Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1924 — Page 4

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EDITORIAL

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KLAN 'S PROG BAM FOR 1921 1. Militant, old-fiixhloned Christianity and operative patriotism. 2. Bark to the Constitution. 3. Enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment no long as it is a part of the Constitution. 4. Knforcement of present Immigration laws and enactment of more stringent laws on immigration.

The Vital Problem

At this time, as Americans are filing their income tax reports and the time is drawing near to pay the spring installment of taxes, it is well to give thought to- one item that aids materially in keeping taxes high our state institutions. The average citizen knows that the insane asylums are filled to overflowing and that, seemingly, the number of persons becoming demented each year in America is iucreasing at an alarming rate. For this reason, a report made for the committee of state affairs In New York is most illuminating. The report shows that 25 per cent of the insane in New York state are aliens. In view of the fact that only one-tenth of the population of New York state is alien, one can readily see what immigration is costing the state of New York each year, in connection with this one phase alone. New York pays out each year $4,500,000 for the care of alien insane alone.

This situation, of course, is proportionately felt in other states. A bond issue of $50,000,000 was authorized recently in New York and it is estimated that three-fourths of that amount will be spent on buildings and equipment to take care of the Insane. Certain civic organizations in that state are demanding that the government stand all the cost of taking care of these insane because the government permits them to enter. This would relieve the taxpayers of New York to a certain extent and in turn would shift the burden to the

shoulders of the taxpayers throughout the United States. If the government should accede to demands of New York, it would only follow that each state would make the same demand, and in the end the taxpayers of America would be paying the same huge amounts each year and they giow heavier each year to take care of the insane of Europe foisted upon America by lax immigration laws. New York's idea to have the government stand this tremendous cost does not solve the problem it merely gives it a new angle. There is only one thing that can be done to relieve the taxpayers of this burden., and that is to stop the riff-raff of Europe, the diseased, mentally and morally unfit, coming into America to contaminate the posterity of our forefathers. If plans mature, New York will ask the government for $17,000,000 expended on insane aliens over a comparatively short period. Just as in many other things, money is the least thing to be considered. In the world war, the world poured billions of dollars into a stream of fire and Mood, but these dollars counted naught when compared with the lives smothered In the avalanche of steel and volcano of high explosives that

left

And there is Lew Shank! If we may believe philosophy, a man is thrown upon his own resources when he hasn't any.

Klansmen, a boost In time saves nine and the resultant pedal activity in the slats. Say a good word when a thing deserves It.

Here is a memory gem For old and young: "The Klansman never speaks In alien tongue."

"Whoops!" exclaimed the Queen

of Sheba, as she opened her morning mail from America. "They say that Lew Shank is nature's noble

man. This is news indeed!"

The Klansman who would go to

heaven alone or deny heaven to oth

crs, is the Klansman who can not claim kinship with the great leaders

of our splendid tradition.

Klansman, for the sake of what you shall do in the cleansing of politics, keep in mind the -fact that Nature always has her little joker ready for the last trick. Learn from Nature and you shall win all the games even the game of life.

Klansmen, if democracy is a form

of government in which a malicious few can frustrate the political wishes of the great body of true

Americans, it will seem no safer to the world than autocracy. We must harmonize the spirit " of traditional democracy with the spirit and needs of the hour. Not less than soviet and the old Prussian war idea are our public enemies who work for selfish ends rather than the progressive good of the whole nation.

