Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1924 — Page 3

Friday, May 16, 1924

A Weekly Mirror of Congress Daily Activities of Your Senators and Representatives (Bureau of Publication and Education) "

Monday, May 5 SENATE Met at noon; recessed at 6:25 p. ni. Democratic surtax rates in- the tax revision lull were adopted by a vote of 43 to 40. Republicans and insurgents who Joined thje Democrats were Hrookhart, Iowa; Frazier, North Dakota; Howell, Nebraska; Johnson, California; Ladd, North Dakota: Norbeck, South Dakota; Norris, Nebraska. Bruce, Maryland, and Edwards, New Jersey, Democrats, voted with the Republicans. The Democrat substitute on the normal income tax rates was adopted by a vote of 44 to 37. This was supported by. Senators Brookhart, Capper, Johnson (California), Ladd, Norbeck and Norris, Republicans and insurgents. Bruce and Edwards. Democrats, voted with the Republicans. Chairman Smoot. in charse of tax bill, intimated that he would move to hold night sessions. Minority Leader Robinson countered with a declaration that the Democrats were not desirous of delaying action on the revenue measure and were ready to proceed with a vote on the bill and all amendments immediately. As agreed to, the normal rate on Incomes below $4,000 would bo 2 per cent, on incomes between $4,000 and $8,000, 4 per cent, and on incomes of more than $S,000, 6 per cent. The Democratic plan as adopted calls for a reduction in the maximum surtax rate from 50 to 40 per cent. 1'assed the bill providing for codification and revision of the laws governing the veterans' bureau. Another unsuccessful effort was made to pet action on a resohifion for investigation of published charges that Senator Gooding, Idaho, was favored in loans by the War Finance Corporation. Republican conference decided to take up measures looking to farm relief after the passage of the revenue bill. 1'assed a bill appropriating $40,000 for participation by the United States In the second international conference for the regulation of traffic In habit-forming drugs. An increase of $300 a year in the Falaries of postal clerks and carriers was recommended in a bill reported by the postoifice committee as a subutitute for the measure prepared by the joint postal conference. HOUSE Met at noon; adjourned at 11:45 p. m. Utilizing its new rules for the first time, the House, by a vote of !4 to 181, discharged the committee commerce from further consid. -ration of the Barkley bill to uliolish the railroad labor board and brought It before the House. By a vote of 197 to 172 the House decided to take It up for immediate consideration and by a further vote of 193 to 163 ordered that the House proceed as In committee of the whole for consideration of the measure. Then followed a filibuster on the part of the opponents of the measure. Motions to adjourn were voted down, and at a late hour the House ,waS attempting to determine the amount of time that should be consumed for general debate on the bill. Adopted a motion by Representative Barkley. author of the bill, to limit general debate to three hours by a vote of l;r, to 136. Tnesdny, May fl SENATE Met at noon ; recessed at ! p. m. Political speeches forced the tax bill aside for the day. Republicans In conference agreed to seek a compromise with the insurgents on the surtax rates. 'making their last stand fit a maximum of 37i per cent, the rates of the House bill. The light over investigation of the Internal Revenue Bureau-and Secretary Mellon was resumed when Senator Jones. New Mexico, called up his resolution authorizing the investigation committee to employ special counsel and such other agents as the committee deems necessary. This was adopted later in the day. Chairman Watson, Indiana, of the special investigating committee, announced lie had "no present intention of ever pressing" his resolution to discharge the committee from further consideration of the subject before it iirwl Ullpl that Vin hul r, objection to adoption of the Jones resolution. In the debate the administration was denounced and defended, and when Senator Sheppard, Texas, introduced a letter bearing on the subJed of prohibition enforcement the discussion went off on that tangent and became bitter. Senator Watson declared the country was tired of investigations -and weary of a situation "in which innuendo, suspicion and spite take the place of the measured rules of the law in determining facts.. S-nators Watson, Indiana, and Walsh, Montana, got into a tilt when the Indiana senator declared that after the Teapot Dome case had been pr seated to the court that the committee "went far afield for political Issues for campaign purposes." The discussion was participated In by Senators Robinson, Arkansas; Bruce, Maryland; Fletcher, Florida; Watson, Indiana; Norris, Nebraska-; Reed. Pennsylvania; Jones, New Mexico; Edge, New Jersey; McKellar, Tennessee; Sheppard, Texas, and Willis. Ohio. Most of the upeeches were aimed at prohibition and Its enforcement. Minority Leader Robinson denounced a recent published statement of George B. Lockwood, secretary of the Republican national committee and editor of the National Iter.' Mican, and demanded he be brought before a Senate committee to explain his attack on the Senate. When Senator Watson charged the Democrats had decided to prevent an adjournment for the national conrentlon, Senator Robinson replied

