to the courts of proper. jurisdiction. I shall reserve any. evidence I may be able to give for those couris to which you and Your colleagues have deliberately za- ferred all questions of whicH you had any jurisdiction and shall re- epectfully decline to answer any guestions propounded by your com- mittee.” Senator Walsh of Montana, the committee “prosecutor,” then put a series of questions to Sinclair so as to make up the record upon which to certify his case to the Senale: This record was presented to that body | later in the day by Chairman Ladd tes HE LEAVES HOSPITAL re for twen- 10 p.m. last pm.; lowest, Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. cratic House | | BY N. 0. MESSENGER. President Coolidge continues to gather them in, capturing two more states and a number of scattering delegates last week. His total of delegates thus far chosen who are instructed, pledged or known to be favorablé is 210, North Dakota and New Mexico were his latest acquisitions. This is the list: Colorado, 15; Georgia, 2 (16 to come); Towa, 29; Kansas, 21 (2 to come); Kentucky, | 26: Louisiana, 13; Minnesota, 27 | Missourl, 4 (35 to come); New | Hampshire, 11; North Carolina, 10 (12 to come); North Dakota, 13; South Carolina, 11: Virginia, 17: Philippines, 2; New Mexico, 9; total, 210. * & % % The Coolidge victory in North Dakota Is regarded by politicians as of especial significance. He did not get a majority of the total (PRESIDENT STOPS ARMS EXPORTATION . FOR HONDURANS Fears Violence in Honduras May Be Influenced by Munition Shipments. f | | A proclamation prohibiting the ex- portation of arms or munitions of | war to Honduras was issued by Pres- | ident Coolidge last night. The action was taken under au- thority of a joint resolution of Con- gress of January 31, 1922, and the proclamation recited- that the step was required because of conditions of domestic violence in Honduras, which are or may be influenced by use of arms or munitions of war procurad in the United States. Comeern Felt Here. Concern has been felt in Washing- ton with reference to conditions in Honduras incident to the revolution for some time, and the situation reached an acute stage last week when de facto government officials at Tegucigalpa, demanded that Ameri- can bluejackets return to the cruiser Milwaukee. ‘The demand was refused by Frank- lin Morales, the American minister, who declared that the force of 176 officers and men would be retained to proteet American lives and property until order cou'd be assured by the Honduran authorities. Subsequently the sitoation at the capital was re- ported quiet. Has Been Disturbed. Honduras has been disturbed by two or more simultaneous revolutions since the failure of the Honduran congress to solve the presidential election deadlock ended coanlu!lon-l al government in that country. Min- ister Morales has remained in the capital “unofficially” for the purpose of extending his geod offices to bring the rival candidates into agreement for a new election or restoration of a constitutional regime by some other method. In the course of the revolution American interests at Ceiba and other Honduran cities have been gravely endangered. Marines and bluejackets were first landed from the Milwau- kee at Ceiba and one American negro resident of that place was killed by looting soldiery. Appeals for aid have reached the Washington government from Americans in other parts of the country and destroyers were rusher from Jamaica to Puerto Cortes, whilc the Milwaukee transferred fron | | Cefba to Amapala, from which point gualifiedly false (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) GREENE’S FIGHT WON,! Senator Who Was Shot When OflLI cer Fought Bootleg Suspeets Ex- pected to Gain Full Recovery. Senator Greene of Vermont, injured seriously by a bullet fired by Prohl- bition Agent Fisher at suspected boot- | leggers about & month ago on Penn- | sylvania avenue, near John Marshall | place, left Emergency Hospital yester- ! day, after a winning battle against) death, | He is still affected partially by paralysis. His speech is marked at, £nd theré was nearly.an hour's gen- eral discussiorl without action Procedure Uncertain. Senator Walsh explaiwed that the scommittes’ was not ready to recom- smend a course of procedure as it de- sired first to confer with special gov- erament counsel in the oil lease cases. A recommendation may be veady tomorrow. The committee “prosecutor” told the Senste there were two course open—to have the president of the Senate certify the case to the. Dis- trict of Columbla courts for granl jury proceedings, or to bring Sinclair 'before the bar of the Senaie and -commit hitm to the custody of on Page & Columa 1) times by blurred enunciation, but he was able to walk unsupported and steadily from the