Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1935, Page 5

COAL BILL OPINION ATTEMPT BEATEN House Group Votes Down Proposal to Obtair. Cum- mings’ Idea. By the Associated Press. A proposal to obtain Attorney Gen- eral Cummings’ opinion on the consti- tutionality of the Guffey-Snyder coal stabilization bill was voted down today by a House Ways and Means Sub- committee. The plan was suggested by Repre- sentative Treadway, Republican, of Massachusetts. He broke into pro- longed testimony on the bill's market- ing provisions with an assertion that the measure appeared unconstitu- tional in view of the Supreme Court's N. R. A, decision. ‘The Guffey-Snyder bill would create a “little N. R. A" for the bituminous industry. Proponents contend it is in accord with the N. R. A. decision in that it contains no extraordinary delegation of legislative power to the Executive branch of the Government. They say coal mining clearly affects Interslate Commerce. “Why not begin where we should begin?” Treadway asked. “* * * I would like to hear an impartial opinion on the bill's constitutionality.” Representative Hill, Democrat, of Washington, subcommittee chairman, said an opinion from the ‘Justice De- partment has no more legal weight than the opinions of the lawyers who . have testified for and against the bill. Operators in Opposition. Spokesmen for the railroads, the National Association of Manufacturers, the United States Steel Corp. and some soft coal operators, meanwhile, massed opposition against the bill. The Operators Committee Against | the Guffey Bill, in a statement yes- terday, declared 60 per cent of the operators are opposed to the legisla- tion The statement follows: “The agreement reached at the request of the President last Saturday provided only for the withdrawal of | 8 strike order issued by the United | o0 Mason of Virginia and John Mine Workers and an agreement on the part of producers to continue to | operate their mines on existing wage scales and working conditions until June 30. June 24 was fixed for a wage conference. The agreements reached had no relation to the Guffey bill. “The coal producers who are against the Guffey bill are ready to negotiate wage agreements and are not demanding from the Government price-fixing as a consideration for making such agreements with their employes. “The wage agreement with the em- ployes has been withheld and delib- | After his election, and had then taken erately delayed for the purpose of bringing pressure on Congress to pn.ss this legislation. Division of Oppeosition. “A careful survey of the industry to ascertain the attitude of operators re- garding the bill shows that out of a total production of 358,393,000 tons | in 1934, 216,404,095 tons, or 60.381 per cent, is against the bill, and the remaining 141,988,905 tons is for the bill, unknown or noncommittal. In this latter figure there is a substantial tormage that cannot be classed as | either for or against the bill. “Of the 26 coal-preducing States, only two show a substantial tonnage in favor of the Guffey bill. In one of the States the predominating attitude of the operators is undetermined, and in two Stftes the operators are approximately equally divided. In each of the remaining 21 coal-produc- ing States, all or an overwhelming majority of the tonnage was found to be against the bill. “The States that do not produce coal, as well as the producing States, will have to bear the large increased costs that are certain under this bill. “The Guffey bill tends to create a monopoly under Federal control and represents the most vicious type of class legislation.” — SOARS 36,771 FEET PARIS, June 20 (#).—An official examination of the barograph carried by Mlle. Maryse Hilsz, French avi- atrix, on a recent altitude flight dis- closed today that she had soared to 11,280 meters (36,771 feet). Mille. Hilsz holds the standing wom- en’s altitude record, set August 19, | 1932, when she took up her plane to 32,1226 feet. Marriage Licenses. Joseph Abraham Thompson. 19. 801 Taylor et northeast, and Mary Pyles. 21. 2 Georgia ave. Rev. Thomas F. SR Williams. 30, 613 Pennes! james_Arthur Williams, 30. 613 51~ and Dorothy Virginia . Fla.: Rev. Freeley 28..and Blancne Reed. 36. s ev. L. R, Frayser. Jeines Williem Thivodesn, 31, 478 B st s.w. and Elenora Moran Timing. 20. 2041 Portner pl; Rev. Clarence i % Daw! o 3 nd Rev. Isaac Wrghi Wlmnm Biacy Jdonnson 47, and Leora Annette Gill. 40. Richmond: Rev. J. C. Ball, Toth. 21, 1218 B st. s.e. Lotad Ehaid it b s Al Edwin Suitcnell = va Edwin ¢ and Mary Marian Butier 1419 Lons- Queally. i “Retline. S0, Baltimore. h:ea%mw}-ude Lee Brooks. 