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WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, not so cold; about 28 degrees fair and warmer. Temperature—H lowest temperature tonight. Tomorrow Sunday, rain. ighest, 37, at noon today: lowest, 21, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 4. ¥Closing N.Y. Stocks ¥ntered as secol post office, No. 30,257, Washington, and Bonds, Page 14 nd class matter D. C. he Fn WASHINGTON, D. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION FRIDAY, c MARCH 4, ening~ Star. 1927.—FIFTY PAGES. service. (#) Means Associated Pres: The only evening in Washington wi Associated Press news r the Yesterday's Circulation, 105,732 —— WO CENTS. MILLER CONVICTED, URY DISAGREES ON - DAUGHERTY'S GULT INCONSPIRACY GASE 70-Hour Session Results in Finding Former Alien Property Officer Defrauded | U. S. of Best Services. EX-ATTORNEY GENERAL'S | INDICTMENT. DROPPED Buckner Refuses to Prosecute Casei Third Time, He Tells Court.| Jurors Say They Stood 10 to 2 for Conviction of Daugherty| at One Time. Br the Ascociated Pre NEW YORK, March 4—The jury §n the Daugherty-Miller trial today jound former Alien Property Custo- dian Thomas W. Miller guilty of con- spiracy, but disagreed on a verdict { jor fromer Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty Daugherty and Miller were charged with conspiracy ‘to deiraud the United States of their honest and unbiased services in allowing claims | Sor $7,000000 proceeds of the sale of | jmpounded American Metal Co. shares. Phe jury was out 70 hours. The jury filed into the courtroom, apparently wearied by their long de- liberations. The judge said: “I have received another note from You say- ing it is your unanimous opinion that in the case of one defendant you are verdict.” U l"’m‘m"fi;&. jurors said, they stood | 10 to 2 for convicting Daugherty. Asks Nolle Prosse. nited States Attorney Emory R. Bl};‘.kner, after the verdict on Miller and the disagreement on Daugherty, @sked Judge Knox to nolle prosse the indictment against Daugherty. The court complied. Maximum sentence in Miller's case is two years imprisonment and $10,000 fine. Aaron Sapiro, mll,!rr'- counsel, said appeal would en.. -nln 1:_:;9‘1, to Judke Knox the jurors answered -that they - for Juror “Gentlemen,” your verdict?” he =said, “what is “We find,” the foreman sald, “that the d:fuu‘?‘lnt Thomas W. Miller is guilty as charged in the indictment. Takes Verdict Quietly. There was a rustle of excitement in the courtroom as reporters tried to get out the bolted door. Miller t quietly. “’n?e expression on his face did net change, Mri. Miller, who sat beside him, did not flinch. Later on Miller said: “T'll beat them yet.” Bud{ner then told the court he had tried the case twice apd would not try it a third time. He asked a nolle prosse for Daugherty. Judge Knox said he felt ‘Buckner was justi- fled in bringing Daugherty to trial, as the evidence showed, and that he also was justified in asking for a nolle prosse. | Bail for Miller was continued pend- i ing appeal. t was set at $5,000. Date of sentence will be arranged ! by counsel and Judge Knox. | Was Legion Founder. 1 > | Miller, a lieutenant colonel during| the war, Is the son of a former gover-, nor of Delaware. He was active ini the foundation of the American Legion. He was once secretary of the State of Delaware, and later a Repre- | sentative from the same State. He was appointed alien property custod- jan by President Harding in_ April, | 1921, shortly after Daugherty became attorney general. After the indictment against him had been nolle prossed, Daugherty, smilingly thanked the court and the | jurors. He then left the’court on the | arm of his brother, Mal Daugherty. “I am an innocent man,” Daugherty | #aid, his voice breaking, even as he | smiled. Judge Knox smiled at the| former Attorney General in acknowl- edgment of Daugherty’s thanks. In a conference after the court was cleared it was agreed that motions for a new trial for Miller would be | made next Tuesday. NEW PUBLIC UTILITIES BODY WILL BE ORGANIZED TOMORROW ‘Oath of Office to Be Taken by Two Offi- cials—Third Exp »rganization of the new Public Util- . which came into of- following confirmation by of the nominations of Col. arvison Brand, jr., and John W. Chil- dress us members, and of Ralph B.