Evening Star Newspaper, April 24, 1924, Page 1

A WEATHER. Pair tonight'and tomorrow, some- what warmer tomorrow. Tempera- ture for twenty-four hours ended at 5 pm. today: Highest, today: lowest, Full report on page 21. 66, 40, at 5:30 a.m. today. at noon osing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 Cl Iintered as second-class matter office Washington D C Ty WASHINGTON, SENATE CLEANS UP - CALENDARTOPUSH TAX CUT MEASURE Smoot Predicts Two Weeks’ Consideration—0thers See Longer Debate. RECESS FOR CONVENTIONS | siate cons IF WORK NOT FINISHED :rrsier b noias i Special Reduction on 1923 Income Taxes Promised Before June Installments Due. the calendar of red preparatory eration of the the major program and The revenue #d business rde th 3 immediat ) the bonus bill 1o work on the bill the financ to get Smoot of wittes declared it would be hel the Senate until definite pros- <~ had been m d its dispo- He at deast would be required for the bill, but oth Chairman predicted consid- leaders rossed the 1d be anning June Recess. weeks hefore leaders for remain of ad- conven- set by nd House Republican 10, and a reets recess fol and in ken if hussible ort Touse June Democ convention, month, will be ment,should be found presentative Loni tepublican leader in the definitely planning to end 1 by June 1 ond installment of 1 taxes falls due June 15, and provision for a reduction of per cent in these levies is contained in the pending bill. Both House and Senate leaders have indicated, how- ever, that if th should not be passed before t this provi- sion would be removed ‘and enacted In a special resoiution Opening the debate today in th atw on the revenue bill, Chairman Smoot defended the Mellon income tax rates Ad warned inst further authori- zation by Congress of special appro- Lo The s Y in- bill at time, measure as committe repor by the Mr. Smoot d clared, made the “fullest tax reduc tion justifiable in view of the esti- mated surplus.” Bills ealling for the expenditure of $3,143,606,176, he point- ed out, are pending before Congress n addition to the soldier bonus meas approved by both houses, for which the outlay, next vear has been estimated at $135.000,000. “Therefore, “Mr. Smoot said, thorization by Congress of the ex; - ture of any considerable portion of this amount may wipe out the surplus and make tax reduction impossible.” finance Stimulus for Business. Turning to the income tax schedule, about which the main controversy on the Hill will center, the committre chairman declared the reductions in surtaxes recommended by Secre Mellon “will stimulate business, en- courage investments in productive enterprises and in the long run in- crease th revenues from the taxes on the larger income: In placing the Mellon income rates in the bill, financ cans rej the Longworth promise schedule adopted by of Republicans in the House. This schedule called for smaller reductions of the surtaxes than the Mellon plan nd greater cuts in the normal rates. Senate Democrats have proposed a com- cut | the utmost. along the® of the interior and vice chancellor, he lines of the and for norm; adopted by t ~ompromise similar to those » House. Republican insurgents. In recommending the reduction of the surtax rates, Mr. Smoot declared the committee followed the advi practically every authority, ir tive of party affiliations, who studied the question. . Favored hy Three Presidents. “Their reduction,” he continued, “has been recommended by Presidents Wilson, Harding and Coolidge. The recommendations of the last three Secretaries of the Treasu Secre- tary Glass, Secretary Houston Secretary Mellon—have been to the same effect with respect to the high surtaxes Discussing other provisions bill, Mr. Smoot directed attention particularly to the corporation and ~state taxes. The committee meas- ure, he asserted, “is designed to in- terfere as little ‘as possible with the business progress and industrial de- elopment of the country.” Increase in the flat corporation tax from 123 per cent to 14 per cent oupled with the elimination of th capital stock tax, he said, “will apportion the tax burden more cquitably among the different cor- porations by shifting it to a certain ~xtent from those corporations earn- ing a small return upon their capital, uch as public utility corporations, to those earning a Jarge return upon their capital.” The change also would ralieve corporations, he argued, of the “burden of preparing two com- plicated tax returns upon two en. tirely different bases and will great- Iy simplify the work of the Treasury Department in auditing returns.