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OIL TRAIL SEEN EVERYWHEREIN WASHINGTON HOWEVER, IT GIVES POLITICIANS A CHANCE TO GRIND AXES AND HURL HATS Democrats Show Speed and Many Candidates Daugherty Status Still Unsettled (Bureau Publication and Education) AVASHIXGTOX. March 3. What is the political situation in Washington today? That's n question that is frequently asked and discussed from week to week because of the presence and activities here of the men of prominence in the nation, and here is their workshop, as it were. This is the place where they come together from day to day in the Senate, in the House, in the cabinet circle, in the Senate and House oflice buildings and in the various departmental headquarters of the government where cabinet men sit at the head. And Washington hears from all parts of the country constantly. Public men keep in touch frequently wim men' COnKtitllpntQ Ilia nannla

back home, and thus the sentiment!01 me Preslclerft on the first ballot, throughout the country is manifest- I Tlle scraP in tne Republican convey ed in Washington through our pub- tion wiU undo""tedly be for the seclie men. It is a direct reflection of ' oml pIace on the ticket an,l there what the peoule of the country sr ! are Mely to be a number of candi-

ininKing and saying. Furthermore, Washington is getting to be a great mecca for political visitors as wpII ns sightseers; they come here from every nook and coiner to confer with their public men, their reprcsentntives in Congress here. Oil Lratcs a Smell oil sensations and The disclosines nr still ivith ;i i usknow, '"FI''J ciiau nan a uuu UUUr. IIOWever, the ship of state seems to be going along and the sailing is made a little . easier as the political liousecleaning takes place from time to time. The public can cheer up somewhat in knowing that "Fall fell not in vain" if it is the means of cleansing things, of remedying such situations and purifying our public life, for no one, not even Republi cans, .are attempting to make much j of a defense for his acts. Americans do not like what he did and' there are not many who are going to defend him. Of course, both parties are playing the political game; for all it is worth nowadays preceding the approaching national 1 campaign. The nearest this oil trouble came to touching the White House was I IU LUC f 1 ) H ' v r iF f Tlnannm 1 private secretary, as a witness before the public lands committee for interrogation as to what took him to Palm Beach when Fall and McLean were there. It was ascertained that the three men were together considerable, but Slemp told the committee that mo;t of the conversation between the three was of prohibition and not oil. The committee, however, did not get anything that in the least affected the standing of the president, so every one is agreed. It seems that so far President Coolidge is still uncontaminated by the oil deals. lawyers Are Busy The two attorneys for the government in the prosecution of those who are guilty in the oil scandals are mighty busy these days. Former Senator I'onureue. of Ohio, and Mr. Roberts, of Philadelphia, are said to be hard-headed idealists and they are going to do their talking later. They have rented a suite of offices, moved in. and are surrounded with their law libraries and are pouring over the evidence adduced at the hearings of the public lands committee and running down the evidence. They are concerned with facts and not fiction. They are getting right down to brass tacks, realizing that it is far easier to indict than it is to convict. They are not taking anything for granted but are digging away at facts and getting what is necessary to make their big KARL Z. src.MON'

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case for Uncle Sam Btlck good rfnd hard. Their first attempts will be to recover for the government the naval oil reserves leased by former Secretary Fall to Doheny and Sinclair interests. Their next step will be to prosecute those who are guilty after they have won their first important step in the case. As has been indicated before by the writer. Attorney-General Daugherty is a fighter and does not want to retire under fire. He has given no intimation of what he intends, about resigning his job. He says he is not going to be hanged without a trial and he is standing on his constitutional rights. He learned his political wisdom from Mark Hanna many years ago" in Ohio and it will be recalled that Hanna is the fellow who originated the "stand pat" attitude in Republican politics. Chances of (oolldpe When it comes to candidates everyone Hi Washington is agreed that on the Republican side President Coolidge is almost certain of the nomination. It looks as though the Cleveland convention will be a tame affair and not much of a fight, unless something turns up in the meantime to change the situation. Hiram Johnson, who is out over the country beating the bushes, as it were, "does not seem to be getting anywhere. At least that is what nearly everyone says who talks about it. Xo one thinks the California senator is making much of a dent or impression, at least he is not believed to be bagging many

