Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1926, Page 3

DOUBLE-DECK BUS DEESONSTONDLE W. R. T. Company Expects tol Report Verdict of Public on Issue Tomorrow. The Washington Rapid Trs will complete its ballot the doubie dack bus ques todar and advise tne Pablic Utilities Con n of the result tomorrow, it was sunced by B. D. Merrill, president pany. Althousgh th of the hus riders is yet incomplete, it was said that the ser whelmingly in favor of tl huses. Besides the ballot riders Mr. Morrill has receiv from interess controvers 3 dorse the an of the com- ent is over- two-deck of the bu 1171 d in the doubleadeckers. cived tw to the bus qu disapproy The ind school e want thing else to the lives Washington’s " beautitul shade tre The pr nt a sequel to the mission hany pe usses o wview of the r s likely thut reopen the qu hearing on the came as the com- transit com- 1 to purch; ix new double-deck type, In developments, it commission will and hold a public application. controvers the Change in Bus Route Proposed. 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N.E~—Phons 879 . tabulation of the votes | he said, in- | Washington ¢ £ { of BLANTON NAMES St. Eli ¢ontinued from First Page.) the Supreme Court ase for whi suardian or committee 10 the principal of the pers and on the annu; s provid wards of ( : as furnished Ly the Tilanton, that, re- the * said Mr. nual inéome 5 sioner Fenning L 1 All he has to do Is his coupons, e of each one o and he clips off 10 per cent or himself and then off of ation padd > government and all off of that each himself. their in monthly other incon month 10 per cent f Predicts His Remo Blanton then empk 1y to the House that Chairman dien ot the House appropriations “always m 1 appoint who had lost ollectir “he ought to the sam out_of offic “My prediction is," said Mr. Bian ton, “that Mr. Madden will have him put out of office. Mr. Blanton explained that the | whereabouts of 16 men in the list of wards is yet to be determined, and put into the record the names of 16 wards of Commissioner Fenning Ainement he has scertain. Dr. White are not in st. Eliza- Mr. Blanton also called upon Dr. White to prepare for him a list of all wards of Commissioner Fenning | in that institutfon, on which the | names of these dv noi appear. The Veterans' Bureau i cing them to find out their whereabouts Mr. Blanton. He be they lare in some other insane asylum out- side of Washington. Mr. Blanton then put into the record a report of the grand jury on October 5. 19 abeth’'s Hospl and Hall. where William ( s murdered. This grand ju | ed, returned a true hill t against two men for desceribing | een he | in- the How |mn at Ilizabeth’s 15 months previous Mr. Blanton record ) letter vige. 13 A. which was pul Lil also put into the m a soldier, John S York avenue, the O. 24, 19 censur th's Hospital White Loves Money. | at Dr. White Mr. Blanton i ling the House t “loves money himself, continued his attack made last De- cember against Dr. White for re- ceiving £250 a day for two weeks for espert testimony “to save the necks H spold and Loeb.’ Jh Lelieve in making money. on ide," continued Mr. Blanton. naturaliy Dr. White sympa- with Commissioner Fenning. Mr. Blanton then quoted a statement in vesterday's - in which Dr. White was reported as having Wkly come out with praise Tor enning.” Most likely in return Commissioner Fenning will praise Dr. White for being able to separate the rich Leo- \d Loebs from $230 per day said Mr. Blanton, “and | Fihiz olds 14 days, - | for the manner ifi which he has been running Howard 1lall, upon which the grand jury commented. “Dr. William A. White and Commis- Fenning are close personal s; they have been working to- v vears. Dr. J. Ramsey roner of Washington, is & brother-in-law of Commissioner Fen- ning; they ha ied sisters; so when_patient ] beth's, . White “d¢ any report t may be made by the coroner to upon him. Up to November Comimissioner Fenning's broth- Carl Fenning, was employed in the Patent Office at $5,600 per vear, but resigned on November 4, 1935, to accept a position as an_assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, with compensation to be de- termined by the Attorney General, not to exceed $8,500 per annum, but Carl Fenning has drawn $775 per_month ever since he began work in Novem- ber. In other words, on November 4, 11825, Carl Fenning was drawing $467 per month in the Patent Office, and he moved that day to the Attorney General's office and has since drawn $775 per month. And he is in a key position in the particular department where, when any suits are filed against the United States respecting the Veterans' Bureau, he can report to the Commissioner.” Listed as Fenning Wards. Explaining to the House “just how Dr. White and Commissioner Fen- ning manage it Mr. Blanton said that on March 19, 1926, Dr. White sent a list of the patients now in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital who are wards of Comissioner