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Occasionally Mr. Vare stopped to drink water from a glass beside him and to take breath. to him i Opposing Vote. Is Seen. ‘While Mr. Vare's address made an impression on his audience, it is ex- ceedingly doubtful that he changed enough votes to assure himself a seat {in_the Senate. | The privileges and elections commit- tee, which is considering the contest {brought against Vare by William B. Wilson, his D:mocratic opponent in the senatorial election, took a recess to listen to Mr. Vare's argument in the Senate chamber. It is expected that the committee will be able to complete its consideration of the contest late to- day and to submit a report tomorrow. The Vare case was before the Senate today and the Norris resolution denying him a seat because of the report of the Reed slush-fund committee which in- vestigated the primary campaign in Pennsylvania in 1926. Defended by Reed. After Mr. Vare had finished his own spaech, Senator Reed, Republican of Pennsylvania, spoke for nearly an hour in defense of the Senator-elect. The Senator emphasized that in the 1926 primaries, Mr. Vare was only one of a_number of candidates for different offices running on the same ticket and that it is “preposterous” to say that ;ll“ot the money was spent in his be- alf. Senator Reed declared that Vare did not have any newspapers in Penn- sylvania on his side in that campaign and that every message he got out to the voters had to be a paid advertise- ment and that he had to ‘zend large sums in postage to get his views to the thousands of voters. Senator Reed also laid stress on the argument that it is not a question of how much money is spent in an elec- tion, but how it is spent that should be the deciding factor. He added that he did not know of any evidence that this money came from improper sources or ‘was improperly spent. “If we are to judge this case on the aggregate amount spent, how about the 20 Senators in this body who came from States in which expenditures last year were more per capita than the amount involved in this case from Pennsyl- vania?” Senator Reed declared. Says Election Should Stand. Senator Reed also reminded his col- leagues that the people of Pennsylvania had all the information the Senate has about_the primaries before it voted to elect Mr. Vare, and he said he did not belleve the Senate should go behind that decision of the people of the State and try to veto it. He deplored the decision of the Sen- ate to proceed with the pending resolu- tion against Mr. Vare without waiting to receive the report which is expected late today from the privileges and elec- tions committee, which has spent more than two years inquiring into the Vare case. Mr. Vare remained on the floor of the Senate after he had completed his dress, following the debate carefully, and on one occasion answering & query by Senator Schall of Minnesota, the the im- pon.nflln‘, Mr. Va chamber, accompanied by his physician, was dramatic, although comparatively few members of the Senate were in their seats at the time. Norris Is Speaking. Senator Norris of Nebraska, author of the pending resolution denying Mr. Vare his seat, was addressing the Senate at the time. At the moment Mr. Vare came into the chamber Sen- ator Norris was saying: “Evidences of corruption in the elec- tion (of Mr. Vare) ‘make you blush to think that such contemptible and disgraceful things can happen un our flag.” The Pennsylvania Senator-elect, who suffered & _stroke of lysis in 1 supported himsel? witl with difficulty. his left still being = seriously affected. His physician aided him. Shakes Hands With Robinson. When Mr. Vare, who came into the chamber from the Senate lobby, im- mediately back of the Vice President’s desk, reached the front row, he halted and shook hands with Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader of the Senate. Several other Democratic Senators seated nearby also shook hands with Mr. Vare, including Senator ‘Wagner of New York, Senator Overman of North Carolina, Senator Walsh of Montana and Senator McKellar of Tennessee, who came across the cham- ber to greet Mr. Vare. Text of Vare Speech. Vare's speech follows: “I come before you with the honest conviction thit over three years ago I was regularly, legally and honestly nominated and elected by the people of Penmyl\(lnllsri:'zhelsr rel')grumut ve in_the United s Senate. “On March 3, 1927, my credentials of election from a sovereign State were presented and filed. From that time until December, 1927, as a Senator- elect T was accorded all of the privileges of that office, but since that time I | respectfully submit, with disregard to | the constitutional rights of my State, | ; have been denied my place on this { floor. | "“I'appear today to ask for a fair and . impartial consideration of my cause in | this Senate. In all my life’s activities I | always have endeavored to do my full ! duty to my country and my fellow men. Notwithstanding all my efforts, I am charged, and that unjustly, with a most serious offense against the laws of the land and the sanctity of membership in this body. It has grieved me deeply, and, I