| Fleharty to be people’s counsel, will | be undertaken tomorrow morning at, 10:15 o'clock, according to tentative arrangements ade at the District Building. Col. Brand's appointment was submitted to the Senate last night in place of Benjamin F. Adams, whose name was withdrawn at the same time by President Coolidge. Plans had been made to induct the new Commissioners into office at 3 o'clock this afternoon, but they had !to be canceled owing to a_ previous appointment Mr. Fleharty had with the auditor of the District Supreme Court. Col. Brand is in Florlda, and is not expected to return until Sun- day, but his absence will not halt the nal organization of the new com- mission. “The oath of office will be administered to him Monday morning if he returns by that time. The of- fices assigned to the members of the new commission on the first floor of the District Bullding are now being repainted and furnished and will be ready for occupancy by them Mon- day morning. After the oath of office is given to Florida by Monday. ected Here From the new commissi of the old commissi tinue to work for the new commission also will be given caths of office. This is made ne ry in the phraseology of the act ereating the new commis- slon The new commissioners come inte office confronted with a numbe « important problems involving every public utility corporation in the Dis trict with the lone exception of the Potomac Electric Power Co. Chief among them is the valuation which the Washington & Georgetown Gas Light Companies requested the commission to make of their physical properties in January, 1926. The com- mission delayed granting this request | owling to the luck of funds with which to make a valuation of its own, but legislatign recently enacted which pro vides that the utility companies ad ® 1o the commission one-half of | one per cent of the existing valuation for rate and valuation proceedings will give the commission nearly $85,000 to revalue the properties of the gas companies. Although Mr. Brand's name had been among others mentioned for the post for a long time, his nomination was sent to the Senate and confirmed while he was out of the city on busi- CHANG COUNTERS BLOW AT RAILROAD New Shanghai Defender Fears Cantonese Move to Cut His Communications. . | By the Assoctated Press. SHANGHAIL March 4—Gen. Chang Tsung-Chang is reported to be bring- fng up his Shantung troops to strengthen the garrison at Soochow, 50 miles west of Shanghal. He is said to be doing this because he fears a possible attempt. by the southern army, from west of Taiohu Lake, to cut- his main line communications along the railway. Wukiang, 10 miles south of Soo chow, on the Nanking railway, is re- ported to have been the scene of & raid by Nationalist forces and a Iub-J sequent engagement with the north m.troops, while-there have been in- dlcations that a strong force of south- erners are converging to the west of ‘Taiohu Lake. i Relied On by Shanghai. Gen. Chang Tsupg-Chang is in command of - the Shantung troops, which are_being relied upon to stave off attack by the southern armies. American Marjnes went into ‘“ac- tion” for a brlef time here today, when a.number of Chinese soldiers attempted t6 get away with a launch belonging to the Standard Oil. The Chinese took the launch down stream from its mooring near the British consulate. An American naval officer, notified of the seizure, sent 60 Marines in pursuit. The chase con- tinued for five miles. Surrender Without Fight. Although the Chinese were armed, they did not open fire when over- ?ern. but quietly surrendered thelr ize. \ A Shanghai dispatch to the London Daily Mail reported that half the American Marines brought to that city would be billeted within the in- ternational settlement within a few days. The Daily Express had word that the construction of billets for the Marines was in progress, but the dispatch implied this was merely in preparation for a landing in case American interests were seriously threatened. Official Billet On Ships. At the same time, diréct news was recefved from Shanghai that while tiberal shore leave was afforded the Amiericans, their official billet was | still aboard ship. 1t was added that although -the British, I'rench and Italians were guarding the foreign settlements, the Americans and Japa- nese here hold that as yet no, emer- gency exists to justify a real landing of forces. This dispatch reiterated that the route-march of Japanese marines Wednesday, and a similar affair planned for Saturday by the Ameri- cans, were looked upon by American and Japanese authorities merely as exercises for the troops and not in- | tended as a show of force. Charges Against Pair. Daugherty and Miller were charged | with havipg released $7,000,000 worth | of property seized under the trading with the enemy act after having been . according o the Government, “hypodermic injections of graft” by John T. King, late national Repub- Jican committeeman from Connecticut, The property was the proceeds of r cent of the stock of the Ameri- can Metal Co. owned by two German