20 1825 17th eorge H. Bern 38 and Annl Margaret Rev. Joseph and Ger- D st.se.: ; Rev, i 4« a uim?r&dj'.nzf‘t‘o" ¥ Rev. C. R. Alex- "7 1418 Q i 98: 779 Pairmont son. 25, 2714 :lllx iin Senec: LeBoY od o orma POthelme Gibson.. 10, LA A Rev.J Harve Du fenry Dean. 2 nhm"’(]l dys Eernlte Byrd 21, oA Rey. !r!nt Herbert Blaine Sirver 30, 333 B s, ne. Dorothy Meilign. Gleve: fod, % h e %Nn Mattingly. 1 oK Judge o ke et 2, mn:san 08 ™ and mng: Vizeinia N W, 26, ssQunevD 2eoand jels, 33, 921 17th st., n!ua" 1912 16th st Em !fi r-umu mna c 3d s and h!fll “‘s,‘..:::'z. - 198,530 1. and aefi'.-"m“'" Sweet Nugent, 25, nb lev Yeh CIJ' :fi:. Md. u!l?d 30, Olney. | i | the Senate when they presented them- | where the man, John Young Brown of | | age of 25 years specified in the Con- | in greatly diminishing the number of | have been the duty of the Senate to | decline him hic seat, because he had | the fact that he did not present him- | Holt’s election was void since he was Senator-elect Rush D. Holt of West Virginia, with members of his family, as he celebrated his 30th birth- day, which makes him eligible to claim his seat in the Senate, to which he was elected last November. ‘The Senate Privileges and Elections Committee has recommended that he be seated and the Senate was to take up the question today. Left to right: Dr. Mathew S. Holt, father; Jane Holt, sister; Senator Holt and his mother, Mrs. M. S. Holt. Holt (Continued From Pirst Page.) - qualifications, one of which was that a Senator must have been nine years a citizen of the United States and must be an inhabitant of the State when elected to represent that State |in the Senate. ‘The majority cited the cases of three men who served in the Senate before they were 30 years old in past years. They were Henry Clay of Kentucky, Eaton of Tennessee. But the majority made no claim that these precedents | entitled Holt to a seat, since no ques- | tion of their having reached the requi- | site senatorial age was ever raised in selves to be sworn in. House Case Is Cited. The majority did place reliance, however, on one case in the house, | Kentucky, who had not reached the stitution for membership in the House, | had waited until he attained that age, the oath of office. The minority report said, in part: “We think the plain language of | the Constitution means that a United States Senator must be 30 years of age when his term begins. While in | the case of Mr. Holt the age require- ment lacked a little less than six months in time, the principle involved would be the same if he lacked five years and six months. To decide that | a person elected to the United States | Senate could wait until shortly be- | foré his term had expired and until he had arrived at the age of 30 years | is placing a construction upon the provisions of the Constitutfon that is wholly unwarranted; would establish a principle which might readily result Senators provided for by the Con- stitution. “This is th> first case of this kind that has been brought to the atten-| tion of the Senate. It is admitted by the majority of the committee that if Mr. Holt had presented himself to the Senate on January 3. it would not arrived a‘ the constitutional age. The contentioa is made, however, that self until he arrived at the age of 30 years, presents an entirely different question, and the Senate ought now to decide that question in favor of seating him. We submit, however, that the question cannot be so easily dis- posed of withcut violating precedents, and without putting ourselves and our successors in a very embarrassing po- sition. Holt has received his salary as Senator since the beginning of his term and has had an office assigned to him as Senator in the Senate Office Building. The minority contended that if he was not a Senator, then he was not entitled to receive pay. Senator Hiram Johnson in his minority report said that he had re- luctantly come to the conclusion that not qualified at the beginning of his term of office. He made much, in his argument, of the cases of Albert Gallatin and of Gen: Shields, both of whom were denied seats in the Senate in earlier days because they had not been qualified as having been citizens of the United States for nine years at the time they began their service in the Senate. — - Births Repor!ed. Lee and Naomi Cohe: wi Balsy Gisbs. oo Hobert and Mariorie Corsine sirl. Julius and boy. James and Arnetia, Haitis, John and Minnie Thom Thedford and Juanita. cumn. ,lrl. a Snowt Robert and Floss] George ang mr! TR ...;3,;“ y. boy. Deaths Reported. Alice X-Llllnlu 86, National hn,hfl'll Home. Isaac Sakolski, 83. Casuall A’nrigw.:. wn e, 79,181 S hmf rman, ’17 Y M“ Yok & Wiiamette, 4 ‘fi“‘""fiu ] htrlek Haughey. el hln Lockridge, 71: Walter 3 e, M inu'y;%n:fl"za%m 3 :‘l:'rlgwl" i’.?;..?z % 5, Maconib st. Ethel L C. Sha u.'