Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Rain tonight and probably tomor- row; cooler tomorrow. Temperature” for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today-—Highes at 2 pm. vesterday; lowest, 5 5:30 am. toda; Full report on page “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. ¢ Foening Star. Closivg N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 16 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 29.248. Yesterday’s Circulation, 98,256 WO CENTS. DSTHTFUND BIL PASSEDBY SENATE * KEEPS 6040 PLAN tered as second-class martter TEXT HERE; 70 BE PRESENTED LATER No. D. ¢, THURSDAY, MAY STONE WILL PRESS WAR FRAUD CASES | 10 QUICK DECISION | AND I'M STILL. 29, 1924—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. Entry of Wisconsin Senator Most Significant Event, Based on Conviction That He Can Be Elected by Progressives. ) s % BY DAVID LAWRENCE. tion as President of the United States 7 Hanihara to Tender Lengthy | Document After It Is De- coded at Embassy. HUGHES IS SILENT AFTER WHITE HOUSE SESSION Comment Likely to Be Delayed Until Formal Reply to Tokio Is Made. The new the the Japanese against immigration protest law reached Robert M. La tor from W Follette, senior sen- consin, whose &roup | has held the balance of power in the | House and Senate, now has reached out for the balance of power in the presidential campaign. The W tion onsin senator's denuncia- of the sought to Communists, who have third-party is a two- With one control the convention in St. Paul, edged politieal weapon stroke of the pen he divorced himself from the ultra dicals the country and reverted to the mild- er term of “progressive,” by which is followers in Congress call them- By the token he ha announcd his int of departing from the two old-line party platforms his program and appeal for elec- has selves. ime ntion of | Japanese cable. Recause time will be of here today | mbassy by | its great length, some required to decode nd| {U. S. VICE CONSUL study it before it is formally sented to the State Department. Meantime. Ambassador Haniha will make no appointment to retary Hughes to present ernment’s views. Embassy officials that the communi into sh for They de of the note described by Mr. Hughe: during the ¢ idge. but it uthoritative nese attitude would be miil the government make its reply to Tokio. pre- his ce- gov- ppeared doubtful ion could be pe presentation today in them conferred ¢ with Py was indic comment It long length Cool- any was b forthec ready NEW HONOR PAID WOODS. Retiring Envoy Honored by Prince | 5 Regent in Tokio. By the Associnted TOKTO, May ors being n ) hon- retiring E hecome Further h the Cyrus s his davs in Japan Today Ambassador and Mrs will entertained by the gent a farewell are Ameries Waoods, aceorded ambassador, few Waods prince r luncheon Premier Kiy special ura. host to the Amer- fcan ambassador ing Mr. Woods directly. s cus With “profound regret ched the hour of the ambas: farewell. “You have had mor onstration of the ountrymen toward voura. “That grati ot inlv because of sympathy and noble which you shared the our at_ disas (the and fire of last September), but also vour unwavering fideli ¢ of a warmer and at dinner, 2 ' ador’s than one dem- gratitude of my B said Ki- . suffe Arthqu.he cau put ined to discuss the contents | | ana | Vancouver, understanding friendship between our | two cour Seex Relations Bettered. further wish to express the fort 1 derive from the conviction that sfter your return to Ameri devote vour energies to ing that more complete under ing which must underly the future friendship between Japan and Amer- i P Ambassador Woods replied thanking the and saying that he especially valued the tribute at this time, when the matter of Jap- anese exclusion from the United es was foremost in the minds of com- voui will strengthen- The Nichi Nichi, one of the fluential of the Japanese new in an_ editorial likens Ameri ogation of the “gentlemen’s ment” to rmany’s ¢ Crap per” treatment of Belgium true,” savs the Nichi Nichi, ntlemen's agreement’ different from orlinary tres § nevertheless, it was an international understanding, the tion which demand: consulta- tion between »d. Americs herself open same criticism as Germany when she violated Belgium. most in- of It “that pa- is the pa i to did Seex Confidence Weakened. “Unless the United States to Japan that she is just zating the agreement sulting Japan, this country will be afraid to enter into any further agreements with the United States, #s the powers were afraid of Ger- many's good faith after the tion of Belgium.” Leaders in every party of both houses of the