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WEATHER. Cloudy weathe Tonorrow; moderate cast *{ hours moderate t Iy winds, ended at 10 p.m. a.m, rt on page 7. . with showers tonight T today. mperature; mperature ¥ Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 ch J 90996 No. 29,226. post office Was| Entered as second-class matter hington. D C. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHING TON, D. C, . GOOLIDGELINESUP FORCES FORAGTIVE. LEGISLATIVE DRIVE Confers With Party Leadersf in Effort to Push Impor- | tant Measures. THREATS OF COALITION SPUR G. 0. P. TO ACTION Adjournment of Congress June 7 Suggested to the Executive. Aronsed by the threat of Demo erat hold ational politi President and insu to Congress ent Republicans in session during the | 1 conventions in June, | and Republican organization in the Senate nd House reconsolidated their nes in preparation for an aggressive | ffort to clear the congressional cal- | ndars of important legislation. The President and Republican | leaders ad a breakfast conference | ®#nd later met with Senator Lodge of | Republican Senate Chairman Smoot the ce committee. Coolidge leaders today Massachusetts, leader, and of Senate fi Meets House Leaders. The President h Republican House leaders the leg the sla- fon in that body in detai discussing the measures pending be- fore the House, including legislation to afford farm relief, The Hous W eonference included Speaker Gillett, Representative Longworth of Ohio, the floor Chairr Snell of | the rules Representative | Hegg of Chairman Green of | the ways and mmitte, Chair- man Madde appropriation committes publican went over w ve sit attending the der an Oh men ng committee, Suggest June 7 Hou the ¥ arda Republican as Date. T with 7. the of the leaders, in their talk | lent, suggested June | before the opening | convention at dat Presi- Cleveland, the adjournment tor ¥ told the dent 1a have its legis- bative in by that time ! While Senators Lodge and Smoot were at the White House Senator | Bhrah, Rtepublican, Ida also was called into their conference, which | had to do primarily with the status | financial measures, including the | X bill and the Bursum pension measure vetoed last woek. The | sibility of enacting some sort of rec- | lation al was | | pos- lamation also sidered. The President's callers left the White House under the impression that the President might not commit himself definitely on th particular | form farm aid should take, al there was some probability that a specific recommendation on the sub- | ject might be transmitted to Congress | later. Wanis Farmers Alded. | The President was said to be firmly of the belief that something should be done before the.close of the ses- sion to relieve distress among the farmers, it he aid to look = provision of the Me- bill which would re- vernment _to sunply‘ 200,000,600 ital for the corpora- tion that would be set up to_sell | surplus farm pr proad. | line tritude 3 the | ¥ nd the expandi- | t from fits'en- ictment, sident is taking a| tirm stand g v legislation which _would expenditures without aff ns for bring- ing addition: enue into the rreasur | Bonus Bill Veto Expeeted. | His attitude on this ¥oint led most+ of the House leaders to believe that | liers' bonus bill, tted to him, and | toward the a_provision o unds for the pay increase by an in- in postage rates. | Particular importance also is at- | \ched by Mr. Coolidge to the Bur- <um pension bill, which he vetoed t week. He is "inderstood to have ked for assuranc:s that its passags wuld be prevented, but the congres- | hal leaders were unable to give Jhim any positive information on that | subject. Conver: conferenc efforts of a jnsurgent coalition Barkley bill to re is | (uire s been subm he lukewart salary hill rporited ation at the White House | hinged for a time on the | Demoergtic- Republican put through bolish the Rail- road Labor Board. All of the House caders who participated in the dis- sion fought the measure when it as taken up Monday, and they In- rmed the President tAey believed | hey could stave off action. They | ;nceded, however, that insistence of upporters of the measure to p g it 2 vote might jeopArdize a number of other important measures which | {he House would be unable to reach onsideration of the railroad bill wis protracted. Will Not Puxh Pension Measure. Senator Bursum said today he would not press immediately his mo- tion to pass his pension bill over the President’s veto, number of | tors who desired to vote are ab- | He had planned to call it up eterday, but abandoned the effort ause of the general row over in- igation of the prohibition bureau. “T have not made a complete poll of the Senate,” he said, “but un- oubtedly the vote will be close. I xtill am hopeful that the bill can be Dassed over the veto.” Textile Inguiry Blocked.” The proposed inquiry into the de- pression in the textile industry re- eived another