?'l. ‘St Etizabeth's Hos- L ‘ermoat ave. Dor 5. 8. m'fiozmmu‘, Rev. r F. .~ —A. P. Photo, WILLIAM B. SHEARER, Big Navy advocate, seems to be enjoying proceedings at the Senate Commerce Committee hearing, where Ewing Y. Mitchell, ousted Commerce Department official, is “revealing all” in his graft charges. Earlier in the session Shearer was a witness at the Munitions Com- mittee’s hearing. —Harris Ewing Photo. Mitchell (Continued Prom First Page.) ence yesterday said he had approved the arrangement for laying up the Leviathan because it provided that money which the company otherwise would have lost on its operations would be applied to the construction of a new ship. “He said in such circumstances it was silly for the company to take a continued loss in operating the older vessel. “The United States is the owner of several hundred vessels. If the loss of $1,720,000 which will be sus- tained by the continued operation of the Leviathan under the terms of its sale must be put into a new vessel, there is no reason whatever why this sum should not be put into a ship to be owned by the United States in- stead of one to be owned by the In- ternational Mercantile Marine crowd.” The witness said yesterday the Government had made a “gift” of $1,721,000 to the United States Lines, I. M. M. subsidiary, through the re- tirement of the Leviathan. > A much smaller number of spec- tators and fewer Senators heard the Florida, that he was not “sticking to Fletcher implied that All Work Done in Our Own Designing and Manufactur- ing Rooms on the Premises. Silontoee Tom 926 F ST. N.W. | | | | | | | | Black Committee report,” | “and if they reflect on him it isn't three very cordial invitations to aid in uncovering the graft and possible corruption in the bureaus to the end that millions of dollars may be recap- tured and possibly crimigal prosecu- tions be initiated. “But I am removed from office by the President, which prevents my ac- cess to the additional evidence in the files of the Department of Com- merce.” The witness, obviously on the de-| fensive, then told of the 23 ‘charges filed against Admiral Cone. “They were all taken from the he said, my fault.” Mitchell asserted that Cone retired | in March and that he understood | “there was pressure to get him to | resign.” “Why go into hearsay?” asked Sen- | ator Fletcher. “Sure in Own Mind.” Mitchell acknowledged he didn't know that his charges forced the ad- miral's retirement, but added: “I'm sure in my own mind that he was asked to resign.” Chairman Copeland asked, “Why | did you tell us you couldn’t get action | on your charges if that was the case?” “This was one of the very few ex- ceptions,” Mitchell responded. “J. W. Barnett was another who resigned. I had recommended that he be dis- | missed for prejudice.” Answering another question, Mitchell resumed his table-pounding as he said, “I exercised plenty of energy. { That was one of their objections. I | was stirring things up too much.” Mitchell said he knew of one Re- ETHIOPIA REPEATS LEAGUE APPEAL Note Invokes Article 10 in Boundary Dispute With Italy. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, June 20.—Ethiopia today appealed again to the League of Na- tions against Italy. The African empire’s communica- tion invoked article 10 of the League covenant under which members of the League are pledged to respect the ter- ritorial integrity of other nations. Ethiopia suggested that a neutral commission be sent to the frontier of Ethiopia, where Italy claims anti- Italian incidents have taken place, to examine the situation and report to Geneva. A previous appeal by Ethiopia was made under article 15 of the covenant, providing for the settlement of in- ternational disputes by arbitration. ROME, June 20 (#)—The foreign office was informed today that an Ethiopian aviator tore an Italian flag from an Italian legation automobile in Addis Ababa Tuesday night and at- tacked the chauffeur. The automobile was that of G. Mombelli, first secretary of the Italian legation to Ethiopia. The affair was stated to be regarded as a diplomatic incident, resulting in the Italian Minister filing a strong note of protest with the Ethiopian government. The dispatch to the foreign office | from Addis Ababa said that Mombelli | had driven to a motion-picture theater in the