delegates. Some politicians here go so tar as to predict the nomination dates for the place. Democrats Numerous On the Democratic side of the fence things are vastly different. Candidates are thicker th;ui flies I arouna a molasses barrel, not an oil barrel. There isn't any question but that the candidacy of McAdoo has been greatly injured by the oil ini'OL'tiirritinna - r 1 1-. ,1 1 1 f :.-"e- " uisviuauie 01 an attorney for right or wrone. ; whether he had a right to make such connections or not, he did make : them Rnd with many people it is going to go hard with him in the I coming campaign If his name had j not been hooked ud in the nil nf- ! fair, it did look for a long time as j though the man from Georgia-New York-California had the inside track ! for the Democratic nomination and I there are people who think he will yet land the plum. But McAdoo has received an awful hard jolt that may force him to take the count. Several new names are coming to the front for the Democratic nomination. There is Houston Thompson, of the Federal Trade Commission, the man who objected to George Christian becoming a member of that body He js frequently mentioned us a possibility. Jftsrjihus Daniels, the former secretary of the navy, is being boomed by his friends, especially from the Tar Heel state. Daniels is no mean politician when he gets started and he will bear watching. The many friends of John Barton j Payne are insisting on putting up his aerial for him and he is not j without support for he has friends among all classes of Democrats. Senator Underwood, of Alabama, keeps pegging away on his candidacy, notwithstanding William Jennings Bryan puts in a knock on him as too much wet for Democracy. The one thing that will kill off his chances for the Democratic nomination is his opposition to the Ku Klux i Klan. No man can make that sort of a campaign and get a nomination by any big party. Ralston Support Growing Democratic Hoosiers are still talking for their junior senator, Mr. Ralston, arfd the Ralston support is growing stronger and stronger, notwithstanding the fact that Senator Ralston is not making a single move in that direction. He Just passes the buck and is letting others do all the talking and manipulating. The only thing being said against his candidacy in his age. He is thought to be rather old to undertake such a tremendous strain as filling the presidential chair. John W. Davis, of West Virginia. continues in strong man the spotngiit as a the Democratic for CHARLES M. SIOMOX 1212 Ollf

