Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. and tomor- Mostly cloudy tonight unsettled; ra possibly ~ becoming little change in Temperature for twenty ended at 2 p.m. k. noon today; lowest,” 45, a foday. Full report on page temperature. -four hours today: Highest, t 2:30 a.m. 4 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page bering ~~ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 20900, Betered as seco post office Wa nd-class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1924 -FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. - Sftar. “From P tion is deliv as fastas tl The Star's carrier every city block and the regular edi- ress to Home Within the Hour” system covers red to Washington homes he papers are printed. Circulation, 101,165 Yesterday’s * REPORT OF EXPERTS GIEN REPARATION COMMISSION 0. ¥; VOTE. UNANIMIOLS — | Approval Made COnditionaI‘ Upon German Acceptance. | Berlin Officials Called to Give Views April 17. BASIS FOR SETTLEMENT | DECLARED PRESENTED French Indicate Adoption of Find- ings Subject to Few Changes. ! To Imsist Upon Occupation of | Rubr—Five Reservations Out- | lined by Paris Officials. B A Press April 11.—The reparation | commission today officially approved the report submitted to it by the experts committee Wednesday the German reparation que n. The recommendation of the com- mission is that the report be proved conditional upon the accept of it by Germany. The com- o Asso PARIS. on is ap- anc mission was unanimous in register- | ing its approval reparation will commission he German representatives re- he report Thursd An official declaration by the com- T signed by Louis Barthou its president, accepting the experts report, was issued this evening. The unanimous decision of the com- ays a Havas Ag state- it, was that the report offered acticable basis for the settlement of reparation problem. CONDITIONS INDICATED. ney France to Accept Plan With Cer- tain Conditions. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. B. Ladio to The verything tends the French goverii- cept the experts’ report | but with certain condl- | In the first place, France intends to leave troops in the Ruhr until final payments are made. Careful inquiry the experts themselves shov t in the British and the French opposition press that the experts’ report is a condemna- tion of this occupation are false. Both Gen. Dawes and Owen Young | are publicly on record to the effect | 1hat occupation of the Ruhr has been & zood thing, and there is every rea- to believe that neither Dawes nor expects or desires that the shall remove troops from the itil the plan has been well es- tablished and tested by experience end is working smoothly. assertions press See Occupativn a Guarantee. Indeed, it is pelieved that the Amer- | fcan experts feel that continuing the Ruhr occupation is one of the best Euurantees of German good faith in | execution. They are said to consider that this occupation, properly reor- | ganized, will not interfere with Ger- many’s security or international financing of the plan. i . The French government is entirely familiar with the American view in this respect. In the second place, the French gov- ernment intends to continue the pres- ks economic exploitation of the Ruhr wnd Rhineland until Germany has detinitely accepted the pian and has voted the necessary law. and until the proposed plan and ernational Joans have been duly issued and sub- seribed. . In the third place, the French gov- ernment intends to demand u special regional regime for the Ruhr and | Jthine railways for the purpose of as- suring communications for the ¥rench troops of occupation. In the fourth place, France will de- ynand a preliminary agreement for immediate and common resumption Ly all the allies of economic exploita- | | tion of the occupied territories in|recting that such articles should be ! case Germany again violates her promises To Bring Up War Debtx. Finally, France will endeavor to btain a settlement of the question of | war debts, if not with the United | Etates, at least with Great Britain. | The French parliament adjourns to- day until after the elections. These Wwill be held May 11. The new parlia- ment will copvene about June 1. The Yoincare government is certain to re- anain in-power at least until that date. Deputies of all parties express themselves to the correspondent as yavoring the experts' plan. French | tconomists point out, according to the | +xperts’ report, that reparations paid | + date have cost Germany literally othing, for the total of the pay-| ents is exceeded by the sum of over | =ht billion gold marks, which Ger- wany collected from international peculators in the mark. MAGNATES 0. K. REPORT. Think Burden Heavy, But Better | Than Others. ! l 1 B n © 3 25 the Associated Press. ! BERLIN, April 11.