Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1925, Page 13

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BRANCH LIBRARIES LEGISLATION URGED School Association Favors Expansion, Dr. Bowerman Is Heard. A resolution favoring legislation to provide numerous branch libraries here, as proposed by the board of trus- tees of the Public Library and recom- mended in the library report of 1924, Wwas unanimously adopted by the Pub. lic School Assoclation of the District of Columbla at a meeting in the . boardroom of the District Building last night. The Commissioners are to be re quested to recommend to Congress this legislation “in order that the Pub- lic Library may be enabled to furnish the people of the District of Columbia an adequate library service by increas- ing its facilitles and bringing them within the reach of a much larger number.” The resolution was adopted following an address by Dr. George F. Bower- man, librarfan of the Public Library, who declared that Washington is lag- &!ng in the matter of library facilities. Agreement Upon Need. werman said both the Board District Commission- e need, but that . and explained at rooms for been set aside ave noth- Library is ent to the | public s« not in its present f v The speak ngton or ation is in a year Cleveland, in Wash- cents per capita pop- the Public Library as compared with $1.34 for and nounts arranging r per capita for other was introduced by ce chairman of slatlon, and was to the com-| ppropriations, Ira B. Nut- man. vors Board's Election. e association reiterated its stand ing the Gasque bill for the ¢ Education by t instead of ¢ justices of the reme Court. Advantages | & the board were outlined by Bannerman, of the com- | slation | tional address was de- elden M. Ely, supervising yal of the fifth division, I t WHEELER, IN PLEA, CHALLENGES RIGHT OF U. S. TO TRY HIM (Continued from First Page.) Jtes, the vy returned a verdict of “not gullty A special committes of the Senate, headed by Senator Borah of Idaho, was appointed to investigate the charges against Senator Wheeler soon after they were first made. It brought in a report exonerating Senator Wheeler, and this report later was adopted by the Senate May 23, 1924, by a vote of 56 to 5. Assoclate Justice Harlan F. Stone became Attorney General April 7, 1924, and the following day Senator Wheeler was indicted by a Federal grand jury in Montana. It was while Justice Stone was Attorney General that the move was made to indict Sen- ator Wheeler in the District of Co- lumbia. Just about this time the ap- pointment of Mr. Stone to be a mem ber of the Supreme Court was sent to the Senate. Stone Nomination. The announcement that an indict- ment against Wheeler would be sought in the District of Columbia was criticized by a number of Sena- tors on the floor of the Senate, in- cluding Senators Walsh of Montana and Borah of Idaho. Attorney Gen- eral Stone volunteered to come before the Senate judiciary committee, which was considering his nomination to the Supreme Court, and he was questioned regarding the proposal to indict Wheeler here. His nomination was reported favorably to the Senate and was later confirmed. A round dozen matters of law are submitted to be argued in connection with the demurrer. Among these are the following: “That the indictment does mot charge the offense of conspliracy to de fraud the Unlted States. “That the Supreme Court of the Dis- trict of Columbpla, holding a criminal term, s without jurisdiction to return an indictment for the commission of an offense under Section 37 of the Penal Code of the United States, but such indictment, if otherwise sufficient, should have been returned in the Su- preme Court of the District of Co- lumbia, holding a district court. “That said indictment falls to show that the United States could or would have been defrauded had the imper- Great Revival Service now in progress at Mt. Vernon Place M. E. Church South Ninth Strest and Massachusetts Avenue N Rev. W. A. Lambeth, D.D., Pastor THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. fectly alleged conspiracy of the de. fendants prevalled. “That the said indictment is vague, uncertain and indefinite in that it does not contain such a statement of the charge intended to be made against this defendant as will en- able him to prepare his defense or to plead an acquittal or conviction as a bar to subsaquent prosecution or en- able the court to decide whether the facts alleged are sufficient to support a conviction. “That there is no specific allegation of fact that the defendant agreed to or conspired to influence Francls M. Goodwin." Acquittal Plea. The plea of former acquittal sets forth in detail the counts of the in dictment against Senator Wheeler in Montana, alleging that the same transactions were involved In the Montana indictment as in the Dis- trict of Columbia indictment. The plea declares that in the Mon- tana trial it was necessary for the Government to prove and that the Government made proof of the filing of several of the applications and as- signments referred to In the District of Columbia indictment, and that the Government had sought in connection therewith to establish that Wheeler had agreed to aid in securing approval of the General Land Office and the Department of the Interior of these applications and assignments. The Government had sought to prove in the Montana trial, the plea avers, that Senator Wheeler had recelved or agreed to receive either money or an interest in these applications and as- signments for his aid, and, accord- ingly, bad a personal interest in the action which might be taken by the General Land Office and the Interior Department touching such applica- tions and assignments. The plea also asserts that in fits effort to establish these contentions in the Montana trial the Government introduced in evidence every letter and_telegram recited in the District of Columbia indictment to have been sent by Senator Wheeler, and those recelved by him in reply. It points out that Senator Wheeler tesyifled in the Montana trial that he Roads and Routes TO DERIVE the greatest pleasure and usefulness from your car—know roads and routes! Interesting, pleasing places to go, to, and the very best ways for reaching them, are described in D Auto Maps had never received or agreed to re- celve any compensation for any serv- ices rendered by him or agreed to be rendered by him in connection with such applications and _assignments, and that upon the evidence so sub- mitted and the record made in the trial the jury had returned its ver- dict of “not guilty.” The plea closes with a prayer that the court dismiss the case against him in the present indictment. The indictment brought against Senator Wheeler, Edwin S. Booth and Gordon Campbell in the District of Columbia charges that the defendants during the period from April 1, 1920, to January 1, 1924, within the District of Columbia conspired to defraud the Government in connection with per- mits for the exploration of oil lands. It charges that dummy applications were made for such permits with the understanding that they would be turned over to Gordon Campbell to be used for the benefit of himself and of the other defendants. It charges that Benator Wheeler was to_use his best efforts to have the applications and assignments approved, and that Edwin 8. Booth, during part of the time solicitor of the Interior Depart- ment and later speclal assistant to the Attorney General, also was to play an important part in these transactions, and that the defendants were to bribe Francls M. Goodwin, then Assistant Secretary of the In. Heathization Green Meadow Butter is churned of all the germs that infest not only FRESE LUTELY PURE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1925. terlor Department, to expedite the ap- proval of these applications by means of granting him an interest therein or by the payment of money to him, or_both. To sustain these charges the in- dictment recites the applications for permits alleged to have been made and quotes letters and telegrams writ- ten by Wheeler, Campbell and Booth. SEWER GA; —EXPLODES. Wrecks Restroom of Texarkana, Tex., Municipal Building. TEXARKANA, Tex., November 6.— Sewer gas s held responsible for an explosion yesterday which blew out 2 wall of a restroom on the first floor of the new $375,000 municipal butlding here and set fire to towels and pa- per in the room. The fire was quickly extinguished. A wall on the top floor also was cracked and a gust of up- rushing air halted an elevator. Other parts of the building were not dam- aged. The explosion is belleved to have occurred when R. 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