Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1924 — Page 4

THE FIERY CROSS

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KLAVS PROGRAM FOR 1921 S"i"t,h0,d;fnS,lu,nr.d l"-isllHiiIty and operative patriotism. Rark to the Constitution. , KTStntVi E'ght0Cn,h Amendment so long as it is a part orh.''.'.'."'!'11 f Vnwnt Immigration laws and enactment of more Mi Indent laws on immigration.

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The Intelligent Editor While most every reason (?) possible hag been seized upon by those who would flood the United States with ignorant foreigners, it remained for the Chicago American to take the radical stand that the immigrants coming; into this country are intelligent persons, and that America needs them. As is well known to the readers of daily newspapers the press prints many absurd things, but it would seem that the American had reached the high point in absurdity. It is rather hard to believe that the writer in the American is ignorant of conditions of which he writes when he speaks of intelligent people being held out of the United States by the present immigration law. 1 nder tho quota law as it now stands, there were a total of 56,092 Russians. Poles and Roumanians admitted for the year ending June 30, 1923. From authentic sources one learns that more than 80 per cent of the inhabitants of Roumania, .at the beginning of the World war, could neither read nor write. Every school child has heard of "Darkest Russia" and the world is fully aware of the extreme ignorance of the Russian peasant and the utter lack of education in that country, at the beginning of the World war. except among about one-sixth of the population comprising the nobility, the professions and high-class merchants. Is the Chicago American to have us believe that Lenine, in his reign of about four years, put intelligence into the Russian people? Poland, practically on "a par with Russia and Roumania, in regard to education-is furnishing the United States with intelligent people, according to the American. At this point an associated press dispatch from Warsaw, Poland, on February 11, of this year, and which appeared in the daily papers throughout America, proves most interesting. The dispatch reads: "Warsaw, February 1-1. The Diet has accepted a resolution asking the government, through the Polish envoy at the Vatican, to request the holy see to use its influence with the Catholic hierarchy of the United States to permit the continued iise of tho Polish language in Polish Catholic churches and parochial schools, and to stop the systematic Americanization of the Poles." A few weeks ago the Chicago Tribune severely criticised the largest Polish Catholic church in Chicago for its efforts to have the children of the communicants to grow up "good Polish citizens." These people, according to the Chicago American, are not only intelligent, but are "needed" In America and comprise "Europe's greatest wealth." t Italy furnished 4G.671 immigrants in the same period. The rate of illiteracy in Italy is .appalling, and the writer in ihe American either knows it and wilfully attempts to misguide the American people, or, if he does

not know it, should not be wilting juned above furnished merita during the period ere Turkey, Hungary, Greece,

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It is interesting to note, however, that Scotland, where illiterates form less than one per cent of the population, sent only 3,019 immigrants. Thus do we find the United States "shutting its doors to intelligence." The American's editorial is an attack on the proposed legislation which would cut tho number of immigrants to 169,000 in any one year. The editorial stales that to shut off the present influx of foreigners would be to stop the "kind of people that have built up this nation in the past." In o;her words, the writer declares that Russians, Roumanians, Turks, Greeks, ItaliuuA, Poles and all persons from southeastern Europe, built America. If the Chicago American's writer actually believes that, tbTjliieago American needs a new editorial writer. But he doesn't believe it the editorial has all the earmarks of propaganda and nothing else. At one place the editorial states that "Canada actually pays the expanse of immigrants, offers them land and all possible inducements." In view of this statement, one might well ask the question, "Why doesn't the immigrant go to Canada instead of the United States?" Is it because the United States is the best country? It would appear so. By immigrating to the United States the immigrant acknowledges this country superior to his own. And yet, these immigrants refuse to take up with American ways. That is, the vast majority of them. They bring their old superstitions, their standard oTTnorals, and colonize; read foreign language newspapers (those few who can reai) and continue, wherever possible, old world customs. Admitting, by actions, if not by words, that America is the greatest country in the world, these immigrants instead of throwing off the old world beliefs and superstitions, would fasten them on Americans. Too ignorant to realize why their country is illiterate, autocratic and nonprogressive, these "intelligent" people uphold in this country the same system that has made their own countries, in many instances, little better than a living hell. It is indeed "unfortunate" that an effort is now being riTado to exclude these "intelligent" people, of whom the Chicago American sreaks, from the .shores of America. Funk & Wugnulls' dictionary defines the word "intelligence" as follows: Distinguished for or marked of intelligence; discerning. Endowed with intellect, reasoning, educated, instructed, well-informed, etc. Does any American believe the overwhelming majority of our immigrants are described in fhe foregoing paragraph? The Chicago American w riter would have us believe so.