DAILY INDEX OF AMERICAN CONGRESS

(Bureau Publicities and Education) Monday, January 81

a nevfr-nUing trail of desolated homes and suffering incompre

hensible to the huinan mind. In the case of immigrant insane, the human mind first thinks of dollars; this is only natural in view of the heavy taxes, taxes such as Americans

never before knew. And taxes such as the European has struggled finder, for centuries; these same Europeans who would now come to America and aid in heaping the taxes on the shoulders of American citizens. However, money is not the chief subject to take into consideration. If 25 per cent of those persons in insane asylums in New York are aliens, it only stands to reason that the very worst class in Europe is coming to America and tan only be the unfits. What will their posterity be? Mntal detectives, leaving in . their train persons of low morals, feeble minds and low mentalities; more Inmates to fill our institutions for the children of the present generation to provide money with which to build prisons, jails, institutions for the feeble-minded and insane asylums. No one denies that America's morals are not of the exceedingly high

standard which they enjoyed a decade ago. Does this situation not throw a certain amount of light on the conditions? Within the last week it was stated in Indianapolis newspapers that officials had pointed out the astoundingly high percentage of foreigners among those who were

arrested each month for bottlegging. Close observance of newspaper reports show this to be throughout the country. One following the news

paper reports of gunmen battles in New York and Chicago and other large cities will find the names shown therein to substantiate the argument that foreigners are responsible for an appalling percentage of crime in America. New York's situation, in which she is battling to take care of insane immigrants, at the cost of millions of dollars each year, presents the condition into which America has fallen in her continued lax immigration

laws. The government reimbursing the different states for the care of Insane aliens would be pathetically ludicrous. What differs it, if the American has to pay this enormous amount each, whether he pays it to one tax collector or another? In many of our American cities, American children living In American homes under American standards, attend school where the vast majority of children have almost unpronounceable names and who come from homes where morals are thought of lightly and where the lowest European standards are in effect. Does one believe that these few 'American children can act as a "melting pot" for thia great majority of children whose parents were born in Europe with its deeply Instilled superstitions, monarchial beliefs and lack of education.

It was brought ont in the Chicago Tribune of recent date that a society formed among the members of one of the largest Catholic churches in

Chicago urged the children of the congregation to grow up to be "good Polish citizens." Can one conceive of thts in America? He can when he stops to ponder over the New York situation and the fact that America is permitting European countries to dnmp their unfits into American life. It this latter is permitted, it is only natural that no steps would be taken

to stop such moves as "rearing good Polish citizens in America."

One of the most vital, it not the most vital problem that confronts

America today is that of immigration.

I do not feel the tourist zest To travel far and fast; I spend my strength and time for home The U. S. first and last. I do not heed the social craze, I am no pink-tea man; I serve my country and my God, By the seven-symboled Klan. There is one thing, Klansman, (bat ninst never go ont of print the trntli. Fame ? Fame is a relative thing but it is not everybody's relative. The pasty-

faced, callow gentlemen who are oc

casionally empjoyed to write head

lines for our large dailies, are somelimes nearer the truth than one

would suppose upon superficial examination of their masterpieces

"Three-Year-Old Girl Wins Fame," declares a Boston headline. A perusal of the article in order to learn whether a budding Maud Powell has won her laurel wreath by presenting Chopin's Prelude Opus 28 in deathless demi-semi-quavers leads to the exact information that the precions and precocious infant has merely whistled a tune acceptably at a "church sociable." At first blush one is inclined to sniff at the headline writer; at tenth or twelfth blush one recalls that Columbus acquired

fame and historical importance by caving in an egg for the edification of royalty and American school children. After all what are relatives, relations strained or otherwise or even relativity? In brief, let tariff be revised upwards or downwards, but do not revise our school books to meet the demands

of modern living keep them full of rubbish and let falne endure a few moments longer! '

ly not ours to decide. The nation's

leaders are at their task. It is our business to help them keep the laws

or change them by the wisdom of

good statecraft. President Coolidge

has wisely signed a proclamation im

posing an immediate embargo on the

shipment of war munitions to Mex

ico without the consent of the U. S. government. Just bow the border patrols have their hands full fighting the smuggling of drugs, liquor,

immigrants, and other things equally vicious. No doubt they now are also watching attempts to smuggle

arms. It is our business, as citizens and as Klansmen, to extend fullest co-operation. It is not ours to criticize it is ours to serve, to save, to ennoble, to enrich the country by our earnest good will and helpful strength. My Job I do not know geography I have no college yell I'm int'rested in township roads, And county laws as well ; I am not bound to Europe's whims, I bow no knee to Rome; I'm trying to clean up my town I'm occupied at home. I am no high-geared diplomat That job is not for me I don't know much about the Slav, The Turk or the Chinee. I do not care to "meddle in," Or sail the briny foam; My business is the U. S. A. I'm occupied at home.