room in which it was feared some weeks ago that'death | was approaching. . Physicians said that he had not yet ! fully recovered from the effects of the | bullet which entered his head and was feared for a while to have affected the | cents of refund of the taxpayers. brain. Two operations were per-|. formed, of which the latter was suc- cessful, and physicians were confident last night that no impairment of the brain would gesult from the injury. Mrs. Greene told The Star last night that the senator’s plans are indefinite now. He probably will remain in| ‘Washington for the time being, going ! to his home in Vermont ldfter to com- PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS; A POPULARITY CONTRAST {or 1 per cent of the amotnt collected. Treasury is financially interested. Such a charge is preposterous and unquali- {fledly false. The Gulf Refining Com- e Sy R . WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1924.—104 PAGES. 1 | | Party Leaders Contemplate Possibility of, BY OIL COMMITTEE, = Republican Exceutive and Demo- and Senate. vote cast but the fact that he se- cured the delegation in a state where radical sentiment Is so pro- nounced, as shown by the combined La Follette-Johnson vote, is con- strued as indication of the con- fidence in which President Cool- idge is held by the country. He has not been defeated in any section of the country from New England to New Mexico, from Minnesota to South Carolina, where delegates to the republican national convention have been chosen. It is pointed out that his principal opponent, Senator Hiram W. Johnson, has lost in states where presidential preferential primaries have been held, territory upon which he counted heavily for support. ¥ Kk K ¥ Republicans in and out of Con- gress are worrying over the lrri- (Continued on Page 4, Column Count May Succeed Dr. Wiedfeldt Here, Says Berlin Report By Radio to The Star and Philadelphia Public Ledger. Copyright, 1924.) BERLIN, March 22—It in re- liably reported that Count Drockdorfl-Rantzau probably will snceeed Dr. Wiedfeldt as ambassador to Washington, 1if, an expected, the latter is wi rawn on account of the flag Incldent following W Wilson’s death. Dr. % present minister to J: the first candldate for the post, but he has refused (o aceept the Washington post three timen. Count Brockderfl-Rantxa: who was chief of the German delegation at the peace co ference at Versailles, but whoe withdrew upon receiving the nllled ultimatam and counxelled Berlin against scceptance of the treaty, is mow amhuxsador to Ruw He had a long dip- lomatic career as minister at Copenhagen during the war and is well knewn as an art lever and collector. MELLON HITS BACK AT BUREAU CRITICS Charges His Firms Get Pref- erence in Tax Decisions Branded as False. | i i | | { i | | | | | | Secretary Mellon declared In a| statement yesterday that he had “never Interfered or attempted to in- fluence the bureau of internal revenue in its decisions of any tax cases.” Issued in connection with the hear- ings conducted last week by a Sen- e committee investigating the in- ternal revenue bureau, the statement | added that the Treasury welcomes any investigation of the revenue bureau, “which has for its purpose the investigation of conditions with a view to oconstructive suggestions for an improvement in the admin- istration.” Sees Fulse Charges. Referring to testimony given before the committee, the Secretary said that its news value “is obviously cen- tered in sensational general charges made by discharged employes rather than the remarkable achievements of the bureau In view of the condi- | tions with which it was faced after the war. Charges that preference has been ! iven to companies in which he Is nancially interested, Mr. Mellon de- -lared were ‘preposterous and un- The statement follows: i “Considerable publicity has been | given the amount of refunds of taxes allowed by the government and vague and general charges have been made returned to the taxpayers illegally, and unjustly. Reports of these re-| funds have been made to Congress| from time to time as required by law, ; but only recently have the papers no- | cOmply With the order of the com-| impossible loz ticed these reports. The elements which have in fact, affected the amounts of refunds of taxes are the| completion of the audits by the bu-: reau of taxes for high war tax years, ' decision of the Supreme Court on di- ' sputed questions of tax lability and the better recognition by the tax- payer of his rights. Billions Are Collected. “It should be borne in mind that | since 1917 there have been about $26,000,000,000 of taxes collected and ; the total refunds are only $262,000,000, ‘The additional assessments made by the bureau as a result of the audit of returns are eight times the amount of the refunds. In other words, there is an additional assessment In favor of | the government of §1 for every 13 “The charges have been made that preference has been given to com- panies in ‘which the Secretary of the pany's case to which so much pub- licity has been directed was settled before I became Secretary of the Treasury. 