setback today in the Senate, when Senator Smoot, Repub- liean, Utah, objected to consideration of the resolution authorizing it. Later, Senator Walsh, Democrat, Massachusetts, author of the resolu- tion, declared he would object to fur- ther recesses of the Senate unless npportunity was gi to comsider his proposal. “This is the third time it has been Vlocked,” he said. “I consider th necessity as great for obtaining thi information for the thousands of men ¢hrown_out of emplovment in_the " (Continuwd on Page i, Column 1.) as a n | tional Capital {and let the fight | larger than $5,000,000. | tion BIG MINE FIELD FOUND. Laid by Russians Over 280 Square Miles in Baltic. LUBECK, fields covering Germany, May Mine S0 square miles have bern discovered in the eastern Baltic off Finland. The mines are said to be of Russian origin, dating frorh the world war. This iz taken here as confirming the finding of the Stettin marine office that the recent sinking of a German hip in the Baltic was due to explo- ion of a mine, 'HOPE FOR D. C. BILL LIES WITH SENATE Chance Remains There for Saving 60-40 System of Ap- propriation. TIME OF ACTION UNCERTAIN Subcommittee Plans to Hearings by End of Week. Civic leaders of Washington today turned their attention toward the Senate in the hope of having the 60- 40 plan of appropriating for the Na- saved. With the passage of the appropria- tion bill by the House late yesterday, carrying the Cramton amendment substituting a lump sum of $5,000,000 a year for the time-honored fixed percentage basis of appropriating, the measure is now before the Senate sub- committee on appropriations. The subcommittee probably will begin hearings on the bill by the end of this week or at least by Monday. | Hope still exists that the Semate will restore the 60-40 provision to the bill on the question of the fiscal relations be settled by the conferees, One thing was ¢ the namely willing contr rly_indicated on te side of the Capitol today, that the Senate will not be to agree to an $8.000,000 bution in the event the Hou stand pat against the 60-10 method It is believ conferces re ing the 6 will the n_effort the lump sum substantially Senator Jones of Washington, a mem ber of the subcommittee on District appropriations, indicated today that if the lump sum cannot be he would advocate making Senators whe District d that should the House firm against restor- to have will have charge of the propriation bill could not definitely today just how would emer; m the regard to fiscal tion years, however, the Senate out against far-reaching changes in the fiscal arrangeme that would redu the federal government share of expense in Washington. Carrying approximately §24,650,000, the District appropriation bill for the fiscal year beginning July 1 next was passed by the House late yesterday. The outstanding feature of the bill the bill In past | as passed is the revolutionary change in the fiscal relations between the federal and the District governments. The old fixed proportion of participa- tion in the expenses of the National Capital, formerly on a 50-50 basis a more recently on a 60-40 basis, is set aside and a lump-sum appropria- of $5.000,000 is made by the fed- Treasury, all over and above amount to be paid by local taxes. Senate is expected to strike out eral that The this sentative Lodis C. Cramton, Repub- lican, of Michigan, and to restore the 60-40 proportion. Will Offer Amendments. Representative Bacon of New York asked for a separate vote in the House on the Cramton amendment esterday, but withdrew his motion on request of Chairman Madden of the appropriations ¢ommittee. If this amendment is not stricken from the bill In the Senate there will be a | number of liberalizing amendments offgred. The House also approved the action of the committee of the whole in making provision in the District ap- propriation bill for a program of street improvements amounting to $890,000, all of which will be paid for out of the gasoline tax, or auto reciprocity, bill recently passed. Adoption of the $880,000 school uilding program during the next 1 year was one of the most im- 4 ions during consideration of the bill vesterday “Scandalous delay school buildings b 1i; in having new crected after Con- | gress had appropriated money was censored vigorously by Representative Cramton in opcning debate on_the bill. When the House adjourned Saturday Representative Iiyrns of Tennesse ranking Democrat of the appropri tions committee, had criticized the subcommittee in' charge of this meas- ure and District officials because ade- quate provision was not being made to enlarge the school facilities to meet inevitable requirements, as shown by the rapid building in cer- tain localities. . Cramton Resumes Remarks. tepresentative Cramton resumed where Representative Byrns had left off. He said that at this season of the year school officials were in- dulging in attacks on the niggard- liness of