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RULES CURB BLOCS, MOSES DECLARES Prevent Hasty Legislation, He Says, in Reply to {¥ Dawes Assaults. By the Associated Press SYRACUSE, rules permitting unlimited debate are the count strongest safeguards against hasty legislation by a coalition of the blocs that have sprung up in American political life, or Moses, Republican, New Hamp: , declared here last night in an address defend- ing the rules against the assault of Vice President Dawes. Calling attention that the coalitions differed from day to day as new legis- lation to cure the ills existing in dif- ferent sections are advanced, the President pro tempore of the Senate said the majorities thus momentarily welded together *are bound to be as reckiess as they are ephemeral.” Says Majority Shifts. Senator M aid was axiomatic thut the majority had the right to rule, but he de red that majorities differed from day to day. “The majority in the Senate,” he said, no longer partisan or even political. In point of fact, except through artificial means, strict party division is rarely to'be had nowadays at either end of the Capitol, and the engrossing questions of Federal legis Jation nowadays are those of economic import affecting the material interests of sectional groups of State: Detailing his own experiences in the Senate, enator Mo: aid he could not feel that the rules worked more than a fancied hardship. He added that he could not believe that even more seasoned lezislators than himself could freely contemplate a movement to change them. hir Rl'mc(h Is \\&Ilnblp " he s €5 from those whose contact with Senate is either brief or non existent. the Senate with a determination to tame it, and almost without exception these men themselves have tamed by the Senate and have come to realize the true value of the Sen ate rules.” Senator Moses declared that limita tion of debate already exists in the Senate. remedy for everything complain- | ed of in Senate rules, he went on offered in the Norris constitutional amendment, which would do away with short sessions of Congress and prevent legislation by “lame ducks’ by moving up the meeting time of a newly elected Congress from the March after the election to January. “I have not observed,” he said hat any of those now so busily en- zaged in defaming the Senate have own willingness to indorse Sen- or Norris® proposal. It may be that ey are as ignorant of it as they are of the actual effect of the rules of the Senate. is CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. The Wanderlusters’ hike for tomor- row will start from the end of the Congress Heights car line at 2:30 p.m. Bring lunch and cups for campfire at Three Oaks Spring. Mrs. Appleby will lead. The auxiliary home board of Gavel Chapter, No. 29. O. . will have a 0 party Monday, 8 p.m., at 1011 B et northeast. \ Imn‘\my_ of flw World Flight Me- m. is 44‘”'1, for \Ynl\dq\ Burlington Hotel. The Maury Home and School Asso- clation will me Epworth M. E Manor Park _Citizens' will meet Monday, Third street The Ladies' Aid of the Brookland Baptist Church will have 1 ival and la & May 19, on the new n, Sixteenth and Lawrence streets northeast. Association 30 p.m., at meer Commn s Barry Farm n_Tuesday night at mo St. E. Church, Stanton road and Pome- road southeast. Musical program ss Edna Gordon and the Choral of the Birney School. Howard MacNutt of New York will | lecture on “Christ in the Mosque and | Synagogue,” tomorrow, $:15 p.m., at the Playhouse. The speaker has trayv- eled in the Far K he lectur free, oah’s Time day Eurnisk be the s B. Wilki ington Missionary Memorial Church Free. Public a lecture b of theology College, at Capital tomorrow, 8 p.m. invited. zens’ Association ter Dutch dinner May n the banquet nall of Concordia Churck 10 Marcus ( the Women Political Study Club, at Phyllis Wheatle 'The gue of Women will be subject of a Delilah Be: the Vote lecture hy M of Oakland, Calif., Women's Republican - Club, tomorrow Y. W.C. A. Senator Spencer Improves Senator Selden P souri, who was o eed Hospital s reported as Attention We want houses to sell. Any location in District or nearby suburbs. List your properties with us. We have the buyers and will guarantee to sell your property if the price and terms are reasonable. Stone & Fairfax Realtors Over Thirty Years of Real Service 1342 New York Avenue N.W. Many a man has come into |3, been | School Topsy-Turvy In Ink and Debris; Police Are Called Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, school authorities e called the police again. Two weeks ago eggs were thrown at senior class enter- tainers. Previous to that formalde- hyde was placed in the al.