* Excess Profits Tax. Referring to the amendment of Senator Brookhart, Republican, Towa, proposing restoration of the excess profits tax, Mr. Smoot declared this x had been found “arbitrgry and in- uitable in its application as well ts stifling to_business expansion in fts burden.” He also denounced sug- zestions for imposition of a tax on undistributed profits. “Sound business finance,” he said, ‘requires retention by eorporations of a large part of their earnings in order to take care of the business ex- pansion of the country and at the «ame time protect the company (gainst future losses. Sound policy dictates that pressure should be put upon corporations to retain a por- tion of their earnings and profits vather than to force them through unsound taxation to distribute their re profits.” The committee rejected the House provision to increase the estate tax ate from a maximum of 25 per cent © 40 per cent, Mr. Smoot said, “be- cause a higher rate cannot be col- iccted without affecting adversely the revenues of the federal govern- of the !HUGHES LOOMING AS KEYNOTE | SPEAKER AT G. O. P. CONVENTION }Sfl-relary of State’s Address at New York State Meet- ing Earns Him Leadership, Some Party Chiefs Feel—Coolidge to Decide. ATY | cross. smmittes Republi- | Dawes bes a vote|densome for Germany to assume, | This plan is | portations from the territory occu- expected to win the support of some pied by the German forces, and also | supporting of |brought him pec- | body, which responded to his attacks has by holding up his salary as vice chan- and on July 22, i suent and of the states, as well as the value of property.” BY Charles DAVID LAWRENCE. 1 Evans Hughes, Secretary of State, seems at the moment the| most likely choice for temporary chairman of the Republican national | convention at Cleveland. This is the latest turn publican political situation. neech at the New ention not only has earned | place of leadership, but the Republican served twice OV - crnor of the state of New York, as an associate justice of the Court of the United Republican nominee for the presidency in the close race of 1916, lculated to influence his seicotion. At first the Republican leaders bught it would be a wise thing to r to some western sentiment by HELFFERICH KILLED IN TRAIN COLLISION in the Re- Mr. York him a rty, having German Financial Authority and Aunt Victims of Wreck in Switzerland. two VICE CHANCELLOR IN WAR opinion that more time Came Out Against Dawes Report, Favoring Rentenmark. By the Associated Press, o BERNE, Switzerlund, April 24.—Dr. | Karl Helfferich, eminent German | financial authority and his aunt were among those killed in the col- | lision of two express trains near Bel- | linzona yesterday Planned Political Tour. BERLIN, April 24.—The death of Dr. Karl Helfferich and his mother in the train wreck at Bellinzona was confirmed today in a dispatch from | the German eonsul at Lugano. Dr. Helfferich, who was stopping at | the villa of his father-in-law, on Lake Magg was booked to begin a ries of campaign speeches in Ger- | many Wednesday night in aid of the | Nationalist cause | Dr. Helfferich and his mother were in the German car on the train from ltaly. This car was completely de- destro; il the half-consumed bodies in it were identified only this morn- port that Dr. Hjalmar president of the German | Reichsbank, was one of those killed in the wreck at Bellinzona is un- founded. Dr. Schacht is at present in Berl Held Important Powts. Dr. Karl Theodor Helfferich held many important government posts, including at various times the posi- tions of ambassador to Russia, secre- tary of the interior, vice chancellor and direstor of the Deutsche Bank. In January, 1915, during the world war, he became minister of the treas ury ‘and was in charge of the German | war loans, for the successful flotation of which he was awarded the iron | fler the war, as a member of the | Reichstag he consistently opposed any government whose policy it was to pay war reparations. He came out in_opposition to the report of the parations experts under Brig. Gen. use the plan embodied in the report, he claimed, was too bur- Bitter-Ender in War. Dr. Helfferich was one of those who favored the prosecution of the war to | In 1916, while minister | | made pronouncements in favor of de- the ruthless submarine | campaign. His attitude toward the Reichstag into conflict with that | cellor, and in 1917 he resigned that position. His hobby was the rentemark, which represented Germany's first attempt to stabilize her currency, and which is still in use pending the creation of the gold bank of issue provided in the Dawes report. Dr, Helfferich was born at Neustadt, in the Palatinate, 1872, 13 NOW REPORTED DEAD. BELLINZONA, Switzerland, April | 24.