Congress. “After appropria- tions have been given by Congress thete is scandalous delay in the erec- tion of school buildings,” said Rep- resentative Cramton, who told the House that he wished to challenge the attention of the Washington news- papers to this situation. He called particular attention that in the appropriation bill a year ago there were two items of substantial Junts for increasing school facili- ame law on February One’ item was $133,000 to provide 336 additional seat in the Raymond School. Representative Cramton em- phasized that the District officials did not advertise for bids for ten months after the money was available, and then it took until April 22 to let the confract, and it is expected that the building will not be completed until February, 1925, two years after the money was available. Gave Second Tllustration. A second illustration 1e gave -e- garding Tenleytown. An appropria- tion of $160,000 was available for 336 additional seats. “The latest in- formation 1 can get from the super- intendent of schools is that ‘plans are being developed.’ That is one year and three months after the money was available, And it is not con- templated that the building will be ready for occupancy before January, 1925. Representative Crampton impressed upon the House that this delay was not caused by Congress, but by the District _officials _in _not promptly (Confinued on Page 4, Column 3.) Begin | > spokesmen | d | | not increased. | California was avoided | it | Pres predict | inc enate with | has stood | | | | his own gre | coolidge administration did not strike amendment, fathered by Repre- | 25,000 LEAD SEEN FOR PRESIDENT IN CALIFORNIA VOTING Over 16,000 Ahead of John-| son in Two-Thirds of State, With Majority Growing. | | | | WORST DEFEAT IN STATE | SUFFERED BY SENATOR\ Opposition in North—McAdoo | Wins by Big Margin. Speeial Dispateh to The Star, LOS ANGELES, Calif, May 7.— President Coolidge has won the Re- publican presidential primary con- | test in California by approximately | 25,000 votes over Senator Hiram John- | son, making the first great political defeat the senator has suffered in his home state since he first ran for gov- ernor in 1910. Returns from nearly 75 per cent of | the state's 6,974 consolidated precincts give Coolidge 219,943 and Johnson 203,634, The President's gains on| later returns have been consistent and territory vet to be heard from is regarded either pro-Coolidge or pronouncedly for either candi- date. Although the President made seri- ous inroads into the Johnson strong- holds in northern Californid and re- | duced the senator's majority in his | home community of San Francisco to less than 9,000, the smallest Johnson majority there in a decade, a Cool- idge landslide in Los Angeles Coun- ty and Coolidge majorities in every other southern county, were chiefly responsible for the President's show- Test of Voting Strength. this year in essentially a test of voting strength between a pro-Cool- idge southern California and a pro- Johnson northern California, and the dent, with a tremendous lead in the south, swamped the senator's nct nsiderable majority in the north. | Senator Johnson developed his great- | est strength in the San Joaquin and | Sacramentc An analy difficult b The presidential race | ) “vesterday’s primary | use of the many = s contributing both to the Presi- dent's suecess and to the senators | defeat, but, aside from the psychology of the victory attendant upon President's sweeping _successes in | other states, the outstanding cause | for Mr. Johnson's defeat is found in | tly reduced popularity. | Mr. Johnson's attacks upon the a responsive chord in the Republican (Continued on Page 5, Column 2) | MANEUVER FOR TEST | UPON INCOME TAX Senate Leaders Expect Decision ‘When General Bill Comes Up for Final Vote. Party icaders maneuvered today for the final decision on the income tax rates in the rovenue bill as the Sen- ate, meeting an hour earlier than usual, took up the corporation and estate taxes in a drive to wind up consideration of the measure. The show-down on the income sched- ule will come when the bill as a whole comes to a vote, and those in charge of the measure sought today to get final action tomorrow or Fri- day. Republicans, continuing their con- ferences, were determined to replace the Simmons income tax rates, put ‘into the bill by a Democratic-Repub- lican insurgent coalition, with a com- promise schedule. Negotiations cen- tered on the insurgents, and addi- tional aid was expected from mem- bers who were absent at the time the Simmons schednlo was adopted and from some Democrats on a com- promise carrying the House rates with a maxtmum surtax of 37% per cent. Opposed by President. Senator Jones, Democrat, New Mexico, was prepared to open debate today with an explanation of his substitute proposal for the corpora- tion tax. The substitute has the in- dorsement of the Democratic confer- ence, but