Early Pastors Poorly Paid In the early years of the Methodist church In the United States, the ability of the preacher was not conHidercd in fixing the amount of salary, but only the matter of subsistence. This was established by the Book of Discipline at $80 a year, with n like amount for the preacher' wife, $1G for each child under 7 years of age and $25 for each child from 7 to 14. This Is related by the Rev. J. E. Oodbey, D. D., of Kirkwood. who was n aetive minister lor fifty-one years and is now on the superannuated list. He has prepared a paper on tho subject for use in the $10,000,000 superannuated endowment campaign of the Southern Methodist Chnrch now under way. Even with a large family and the early Methodist minister usually had from eight to a dozen children the assessed salary would hardly aggregate 1300, he recalls. Moreover, collecting the amounts was a different tory and the total frequently fell below $100, be writes.

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editorials on intelligent immigrants. more than one-fifth the immigrants named above. Among other counAustria, Scotland, etc. An Echo From the Past CEDAR RAPIDS, la., March 1. Miss Effle Cherry, once a member of the celebratelTvaudeville team of the Cherry sisters, at whom vaudeville patrons threw vegetables more than a quarter of a" century ago, has announced herself a candidate for mayor. She will file nomination papers as soon as she can obtain the require number of signatures. Miss Cherry's platform calls for a 9 o'clock town. 'She. wants curfew to ring at that hour for everybody. The three Cherry sisters jumped into the limelight overnight some twenty-five years ago when they appeared in a New York . vaudeville house, where the audience received tnem with vegetables. Later they were accorded similar receptions in- other cities. Effle Cherry now runs a bakery. There are 200,000 square miles of uncultivated land Jn China.

Sparks from the Fiery Cross By JOHN EIGHT POINT "The noblest motive is the public good" virgo,

Here's to the honest banker; We see him every day. He takes and gives your money But never rns away. Columbus Enquirer-Sun. Here's to the honest mayor Without a streak of yellov ; He scorns the tricks of politics There isn't such a fellow! The Anti-Know Nothing Plank If we desire unrestricted immigra tion with-the doors of America open to floods o aliens if we desire the Japanese among us, owning our soil and intermarrying with us if we de sire the wedding of church and state, our government dictated by an alien head, our theology polluted by for eign interpretation, our religions rights imperiled by an unyielding and relentless foe'we may be favor ably interested in the despicable ef forts of a few who are seeking the destruction of America by endeav oring to revive the principles of the Anti-Know Nothing plank of 1856. This plank, as we see it, was one of the most vicious and ill-balanced attempts ever made to strangle pure Americanism by political trickery. A modern repetition of the sentiment and method ought to crush the party making it because it is wholly alien to our most constructive national thought. The vivid features of the 1S56 dec laration read as follows: "Every attempt to abridge the privileges of be coming citizens and the owners of soil among us ought to be resisted with the same spirit which swept the alien and sedition laws from our statute books. And whereas, since the foregoing declaration was uniformly adopted by our predecessors in national convention, an adverse political and religious test has been secretly organized by a party claiming to be exclusively American, It is proper that American democracy should clearly define its relation thereto, and declare its determined opposition to all secret political societies, by whatever name they may be called. And hence a political crusade in the nineteenth century, and in the United States of America, against Catholics and foreign born is neither justified by the past his tory or the future prospects of the country nor in unison with the spirit of toleration and enlarged freedom which peculiarly distinguished the American system of popular government." In point of fact the Underwood recrudescence of the 1856 idea must be understood in its true relations. The Klan, as an organization, is not in politics the stone from the old sling flies wide some Klansmen, however, are in politics, and they are willing to buy at any cost the con tinued liberty of the American people. In spirit the Ku Klux Klan calls upon its members to surrender self for the good of the nation to work hand in hand, as all loyal bodies, with the government. It hopes that we all, as good citizens, shall seek to subordinate our personal wishes to the needs and demands of the country as a whole. We repeat again and again that the Klan specifically stands for restricted immigration, separation of church and state, and the maintainance of our public schools. That is its pub lic commitment to stand for these things without violence, without trickery, without self-abasement or self-praise, sans pemr et sans reproche. And as we repeat this truism we stress the fact that Klansmen should make it clear to the outsiders that these are the principles of action and direction which we most jealously guard. All patriotic American fraternalists stand or should stand for the same things. Citizens who do not uphold such principles are not good Americans. It takes a "heap o' tellin' " to get these simple facts clear in the minds of many otherwise intelligent people. In a weekly paper open to such contributors, one William Williard Howard says: "I have received word that Anne Louise Howard, who has been grappling single-handed and alone since December, 1922, with the largest and most tragic relief problem in all Europe's dreary expanse of hunger, Hatred and suspicion, recently was attacked and injured on one of the' principal streets of her field of operation, by a political and religious miscreant who might have done serious harm had his aim been better." And this causes the Klansman in ordinary to remark mildly: "If the lady had been at home toiling for America's needy millions, leaving Europe's problems to Europe herself, she might possibly have escaped a bullet and encountered nothing more savage than a brickbat." Without abating our natural sympathy for our European brothers who have suffered, would it not be more to the practical point to spend a little of that energy now given to Russia upon our own hungry, destitute and ignorant children of the hills and mountains? What a- noble gift to the nation to turn into American citi zens the human waste product of our own broad land! "Race prejudice," says the San Diego Tribune, "is most acute in that part of the higher race that is nearest the lower." As usual the paragrapher is wrong. Race prejudice is most acute in the imaginations of those who perpetually accuse some body of building race antagonism. Three-fourths of the talk about race prejudice is bunk and one-fourth is premeditated malice on the part of people who are hunting trouble.