—Dr. Kurt Sorge, | director of the Krupps Company and whairman of the Association of Ger- ynan Industrialists, in a statement on | 1he experts’ reports, said: “I am of the opinion that their proposals must be accepted. The; Turdens they will impose on German industrialists are enormously heavy, | but the experts’ proposals mark a congiderable advance on any hereto- iore made, particularly as they were %ot _influenced by military and polit- |to elimir | District { tion, | happen it woul {to create pa Stays Awafike 59 Days in Probing Sleep Mysteries By the Associated Press, LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 11.— Dr. William F. Kelly, Los Angeles physician, w enjoying an undis- turbed slumber toda, after a serles of physiological experiments which, he said, kept him awake almost continuously for Afty-nine aays. ‘The principal periment,” he fore turning sound s to et rject of the ex- plained just be ast night for as for the subjec » threshold of uncon- sclous right at the point where one bout to doze off to sleep and then to tell observers what is CHOOLS HAZARDIN'S BRINGS NO AGTION Repori From Seib Cites Neg- lect of Recommendation Macde Two Years Ago. ¥ the were definite have bee ts i > eps ny fire blic schools, outli to nearly subm lea report April hazur which the n board of ago in Marshal strikingly education a report Seib, it wa When the the board c Fire today. two s submitted 2 it was perus and referred buildings Ern. w to sround. equipment an of Ik the board at its ng. Wednesday, to send the report back to the District huil ing to have an estimate of the cost to remedy the conditions d by the fire pointed out made de- ha the report that tie 12de a vear ago by department been ig- ther in whoie or in part. The for better fire protection in High School auditorium tressed Report Was Withheld. seribe It is recomm the ' nored, necessit the Central also is the inspection school the fire department and tion office is an annual function, the Commissioners and oth- officials at the District building de no public announcement of the ground that th: Although of buildings by building fns results, on the the repor The schaol the same posi- the report despite tie voard not to divulge tie District building. board apparently took and In conscgquence has just “leaked board's efforts to cen: and some difficulty w today at the [ rict bul the report l‘,‘\“{t(-r desecribing in detail the con- ditions found by the fi pectors in each of the school bu the re- port summarizes Cites Serious Hazards, “(onditions at the various school in the Pistrict of Columbia have im- proved to extent since the previous was made. Ther: however, remains €ome serious fire hazards and other condi- tions which should be remedied, espe- cially in a number of the storage rooms and quarter; occupied by the janitors. “All surplus and di discarded supplies, w and other combustibl be removed from the ements and from under the stairways. Whilst the stairways are fireproof, they smokeproof. In most cases they made of cast-iron, and the treads are merely laid on top of the carriages and risers and secured by a few boits, leav- ing open joints through which smoke could easily issue, and should this, even, have a strong tendency amongst the pupi 1t would be adv ble to wall in the under side of all stairways so that inflammable articles cannot be stored there. or items, s experienced 1ding to ob- cws as oW considerable inspec arded furniture, te paper, trash terial should ar Recommendations Not Followed. “The discarded and surplus ture and discarded supplies should be stored in one or more central storage | tecommendations this effect in previous re- in a few instances carried out and in some of these instances, but to a limited extent, although on March 24, 1922, a circular letter was issued ¢ the superintendent of schools di- buildings. were made to ports, but only have they been removed from under the stairway The old Potomac school building and the building located at 136 K street | northeast, now being used as storage | houses, could accommodate some of it. “The storing of furniture in the basement of schools not only creates a fire hazard, but it is an expensive practic It makes it an easy prey for fhe children: dust and dirt from the sweepings accumulate on it, which in- creases the fire hazard, and it is more or less knocked about. Paper Storage Dangerous. At present the waste paper is gathered and put in burlap bags, and is later collected by the city refuse department. Storing paper in burlap ‘bags is very unsafe and likely to cause fire at any moment. This was evi- denced by two fires that recently oc- | curred in schools, one in the Stevens | and the other in the Armstrong, where considerable damage was done. Each of these fires was caused by the storage of waste paper in bags. It was recommended in the previous report, and it is again recommended. that waste paper and trash should not be permitied to accumulate in school buildings without making some safe provision to keep it until disposed of.” The voluminous report deals princi- pally with the need for fireproof doors and transoms to prevent fire from spreading to different parts of the buildings, particularly basement doors. One of its features deals with the necessity for better fire protec- | tion In the aseembly hall of Central Hizh School, which, the report states, contains the largest