—The latest estimate of the casual- ties of the collision of the Zurich and‘ Milan express trains near here yes- terday gives the death list as 'thir- | teen, including five members of the engine crews and eight passengers. | Two mechanicians and two train | hands were seriously injured. Four | passengers suffered injuries which it | is believed will not prove fatal. The bodles recovered from one of the cars | were so badly burned as to be unrec- | ognizable. | MOORS ASK BRITISH AID IN ENDING WAR Abd El Krim Urges MacDonald to | Invite Spain to Discuss Condi- tions of Peace. { By the Associated Press. LONDON. April 24—Abd El Krim, leader of the rebel Moors, has appeal- | ed to Prime Minister Ramsay Mac- Donald to invite Spain to cease war and has offered to send an ambassa- | dor to discuss peace conditions, pro- | vided the independence of the Riff territory {s not compromised there, The appeal was conveyed in a iet- ter which Abd El Krim gave to the Daily Mail's special correspondent, G. Ward Price, who has just returned from a secret trip through Riff in dis- guise. Mr. Price savs the premier was very much interester, but that the diplomatic issue raised was too delicate for him to discuss publicly. He, however, commissioned the_ cor- respondent fo notify Abd El Krim that the letter had been received. Abd Kl Krim is quoted by the cor- respondent as saying that the Riff- ‘ans will never consent to foreign domination which the government is trying to force on men} choosing a man of agricultural afilia- | tions, but while there are many names cceptable, the decision will turn on question of prestige inside the President Wil Decld, President Coolidge, of course, will | have more to say than anybody els the of a temporar: President’s speech York significantly pointed to ents of the Secretary of Also, & week ago, Mr. Hughes enthusiastic address about ssity of nominating and | President Coolidge. a feeling that Mr. Hughes »uld make a keynote speec national convention at Clev which would arouse the del enthustasm. With the exce ~(Continued on Fage 2, Column 3.) choi The about w State. made an the nec electing There a Britain on Point Of Recognizing Greek Republic Aprit 24— British ¢ the Greek republic rmed in dip- ATHE recognition of is assured, it lomatic civeles here today. Sir Milne Cheetham, the British min- ister, it w ated, yesterday formed Foreign Minister Roussos that he would send a note today from the British government r ognizing new Greek govern- ment. was le in- LONDON, official « April ! While no firmation is available, it is reported in diplomatic circles today that Great Britain is about to recognize the Greek republic, MEANS’ DATA GONE, SENATORS ARE TOLD Star Witness Declares Men With Senate Badge Obtained His “Evidence.™ INVESTIGATION IS ORDERED Ex-Official Says Diaries and Other Documents Disappeared. Giaston B. Mean: investi- gator for the Department of Justice, and star witness before the Senate Daugherty investigation, reported to the Senate committee members today that his extensive collection of diaries and documents put in evidence had disappeared. Means told the committee a man wearing the badge of a Sergeant-at- arms of the Senate obtained possession of the documents, or a part of them, yesterday at Means' home in Wash- ington. | An investigation was ordered to de- | termine the whereabouts of the missing | papers. i WILL ESTABLISH BASE FOR PACT WITH ITALY Czech President and Foreign Min- ister Going to Rome to Dis- | cuss Alliance. srmer | Ty the Associated Press. PARIS, April 24.—President Masa- ryk and Foreign Minister Benes of Czechoslovakia are going to Italy to establish bases for an Italo-Czech al- liance, says Le Matin's Prague cor- respondent. He implies that Czecho- | slovakia will adhere to the Ttalo- Jugoslav entente, the object being to strengthen the situation of the two Slav states which sprang from the ruins of the Austrian empire. The Italo-Czech alliance will create an _additional bond between Paris and Rome, says the correspon- dent. THREE BURNED TO DEATH. | Result of Blaze in Boarding House | at Charleston, W. Va. CHARLESTON, W. Va., April 24— Three men were burped to death| when fire destroyed a boarding house‘l at Nallen, Fayette county, early to-| ay. | __The dead are: Benjamin Stump of | Charleston, ‘a traveling salesman Jonathan Pierson and