-pumping tem. Several days ago ink wells were hurled against the school walls, curtains of the auditorium were torn down, the piano was turned upside down, desks were emptied in a pile in the middle of the classroom floors and there was some debris from the yard. At chapel yesterday Kenley Clark, the principal, made an an- nouncement:' “Anybody who had anything to do with this affair is asked (u come forward to the ros- trum.” There was a prolonged silence and nobody went up. ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES TONIGHT. The College Women's Club will hold its nineteenth banquet, 8 o'clock, at Rauscher’s. It will also be the final gathering of the club, which is to be assoclated in future with that of the American University Women. The Brotherhood of American Yeo- 5 will meet, 8 o’clock, at Temple. The Ohio Girls' Club will give its last dance of the season, 8:30 o'clock, at Franklin Square Hotel. Ohioans invited. Associa- Powell Pleasant Citizens” meet, & o'clock, at Annual election. Mount tion will School. Gale will lecture on ‘Dy- ew Thought Static New 8 o'clock, at League for the Life, 1628 K street. Public Linn namic > Though Larger invited Municipal Council, Roval Arcanum, will beet, 8 o'clock, at Pythian Temple. Tau Delta will dinner, 7 o'clock, 743 Eighteenth street. Delta alumni House, have at its Delt time Club will give Arcade. The Tivoli a dance in private ballroom of Visitors welcome. Kappa Theta Sigma Fraternity and Gamma Delta Sigma Sorority will give combined dance, 9 o'clock, at Hotel ‘\'d\ll”lgl(fll Fhm-Flammers Get 3433 The ancient pocketbook game was operated by two colored men against James Parker, colored, 1229 Fifth street, yesterday. He was flim-flammed out of $433 at New Jer: avenue and M street, he reported to the police. Two colored men, approaching him, told him that they had discovered a pocketbook containing $1,000, and asked him to change. When the operation was completed Parker found his $433 gone, with only a pocketbook and scraps of paper to We are going to sell you ELECTRIC FANS $3.95, $1.05, $10, $15, 819, $23, $27, $30, $35. Exhaust type, $4.95, $34, $39, $40, $52. = MUDDIMAN . 709 13th St. e 140 BUILDING ASSOCIATION | Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 45 PERPETUAL '\ or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdrawn be- fore maturing Assets Over $10,000,000 Surplus $950,000 Corner 11th and E Sts. N.W. JAMES BERRY JOSHUA W. 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Urga to the Rosta (“oviet news agency) announces that the third Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, under the leadership of Roy Chapman An- drews, is to start its exploration trip into the Gobl Desert in the near fu- ture, the disturbed conditions at Kal- gan having improved. The Peking government, it is added, has refused to assume responsibility e of bandit attacks, but the is well armed. Prof. Andrews to establish his main camp Tsagan, 900 miles from Kalgan, and proceed thence toward the Altai Mountains, The expedition is equip- ped with seven motor cars and 150 camels. A dispatch from In order to achieve slim flgures, London soclety women are living ol tarvation rati 3@&& % 9 R O3 OO R G 9 & < S %83 5 < 2% LR @@&’ & 10 fi&%fi%&QZ@K@E OHOTREeHON I 0 0k I RO ROReR BSOS IR EVENING STAR, YOLANDA’S BABY BURIED. Flowers Hide Casket—Royal Fam- ily at Rites. TURIN, May 9 (A.P.)—The funeral of Princess Yolanda's 7-day-old baby, Glorgio, Prince of Montenegro, first grandson to the royal house of Savoy, who diled Thursday, was held today, only members of the royal and the Calvi families being present. The casket was hidden in the banks of flowers presented by the many relatives and friends of the princess and her husband, Count Calvi di Ber- golo. King Victor Emmanuele was unable to be present at the funeral, but Crown Prince Humbert, who ar- rived last night from Rome, attended. Spurious $20 Detected. Chief Moran of the Secret Service today announced discovery of a new counterfeit $20 gold certificate, and issued a warning to banks and others interested. The bill is described in part as I()I lows: “'Series of 1922; check letter face plate No. 299, H. V. Register of the Treasury: Burke‘ Treasurer of the United States. WASHINGTON, D. (., SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1925. U. S. HOLDS WORLD WAR HERO AS ALIEN SMUGGLER Victoria Cross Winner Accused of Bringing Two Into Country From Canada. By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., May 9.