President Coolidge let it be known yesterday he did not favor the scheme. The Senate already has modified this tax to make it 14, .instead of 123, per cent and eliminated the special capital stock levy. In place of the flat tax, however, Senator Jones would allow corporations, by unanimous consent of the stock- holders, to subject themselves to the taxes on partnerships or accept a normal tax of 9 per cemt on net in- come, with graduated taxes in addi- tion on the amount of undistributed profits in excess of 10 per cent of the corporation income. Would Reduce Taxpayers. Speaking in support of his amend- ment to raise the personal exemmp- tions of single pegsons to $2,000 and «f heads of families to $3,000, Sena tor Harris, Democrat, Georgia, said it would cut down the federal tax- payers by 2,500,000. “To my mind,” Senator Harris said, “the greatest objection to the Mellon plan, which the Senate finance com- mittee on a strictly party vote has adopted, and the revenue bill as it passed the House, is their failure to furnish greater relief to men and women, particularly to those with families, whose small incomes are completely absorbed in providing the necessities of life. “When the sixteenth amendment was adopted to authorize an income tax to be collected, those who favored it never dreamed it was to be so per- verted as to thrust the hands of the tax-gatherer into the pockets of the laborer, farmer and small business man and take them from the neces- sities of life, while it relieved the rich of their fair share of the tax burden they could so easily carry.” valleys. It A\ | Coolidge Strength in South Swamps ‘ PN M. E. CHURCH UNION PROPOSAL IS VOTED Northern Conference to Notify Council of Southern Bishops of Favorable Action. ‘WOULD END 80-YEAR SCHISM i Bishop McDowell Speaks on Report for Unification. Dy the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mass, May 7—The unification of the Methodist Episco- pal Church with the Methodist Epis- copal Church South was ratified by the Methodist Episcopal General Con- ference here today by a vote of $42 The action, if confirmed by the southern church, will end a schism that was created eighty vears ago by a southern bishop's ownership The report on unification was made by a speeial commission appointed by the general conference at Des Moines in 1920, and headed by Bishop William F. McDowell of Washington, D. C. It met with a similar commis- sion, appointed by the southern church, at Cincinnati, in January, 1923. A joint committee of reference there appointed prepared the plan approved today, and it was accepted by the joint commission at Cleveland the following July. The joint report, in cssence, unites the two churches in one church, with two jurisdiction; under a constitu- tion, with a general conference and two jurisdictional conferences. Ivery vote in the general conference shall be by jurisdictions, and shall require the accepted majority vote of each | jurisdiction to be effective. Provides Judicial Counecil. Provision is made for a judicial council to pass upon the constitution- ality of the acts of the general con- ference and the jurisdictional con- ferences, cither on appeal or on its own motion, its decisions to be made by a majority vote of its total mem- bership. The council is to be elected ia equal number by each jurisdic- tional conference at the first session of the general conference. By restrictive rules in the proposed constitution, the neral conference is forbidden to “revoke, alter or change our articles of religion or establish any ncw standards or rules of doctrine ‘contrary to our present existing and established standards of doctrine.” Changes or alterations in the church government “so as to do away with the episcopacy or destroy the plan of our itinerant superintendency are not allowed. Bishops to Remain. The bishops of the two charches as at present constituted are to be bishops of the united church, accord- ing to the plan, without further action. Immediately after the union shall be consummated, they are to organize as one body and arrange for the superintendence of the work of the church. Bach of the Jurisdictional confer- ences provided is to meet quadren- nially where the general conference is to assemble and immediately prior to_it. Pending the devising of a method of amending the constitution at the first general conference, the present method in the eeparate churches is to_be continued. The college of bishops of the south- ern_church was in session today at Nashville, Tenn, and by the plan. the oollege was instructed, when a plan of unification was approved by the northern church by a two-thirds vote, to call a special session of the southern church conference. Trizmph Says Prelate. “A signal triumph of the unifying power of/ the passion and cross of Jesus ” Hishop McDowell de- soribed the work of the joint com- mission in his address upon the re- port. He was wildly