Delmos Hud son, lumber workers of Nallen. Spring Crowds at White House Break All Records of Easter Week| Visitors to the White House and the grounds surrounding it during the past week have broken all previous records, as far as numbers go, in the opinion of several of the older attaches who have handled crowds at the White House for many years. There is usually a great influx at this season, but no one was looking for such a tremendous increase. The run of visitors received its first noticeable boost last Thursday, when more than 900 visited the rooms in the ‘White House which are open to the pub- lic and almost an equal number visited the executive offices and recelved a presidential handshake. Easter Egg Rolling. Then came Easter Monday, with the annual egg-rolling frolic in the rear grounds of the White House. Sergt. Clarence Dalrymple of the White House police turned in his weekly report today, which showed that exactly 26,646 persons entered the gate leading to the grounds Eas- ter Monday. Seventy-five per cent of | President | of | port ¥ | pension. | ed out, D. ¢, THURSDAY, CONGRESSWILLEND WORK BEFORE U, PRESDENTSTOLD House and Senate Leaders Assure Adjournment by Date Fixed by Coolidge. FORMER CLEARING SLATE OF IMPORTANT BILLS District Appropriation to Be Re- ported to Lower Branch Saturday. President suran publ hodid of an in time to adjourn before As matter of the House group that conferred with the Pres dent today said that body is working at top speed now and that it will be in @ position to adjourn considerably in advance of the date set by the as an appropriate time. In the House group were Gillett of Mas Longworth. the Chairman Snell of the rul tee. and Chairman Madden propriations committee on the progress being Senate waus made by of Massachusetts, | that body Represent was given House thi their slates lessislation June 1 Coolidge Ite- those ate and today cleannd will im have < commit- ap- report by the Lodge leader ma nator ublican Longworth said that cd to date riing out today of agricultural ex- 1l which later was done. The bor bill is scheduled be to the House tomorrow and appronriation bill on Sat- deficiency bill 1« xt woek, rding to the optimistic view expressed to the President, the House can point to its accomplish ments and take it casy until the date nt ge of Kentucky Coolidge today of Brig M. C, t at service. tive ¢ for the re the MeNary-Ha ild 1 reporte tie D) urday and then, o New Jersey and called on Presi- and urged the Gen. Logan Fe- be @ major gen- Urze Bursum Bill President Coolidge terday by a large prove the Bursum sions of. veterans the civil Spanish wars. the Philippine insur- rection and the Chinese Boxer rebel lion, which hill has been passed by | both the Senate and House. (he dele gation was headed by Carmi Thomp- son of Ohio, who pokes- man, :and others who addressed the | President the audi were | Senator Bu N Representative Robsion of «pon=ors of the bill in the S House, respectively | The Ppesident was told that Presi- | dent Harding vetoed th bill last year because of opportunitie unscrupulous women to marry rans in order to obtain a federal| This objection, it was point- has been removed from th was urged yes- delegation to ap- increasing pen 1 acted as bill Others in the Sal ber. lelegation were (. commander-in-chief, Albert D. Alcorn, com- | .. the Spanish War| Veterans: Maj. GGen. John L. Clem, 1 S. A, retired. chairman, national leg- slative committee, G. A. R.; Col. John | liroy, past commander, depart- ment of ‘the District of Columbia, G.| A. R.; Ralph H ral, Spanish War Frank, quartermaster general, Span- | sh War Veterans: Mrs. Florence M. | Clark, president general, Auxiliary of the Spanish War Veteran bel Worrell Ball, representing the national president. Women's Relief Corps, G. A. R. and Mrs. W. L. Mat- tocks of this city. TWO ALBANIANS HELD INU.S. MEN'S DEATHS | | Dy the Associated Press. | Rome, April 24.