Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1924 — Page 3

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

Monday, May 12. 'cer threatened

SENATE-Met at noon; adjourned ! Senate.

at 6:10 p. m. Agreed to an amendment to the arnw appropriation bill appropriating JttOO.OOO for construction of roiuls, bridges and rails In Alaska. Passed the rent commission extension bill with an amendment by Senator Caraway, Arkansas, requiring hotels to post their room rates and prohibiting change in such rates until thirty days after public notice, and limiting the extension of the act to one year. Adopted a resolution reported from

the agriculture committee calling I upon tho 'treasurers of the Democratic and Republican national committees for a report on the contributions of the five meat packing companies to the political campal.is of 19120 and since. l'iisscd the Smith resolution declaring agriculture to be a basic Industry und instructing the Interstate Commerce Commission to -adjust freight rates on such commodities at the lowest rates compatible with transportation service. I'iUised House resolution remitting further payments of the Chinese Honor indemnity. Passed a resolution by Senator Walsh, Massachusetts, directing the Tariff Commission to make an in

quiry into the cotton textile industry. The extradition treaty between the United States and Bulgaria signed March l'J, 11)24, was ratified. AS' it li the further appearance before it of Senator Wheeler, Montana, the hearings of the committee Investigating the indictment of that senator practically concluded Its inquiry. Elections committee hearing the MaylicM, Texas, case, took up charges of excessive campaign expenditures by the Mayiield supporters.

session for consideration of bills on the calendar. Adopted, by a vote of 69 to 9, the conference report on the Immigration bill providing for Japanese exclusion, effective July 1 of this

year, and the bill now goes to tne President. Continued discussion of the Gooding rider to the army appropriation bill relating to the long and short haul clause of the interstate commerce act. Explaining his vote on the motion to override the President's veto of

the Bursum general pension bill,

Senator Harreld, Oklahoma, denied

he had switched his position, declar

ing he had first voted for the bill on the roll call through a misunder

standing and that it had been; his

Intention from the start to support

the President.

Thomas W. Miller, alien property custodian, testified before the

Daugherty committee concerning the conduct of the Department of Justice. H. Li. Scalfe, former employe of the Department of Justice, -who has been responsible for some of the alleged sensational disclosures before the committee, admitted

under cross-examination that he had been employed by the Daugherty committee as an investigator at $500 a week and that he had asked compensation of the government for furnishing information in the airplane suits. Passed a bill authorizing the sale of the Gasparilla ' Island, Florida, military reservation. HOUSE Met at noon; adjourned

FISTICUFFS FOLLOW

BIBLE ALTERCATION

Reading of Holy Writ in Public

School Raises Ire of Alien-Minded

to appeal to the

Passed a bill permitting the sec

retary of war to sell and the port of New York authority to acquire the Hoboken short line railroad.

The Senate passed a House bill providing for the holding of a term of the United States court which has Jurisdiction of Teapot Dome at Casper, Wyoming, and also authorizing the appointment of a deputy United States marshal there. HOUSE! Met at noon; adjourned at 6:35 p. m. After an all-day debate passed the bill for the purchase by the government of the Cape Cod canal at a

cost of $10,000,000 by a vote of 149 to 132.

Carrying a total of $2,317,000,

practically all of it for the Department of Justice, the second deficiency bill of the session was reported by the appropriations committee. Under the terms of a resolution by Representative Crampton, Michigan, the old home of General Robert E. I.eo at Arlington would be restored as nearly as possible to its condition just before the Civil war. The Military Affairs committee

favorably renorted a bill to make ' at 5:15 p. m.,

Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, a i Received the President's veto o

national park. tne soldier oonus Din. a motion Dy The committee investigating the Republican Leader Longworth that

case against Representative Langley, of Kentucky, will take no action until his appeal to the higher court has been decided. The committee investigating the Shipping Board continued its inquiry

DESIRE FOR PROFITS BREAKING DOWN LAW

Senator Wheeler Says the Prohibition Fight Is a Matter of Dollars and Cents

the vote to pass the bill over a veto be postponed was adopted by a yea

and nay vote of 179 to 171.