cheered. “If these two churches can come together,” he mid, “in such a manner that the Methodist Church in lands outside the United States can make unified impact upon the non-Christian world, * * * it will justify pretty nearly every sacrifice that either we or they were obliged to make with reference to our own work in the TUnited States. “The forwand look, not the back- ward look, is the one we are asking you to take. * * * This task can only be accomplished by uniting the strength of those whose hearts are devoted to the things that are ex- cellent. We are willing to take the southern church as it s, and they are willing to take us as we are— and with a minority of change to start with. “By the voting plan whereby the Woman Divorced, Rewed, Sentenced To Jail in 24 Hours By the Associated Press. WASHINGTO! Pa., May ~—Divdrced, remarried and sen- tenced to jail, all within twenty- four hours, Mrs Ivory Merryman today was spending her honey- moon in the Washington County bastille. She entersd a plea of guilty to violating the prohibition law at the fashionable tearcom she conducted here and was sen- tenced to serve two months. A fow hours before the court had granted her a divorce from William €. Horn and she imme- diately married J. W. Merryman, a wealthy widower. When sontence was imposed Mrs. Merryman swooned in the arms of her husband. Her marriage to Merryman was her fifth matri- monial . venture. s melnin e TWO SCHOOLS PRIME ORATORS FOR TESTS ‘Western and Business High Candi- dates Will Appear Before Judges Tomorrow. COMPETITORS FACE FINALS Winner of Star’s Contest Will Represent D. C. in National Event. Western and Business High Schools will be in the oratorical arena to- morrow, with the judging of the win- ners in The Star's national oratorical contest on the Constitgtion of the United States. Plans were perfected at both schools today for the appearance of their selected orators before the board of judges tomorrow afterncon. The judges in the contest are Justice Siddons, Robb and Me! Miss Dorothy E. Smith, winner in the sixth district of the local zone of the contest, will appear befors the judges at T:45 o'clock tomorrow aft- ernoon at the Western High School Miss Edith Miley, winner in the first district. will give her prize- winning oration at 4:15 o’'clock at the Business High Shool. At both in- stitutions arrangements have been made to give their winning orators a great “send-off” in the presence of associates and visitors. Second Round in Fimals This judging will comprise the second “round” in the finals now be- ing held to select the District of Co- lumbia representative in the final national contest, to be held here June 6 at Memorial Continental Hall, with President Coolidge presiding. The exercises, while brief, are proving exceptionally interesting, in- Volving, as they do, the presentation by one who has 2 won a $100 prize as winner in a local district of an oration which may be selected to compete with six other orations, to be given here in June by the other Zone winners throughout the country. The judges are going from school to school, day by day, carefully lis- tening to the orations and silently making their notes upon delivery and content. As soon as possible after the final session, next Tuesday, they will meet and select the winner and an alternate. Wil Get $300 Prize. The winner will receive a prize of $300 as tangible evidence of being the District's chosen secondary school or- ator and will then be in line for com- petition for the grand national prizes —$3,500 for the first prize, $1,000 for the second and $500 for the third. Miss Smith, the Western High win- ner, was scheduled to have been the judges Monday, but, to a ., Frank L Winant of the McKinley mnunl( 'J:imlllng School appe: in her stead. T estern representative is a ‘member of the senior class, being the daughter of Dr. Frederick C. Smith of 3740 Kanawha street, Chevy Chase. She is a member of the debating so- ciety of the school and previously has carried off oratorical honors. ~She ‘was the winper in her school against five competitors—three boys and two girls. Expects to Enter College. Miss Smith is active in athletics at Western, betng especially fond of hockey. She participates in dramatic work, and says English is her favorite study. She expects to enter Cariton Minnesota. !ae ?\lmesu mgx: hool tative, is a senmior a lsl‘\:lt institution. She is the daughter (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) Continued on Page 2, Columm 3.) ¢ Foening Star. WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1924—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. 