My Klansman's oath has made me

proud Of race and country, too;

It nas taught me how to be a man.

And as a man keep true; It has kept my mind from wander ing My gold is not at Nome

I keep my faith, my creed and yours,

Im occupied at home.

Advice to Klansmen: See Europe

lust hot use American glasses.

Fayette Klansmen and Women Busy With Work

WASHINGTON, C. H., O., Jan.-2. At the meeting Thursday night in the Redmcn's hall here, the Fayette county Knights of the Ku Klux Klan elected its new secretary and its new treasurer. There was a good turnout of Klansmen. The Klan gave a supper at the Woodmen's hall Saturday night for fellowship purposes. A large number of Klanspeople enjoyed tha repast. The Women of the Ku Klux Klan are also active In Fayette county and hare weekly meetings to initiate

candidates and carry the important

Biessage of Americanism to the new Totcra of the county.

Findiay Klansmen, Wives

and Families at Banquet

FINDLAY, O., Jan. 26. Several hundred Klansmen and their wives

and families attended a meeting at the Find lay headquarters of the

Klan Friday night of last week. Addresses were made ' by several

noted speakers and a message of

particular Klan interest was de

livered by a high official of the or

ganization. A musical program fol

lowed the speeches In which the

Klan Glee dub sang several pa

triotic and popular selections. The program also included readings and

various other exercises. At 10:30

o'clock a . banquet was served and short talk were fjven by many of

me memDert.

That School Age A question is frequently put up to Klansmen that relates to compulsory

school laws in the United States.

Possibly, in view of this, it may be

well for us to keep in mind that although every state in the Union as well as the District of Columbia has some sort of compulsory school laws,

in many states they are not ade

quately enforced and in a few states they are practically nullified by exceptions or local interpretations. Most states require full-time attend

ance up to the age of 16 at a public

or approved (sic) private (?) school.

The lowest age requirement in any

state, we understand, is 14. Three

states oblige full-time attendance up

to the age of 17. In fifteen states groups of children are required to attend school at least part time up

to the age. of 18. Undoubtedly all states should require attendance up to the age of 18, and this attendance

should be at our public schools. Private schools for the very young are

not in harmony with American ideals, unless, of course, the children

are mental defectives requiring spe

cial methods of instruction which

could not be applied to alL

A Missies to Fulfill

There has been some criticism of

the government In respect to Its sale of surplus war material to Mexico. Criticism of the government by the

Klan is against Klan purposes and

Klan ideals. -The Klan is the strong

arm of aid to the government and it Is not its business to question the

government's honest interpretation

of our laws. Our voice should be

lifted against those who make

mock of our laws or seek to nullify their effectiveness. - "It Is not ours

to reason why," In the language of tha old poem. It la not ours to de

stroy or condemn. Oar mission is to fulfill. Much as we mar personally deplore the sale- of -war material

which might get ' the nation Into

i trouble, that question is mphatlcal

We can only hope that our friends

the Episcopalian clergy, will forgive us for the following "Litany for To-morrow"-it is not intended to be, in any sense, a travesty; conditions are

too serious and too muddled for that

From the Intoxication of False

Opinion in the United States, Good Lord, deliver us.

From the Dissensions of New

Church Disputes, Good Lord, deliver us.

From the Spirit of Unkind Criti

cism and Self-aggrandizement, Good Lord, deliver us.

From the Emptiness, of Unfair Complaints and Disloyal Country

men, Good Lord, deliver us..

