Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Mostly cloudy and slightly warm- er today; tomorrow unsettled, prob- ably chowers; moderate winds, most- 1r _south and southwest. Temperaturs for 22 hours ended at 10 p.m. last night: Highest, 64, at 4 p.m. yesterday ; lowest, 40, at 6 am. yester- day. Full’ report ‘on page 17. No. 994—No. 29,202. - JAPANESE BANNED AS HOUSE PASSES ~ ALIEN'BILL, 3221 Brief Discussion Precipitat- ed, Only Difference Arising Over Quota Basis Year. TWO PER CENT OF 1890 CENSUS IS ENTRY LIMIT TRepublican Leaders to Seek Agree- ment Tomorrow on Issues in Dispute. Carrying a Japanese exclusion Provision against which the Japanese Eovernment has protested vigorously, | the Johnson Passed yesterday by to 71. immigration bill was the House, 322 No effort was made to eliminate #he Japanese section, which provoked on brief and perfunctory discus- #ion. There was nothing to indicate that any of the opposition votes were directed at the Asiatic policy con- tained in the bill, but rather aguninst the provision fixing the 1890 census @x the basis of the 2 per cent quota, which was adopted Seek Agreement Tomorrow. While the Senate was getting back 1o its consideration of the immigra; tion question at a night session, re- publican leaders issued a call party conference tomorrow at which an effort will be made to agree upon & policy both to Japanese exciu- sion and the census quota basis. The existing law, which expires on mext June 30, fixed the quota at yer cent, on the 1910 census, and had 10 provision relating to Japanese im- anigration which for years has beel rezulated by the “gentlemen’s agre: ment” with Japan. has urged that the Ame ment continue to recognize n govern- this sgreement, and that the Japanese be | placed on the same quota basis as the yationals of other countries. Representative Johnson of Wash- $ngton, chairman of the House migration committee, announced yes- terday that when the time comes for the House and Senate to reconcile their differences on immigration le islation, the managers on the part of the House will insist to the end on the retention of the Japanese exclu- gion provision. n Protest Not Mentioned. Ambassador Hanihara's letter to Secretar Hughes, which was trans- mitted Friday to Congress, protest i any exclusion feature, Wis not mentioned in House debate on the bill When this proposal is roached in the Semate, however, Sen- ator Johnson, republican, California, @nd other senators from the Pacific coast plun to take formal cognizance ©f the letter and redouble their ef- ¥orts to have an exclusion feature written into law. There was no formal vote in the House exciusion feature, as the failure member to offer an amendment 7 sulted in automatic approval, while the bill was being read for amendment. Only address regurding this feature was <. ivered, that being by Representative Iiurton of Ohlo, a republican member of ihe foreign affairs committee. He dis- cussed the provision emphasizing what he regarded as the Snadvisability of superceding the “gentle- nen's agreement” by legislative enact- fment. Fight Fails to Develop, Chairman Johnson, who had planned o deliver an address to the House urg- ing the necessity for such enactment, &bandoned this program when it became &pparent that no serious opposition swould develop. gainst «Discussing the effect of the opera- | of the proposed immigration Mr. Johnson said that should American con- ers abroad be unprepar July 1 to carry out their exami 3ation of prospective immigrants in ihe country of origin, the new law would automatically suspend all im- migration from Europe until the ma~ chinery for the overseas examination oould begin to function. While the Senate measure differs Zrom the House bill in several par- ticulars, it also has the provision for overseas examination and there wppears little prospect that the two houses will be his feature of the legislation. The chief difference between the House and the Senate bills is in the census basis for the quotas, the Senate meas- ure proposing the 1910 census. There Jave been moves to substitute the date in the House bill and also the 1920 census with the quotas based on #origin of nationalities.” g~ SHIP, 37 ABOARD, LOST. Port De Brest Believed to Have Foundered in Gale. PARIS, April 12.—The ministry of fuarine announced today that it had officially given up as lost the steam- ehip Port de Brest, which sailed.from JBordeaux February 8 for Dakar, Sen- egal. It is believed that all op board, in- ciuding thirty-seven officers and men, ~ent down with ‘the ship when she foundered, probably February 13, in # hurricane off Cape Finisterre. e Jugoslav Oabinet Resigns. BELGRADE, April 12.