Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 291, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1931 — Page 8

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‘NICK' RULED IN HOUSE FIRMLY, IMPARTIALLY Decisions, First Protested, Later Are Recognized as Near-Perfect. Thl* I* the lixtb Installment of “the *torr of Nicholas I/oneworth." BY HERBERT LITTLE, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 16.—The Republicans had a precarious hold on the sixty-eighth house of representatives in 1923 when Nicholas Longworth became majority leader. Frederick H. Gillett was ready to start his third term as Speaker, but the 1922 oil-year elections had swept away the comfortable majority of the 1920 Harding landslide. Warren Harding died in August, 1923, in San Francisco, and a tightlipped Vermonter took the oath by a flickering oil lamp. The country was recovering from a depression, all but the farmers, and a score of western Republican members of the house, supporters of Senator Robert M. La Follette, were muttering threats. The house was divided as follows: Republicans, 225; Democrats, 206; Independents, 2; Socialist, 1; vacancy, 1. The twenty western Republicans, who called themselves Progressives, had been meeting together in an independent manner to determine their course of action and it was feared by some they would vote with the Democrats. Laid Groundwork for Triumph Longworth met the Progressives, who presented demands for liberalization of the rigid house rules, permitting members or groups of members more latitude in bringing up specific measures for consideration and vote. Eastern conservative Republicans urged the new leader not to make any concessions, fearing adoption of radical legislation. “If this die-hard policy had been followed,” Longworth said later, “the result simply would have been bloc government, rather than party government, in the house. There could have been no Republican legislative program. After some conferences and adjustment of views an agreeing was reached which was satisfactory to both sides, and the house was organized by a solid Republican majority. This was the groundwork for Longworth’s triumph of 1925. La Follette led his men off the Republican reservation in 1924 to terrific defeat, and the Republican majority in the house mounted again. Gillett, a mild man, retired to comparative obscurity by being promoted to senator, and Longworth got his job. Progressives Were Punished As Speaker, one of Longworth’s first acts was to punish severely the La Follette men. They were deprived of committee seniority under the Republican party, and patronage. But Longworth chastised them so gracefully that few felt resentment, and in later years he allowed them, very gradually and as they became less insurgent, to partake of committee assignments and appointment manna. And the rules were made rigid and strict as before. In the chair, however, Longworth was rigidly impartial. His rulings were protested by regular Republicans as much as Democrats, although before long members developed such respect for his knowledge of parliamentary law that few protests were made. Studied Foreign Systems He went to England, France and Germany to study their legislative bodies, and addressed the German legislators in German and the French chamber in French. He came back believing more strongly than ever in the efficacy of the twoparty system. “There are only two sides to any political question,” he said often, referring to the voters’ choices. He believed the two-party system was instrumental in this nation’s rapid growth. “I hope the day will never come when we in the United States divide political into parties based on geographical location, race or religion —worst of all, religion,” he said. “I have no conviction more profound than that no American citizen is disqualified from holding office, whatever his religion.” ACTRESS WILL WED Katherine Hayden, Divorced Week Ago, to Marry Ex-Rail Executive. By Times Special LOS ANGELES. April 16.—Katherine Hayden, New York stage actress, and Albert James Stone, former vice-president and general manager of the Erie railroad, will be married here Friday. Miss Hayden was divorced in Reno a week ago from Colonel William L. Reed, United States army.

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WITH a spurt of energy amazing to all observers of his regime, Governor Leslie has made a number of minor appointments, and then, without waiting for expiration of their terms, renamed Albert Wedeking to the highway commission and Lawrence F. Orr as state board of accounts chief. But Leslie has made no move regarding the post of state fire marshal. The Incumbent, Alfred M. Hogston, whose term expired Oct. 1, 1929, still Ls holding on without commission. tt a tt This delay is peculiar, inasmuch as Hogston was the original Leslie man, both in the statehouse and in Indiana. He was talking “Leslie for Governor” when no one could see any bases for Leslie’s claim to the office, and it was Hogston, with Bert Fuller and Bert Morgan, who accomplished one of those things which make political conventions wondrous things to behold and put over the nomination. Neither Fuller nor Morgan ever have been rewarded, and Hogston is kept dangling in mid-air. a tt tt Before the primary in 1928, when Hogston, hunting high and low for supporters for the Purdue alumni secretary, brought to Leslie’s home a man prominent in the Klan, with some political strength. Hogston said: “Blank, I want you to throw your support to Leslie in the primary and in the convention.” Blank looked Leslie in the eye and said: “I’ll support ypu because Alf wants me to.” With a smile, so the story goes, Leslie answered: “Alf has been my staunchest supporter and if I am elected Governor, he is going to get the best appointment within my gift.” tt tt Leslie was elected and Hogston’s friends waited to learn of his appointment to the “best job in the gift of the Governor.” Instead, after two years, he has not even been recommissioned as state fire marshal, a $4,000 a year post. “Well,” said the same Klan leader, “I just guess the Governor couldn’t find an appointment good enough for Alf.” $84,000 Loss in Barn Fire By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., April 16. a large barn, several horses, a cow, several calves, feed, farming tools, chickens, ducks and turkeys were burned on the farm of Dr. D. C. Ridenour, causing a loss of $4,000. Passing motorists stopped and assisted in saving the residence. The family was away from home at the time of the fire.

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SI 30,000 LOOT IS BALKED BY CITIZEN SLEUTH -m ■ Stumbles On to Daring Pilot: to Rob District of Columbia Disbursing Office. Bp United Press WASHINGTON, April 16.—A pub-lic-spirited citizen and a federal postoffice inspector posing as “a Brooklyn machine gunner” Wednesday night were disclosed as having balked an alleged plot to hold up the District of Columbia disbursing officer. The story of their counter-plot, cunning worked out and carried to an unmarred conclusion, was told following the arrest of Arthur Aden Fischer, a clerk in the district auditor’s office, and Philip Kay Stumm, alias Robert Dixon. Police would not reveal the names of the citizens and the inspector. Wednesday night the daring daylight holdup plans were laid, according to police, in a hotel room. Participating in the arrangements were the federal agent and the unnamed citizen. In the next room, straining their ears against the thin partition, were a police lieutenant and two detectives. A few minutes later Fischer and Stumm were arrested as they walked from the hotel. Decoration day, the detectives said, tentatively was set as the date for the holdup, when, it was expected, about $130,000 loot would be available at the district auditor’s office. According to the police version, a few days ago Fischer was approached by Stumm in the guise of a panhandler. What followed they do not know, but detectives assert that a day or two later Stumm set about finding “a machine gunner” to assist in the holdup. The unnamed citizen was approached, the story goes on. Without giving cause for suspicion, he told police what he had learned, and was asked to go through with the alleged plot. The postoffice inspector was assigned to help him, posing as a “killer from Brooklyn.”

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Light Up! By United Press CLEVELAND, April 16. Baseball scored a singular triumph here today when the Cleveland railway company broke an heretofore ironclad rule which prohibited carriders from smoking. Officials of the company announced that baseball fans aboard “Indian specials” bound for league park could light up and enjoy a smoke on the way.

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Friday, lumbermen of the state and city will hold sway at the exhibition. Efforts of a real estate exhibitor to promote a “free lot” advertising

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scheme at the show was stamped out by J. Frank Cantwell, director of the show, and a committee of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board.