that "It legislation that the country considered essential la completed" Congress will be able to adjourn "for that national calamity the Republican convention." The Senate adopted the Jones resolution for employment of counsel for the committee investigating the Internal Revenue Bureau. The tax bill was again taken up only to be laid aside for consideration of the appropriation bill for the departments of justice, state, commerce and labor. The public lands committee ordered a favorable report on the resolution for a congressional inquiry into the whole subject of land grants to the Northern Pacific Railway Company. Agreement was reached under which passage will be sought of the resolution of Senator Walsh, Massachusetts, for an inquiry into the depression in the textile industry. Senator Borah proposes an amendment to existing law under which more drastic provisions would be enacted for the publication of reports of all elections and campaign committees of campaign contributions, including contributions to make good deficits. Senator Norris, Nebraska, charged that politics is being played In efforts to have Henry Ford's bid for Muscle Shoals accepted. In committee he had Inserted in the record a copy of the minutes of a meeting of the Ten

nessee River Improvement Associa tion neld in March, 1923, in which the president of that organization was quoted as saying that Representative Madden, of Illinois, had promised to see that representatives selected as members of .the military affairs committee would be favorable to the Ford offer. HOUSE Met at noon; adjourned at 5:12 p. m. Passed the District of Columbia appropriation bill, carrying a total of approximately $24,660,000, including the Crampton amendment appropriating $890,000 for street improvements, to be met out of motor vehicle gas receipts. The bill abolishes the 5040 plan of financing the district and provides for a fixed appropriation by the -federal government of $8,000,000. Speaker Gillett ruled that further consideration of the Barkley bill to abolish the railroad labor board must be deferred for two weeks and that it can not be considered until the next suspension day. i Conferees on the immigration bill ; reached an agreement under which i Japanese exclusion will be retained : in the measure, but will not become effective until July 1. Two per cent ! of the census of 1890 was agreed : upon as the quota basis, to continue ; until July 1, 1927, when the so-called "national origin method" will be employed, total admission, however, being restricted to 150,000 annually from that date. Secretary Weeks asked Congress to enact legislation authorizing the honorable discharge of minors who enlisted for world war service and were later dismissed. Charles R. Brewer, special assistant to the attorney-general, who made the investigation of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, told the committee investigating charges of irregularities that he could nrovethere had been duplication of government bonds to a value of at least ' $1,000,000. j Wednesday, May 7 SENATE Met at noon ; in session : most of the afternoon. i Senator Gooding, Idaho, in a speech on the agricultural situation, j charged the government "profiteered" in its wheat transactions during the war. j Senator Harris, Georgia, urged an increase in income tax exemption i for persons of moderate means. Senator Lodge asked unanimous I consent for consideration of the j child labor constitutional amend- ; ment upon completion of the tax j bill, but Senator Wadsworth, NewYork, objected to any agreement at this time. I Senator Sheppard, Texas, introjduced several measures designed to j make more drastic the laws relating j to exclusion from the mails of fraud- , ulent devices and lottery parapherinalia. I The military affairs committee faj vorably reported a bill that would authorize the nresident T n annnint Sergeant Alvin C. York, world war hero, as a captain in the army and place him on the retired list. Chairman Borah, of the committee investigating the indictment of Senator Wheeler, Montana, urged all persons having Information which may aid the committee, to submit their evidence. Responding to White House insistence, conferees on the immigration bill reconsidered their previous action on Japanese exclusion and will report a provision to make Japanese exclusion effective March 1, 1925, with an understanding that, meantime, a formal abrogation of the gentlemen's agreement will be negotiated and a treaty entered into, to be approved by the Senate. James Martin Miller testified before the agricultural committee that he truthfully represented the attitude of the president when he wired Henry Ford that the executive was "trying to deliver" Muscle Shoals to ine Mienigan manufacturer. Chairman Norris issued a statement In which he charged that Ford was attempting to "shift the attention of the public from the real issue," and saia ne would continue his fleht to save to the Deonle the val linhlA In herltance of our national resources." HOUSE Met at noon; adjourned ai o .vi p. m. Adopted a resolution relieving China from further payment ol the $6,000,000 Boxer indemnity due tothe United States, with a provision that the funds thus released are to be