—The Jugo- #iav cabinet resigned today. The ministry, which was fermed on March P8, was composed of a radical and % sriflant democratic conlition, headed ) By M Pachitch. im- for five minutes, | in-} in disagreement on! | | \ Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. President Coolidge will be a vote getter next November, thus fulfilling the basic requirement of a presidential candidate. He has been and is daily proving that he 1S a vote getter. No other con- clusion can be drawn from the phenomenal success of his cam- paign for the nomination. He is achieving success, too, without aying anything in his own be- half. He just being Calvin Coolidge, and that seems sufficient for the purpose. * % ok % Moreover, his success being chieved in states which were sup- posed to be territory more pro- pitious to the hopes of his only opponent. Out in the great farm- ing regions of the west, Nebraska, ASSAILSA.B. MOORE is for a| cretary Hughes | i | AS RENT BL VOTE 5 NEARIN HOUSE Blanton Charges Senate In- vestigator Was Sentenced | to Workhouse. { | i | | 1 That Alfred B. Moore, special in- vestigator of housing conditions in ‘Washington for the Senate District committee, was sentenced to a two- | year term in the Newcastle county he WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, COOLIDGE DISPLAYS RARE ! POWER AS VOTE GETTER Primary Results Fully Satisfy Party Poli- ticians of President’s Ability to Win in Next November’s Election. Minnesota, Oklahoma, North Dakota, lowa, Kansas, Washington, and in the mixed industrial and agricul- tural states of Ilinois and Michigan, he has been a vote getter, getting votes in smashing majorities over his opponent. * % % ¥ Politicians draw the conclusion, then, that the volume of his suc- cess in the primaries and state and county conventions point to the inevitable conclusion that the republicans have full faith in his qualifications for the office of President. As they are voting for him now they can be expected to vote for him in November. The country was republican by seven million majority on the last show- down at the polls in 1920. Some "~ (Continued on Page 5, Column 3 Flyers Kl:lled As Blazing Plane Falls at Ft. Sill By the Associated Press. LEON, Okla, April Lieut. Solomon B. E Emmet A. Reese, Private Emmitt W the 44th observation squadron, Post Field, Fort Sill, Okla., were killed late today when their plane caunght fire and crashed to earth near here. The plane w, flying at an altitude of 200 feet when it fell, catching fire. It had risen to this altitude after failing in an attempt to land on a plowed fisld. The bodies of the fliers were burned almost beyond recognition. None of the victims was mar- Lieut. Ebert's home was in Idaho, where he resided 12.—First ert, Corp. pilot, and arsh, all of (Delaware) ~workhouse January 10. . was charged in & speech in the | congressional record and an identi- | cal minority report on the Lampert | to extend the life of the District rent commission, sent to the govern- | | ment printing office late last night | by Representative Thomas L. Blan- | ton, democrat, of Texas. | Another minority report signed by | Representative Charles L. Underhill, republican, of Massachusetts and Representative Henry L. jost. demo- crat, of Missouri, discussing the legal aspect of the rent legislation, was also submitted to the House yester- day. | Measure Up Tomerrow. | The Lampert rent commission ex- | tension measure is to come up for consideration in the House tomorow by special arangement with House Leader Longworth and the republican steering committee who have given it priority consideration Lecause the | life of the commission would auto-| matically expire on May 22. An alleged “secret report,” said to expose “criminal organizations” among a “ring” of real estate and banking men in Washington, has been confidentially passed around among leaders in the House during the past week, and late yesterday the public report which Alfred . Moore made to the Semate District | jcommittee was distributed to every member of the House. Called Brazen Lobbying. Representative Blanton, in his speech in the Record and in his | minority report, calls this the “most | brazen lobbying” he has ever wit- | nessed and characterizes activities of the District Rent Commission in en- deavoring to get the rent legislation passed as the “best organized and most determined lobby” he has encountered during more than a quarter of a century experience as an attorney, judge and member of Congress. 