Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1924 — Page 3

THURSDAY, SEPT. 11, 1924.

POSTAL WORKERS 'PLEDGE TO PUSH SALARYINCREASE Wil! Carry Bill to Congress and Demand Its Passage. Fight for the passage of the postal clerks salary increase bill will be carried to the next session of Congress and an attempt made to pass It, even though it was vetoed by President Coolidge at the last session, it was pledged by several hundred postal clerks, carriers and railway mail service employes, who met at the Chamber of Commerce, "Wednesday night. Speakers declared Congress favored the Dill, but the postal department and President opposed it. Argument against the bill is that It carries no means of revenue and should not be passed until the cost ascertainment committee of the postal department has reported. Inefficiency No Excuse “The department has had 134 years to find out that information,” declared B. G. Burris, fifth division president. “And the department’s inefficiency is no excuse for keepemployes’ salaries. I “Postmaster General New early In March placed himself on record as against the bill. I would welcome him here to argue the question, as he is in the city, but he would not be Interested in coming,” Collins said. "The department has spent the $500,000 appropriation made by Congress for the cost ascertainment and Congress has not received one word of information that was sought,” he continued. Must Continue. Fight “We must continue the fight.” ha concluded. “We wil} accept no substitute bill.” Among the officials present were Collins. B. G. Burris, fifth division president: Karl L. Stimpson, national vice president of postoffice clerks; Albert Greatbatch, State president; C. H. Dill, Indianapolis, fifth division vice president; O. K. Garns, former division president; A. W. Leary, president Indianapolis branch; B. 'F. Entwistle and Robert Maze, representing Indianapolis letter carriers’ organization; V. W. Martin. Indianapolis; who presided, and Arthur W. Demree, secretarytreasurer Indianapolis branch. Farm Sentence Given Garner Persley. 3022 W. Vermont St., was sentenced to sixty days at the Indiana State farm and fined Si and costs when he was found guilty on a petit larceny charge in city court Wednesday. He was alleged to have stolen a bicycle from Joseph King, 455 Berwick Ave.

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TARIFF PROBLEM FALLS TO PRESIDENT WILLIAM TAFT

“MT OWN STORY” is a exclusive Newspaper version ot one of the * great autobiographies of modern times: La Follette's own story of adventures In politics as written by himself in 1912. together with an authorized narrative of his experiences in the years since then. Vi SYNOPSIS or PREVIOUS INSTALMENTS After years spent in fighting the political bosses in the House of Representatives and later as Governor of Wisconsin. La Follette is elected to the Senate in 1905. At Washington. as in Wisconsin, he discovers the machine politicians combating progressive legislation. Some of bis earliest battles In the Sante are fought against the railroad interests. La Follette enters the Senate as the lone progressive: gradually the progressive movement grows. One of the new group's most significant victories lies in winning Senator Dolliver from the bosses, who had been manipulating legislation for the benefit of the great interests. He was attacked by the “standpatters” of lowa when he became a Progressive, and he was not credited even by Progressives with that sincerity of conviction which he was in every way entitled to. Many of those in the Progressive ranks who had suffered under his keen wi**icisms could not believe that Dol v.-r had changed from conviction. But I knew that he had. A close study of his record will show how, even while Allison still lived, he was constantly straining at the bonds which kept him in the ranks on that side. He and Clapp came together. They I were very dear friends —often to- | gether in a social way. They underI stood and appreciated each other, j It was the fight on the Payne- ! Aldrich tariff bill which brought us all together. The administration of Roosevelt had come to an end on March 4, 1909, with nothing to its credit in the way of tariff revision. That thorny problem fell to the unfortunate Mr. Taft. Now. Mr. Taft, fully aappreciating i the public clamor for tariff changes, | and knowing that he could nto be elected unless he took a strong stand, interpreted the platform pledge with respect to tariff revision in a speech at Milwaukee, on Sept. 24, 1908, as follows: Tarty Pledge “I can say that our party is pledged to a genuine revision and, as temporary head of that party and President of the United States, if ! it be successful In November. I expect to use all the Influence I have iby calling immediately a special ; session and by recommendations to I Congress to secure a genuine and ■ honest revision.” He also promised a "substantial revision downward.” As soon as he was inaugurated President Taft called an extraordinary session of Congress to meet on March 15, 1909and the work of the tariff revision began. Immediately, as will be remembered. the struggle began for control of the organization of both houses. In the House an attempt made to defeat Cannon, whom Taft had in the campaign called ‘an old man of the sea.” was frustrated through the influence of no other person than Mr. Taft himself —and to the dismay