Fenning, writing, in part as follows: “We are preparing a list of the pa- tlents of this hospital for you who are wards of Mr. Frederick A, Fen- nin, This list embraces the names of such wards, their native State, and how long they have been here.” “This Jist, sent by Dr. White, em- braces the names of 103 wards of Commissioner Fenning in this one insane asylum,” Mr. Blanton said. “Isn't that a shameful disgrace upon this Distriet, and upon the jovernment of the United States? Why, it is common knowledge that among the legal fraternity of Wash- ington, Commis Fenning is known as the v lawyer. He has been reaping a golden harv from these poor unfortunates who are shut up in St. Elizabeth’s. When it has been developed that u ‘new arrival’ as an estate, or to receive month- v compensation from the Govern- ment, the information is tipped out condemning St | | the bars the poor person goes for so- 75 VETERANS | IN NEW ATTACK ON FENNING Charges Commissioner Works With Dr.' White of beih’s to Get Guardian Appoint- ments for Rich Fees. the monthly compensation from the Government. “And when you are guardian for wards that number up to 103 in_one Government insane asylum, your revenue is beyond honest expecta- tion,” commented Mr. Blanton. *I am now having the courts prepare a complete statement, showing all amounts that have been received by Commissioner Fenning from the es- tates of his mental defective wards land from the monthly compensation paid by the Government. I have the names of the parties in St. Elizabeth's who have been furnishing this valu- abie information to Mr. Fenning, upon which he has had himsell appointed guardian in so ma Showing that these *“p even after death,” Mr. tinued: * July 1, sioner Fenning has had five of his wards to die in St. Elizabeth's. One died on Jul another died on 1 a 1925, Commis- 1 wother died on Decem- : another died on Januar 6, and another died on February I am reliably informed that 1 Fenning has many wards in St. Elizabeth’s whom he has never seen, yet from whose estates he regularly draws his 10 per cent. And I am also relfably informed that when his wards die Mr. Fenning man- ages still to control the administration of their e “Undertaker Scandal.” An “undertaker scandal Uled to the aitention of hi Mr. Blanton, who said: ticre were 4,417 31 beth's. Many die anually New ones are taken in there each month by squads. The turnover is enormous. Until a short time ago, the firm of Joseph Gawler’s Sons, Inc., enjoyed an exclusive monopoly on all undertaking business at St. Eliza- beth’s. Finally the ‘undertakers of Washington got tired of it and raised a riot, since which time Gawler's gets } now only the greater purt of it. 1 have some very interesing statements from Washington citizens familiar with aff LSt beth's con- cerning White, Fenning and Gawler. That “Judge Katheryn Sellers knew what she knew” was next pointed out to hi gues by Mr. Blanton, say ing: “When Judge Katheryn Sellers estified before our committee not =0 that any policeman in Wash {on had the power to place a per. ne asylum here 1 told - must be mistaken. But she what she was talking about. 1 d up the law and the cus- alls here.” Blanton put a copy of the law into the record. Under such law " he said, “‘the fol- £ has now become the practice: policeman can arrest without ant any one he deems of unsound with another officer or s the atfidavits, then he cians (usually the pro- ¢ and waiting) to ex- the un certificates, and into Gallinger Hospital behind low Any ecute then called observation. And when any per- n is under observation for alleged mental disorder the most natural things that they do are always deemed the best evidence of their unsound mind. And by the end of the week, when there has accumulated in Gal- linger Hospital a_ police patrol wagon full of them, a blank temporary com mitment to St. Elizabeth’s is filled out for each one of them, and these blanks are tnen sent to the District Building, where as many as two of the Commis- sioners perfunctorily sign them all, and then the poor unfortunates are all huddled into the patrol wagon and into St. Elizabeth's they go, when no warant has ever been issued, no trial has ever been had and no chance has ever been given them to prove their Says Much Time Elapses. “If the law were complied with. Blanton argued, “which permits these temporary commitments by the Commissioners 1o be for only 30 days, it would not be quite so bad, but in instances people have been kept in St. Elizabeth's for as much as eight monthe under such temporary com- mitments issued by the Commission, ers, before they were sent before a court to be tried for lunacy by a jur: Dr. White can make what is kno: as an ‘excise for not bringing them to court.” He can claim that they are not in a physical condition to war- rant it. He can claim that they are not in the proper mental condition. And under such excuses he has re- tained many there long after the 30 days.” ) Citing “some of