Concerning Honesty The gentle cOlyumists of the country are chirping about honesty. We offer a few pertinent chirps with a chorus of our own. Here's to the honest farmer, The man who gets the rocks, Who never puts a false bottom In a berry box. Florida Times Union. Here's to the honest grocer, The man supremely grand, Who does not in the sugar Put a lot of sand. ' Allentown Democrat. He're's to the honest ImtrTier

The grandest of the grand, Who when he weighs the liver Does not weigh his hand. Waycross Journal. Coincidental with the rise of the Klan has been the reduction of the number of lynchings in the country. In 1923, the year when the Klan began a most victorious march in membership, the number of lynchings was 57 per cent less than in 1922, thus proving conclusively that the wiseacres who have connected thoughts of violence with every act of the Klan were basing their opinions upon the malicious utterances of Klan enemies. In point of fact the Klan, as a patriotic and social betterment organization devoted to broad ethical and educational ideals, influenced the country vitally last year toward cleaner and saner government locally and nationally. In this way it had its proud share in reducing serious acts of violence in the year 1923. ' In a wide world photograph of Anton Lang, tho protagonist is shown with inscrutable, inoiiiring eyes and a pained," bewildered face. America is too much for him, evidently, and his hair flies about his shoulders in emotional gusts. Probably the Christ whom Anton endeavors to portray in the Oberammergau Passion Play would have a pained, bewildered face if he should come to America today. Missouri proposes to amend her constitution. The Western Watchman, of St. Louis, a Catholic publication, is not altogether satisfied with the amendment, and puts its side of the matter in the following unmistakable and characteristic manner : "It does not seem to require much stretching of the laws of interpretation to infer that according to the proposed change the general assembly may 'compel' the instruction of persons between the ages of 6 and 20 years in the public scnools. If it means, or maif ho made to mean that, no defeat will De too ignominious for it." . Counting-out Game Mother Goose jielody Mayor Davis, Mayor Durgan, Likewise Mayor Shank. Hold yourselves together, please, &mue to beat the bank One I take and two I leave Gee, but you are rank! - Mayor Davis, Mayor Durgan Two where once wm thHere I find you where i-4eft you, tome ana play with me, One I take and one I leaveCounting mystery. Mayor Davis, Mayor Durgan Mayor Shank as well. In my game you're counted out, Heed the masric snell. All the folks are saying it YOU mav eo to thnnrlor " Typo-graphic-ic blunder. The attitude of a few nf our noisThbors who are fair-minded toward everything but the Klan reminds us of the methods of Nero. One can al most hear these tvrants sav to their henchmen: "Gee, whizz! How dark it is on the back noreh! Whv Hnn't you go out and light a couple of Klansmen?" A KXANSMAN'S CREED believe in God and in the tenets of the Christian religion and that a godless nation can not long prosper. I believe that a church that is not grounded on the principles of morality and justice is a mockery to God and to man. I believe that a church that does not have the, tuelfare of the common people at heart is unworthy. I believe in the eternal separation of Church and State. 1 hold no allegiance to any foreign government, emperor, king, pope or any other foreign, political or religious power, I hold my allegiance to the Stars and Stripes next to my allegiance to God alone. I believe in just laws 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 art seeking to destroy it are enemies of our Republic and are unworthy ofcitizenship. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in a free press uncontrolled by political parties or by religious sects. I believe in law and order. .. I believe in the protection of ear Pure womanhood. I do not believe in mob viglenctA " ' 00 oeiieve mat laws should be enacted to prevent the causes of mob violence. I believe in a cl&ser relationship of capital and labor. I believe in the prevention of unwarranted strikes by foreign tabor agitators. I believe in the limitation of foreign immigration. I am a native-barn American citi-1 ten and I believe my rights in this country are superior to thost of foreigners.