From the Crime of Graft and the Sin of Wealth-hungry City Officials, Good Lord, deliver us. From the Red Immigrant, the Ignorant European Laborer Who Seeks to Crowd us Away from Our Birthright and Gives us in Return a Scorbutic and Illiterate Posterity, Good Lord, deliver us. From Poor, un-American Schools, from Clever but Untruthful Text

books, Good Lord, deliver us.

From being a Godless Nation that

Can Not Long Prosper, Good Lord, deliver us.

From being Untrue to Our Pure

Womanhood, Our Divine Destiny, Our

Heroic Ancestry, Good Lord, deliver us.

From Failing to Worship Our Savior with a Contrite Heart, in Politics as Well as in Ladge and Church from failing to be a Klansman in the Purest and Most Courageous

Sense of the. Word, Good Lord, deliver us.

WASHINGTON. D. C. Jan. 26.

Senate Met at noon: adjourned at

4:30 p. m. Mellon tax reduction plan discussion started by a criticism of the secretary by Senator Couzens, Michigan; those participating in the debate were Senators Reed, Pennsylvania; Glass, Virginia; Norris, Nebraska; Johnson, Minnesota; Heflin, Alabama; McKellar, Tennessee. Senator Dill, Washington, spoke in opposition to the proposed polar expedition of the dirigible Shenandoah, Teapot Dome investigation and

evidence thus far taken were the subjects of discussion bv Senators

Caruway, Arkansas; King, Utah, and

Henm, Alabama.

Nomination of George B. Christian.

Jr., secretary to the late President

Harding, to be a member of the fed

eral trade commission received.

rassea ana sent to the House a

bill granting the free use of the mails

to the widow of President Harding.

benate members much interested

by testimony of Archie Roosevelt,

son of former President Roosevelt.

before the Teapot Dome naval oil re

serve investigating committee, to the

effect that he had severed his con

nection with the Sinclair corporation

because of what he considered evi

dence of corruption in connection

with oil leases.

Minority Leader Robinson asked

the committee appointed to invest!

gate propaganda designed to influ

ence Congress not to concentrate on the Bok peace plan and forget about

tne Mellon tax reduction plan and other matters of public interest.

Edward W. Bok, of Philadelphia.

donor. of the $100,000 peace award, refused fo tell how much money he

is spending on his peace plan.

State department transmits to the

Senate a mass of information, some

confidential, all said to include the

department's evidence of propaganda

by the Russian soviet government

aimed at the overthrow, of the U. S. government. House Met at noon; adjourned at 4:50 p. m. Spent the day considering the interior department appropriation bill. The meeting of the anti-prohibitionists in Washington called forth speeches of condemnation and protest from Crampton, Mich.; Yates, Illinois, and Blanton, Texas, noted "dry" leaders in the House. House received through the speak

er the- detailed offer of a group of

southern power companies for the

lease of the Muscle Shoals project. Chairman Green, of the ways, and means committee, talked with President Coolidge over the tax reduction question and pointed out the difficulties of an agreement oh a 25 per cent maximum . surtax as recommended by Secretary Mellon.

refunding' of pressing past- doe tn30 FIERY X - deotedness of farmers in the terri

tory moat seriously affected; resM

toration where It "Would .Be helpful, of impaired hanking capital; and creation by private capital of a substantial financing corporation to assist in the plan of reorganization..

Ratified and made public the texts

of the recently negotiated Mexican general claims convention and the special Mexican claims convention.

A row over the League of Nations

broke at the meeting of the propaganda Investigating committee when

Senator Reed, Missouri, a League ir

reconcilable, sought to develop

through the testimony of Miss Esther

E. Lape, member of the policy com

mittee of the Bok peace prize award, the attitude on the League of the

members of the policy committee and

the jury of award.

State department evidence regarding communist activities in Russia

and this country was concluded before the foreign relations committee with charges of widespread work and propaganda in this country.