Adopted the conference report on

the immigration bill, including Japanese exclusion, by a vote of 308 to

into the sale of shins at nrices 1 5- Betore tnis action was taKen tne

rlalmpd in nttprlv nut nf nrnnnp. ! House rejected, by a vote of 246 to

tion to their actual value. 33, a motion by Representative The commerce committee ordered Sabath, Illinois, to recommit the bill, a favorable report on the Hoch res- 1 Passed the second urgent deficiency olution to direct the Interstate Com-I bill, carrying an appropriation of

merce Commission to investigate the ,$2,317,000.

railroad rate structure with a view

HOUSE Met at noon; adjourned at 5:20 p. ni. Committee on elections reported unanimously In favor of the retention by James R. Buckley, of Chicago, and Royal C. Weller, of New York, both Democrats, of their seats In the House. Conference report on the Immigration bill fixes July 1, 1924, as the effective date for Japanese exclusion. The military committee favorably reported a bill authorizing sale by

the War Department of tracts of land now owned by it in various states. Rivers and harbors committee heard more witnesses in connection with legislation to permit the Chicago drainage canal to withdraw additional water from Lake Michigan.

to a general readjustment.

Wednesday, May 14 SENATE Met at 11 a. m. in recessed session, failed to obtain a quorum and adjourned for 20 minutes, reconvened at noon and recessed at 5:35 p. m. Continued consideration of the army appropriation bill, with the Gooding rider designed to limit the

The rules committee worked out

a plan to bring the McNary-Haugen grain export bill up for consideration the first part of next week. Representative Howard, Nebraska, introduced a resolution for a special congressional committee to seek a remedy for the present depression in the agricultural industry." The special committee that investigated charges against Representa

tive Zihlman, Maryland, reported

that truth of charges that he ac-

powers of the Interstate Commerce!pted a briDe waa not established

Tuesday, May 13. SENATE Met at noon; recessed at C: 15 p. m. After two hours of debate the Ser.ate by one vote failed to pass the Hursuin general pension bill over the veto of t he President. The o",e was 53 for passage to 28 to ustain the veto. Senator Harreld, Oklahoma, changed his vote before the result was announced; otherwise there would have been the exact roi i'i.utional two-thirds vote. The

bill originally passed uie Senate by

a vote of 51 to 10; the veto was sus

tiiined by 12 Republicans and 10

l)c mo( rats. Senator Bursum at once intro duced a new general pension meas

tire amended in several particulars. I It would fix the pensions of Mexican j ti : ; Vivil war veterans at $60 a tnonth, an Increase of $10 over existIng basic rates, and grant from $30 i

to $40 a month to widows, according to their age. Veterans of the Spanish-American war, Philippines lnnurreclion, lioxer rebellion and va-

Commlssion in allowing railroads to

deviate from the long and short haul requirements of existing law under debate all afternoon. Demand was made on the floor by Senators Shields, Tennessee, and Heflln, Alabama, for a vote on the Ford proposal for Muscle Shoals at this session of Congress. Chairman Norris, Nebraska, in charpi of the

measure, replied that he also

favored a vote and said no effort was being made to prevent one. Attacking the Ford proposal Senator Reed, Missouri, declared that Henry Ford Is not "the archangel of virtue that some people believe him to be," and added that the development of Muscle Shoals should be considered in the light of a simple business proposition. Speaking on the Gooding rider. Senator Brookhart, Iowa, declared railroad freight charges can be reduced $1,000,000 a year without lowering wages of railway workers or

', reducing the income of investors.

The committee- unanimously reported against any further action. Twenty-two members of the NewYork delegation petitioned the committee on rules, asking that the postal salary bill be allowed o come before the House at an early date. Under the terms of a bill introduced by Representative Dyer, Mis

souri, four additional Judges would be added to the Court of Claims,

thereby increasing the number to

nine.

OTTAWA LAKE, MICH., May 17.