0L T ivERN STRE#C7I/‘ SAFF0r 00 774 INSISTS PRESIDENT TRIED TO AID FORD| “Trying-to-Deliver” Message Send- er Before Muscle Shoals Probers. NORRIS ANSWERS AUTO KING Manufacturer, in Letter, Refuses Representation Before Committee. James Martin Miller, Who in a tele- gram quoted President Coolidge as saying he was “trying to deliver” Muscle Shoals to Henry Ford, told the Semate agricultural committge today that he had “correctly and truthfully” stated the facts in the message which he sent to Ford's sec- retary within twenty-five minutes after an interview with the President. Miller told the committee the gov- ernment had no secret service or propaganda organization greater than that of Ford’ Before Miller took the stand Chair- man Norris inserted in the record the letter sent to the committee by | Henry Ford, in which the manufac- turer said he would not be represent- ed further before the committee, giv- ing as one of the reasons “the recent efforts of Chairman Norris to reflect upon the integrity of the President of the United States in connection with our offer for Muscle Shoals.” Answer's Ford Letter. At the same time the chairman i sued a statement declaring Ford's| letter was “an attempt to shift the attention of the public from the real question at issue,”” arfd adding that He would continue his course in try- ing to “save for the people the val- uable inheritance of our national re- sources.” The next witness, Gustavus Obert, jr, president of the Natincal Fertil- izer Association, said his firm manu- factured 98 per cent of all fertilizer used in the country. “There is no fertilizer trust. Thers is the fiercest kind of competition in the trade and it has become so great that several concerns have gone out of business,” Obert said He detailed other features of the industry. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi said he would oppose adjournment of Congress until action is taken on Mauscle Shoals and at the present rate it will be a month before the hear- ings will end and Muscle Shoals will be caught in the legislative jam dur- ing the closing days of Congress. Senator Harrison said he was sure he~could not be accused of trying to shut off the hearings, but he wished the committee would act on the prop- osition. Chairman Norris agreed that at an executive session tomorrow a decision could be reached for closing the hear- ings. He added that he did not see how the other witnesses could be cut off after allowing the others all the time they wanted. FORD WILL NOT APPEAR. Says Shoal Offer Needs No More Explanation. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Mich, May —Henry Ford will neither appear personally before the Senate agricultural com- mittee nor have a representative appear, he stated in a letter to Senator Norris, chairman of the committee. The letter, which was in reply to a request from the senator that Ford appear personally and explain his offer, was mailed Iate yesterday from the motor manufacturer’s offices in Dear- born. Mr. Ford informed the senator that his offer had been before the committee for virtually two years, that it was in writing and that its terms were clear, definite and easily understood. He said it had been fuily inquired into and explained, and there was nothing further to be added. In conclusion, the motor manufac- turer said that his decision mnot to appear had been strengthened by “the recent effort of Senator Norris.of the Senate committee on agriculture to reflect upon the integrity of the President of the United States in con- nection with our offer for Mauscie Shoals.” EDUCATOR GETS OFFER. Michigan College Seeks Head of Bay State Institution. AMHERST, Mass., May 7.—Presi- dent Eenyon L. Butterfield of the Massachusetts Agricultural College announced today he had been offered the presidency of the Michigan Agri- cultural College. He sald he was not yet prepared to say whether he would accept 1t. ~ The “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ar’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Was as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 98,611 ington homes * TWO CENTS. US.AGENT ORDERED T0GET” WHEELER, BURNS DECLARES Tells Probers Daugherty Was | Responsible for Action Against Senator. ADMITS TALKS WITH COAN AND LOCKWOOD Another Witness Tells of Money | Paid Mannington to Get Favors. W. J. Burns, chief of the Depart- ment of Justice investization burean, | told the Senaté Daugherty committee | | today that although he had assigned {an agent to ‘“shadow” Gaston B. | Means, this man was not concernec W the disappearance of Means' fa- mous documents and diaries. | A detailed story of money pay- ments to Manington in wh tax and Shipping Board cases was ftold the committee by M. P. Kraffmiller, who said he had lived with Maninz- ton for a_ time at the ‘“little green | house on K street.” He declared the | money was collected on the basis of | | Manington's supposed “closeness” to | | Attorney General Daugherty, and | that in Some cases the desired resuits | were attained. | | Burms said he had ordered a man | named “Bonner” to watch Means, who | has been an agent and detective for | the committee. | “Bonner followed Means wherever | he went,” Burns said. “That