stage in the city. Installation of a steel fire curtain, as required by theaters, is recommended, together with a sprinkler system and other less important improvements, The report alsp refers to conditions the commit- felt | It was due as a courtesy to the school are not | furni- | APANESE HIT BAN ONIMMIGRATION AS - INSULT TO NATION | Note to Hughes Reaffirms Gentlemen’s Agreement, | Stating Exact Terms. | !SENATORS ARE STIRRED ‘ BY BRISTLING PROTEST il{anihars Declares His Country | Has Sought in Good Faith to Live Up to Pact. Japan las Department a bri proposals dged with the State ling protest against in Congress to apply fur-| to Jupanese ted States. and redu the time s agreement ther drastic restriet immigration to the In a note reafiirn to concrete terms the th 15 for famous “gentlem Japanese ambassador advised this vernment that the exclusion pro- »sals now pending appeared to volve the “good faith” of the govern- ment at Tokio. Phrases of unusual fo were contained In orwarded by S te just as it its debate ng first e in diplomacy ote. immexdiately Hughes to the was approaching the on the immigration the cretary vas aimed particu'ariy at Trope to exel 'l aliens who r can become American citizens, a which the ambassador said was festly aimed at Japar He declared enactment { law would “ser offend the just the Japanese nation, and ave consequences” should | red carefully before action of such a ©f the note just as it used a’decided stir an It was passed around and talked over In ‘many whispered consultations The effect on the pending legislation could not be immediately assessed. The diplon exchange, caleu lated to ¢ issue ovar Jar 7 hus been rais 1 Congress during discussion of th new immigration legls! warded by Mr. Hug 1t the tisn comu Heretofore the % betwe reaching As the convening, nE senators i0a, was fo today Senate i ternational under- Washington and on the subject has been based long succession of exchanges edents, and the exact term: ‘agreement” never have bee: reduced to precise form. Agree on Peintx, In reafirming the principle of the “'agreemen’ " the Japanese ambas- sador's letter to Secretary Hughes | deriled churges by Pacific dbust sen- ators that the understanding has not | bee nobserved scrupulously. It was serted that Japan was willing to continue the arrangement in force, with full promises of its observan but would look with serious doubt upon proposals for u more drastic exclusion provision Secretary Hughes, in reply. said the mbassador's statement of the essen- tial points in the “gentlemen’s agree- ment” corresponds with his own un- | derstanding of the wrrangement The ambassador expressed hope that full consideration would be given to the “grave consequences” which the vroposed exclusion clause in the im- | migration bill would bring “on other- ise happy and beneficial relation stween the two nations. The proposed exclusion would not only “serfously offend the pride of this nation,” " the letter said. but would “Invoive the question of good faith, and, therefore, honor.” Ambassador Hanihara said his gov- ernment would be willing to enter ne- gotiations looking to modification or change of the “agreement” if that secmed necessary. Only 146 Excluded Yearly. “The of the said section * ® said the ambassa- | dor's letter, i“is to single out Japan as a nation, stigmatizing them as un- worthy and undesirable in the eyes of the American people. And vet the actual result, if the proposed bill be- {comes law as Intended, would be to jexclude only 146 Japanese per year. “On the other hand, the agreement is, | in fact, accomplishing all that can be | accomplished by the proposed exclusion laws except for those 146. i It is, indeed, difficult fo believe that it can be the intention of the people of | your great country, who always stand for high principles’ of justice and fair play in the intercourse of nations, to re- . sort—in order to secure the annual ex- clusion of 146 Japanese—to a measure which would not only seriously offend the just pride of a friendly nation, that has ben always earnest and diligent in its efforts to preserve the friendship of your people, but would also seem to in- Volve the question of the good faith and therefore of the honor of their govern- ment, or at least of its executive branch, Relying upon the confidence you have been good enough to show me at all times, I have stated, or rather repeated, all this to you very can- didly, and in a most friendly spirit. for 1'realize, as 1 believe you do, tha grave consequences which the en- actment would bring.” Text of Letter. The ambassador’s letter, more than | words in length, began as follows: | “In view of certain statements in e report of the House Committee on | Immigration regarding the so-called | ‘sentlemen’s agreement’ some of | Wwhich appear to be misleading, I may | be allowed to state to you the pur- | pose and substance of that agree- ment as it is understood and per- | formed by my government, which un- | |derstanding and practice’ are, I be- | lieve, in accord with those of your | government on this subject. ‘The gentlemen's agreement