Mr. Fenning’s most recent lunacy cases,” Mr. Blanton argued that these show he intends to carry on the business despite his duties as Commissioner. Declaring that the work is not well performed, Mr. Blanton continue “The duties of his office as Commis sloner require every moment of his time. He has been making a mess of his official business. I will men- tion just a few fllustrations of his silly performances. You will remem- ber not long ago, in the dead of Win- ter, he attempted to put into effect an order to require all automobiles to] be housed at night in garages, when he knew that it would require 22,000 owners of cars to dispose of them because garage space was that much short, and members of Congress had to stop him. Hits Headley Demotion. “You will remember that without notice or warning he called Inspector Albert J. Headley into his office and told him that he had demoted him from inspector to captain, and has| never vet given either Inspector Head- ley or any one else any reason for it. And Inspector Headley, who has served honorably about 30 years, when he soon retires, will retire at a re- duced salary because of Fenning fool- ishness. You will remember his cruel treatment of Sergt. Robert E. Jjust a few da Sergeant Lee is i two one half inches tall, weigh pounds, 65 years old. is a perfect giant, and for three years has not missed a dav | for sickness, yet, by Commissioner Fenning, he was retired, notwithstand- ing that all of his superior officers testified that he was a magnificent officer and performed excellent service at all times. And this officer, whose son was making an effort to graduate in George Wask now suffers bec foolishness. Says Congress Should Investigate.® “You will remember that a short time ago Commissioner Fenning noti- fled various heads of executive de- partments under him that henceforth they could not come to Representn tives or Senators, but must submit all information through his office. And then when I confronted him with his foolishness, he denied it. A committee of Congress must in vestigate Nt Deth’ Blanton declared, 0 There s more truth than poetry the statement of Mr. Savage that ‘the Army, the Veterans' Bureau, the Navy and’ the Department of Justice have b ing St. Elizabeth's for : muzzling herein to_bur persons who have i officials in these departments.’ “Of course, the above is no reflec- tion upor the heads of these four departments, as they have not been cognizant of what has been going on, feet B Mr. as it is some underofficlal who does |and the contrac RUSSIAN “WHITES” T0 BOOM NICHOLAS| Paris Conferenec in April Mayl Place Grand Duke at Head of Anti-Bolshevist Movement. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. | STOCKHOLM. 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When the Man in the Green Hat spiritous heverages brought to their walked into the House Office Building |offices at the Capitol became scanda- Saturday with case he was by way of violating not his mysterious brief |lous, even for those days. ‘Temperance leaders were beginning to get right active in the early thirtles, and they organized drives against the “shameful debauchery that took place in some of the Capital's bar rooms and essayed also to prevail |upoL Congress to do something about only the Volstead regulation law, but- also a promulgated by tlon was dreamed of. 'he liquor problem at the Capitol, it. The fact that liquor was running freely in the corridors of the Capitol nd as was a thriving village was not_overlooked, either, result of persistent persuas was organized in 1833 the Congres- slonal Temperance Soclety. This sceiety was composed of mem bers of both Houses who had pledged themselves to indulge in strong drink to a degree of respectable moderation only. That was a step which led to the formation in 1842 of the C‘ongres slonal Total Abstinence Society. whose members publicly swore off the vile stuff for all time. As a vesult of the activities of the Congressional Temperance Soclety the dry leaders in the Senate in 1837 suc- ceded in having adopted by that body statute prohibiting the sale of liquors in the Senate end of the Cap- itol Building. enators who wanted to quench a parched throat prepara tory to a flight of oratory thereafter had to cross over to the House side, where temperance was slower to pre va Finally, however, the House decided to follow in the steps of its brother body and in 1844 there was pussed a joint resolution prohibiting the ped dling In the Capitol “not alone of spiritous lquors, but of all intoxicat ing liquors.” Apparently this ban still is in effect, with its Volsteadian offspring, since at_hand. to bolster it up in potency Perhaps if Officer Chorley, of the Capitol Police Force, had known of this additional backing he would have been even firmer in his request that the man in the green hat go with him to his office and show him what he had in that brief case. 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