Japanese diet. at a special meeting vesterday, pledged themselves to wark for t restora- tion of the “old amity” between the United States and Japan The resolutions adopted by the leaders expressed the belief that the exclusion clause, which applies to Japanese, in the new American im- migration law, did not represent the true snirit of the American people, and charged Congress with k- ing the friendly relations between the two countries.” ———— RUM RUNNERS THREATEN LIVES, FARMER CHARGES an prove ed in abro- without con- 'd Says His Son Has Been Marked | as Victim for Interfering With Bootleggers. | Bs the Associated Pres: PATCHOGUE, N. Y. May long Island bootleggers and runners have broadcast threats of death and property destruction against those who seek to inaugurate crusades to check their activities, it was charged today by Charles Gor- don, president of the Long Island Tuck Raisers’ Association. “I have received warning that un- less I stop talking about and chas- ing bootleggers my farmhouses will be burned to the ground,” Gordon sald. “Not only that, but I know of at least five others who have re- celved similar warnings and I have afidavits to prove it. I understand that my son is to be the first victim. Death threats have been sent to others.’ Gordon made hls charges at the conclusion of a W. C. T. U. meet- ing which had been called to urge a mpaign to compel enforcement of $ie dry law. He charged t rum yunners swarmed over Long Island yoads every night and alleged that there was little or no attempt made by the authorities to hinder their sctivities. rum spolia- | tand- | riefly, | of | inter- | 1 HELD FOR BRIBERY David C. Kerr Accused of Illegally " Passing Chinese Coolies Into Country. IS RELEASED UNDER BOND Pleads Not Guilty and Asks Delay Until Saturday. David € consul at Vancouver. detached duty rrested and temporarily on at Washington. taken before United States Commissioner Turnage today on charge having accepted bribes alleged to have been given to intluence his decision in matters re- lating to the passage of aliens across the Canadian border. It is understood that the arrest resulted from the il legal admission of Chinese coolie into the United States on Mr. Kerr's authority. The charges were made by Assist- ant United States Attorney Fihelly on hehalf of Consul General at Large Edward J. Norton. John §. Vurbrick J. Frea Sanders of the United States bureau of immigration at and named as witnesse Mr. Kerr. Mr. Kerr, who is : at the Burlington Hotel, was fed with the information’ that horities were looking for him urrendered himself to Comm sioner Turnage. He was admitted to bend and entered a plea of not guilty and immedia requested postpone- ment of a bearing until Saturday morning in order to obtain the adv of counsel. a o against CONFEREES IN DEADLOCK ON 14TH STREET PLAN House Informed of Inability to Agree Upon Extension—Vote Next Week. Acting Chairman Zihlman of House District committee today ported to the House that the confer- ees of the House and Senate had been unable to reach an agreement on the 14th street extension bill. The Sen- ate conferees were unwilling cept the House amendments. These differences relate o only one subject, he sald, the keeping of 1ith et open through the Walter Reed reservation. Fourteenth street s physically open about 60 per cent of the distance and open “on paper” the rest of the way, Representative Zihl- man said. The Senate conferees insist on keep- ing the street open. The conference report was ordered printed: and will e called up for a vote in the House the fitst of next week. the re- to ac- |U. S. LIMITS MONEY AID TO D. C. IN LIQUOR RAIDS Federal Agent Must Be With Police When “Evidence” Is Taken, New Ruling. Federal prohibition authorities have advised the District government that hereafter they will not be able to make refunds to local policemen who spend money in getting evidence un- less a_prohibition agent takes part in making the case, it was learned today. Commissioner Oyster has_directed Assistant Superintendent Pratt to seek a conference with the federal authorities in an effort to have the order modified. 