—Michael O'Leary of Bridgeburg, Ontario., who was awarded the Victoria Cross for heroism in the World War, was in dicted by a Federal grand jury ves terday on a charg smuggling aliens into the Dnited Since his arrest on O'Leary has been a pris Erie County jail. Friends on the Canadian side, who believe him inno- cent, have been active in urging that he be given a speedy trial. O'Leary is alleged to have accepted money from a European at the rail road yards at Bridgeburg, where he was employed, and to have put the man and a companion in a box car crossing the international bridge. Wederal Attorney Richard W. Tem pleton said sterday that the ase was following the usual course, and smuggling of uld not be sidered a triv CITY WINS LEGAL FIGHT. Hflgel'stown Free to Erect Light Plant, by Court Ruling. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, May 9.—The city of Hagerstown won a decisive victory in its fight to build a new municl electric light plant when Judge F G. Wagaman today dissolved junction and cismissed the I complaint of a group of taxpayers who sought to block the erection of the plant. Several years ago Hagerstown voted new electric light plant. s been an issue since 23, when an injunction 5 The question was wheth- er the city had the authority to issue 300,000 worth of bonds and construct a plant without first obtaining a per- mit and certificate of authority from the Public Service Commission. The court ruled that the city had to obtain a permit. The city appealed and the higher court upheld the Cir cuit Court’s decision, whereupon the city in an act of the 1924 Legislature was exempted from the jurisdiction of |a the Public Service Commission. A group of taxpayers filed an applica o (n' an m)umnnn aj Z the 1d cour to prohibit them from erecting the plant and the court ruled later on this injunction, but did not file an order of court. January 28, 1925, another group of taxpayers applied for an in Jjunction, requesting first injunction and questioning the legality of the act of the Legislature of 1924 exempting the city of Hagers- town from jurisdiction of the Public Service ('ummis»don RADIO EXPORTS JJMP Total Is $664,726—New Record Likely. ared with the total in February, the exports 26" show marked even though the first month was shorl one. March exports of radio equipment w however, $114,893 than those of January, and far below the record month of December, which pa the million-dollar mark The luldl for the three months, $1.866,979, ive of an annual total of 1 $7,000,000, which would be d. March for in ¢ rec According to trade Spanish and tch American u reports, Chinese dealers are re paratus, includ an order on the | umnu\mn#n!.‘ 9 NEW 3L00OD TREATMENT GIVES SAVANTS HOPE Committee Testing Claims for Ca- nadian Discovery Voices Its Optimism. By the Associated Press. TORONTO, May f the On‘s investigating bigh blgod pre J. MacDon Onitar ig Dr. Macl vesterday ribed by soclation ns of extract its findin fra}fic Transmission l;-; NEW CHANDLER Auto Sales Co., 1711 14th N.W, Before your Coa e yoy odq CIENCE has found the right way to heat with oil. And proved it in thousands of homes! This way is radically different from the old-fashioned coal-burning methods. It will interest you to see some of the automatic oil burners that have solved the problem. You need know nothing about mechanics to understand. 1,500 LOCAL Installations They see no dirt or dust. beyond question. So far as over one hundred and fifty thousand present owners are concerned—about fifteen hundred of whom are Washing- tonians—there is no heating problem. exactly the temperature they enjoy. They hear no unpleasant noise. Their homes are always They smell no fumes. They know that it is safe More than five per cent of these installations are in the homas of Ask Your doctors. DOCTOR tained as a preventative of colds and sickness. Comfortable EVEN Heat Aside from the other advantages, medical men have been quick to see the vital importance of the uniform temperature main- Any good heating plant can be made into a perfect heating unit free from dirt and soot with an automatic Oil Burner. equipped is kept at an even temperature regardless of the weather. Every house so No running up and down the cellar stairs to shovel coal and ashes. No regulating drafts and dampers. No chilly morning trips to rouse a dormant fire. 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