1 have néver interfered or §Continued oo Pags 11, Column 39 ! story, | millionaire |asserting that the request was * DAUGHERTY LNED BY WOMAN T0 192 DEAL FOR HARDIG Miss Stinson Also Charges Attorney General Was Fac- tor in Liquor Ring. HOW JESS SMITH MET DEATH BASIS OF QUERIES Friend of Cabinet Officer Lived in Fear Last Months of Life, Says Ex-Wife. Roxie Stinson yvesterday gave the Daugherty Investigating committee another long chapter of her amazing including a description of a “deal” at the 1920 republican conven- tion to nominate Harding, and de- talls of more whisky “deals” In which she sald Attorney General Daugherty was an influential factor. She also struck back at Mr. Daugh- erty for his charges that she had at- tempted to blackmail him as a price for her silence and had registered at a Cleveland hotel with a man named A. L. Fink. Both charges constituted a “beautiful frame-up,” Miss Stinson declared, in a sobbing statement of vehement denial and lengthy ex- planation Told About Deal. The convention “deal,” she said, was related often to her by the late Jess Smith, her divorced husband |and constant companion of Mr. Daugh- erty. She said she was told of a promise of a cabinet position to the late Jake Hamon, former Oklahoma oil operator, and of ‘strong man” methods by Daugher'y in the famous early morning con- ference of republican leaders at Chicago, when they got behind Mr. Harding for the nomination. No specific whisky “deals” were cited by Miss Stinson, but she said Smith had told her of them and had said that Daugherty’'s “influence” was vital to their success, Questions as to how Jesse Smith actual y met his death a year ago in the Attorney General's apartment— heretofore aggepted and certified offi- | cially as a slicide—also were a dra- | matic feature of the three hours Miss Stimson was on the stand. Wheeler, democrat, Montana, in charge of the inquiry, asked many questions regarding the appearance of the dead man's body, the absence of powder burns, which Miss Stinson testified to, and the “fear” which she said Smith had been laboring under. Smith Letters Produced. A number of letters written by Smith to Miss Stinson were produced and read. There were a few indefi nite references to “deals’” but nene were identified definitely. Only a " {Continued on Page 6, Column 5.) Senator ‘SUMMONS DEFIED BY .. DAUGHERTY Brother of Attorney General Refuses to Bring Bank’s Books to Committee. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, Ohlo, March 22—M. S. Daugherty, brother of Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, tonight declared that |he would refuse to comply with a summons from the committee invpsti- gating the Attorney General to pro. duce before the committee records of the Midland Natjonal Bank of whick he is president. Mr .Daugherty, in a statement af. ter being served with the summons, declared that his refusal to obey the summons was on advice of counsel, e- yond all reason.” Gives His Reason. The summons commanded the bank jthat large sums of money have been President to produce deposit ledgers, notes, files and other records of the bank. M. S. Daugherty’s statement said: ‘From advice of counsel, I refuse to mittee. It would be send the books of the bank to Wash- ington. It was decided in the inter- est of the stockholders, the bank and the community that the request is beyond reason, There is nothing in the bank to confirm the outrageous falsehoods testified to be: fore the committee. For the protec: tion ‘of the Individual customers and the stockholders, and upon advice of counsel, the bank will test the ques- tion. I expect to be in Washington the first of next week.” Examiner Is Halted. A few days ago a similar summons to the head bookkeeper to appear with the bank's recorfs before the committee was not obeyed, on the ground that it would interfere with ! the normal transaction of business at the bank while the books were in | the Capital, John L. Phelan, representing the committee, was sent here to’obtath | information from the bank records | that might bear on the Senate In- quiry into Attorney General Daugh- erty’s administration, but the exam- iner was halted when, according to M. 8. Daugherty, he was preparing to make examination of private ac- couats of bank patrems, depositors, . TAX BILL AROUSES NEW SENATE STIR Subject of Debate and Con- ferences, But Advanced as Urgent.