was | done at the suggestion of Hiram C. | Todd, assistant attorneyl general, | prosecuting Mr. Means in New York." | When Senator Wheeler sudden switched the questioning to Burns | association with Blair Coan, an_em- | pioye of the Republican 'national committee, who went to Montana to | investigate Wh er, Burns agreed | that he knew C nd had met H. . | Glosser, a witne against Wheeler. Consultations With Coan. Senator Wheeler asked Burns how | many times he “consulted Coan | “What do you wmean consuited?” | replied the witness. *1 saw him four | or five times. We talked about an—“ ator Wheeler's case every time He identified a man named Graw"” as a private detective merly employed by himself, clared the man worked Republican natinoal committee. “You secretary of frequently on m Whecler demanded. “I talked with him several times,” | Burns said. Under further questioning he fmal})‘l conceded that he talked with Lock- | wood and former Attorne | Daugherty about the Wheeler indict- | | ment before it was returned. | “How many of your jgivate men | | were in Montana on my indictment > Senator Wheeler asked ‘Not a one,” Bu “though a lot of these here are trying to tell were."” Senator Wheeler told the witness not to “browbeat” the committee, but | to moderate his voice. Burns took exception to that, saying that the senator would be “mad, too, if h | knew as much about this as I do." The committee's prosecutor then | went back to the experiences of Gas- | ton Means. Burns saud Means went | to work for the German government | during the war, but at the same time | made reports to the Burms private | agency, which had some connection | with the English secret- service, and | that the reports really were intended for the United States government. Means, Burns said, offered him $100,000 as a “retaiger” from the German government, but he refused | it. The Burns agency, engaged in gunarding munition plants where the allies were getting supplies, got Means' report, which, Burns said, “were very valuabla™ The dates were in 1915 and 1916. “The important reports which Means made were so badly treated by those in the government.” Burns commented, “that he got sick and tired of making them.” Burps then testified he knew Manington and also that Jess Smith “used an office in the Department of Justice.” Dollar-a-Year Men. Another spat was threatened when Senator Wheeler sought the identity of the dollar-a-year men employed as secret agents by the bureau of in- vestigation. Burns said Attorney General Stone had discontinued that service, but agreed that he would of those who M’LEAN REVEALS ALL FALL MESSAGES Publisher Is Witness Before Spe- cial D. C. Grand Jury Prob- ing Oil Case. an Me- | for- | the General _exclaimed, lice around you they Edward B. McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, and J= W. Zevely of, counsel for Harry F. Sin- clair, wgfo called a3 witnesses today before the special oil grand jury in the District of Columbia Supreme Court. McLean was required under his subposna to produce all telegrams and letters exchanged between him- solf and Albert B. Fall, former Scc- retary of the Interior, and prinecipal figure in the Senats oil inquiry. This correspondence and Molean's private telegrams have been the subject of an exhaustive examination by ‘he Senate oil committee. McLean testified before the Senate oil investigators that he had agreed, at the request of Fall, to say he had loaned the former cabinet officer §100,000 cash instead of giving him unused checks for that amount. At the same time the publisher denied any knowledge with respect to the oil leases or the actual source of the loan. which he subseguently learned Fall obtained from Hdward L. Doheny. lessee of naval reserve No. L Zevely’s Testimony. Zevely also appeared before the Senate committee and testified that Sinclair loaned Fall $25000 in lib- erty bonds four months after the Interior Secretary left the cabinet, and at the time that he was requested to make a trip to Europe for the lessee of Teapot Dome. Zevely produced before the commit- tee a note for $25,000 which, he sald, was an evidence of the debt. | House leaders may | ence | the party FIGHT ON JAPANESE BAN BY PRESIDENT GOING TOCONGRESS Tells Leaders July 1 Is Too Soon to Make Exclusion Effective. |HOPES TO GAIN DELAY UNTIL MARCH 1, 1926 Likely to Get Support in House, But Senate Outlook Is Doubtful. The administration against immigration bill provision mak- ing Japanese exciusion effective Jdly 1 will be carried to the floor of the Senate and House when the bill comes up for final action. President Coolldge today called intn conference Chairman Johnson of the House immigration committee and tor Reed, Republican, Pennsyl- 2, in ch the immigration bill in the Senate, in a final effort to obtain postponement of the effectis date of the exclusion policy. Secretary Hughes also was con sulted by the President in conneetion with the bill, but it was not vealed whether any new effectiv. date had been suggested as a promise President ssional the fizht. the Sand T com Coolidge informed con leaders today that he rr date set as entirely tou the diplomatic ar r ants to make w Japan, steps were taken imme diately afterward to line up thos who sympathize with his view 1t oppose” acceptance of the conferenc: report. The President favors March 1. 