is an { understanding with the United States i government by which the Japanese | government voluntarily undertook.to | adopt and enforce certain administra- | tive measures designed to check the | emigration to the United States of | Japanese laborers. It is no way in- tended as a restriction on the sover- eign right of the United States to regulate its immigration. This is| shown by the fact that the existing immigration act of 1917, for instance, is_applied to Japanese as to other aliens. Seeks to Aveid Troumble. “It was because of the fact that dis. criminatory immigration legislation on the part of the United States would naturally wound the natidnal suscep- titbilities of the Japanese people that, after thorough but most friendly and frank discussions between the i manifest object i Continucd on Page 4, Column 1.) ¢ T (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) @ontinued on Page 4, Column 1) TWO CENTS. DENIES THOMPSON RAISED $3.600.000 ONSTOCK FORG.0P. Attorney Says Sum Borrow- ed on Sinclair Paper Repaid Prior to Taking Office. Returning oil com national politic nte oil ormation to its inquiry into pos- any contributions to 1 campaign funds, the committ, today $3,000,000 loan v'}nud» the Ch: ional Bank in ew York, in 191 to Williain Boyece Thompson, formerly chairman of the wiys and means committee of the national committee. . ring hiz client was too to appear, Willlam Wallace, jr..8tiors ney for Thompson, testified that the $3,000.000 loan was secured by 50,154 shares of Sinclair oil stock, sisted it had nothing to do w paign funds. He said Thompson Fad no part in republican financing ur til after the 1920 campaign and that the Chase bank loan was repaid in full in 1919, The lawyer also read into the pec- ord a telegram from Thompson, who has been sought by committee sub- poena servers for more than iwo weeks, saying he had been “wholly out .uf the Sinclair interests since 1921 Thompson was said to have failed to respond to the committee ummons because he is confined to a sanatorium in Arizona Appearing voluntarily and speak- ing for his client, Walla also de nied that Thompson had borrowed large sums to wipe out the republi- can national committee deficit after 1920 h cam- Quit Sindlair Interests. Wallace later testified that Thomp- son had reinvested in Sinclair stock in 1922, buying 450 shares on Jan- uary and 1,072 shares on Febru- ary 20, and seiling the entire lot in April, 1922, This was the month in which Albert B. Fall leased Teapot Dome naval oil reserves to Sinclair. The witness was unable to give the exact day of the sale. Reading from records, he aflirmed | Daugherty, brother of th that Thompson resigned as a director of the Sinclair companies in 1821 He testified that the New York finan- " (Continued on Page 5, e SHOT COMES CLOSE TO SENATOR’S AUTO - Peddler Said to Have Fired Pistol. While arresting Richard T jalleged dope peddler, held at No. 4 precinct for investigation, a detective attached to No. 4 precinct fired two shots from his revolver this after- nioon, one of which narrowly missed the automobile owned by Senator Shortridge of California, occupied only by N. M. Shugrue, a clerk in the office of the California senator. At No. 4 precinct station the desk sergeant said Precinct Detective A. G. Ogle had made the arrest. Nothing was known about the two shots fired. The detective who made the arrest beat up the alleged dope peddler, alter firing the two #hots, according to Shu- grue, and threatened him and two others who were driving automobiles near the scene of the shooting with arrest if they did not “shut up.” | 110, sought | but in- | the | 9q 7 THE W hole Naticn, From Metropolis to Crossroads Ham ;n =s:§" i it 231 TS > ,000,000 TO DEMONSTRATE U. S. WAR STRENGTH ON SEPT. 12 let, to Take Part in Vast Military Maneuver on Mobilization Day. BY JUNIUS 1924, B. WooD. right, by America’s greatest patriotism and pr for Septembe: as it is to be in every city and 1 ited States field and outling island posses erever the Stars and Stripes unfurled, citizens are called upon to offer. their services their country just as If an instead of a make-believe de- clared. Al the vast combatan |tentialitics of the nation wi Mobilized to show what its citize ‘wuul’l do and what its milit | sanizations could do if the eéMmergency arose. The day imnkr itself a national hollday. | The intentlon is that the ide, unarmed civilian maneuver DAUGHERTY PROBERS REFUSED BANK BOOKS M. S. Daugherty Notified Con- tempt Charges Will Be Filed in Senate. !SESSION IS HELD IN OHIO thie ) Daily News in set tion that of fac- the tory in ons, wre to actual war, | had_ been war, y or- n nation- i Ex-Attorney General Goes on Same | Train With Senators. | By the Associated Press . WASHINGTON COURT Ohio, April 11.