Whose Country Is This ? Cooltdge Asks

"Whose country is this?'' is a question being asked rather frequently these days. President Coolidge recently asked the same question. He then answered it by showing that the forebears of the nation were Anglo-Saxons. And he answered correctly his own question. This, notwithstanding the propaganda being put out by the Roman Catholic church in an attempt to Prove that the Roman Catholic church financed Columbus on his discovery trip in 1492 when his ships touched the islands of Central America. This propaganda is being put out in a-Tnotion picture play entitled "Columbus," in which history Is being rewritten. It is a vicious attack on history. It is not true, even, that the Church of Rome .financed the Columbus expedition. Textbooks formerly showed that Queen Isabella financed Columbus. But you may search long and diligently "for these books nowadays without success. They have disappeared. So the Church of Rome is rewriting history to suit itself and attempting toHake the credit. Reviews of this motion picture, "Columbus," invariably assert that it is historically correct. There is nothing in the picture to show that Columbus did not touch the shores of North America. The unthinking public is led to believe that he did and the motion picture reviewers, glibly state that it is historically correct. : What History Shows Let us see what history says about the discovery of North America. These words, quoted from an article by E. A. Robertson in the Indianapolis Star, are facts which the pope's propagandist?; would like to have us lorget: "The first colony which arrived in America was established in Jamestown, Va-., in 1G07 by English colonists, and in 1620 the second colony, having wide influence in establishing this government, -was planted by their countrymen at Plymouth, Mass. These founders of our nation were intelligent, progressive and educated people. To them schooling was essential to the fullness of life and to the success of a democratic and stable government. That spirit became traditional in America, and the little red schoolhouse has often been used as the emblem of our American democracy." Troubled as to Reply Reverting to the question: "Whose country is this?" one may be pardoned for not beinsr sure what tho reply should be in the face of figures wmcn snow mat, quoting Mr. Robertson: "Since 1S99 a cosmopolitan horde of 16,000,000 has flocked into this nation and today more than 33,000,000 of the people here are foreign born or of foreign-born parentage, the majority being of Italian and Slavic, stock." Is it any wonder, in the far nf these figures, that the nresident of tho united states asks, "Whose country is this?" In defense of this ennntrv"" la It not time the nation was awakening to its dangers? One of the first arguments heard against the movement Of the Knicrhts of tho K11 Kln-r Klan by its enemies is "that the organization is not needed." The startling figures quoted above are proof that it is needed. The very article from which these figures were taken is the Indirect result of the activity of the Knights of tho Kn Klux Klan. Not that Mr. Robertson is a Klansman. He probably is not. The Indianapolis Star probably would not have printed his article if it suspected he was a Klansman. Mr. Robertson's article is only one among the manv thousands hoin'sr broadcast through the magazines and puDiic press of the day. And why? The partisan press editors and the heads of the magazines printing such articles mav not reaii it hnt tho fact remains that the movement to save America from this European horde is directly due to the agitation started by the Knie-hta nf tho Kn Klux Klan. It was first in the field to call attention to the dangers and the first great body of Americans to act. The thousands of articles, the concerted action to stop the inflow of the illiterate and criminal, the immigration bill before the Congress and every step in that direction have been the direct result of the activities of the Klan organization. The American School Mr. Robertson's article is timely. It will add its mite in the great campaign being waged by the Knights of the Ku Klur Klan to protect America and the American public school system so viciously attacked, undermined and ridiculed by the Church of Rome. Mr. Robertson touches on this point as follows: "The American educational ideal is essentially a product of the dominant American religion, and anything that lowers that ideal strikes at the fundamental reason for the . early American colonists coming to this country, where they might have freedom of worship and ofeducation, without the restrictions which were placed upon them in the old country. It Is these dis--tinctlve and traditional American characteristics which are now being threatened by the wholesale immigration of the last thirty years which causes thoughtful people to be anxious concerning the character of the new immigration law, which must be enacted before next July." Jews Are Busy Recently a clubwoman in New York in speaking before a meeting of clubwomen In the Bronx said: "It is no lo.nger the question of what shall we do with the Immigrant. The question now IsXWhat will tho immigrant do -with us? She then gave figures to show that the Church of Rome has some excuse' in referring to New York as ?Catholic Newi York." But her figures also gav