2 Local police officials said today that such a ruling would slow up the police department in prohibition enforcement work, and expressed confidence that they would be able to reach a_satisfactory understand- ing with the prohibition bureau. RICH CHINESE WOUNDED. Blackmail Ring Sought in Shooting of Cleveland Merchant." CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 20— Blackmailers who have as their ob- | jective extortion of money from local Chinese merchants are held re- sponsible by police for the shooting today of Yee Hee Kee, fifty-eight, former national secretary-treasurer of the On: Leong Tong Chinese Mer- chants’ Assoclation and a_member of a local importing firm. He Is near death in a_hospital from five bullet wounds. His two assailants escaped. Internal djssension within the tong, which came to a crisis a month ago in Pittsburgh, when Kee was de- posed as secretary-treasurer, may lie behind the blackmalling, according to_police. Police are _searching for -two Chinese named by Kee as having threatened him recently. BALL GAME CALLED OFF. Today's scheduled ball game be- tween the Yankees and the Nationals was prevented by rain and the SOggy condition of the field. Fhe Washington team leaves to- night for Boston, where two games will be played with the fast travel- ing Red SoX tomorrow. Kerr, United States vice | on an independent ticket. No other political event much significance and far-r effects wrapped up in it as the plan of La Follette. Neither the Republi- can nor Democratic parties will make a platform to suit him. Yet, he re- fuses to be as radical as the com- munists. He is ambitious. been making the fight for progress- m for a generation. But for his break with Theodore Roosevelt he believes he would have been the can- didate in 1912, He has been a con- tent advocate for years of the me doctrines which have lately pread throughout a wider territory n the west than ever before. He was, of course, anti-war. But, so W Ramsay MacDonald, prime minister | f England. France has turned to the left—and so why not America? | This is the La Follette theory this car. | McAdoo have = lumn 1) | PRESIDENT TO SPEAK | AT ARLINGTON RITES has as Will Lead Nation in Tribute to| ‘War Dead and Put Wreath on Tomb of Unknown. SERVICES START AT 1 P.M. {Executive Will Follow Annual Cus- tom in Address. | President Coolidge tomorrow will |lead the | aevotion to those Gied for the countr At memorial ces in national cemetery, where number of the greatest soldiers and sailors are buried, the Executive will voice the sentiments of the country in an oration, which his predecessors have given in vears past. He will pay homage to the Unknown Soldier of the last war by placing a wreath on his tomb Services at its ana in renewing who fought ation Arlington a serv 1P The services in the Arlington Amphitheater, which rank first among those to be given in the District and throughout the states, will begin at 1 o'clock. The President, accompanied by Mrs. Coolidge, his military and naval aides and members of the cabinet, will leave the White House about 12:45 and motor to Arlington Thg United States Marine Band will play an overture-and then Depart- ment Commander Bri: will call the assembly colors will be presented by John Mid- dieton, officer of the day; the colors ill be borne by Hazard Wheeler -and clor guards and the band will sound To the Colors.” The salute to the flag and pledge of allegiance will follow and ith Graham Schilling will sing “The Star Spangled Ban- ner,” the audience Join in the chors. to Order of Services, Rev. Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, pastor the First Congregational Church, er the invocation: Gen. Lo- orders establishing Memorial day will be red by Assistant Adjt. Gen, Osborn H. Oldroyd: Violent War- ren Pierson will give “A Tribute to Abraham Lincoln,” and Viola Schippert Klinge, accompanied by the United ates ‘Marine Band, will sing “Our Country's Flag.” “Tenting Tonight” will be sung by the Madrigal Quartet, accompanied by the Marine Band, after the Presi- dent speaks, and then Senator Sim- eon D. Fess of Ohio will speak. Rep- resentative Clifton A. Woodrum of Virginia will sing “Unknown Sol- dier”; TIsabel Linkens Gates, “The Madrigal Quartet and Marine “Battle Hymn of the Republic, and Gertrude Lyons and the band, ‘Soldier's Day Is at Its Close The audience will sing “America” and Department Chaplain R. E will pronounce the benediction. The program _will be broadcast through stations WCAP, Washington; WEAF, New York, and WJAR, Providence. Order of Assembly. The organizations officially partic- ipating in" the Arlington services will assemble at 9:30 o'clock at Grand Army Hall. The Grand Army of the Republic will form on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue, right resting on 15th street, facing south. United Spanish War Veterans will form on the east side of 15th street, right resting on Pennsylvania avenue, The Army and Navy Union, Veterans of Forelgn Wars and the American Le- gion will form on the left of the Span- ish War Veterans. The line of march will be Penn- sylvania avenue south of Treasury, north on west side of Treasury to H street, thence east to 13th street, thence south to B street, where spe- cial trains of electric cars will con- vey the veterans to Arlington. The parade will be headed by a mount- ed police escort, followed by the Marine Band; Capt. Joln Middleton, chief marshal; Department Com- mander Briscoe Goodhart, depgrtment officers and official ~staff, past de- partment commanders, the Boy Scout Band, United Spanish War Veterans. James J. Murphy, commander; Army and Navy Union, Arthur J. 