Attempts of Rev. Flannigan, of

the Roman Catholic church, to stop

the reading of the Bible in the pub

lic school resulted in a fist fight be

tween the teacher, Rev. F. E. Denns-

more, and two men alleged to have been sent by the priest to stop the reading, by force, if necessary. It is said that the priest called upon Rev. Dennsmore one day last

week and demanded that he stop reading the Bible, and that he and

Felix Labun, who accompanied Rev.

Flannigan to the school, were very

bitter toward the Rev. Dennsmore, for the higher education he was endeavoring to give to the school chil

dren.

According to reports, the argu

ment grew rather heated and the priest told the school teacher he should "read something worth while,

and not that thing he had been read

ing," but the tirade had no effect upon the Rev. Dennsmore, and the two men left still threatening to stop the reading one way or another. To Stop Bible Beading That Monday morning, it is said, Labun and another member of the Catholic parish --went to the school to prevent the reading of the Bible,

and as they could not persuade Rev. Dennsmore from performing his duty, they invited him out of the school room, evidently wishing to use physical violence, as is generally the case when the politicalecclesiastical machine wishes to gain a point. Frank Iott, who is said to have been the man with Labun, was evi

dently surprised when his invitation was quickly taken up and the Rev. Dennsmore walked . outside with the two of them who quickly showed that they meant to harm him physically, i: The result was that Iott was knocked tiown twice, the second time evidently being enough, for he ran

for his automobile after this. Labun, it is said, seeing himself left alone with the minister-teacher, quickly followed Iott, and the two . pulled Immediately away from the scene. Report Not Verified It is thought by many of those interested that the two were sent by Priest Flannigan, but this report has not been verified. Labun and Iott were arrested and Rev. Dennsmore went to Monroe to find out if it was against the law to read the Bible in the school. He found that he had not been

violating the law in any way and will continue, it is said, to read from the Holy Book so long as he is in charge.

Classifies Law-Breakers as Politicians Who Do ot Have Interest of Nation at Heart

them kept or else a third party will come that will keep its promises. "Among the other speakers were William D. Upshaw (D.), representative of Georgia, who criticized the

stand of Dr. Nicholas Mwray Butler, president of Columbia University, on prohibition, and C. Ellis Moore (R.),

representative of Ohio, who maintained there was no alternative in America for constitutional government save anarchy, and that the open choice before everyone is to love or leave America."

NEW YORK, May 17 Disregarding the question of party politics. Burton K. Wheeler (D.), senator from Montana, asserted that the pro

hibition fight is a matter of dollars and cents,- in an address at a dinner of the Brooklyn Women's Constitu-! tional Committee at the St. George hotel, Brooklyn, in the cause of lawenforcement. Classifying present law-breaker3 as politicians who think more of their pocketbooks than of their' country, he said that

the blame could be laid neither on the Republican party nor on the Democratic party. He said in part: "Out in the lumber camps of Montana, Oregon and Washington the men used to spend their salaries and their holiday drinking and would come back to camp so destitute that they would be willing to work under any conditions. Then prohibition came. The lumber men went to town, bought good clothes,

stopped at good hotels instead of

the jail! and came back to camp with

aelf-respect. They demanded bet

ter beds, better food, and said, with

money in their pockets, that if these

demands were not met, they would go where they would be met. It is the attempt of the liquor sellers to restore their profits that is breaking down law enforcement. It isn't the

Republican party and it isn't the Democratic party. It's a question of dollars and cents. A lot of these men think more of their pocketbooks than they do of their country. "I will tell you that unless the Republican "and Democratic parties keep better faith with America in the future than they have in the past, both of them better look out. The people want more than mere

promises and they are going to have

The Klansman also holds to the idea that it is well to agree with one's adversary quickly but not ,at the price of individual or national honor.

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ment of his store, his skull fractured by a blow from his own gun, and $4,000 missing from the safe of his Jewelry store. Police learned of the robbery after an employe of a tire store adjacent to DeMartino's store told them 9 strange man came into his store and told him "something has happened to DeMartino and you had better investigate." The stranger then disappeared. Police said they believed the robbery was staged by members of the Urbaytis gang, which is credited with cracking a number of safes here in the lasjt three weeks.