| The revenue bill became the tar- get for political discussion and meet- | ings yesterday after undergoing an- other examination by the Senate finance committee which resulted in no change In the technical adminis- | trative provisions considered. Token up in debate on the Senate floor, the bill was advanced by mem- be boih parties as a piece of | legislation which ought to be speed- ed along. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, dem- ocratic leader, sald he had read re- jports that in view of the changes made by the House in the bill it was possible the President would veto it. | He added, however, that he did not { think such would be the cas Senator Borah, republican, ldaho, 8aid his fear was “the President will not have an opportunity,” and again jurged the Senate to “get down to business on legislation.” Mr. Borah iadded that he thought the Senate | one “rather than any individual"” i Little Progress During Day. Only a few pages of the bill dealing with definitions and administrative {features were gone over and agreed ‘ilo yesterday by the committee. From ithe progress made, it appeared un- kely that the income tax schedule iwould Le reached before the latter part of next week. Meanwhile democratic members of the committee met again to discuss a {rate schedule which they will offer as !a substitute for the Longworth rates. | No agreement was reached, but indica- tions were that several changes {would be made In the Garner rate schedule advanced in the House by the democrats. With a decision yet to be made as |to whether the soldier bonus bill will be put ahead of the tax measure, iChairman Smoot continued study of proposed changes he will offer to the House bonus bill. | Mr. Smoot declared yesterday the {House bill would cost much g@more Ithan the $2,119,000,000 estimated. His own proposal, which calls for paid- up life insurance policies payable only at death would cost at least $4,500,- /000,000, he said. | | Chalrman Green of the House ways and means committee, Geclareu | ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) {HOUSE QUIZ AWAITS GRAND JURY ACTION No Public Hearings on Charges Against Two Members Before Report. Members of th® House committee authorized to investigate criminal charges against two representatives held another conference yesterday with Department of Justice officials who have been presenting evidence'in he case to a grand jury here. After- ward it was indicated that the com- mittee would await a report from the igrand jury before pressing its in- | quiry at least to the point of publtc hearings. The grand jury automatically passes out of existence March 31, and it wiil be necessary for it to conclude its investigation before that date. In view of this fact, the House commit- !tee has taken the position it would { be Inadvisable for it to hear wit- nesses at open sessions with the pos- sibility of embarrassing the Department jof Justice in its efforts. For some time yesterday Assistant Attorneys General Davis and Wille- brandt and John W. H. Crim, special counsel who appeared before the Chicago grand jury which referred to the two members of Congress in its repoit; went over the - situation with the House committeemen. No indi- cation was given as to whether it was believed that indictments would be returned. | i e it would frame a measure to suit every TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—12 Pages. General News—Local, National, Foreign. National Political Survey—Page 4. Schools and Colleges—Pazes 22 and 23. Army and Navy News—Page 32. Fraternities—Page 35. Radio News and Gossip—Pages 36 and 7. Financial News—Pages 38 and 39. PART TWO0—I16 Pages. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 11. Veterans of the Great War—Page 13, The Civilian Army—Page 13. News of the Clubs—Page 14. Parent.Teacher Activit es—Page 14. At the Community Centers—Page 14. D. A. R. Activities—Page 15. Girl Scouts—Page 1. PART THREE—14 Pages. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- | play. 2 Music in Washington—Page 5, Notes of Art and Artists—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6 to 11. Page 12. 8oy Scouts—Page 12. Reviews of New Books—Page 13. PART FOUR—4 Pages. Pink Sports Sect.on. PART FIVE—S$ Pages. Magazine Section—Fiction and Fea- tures. PART SIX—$8 Pages. Classified Advertising. District National Guard—Page 8. Spanish War Veterans—Page 8. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 Pages. World Events in Pictures: COMICU SECTION—{ Pages. Mr. Straphanger; Reg'lar Fellers; and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. VANDERLIP RESIGNS | POST “BY REQUEST” Fellow-Director of Continental Cnn! Company Objects to State- ment on Harding. 1 Mr. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 22.