Ethiopian capital and that his sutomobile, occupied by the chauffeur, was parked out in the street when the affair occurred. | Police, said the dispatch, immedi- | ately intervened, arrested the aviator, and took him away. accident in which Cutting was killed. The committez ended today’s session after calling on Secretary Roper to discuss the qualifications of John Mon- roe Johnson, nominated as Mitchell's successor, and agreeing to grant Secre- tary Roper's request that he be heard tomorrow if possible. First, however, it will hear further from Mitchel! concerning the Steam- boat Navigation Service and the Coast Iauu Geodetic Survey. | In his fust day's testimony, Mitchell | | was repeatedly called to task by skep- | | tical committee members for repeat- ing evidence uncovered months ago by Senate committees. Time and again, | Chairman Copeland, Senator Fletcher | and others asked him for “facts” and | why he had not acted to expose the graft he alleged. Mitchell said he had been blocked by Secretary Roper, and | asked, in turn, why Roper hadn’t done | something about it. | The Missourian asserted that the United States Lines, a subsidiary of International Mercantile Marine, had received a “gift” of $1,721,000 through the retirement of the Leviathan. Con- | trolling I. M. M., he said, were P. A. 8. Franklin, Kermit Roosevelt and Vin- | cent Astor. At a press conference later in the ! day, Mitchell attributed the $1,721,000 | publican who was a “very fine official | gift to friendship between Premdent,‘ | who had saved millions of dollars.” | Senator Vandenburg, Republican, of ! | To Chairman Copeland's request Ior | his identity, the witness replied: “I don't want to mark him {or slaughter.” “You undoubtedly would in this sat- urnalia of patronage and bunk.” said Michigan, half angrily. Not Familiar With Accident. During discussion of the Cutting | crash, Senator Johnson, Republican, | of California, demanded, “I want to ‘knnw whether you are famillar with | | the detalls of the accident that cost | Scnator Cutting's life?” “No,” Mitchell responded hesitantly, | “but I am familiar with the organ- | ization of the Air Commerce Bureau and its responsiveness to pressure.” “You mean pressure from aircraft | organizations?” Johnson insisted. “I want every whit of evidence you have or can gather which reverts to this particular accident,” persisted Johnson. Mitchell said a “lot of lobbyists” were pressing airplane passes upon Commerce Department officials, but he | insisted he had issued an order against accepting them unless it was learned in advance there was space to spare on the planes. Promises to Supply Data. “I'd like to know,” Johnson insisted, “who in the Commerce Department received any gratuities of this sort.” Mitchell conceded he believed likely the ones using them most were in- spectors and technical employes. He concluded his interchange with Johnson by promising to supply him all the informaticn he could about th‘ [Rooaevelt and L. M. M. officials. Mr. | Roosevelt many times has been a guest | | on the Astor yacht, the Nourmahal. “Do you mean to impute that friend- | | ship between Mr. Roosevelt and the | | officers of I M. M., was responsible?” | he was asked. “Why, yes, of course,” he replied. “You can't account for it on any other grounds.” 'OFSTIE GETS NEW POST Lieut. Comdr. Ralph A. Ofstie, for- | mer chief of the flight test section | at the Anacostia Naval Air Station, | hias been ordered to Iokio as assistant | naval attache, it was announced to- | aay at th= Navy Department. He is the first naval aviator to hold this f post. Comdr. Ofstie will come to Wash- ington by commercial airline next Wednesday for three o: four weeks of temporary duty in tae Navy De- partment before leaving for the Ori- ent. Ofstie at one time made a forced | landing in the McKinley High School | stadium in a thick fog. Ofstie has been in command of VF-6 Squadron, known as “Fighting Six,” aboard the aircraft carrier U. S. S. Saratoga since leaving Anacostia. Don’t Suffer With Acid Condition | Mountain Valley Mi Water. direet fam, Arka Endorsed ysi- | 30 years. Phone for booklet. Valley Mineral Water Met. 1062, 1105 K St. N.W. “Put Your Car in Safe Hands” How Does Your Car Look —to your friends? Are you proud of its ap- pearance or do You pay for a get it done or not. you have to apologize? refinishing job whether you You pay for it in money if you do—in depreciation loss if you don't. The car may not need a cn;nploh paint job to make it look new again. we'll tell you so frankly. 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