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HE BROUGHT HIS FIST DOWN WITH A THUMP. of every one. And in the Senate, in spite of opposition, the old control. with Aldrich as Its leader, organized all the committees. We had expected that Taft’s first state paper to the extra session which he had called would be a vigorous demand for downward revision of the tariff. The Senate and House were crowded. The attention was keen everywhere. The clerk began to read. At the end of two minutes he stopped. Amazed There was a hush, an expectation that he would resume. But he laid aside the papr. A look of amazement was on every face. The one thing emphasized in the President’s message was the importance of disposing of the tariff as early as possible in orrler that business might not be long disturbed by uncertainties regarding customs tariffs. Not a word about honest revision or revision downward: But the Progressives did not then lose hope in the President. We believed that he would still carry out his promises. We had all supported him heartily in his campaign. I had been the candidate of the State of Wisconsin for the presidency at the convention which nominated Taft, and while I had no expectation of being nominated, I did hope that we should have some influence in molding the platform. When Taft was nominated ,1 immediately sent him the following telegram: “Hon. William IT. Taft. "Washington. D. C.: “While the platform is disappointing in some fundamental provisions and omissions, and I shall claim the right to say so. I congratulate you most sincerely, and in the faith that you are more nearly in accord wilh the great body of Republican voters than the platform, I shall do all In my power to insure your election.” When the tariff hill passed the House, therefore, after being bitterly opposed by the House insurgents as the thoroughly had measure that it was. T felt at liberty to call upon the President and talk with him about ft. I still had hope that he would keep faith with the people. He agreed with me, on that occasion, that the hill as it passed the House was not a compliance with platform pledges, and he said distinctly that unless it were thoroughly overhauled he would veto it. I suggested to the President that it was plainly his duty now to trans mit a message to Congress making it clear that the House hill was In violation of the pledges of the party and against the public interests, “Well,” he said. “I don't much believe in a rrc-sidrm’s interfering with the legislative department while It is doing Its work. They have their responsibility and I have mine. And if they send that hill to me, and It isn’t a. better bill than !t Is now, I will veto it.” I suggested that If he remained silent he would nearer find himself able, after the record was made up.

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to turn about and fall upon Congress with a veto. His answer came quick and strong. “You and your associates in the Senate go ahead, criticise the bill, amend It, cut down the duties —go after it hard. I will keep track of your amendments. I will read every word of the speeches you make, and when they lay that bill down b fore me, unless It complies with the platform, I will veto it." And he brought his fist down on the desk with a thump to emphasize the firmness of his purpose. “Very well,” I said, “Mr. President, but I predict that when it passes the Senate it will be a far worse measure than it is now.” “Well,” he retorted, “I will show you.” Aldrich kept the Payne-Aldrich bill in possession of his committee for forty-eight hours. Corridors Crowded The corridors about his committeerooms were crowded with the representatives of the big protected interests. Some were admitted from time to time for brief conferences. When Aldrich reported the bill he made a brief oral statement devoted solely to an estimate of the revenues which would be produced 1 under the proposed duties. No written report accompanied the bill, and no explanation, w r ritten or oral, was placed before the Senate, offering any reason for the 600 increases over the rates fixed in the House bill. Thereupon, Aldrich demanded Immediate consideration of the bill, which contained 300 pages, and of which most of the Senators had no knowledge whatever. He was preparing. as usual,'to drive roughshod over all opposition. I was not altogether unprepared for this action on the Senator's part, and. taking the floor, T protested against the present consideration of the bill. I ijiade it plain that never before in our history had the Senate Committee on Finance failed to submit with a tariff bill an extended printed report, setting forth the arguments for every change of duty. Furthermore. T proved from the record that it had been the invariable custom of the Senate committee to place the tariffi hill and the accompanying report upon the desks of Senators, with a notice, that the hill would be taken up some two to six weeks later, giving Senators full opportunity to familiarize themselves with the proposed changes. No answer was made to my speech. Tt was manifestly the purpose of Senator Aldrich to allow Ren ators no chance to prepare in advance to resist the sort of tariff legislation which the Payne Aldrich bill provided. And in furtherance of this plan, as the consideration of the bill advanced, he secured the adoption of an order that the Semite should meet, until further order, at 10 o'clock In the morning, and that the sessions should continue without recess or adjournment until 11 | o’clock at night. The reason which he advanced for j this was that the business interests I were suffering because of the unj certainties regarding the tariff: hut j the effect of this order was to force I those Senators who were conscientiously investigating schedules either to abandon all of their efforts or to take the course pursued by our little group. It was the practice of a number of Progressives, as it was my practice, to leave the Senate at the close of the session at 11 o'clock and, reaching home at midnight, to work well into the small hours of the morning over the provisions certain to be reached on the succeeding day, fhen snatch ft brief rest and he ready for the session at 10 o'clock in the morning. This work continued week after week all through the hot months of a sultry Washington summer. It was taxing to the last degree, and reducing the vitality of the hardiest members of the group. I shall always believe that the exactions of that session were the primary cause of Doillver's death a year later. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) (Continued in Our Next Issue.)