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NEW PHILADELPHIA, O., March 1. Tuscarawas county Juniors are moving forward in a way that is quite interesting and encouraging. This growing organization has the unique distinction of winning the state basket ball tournament. The Tuscarawas Juniors are a lively lot, and hope to be in a position to reap the full rewards of Klankraft next summer. Also, and incidentally, they are feeling very much inclined to the opinion that the first prize to be awarded at the tournament will have a desperate time in trying to leave this county. PASTOR FINDS RLAN DONATION ON DESK OAKLAND CITY, Ind., March 1. When the Rev. J. L. Battram, pastor of the United Brethren church here, went to his desk recently he found an envelope containing a donation from the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan to the church and its pastor. The gift was gratefully received. Revival services are now being conducted at the church and will continue indefinitely. BEDFORD COURTHOUSE IS SCENE OF KLAN MEET BEDFORD, Ind., March 1. A speaker of note addressed a large audience at the courthouse here on Washington's birthday anniversary. His subject was the Ku Klux Klan and he gave a clear interpretation 01 the principles of the organization. following the speech a large fiery cross was burned in the courthouse yard. 800 KLANSMEN ATTEND FUNERAL OF M. M. OSKINS VINCENXES, Ind., March 3. Funeral services were held at the North Vincennes M R r.Vmrh fnr Mont M. Oskins, age 57, Monday aft ernoon, wnere more than 800 Klansmen assembled to pay their last respects. Mr. Oskins' death takes from this community a loved and respected citizen, as well as a loyal and staunch Klansman, who was largely responsible for the building of the Knox county Klan membership. He had been an officer of the order since the county organization was chartered. The attendance was the largest lever witnessed in Knox county, j there being thousands in the procession. He was a member of the Odd Fellows and K. of P. lodges, who also took part in the ceremony. It was a remarkable appeal which three Judges of the court of general sessions in New York recently issued to the parents of that city, urelaS them to prevent their children from becoming criminals by giving them proper religious instruction during the formative age. Regard less of creed, the judges declared, such training, will unquestionably redound to the security, advancement and' the perpetuity of the nation. A plea of this nature exposes more completely the essential shal lowness of doctrinal controversies and carries greater conviction, than the most learned treatises imaginable concerning dogmatic theologi cal opinions. Christian Science Monitor. nomination and he has numerous supporters -who are making themselves heard. Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri, is out tearing things up by the root and making them hum. It is said he has the backing of William Randolph Hearst, but many consider that fact as a liability rather than an asset. Governor Al Smith, of New York, still looms up as a decidedly wet candidate and will, no doubt, have I uie wet Uemocrats shouting for him until the last minute. Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana, the battleax of the Senate oil I investigation, is frequently meni tioned as a strong candidate, but j he, too, frowns on such efforts. Homer Cummings, former nation- ! al chairman of the Democratic ! party, is also mentioned. And Senator Joe Robinson, of ArI kansas, the minority leader in the I Senate, is being discussed. I A Third Partyl Many people are predicting that we will have a third party in the field this campaign, a radical party, i Efforts are being made to get Sen1 ator LaFollette to head that party as it is known that support for such I a party must necessarily come from j the great northwest. It is pointed out that such a party might obtain j enough votes in the northwestern group of states to throw the elec

tion into the House of Representatives for determination. All of which make a most interesting situation for contemplation by thinking people. Meanwhile Congress is going ahead wrestling with the tax-reduction program and members are wondering what the president will do when the measure comes up to the White House for his approval or rejection. He favors the Mellon bill and that bill has been beaten in the House so far and the Garner Democratic bill substituted. President Coolidge has declared against the Garner bill and it is believed he will veto it unless it contains many of the Mellon tax features. Will he veto it? If so, will it spell defeat for him? Or will he change his mind and sign same? V