'Hogan, commander; Veterans of Foreign Wars, Lieut. Kenneth L. Coontz. department commander. and _the American Legion, Paul J. McGahan, department commander. Before and after the services at Arlington begin, there will be memo- rial -programs given in the various cemeteries throughout the city. Soldiers’ Home Ceremonies. At the United States Soldiers' Home the organizations participating, will assemble in front of the Sher-i| man building at 9:30 o'clock and march to the rostrum in the ceme- tery under the escort of the Soldiers’ Home Band. The principal address will be given by Representative John C. Ketcham of Michigan. Services at the Battle Ground national cemetery will be held at 3:30 o'clock, under the direction of the Grand Army and the citizens of Brightwood. Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles will deliver the oration. Guests of honor will include the District Commissioners, Cuno H. Rudolph, Capt. James 'F. Oyster and Maj. James Franklin Bell, and high rank- ing officers of the Army. Senator Magnus Johnson of Minne. (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) . of aching | large | | also McBride | The | |Attorney General Would | | Clean Up Charges Before I Time Limit Expires. MORE AGENTS DROPPED FROM DETECTIVE OFFICE Investigation Bureau Reduced to] Proper Size"—Burns’ Suc- cessor Not Picked. ‘he many growing out of to be pressed to clusion as possible | Department of nounced today Stone. The efforts of the war transactions | section of the department are to be | | co-ordinated pending war-time prosecutions transactions | are < quick a con- | under a revised | Justice policy, an-| by Attorney General | a ler one Paul man, still Shipman s of Syracuse has heen appointed head of the “aviation unit” in the war transactions section as the first step in the rearrangement i be Wants General Clean-Up. The Attorney General said his desire to have the Posed of general clean-up wants either to o 1 be with them ome of these . which invelve a total in excess of 850,000,000, are no | longer subject to court action because | of the “deatu Simitntion. | Others | it was war cases dis- He trial what in a them n to bring final done or decis s to Tueve only w few months longer beo | fore they ton will he outlawed by the same statute Co-ordinating the | man, Mr. Stone believe way to re efficient a ction under one is the only tion Reavis Hox Rexigned. ¥. Reavis of Nebraska signed, cffective June 1, !sistant 1o the Attorney Gene charge of the qu ster unit the war transactions section Attorney General nounced that he as special as- of | [ Stone today an- | had reduced the personnel of the hurean of investiga- {tion by “several dismiss | his _actlon, by te | Senate com | Daugnerty administr partment of Justice. today to have Dollar Men was understood been about ipleted. Dropped. i persons of the bureau | s tion have been released {and who they were was not revealed by the Attorney It understood, however, most them were special of the bureau. Some were vod to have been the sc “dollar-a- year” special investigators, | A successor to William J resigned dircctor of the hur invest not been the Attornes “We the pro | needs.” he | Concerning | the bureau, Mr. Ston rsonal | s regarded as | INDICTED IN $1,000,000 _ | FRAUD; FINED $12,500| | Wartime Marine Manager of C. R. | R. of N. J. Saved by Poor 1 Health, Court Says. ny General that agents was | of | Burns, | bureau to to meet our present | explained. { the administration of it was understood that would continue to give ! ttention to the matter, as _continuing “to to the scope of its By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. May 29.