believe, aggravated my bodily affliction. My sickness in the Spring of which attacked me. in.August of that year. As a matter of fact, my physician pleaded with me not to go to the na- tional convention at Kansas City. The charges made against me so prg:d upon my mind and body that in it terrible month of August, 1928, I trembled upon the very of eter- nity, and I feel that through the pray- ers of my family and my many friends I have been able to acquire sufficient strength to come before you today. In House for 15 Years. “For 15 years I sat as a member of the lower house of Congress. There was never a reflection on my character or the service I rendered to my country and my constituents. During all of my political career I never have been ac- cused of any crime. I have tried to lead 1928 was but a forerunner of the iliness | hanqeq an upright life both socially and politically. I never have asked any man or woman to do an illegal act in any election. I never have partici~ pated in any political juggling. I never stole an election nor have I ever asked any one to make a false return or to change any election records to decide & close contest in my favor. In fact, I would never countenance any such action and I always have used all of my influence against such practices. ' “Unfortunately, few of you men had an opportunity to read t! charges made against me and study the reports THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 19%9. VARE CARRIES SEAT | DANIEL A. GARBER. made in this case. Irrespective of the great constitutional question involved, I do not believe there is one man here today who could conscientiously vote against me if he knew the facts and realized how unfair and unjust my ac- cusers have been in attempting to twist mere clerical irregularities and techni- calities into acts of political fraud and conspiracy. I belleve I can truthtully say that the same charges could be brought against every one elected to public office if the ballots and election records were examined by his political enemies and a report made based on their inferences and theories without any consideration of the truth of facts or legal proof. Says Report Is Incomplete. “T‘:ere is only one report before you concerning my election, and that is based on an incomplete survey of elec- tion records made by paid investigators, who for years had yed my political enemies in Philadelphi The man who is responsible for tl report of your special investigati committee was paid $10,000 to do the job. The report, for which he alone is responsible, and which your commit- tee accepted in good faith, is not an impartial statement of facts with which his body usually “deals, but it is a fabrication of the wildest theories, In- ference and imagination, unaccom- panied by any proof, and under no circumstances can be substantiated. Ir fact, I am informed by my attorneys, who have studied a condensed report of the tabulator of the subcommittee of the committee on privileges and elections, furnished to both Mr. Wilson and myself, that the charges are proven to be absolutely false. “One of the charges was that 2,018 persons voted in Philadelphia who were not registered. The facts are that all but 33 of those 2,018 persons were duly and legally registered. Why, they even charge that in 40 per cent of the elec- tion districts the election boards were comprised of only enrolled Republicans, and yet that is entirely legal, as the law does not require minority representation on election boards. In fact, there are many districts in Philadelphia where the entire enrollment is Republican, Just as, I suppose, there are districts in other counties in Pennsylvania and in other States where the electorate are entirely of the Democratic faith. In many districts in the South thousands of Democratic votes are cast and not one Republican vote. Why? There are no Republicans there! How could they vote in those districts? These are just some typical examples of the unfairness of these conclusions, which my political enemies have tried to have you believe were facts. \ Holds Testimony Is False. “Is my election or my right to a seat in this Senate to be judged and decided upon such a report? Are you, with whom I have been associated all these years in Congree, to pass judgment on me without giving me my “day in court?” I prefer to believe not one of you want to do an unfair thing—surely party prejudice and self-interest wiil not allow you to condemn anhy one on false testimony. “I challenge any man on the floor of this Senate to point to a single bit of evidence of any fraud or conspiracy practiced by myself or any of my der | friends in my behalf in the three-cor- nered primary when I won the Repub- lican nomination over former Sengtor Pepper and the then governor, Gifford Pisichot. Not one voice was raised against that primary in Pennsylvania until the question of expenditures was brought in as an issue. It is true the primary campaign cost a considerable sum of money. The ticket which I had the honor to head also had ‘candidates for governor, lieu- tenant governor, secretary of internal affairs, Congressmen, members of the State Legislature