FIERY CROSS DAILY INDEX OF AMERICAN ' CONGRESS (Continued from Page 4) . tion measure, carrying a total of $264,000,000. was passed. Passed the bill appropriating $1,000,000 for farmers of the drouth strickeir district of Now. Mexico to aid them during the coming crop season. Adopted a resolution by Senator Norris, Nebraska, calling upon the State, War, Navy, Interior and Treasury departments and the ship ping Doara lor information as to what former cabinet officials or former members of Congress have practiced before any of them in the prosecution of claims since January 1, 1918. The shipping board reported in response to a resolution that no plan was under consideration for removal of the Washington offices of the shipping board or emergency fleet corporation to New York. Ratified a treaty of arbitration with the Netherlands. Senator Walsh, Montana, replying to statements issued by the Republican national committee concerning oil leasing legislation, denounced as lies the charge that he either was the author or voted for the legislation under which the Sinclair and Doheny leases were made. Senator Moses, New Hampshire. read into the Record the St. Louis speech of Senator Reed, Missouri, attacking the former secretary of the ..treasury, Mr. McAdoo. Senator Harrison, Mississippi, countered by putting into the Record speeches by Senator Johnson, California, criticising the administration of President Coolidge. Senator Keyes, chairman of the auditing committee, asked unanimous consent for consideration of the Wheeler resolution for an investigation of Attorney-General Daugherty but Senators Lodge and Moses objected, and the matter went over for another day. Minority Leader Robinson talked on his bill to disqualify under specified conditions any member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Trade Commission or the Tariff Commission to participate in certain proceedings, investigations, etc. The bill of Senator Norbeck, South Dakota, to provide a permanent system of self-supporting agriculture in the regions unduly affected by the stimulation of wheat production during the World war, was made the unfinished business of the Senate. Investigation by the Senate of the shooting of Senator Greene, of Ver mont, is proposed in a resolution by Senator Dale, Vermont, and is designed as a substitute for the general inquiry of the prohibition unit proposed by Senator Edwards, New Jersey. The postoffice subcommittee charged with investigation of alleged Texas land frauds, decided to begin the hearings next week. Houses-Met at noon; adjourned at 6 :15 p. mT By a vote of 191 to 65, a gift tax was placed in the revenue bill imposing a graduated scale of rates from 1 to 40 per cent, with exemption for all gifts under $50,000. By a vote of 117 to 85, the tax on cigarettes was increased from $3 to ?4 a thousand. Voted to repeal the 10 per cent tax on theater admissions of 50 cents and less. Pensions committee voted to repun me. tuner Din increasing monthly pensions of civil war veteri ans rrom $50 to' $72 a month and i widows oi veterans from $30 to $36. A delegation of Jewish associated societies protested against the Johnson restrictive immigration bill. Wednesday, February 27 Senate Met at 11:45 a. in.; adjourned at 11:55 a. m. for the purpose of attending in the hall of the house of representatives the memorial services to former President Harding. The oil investigating committee read into the Record copies of tele grams that passed between Wash ington, Palm Beach and New Orleans involving persons interested in the pending hearing. House Met at noon; adjourned at 1:25 p. m. after meeting in joint session with the Senate for the me morial services to the late President "Harding. Secretary of State Hughes was the only speaker, and delivered an eulogy on the life and services pf the late president. Republican leaders decided to take up next week the McKenzie bill auChickens That About twenty-five years ago the Vatican sent an investigator to the United States to discover the actual condition of the Roman Catholic church in this republic. The man's name was Cohensley Herr Cohensley. He is said to have gone into the work thoroughly, traveling to every part of the country. His report was flishearteping to the church. He found about ten millions of Roman Catholics in-this land. He declared that the number should have been forty millions, if the immigrants ad remained true, and the natural increase was reckoned. Since that time more than ten millions of Roman Catholics have landed on our shores, and counting the increase in births, the ten millions of twenty-five years ago should be more than thirty millions, and had Herr Cohensley found his forty millions he would now find more than sixty-five millions of Roman Catholics in the United States. Every year the hierarchy of Rome publishes an official Catholic directory, giving a fairly complete list of the clergy and Institutions of Rome in this country. The latest one appearing gives the following figures as to the strength of the papal government here: - .