—Two men, consid- ered to be the leaders of the bandits | who murdered Robert L. Coleman of n Francisco and George B. De Long | of New York, have been arrested in | Albania and are being taken to Tiranna, the capital, for examination, | according to information received by | the Albanian minister here. The names of the men are given as Veyzl Ydris and Sesepher Hajdal Bega, | Both prisoners lived in the neigh- borhood of the village of Kruja,| where a punitive expedition was sent | immediately after the murder of the two Americans, the gendarmes killing | three followers of Veyzl and Sese- pher. \ | The two bandits leaders have been | notorious for years for their maraud ing expeditions throughout the back country, operating from retreats in the mountains, Sesepher is reputed | to have almost aboslute sway over the tribesmen in these regions. Prac- | tically all his followers are armed, | though the Albanian government has | made repeated efforts to disarm lhem,l this number were children. Accord- ing to Sergt. Dalrymple this Easter crowd exceeded that of 1923 by more than 10,000. On that same day 1,330 persons’ visited the executive office, half of them being given the thrill | of one of President Coolidge’s hand- clasps. The remainder were permit- ted to stroll through the presidential office at an appointed time and thereby caught a glimpse of the Ex- ecutive absorbed in the nation’s busi- ness. Crowds in Offices. The crowd at the White House yes- | terday numbered 1,470, but today the ranks of the visitors swelled, and more than 4,500 are estimated to have visited either or both the White House and the executive office. Of this numbeF 2,600 were members of the American Chemical Society meeting fn Washing- ton, and more than 600 were members of the American Association of Uni- versity Women. The White House considers this in- crease in visitors to Washington as a strong indication of the prosperity of the country. By far the majority are boy and girl students_in high schools. Of course there the wsual number of brides | and grooms, APRIL | expeaition, SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 24, 1924 —FORTY-FOUR PAGES. ening Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 100,039 carrier system covers TWO CENTS EXPLORERS TO DIG UP |Juror, Locked Up, |TELLS OF WHEELER 8,000-YEAR-OLD CITY Does.Not Know His Geographic Expedition Sent to Most Ancient Ruins of America in Mexico. DISCOVERY EPOCH MAKING May Revolutionize History of An- cient Civilization: The National Geographlc Society to- day announced the sending of an ex- pedition Mexico to uncover the oldest structure yet found on the American continent. It was built probably 8,000 years ago The ruins of Cuicuileo, Mexico City, constitute the of the western world. Probably Pharaoh drove his slaves to build the great Pyramid, and more than twice as long ago as King Tut-ankh-Amen was buried beside the Nile, some ancient monarch of the valley of Mexico forced his subjects to erect a mighty monument to long-forgotten gods south of Pompeil Huge Mound Found. Already San Cuicuilco has disclosed an artificial mound 412 feet in di- ameter and 52 feet high. These ob- | servations were made By Prof. Byron Cummings, leader of the Geographic in preliminary work at the site of the amazing ruins. Further explorations may revolu- tionize our history of ancient America. Skeleton remains of the Americans of 7.000 years ago, specimens of their emblems and idols, and pieces of their earthenware, found at Cuicuilco by Dr. Cummings, upset current theories about the origin of human life on our continent. Early Americans Distinctive. “The steps of human development from the simplest beginnings are as easily traceable in the Valley of Mex- ico as in Mesopotamia or the valle: of the Nile,” he said. “Point out as we may similarities to Mongolian types or to western Asiatic and Egyp- tian designs and conceptions, we must acknowledge after all that the early inhabitants of America were d inctly American. Their dissimilari- | ties to Asiatics, both east and west, to Africans, and to Buropeans are far pronounced than their similari- e “The early American did not differ greatly from the early Asiatic, the early Egyptian, or even the primitive European. ' “America thus has a prehistory ex- tending far back into the early cen- turies of human development. The steps of her progress and the suc- cesses achieved are as interesting and instructive as any attained by the renowned human groups of the old world." Mound Sealed by Laya. The lofty mound at Cuicuilco was sealed and preserved by lava from the crater Xitli. The Aztecs of Mexico were preceded by the Toltecs, and the Toltecs were preceded by a primitive people whose traces were embalmed in_this lava. But the volcanic forees in the Val- ley of Mexico have performed a more amazing feat of preservation than did Vesuvius at Pompeii, for under the present surface blanket of lava, known as the Pedregal, there is an- other and much earlier lava blanket. It is this earlier lava flow which incases the relics of Americans of 8,000 years ago, and which, it is hoped,” will disclose remains of a civilization that existed even before the primitive predecessors of the Tol- tecs invaded the historic valley. BELGIAN STATESMEN - WILL SEE POINCARE Theunis and Hymans to Confer ‘With French Premier on Experts’ Report. By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, April Theunis and Paul Hymans, Belglan representatives on the reparation commission, will confer with Premier Poincare of France at Paris next Monday, it was learned today. The conversation is expected to be a sim- ple exchange of views regarding the reparation situation as affected by the experts’ report. Premler Theunls and M. Hymans, is is said, will have a Similar confer- ence with _Prime Minister MacDonald of Great Britain at the end of next week. 24.