—Henry Joyce, indicted last September | charges of defrauding the govern- ment out of $1,000,000 while war-time | marine manager of the Central Rail- | road of New Jersey, was fined $12.500 today by Federal Judge George Eng- | lish. Judge English, after reading affi- davits setting forth that Jovce was Suffering -from a chronic heart afflic- | tion, said he would not take the re- sponsibility of sending the sixty- four-year-old man to jail Special Assistant Attorney General Todd charged that Joyce, while ma- rine manager of the railroad, divert- d business and repair work at exor- bitant prices to the stevedoring corpo- Tatlon and the boat repairing com- pany in which the defendant was in- ferested, The corporations were each fined $1,000 by Judge English on pleas of guilty to similar charges. ASSAILS LAW GIVING McCARL WIDE POWERS Justice Department Attacks Con- stitutionality in Brief Filed ‘With Congress. The law glving Controller General McCarl the wide powers over govern- ment disbursements, which have re- sulted in constant disputes with cab- t officers, was assailed as uncon- :lr:ieluflonb\l today in a brief filed by the Department of Justice with the House judiciary committee. Referring specifically to the =en- eral accounting section of the budget Snd accounting act, the Attorney Ganeral's office conténded that inas- | huich as the law made the controller general free from removal by the President, it is unconstitutional. Un- der the section, it was flrqued. the law took away from the Chief Ex- toutive the power of dismissing an Sfficer whom he had power to appoint. officer whom he had power to appoint, . on | | TOmOl’l‘OW Memorial Day No 5:30 Edition of The Star will be issued. {RENEWS ATTACK ON ! publican, | the VETERANS’ BUREAU Oddie Scores “Ring," Which He Says Prevents Adequate Care of Veterans. |ASKS EARLY REORGANIZING Declares Bonus Law Adds New Burden to Present Problems. in the Senate today his the administration of th Bureau, Senator Oddie, Re- Nevada, declared he was to furnish President Cool- ldge with documentary evidence of control of that organization by a “ring” which prevented care of former soldiers The bonus law will place a burden “on this same bureau, which has failed utterly in its great work he told the Senate, and a reorganiza- tion should be had.bhefore the justed compensation law is put operation Senator Oddie veterans have being declared protested the street Senator Oddie presented dozes of identificd by their file number bureau, which he asserted. proved “maladministration, " neglect and violation f public trust.” Says Ring Holds Control. “The present director is hampered by the continued authority of those in the ring,” he said, “and those offi- cials are backed by influencial indi- viduals who probably do not know the situation which now exists President Coolidge gets his infor- mation on the subject from the di- rector, the Nevada senator said. “who zets his from the ring.” The charge that “a man on gne o the rehabilitation boards at a good salary, also is drawing a disability allowance as ‘100 per cent mentally incompetent,” * was among those list- ©d by the Nevada senator. . “I have. heard of instances,” he said, “where official documents bearing upon these cases have been destroyed Resuming k on Veterans' atts prepared adequate new into complaining punished and_employes been thrown said been insane, have in the BRITISH COAL MINERS ADJUST WAGE DISPUTE Accept Increased Scale Offered by Owners—Controversy Was Prolonged. By the Associated Press TLONDON, May 20.—The prolonged dlspute over the question of the coal miners wages was definitely settled today when a full conference of the miners’ delegatés voted, 473 to 311, to accept the terms of the agreement ‘reached by the Miners' Federation representatives with the owners May 15. The agrecment which was reached, bject te approval of the full dele- Fats conference of the miners, with ¥ Tecommendation from the federation officials for such approval, provides that the standard of profits in the in- dustry shall consist of a sum equal to 15 per cent of standard wages. The surplus remaining after ~deducting from the proceeds the cost of stand- ard wages, costs other than wages And standard profits is to he divided between wages and profits in the pro- portion of 88 per cent to wages and 2 per cent to profits. ! lrthe arrangement which the new agreement supplants the standard of profits was reckoned at 17 per cent of wages and the profits divided in the ratio of 83 and 17 per cent. FEW SOVIET CONCESSIONS GRANTED TO AMERICANS Zinovieff Says But 10 of 101 Ap- plications Are 0. K.’"d—Ratio of Others Even Smaller. By the Associated Pre MOSCOW, May 29.