—Frank A. Vanderlip, former banker, has re- signed as a director of the Conti- nental Can Company of Syracuse, at ‘he request of J. Horace Harding, a | cllow director, who took exception ! o Mr. Vanderiip’s statement that | ormer President Harding sold the farion Star for more than it was vorth, it was learned tonight. Mr. Harding said tonight he had | written a letter as an individual ask- mg Mr. Vanderlip to resign. The board of directors, he said, took no action until the former banker pre- sented his resignation at a meeting ( 4 few days ago, when it was accepted. Mr. Vanderlip today confirmed the | report that he had resigned. “I asked him to resign because of his unwarranted artack on President | Harding,” Mr. Harding said. “I am | a republican. But politics has no part in this. My ébjection was the issassination of the character of dead man. I wrote him a forcefu! Serial, “The Mystery of Lynne Court’— | - The Star i 60 cents per “From Press to Home Within the Hour” s delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. WOOD THEATRICAL VENTURE EXPLODES Head of President Company ““Broke”—Announces End of Operations. Leonard Wood, Jr., son of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, governor general of the Philippines, and brother of Os- borne Wood, who cleaned up tune in Wall street not long ago. is “broke,” and the Washington Theater | Guild’s venture he piloted is on the | rocks. This was the news passed out at the President Theater last night Lack of capital was the cause. Wood has lost about $15,000, it was re. ported. Several thousand, in addi tion, has been sunk by others asso- ciated with the gufld, It was said. Leonard sent word over a long- distance telephone last night from 'New York that he had Leen unable to raise the needed funds to put on “Three Weeks" during the coming - week. Blames Lukewarm Appreciation. /Washington's lukewarm apprecia- tion of the plays presented Is given as the reason for the break-up of the Theater Guild. when “The Lullaby” was on the boards, with Florence Reed as the star, virtually every onme con- nected with the company was witling to try to put “Three Weeks" across this week. Honry Crosby. deputy of the Actors’ Equity Association, announced that his actor colleagues were willing to take a chance on getting paid for the next week, but Attorney James A. O'Shea and Harry Jarboe, repre- senting the Columbia Amusement Company, which holds the lease on the President Theater, announced that they could not see their way clear to assume responsibility for taking a chance on getting the rental of the house. especially when no en- couragement was given to them from New York headquarters. This proved the barrier that prevented “Three Weeks” being given in Washington for a week. Actors Not to Lome. Members of the Actors’ Association will not suffer any losses. Bond was posted for payment of their salaries in New York before they came here. They have yet to split up the money to be liquidated by cashing the bond. A few more than half a dozen mem- bers of the cast have three weeks pay coming to them, which they have not yet collected. Leonard Wood announced he was coming back to Washington some time today. Manager Harris, at the President, and Mr. Jarboe agreed that it would be virtually impossible, however, to continue any longer. Wood took it gamely. Wood Is Optimistic. - “Well, I suppose it had to be,” he sald. “How are the folks in the cast taking it? I'll be down tomorrow to do everything I can to straighten tetter. I refused to sit with him any onger.” Dead Gypsy Queen things out. Better luck next time.” (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Will Be Interred With Mystic Ritual, Old as Pyramids With all the mystic ceremony of long forgotten ages, a once proud queen—an empress whose ancestry dates back to the days of old Egypt's anclent pharachs—will be laid to rest in Washington . tomorrow. In a sterling -silver casket, hermetically sealed,” Eleanora, the wife of King Johns, absolute ruler of a powerful band of gypsies, will be brought from Baltimore and inter- red at high noon in Mount Olivet cemetery according to the rites of a tribe 8o old that its origin s for- gotten, Lies in State Today. Dressed In'the finest silks money could buy. fairly buried beneath gifts of gold and other precioug metals, Queen Eleanora lies in state today in the home in‘Baltimore, where she died Thursday. that her tomb should be in Wash- ington, as close to the Capitol as possible. Carrying out her dying request to the letter, a for-| Despite this rather| | indifferent support of the last two | weeks, It was her last wish | FIVE CENTS. DO-NOTHINGCHARGE \CAUSES FIVE HOURS OF SENATE DEBATE {Drum Fire of Oratory Inter- rupted Once to Provide Crosses for Graves. GILLETT MADE TARGET OF SHOTS BY CARAWAY Borah Starts Bombardment by Renewed Plea for Attention to Legislative Tasks. A drum