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claim of the Catholics. The Jews, too. are claimine Now VnrW --If it were not for Italy mayhe the Jews would win in the end. At least the Jews are making heroic efforts to keep in the race. Its propagandists are busy attemntine- tn nrovont the passage of the immigration bill. c-very Jewish society in the nation is sending out its literature condemning the bill as "un-American." Great stuff, that. In the meantime the TTnitv T.oa the Catholic Council of Wnmon tho Knights of Columbus and every other uranca or the Church of Rome in America are busy with the same "unAmerican" cry. They are assisted by the Garys of the steel corporation, the Chamber of Commerce of America and others who are fighting to fill the COuntrv With rhonn lahnr But as Mr. Robertson says: "Americans are being called to guard their cherished riffhts of froo. dom and democracy from many quar ters, while we have slept the wooden horse, filled with Greeks and other strangers, has floated past the Statue of Liberty. We are opening our eyes on the greatest inass of unfamiliar humanity that ever gathered in any center of the world. Gradually students and facts of immigration prod us awake and we behold conditions which fill us with anxiety, and rightly so. Kipling's Prophecy Coming Trne "Some even think that, tho Amori. cans have been dispossessed of their nome, and now awake to find a newoccupant in possession. Kipling, a generation ago, described the situation of the American as follows: His easy, unswept hearth he lend3 From Labrador to Guadeloupe. Till, elbowed out by sloven friends, He camps, at sufferance, on the stoop. "This mav have been a. nrnnhonv when uttered, but the past thirty years r.ave so changed the character and volume of immigration that today the above scene is almost his tory, in tact, since 1S99, a cosmo-1 politan horde of -16000,000 has! flocked into this nation and today more than 33,000,000 of the people here are foreign born or of foreignborn parentage, the majority being of Italian and Slavic stock. "There seems, therefore, to be two main reasons for the present concern, among American citizens of American ancestry, over this nation's unassimilated foreign population. The first is found in the fact that the foreign born and the children of foreign born now form such a large percentage of our population as almost to overwhelm our native stock by sheer weight of numbers. There are nearly 7,000,000 foreign born in the United States who have never assumed the duties and responsibilities of American citizenship. Three million can not make themselves understood in the English language and another 3,000,000 can not read English. Jews In New York "According to reports there are more Jews in New York City than in all the countries of western Europe, South America, Canada and Palestine combined. They have come in very large numbers of late under the classifications of Russians, Poles and the other Near East and Balkan countries. These people, the Slavs and those from southern Italy, we have not been able to Americanize to any considerable extent. "They have certain definite nonAmerican ideas and principles which they must cast off before they are as capable of adopting American ideals as the northern European is upon arrival. Many of them are either disinclined or incapable of becoming American during their residence here. Hence, the second reason for anxiety is the un-American and even anti-American ideals prejudices and aims of the peoples who have flocked to these shores." A recent number of the World's Worlc contains a valuable study of "The Immigrant Peril," written by Gino Speranza, a scholar who has specialized on American history and problems. One of its recommendations is that he is of Italian parentage, so that its statements can not be charged to the pride of thoroughbred Americanism. The passages here given are commended , to those who resent the upholding of the traditions of that mighty past wherein American liberty had its sources: "The basis of the democracy which George Washington fathered was on the side of character and conduct (the relation of man to man) distinctly Anglo-Saxon; on the side of religion (the relation of man to God) it was distinctly Christian and specifically Protestant. Self-Government "If I stress, as I shall stress, the fundamentally Anglo-Saxon and Protestant character of American civilization it is because upon it rests historically and philosophically the principles of self-government self-government in all things, political, moral and intellectual. It is distinctly this Anglo-Saxon and Protestant character which makes government of and by the people applicable not only to the American state but to the American home, to the American church and to American industrial lite. In the home it means equality of husband and wife; in the church it means the voice of the laity ; in the industry it means the participation of the worker. "This does not mean that there is no room within the republic for peoples whose views, beliefs and antecedents differ from those of the historic American stock. It does mean that, when by the sheer weight of numbers, these- peoples bear down too heavily with their alienage upon the structure of -the democracy, they become a distinctly denationalizing element-within the republic. -It does mean that, when by combining and solidifying their unlikenesses; and