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Thnrsdar, February 28 Senate Met at noon; adjourned at 5:85 p. in. Urging adoption of his resolution for a thorough investigation of the prohibition unit, Senator Edwards, New Jersey, declared In a speech the accidental shooting of Senator Greene, of Vermont, In a chase of suspected bootleggers in this city was "typical of the methods pursued by the national prohibition department." Replying, Senator Willis, Ohio, said opponents of prohibition were seizing upon the shooting of Senator Greene as a pretext to make an attack upon prohibition enforcement over the entire country, and added that nothing was said about the government agents who have been killed oy bootleggers. ! Senators put in the day discussing ! prohibition, the oil scandal," cotton production, government expenditures, etc. Wheeler resolution again put over another day. Replying to certain criticism of the oil investigating committee, Chairman Lenroot, of the committee, in a brief speech, said court action in the oil cases might be expected very soon. Agricultural oommittee reported, without recommendation, the wheat stabilization bill of Senator Gooding, Idaho, for a corporation to purchase grain at a guaranteed price based on $1.50 a bushel for No. 1 northern whenever the market falls below that level. Interstate commerce committee favorably reported the Gooding resolution ordering the interstate commerce commission to investigate "railroad propaganda." Under a resolution by Senator McKellar, Tennessee, the president would be requested to direct the secretary of the treasury to transmit to the public lands committee the income tax returns of H. F. Sinclair, and each of the corporations he controls, of E. L. Doheny and the corporations Jie controls and of Albert B. Fall for inspection as to moneys received and amounts paid for attorney fees and other purposes. The secretary of the treasury would be directed under a resolution by Senator King, Utah, to transmit a report of the number and names of corporations who have filed income tax returns claiming deductions for depletion of oil wells and all deductions allowed under such claims. The immigration committee con sidering the House immigration bill, definitely adopted the census of 1910 as the basis for the immigration quotas under the proposed new im migration law and decided to reduce the quota from 3 to 2 per cent. The oil investigating committee read into the Record another batch of telegrams passing between Washington and Palm Beach from persons involved in the existing controversy and heard Carl Schuyler, a Denver attorney, who testified Concerning the agreements between Sin clair and other parties holding al leged claims in the Teapot Dome oil reserve. House Met at noon; adjourned at 6:05 p. m. Working on the tax bill the House eliminated the existing tax of 2 cents on each $100 of promissory notes by a vote of 101 to 89. The existing 8-cent tax on each pack of playing cards was increased to 10 cents by a vote of 75 to 58. Voted to cut in half the 5 per cent tax on automobile tires, accessories and parts and to exempt automobile trucks- and wagons with chassis costing $1,000 or less. An attempt to restore the 3 per cent tax on chewing gum was rejected. The first move to discharge a committee from consideration of a bill since adoption of the new rules was made by a group demanding a vote on the reapportionment bill, now before the census committee. Friday, February 29 Senate Met at noon; recessed at 5:45 p. m. . The Wheeler resolution for an investigation of Attorney-General Daugherty and the department of justice was under bitter discussion all day, and went over without final action. The debate revolved around the question whether the resolution should designate the members of the committee or they should be named by the presiding officer. Single-handed, Senator Willis, Ohio, defended the attorney-general. Never Hatched Number of Roman Cath olics 18,260,789 Pupils in the last year 155,989 Pupils in Roman Catholic schools : 1,922,420 Roman Catholic priests 22,515 Young men preparing for the priesthood 8,788 Now what would have happened had the expectation of flie papal church been fulfilled, that all would haye remained true to their faith. Rome would now be in absolute control of this nation politically, having nearly two-thirds of the population, and more than half of the votes. Why has she not got a majority? We think the answer can be given in these words: Because of the public schools. But the growth of her own alien schools is intended to prevent the loss to the hierarchy through en lightenment in our public schools. Compulsory attendance of all chil dren at American schools would be a heavy blow to her alien system. Nearly two millions of pupils that Rome boasts as now sitting at the feet of alien nuns and priests in her alien schools should be thoroughly Americanized in the public schools

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and replied to the criticism of Mr.Daugherty, . while other Republican senators generally remained silent as the onslaught progressed. Senator Bruce, Democrat, of Maryland, broke away from his party and opposed the selection of the committee by Senator Wheeler because "everyone knows that the author of the resolution is closely affiliated with elements of our population which has particular reasons for objecting to Mr. Daugherty." He referred, of course, to organized labor, which it is claimed elected Mr. Wheeler in Montana. The debate was participated in by Senators Lenroot, Norris, Stanley, Wheeler, Heflin, Walsh and others and was enlivened by numerous personal passages between senators. The Senate adopted' a resolution to throw open to the oil investigating committee all income tax returns made by Mr. Doheny and Mr. Sinclair and their oil companies and by former Secretary Fall. The oil investigating committee issued subpoenas for all persons mentioned in telegrams that have been read passing between Washington and Palm Beach. Former Attorney-General A. Mitchell Palmer testified before th nil

investigating committee concerning his employment as counsel and denied that at any time had he looked after the interests of former Secretary Fall. House Met at noon; adjourned at v:av p. m. Tax reduction bill, with the Long worth compromise income ta: schedule, was passed by the House by a vote of 408 to 8. It provides for a maximum surtax of 3V2 per cent on incomes of more than $200 - 000 and reduces the normal tax on small incomes from 4 to 2 per cent. A provision written into ihe bill reduces by one-fourth all income taxes payable this year. The Democratic plan imposing a maximum surtax of 44 per cent, previously adopted was displaced bv a

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