1 The facts disclosed in this “secret | report,” all of which Representative Blanton says he learned about months ago, convinced him that “the real estate crooks” had been “thriving on the rent commission and using it every day of its existence to cheat, rob and defraud the people without any of the rent commissioners being aware of it Representative Blanton, who has seen the ‘“secret report” exoneratss all the real estate men Who testified before the subcommittee of the House District committee of being in any way involved in the charges it con- tains. Refers to Fund Appeal. Referring to the “secret report” | which has been circulated amonsg | members of the House with the un-| derstanding that no part of it will | be made public, Representative Blan- ton in His speech In the record and : in his minority report says: “The newspapers report that Mr. Alfred B. Moore exhausted the $2,500 allowed him by the Senate, and re- quested an additional $5,000 which he needed in investigating various criminal organizations disclosed in an alleged secret report he had made to the Senate. And I note that on April 7, 1924, the Senate of the United States passed Senate resolution 203 granting the additional $5,000 re- quested by Mr. Alfred B. Moore. The distinguished chairman of the Senate District committee very kindly per- mitted me to read this secret report, and I violate no confidence in stating that there are no facts set forth therein that were unknown to me before I read it. Says He Knew Facts. “In my months of investigation carried on here, I had discovered just such facts as he disclosed. But such facts had just the contrary affect upon me that they had upon Mr,_Alfred B. Moore. They convinced ontinued on Page 2, Columa 5. _ ‘cussing. jcides the question his mother. Pilot Reese, twenty-four, had lived with his mother and sister in Norman, Ok and rsh, twenty-three, lived in Leon, the scenme of the crash, MORALE IN TREASURY BROKEN,SAYS MELLON Declares Government Will Cease to Function if Wave of Inquiries Continue. DENIES FRAUDS |Says Valued Employes Rapidly' Leaving Service. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 12.—The morale of tho entire Treasury De- Ppartment has been destroyed by the Senate investigation into the burean of internal revenue, Secretary Mellon declared tonight in an address before the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commeree, At the same time he declared that ‘unless some end is brought to this ary interference, government se to function.” wing the effoct upon the de partment after one month of investi- gation, Secretary Mellon declared that production in the income tax unit, where disputed tax liability cases are dotermined, has dropped 50 per cent. In the natural resources | division, where values are obtained, he continued, work has practically ceased and the time of the division is devoted to furnishing information to the Senate committee. Says Merale Destroyed. mpleyes throughout the bureau,” | Secretary Mellon declared. “are more interested in reading about the di the investigation than in work, and adequate supervision can scarcely be maiutained. In any close case, a man, because he fears that he, too, may be criticised, refuses to act impartially, and automatieally de- in favor of the government, leaving the taxpayer to such relief as the courts may ultimately give him. No one knows (Continued on Page 9, Column 1.) 13 MORE IMPRISONED IN FATAL KLAN RIOT| Forty Men Held Without Bail in Lilly Trouble—Battle in Court Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. EBENSBURG, Pa., April 12.—Total arrests on charges of murder and riot growing out of the fatal dis- orders last Saturday, at Lilly, be- tween townspeople and visiting Ku Klux Klan men were increased to forty tonight, when thirteen residents of Lilly were committed to the Cam- bria county jail. Twenty-seven men, said to be Klansmen, previously had been committed to jail. Each of the thirteen men waived a preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace F. W. Veil, at Cresson, and was held for court without bail. A hearing,will be held Monday upon any application for a writ of habeas corpus. Ten of the men were at lib- erty on bail upon charges of inciting to riot when rearrested. Twenty-six alleged Klansmen were arrested the night of the riot and were denied application for a writ of habeas corpus by the Cambria coun- ty ceart. The twemty-seventh man was arrested yesterday. e WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION DAWES PLAN SURE OF AGCEPTANGE BY GERMAN PREMIERS Reichshank and Krupp Heads Agreed Report Offers Real Settlement. RUHR CLEARING RULE MAKES 0. K. CERTAINTY \omcials Hold This Point Compen- sates for Less Appealing Experts’ Findings. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 12.