and the State com- mittee. There was a bitter struggle for governorship and control of the State committee. The expenditures of the ticket on which I was the candi- date were about one-third of those of my prinicipal opponent. Am I to be condemned because without a newspa- per, with the State organization and county organizations against me and my friends, we were compelled to spend one-third of what our principal oppo- nents spent in bringing the issues of the campaign to the 4,000,000 voters of the State? In Pennsylvania we don't have one dominant industry and one easy way to reach all people. In the Middle West almost every one speaks English—ready English. They are all interested in agriculture. One folder— in plain English—would reach their chief interest. Cites Scope of Campaign. “But in Pennsylvania we naa tw reach steel workers around Pittsburgh, miners around Scranton, farmers around. Lancaster, and workers, min-' ers, farmers in all other sections of & the State. Some read English, some must have discussions in Lithuanian and in Polish—each in the language he knows. This multiplies expense. “There are Senators sitting on this floor today whose election last Novem- ber cost more per vote, more per capita and more per voting district than the expenditures for the Vare-Beidleman ticket in the Pennsylvania primary in 1926. In the Pennsylvania campaign, the expenditures now charged to me alone instead of to all the candidates with me, were $1.30 per vote, $81.75 per thousand population and $91.68 per voting district. Those of the Pepper-Fisher State ticket were $3.50 per vote, $187.74 per thousand popuia- tion and $210.59 ger voting district. ‘There were 1,451,557 votes cast in that {nmlry and the expenditures of my icket represented 54 cents per vote, “In the recent November election we find from a report submitted to this body by one of its special committees | expenditures in many States which far exceed the figures 1 have just given you. In Nevada we find the costs were $4.46 per vote, $815.33 per thousand population and '$263.78 per voting dis- trict. In Montana we find the cost per vote $2.59, the expenditure per thou- sand population $371.01 and the cost 5" voting _district $136.70. Even in lew York State the expenditures were greater per capita, per voting district and, I have no doubt, per vote than those in Pennsylvania. All this is said without criticism as, T have no doubt, all expenditures were proper. “In Pennsylvania in 1926 I had no wy organization outside of two coun- Ofihtlom had to be built from the bottom and financed. It was not a clean-cut contest between two major parties such as the election of Nuven&her. 1928, on which I have quoted ures. PEn Tact, the Re xpen publican e: ditures in 24 States and the Democratic in 19 DIES AT AGE OF 63 General Manager of Asso- ciated Contractors Pneu- monia Victim. Daniel A. Garber, 69 years old, general manager of the Associated General Con- tractors of America and one of the most prominent men in the construction in- dustry in this country, died at Garfield Hospital at 6:30 o'clock this morning after two successive operations Ilast Thursday and Saturday for intestinal disorder. Pneumonia developed and caused his death. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Sarah Taliaferro Garber, and one son, Mason, of Winston-Sales . C. Born in Richmond, Vi Mr. Garber was educated in that city, and was an apprentice there in the in- dustry which he made his life profes- sion. He became a mill superintendent in Richmond in 1881, which post he held until 1889. He became president of the Northeastern Construction Co., with offices at 101 Park avenue, New York, in 1904, which office he held until 1924. He was chairman of the board of di- rectors of that organization up to the time of his death. Mr. Garber was elected as the first mayor of the town of Ridgewood, N. J. in 1911, and served for three terms, ing re-elected. He was appointed a member of the North Jersey Rapid ‘Transit Commission in 1923. and was elected chairman of that body in 1926. He was one of the founders of the Associated General Contractors America, and served at its first national president until 1919. He was a director of the Citizens’ National Bank & Trust Co., national councilor of the United States Chamber of Commerce, & mem- ber of the advisory board of the A: sociated General Contractors of Amer- ica, held membership in the Engineers’ Club, New York; the Old Colony Club and the Congressional Country Club. He was also a director of the Mont- gomery County Building Association, Bethesda, Md. Funeral services have been arranged to take place Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Calvary Baptist Church, € | Eighth and H streets. The place of in- terment was not made known today. PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF OFFICERS IS SLATED Army Leaders to Be Examined by Medical Board, Starting om January 6. ‘The annual physical examination of officers of the United States Army, in this city, will be made in Room 1201, ‘Temporary Building No. 5, on B street between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets, beginning