—Americans seek- ing concessions in soviet Russia will derive little encowragement from the declarations of M. Zinovieff before the Communist party convention yester- day. The chairman of the Communist International told the delegates that out of 101 applications for concessions made by Americans up to April 1 only 10 were granted. The proportion of grants tionals of other untries was in some cases even aller, England getting only 7 out of 141 applications and ce 1 out of 86. Six applications from Japan were denled. Of a total of 1,072 applicas tions only 55 were granted. to ha- | | Mellon Finishing Note to Coolidge On Tax Measure Seeretary Mellon's formal letter of recommendation on the tax bill in mearing completion. and Presi- dent Coolidge may be in a position to act on the n hefore the end of the we Although the ception to some legislation, some confidence 'do not recomr veto in some respects, the measure is an improvement on the present law, and that the final decision must rest on whether the good points outhalance the bad he President s indicated that he will announce his position very soon after the formal Treasury recommendation is before him. Ad- ministration leaders in Congr appear confldent that, regardless of the position taken by Mr., Mel- lon. he will make the bill i law GAY VISIT PLANNED FOR PRIZE ORATORS Serious Side of Contest Here June 6 to Be Relieved by Much Entertainment. asure k cretary takes ex- features of the of those in his believe he wiil He feels that, CAPITAL TOUR ON PROGRAM Luncheon, Theater Party and Re- ception Are Other Features. Entertainment features for school boy and girl orators compete in the national oratorical ntest to be held June 6 at Memorial Continental Hall are heing arranged this week. Representing every section of the United States, the seven secondary school orators will deliver their ora- tions on the Constitution in the pres- the ence of President Coolidge, chairman | of the meeting, and the Supreme Court. board of judges This will be their primary aim in meeting here to compete for the na- tional prizes of §2.500, $1,000 and $500, of which The Star is custodian. ~The awards will Be presented by Frank B. Noyes, president of The Evening Star Newspaper Company, to Chief Justice Taft of the Supréme Court, who, in_ turn, will present them to those adjudged the winners. Sightseeing Planned. This serious business will not in- terfere with the young orators having a good time while here. Not only will they be enabled to see all the sights of the National Capital, but also a special program is being plan- ned for them. The honor guests, who will be pre- sented at a theater party and lunch- eon Dbefore the contest, and after- ward at a reception in their honor, are Don Tyler of Los Angeles, John M. Dallam, 3d, of Philadelphia; Jack Turner of Birmingham, Ruth New- burn of this city, George Chumos of Topeka, Kan, Eleanor Huber of Louisville and Vail Barnes of New Brighton, N. Y. The Monarch Club and the Wash- ington Chamber of Commerce will be in charge of the formal entertain- ment of the orators, who were chosen as the result of trials in which more than a million high school students participated, under the,auspices of leading newspapers of the nation. Box Party at Keith's. A box party at the B. F. Keith Theater on the evening of Thursday, June 5, the night before thé national contest. will be given for the contest- ants by the Monarch Club, of which H. S. Omohundro is president. Two boxes will be reserwed for the competitors, including two girls, Miss Ruth New- burn of the Central High School, rep- resenting the District of Columbia, and Miss Eleanor Huber of Louisville, Ky., representing the central states. Arrangements for entertaining the visitors are in charge of Charles S. Alden, Delmour Fuqua and William Stickler, comprising a_special com- mittee of the Monarch Club. The Monarch Club will entertain the con- testants at a luncheon at 12:30 o'clock on June § at the Raleigh Hotel. The luncheon will be held in the bailroom at the Raleigh, and the room will be specially decorated with flags and flowers. The state flags of each of the states represented by the con- testante will be entwined among the decorations. Miss Ruth Greenwood of the East- five justices of comprising the ern High School, winner of second | McKellar’s Effort to Talk on Five-Cent-Fare Amendment Defeated, 44 to 21. | BALL’S POINT OF ORDER SUSTAINED BY CHAMBER Measure Provides Approximately $29.227,519 for Use of Capital City. The District appropriat [rving approximately s passed by the Senate tod. "‘(.’:.l more than the { carried. ay House who will | | CHARGES PLOT TO PAY 6. 