—) cabinet meeting with the premiers of | the German federal states will decide | whether the reply to the reparation commission on the experts' report shall be made in writing or orally through a special delegate to Paris. The majority of the premiers appear | to favor a written reply. | There is no doubt that the govern- ment will decide that the report forms a basis for negotiations. The | | committee of the economic council of | [the reich already has discussed the report ani recommended its accept- | ance on the lines laid down by Dr. | Kurt Sorge of the Krupp Company, | | chairman of the Association of (;er-1 man Industrialists, in his recent atement, This set forth that the ab- solute prerequisites were the restora- | { tion in full of Germany’s economic sov- | ereignty over the occupied areas, | notably abolition of the Franco-Bel- | gian railway regime and the customs barrier between occupied and unoc- cupied Germany, and the raising of an international loan. Schacht Favers Report. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, | | president of | the Reichsbank and federal commis- foner of today {that he viewed the experts’ report as currency, declared | forming satisfactory Dasis for | Teparation setticment ne sotiations. { _“The experts’ report to the repara- {tion commission sentially an {American document,” said Dr. Schacht, | who was frequently called into con- {sultation by Gen. Dawes and his (d-i |low experts in the investigations| Tésding up to thelr report |1t is girect and businessiike, and |shows the great influence Messrs. | Dawes, Young and Robinson exerted,” | { he continued, “and in my opinion is a | satisfactory basis for negotiations, ! looking to a settlement of the repara- | a vears of war and five years of post- war wrangling, which have resuited | in wasting five billion gold marks in | occupation cos Halls Rubr Decision. “The most essential section of the | | report,” Schacht added, “is larticle 3, page 4. which definitely | provides that the military. occupation {of the Ruhr shall cease. That sec- | tion provides for clearing the atmos- | phere of politics, sanctions and mili- tary penalties, and overshadowxs all ofher details in importance.” | 1t paves the way for a discustion of | economic problems in a frank, open, | American man-to-man style, and I| | hope that Gen. Dawes’ direct methods | will be followed in all the discus-| sions. Coal cannot be dug at the point of bayonets and with militarism elim- inated from all the territory not oc- cupled under the Versailles treaty the depressions caused by the presence of foreign troops will be wiped out and Germany will be able to regain eco- { nomic and industrial efiiciency. Thiaks Amount toe High. | Dr. Schacht said there were many | details of the report with which he | was not sympathetic. He thought the | amount asked from Germany was too | | heavy and declared it a pity that an | "actual moratorium was not provided. He expressed the opinion that for- eigners were too numerous on the directorate of the new bank of issue provided in the report, but declared that all these handicaps could be overcome if article 3 were literally adhered to. Asked how long it would require to place the experts’ recommendations into actual effect, Dr. Schacht re- ! plied that it could be dome in ninety days or even less. The scheme for mortgaging the German railways, he said, was the best worked out part of the report and could easily be made effective without extensive reorganization. Addresses Reich Body. Addressing a committee meeting of the economic council of the reich today, Dr. Schacht characterized the standpoint of the experts that trans- fers or reparations sbroad should| only be made when German exchange | would not suffer thereby, as the keystone of the economic side of the | problem and as at last establishing | an automatic settlement in place of political and military compulsion. He described the report, despite the heavy burdens it involved, as capable of being discussed under two condi- tions—first, that Germany should re- gain her economic freedom; and, sec- ond, that in event of fulfillment be- ing impossible, military sanctions should not be applied immediately, but that there should be instead a joint consultation between experts on both sides. He asserted that freeing the reparation problem from politics and militarism was viewed by the Ger- mans as an excellent thing and likely to be of great importance in aiding the resumption of ecomomic relations between the nations, 1 Dr. | tin APRIL 13, CENTRALIZED RULE ! FLAYED BY RITCHIE| :Condemns Encroachments on State | Rights in Jefferson Day Address. Davis, Silzer and Kramer See Democratic Victory. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 12—The Ameri-| re on the threshold of a | can people great struggle of the states to regain their lost rights and to retain their present ones against the increasingly insistent encroachments of centralized federal power, at variance with Amer- ican polity, Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland declared tonight before the Jefferson.day-banqaet of the National Democratic Club. The struggle to keep American ideals and to preserve American in-| stitutions against latter-day misuse and misinterpretation overshadows all other issues, he said, since “no high purpose either at home or abroad SHOWN !tion problem growing out of five ever has been or can be accomplished™ by America, except ideals and institutions. Gov. Ritchie was one of the prin- cipal speakers at the club’s banquet, which is held annually on the anni- versary of the birth of Thomas Jef- ferson, which this year will be to- morrow. Other speakers who ad- dressed the diners in the Hotel Com- modore were Gov. George S. Silzer of New Jersey, John W. Davis, former ambassador to Great Britain, and J. Bruce Kramer, national commiteeman from Montana. Many democratic members of both houses of Congress were present. through those Law Making Absent: Progreased. Gov. Ritchie, emphasizing the strength of the institutions conceived the eighteenth century by the | American founders, pointed out that throughout the nineteenth century, which saw the United States attain | ascendancy in manifold aspeets of its national life, during which the coun- try developed into the greatest nation in the world, no amendment was made to the Coastitution save the three which followed the civil war. From 1804 to 1913, he said, America retained the beliefs that ‘“national unity and mational harmony were only possible so long as the nation kept within Yhe limits of its domain and left the states free within the limits of theirs.” Later, the governor went on, laws were enacted and constitutional amend- | Spanish War Veterans—Page 30. | Parent.Teacher Activities—Page 32. {G. 0. P. COMES UNDER m}:l | Editorials and Editorial | Washington and Other Society. BOB-HAIRED BANDIT | ington, is the opinion of the police to- ments adopted “‘which one by ome are eating into the very heart of the Amer- ican nation, because they are breaking down the sovereignty of the American state and substituting for that sacred thing an incompetent, extravagant American control radiating from Wash- ington.” The situation has arisen, he contin- ued, partially because it was possible for majorities in the legislatures of thirty-six states to impose their will on the nation. The vote of 2,316 mem- bers of these bodies, he said, could write into the Constitution any amend- { ment they chose to ratify without any appeal to the people for that action. And these legi 'S wWith rare ex- (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) Superpower: A New Era! The steam engine wrought one social and economic revo- lution ; the gas engine another. Now we are at the threshold of a third—the age of elec- tricity. What “Superpower” . devel- opment will mean to John Smith and his wife and their kiddies will be told in a series of six articles by Will P. Ken- nedy, publication of which will start Monday on the Edi- torial Page of . The Evening Star Sy Star, 1924.—106 PAGES. AID To CHARI —WEE “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every cvening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. * FIVE CENTS D Hons| e oL ] EE HELP MR _HOSPITALS TODAY’S STAR |CONGRESS IS FACING | o SUMMER SESSION 1 Part One—40 Pages, General News—Local, National, Foreign. | National Political Survey—Pages 4 and 5. Schools and Colleges—Pages 22 and 23. | News of the Clubs—Pages 26 and 25. Around the City—Page 30. | i The Civilian Army—Page 33. Radio News and Gossip—Pages 34 and 35. Financial News—Pages 36 and 37. Fraternities—Page 38. Part Two—16 Pages. Features. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 11. Serial—“Mistress Wilding"—Page 12. Army and Navy News—Page 13. At the Community Centers—Page 14.] D. A. R. Activities—Page 15. Boy Scouts—Page 15. Part Three—12 Pages. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Music in Washington—Page 5. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6 to 10. Review of New Books—Page 11. Part Four—4 Pages. Pink Sports Section. Part Five—8 Pages. Magazine Section—Fiction and Features. Part Six—10 Pages. Classified Advertising. Veterans of the Great War—Page 9. District National Gaurd—Page 9. Graphic Section—12 Pages. World Events in Pictures. Comic Section—1 Pages. Mr. Stranphanger; Reglar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; Mutt and Jesr. Special Supplement. The Washington Evening Star March. | i i MAY BE IN CAPITAL| Girl Terror of Eastern cifiu! Thought to -Have Head- quarters Here. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md, April 12—That the blond bob-haired bandit, who yesterday held up the cashier in a Howard street lunchroom and es- caped with $350, is the same girl who has been operating in New York and is making her headquarters in Wash- night. following the report of two former detectives of the Baltimore police mow on duty at the Bowie race track. These two men, who now operate a private agency, today said that a man and a woman answerlng the descrip- tion of the bandit and her escort had been seen at Bowie every day, except yosterday, since the meet opemed. The couple arrived with the Wash- ngton crowd daily, and while there was nothing suspicious about either of them, the girl was so pretty she | attracted the attention of bdoth de- tectives, who stand at the gate and scrutinize every person entering the grounds, for known. pickpockets. After the start of the races yester- day one of the detectives remarked to the other that ho had not seen the “pretty blonde” today. The detectives said a few days ago the girl appeared in attire exactly Jike that worn by the bandit at the time of the holdup. Her companion was always the same man who ap- peared to be about thirty years old and of dapper appearance. The robbery, which is one of the meost daring in police annals, occurred in the heart of the retail shopping istrict while hundreds of persons were passing the place every few minutes. Search of all hotels and rooming houses here today - failed to reveal a clue and police believe that if they are apprehended they will be found in Washington. GIRL HELD HERE FREED. For five and a half hours last night an attractive, slender, bob-haired girl was quizzed by local and Baltimore | convention roil | tricts campaigning detectives, at police headquarters, in an effort to connect her with the renowned ‘Dbod-haired bandit,” N KINP May Be Unable to Finish Work Before Party Con- ventions. BIG MEASURES ARE LAGGING | | Several Considered Part of Presi- dent’s Desired Program. With but nine weeks remaining be- the opening of the convention fore republican national in Cleveland, | Ohio, leaders in Congress are begin- I ning to be fearful that it will be im- possible to wind up the present s sion and adjourn sine die before the convention. They say frankly that at the present rate of progress on legis- | lation, especially in the Semate, the measures which are considered essen- tial cannot be put through before that date. Should the republican national lowed by the democratic national around before Con- | | BTess concludes its work—to bs fol- PINCHOT ASSAILED ING.0.P. RALLY T0 MELLON'S DEFENSE Watson Charges Governor Inspired Heney’s Selection to Hit Coolidge. REED WOULD EXPUNGE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE | Test to Come in Vote on Indiana Senator’s Motion to Dis- charge Committee. | | Bresking whicl heretofore chambe | slaugnts | publicans came to rked t during many democratic on the administration, of the Senate yesterduy the defense of Presiden Coolidge and Secretary Mellon in « long and fiery debate surrounding the intervention of the President in Sen ate investigating committee proced | ure. Senator Watson of Indiana, chair man of the Senate committee inquir ing into affairs of the internal rev enue bureau, led off in the debate an was the chief spokesman for the re publicans, being supported by S tor Reed, republican, Pennsylvania the exe! h the democra who renewed their assault on Pr dent Coolidz well Mellon. m, it aide: of the on re hang: i Brings I | lght levents which prompted Pre: !dent to send his Frid on the Senate investigation sitoation when Senator Watson injected th~ name of Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Penn - | s¥lvania into the situation. | The Indiana senator informed h colleagues that Goy. Pinchot, who h |had a row with prohibition offici | under the Treasury Department, had "suggested” employment of Franei- J. Heney of San Francisco specia counsel for the Senate committee in- | vestigating the internal revenue bu jreau. Mr. Heney's services woul be paid for personally by Senator | Couzens, republican, Michigan, au |thor of the investigation resolution rand the committee “prosecutor.” | Senator Watson said that he had himself given Secretary Mellon' in- [fnrma(lon of the Pinchot developmen: Mellon’s letter t Pinecbot. New thrown was on th the message and the result, he added, was Mr o the President an: | the special message sent to the Sen ate Friday by Mr. Coolldge in pro test. convention in New York on June 24— }it will mean that Congress will have to return to Washington in July and labor on during the summer season when many of the members would like to be in their states and dis- for re-election. In 1916, when the Wilson-Hughes campaign was on, Congress returned to its work after the national con- vention and remained in seamion until September 8. During the convention period, under a gentlemen’'s agree- ment, the Senate and House con- tinued to meet every three days with | only a corporars suard present ana an understanding