January 6. The examining board, just ap- pointed, is composed of the following medical officers: Col. Christopher C. Collins, Majs. John W. Meehan, Charles A. OConnor, John H. Sturgeon, Charles R. Lanahan and James R. Mann and Capts. Ralph Duffy, William C. Porter, James N. Williams, Charles R. Mueller, Hubert M. Nicholson and Benjamin R. Luscomb, States were greater per capita than those now charged St me 8S,ex- cessive. In three States the Republican and in six States the Democratic cost per vote was greater, and in 17 States the Republican and 12 States the Demo- cratic expenditures per voting district exceeded those charged against me. Is not this sufficient proof that the charge is unfair? And remember, no charge has been made that one penny was 1l- legally spent in Pennsylvania. Why, in New Mexico it cost the Republicans $1.14 and the Democrats $1.59 per vote, and in Idaho it cost the Republicans $1.19 per vote, $217.95 per thousand population and’ $140.50 per voting dis- trict. In Massachusetts, Maryland, Con- necticut, Montana, Nevada, New Hamp- shire, Rhode Island, Utah, Wyoming and other States the costs far exceeded those per capita and per voting district expended for the entire ticket of which my candidacy was only & part in the Pennsylvania primary, which you are now asked to condemn. And remember, gentlemen, the figures I give you do not begin to represent the total expenditures in your States. Not a cent raised or ex- pended by county, city or local commit- tees is included in the report of your own committee from which these figures are obtained. For my campaign every expenditure made by any kind of a com- mittee, be it ever so small, is accounted for and charged against me. “Removed Automatically.” “There is not a single printed report ANIEL A GARBER | SNwz -~ WEL of the hearings, the arguments or the findings of -the committee which heard the proceedings in the contest. Not one of you outside that committee has had an opportunity to read or know the actual results of that long in- vestigation. Under the resolution which you are now considering you are asked to attempt not only to deny me a seat which has not been determined to be mine, but you automatically re- move me from any interest in that contest. “Is it American principle, is it just or fair that a defendant in any case should be denied his right to make a defense or have his case heard? Surely there is no rule of human conduct any- where in the civilized world that will justify such a precedent. “This matter vitally concerns the rights of the people of a sovereign State, who my a majority of nearly 200,000 votes, selected me as its representative in the Senate. The trust that they re- posed in me I cannot betray even in view of the lasting injury it may mean to my health in the years to come, The denial of my right here means more than an obscure right of one to a seat in this Senate: it also vitally concerns the right of the entire people of the United States to have their Constitution maintained and enforced in its integ- rity. The framers of the Constitution belleved that each State's right to be represented in the Senate on terms of equality by citizens of their own thoice would remain inviolate, and it was never questioned until now that when a Senator-elect presents, as I have done, the authenticated credentials of his State, he should be denied the oath of office if he possesses the qualifications prescribed in the Constitution. “I respectfully submit that you may deny me my just rights in this matt but it cannot be done without a viol tion of a basic principle of that Cons! tution. “I fervently wish that my strength permitted me to participate further in the decision of this momentous ques- ton, but I am sure that the members of the Senate, without respect to party and in view of my prolonged illness, fully will understand that I must now commit my case and the cause of my State to my friends in the Senate.” Mrs. Vare in Gallery. 5 Seated in the gallery reserved for the families of the Senators were Mrs. Vare, the wife of the Senator-elec and Mrs. William Kipp, a daughter o Atlantic City, and her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Kipp were seated directly behind Mrs ifford Pinchot, wife of the former governor of Pennsylvania, Who was a candidate for the Republic- on Senatorial nomination against Mr. Vare in 1926, and who as governor de- clared Vare’s election tainted with fraud. Before Mr. Vare came into the chamber, which was isely at noon, Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, obtained unanimous consent of the Senate per- mitting Mr. Vare’s physician to_ex company him into the chamber. Sen- ator Robinson, the Democratic leader, announced that he had absolutely no ob Jection, and that course was ollowed. A JSTORE OF it il il el gu.,"" P‘E"I’l‘,{%""’{// o’ .‘,’"r';“:;!l,'l',%"’”y i’ / i hiih i i L CHOSEN GIFTJS! HE gift you select at Saks will prove a gift well chosen —because every gift we offer for your selection is a well-chosen gift. Months of patient picking and plan- ning have preceded this holiday month. . . . 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