divergencies from the American civilization, they attempt to impose their dissentient social ami nniit.ai

ideals and habits, they become a disnucny aenauonauzing element within the republic. They are then a political and cultural disturbing factor akin to those racial minorities which have threatened and today still threaten the life and peace of some of the states of Europe." Caring for New Arrivals Continuing, Mr. Robertson says: "We, therefore, heartily indorse President Coolidge's declaration to Congress: 'New 'arrivals should be limited to our capacity to absorb the immigrants into the ranks of good citizenship. It is necessary to continue a policy of restricted immigration. Let us admit only those of the largest capacity and best intention of becoming citizens. Our present economic and social conditions warrant a limitation of those to be admitted. - Task Is to Serve "The activity of the church in its work with the immigrant must be conducted mainly along the lines of English and citizenship classes, social uplift, evangelism and religious education. It is our task to serve and uplift the immigrant in every aspect of his life. Too often a barrier of prejudice or superiority raised by the native-born American stand3 in the way of any real Americanization. This barrier it is the task of the church to remove; and since industrial relationships undergird the life of the immigrant the church must not shun the task of putting the spirit of industrial cooperation in the place of the spirit of strife and separateness. "The church in its Americanization work has a sacred duty to perform. It must build in the immigrant the ideals which will make him a true citizen of America and m a nigner sense a citizen of tho kingdom of Gpd. We can not hope to minister most offofti higher life of the immigrant while ne is tne victim of social injustice and economic distress. Tt ia imnort.tiye that his environment be made wnoiesome ana uplifting, not only as an aid to his nhvaieal and happiness, but as an instrument in ine realization of the higher values. Give Material Aid The program of the church for social uplift and racial progress must aim to minister to every side of the immigrant's nature, giving material aid, relieving bodily ills and supplying a right environment. Social service can not be fully successful unless, through it, we develop the higher spiritual values. The church must minister to the souls of men. It must seek to make them, not simply members of one church nor citizens of America, but members of the chuf ch universal and citizens of the kingdom of God. The real foundation of all our efforts must be the spirit of Christian brotherhood. When the Christian people of America fully catch the spirit of the Christ and follow His behest as He says, 'Love thy neighbor as thyself,' then the immigrant problem will cease to exist, for the stranger within our gates will have become our brother." DAILY INDEX OP AMERICAN CONGRESS (Bureau Publication and Education) Monday, February 25 Senate Met at noon; adjourned at 6:07 p. m. Senator Walsh, of Montana, in a speech denied that the Sinclair and Doheny oil leases wer negotiated under the general leasing act which he helped to enact, as has been charged, but, he said, under a general provision of an appropriation bill adopted June 4, 1920. Continued consideration of the Interior Department appropriation bill. Senate restored an item of $450,000 for the Boise, Idaho, irrigation project, struck out by the committee, v . Senator Edwards, New Jersey, wet senator, introduced a resolution to have the judiciary committee directed to investigate the prohibition bureau, with special reference to the facts leading up to the shooting of Senator Greene, of Vermont. Senator Wheeler, Montana, asked unanimous consent to consider his resolution for an investigation of the attorney-general. Senator Willis, Ohio, objected and it wentjver. C. Bascom Slemp, private secretary to the president, told the oil investigating committee about his recent visit to Palm Beach and said he had talked with former Secretary Fall several times and advised him to tell the full truth about his oil leases, Mr. Fall replying that he had nothing more to tell. Mr. Slemp said he was not on intimate terms with Secretary Fall or E. B. McLean, of the Washington Post. He said further that the reports ha made to the president did not relate in any way to oil. House Met at noon;, adjournedat 5:05 p. in. An increase in the estate or inheritance taxes raising the maximum rates from 25 to 40 per cent was adopted by a vote of 190 to 110. An amendment which would allow deductions for state estate taxes up to 25 per cent of the ampunt of tha tax imposed by tho federal government also was adopted. Opposition to granting Philippine independency 'at the present time was voiced Hy Secretary of War Weeks before the Insular affairs committee. . . Tuesday, February 26 Senate Met at noon; adjourned at 8 :55 p. m. ; Interior Department u appropria-

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