companies controlled by the Merton of metal magnates. ard Merton came to this coun- try after the war to seek return of the property through the $lien prop- erty custodian office and retained King to put his claim through the Government offices. He paid King a fee of $441,000 and the Government charged that part of this money found its way to Daugherty and Miller through the agency of the late Jess ‘W. Smith, Daugherty's political handy man. The Merton claim was passed in 1921, Tried on Conspiracy. By the time the Government officials wwere indicted the statue of limitations prevented prosecution for bribery and so they were charged with con- spiracy against the Government they served, the period of limitation for conspiracy being six years. They were brought to trial for conspiring to defraud the Government of thelr full end impartial services in permitting passage of the Merton claim. The first trial began in September of 1926 and lasted for more than a 1onth, ending in disagreement of the jury after it had set a record for iength of deliberation. The most fm- portant witnesses were Merton, who * (Continued on Page 7, Column 2) BRITISH YIELD AT KIUKIANG. Concession There Transferred to Chinese Authority By Agreement. LONDON, March 4 (A).—~A Shang- hai dispatch to the Exchange Tele- graph says the British concession in Kiukiang, on the Yangtse River, has been transferred to Chinese authority under an agreement between British Charge O'Malley and the Cantonese foreign minister, Eugefie Chen, simi- | lar to that defining the status of the | Hankow concession. When the Chen-O'Malley agreement Hankow was signed recently, it announced that a similar agree- ment had been arranged as regards Kiuklang. Both citles were the scenes of violent anti-foreign rioting early in January, necessitating the withdrawal of forefgn residents. A Hankow dispatch last week sald Mr. O'Malley had just returned from | Kiukiang- after arranging details for the disposition of the British conces- i slon there in accord with the provi- sions of the agreement, which pro- vides for active Chinese participation in_municipal affairs. Rumors that Soochow, 50 miles west of Shanghal, has been occupled by the southern Chinese troops are contained in a Shanghal dispatch to the Ex- change Telegreph. This dispatch says that Chen Ting- | Yeuh, overnor of Anhwei, declares | the province is independent and has Ca uko olating the ness in Florida for his law firm. Last- d i U. 3. DENIES TELLEZ RECALL WAS ASKED Ambassador’s Sudden De- parture Adds to Mystery. Secrecy Kept Up on Notes. By the' Associated Press. i An officlal Genfal by the State De- partment today that the Amermm' Government had demanded the recall | of Ambassador Manuel C. Tellez of Mexico deepened the mystery sur- rounding his sudden departure from Washington lagt night for Mexico City, and still, further enshrouded in! secrecy the tircumstances surround-; ing the netés exchanged recently be- tween the two governments. The movements of Tellez, who left unheralded, were a mystery even to Secretary Grew, it was insisted at the State Department. The official statement by Mr. Grew.sald that the Washington Government had no.in- formation concerning the purpose of the Ambassador’s visit te Mexico City. Denial by State Department. Mr. Grew's statement follows: “The report that the Mexican Am- bassador's recall has been demanded by the United States is without foun- dation and this Government has no information concerning the purpose of his visit to Mexico City." There were intimations but no authorized statements at the State Department that the notes did not concern alleged propaganda activities of the embassy, but there was no de- nial that such activities had been under discussion at some recent date. Aside from this, the blank wall of official secrecy surrounding the mys- tery notes continued to resist suc- cessfully the bombardment of rumor and conjecture to which it has been subjected, both here and in Mexico City. Embassy officials have added to the smoke screen by implying that they do not know what notes are in- volved and that many notes are ex- changed with the State Department almost daily. Reticent About Leaks. The department is equally reticent as to suspicions it may have of leaks | in its machinery through which con-| fidential _information have | reached unauthorized hands, If those ! suspicions, recently indicated in a number of minor ways, are involved in the mystery notes or the unex-| plained Tellez expedition, nobody at | the State Department i3 willing to admit ir. The Mexican foreign office said there < no_foundation for rumo s recall. Undersecretary Estrada | exico City said: i “The foreign office does not know the source of such reports, which are | considered without foundation. The foreign office has not received any | such notification.” __Tellez left Washington after a_day (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) w t ! e NO WORD RECEIVED OF URUGUAYAN FLYER Portuguese Aviator Leaves for | ‘West Africa in World Flight Attempt. | By the Associated Press MADRID, March 4.