—Premier thousand vears before | Wife Dropped Dead | Bythen PITT Press BURGH, Unaware that his ped dead of heart home, August Lippert, member of a jury trying a murder in | criminal court, was locked up last | night with others of the jur | Under the law Lippert is bl | to leave the court until end ra., wife diseuse il 24 d drop- in her ur the of the trial. He will be told of his loss today 'WOMAN VOTERS RAP | LAX MARRIAGE LAWS | | 49 Varieties in 48 States and D. C., i Buffalo Convention Con- ferences Told. | By the Associated Press BUFFALO, N: X,, April 24.—Uniform | marriage and divorce laws, polit | clean-ups by women, more effi school teachers, co-operative housing and protection of young mericans abroad, were urged by various k- lers today at conferences connected {with the annual convention of the | Nationla League of Women Voters. | An amendment to the federal Consti- | tution in order to codify marriag ]di\'nrl‘fl laws was advocated b | Marion Griffin of Memphis, Tenn., fore the uniform laws commit . | cited forty-nine varieties of marri |ana divoree laws in the fort | states and the District of ©olumbia |and saia they were undermining the American home and family and lead- ing toward final breaking-up of the | states. In 1910, she said. one<marriage in ten was broken by divorce one in six Marriage Law Laxities. “The evil of so many marriage laws is apparent from the great number of states in which there is no minimum age law,” she said. “In many state: | neither good health nor men ness, nor financial independence any degree is required.” Miss Elizabeth J. Hauser of Girard, Ohio, told the education in govern- ment and politics conference, “we can scarcely fail, to mnote the ex- traordinary need for house cleaning this spring. “It will be a great day for this country,” she said, “when the women voters, conscious of their might, un- in same vigor that charac house cleaning at home The education conference was told by Dr. Fletcher Harper Swift of the College of Education, University of Minnesota, that more than five mil- lion children of school age in the United States are not in scho Mrs. Agnes Warbasse of New York discussed the co-operative movement | before the living costs conference | She said that if one million homes suddenly were provided in the United States the people of the country still would not be well off for shelter erized their | same conference by Edward F. | tizan, member of the United | Tariff Commission. Moral Issue Raised. There had been raised Cos State in the | issue, of concern to all citizens, he | declared. He cited an amendment to | | the ! troversy fage | peen interested i -eignt | dertake a political clean-up with the | LAND CASE INQUIRY Commissioner Spry Says Senator Did Not Appear to Act as Attorney. SOUGHT ONLY ‘SQUARE DEAL’ Such Action Common for Senators, Committee Told. er direct testimony beari the activities here of Senator Wheeler of Montana with land cases was heard toda) the special committee the senator's indictment on a charge of receiving moeny for appearing before Interior Department in such re on in_connection by cases. Commissioner Spry of the depart- ment's general land office testified that Mr. Wheeler came to his office on one occasion. but toid him he only was interested in seeing that Gordon Campbell. his client in ltigation in the Montana courts, got a “square deal” from the federal government in regard to his land interests. Action Not Unusual The oner added that the senator had talked to him only as any other member of the Scnate or House might have done for a constituent. Asked directly whether Mr. had “interested himself” in any con- troversy before the department, he ri plied that he did not recall that Senator Wheeler has The only other committee session, a Washington lawye he had handled Cam land mat- ters before the Interior Department and that Senator Wheeler had “abso- lutely nothing™ to do with them. No date for the next meeting w. fixed, but Chairman Borah expec within a day or two to question mem- bers of the grand jury which returned indictment ~ against Senator heeler at Great Falls, Mont. Camphell Lawyer Called. William G, Feely, Washington at- torney for Gordon Campbell, the Mon- tana oil operator for whom Wheeler is accused of acting in federal land matters, was called as the first wit- n He testified that under a ver witness at today's William G. Feely fled that i} W 1923, he represented Campbell in land cases before the Interior Department, but said he had never had any con- S ion with Senator Wheeler or his firm on these matters, “Senator Wheeler had absolutely nothing to do with it," the witness said Feely said he formerly was in the Interior Department and met Camp- | bell through Edwin S. Booth, at that The tariff was discussed before the | time the department solicitor. Camp- bell's business with the department was in connection With oil lands pros- pecting permits, he said, and “our firm handled all those matters. Acquainted With Wheeler. re you acquainted with Senator | Wheeler?" asked Chairman Borah. “Yes, sir. T met him in the summer of 1923, the witness replied; “after we had practically closed up the mat- ters with the Interior Department.” “So far as you know, Mr. Wheeler ! had nothing to do with the matter Tarifft Commission a distinctly moral | asked Senator Caraway, Democrai Arkansas, “Absolutely nothing. Feely said the government had no financial interest in the Campbell per- | mits, but “merely passed on contro- | an appropriation bill adopted by Con- | gress, providing that any commis- | sioner having a financial interest in |ar investigation shall forfeit his | salary as definitely committing Con- | 8ress to the unassailable view that Tariff Commission investigations | shall be conducted strictly in the | public interest. International co-operation is nec- | essary for the protection of Ameri cans, particularly girls and boys go- ing to forelgn countries for amuse- ment or work, Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the children's bureau, United States Department of Labor, told the social hygiene conference. SEIZE $100,00C ALEOHOL. | Authorities Trace Norwalk, Conn., Contraband to Ship, It Is Said. NORWALK, Conn., April 24—Two carloads of alcohol, roughly valued at more than $100,000, were seized by federal authorities and Norwalk po- lce on a siding near the South Nor- walk passenger depot shortly after midnight last night. It was said the shipment came off a ship at Groton Point, and was sald to have been landed yesterday. The seizure, said to be the largest on record since the eighteenth amend- ment became effective, leads directly to operatives of an organized rum syndicate in New York, it is sald. P | | | | verSies between clalmants. Senator Sterling, Republican, South Dakota, asked the witness who troduced him to Senator Wheeler. Feely said it was Booth. “Where was this?" “I think it was in the Department of Justice. 1 did not meet him in the Interior Department.” “You said you never wrote M Wheeler. Did he ever write to you? “He did not.” Question of Validity. Feely said no question was raised as to the acreage in the assignments or permits that he handled for Camp- bell, but that the question of their validity “was raised in the matter of the Phillip McGowan permit.” Commissioner Spry of the general land office testified that Senator Wheeler called at his office in the spring of 1923, with Solicitor Booth, who said Wheeler was “interested” in the Campbell matter. The com- missioner said that the senator him- self had declared he was only inter- ested to see that Campbell should “get a square deal.” Senator Wheeler never talked to him on any matter except in the way all members of Congress were inter- ested in affairs of their constituents, Commissioner Spry said. Asked to describe his talk with Wheeler, Commissioner Spry said: “I think it was in the spring of 1923. He and Mr. Booth came to my (Contlnued on Page 4, Column 4) Wheeler | contract made with Campbell in March, | in- | BONUS HELD SURE EVENIF PRESIDENT SHOULD VETO BILL Advocates in Senate Con- fident of Votes Enough to Override Executive. | ATTITUDE OF COOLIDGE CAUSES SPECULATIONS Democrats Pave Way for Cash Op- tion if Majority Changes in Next Congress. Advocates of the soldier bonus b itered th White Hous Passage sterduy the the House betw e r attention today on of the by the same form left anly mi the chambers fo nfere cady insuranee in approved b ' differen adjustme measu