SAWS DROPPED; NOMESCAPE Two Alleged Slayers Almost Win Freedom. Bji Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Sept. 11.— Clumsiness alone prevented the probable freedom today of Fred Stetfler, confessed postoffice robber; Claude Belzer, 18, confessed slayer, and another man charged with murder. Prisoners in the Noblesville jail Wednesday night, after sawing throe bars' in two, dropped one of the saws on the outside of the corridor beyond their reach. Sheriff Sherrick found it on his last round to see if the prisoners were in bed. Sheriff Sherrick said he suspected Steffler of engineering the plot. HEAVY SENTENCE GIVEN Raymond Irwin Faces Farm Term and Two Heavy Fines. Raymond Irwin, 24, of 767 N. Warman Ave., faces an Indiana State Farm sentence of sixty days and a fine of SSO and costs, following his conviction in city court Wednesday on a larceny charge. He was also fired SIOO and costs for carrying a concealed weapon. Detectives Sullivan and Schaffner and Patrolman Nayrocker testified that Irwin had stolen a bicycle from Virgil Blessing, 63 S. Belle Vieu PI., on Aug. 23, and several days later, when arrested, officers said, they had found a revolver In his possession. BLIND TIGER CHARGES Ray Davis Appeals When Given Far, n Term in City Court. Ray Davis, 620 S. New Jersey St., is at freedom today under bond after appealing a conviction of SIOO and costs and thirty days on the Indiana State Farm received in city court Wednesday on a blind tiger charge. Police said they seized fifty-two quarts of beer when they raided his home, Aug. 27. Avery Kershner, 706 S. State Ave., was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to serve thirty days on the farm when found guilty on a blind tiger charge. Police said they found liquor in his possession. TRIBUTES IN BANK PAPER High Praise Given Upon Life of Late Andrew Smith. Highest praise for the life of the late Andrew Smith, secretary emeritus Indiana Bankers’ Association, is contained in tributes of life-long friends of Mr. Smith, published in the September issue of the Hoosier Banker, official magazine. The resolution passed by Indiana National Bank directors is published. Robert A. Morris, vice-president Fairinount State Bank, Fairmount. Ind.. contributed an editorial on Mr. Smith. PROPRIETOR IS FINED Two Colored Men Fined for Keeping a Gaming House.

Clarence Robinson, colored, 41 6 TV. Merrill St., and John White, colored, 546 S. Capitol Ave., face fines of $25 and costs each for keeping a Raminf? house, and twenty other colored men are free after judgment was withheld in their cases in city court Wednesday. They were ar rested Aug. 30, when Lieutenants Hudson and Sox and squads raided a poolroom operated by Robinson a* 550 S. Capitol Ave. KIWANIS AT EVANSVILLE Nearly 10ft From Indianapolis at Convention. Nearly 100 members of the KJwanis Club are In Evansville for the Slate gathering in that city. Defense Test clay was indorsed by Alfred E. Evans, former engineer of the Britlshh Navy, in a talk before Klwanlans here on Wednjisday. He said the English lost 86,000 men In three days’ fighting during the World War because they were untrained. MORGAN LOAN REPORT Renewal of $100,000,000 to France Is Learned. Bv United Preis PARIS, Sept. 11.—A six months’ loan of $100,000,000 made by J. P. Morgan to the Bank of France on March 10 to halt the fall of the franc has been renewed on the same conditions and with the same guarantees in order to combat possible future attacks on the exchange, the United Press learned from an authoritative source today. Car Receipts Up $4,000 July receipts of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company showed an Increase of $4,631.90 over those of July, 1923, according to figures filed with the public service commission by the company. Total receipts Fere $380,501.15. Dr. J. A. Martin Honored Dr. Jesse A. Martin of Evansville. resident physician at city hospital, won first honors in the recent examination for State license, it has been announced by the State board of medical registration and examination. He made a total of 954.4 out of a possible 1,000 points. Second place went to Dr. Samuel G Krienman of Gary with a grade of 947. Dr. Paul V. Allen of Indianapolis with 945 points was third. General Booth to Speak Here General Ballington Booth, founder and head of the Volunteers of America, will preside at the conference of officers and delegates of the Southeastern Regiment at the First United Brethern Church thfe flnst three days of next week. The regiment area includes Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. Lieut. Col. Marie F. Hites, Indianapolis, is commander of the regiment. The program includes a dinner Saturday night at the Indianapolis Athletic Club.

A Rolling Pin Figures in New Sketch at Palace

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