—Notwithstand- | ing ceaseless calls by wireless stations at Cadiz and Las Palmas and| Teneriffe, Canary Islands, no word| had been received today of Maj.| Tadeo Larreborges, Uruguayan avi- ator, who left Casablanca, Morocco, ; Wednesday, for another hop in hls‘ flight to Montevideo, Uruguay. The | aviator's exact destination was not| announced, but it was supposed he | was headed either for Rio de Oro, on/! the west coast of Africa, or for the! Canary Islands, Nothing was- reported by war and | merchant vessels along the African coast and “in the vicinity of the €anary Islands, which were ordered to make a speclal search, ~LISBON, Portugal, March 4 (#).— Maj. Sarmento Beires, Portuguese aviator, who has started an attempt to fly around the world in 90 days, left Casablanca, Morocco, for Rio de Cisneros, West Africa, this morning, it is learned here. § Accompanisd by three assistants, cutting the | main Chihli-Shantung army from both its bases. This would also prevent fur- ther reinforcements reaching the Shanghali district, h | Maj. Sarmento left Lisbon in his | 450-horsepower seaplane, the Argus, ‘Wednesday afternoon, reaching Casa- blanca in a few hours, |Herbert Willett, 16, Son of {and would h of Tel-| | Mr. Clark said, read a great deal and | | with the other STUDENT SHOOTS HIMSELF TO DEATH AT GENTRAL HIGH | | English Instructor in Same | Building, Takes His Life. FIRES BULLET AS GONG RINGS FOR FIRST CLASS| Friend Sees Him Fall After Shot From Revolver With Single | i Cartridge—Dies Instantly. ‘ With an ol containing a single cartridge, Herbert Willett, 16 old Central High | School student, shot himself throlgh | the head on the third floor of the main bullding of the school this morning. | He died almost instantly. | Just as the last bell for the first | class was ringing, at 9:10 o'clock, Wil | lett stopped at the drinking fountain in the northeast corner, near the room | where he had his first elass. Dorrance | , a schoolmate, who was behind | sked Willett: Which way Herbert ' “I'm going to hell, T guess,” said Willett, and he pulled the pistol from | his hip pocket and shot himself | through the right temple. Ile fell to| the floor. 1 Holds Crowd Back. ! Before Kelly could do anything to help him, he was surrounded by a crowd. \With presence of mind he held them back until Alvin W. Miller, | princigal of the school, and several teachers arrived. Robert Louis, who heard the shot from down the corridor and saw Willett fall, assisted him. Mr, Miller sent Louis for a doctor and tried to give sc assistance to | Willett, but he died without regaining | . Dr. Francls X. Me-| rfield Hospital, who was summoned, pronounced him dead. Willett's mother, a teacher in the| English department of Central, was told of the tragedy there, and his father, Allan H. Willett, dir the Bureau of Coal Fconomics National Coal Association, was sum-i moned from his offico in the Southern Building. The family lives at 2010 Brandywine reet, Chevy Chase. Mrs. Willett refused to believe that her on had intended to kill himself. | She said she had accompanied him 1o | school earlier in the morning and| that he seemed in usyal good spivits, She sald there was nothing unusual in his having a weapon with him, as he liked firearms and had in- umlked to enter & fevolver match next week. Weapon Very Unreliable. Mrs. Wilett believes that her son| either did not know the revolver was loaded or did not believe it would fire. She explained that the weapon was very unreliable and often failed to go off. She said Herbert had often loaded it in the house over her protest, and only recently a bullet had stuck in the chamber and her son had been upable to make it fire. 8he said he took the revolver down from the mantelplece, where it was kept, this morning, saying he was go- ing to practice with it after school. She had given her permission, she sud, as she had done on previous occasions. She did not know whether Herbert knew then that the weapon was loaded, but belleved that if he did, he did not think it would shoot. Mrs. Willett said there had been no unpleas#ntness in the household. Her son ate a hearty breakfast, she said, and had asked if he might bring some ice cream home for dinner. When she left him at the school, he told her he was going to practce with