Predicts Rise of Cities ia Arctic as Result of Flight

House Met at noon; adjourned at 4:50 p. m. Considered measures reported from the judiciary committee under the calendar Wednesday order of business. ' Passed a bill providing for a new judicial district in northern Indiana, with provision for appointment of an additional district judge and necessary court officers.

Secretary Weeks transmitted to

Congress an offer by the Union Carbide Company, of New York, to man

ufacture fertilizer at the Muscle Shoals plant, to, be sold at cost, plus

a profit of 5 per cent.

Republican members of the ways and means committee suggested to the Democrats that the committee

get together and formulate a tax reduction measure on a nonpartisan

plan, in which there should be mutual concessions from both the Mellon and the Garner proposals. House and Senate adjusted their differences on a bill which would permit the returnfree of duty, until

December 31, 1924, of cattle taken into Mexico to escape drought in the southwest, and the bill now goes to the president for his signature.

TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 26. Thriving American cities on the shores of . the Arctic ocean in direct touch with the rest of the world arc within the realm of possibility and probably will be the outcome of the flight of the giant dirigible Shenandoah over the polar regions this summer, according to Vilhjalmur Stefansson, noted artic explorer, in a lecture here. -S In an interview following his address, Mr. Stefansson said the flight would open new lanes of air travel, putting London in close communication with Tokio, and blazing the way for civilization in the arctic circle, where the minimum temperature is 60 degrees below zero and the sum-, nier heat compares with that of the

middle west.

The explorer asserted that it was

impossible to estimate the land area ' in the unexplored region over which

the Shenandoah will fly. Much of it is water, although investigation may show islands which will prove habitable and of enormous future value as aerial bases. "If we do not make the flight this year, England will next year," he said.

Restore the Postal Service

Thursday, January 24

A KLANSMAN'S CREED believe in Cod and in the ientti

of the Christian religion and that a

godless nation can not long prosper.

I belteve that a church that ts not Grounded on the trinciiles of moral-

iif and justice is a mockery to Godl

- m S

and to man.

I believe that a church that doet

not have the welfare of the common

people at heart is unworthy.

1 believe in the eternal separation

of Church and State.

I hold no allegiance to any foreign

government, emperor, king, pope or any other foreign, political or relig

ious fovoer.

I hold my allegiance to the Stars

and Stripes next to my allegiance to

God alone. 1 believe in just lavas and liberty. I believe in the upholding of the Constitution of these United States. I believe that our Free Public

School is the corner stone of good

government and that those -who ere seeking to destroy it are enemies of our Republic and are unworthy of

citizenship. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in a free freu unco trolled by political parties or by re ligious sects. I believe in law and order.

I believe in" the protection of our Pure womanhood.

I do not believe im mot violence, but I dr believe thatlavis should t enacted to prevent the causes of mob violence.

i believe in closer relationship of capita! and tabor. . believe in tha Prevention of '

learranUd strikes $j f oreign labor agitators.' I believe in the Um'tialit of for- . . . . . ..... .--.. .

tgn immtgrmima. -. . I am m nattve-htrn America est

-new. and I believe my fights in thie country art superior to those of for

eigners. '

Tuesday, Jan aary 22 Senate Met at noon ; adjourned at

4:30 p.m.

Senator King, Utah, who visited

Russia last summer, began an address setting forth his observations

and deductions on the soviet govern

ment of Russia.

benator Komnson, Arkansas, In a

speech declared it to be the sense of

the Senate that proceedings before the tariff commission in the 'present procedure will not command public confidence and that body should pro

ceed under a rule which in substance

disqualifies any member whose immediate family has a property or financial interest to be affected by the decisions of the commission. Additional documents by the score received from the state department in support, of Secretary Hughes' statement that the Russian soviet authorities have been conducting propaganda in this country against the American government. ' House Met at noon; adjourned at 5:05 p. m. In further consideration of the interior department appropriation bill,

the . American Legion submitted to

tne immigration committee a reso

lution urging the suspension of all

immigration for five years.

indications were given at the

White House to members of the ways

and means committee that President

Coolidge would regard any surtax

rate above 25 per cent as a change in

the fundamental principle of the Mel

lon tax reduction plan as a basis for

a veto. . . , . President Coolidge gave his un

qualified approval to the NorbeckBurtnesa. bill for government loans

to northwestern farmers for purchases of livestock and to enable

them to diversify their farming.