fire of oratory shook the Senate skylights yesterday. The { bombardment started over renewed charges by Senator Borah, republi- | can, Idaho, of delayed legislation to | permit “grand jury” proceedings. Be- |tore the smoke of battle cleared away, however, the Senate had been | extensively informed upon eubjects ranging from Teapot Dome to Muscle | Shoals. From the republican trenches Sen- ator Wadsworth of New York was moved early in the engagement to predict that the Senate would do nothing during the day but “talk. He was wrong, however. The record shows that In its five-hour session It did vote an amendment into the first deficiency bill providing for perma- nent white crosses over the graves of American soldiers in France. It took no other legislative xction whatever, except to confirm some minor nomi- nations, | | | i { | Day Starts Mildly. The Senate day started innocently enough. Senator Curtis of Kansas, the republican whip, was alone on the floor when the gavel feil, but within fifteen minutes after a quorum had been mustered Senator Shipstead, farmer-labor, Minnesota, unloosed his | verbal batteries in a prepared ad- dress, criticizing generally foreign loans by American bankers, and spe- | cisi the $100,000,000 loan by the { Morgan bank to France. | The senator forcsaw possibilities of 8 ve entanglements from such trans- | actions, and charged that a previous oan by the same firm to France had immediateiy ed the entrance of | the United States into the world war. { Senator Shipstead then criticized | the administration s poiicy tn Central ! America, and in this was echoed by | Senaior Borah, while Senator Lodge, republican, Massachusetts, chairman f the foreign relations commlitee, | in reply declared recent action In | Honduras was necessary to protect lives of American citizens. Caraway Hits Gillett. At this point Senater Caraway, democrat, Arkansas, unmasked his guns and traned them upun Speaker Gillett particuiarly for the lalter's recent criticism in a Boston speech of the Senate's record. The Arkansas sepator den.ed that tne legisiative program had been delayed by Sen- |ate investigations and countered with ' the assertion that the House had “sunk to the lowest point in its his- tory as a legislative body." A reference -to the recent lecture by Senator Borah to his republican colleagues on the maiter of delays in legislative business brought that senator to the defense of his sector. Ampiifying his criticism, Senator Borah said cvery senator was pledged to tax reduction, but it was improb- able any measure could be passed under the present conditions. He proposed the Senmate invesugations be left to Senate commitiees until concluded and debate on the floor re- volve around the legisdative pro- gram. This flank atiack found the demo- cratic leader, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, holding the line with a challenge that the majority was without a program. He quoted a newspaper report of a White House conference, at which Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman of the finance com- mittee, was said to have informed President Coolidge the revenue bill could not pass before June 10 when | the republican convention is to meet. Senmator Curtis brought up party reserves by denying that any such statement had been made at the con- fercnce in whick: he participated. A report was made on progress, he said, and the President urged that every step possible ve taken to ex- pedite tax reduction “in order that the people might know where they stood.” By this time " (Continued on I BEAT D. C. GRY AGENT IN BALTIMORE RAID Mob Members Hurl Brick, Fractur- ing Jaw of Leo G. Woodward. Beer Selzed. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., March Seizure of 6,543 cases of alleged rea! grieving subjects came to ' beer and an attack upon a prohibi- erhllnunn yesterday and purchased ' tiion agent marked the astivity of 8 lot In Mount Olivet cemetery. Every | dry enforcement operatives in Balti- honor faithful followers can bestow will be her’s, and even her grave is to | | more today. The alieged beer was seized at the be lined with concrete, so that her | Block Street Wharf and Warehouse body may be perfectly preserved|Company's plant. through the ages until the day it is supposed to live again, 3,000 years hence. ‘Will Honor Dead Qu Today the tribe will pay Queen Eleanora sad adieu according to the accepted custom of untold centuries. Around her bier a sumptuous feast on 23 1t is said to be one of the largest selzures of its ! kind cver made in Maryiand The agent who was attecked is Leo G. Woodward of the Washington squad. He was badly beaten by 2 mob at Hamburg and Rlidgely streets and his jaw fractured when he was struck in the face by a brickbat hurled from tlie center of the crawdy,