the revolver and then get the ice cream. At 11:30 all classes had been dis missed. None of the students was allowed to re-enter the building. Blames Suicide Epidemic. No reason could be assigned for Wil- lett's act. His teachers and parents said he was of an unusually carefree disposition. No change in his atti- tude had been noticed lately, He studied hard, and last year was a| member of the cadet corps of the | He was in the fifth semeste: ve been graduated n Bowling was his only athletic revolver., | are you going, i otor of of the | st ! activity Principal Miller blamed the death on the epidemic of student suicides that has been sweeping the country. He declared the publicity given these | affairs had put the idea of sulcide in students’ heads. About 20 college and high"school students have ended their lives since the beginning of the vear, and the result is that a sudden Whim may cause a_ boy to kill him- self, he said. i W. F. Clark, head of the print shop at the school, who knew Willett prob- ably better than any of the other teachers, suggested that overwork might have caused the boy to take his lif>. He was unusually bright, | ! a Snglish remarkble command of the ! language. He was popular boys, he said, hut was not intimate with any of them. Had a Man’s Brains. “He had a man’s brains,” Mr. Clark said. “He had a strong character for a boy, but was not overbearing. | He associated with the better type of boys and didn’t seem to be inter- ested In girls.” “His chief interest was work,” he said. L. G. Gilbert, Willett's mathe- matics teacher, sald the boy had seemed more carefree than the av- erage. Last year, Mr. Gilbert said, he was often engaged in pranks, al- though they were of an innocent nature. This year, he said, he seemed to have become more serlous about his work, but was not at all morose or moody. He was a good student, he said. Principal Miller said Willett's work had always been satisfactory. “He was a good student,” he said, “and always did his work well.” Several students who knew Willett slightly were unable to give any rea- son for his act. They said he was quiet and gid not assoclate a great deal with ‘the other boys, but al- ways was cheerful and apparently happy. The theory that result of an accid ward by Stephe Continued on Page e tragedy was the t also was put for- 2. Kramer, assist- Column 4.) |° Col - MOLLER DEFENDS AGTS IN AFFIDAVIT! Suspended Traffic Engineeri Says Eldridge Was Kept Constantly Informed. 1. €. Moller, suspended traffic engineer of the District, today sub- mitted to the Gibson subcommittee through Bureau of Efficiency investi- gators, a 14-page affidavit of de- fense, disclosing in full his relations with the traffic director’s office which affected award of electric traffie signal light contracts and the installation of the lights. The affidavit was presented person- ally to the investigators, who in turn, presented it to the Gibson subcom- mittee, which made it an exhibit in the record of testimony which con- tains disclosures resulting in Col. Mol- ler's suspension for irregularities in his office. Principal Points in Affidavit. The highlights of Col. Moller's afidavit are: Reiteration of former statements by him that District Auditor D. J. Donovan and Traffic Director M. O. ldridge had knowledge of certain items jn his procedure which were termed irregular and for the admis- sion of which, together with others, the Commissioners suspended him. A declaration, denying in its im- plication Director Eldridge's assertion that he had “implicit faith” in Col. Moller, but that he did not have de- tailed knowledge of Col. Moller's pro- cedure, wherein Col. Moller declares Mr. Eldridse was constantly kept In- formed by him as “to just what I was doing and what I proposed to do and the reasons therefore.” A denial that he had ever financially benefited directly or Indirectly from any purchase or award made to any contractor for the District. Defends Traffic Lights. An assertion that the traffic lights provided under his supervision are admitted to be “one of the finest sys- tems of electric trafiic signals in the United States today and one of the most economical froin the point of pur- chase.” Regarding procedure on the first set of specifications for traffic lights in Washington, Col. Moller, in the affl- davit, points out that he had liitle time to attend to the engineering d after his appoi on April , since up until May 8, 19 forced to attend to details of organ ing the newly created Traffic Bureau and since he was limited until July 30, igate the $10,000 appropri- signals unless the ap: was to revert to the propria Treasury. “At that time,” he said in the brief, “I had no experience