Senate Met at noon ; adjourned at 4:44 p. m. The committee on public lands was

discharged from further considera

tion of the Caraway resolution order

ing the cancellation of. the Teapot

Dome naval oil reserve leases, the

resolution was placed on the calendar and further action goes over un

til next week.

Senator Capper, Kansas, chairman of the farm bloc, addressed the Sen

ate oa freight rates, urging sub

stantial reduction In transportation costs for the relief of farmers and

repeal of the. rate-making clause of

the transportation act

Senator Jones, New Mexico, spoke

in opposition to the proposed reduction in surtaxes in the Mellon plan.

Adopted House concurrent resolution for a joint congressional session on Wednesday. February 27, as a memorial service to President Harding. Secretary Hughes is to speak, and former Presidents Taft and Wilson, former Vice-President Marshall, the supreme court, members of the diplomatic corps, members of the cabinet, governors of states' and other dignitaries will be invited to attend. President Coolidge transmitted to the Senate the ship liquor treaty

with Great Britain.

Passed a bill authorizing an emer

gency distribution of $100 eacn to the 12,000 members of the Chippewa tribe in Minnesota, the statement being made that this was necessary to

prevent starvation.

E. L. Doheny, the California oil

magnate, told the oil investigating

committee that on November 30, 1921

he had loaned former Secretary Fall

the sum of $100,000 in cash as a

'personal matter."

Gavin McNabb, attorney for the

Doheny interests, asked the commit

tee to request the president to deBig- j nate a board of experts to examine

all the facts, stating that if such a I

board should report that at the time the contracts were made they were not advantageous and the best the government could have obtained Mr.

Doheny would reconvey all his inter

est to the government for just what

he had put Into it.

Chairman Lenroot announced that

former Secretary Fall had arrived in Washington but that his physical condition was such that he could not

appear before the committee until

next Monday, when the chairman atated that he would be heard. -

(An Editorial in the Chicago Tribune) It is a fact,, generally admitted by the higher authorities in the postal service, reiterated by employes in the service, and emphasized in tha daily experience of persons .using the service, that a lack of sufficient high grade help in the postoffice department is a growing handicap. This lack of help is attributable almost entirely to - one thing insufficient pay. Capable men are not being attracted to the service as they werei some years ago. Much of the work

is being put upon the shoulders of temporary workers, untrained workers, substitutes, and other inefficient

men. The necessary result is a deterioration of service.

Such a deterioration is a serious handicap to innumerable lines of ' business. Delay in delivery of letters, parcels, or other items of mail frequently may mean loss of contracts, business misunderstandings, and other damaging effects. The situation ought to be corrected in the general cause of business stimulation and prosperity. It can be corrected to a large extent by the simple process of passing the Kelly bill, H. R. 4123, which is now before Congress. That bill is designed to raise the scale of salaries to a point which will give regular workers in the postal service a rea--sonable income, and thereby attract efficient and reliable men to the work. The salaries it suggests are still small, ranging from f 2,000 to $2,600. There is nothing exorbitant about such a demand. Such pay will more than justify itself in the im-. provemeht of service and In the improvement of business which it will

make possible. Incidentally, it is nothing more than justice to the loyal postoffice workers who were denied such a raise four yearB ago on the ground that living expenses were coming down.

Wednesday, January 23

Senate Met at noon; adjourned at

3:50 p. m.