0. P.DEBT INLIQUOR - { Means Says Mellon Agreed to Is sue Whisky Permits to Meet Party Deficit. DECLARES UPHAM INVOLVED Bookkeeper Confessed. Witness | States, Naming Entire “Ring.” | G on Means told Daugherty committee today that he received from W. Smith in 18 certain documents purporting to show \lhal Secretary Mellon agreed to is- ’ bateh of whisky withdrawal per- the Senate mits in return for money which was { 10 g0 toward payment of the deficit ! of the republican national eommittee. | The alleged arrangement, the wit- ness said, was with a guan named | Rex Sheldon, who was #n receive the | permits and pay over the money. He |added that, according to story | Senator Bursum of New Mexico and Fred Upham. treasurer of the Re- | publican national committee went to Mr. Mellon's office in regard to the matter. the Secretary Mellon, himself told H. L. tice Departme about the angement in ptember, 1922 Afterward, the witness went on, he £ot a confession from a man named Stevens, hookkeeper —for the La Montagues in New York, “involv- ing Mr. Upham and the whole whisky ring Later, he said. Senator Bursum denied that he had any part in such 1 plan, and said he had sent Sheldon to the Treasury Secretary “just as he would send other “cailer,” without knowing his purpose. Means' stors ended. he will go New York for trial nmext week on charges of taking money from boot- leggers, in a prosecution in which he promised “to ask or give no quarter.” Means repeated his assertion that in the summer of 1922 Smith asked him on the strenzth of a letter from Means a former erted, U Tiqor situation. me, Means n New York. Facts in Stolen Papers. Senator Wheeler switched the ex- amination to prohibition matter: Means said that in September, 1922, s. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, as- lant attorney general, in charge of prohibition eases. had informa- tion that $1.500,000 worth of whisky had been "illegally taken from the Guckenheim distillery Freeport, Pa “I met Fargus and Brown,” Means said, “who owned the distillery. 1 was' offered $25.000. I broughi the forged permits ‘which released the ky from the distillery to Mrs. Willebrandt. Government officials were in on the graft. The lead went up to the highest officials of this gov- ernment, because the Mellon line of | banks held the paper on these banks |and nobody knows the value of whis- ky so well as Secretary Mellon, “That's the real thing in this boot- legging business; there’s nothing in prosecuting the lower elements, strike at_the top.” He worked for some id, on such an inquiry at Senator Wheeler asked. “They are in those papers that di appeared while Mr. Todd, the special assistant attorney general, had six men following me. “Who was Rex Sheldon?" Wheeler asked. “Jess Smith handed me some docu- | ments that Mr. Mellon had gone into an arrangement with Rex Sheldon, to give Sheldon permits, for which he was to pay—or pay in part—the Republican national committee's debt. Saved One Black Book. “I heard that Mr. hadn't done anything about it, but that Senator Bursum and Fred Upham, the treasurer of the national committee, had come to his office with regard to arrangement. “I went to Col. Miller, property custodian, and what 1 had heard. Means had one of his little black diarfes, which he said contained a record of the interview with Miller. This book was in his pocket, he said, “when the rest went." Secretary Mellon told Scaife in Sep- tember, 1922, about Rex Sheldon’s arrangement,’ the witness added. Means said he later called on Sen- ator Bursum, with Miller. “Senator Bursum said that if the Secretary said that he had sent Shel- don in with that offer,”” the witness went on, “he was incorrect.” Senator Bursum said he went Sheldon to Sec- retary Mellon just as he would send any other calier, who had business and that he did not know ‘his purpose. Says Press Controlled. Senator the alien told him “My next move was to come in con- tact with Undersecretary Gilbert Means went on. ‘I told Gilbert Scaife was going to blow them out of the water. Gilbert turned to me President Harding to investigate the | “Where are your reports on this?" | Mellon said he | Shortly after its passage the hill was #ent to conference by the House. Representative Blanton, Democrat, «f Texas, asked Representative Charles R Davis, Republican, of Minnesota, in charge of the bill, to®pledge himself that the Cramton amendment should be insisted upon by the conferees as it passed the House. Representative Da- vis said he certainly would not agre $14,000.000 as the Jump sum share of the federal government as an alter- nate for the 60-10 definite proportion He agreed to bring the Cramton amendment back to the House for separate vote before an agreement reached on the bill. The conferees the House are Representatives Davis of Minnesota, Ay of and Funk of Hiine As passed by the Senate ton amendment is stricken out and the bill provides $14,000,000 as the con- tribution of the federal government to the upkeep of the District, or a con- tinuance of the 60-40 plan’ of appre