whatsoever with electric traffic signals. I had been en- saged exclusively in traffic engineering with the United States Bureau of Public Roads, but electric traffic sig- nals were a subject that I had never been called upon to deal with.” Tells of Inspection Trips. As a result, he recites visits of five cities to watch the operation of elec- tric trafic signals and visits to the Crouse Hinds Co. and the General Electric Co. to amass a knowledge of the engineering features connected with such signals. The firat narged | company was the successful bidder for local signal lights. Col. Moller stat further: A list of cities furnished by each of these two companies in which they had installed electric traffic signals impressed me with the fact that evi- dently the Crouse-Hinds Co. were do- ing the major part of the business and in all of the cities visited the traffic officials spoke most. highly of Crouse-Hinds apparatus. “As a result of this inspection I was convinced that the Crouse- Hinds trafic signals and controls were the best that I had seen, that the Crouse- "(Continued on Page 7, Column 5.) I i H. G. Wells Thanks the United States Senate For refusing to help make war less horrible. Read his article aext Sunday in the Editorial Section of The Sunday Star Radio Programs—Page 43. JACKSON DENIED CHANCE TO ENTER GUILTY PLEA Colored Man Accused of Assault‘l Must Face Jury Able to Give | Death Penalty. Phillp Jackson, colored, 30 years| old, today attempted to plead guiity in | Criminal Division 1 to an indictment | charging him with a criminal assault on Mrs. Daisy Welling in the Capitol | grounds February 18. Justice Hoeh- ling refused to accept the plea and directed that a plea of not guilty be entered, because the law permits the | jury in' such cases to add the death benalty and a plea of guilty would only carry the maximum punishment of 30 years' imprisonment. | Two other indietments were re- ported against Jackson in connection with the alleged attack on the young telephone operator, who was crossing the Capitol grounds on the way to her home on D street southeast. To the {one charging him with an assault to rob and with robhery Jackson pleaded guilty and the court accepted the plea. To the indictment which charged an | assault with mtent to kill the negro | pleaded not guilty. Assistant United States Attorney Collins said he will call for trial within two weeks on the fdonious assault indictment to which the court would not allow Jackson to plead guilty. The fixing of a date for the trial will depend on the condition of Mrs. Welling, the lawyer declared. Although a technical detail has held up the payment of the $500 reward of the police department to Sergt. James M. Walker of the Washington Ter- minal police force for furnishing in- formation which led to the arrest of Jackeon, Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of police, announced today that he proposed to give the money to the officer on a_ special voucher which cannot be held up in the office of Danlel J. Donovan, Dis- trict auditor. BOTH HOUSESPAS ARBORETUM BL Conference Report on Meas- ure Adopted — Carries . $300,000 Appropriation. | The House and Senate, by individual | action, concurrently agreed today on | the national orboretum bill by adopt-| | ing the conference report Shortly afterward the signed Dy the President. The bill provides for the Department | | of Agriculture to purchase a site in | the National Capital on which will be developed a national arboretum as a great outdoor scientific laboratory for the Department of Agriculture. $300,000 Authorized. The intention of the legislation is that, if possible, what is known as the Mount Hamilton tract at the east- ern entrance to the Capital shall be secured, comprising approximately 400 acres adjacent to an even larger area already owned by the Govern- ment. As passed, the bill authorization for appropr $300,000 and strikes from the language of the hill a provision making this tract available for park and recreation | tacilities, | This is done in order that the con- | trol over the area may be exclusively in the hands of the Department of Agriculture so as to protect its scjen- tific work. ouse Plan Modifled. A House amendment putting the limitation of 25 per cent in excess of assessed value against the purchase of the site for the arboretum was modi- fled in the Senate so that the 25 per cent limit will apply on individual reels of land instead of upon the {:acl as a whole and will not apply upen any portion against which con- demnation proceedings are instituted. SOVIET NABS TURK BOAT. Mystery Veils Seizure of Vessel With 81 Passengers. SEBASTOPOL, Crimea, March 4 (#). ~—Mystery