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tuucauonai purposes.Passed Senate bill appropriating $20,000 and authorizing the president to appoint a commission to co-operate with Mexico in planning for the enuitable distribution of waters of the Rio Grande for irrigation purposes. Thursday, May 8 SENATE With both Republican and Democratic leaders condemning the conference report on the immigration bill which would postpone Japanese exclusion, the Senate devoted two hours to heated debate on the conference committee's conclusions. Senator Lodge reiterated his statement when the bill was under consideration that the United States alone has the power to say who shall come in as immigrants. Senator Robinson charged the president with an "about face" on the subject of Japanese exclusion immediately after the California presidential preference primary. Senator Shortridge, California, declared he would make a point of order against the provision written into the. conference report. Establishment of a world court at the Hague, to which the United States would adher.e, is proposed in a resolution introduced by Senator Lodge, and in which the details are set forth at great length. It was referred to the foreign relations committee. Adopted the McKinley amendment restoring postal rates on newspapers to the rate in effect in 1919, when they were advanced as a war emergency revenue proposition. Adopted an amendment authorizing refund of taxes paid by farmers' or other mutual casualty insurance companies under the revenue laws of 1916, 1917, 1918 and 1921, but subject to the limitations provided by such laws. - The agriculture committee favorably reported the Dial resolution to create the "alien property trade investment corporation." At the outset of the hearings in the Mayfield (Texas) senatorial contested election case Senator Mayfield's attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the contest. It was taken under advisement and the hearing of witnesses commenced. The agricultural committee reported favorably a resolution seeking information as to certain cam-' palgn contributions by the meat packers. The Daugherty investigating committee heard testimony concerning the activities in Montana of Blair Coan, an alleged Republican national committee investigator, and of the activities of the late Jess Smith around the department of justice. HOUSE Met at noon; adjourned at 5:20 p. m. Passed the Lehlbach bill by a vote of 172 to 26 abolishing the personnel classification board and transferring Its duties to tho, civil service commission. Passed, by a rising vote of 73 to 11, a bill designed to sustain the opinion of Attorney-General Daugherty and overturn two recent rulings of the comptroller-general of the treasury, especially a ruling in connection with the administration of the federal employes' compensation act. Proponents of prohibition had their day before the judiciary committee which is considering legisla--tion looking to a modification of the Volstead act!. . Representative Raker, of California, gave notice he would make a point of order against that portion of the conference report on the immigration bill relating to Japanese exclusion. Friday, May 9 SENATE Met at 11 o'clock and recessed at 6:45 p. m. Agreement reached to begin voting on the revenue bill and all K N I

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amendments at 2 o'clock with final disposition before adjournment. The Wll being taken up in the Senate after consideration as in committee of the whole; an effort by Republican leaders to substitute a 32 per cent maximum surtax for the Democratic 40 per cent maximum already adopted was rejected by a vote of 47 to 36. Five insurgents, Johnson of California, and the two Farmer-Labor senators, voted with the Democrats. Senators Bayard, Delaware, and Bruce, Maryland, supported the Republicans. The final stand of Republican regulars was made on the 37-per cent maximum surtax rate as provided in the House bill. This was rejected by a vote of 46 to 39, Hiram Johnson, Brookhart, Frazier, Howell, Ladd Norbeck and Norris, insurgents, voting with the Democrats, while Bayard, Bruce and Glass, Democrats voted with the Republicans. Launching a fight for the passage of the McNary-Haugan grain export bill as an amendment to the tax bill Senator Norbeck, South Dakota, declared farm conditions the northwest are worse than they were in 1895, when wheat sold for 45 cents a bushel. A vote on the question of overriding the veto of the Bursum pension bill was blocked by Senator Dial South Carolina, who refused unanimous consent to lay aside the tax bill. Owing to the illness of Senator Heflin, the committee investigating alleged land frauds in Texas has postponed further hearings of that committee for one week. A large number of photostatic copies of letters that were said to have figured before the grand jury in the indictment of Senator Wheeler, Montana, were laid before the committee investigating the indictment. HOUSE Met at noon; adjourned at 5:30 p. m. By a vote of 191 to 171 the House refused to accept the conference report on the immigration bill containing the president's suggestion for postponement of -Japanese exclusion until March' 1. 1925, and recommitted the report, with instructions to the conferees to eliminate the stipulation written into the bill by the conferees. The motion to recommit was supported by twenty-three Republicans, 165 Democrats, one Socialist, one independent and one FarmerLabor. Eleven Democrats and 160 Republicans opposed it. MIDNIGHT PARADE IS HELD AT BL00MINGT0N One Thousand Men March Silently Through Streets of College Town BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 10. Monroe county Kian No. 15 put acres:; -son-thN-g H the lino of demonstrations Monday, May 6, in that it staged an unadvertised, pre-election parade at midnight sharp. The line of march was through the resident section of Bloomlngton. The Klan call, given at short intervals, was sufficient to wake the sleeping citizens who hastily donned clothing and rushed out to see the silently marching Klansmen. The parade covered four city blocks and was reported to have been composed of from 800 to 1,000 Klansmen. This proved to be the start of a new day in the civic affairs of Bloomlngton as the Klansmen sprung another surprise by gaining a complete victory at the ballot box Tuesday. The opposition and disgruntled officeseekers are alibying themselves by saying they had the election won and salted away until the Ku Kluxers pulled off the surprise parade." The calamity howlers who used to say the Klan had died out are not so certain of this now and think that maybe there are a few Klansmen left. WE DO BUSINESS" Box 401, MaHIon, Ohio Olrel. TM3

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