o i A rare e of Senator MeKellar of ennesse o add an amendment to the bill to bring about cent street fare, with six ts for a quarter, was defeated Makex Ball, committes re nxas the Cram- t of Order. nator chairman of the made point against the McKellar amend | ment on the ground that it was | general legislation and could not be carried in an appropriation bili. The point of order was sustained by Sen- ator Cummins, President pro tem. of the ate Senator from th trict orde; a MeKellar then decision of ‘the the Senate voted 44 to 21 | the decision of the call on sustaining the chair ofllows: Ay ums, Colorado v: Delaw Lo; K Colt, Rho Kansas; Ernst, | Maine; Fe: Virginia: appealed chair, and to_sustain The_ roll ion_ of the (44)—Senators Ball, Delaware re: Borah, ldal na: Bursum, New Arizona: Capper e Island: Curtic Kentuckyy Fernala io: Fletcher, Florida Hale, H M Maine: Jones. Jones, ~ Washington Wyoming: King, Utah. .enroot, Wisconsin: Lodge. Massachu- MeKinley, Tjing McLean, nnecticut; MeNary! Oregon: Oddic Nevada; Pepper, ' Pennsyivanis Phipps, Colorade; 'Ralston, Indiana Ransdell, | Robinson, | Spencer, Stanle | L Smi anfield Sterling, Virginia: Arkansas Missouri Kentuc | Dakota; Swanson, mell, Florida; Wadsworth, York: | Walsh, Massachusetts; Warren, Wy |oming: Watson. Indiana, and Willis | Ohio. z | Noes. 21—Senators Brookhart, Tow: Michigan; Dial, South’ Ca : Dill, Washington; Ferris, Michi- gan; Frazier, North Dakota: George, Harris, Geor Harrison. Heflin, Alabama: Howell Johnson fornia; John- 1 North Dakota ennes Neely, W, Norbeck, South ~Dakot | Pittman, Nevada: Sheppard, Texas | Shields, ' Tenn, and Shipstead. Minnesota ; Tram- . | e st MeKellar, | Virginia; e, | Speaks for Hour. When am. t immedi tion addres the Senate met today at McKellar amendment was tely taken up for considera For an hour Senator McKellat 4 the Senate in support of | the 5-cent street car fare for the District. At 12 o'clock, under unani- | mous consent, the Senate continued its debate under a ten-minute rule leach Senator being limited to | speeches of ten minutes on pending | amendments to the bill. | *'Senator Ball replied to Senator Me- | Kellar, opposing his amendment, and | then made the point of order. Senator McKellar contended that the two street railways—the Capital Traction Company and the Washing ton Railway and Electric Company were earnnig more than the real valuation of the properties entitled them to earn. The peovle of the Dis trict, he said. were being exploited to make these earnings for the streei car. companies Senator Ball in replying pointed | out that the Senate District commit- tee has held_very complete hearings on Senator Meellar's five-cent strect car fare bill. He urged that the committee be allowed to complete its | consideration of that bill. He in- sisted that if the five-cent fare was adopted, neither of the street car companies could continue to operate. Senator McKellar outlined the his- tory of the financing of the Capital Traction Company and that of the Washington Railway and Electric Company. He told the Senate that the Capital Traction Company over a period of five years had been earning 11 per cent on its capital; that it has paid 7 per cent dividends and has put a large amount of its earnings to capital account Effect of Zone System, ! | ar insisted that Company+ was return of 11 the not per that Senator MeK Capital Traction entitled to earn a cent. He referred to the fact In New Jersey a h-cent street car fare has been adopted and that the street car companies are now doing an increased business. Senator Mc- Kellar insisted that the companies here would do a very greatly in- creased business and in the long run would make more money with the 5-cent street car fare than the pres- ent S-cent cash fare. He admitted that in New Jersey cities a zone system is in effect whereby a pas- senger passing from one zone into another must pay an additional fare, a system which has not been accept- ed here either by the people or the Public Utilities Commission, although |recommended by the Washington Rallway and Electric Company. Senator McKellar charged that the Public Utilities Commission has pra¢- tically been nothing more than a rub- ber stamp for the street rallway com- panies in recent years. He insisted that the stock of the Washington Raflway and Electric Company has been “watered” until it is double the amount it should be. He charged that in the creation of the Capital Traction Company the bonds of the old Washington and Georgetown place in th 1iminary contests held —(Cvnllnud on Page b, Column 3.) (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.]