surrounds the seizure the Soviet authorities of a Turkish boat named Kirlan Kush, which re- cently arrived on the southern Crimean coast, with 81 passengers, from Sinope, Anatolia. ‘The vessel was sald to have no per- mit. The Soviet authorities arrested the passengers and crew, but the cap- bill was an CAPITAL FAVORED BY THIS CONGRESS Long Session Gave Most Im-§ portant Laws—Largest Fund in Short One. | i which | The Sixty-ninth Congress, passed into history today, leaves an | eviable record of constructive legis- lation for the District government and has lald the foundation for a new and greater National Capital by launching the long-delayed Fed- eral building program, in addition to to authorizing other projects of a national character in Washington. While most of the outstanding local enactments were made in the first session, which ended last July, the short session coming to a close today was not without its contri- butions to the betterment of the city, both' in legislation and physical improvements. The short session gave the District the largest appropriation bill on record, carrying $36,282,385, a feature of which was an increase from $600.- 000 to $900,000 in the allotment for park purchases. Botanic Gardens Law. It enacted a law authorizing reloca- tion of the Botanic Garden in the area between Maryland avenue, Canal street, First and Second ! streets, so that the existing gardens may be treated to conform with the Mall plan. It repealed in part the Borland | amendment, under which for more than a decade property owners have been assessed half the cost of street paving. The measure just enacted re- lieves owners from assessment for the replacement of a street after they have heen assessed once. A number of less important meas- ures were acted on at both ends of the Capitol in the closing days of the short session. The real work of the Sixty-ninth Congress, from the standpoint of Washington, was done in the long ses- SENATE FILIBUSTER KILLS DEFICIENCY AND SLUSH BILLS AS CONGRESS ENDS Session Closes in Turbulent Scene Such as Has Rarely Been Witnessed Beneath National Capitol Dome. DAWES TAKES OCCASION TO URGE RULE CHANGE Effort After Effort to Bring Im- portant Legislation to Vote Fails as Battle Continues to Adjourn- ment Hour—House Goes Out of Existence With No Excitement. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Sixty-ninth Congress a-filibustering. The filibuster against the Reed committee resolution in the Senate was successful. Senators Reed of Pennsylvania and Moses of New Hampshire, leaders of the filibuster, had the satisfaction of seeing the Congress adjourn sine die without the adoption of that resolution. The Congress adjourned also withi- out the passage of the second defi ciency bill, the public buildings bill and the alien property bill. Session Stormy at Close. surcly died These measures were as i killed by the filibuster as was the Reed resolution. 4 The final adjournment of the Sen- | ate was taken gfter a turbulent ses- sion such as has rarely been wi nessed under the dome of the Capi- tol. Effort after effort was made to obtain consideration and passage of the second deficiency bill and other important measures. . 5 The House, meanwhile, having completed its business, adjourned with no incident other than the usual interchange of compliments among its leaders, followed by sing- ing and celebration. But in- the Senate there was a dif- ferent story. On one side stood Reed of Pennsyl- vania and Moses of New Hampshire, adamant against any agreement which might result in the offering of the Reed resolution as an amendment to any of these bills. On the other side stood Reed of Missourl and Walsh of Massachusetts, Robinson of Arkansas and Harrison of Mississippi, denaunc. ing what they termed the defense of corruption in elections in Pennsyl- vania and Illinois, and declining tc permit the passage of bills greatly desired unless the Reed resolution could pass. The final word was that of Vice President Dawes, who has fought con- sistently since he became President of the Senate for an amendment of the rules which would permit a ma- jority at all times to do business in the Senate. Dawes Says Final Word. “It is customary for the Vice Presi- dent at the beginning and ending of & Congress to address the Senate upon an appropriate subject,”” began the Vice President. “Comments the chair has to make on this occasion will be very brief. “The chair regards the present leg- islative situation as primarily due to slon of last vear, when leaders of both Senate and House displayed & ! sympathetic Interest in the proper de- | velopment of the Capital City and in | the passage of laws to improve its | municipal