—A refusal to ‘produce the records of the Midland National Bank or to allow their clients to ap- {pear in person before the Semate | Daugherty investigating committee | was entered by attorneys for M. S former At- HOUSF torney General. The refusal was final, the attorneys ~ | sald, and Chairman Brookhart notified { them that proceedings charging M. Daugherty and his associates with con- tempt ot the Senate would be sought. The committee, whose subpoenas formally disregarded, then pro- | ceeded to take evidence from other wit- E The Senate subcommitiee, . consisting of Chairman Brookhart and enator Wheeler, democrat, Montana, arrived here today shortiy before noon and im- mediately went into executive session. John Phelon, a federal bank exami- ner, who has been here for some days, was taken into the executive confer- ence. Chairman Brookhart said that a re- port was expected from Mr. Phelon which would guide the further action of the investigators. Subpoenas in blank were held by the committee, to serve upon bank officials or any other persons whom it might be desired to have come in. The committee or- ganization was in readiness for the taking of testimony in open session. Former Attorney General Daugh- erty, who came to Columbus on the same train with the Senate commit- tee members, left them ut that city and so fa¥ as was known was not in Washington courthouse when the sen- ators took up their worl Senator Wheeler will leave here late today, he said, for Chicago, where he is to make an address tomorrow. i Senator Brookhart will remain here . ..The Washington Evening Star March By W. J. STANNARD Leader of the Army Band —arranged -for - the -piano, will be publishéd . next Sunday as a supplement of : THE SUND AY STAR actual | , ton of 110,000,000 be an annual event. For this its_inaugural will be a_tribute cn. John J. Pershing, commander- chict of the American expedition- ary forces during the war, It will #lso be his valedictory, as on the fol- ng d he a pmatically ret the e of chief of staff, wi as held since the war, and from po United States the 1 Lr e ched age of sixty-four years To Text Defeaxe Act. day will be the first practical test of the peacs-time work- of the national defense act, a test in which every man, woman and child in the United States will be con- | cerned. The date selected is the an- niversary of the battle of St. Mihiel, September 12, 1915, the first opera of the American Army in France. The success of this day, a demon- tration of the organization of a na- organizing which been accomplished quletly, effi- (Continued on Pug: ‘olumn 3.) HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS BOOTLEG, IS CHARGE Vobilizati an Boys Here Selling to Girls as Well as Comrades, Policewoman Says. Rhoda Milliken of the wom- en’s bureau, police department. today told the woman's national committee for Jaw enforcement at the Washing- ton Hotel that “enormous numbers of | voung people” in Washington were | “fascinated by the idea” of drinkin for the purpose of “being a good sport Even in the high schools, she re- ported, boys had been found to be selling liquor. not oniy to their boy, but also their girl friends. Most,of the trouble is not in the high schools | hewever. she said Mrs. Henry W. Pe was re-elected chairman of the na- tional committee. Other officers elect- | ed were: Tirst vice chairman, Mr | Roswell Miller. New York city; sec- ond vice chairman, Mrs. Gordon Nor- is, New York cily: secretary Turner. New York eity vrer. Miss Hilda L. Olson. Boston: editor, Mrs. William Tilton, Cam- bridge, Ma Sergt | Want Law Enforcement Planks. A “platform” adopted by the con- nesseg bearing on the Daugherty in- | Vention retitioned the political parties | Detective Arresting Alleged Dope | vestigation. |to include in their platforms | strong plank for law enforcement, and made several recommendations to Congress. These proposed: Transfer of prohi- bition enforcement personnel into the classified civil service, stricter penal- ties in both federal and state legisla- tion for lawbreakers, co-ordination of the evidence-gathering agencies of the government and “drastic steps” to lessen the amount of liquor illegally obtained by the “misuse of permits issued by the federal government.” The program of increased coast guard patrol against smugglers was com- mended and it was proposed the gov ernment also should increase propor- tionately the customs force along the Canadian and Mexican borders. State committees of 100 and sub- | committees are to be formed through- lout the country to push the national | program. Taxicabs “swarm” outside the one | public licensed dance hall here, which iallows young girls of fifteen or six- {teen years of age to attend, she re- ported, charging that the taxi drivers jare in' the habit of soliciting a man | passenger and then trying to “pick tup a girl.” Proprietors Are Praised. The managers of the one licensed dance hall, she said, were “splendid men,” but had not yet been sufficient- {ly impressed with the need, in the ab- serice of dance hall regulations here, {of excluding minors. Sergt. Milliken said the woman's bureau is trying to imprass the young people with whom they come in con- tact that to be a “g00d sport.” in the true sense, would be for the young girls to turn down the drinks offered instead of buying and drinking. Much difficulty is experienced here, she reported, as the result of gam- bling on the race tracks, Drug