Senat substan n e 11 and soon for idge" sideration No d the subject of bont legislation has come from the dent his message He declared against a bonus at th but it been predieted 1 quarters recently that he might the At timne the exnress that, ev uld disa sufficien assured in hoth the H o ove a veto it is expecte President Cool be word on Pres since to Congres time, some same insurar an the Can Override Veto. The bill w ssed by the the . much more two-thirds ma- pa e Republic tors Lodge, Ma Curtis, Kan Watson, Ir also hav voie jority required over a veto, S ers, including Sen chusetts, the floor leader sas, sponsor of the bill diana, and Willis, Ohio, clared they would vote to ove veto of the insura mezasure Although the bill. proy payments to vete more than 50 in adjusted service compensation and twenty-year en- dowment insurance policies to others by the Amer Democrats gay they would renew full cash payments roundwork for Senator Walsh, Democrat, Mas: chusetts, laid the groundwork for n yesterday with an amend- {ment to the bill postponing until July 1, 1925, the date of issuance of the insurance certificates, although |leaving the cash payments of $50 or |less available immediately upon its enactmént. The measure had pro- vided for issuance of the certificates {on next January 1. Before any of tha insurance certifi- cates would be issued under the amendment agreed to, Senator Walsh {predicted, a Demoératic Congress would b in power and an opportunity would be afforded to change the law to include an option of full cush pay- ments. A motion by Senator Copelant Democrat, New York, to make the cash payments an option in the bill was voted down 47 to 3. Second Bill Passed. The soldier bonus bill passed v terday by the Senate is the second to receive the approval of Congress. The first was vetoed by President Hard- ing in 1922 and failed in the Senate on a motion for repassage over the | veto after the House had repassed it Before that measure was brought forward the House had approved a bill at a previous ion. but the Senate sidetracked it at the request of President Harding, made in per- son in the Senate chamber. The question has been before Con- gress since the year after the war ended and more than 200 bonus bills have been introduced. There is no difference between the Senate and House on the main fea tures of the bill. Bach has approved the major provisions, which are: rovisions of Bill. to veterans whose sation would not ex to measure n lead- for cash not entitled to in Action. such act Cash paymen adjusted compe | ceea $50 Twent ! polic Rt the rate of $1 a day | service and $1.25 a day service. Provision is made in der which the eataretind of two vears from the | date of the issue of his certificate | tauld obtain loans from banks up to 50 per cent of the current cash value | of the certificate. The more important written into the House Se. vere: . able jmmediately, instead of after Aine months from the date of the en- Actment of the measure. Date In Postponed. | That the insurance certificates | would issue after July 1, 1925, in- | stead of after Janugry 1, 1925. That veterans should be relieved |of payving compound interest to the Treasury upon redemption of certifi- cates which had been allowed to lapse as security for bank loans. Placing entire control of the ad | ministration of the act under the director of the Veterans' Bureau in- Stead of under the Secretary of War |ana Secretary of Navy. Eliminating_employes of the pub- lic health service from the benefits of_the bill. Making the legislation applicable to female yeoman of the Navy, female marines, the Philippine Scouts and the Porto Rico regiment of infantry. Eight hours of oratory and voting on amendments preceded final pas- sage of the bill. Senators Underwood of Alabama and Glass of Virginia. Democrats, led the opposition to any kind of bonus legislation. Senator Underwood spoke for an hour, char- acterizing the insurance proposition as a “sham and a fraud” and urging that the Senate give attention to tax reduction rather than to bonus leg- islation. Assured by Republican leaders that they would vote to override a veto of this bill, but would support a veto of a cash bonus measure, the Senate resisted all efforts to add a cash option. ear endowment insurance iased on adjusted service pay for domestic for overseas the insurance veteran af amendments bill by the Test on Question. The test on this question came witl the rejection, 48 to 37, of an amend- ment by Senator Copeland, Democrat, New Yl which _would h left (Continued on Page 4, C