Senator Caraway, Arkansas, called up his motion to discharge the public lands committee from "further

consideration of his resolution to di

rect cancellation of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve lease. Senator

Caraway renewed his attack on for

mer Secretary Fall and declared Con

gress should impeaeb Secretary of

the Navy Denby, who' approved the lease. McKellar, Tennessee, And

King, Utah, Joined Caraway in his

attack on Secretary Denby.

Senator Walsh, Montana, a mem

ber of the investigating committee,

gave notice , that he . would ask that

body to- report a resolution advising

the president tfTHastitute proceed'

ings for annulment of the lease of the Wyoming naTal reserve to the

Sinclair interests. ' President Coolidge transmitted to Congress a message recommending

federal -relief of the agricultural situation. . His suggestions included

financial assistance through a federal agency to enable wheat farmers

to diversify their farming; extension of the time within which the war

finance corporation can make loans;

Crusade Started Against Auto Petting Parties

EAST LIVERPOOL, O., Jan. 26-r The crusade against petting parties, which recently was started by the police department of this city, is producing results. In a recent roundup, conducted by a constable, eight men were arrested in company with girls whose ages ranged from fifteen to eighteen years. Charges of parking without lights were filed against six of the men and It Is probable that charges of contributing to delinquency also will be pressed in some of the cases. None of the girla was held, but police say they may be

called later as witnesses. Each of the men pleaded guilty to the charge of parking without lights and was fined $25 and costs. The crusade will be continued.

House Met at noon; adjourned at

5:05 p. m.

Continued consideration of the in

terior department appropriation bill

Representative Mills, New York,

defended the Mellon tax plan, em

pbasizmg the fact that taxation at

excessive rates is always unproduc

tive.

Mr. Garner,, of Texas, ranking

Democratic member of the wars and

means committee, declared that it

the House sent the "Democratic

plan" to the president "he wouldn't dare to veto it, because it reduces

taxes and the country wants lower

taxes.': . Chairman Green replied to Mr.

Carner with the declaration that the

tax bill ought to be considered in a, nonpartisan manner, but added that "it wont be because the gentleman from Texas Imagines he can make

political capital ont of it."

Friday, January 25 . Senate ot in session : most of the

members listening to on Teapot Dome

tnvestigatlne committee.

f J. W. Zevely, personal attorney of

Hirry P. Sinclair, told , the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve lease investigating committee that Sinclair had

loaned $25,008 in liberty bonds to

f ormejtiSecretary Albert B.; FalWia

June, 1923, three months after he retired from the cabinet. Witness testified that Fall gave his note for this loan, which was ia addition to $10,000 expense money in connection . with his trip to Russia.

House Met at noon; adjourned at

5:05 p. m.

Continued consideration of the interior department, bill. Representative Royal C. Johnson, South Dakota, was designated as

chairman of the new veterans' committee of the House. He served overseas ia the T9ta division. - - - "

" The puWie mdldingB committee or -dered a favorable report on the Langley bill, carrying SCifiuOO ts provide additional IwwpiJatJSCilities for world war veferansy5 Ways and mrcommftte decided to removertjie tpflowlngi nuisance" taxes: frjxgmfb sJMPtelephones. bereragesr admissiona hp to 50 cents, theater eeaMag tel.-candy, hunting, bowie and-dirk kuives, livery and livery bootsi hunag garments, yachts aaaVmSfW&ftfts carpets and ruga, trohksvalise, purses and pocketuooka, portable lighting fixtures, fans, jewelry, produce sales and (0 per cent on bowling and billiards, all of which now ylaM a revenue of $103,254,488.

Representative Hull, of Iowa, mads a demand at the meeting of the sanitary affairs committee that Henry Ford be summoned to Washington to discuss his offer tor tha Muscle Shoals project .- v

v Saturday, January 28 . Senate Not la vessfoa.! Most of members in committee work. . . House Continued consideration of . . the- interior dejar.tmant hM. !gg--r

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