addicts are being brought un- der_control, the officer reported. The_convention resolved itseif into Jan ‘pememal conference during part ¢Contfnued on Page #, Column 7.) body of Boston ' PRESIDENT Declares Heney Threatens Personal Expense Action; Mell President Coolidge told the that it was time to return to a of the Senate committee investiga the President said the “state of Senate remain within its consti inquiries. Mr. Mellon told the President J. Heney at the personal expense Michigan, as a committee couns gation had ceased to be in the pul {acting as a morale-breaker in the ! Continued interference with the| ! proper exercise of his duty, Mr. M lon said, would bring him to the point i where neither he “nor any other man f character can longer take respon- sibility for the Treasury Referring to the action of the com- tec investigating the internal reve- | ue burcau, President Coolidge said under such procedure the constitu- tional guarantees against seizure break down, the rules of evi- are ignored, the department be- | the victim of vague, unformu- and indefinite charges “and in- d of a government of law we have | government of lawlessness.” | The President’s letter to the ate follows “Herewith is a_copy of a letter from | the Secretary of the Treasury, laon Andrew W. Mellon, to me, which I feel - constrained to transmit to the Senate for its information. Also a | copy of the resolution adopted by the | committee investigating the bureau of internal revenue. This is done lLecause it seems incredible that the Senate of the United States would 1y approve the past and pro- d conduet of one of its commit- . which this letter reveals. There , exists, and always’ should exist, every possible comity between | the executive departments and the | Senate. Whatever may be necessary the information of the Senate or ¥ of its committees, in order better | enable them to perform their or other constitutional ought always to be fur- willingly and expeditiously by department The executive nch has nothing that it would wish to coneeal from any legitimate | inquiry. on tha part of ‘the Senate | But it is recognized, both by law and ustom, that there is certain confi- wtial information which it would | detrimental to the public service inf lon as c 1 always unhesi- reveal. Such disclosed, 1 shail tatingly diréct to be laid before the Senate. I recognize also that it is perfectly legitimate for the Senate to indulge in political discussion and partisan criticism. Says Attack Goes Too Far. “But the attack which is being made | on the Treasury Department goe vond any of these legitimate require ments. of the companies in which the Secretary of the Treasury was alleged the purpose of < returns, must some other mo- tive than a desire to secure informa- tion for the purpose of legislation The adoption of the resolution ready referred to is apparently e criticism. The Sen- ate resolution appointing this com- | mittee iz not drawn in terms which purport to give any authority to the committee to delegate their author- or to employ agents and attor- The appointment of an agent and attorney to act in behalf of the United States, but to be paid by some other source than the public Treas- ury, is in conflict with the spirit of 4 of the Revised Statutes, the act of March 3, 1917, “The constitutional and legal rights of the Senate ought to be maintained at all times. Also the same must be said of the executive departments But these rights ought not to be used as @ subterfuge to cover unwarranted intrusion. It is the duty of the Exec- utive to resist such intrusion and to Mellon Protests. Sen- i | | bring to the attention of the Senate | its serious co; That I shall do in this inst quences. Guarantee Bregks Down. “Under a procedure of this kind th nstitutional guarantee against un- warranted search and seizure breaks down, the prohibition against what amounts to a government charge of criminal action without the formal presentment of a grand jury {evaded, the rules of evidence which have been adop! {of the innocent are ignored, the de- {partment becomes the victim of ! vague, unformulated and indefinite | charges, and instead of a government | of 1aw we have a government of law- | lessness. ) | “Against the continuation of such {a condition 1 enter my test, and give notice that in my opin- ion 'the departments ought not Lo be required to participate in it. If it is to continue, if the government is to be thrown into disorder by it, the responsibility for it must rest on those who are undertaking it. It is time that we returned to a govern- ment under and in accordance with the usual forms of the law of the Jand. The state of the Union requires the immediate adoption of su course. CALVIN COOLID Secretary Mello letter to Fresident follows: “Dear Mr. President “On March 12, 1924, by S. Res. 168 the Senate appointed a special com mittee to investigate the bureau of in- ternal revenue and suggest corrective legislation. Senator Couzens was tha moving spirit of the resolution. urging the appointment of the com- | | { { the i | | information upon which to obtain reforms