182; as the effective date of the exclu provision, and he is hopeful that : least a delay of a few months be d the date fixed by the conferer finally will be agreed to by Congre It was the 1926 date which Mr. Cool idge suggested to the conferees, an: he manifestly was disappointed at the asreement of the conference com mittee on July 1 of this year, which was the date carried in the bill as | passed the House. Under the Senal bill, the provision would have becon effective immediately. May Get House Support. A considerable group of Republi follow the Pre lead in opposing the confer report, but in the Senate th situation is more doubtful. Senato Lodge of Massachusetts, chairman o the foreign relations committee and floor leader, was one those who most vigorously champion ed immediate application of the bar rier against Japanese while measure was under debate in enate, and he was joined by an most unanimous Republican follow ing. As a resuolt of the discussion o« House leaders with the Presiden morning at the White House | s indicated that a determined figh! being organized in the Hous against the recommendation of th conferees. It was understood a mos would be made to postpone the e fective date for nine months at leas: The conference report probably w come before the House tomorrow Two Changes Proposed. As put into definite form and r« to the Semate by Senator McKellu: Democrat, Tennessee, the President postponement proposal makes tw: changes in the language of the se tion barring from admission thos. iens who are ineligible to citizer. ship—the exclusion section. Afte changing the effective date to Marci, 1, 1926, the suggested draft adds th Proviso to the section: Provided, however, That the prv isions of ‘this paragraph shall n apply to the nationals of those cou tries with which the United Stat after the enactment of this act. shul have entered into treaties, by an with the advice and consent of 1l Senate, for the restriction of imm gration. Norris Scores Coolidge. The proposal was read by Senu!: McKellar when he interrupted Speech by Senator Norris, Republica Nebraska, in which the latter charge. that President Coolidze was “playin politics.” On the eve of yesterday Republican primary in _ Californ; Senator Norris said, it had been given out that the President favored the ex clusion provision, but now, “if th President has his way, there wili probably be @ provision in the bill which at least many people honestl think will mean non-exclusion.” Senator McKellar said the Pres dent’s draft of the section had bee: handed to him a member of th. conference committee “who asked m. to sound out the opinion on i Democratic side of the chamber.” A~ the language added was entirely new the Tennessee senator said, and un like anything in the bill 2 by either Senate or House, only be putinto the bill by suspen- sion of the rules.” _In completing their agreement 1u-t night the conferees decided upon tli Senate quota basis of 2 per cent «! the census of 1890 until July 1, 1927 when the so-called “national origin method” will be emploved, the totut admittances, however, being restric| ed 10 150,000 annually from that da Provisions of the House bill re ing to “non-quota” immigrants wer adopted substantially without chang: Under them wives, unmarried childr. under eighteen years of age of Ame ican citizens, professors and min ters, students in accredited schos)s and returning alions would be consid ered outside the quota if thev obtain ed certificates. During debate in th- Senate it was charged that the: exceptions would have the effect o doubiing the total annual immigr: tion, estimated at about 160,000 und -« the bill. No Barrier in West. Persons born in independent coun- tries of the western hemisphere, i cluding Canada, would be admissible also upon presentation of certificate s without reference to any quota. The House section relating to alien seamen was adopted virtually with- out change, although it had beeu stricken out by the Semate. This would restrict the illicit landing of seamen. A Senate provision agreed to wauld give preference “within the quota® to parents of American cit; zens and to skilled farm labor, but fn no case would such preferences e permitted to exceed 50 per cent of the nation's quots. Provision for selectfon of tmmi- grants at the source and for immi- gration visew by American consular officlals abroad were previously in virtual agreement and remained un- changed in conference. &r dent's

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