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Senator Wheeler, Montana, held the

chaises against that senator were unsupported by the facts. Senator Sterling Soutli Dakota, cast the only negative vote.

Informal conferences were held by ' Democrats to determine w hether an investigation should be asked of I charges made by Mayor Curley, of inoston, that a Coolidge campaign organization in Massachusetts is col-

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and Democratic parties. Tills action gave a decided setback to the prospects of the state convention of "national labor party" supporters which will meet here Sunday. Duncan McDonald of Springfield, a former secretary of the Illinois miners, will be chairman of the convention.

J EFFERSONV I LLE, Ind., May 14. The Ku Klux Klan burned a "fiery cross" Monday night among the un

marked graves atthe Revolutionary Cemetery, Chestnut and Mulberry streets. Only a few persons lingered in the vicinity of the cross, which was lighted without the ttsual explosion of bombs or other demonstration. After the cross had nearly burned Itself out someone notified the fire department and the blaze was extinguished. Evidently

with the purpose of preventing firemen from cutting it down, the cross was constructed of iron, and it remained standing yesterday. Some say the Klan was celebrating its victory at the recent primary. The next day after the firemen had attacked the crossTit was announced in a Jeffersonville newspaper that the fire department would not again answer calls to demolish, any fiery cross.

rioiis Indian campaigns also would receive the new basic pension. Senators Smoot, McLean, Curtis, PiininonH and Jones, of New Mexico, ere designated as conferees on the tax revision bill. Senator Simmons announced that if the conferees did not protect the amendments regardlim surtaxes and normal taxes and olher important amendments adopted in the Senate he would move to div -hAie the conferees and select Dlliers. The appropriation committee re

ported the agricultural appropriation bill, carrying a total of $60,954C33, I his being an addition of $4,370,8!0 to the House bill and $11,886,820 less thfwn the appropriation for the current year. ('onsldered the army appropriation bill and spent the day on the Plttman amendment relating to the long and short haul of the Interstate Commerce act.

r roni the foreign relations committee Senator Lodge favorably reported the bill for reorganization nd Improvement of the foreign service. Ily unanimous vote the committee Investigating the Indictment of Senator Wheeler, Montana, decided to clone Ms Inquiry without taking furPier testimony,, and Chairman Borah was directed to draft the committee report at once and submit it for In irovaJ. Farm bloc leaders said they believed if the House passed the Mc-Naiy-Haugen grain export bill the Senate would give its approval. Senator Harrison, Mississippi.

favoring the Ford bid, announced that there must be some definite action respecting the development of M Shoals or there would be no adjournment of Congress. The oil investigating committee resumed hearings with Assistant Secretary or the Interior Finney on the stand. Questions by Senator Spencer, Missouri, were so repeatedly blocked .by Senators Walsh, Adams and Ladd that Senator Spen-

limit" basis. The Daugherty investigating committee continued its Inquiry Into prohibition enforcement andjssued a subpoena to the warden of the Atlanta penitentiary to produce George Remus, of Ohio, alleged millionaire bootlegger, now a convict there, before the committee to testify. Ratified the treaty for the protection of American nationals in Syria and the Lebanon, under French

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HOUSE Met at noon; adjourned at 5:25 p. m. Passed a Senate bill proposing an increase in the number of army non

commissioned officers available for duty with the national guard, organized reserves and reserve offi- j cers' training corps. ! Agreement was reached by Repub- I

llcan and Democratic House leaders j at a conference with President

Coolidge to work for adjournment j of Congress on June 7. i

Before the Judiciary committee, considering bills Introduced by upward of 60 members of the House for modification of the VolBtead act to permit the manufacture and sale of 2.75 per cent, beer, Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the anti-saloon league, submitted an extended statement, charging the sale of beer would "restore the saloon." Republican Insurgents at a conference jroted to seek approval by

the House of Senate amendments

providing for full publicity of tax

returns nd for a graduated tax on undistributed corporation profits.

Bills designed to protect internal waterways and coastal waters from

oil pollution were favorably reported

by the rivers and harbors committee.

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