in law and in administration. With such a purpose I am entirely in accord. Irem the line of investiga- tion sleected by Senator Couzens ahd by the atmosphere which he has seen fit to inject into the inquiry, it is now obvious that his sole purpose is to cordance with the usual forms of Transmitting a protest from Secretary Mellon against action | the waiver arch and | 4 Seemingly the request for a d for the protection solemn pro- | In | mittee his purpose was ostensibly (o ! recommerd to the Senate constructive | WARNS SENATE TO OBSERVE LAW IN INQUIRIES Employment in Tax Probe Exceeds Law and Disorder. | ASSERTS TIME HERE TO RETURN TO USUAL ORDERLY PROCESSES Hiring of Special Prosecutor at Couzens’ Causes Coolidge on Aroused. tic terms government “under and in ac- the law of the land.” Senate today in empt ting the internal revenue bureau the Union” demanded that tutional right in conducting that the employment of Francis of Senator Couzens, republican, el had proved that the investi- blic interest and that it now v Treasury. vent some personal grieva “All com iterested have anies in which I have been been sought out. I obtaining from them of their right to privacs delivery of their income in_complete detail to the This investigation has no comp in which en interested received any different or better tre than er taxpayer. T 50 far ving that I fave own ir terests, has failed co Any constrictive purpose of has now been abandone Acted Over Objections. of ok av and in T the yuzen eting 1 tor resolution, againet the two republican powering Francis J charge of the inv conduct the examination of with the understanding stated in solution that the com nor the gove pay Hen. compensation a private individual is sutk investigate generally a departn of the governmen individual is paid by, not the Senate or its committee, but Senator Cc zens alone. “As Secretary of the Treasury have charge of the finances of the asury vouches direc or indirec every person and in sound conduct of its business he industrial life of the United States Alread present investigution ha greatly injured the efficiency the income tax organization, and the suf erer is not the government, but evers axpayer. Attacks such as these seri- ously impair the morale of the 60,600 of the department through at the country. Government busi ness cannot continue to be conducted under frequent interference by inves- tigations of Congress, entirely de structive in their character. If the interposition of private resources be permitted to interfere with the exec tive administrdtion of governmen the machinery of government will cease to function “I owe to you and to the people o :he I'nited States the duty to see tha the Treasury conduct efficiently an ithfully the =reat tasks continuous presented to it, that its integrity fpreserved, and that its future b wred. When, through unneces: interference, the proper exercise of t {duty is rendered impossible. T must e you that neither I nor any other character can longer take re- Govern- govern ry ady’ msp of sponsibility for the Treasury ment by investigation is ment.” MOVE TO END PROBE. | Watson Asks Committee. Senate to Dismi A move end the inquiry into the conduct of the internal revenue bu- reau came before the Senate today qul of the estigating com- on Wednesday to per mit Senator Cbuze republicar: Michigan, the prosecutor, to employ Francis J. Heney of California, brated prosecutor. as special counse t his own expen The proposal, made yvesterday olution by ' Senator Watson, publican, Indiana, alling r dis charge of the ¢ imittee, of which he | is chairman, went over until today under the rules. It stated no reason | for the discharge, but its introduction | followed conferences with party 1 ders by Senators Watson and | Ernst ot Kentucky, the other repub- { lican member of the committee, both of whom opposed Heney's employ ment. | _There was no debate when Senator | Watson introduced the resolutio: | The Indiana senator made no state ment and Senator Couzens was no'! in the chamber. The text of the Watson follows: “Resolved, that the special | mittee to investigate the bureau internal revenue, appointed under, the authority of Senate solution ‘168 agreed to March 12, 1924, be and it is hereby discharged from furthe: consideration of the matter under iu- quiry by the said committee.” M S D. C. HEADS’ NAMES UP. Reported Favorably to May Act Today. The nominations of District Com missioners Rudolph and Oyster are now before the Senate. They were reported favorably to th, Senate in an executive session latc yesterday, by Senator Ball, chairman of the District committee, and placed on the executive calendar. Shouid the Senate hold an excutive session tai: afternoon the nomination —m: be taken up, Senator Ball said today e Sam Reed Dead. EAST BOOTHBAY, Me., April 11.- Sam Reed actor, died today at the age of sixty-nine, after nearly half a century before the footlights. He played character parts in “Turn to the Right" and “Lightnin’.,” and the past season in “Chick Feed.” Last winter he suffered u nervous break- own. | | | in u resolutiot con: Senate.