government. Outline of Project. The steps that this Congress took to develop Washington into a Capital in keeping with the dignity of the Na- tion it represents have barely begun to take phy shape, but the follow- ing summary of laws enacted at the first session furnishes a conception of the transformatlon that will take place within the next few years Authorization for a fi gram of Federal buildings with of cost of $50,000,000 to enable Government to get rd of rented qu ters and unsightly war structures Legislation to complete the asquisi-| tion of the plaza lying between ['nion | Station and the Capitol, which is to be made part of the Capitol grounds. The appropriation of $600,000 to com plete purchase of the connecting lini between Rock Creek and Potomac Par B In the fleld of municipal govern-| ment the record of the first session | includes the following important en- actments: Mothers A law | Pensions Provided. - which the Board of | Public Welfare is extending financial aid to worthy mothers in destitute circumstances to enable them to rear | their children at home. Creation of a new public utilitles commission -separate from the Board of District Commissioners, which will begin to function within a few days. The Senate iast night confirmed the new utilities board. A new substantive law for the free Public Library, giving definite author- ity for the proper expansion of the branch library service as appropria- tions for that purpose are made. A revised traffic act, conferring on the director of trafic power to eliminate unsafe drivers of automo- biles by suspension and revocation of permits, and making many other improvements in the original tramc W, Among other laws of interest to ‘Washington enacted at this session of the Sixty-ninth Congress were: Albert Gallatin Statue. Joint resolution authorizing selec- tion of a site and erection of a pedes- tal for Albert Gallatin statue in Wash- ington. Gallatin was Secretary ‘of the Treasury from 1801 to 1814 and the statue, to be presented by a pri- vate association, is to be placed near the Treasury Bullding. Authorization for a new nurses’ home for Columbia Hospital to replace ex- tain escapecd. The High Court of Crimea ordered tign_of the vessel and sen- iptain by default to one c\)!l-‘,l:ol6 at a cost not to ex-|..4 wadsworth of Ne exceed $400, .%M' th opening of & new _dae 4 o Page & Column 4) /£ -| only to proceed v defective rules of the Senate, under which a minority can prevent a ma- jority from exercising the constitu- tional rights of bringing measures to a vote. t is the only great parliamentary vody in the world where such a situ- tion exists. “On this closing day of the Sixty- ninth Congress the chair commends to the Senate the remarks upon the Senate rules which he made on the first day of the first sessfon.” The filibuster against the Reed resolution extending the life of the slush fund committes may have been in_vain after all. v following the adjourn- s inquiries, but to open the ballot boxes in the Pennsylvania case. The committee, he held, is a continuing committee of a continuing body. Senator Reed said he purposed calling his committee to- gether later today to determine its course of uction. When the Senate recessed shortly after midnight, closing a 37-hour continuous session, until 8:30 o'clock this morning, it was with an under- standing of the leaders on both sides that permission would he given for with it | the passage early today of the second deficiency appropriation bill and that the Reed resolution wotild continue the unfinished business up to the closing hour. Hopes Soon Smashed. ‘When the Senate reassembled, the hopes of the leaders was smashed 1o smithereens. The final session re solved itself into a continuance of the bitter struggle which has held the Senate in its grip for days. The attitude of the Senate was epitomized in a single sentence uttered by Sens tor Overman of North Carolina in connection with a measure which was put forward. “I object to everything.” The galleries, crowded to their wt most capacity from an early hour. rocked with laughter at the sallies of one side or the other. There was x tenseness and a bitterness in the air which threatened ominously. The Vice President ruled, however, with an fron hand. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. the Democratic thorn in the side of Senate Republicans, held the floor for nearly all of the last hour of the session. +Fires Verbal Darts. Again and again Republicans sought o interrupt him, but he declined to -he aimed his verbal darts Pennsylvania, Moses of pshire, Phipps of Colorado York. t yield while- t Reed ;{w Ham) ow g ‘The Mississipplan read a letter from