that no effort would be made to transact any bu ness whatever. Such a plan likel will be adopted should Congress find it to continue to work after June 10 this year. Blils Considered Premsing. Those measures which are regard- ed as imperatively demanding action before the conclusion of Congress are the immigration bill, the revenue bill, with its tax reductions; the sol- diers’ bonus bill, the bill for the de- velopment of water power at Muscie Shoals, the MoNary-Haugen bill make the purchasing power of the farmer’s dollar equal to that of the deilar earned by industry, the truth- in-fabric bill, railroad legislation and the regular annual approp (Continued on Page 32, Column 4.) necessary COUZENS IMPROVES; OPERATION DEFERRED Resting Easily, Pain Materially Alleviated and Temperature Favorable, Doctor Says. The condition of Semator James Couzens of Michigan, confined to his | home here by a severs intestinal attack,, continued to improve yester- day, according to attending physi- | clans. As a result an operation, at first regarded as immediately neces- Sary, was postponed until this week, after a long consultation in which Dr. Hugo A. Freund of Detroit par- ticipated. Senator Couzens was said to be resting easily last mnight under a regime designed to prepare him for the operation. The pain was ma- terially alleviated, the dector’s report said, and there was no excessive tem- perature. Advised te Curtail Werk. Associates of the senator at the Capitol have been aware for at least a fortnight that his health was not of the best. He was advised to cur- tail his legislative activities, but re- fused to comsider such a step. As the institutor of the inquiry into the internal revenue bureau and a member of the committee in charge of that work, Senmator Couzens said he felt he should be present at the meetings. He also had indicated a desire to keep closely in touch with the progress of the new revenue and o] Will Meve to Quash. Senator Watson interpreted message as dealing only with the internal revenue bureau situatio: and asserted his purpose to press h resolution to quash that investigating | committee. Democratic senators were not satis- | fied, however, that the language o | the message was mot dusignen i buke all Senate investigating com- | mittees, and for hours they directeu a heavy fire of oriticism at the Presi- | dent and Secretary Mellon. Late in | the day Scoator Reed souri, to r. introduced punge” the from the S records, asserting that was “in- sulting to the Senate.” The text of | the resolut: hich was permitted with the assent of the Missouri sen: tor, to lie on the table, follows: “Resolved, That the communication of the President of the United States of date of April 11, 1924, and the let- ter of the Secretary of the Treasury of date of April 10, 1324, be and they are hereby expunged from the rec ords of the Senate.” [ a resolution to message Net Backed by Lemders. The Reed resolution was not in spired by the minority leaders, Sen. tor Robinson of Arkansas, dem: cratic leader, said later. Other demo cratic Senate chiefs were frank in saying they did not expect it to be adopted or to be presged as a party | strategy measure. Senator Watson, in his reply democratic assaunlts, opened Senate proceedings yesterday by informing his colleagues that Senator Couzens had told him the suggestion for Heney's employment had come from Gov. Pinchot. The Michigan senator was still confined to his home by se- rious illness, and no attempt to bring {any resolution pending in the contro versy was made in bis absence. The Indiana senator said Senator Couzens would confirm the statement that Gov. Pinchot had intervened in the situation, and added that both he and Secretary Mellon “knew what that meant.” Implies Ulterior Motive. “He knew and I knmew,” Senator ‘Watson said, “that from that moment the purpose of the inquiry became @estructive and not constructive.” The Indiana senator said the “change of scenery” which broushi Pinchot and Hepey into the picture meant not only the exploration of Secretary Mellon's private affairs, but that “every activity of the prohibi- tion unit would be brought before this committe: “Everybody knows that with Mr. Pin- chot and Mr. Heney back of it there jwould be no end to the investigatiom,” Senator Watson continued. “There wouid be thrown out a dragnet of gossip and scandal and come about an era of vi- tuperation unequaled in the poiitical an- nals of America.” At another point Senator Watson said “Mellon is not being attacked for Mei- lon's sake, but in an effort to get the President.” “Mr. Meilon is the main support of Bajtimore, Friday afternoon. She |bonus bills now on the Semate cal- |Mr. Coolidge, and Mr. Coolidge will was later releasmed. A endar, (Continued on Page & Colums 2)