The Omaha Daily Beb
VOL. 50 NO. 211.
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THREE CENTS
Harding Is
Between 2
Tax Fires
Advocates aud Opponents of
Federal Sales Revenue Plan
Putting Forth Effort to Win
President-Elect's Support.
Mind Open on Question
By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING.
Chicago Tributra-Omaha H laad Wire.
Washington, Feb. 17. Prodigious
effort are being put forth by the
advocates and opponents of a federal
sales tax to win the support of
President-elect "Harding before lie
formulates the revenue revision rec
ommendations he will lay before the
next congress in his first message to
that body.
One faction of republicans is en
deavoring to convince Mr. Harding
that a retail sales tax not exceeding
1 per cent would be the most equi
table and least burdensome : impost
that could be substituted for the ex
cess profits tax. Another faction is
warning hjm that the imposition of
a direct consumption tax. . of this
character would prove so unpopular
. to spell the defeat of the repub-
ican party at inc next election.
Keeps Open Mind.
Although favoring the repeal of the
excess profits tax. Mr. Harding is re
ported by the leaders of both fac
tions to-be preserving an open mind
oil the question of a sales tax as a
substitute for the profits taxes, if a
substitute should be found necessary.
Representative Bacharach of , the
ways and means committee pre
sented the arguments in favor of a
sales tax to Mr. Harding at Marion
and Representative Frear. also of
the way and means committee, re
turned today from St. Augustine
w here hi submitted to the president
elect the contentions of the.opposi
tiilt to a sales tax.
Not Opposed to Repeal ,
While believing that most of the
criticism against the excess profits
tax is unwarranted, Mr. Frear said
today that he recognizes that there
is a strong sentiment for its repeal
and that probably this will prevail.
He does not propose to offer serious
objection to the repeal, however, "so
long as na attempt is made to trans
fer the burden from corporation
earnings to the consumer -through
the medium of a sales tax."
"1 believe that now the corpora
tions havo become accustomed to
the excess profits tax," sai,d Mr.
1 Frear, "it can be 'continued in the
; future with comparatively little dif-
(Tar ta Tf Two, tayhnni Ttnty
Howat Is Arrested on
Charge of Violating
Industrial Court Law
( hleaio Trlboae-Omahn Be Leased Wire.
Pittsburg, Kan., Feb. 17. Alexan
der Howat, president, and August
Dorchy, vice president, of the Kansas
district of the United Mine Workers,
were arrested today on warrants
charging them with Violating the
Kansas industrial court law in con
nection with the calling of the Mac
kie strike. The warrants were issued
on complaint of R. J. Hopkins, attorney-general,
and Leo Armstrong,
county attorney of Cherokee county.
The two were taken to Columbus.
The arrest is the first under the
criminal sections of the industrial
court law in the Kansas mine field.
Both were sentenced to jail last
April for contempt of court and
again yesterday for contempt.
. If held for trial, Howat and Dor
chy will face the Cherokee county
district' court, at Columbus. "I will
take my case to direct test." Howat
said. Mine IT of the .Mackic com
pany is in Cherokee county. Mine J
also involved; in the strike which be
gan February 3r which developed
irom a controversy over the ge of
a miner., is in Crawford county.
Staff PnmmiccirinAr .
kurhutw vviuiiuwiviiwi
Closes Boston Bank
Boston, Feb.. 17. i he . lremont
Trust company. banking institu
tion with saving and commercial departments,-
was ctosed late, today
by Bank Commissioner; Joseph C.
1 .-Mien. !
Commissioner Allen's announce
ment said: ' -
"The Tremont Trust company is
dosed as a result of unsound and
unauthorized banking methods.
"My action has become necessary
of violation of banking laws of the
commonwealth: secondly, because
, the total of bad and doubtful loans
:s such that the capital is seriously
impaired.' ' ,
The notice1 as posted after bank
ing hours, but a crowd soon gath-
, ered and police were summoned. The
company; which has a total caoital-
ization of $1,220,500, has been the
. most active here in soliciting bus
iness by newspaper .advertising.
General Attorney of Ford
Aud His Company Resigns
Detrpftr Mich... Feb. tf.-JHubert
"E. Hartmann, assistant secretary
and general attorney, for the Ford
Motor company, today announced a
resignation, effective March 15. He
care a fiia rraenn a desire to enter
""business for himself, addintr that he
expected to continue to haDdle some
ot the company s affairs. . ' j
Schooner Abandoned
Boston. Ma?s., Feb. 17. The Bos
ton four-masted schooner Horace C
Monroe, bound in ballast from Lis
Don to Jacksonville, Fla., was aban
doned at sea, in a sinking condition
Tnesday, advices received here an
nounced. Captain John Hall and the
irew of 13 men were rescued and
U-uied at Gibraltar. "
Miss Wilson Throws Down
Gauntlet to U. S. Congress
Daughter of President
Takes Shot at Representative-Wood
for Denun
ciation of Community
Center Work.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Be Leased Wire.
Washington, Feb. 17. Miss Mar
garet Wilson, daughter of the pres
ident, threw down the gauntlet to
congress today in her address be
fore the national woman's party con
vention in behalf of community cen
ter work and incidentally paid olf
a long score chalked up by. the com
munity workers against Representa
tive Wood of Indiana for denounc
ing the centers as "hot beds of so
cialism" and the use of school build
ings for community dances as r.
waste of public money. ' 1
Is it any ot the business ot con
gress," Miss Wilson demanded, "to j
supervise the activities of speech" of
those they represent? One reason
that was. given in the senate for cut
ting oiir appropriation Was that our j
centers nere naci peen breeding un
rest, I know of nothing that could
uphold jthat statement, but even
granting it, even if laws are broken
in community centers, it is the bus'1
jiess o the cotir's or the Department
of Justice to try the individuals who
have broken the law.
Defends Dancing.
"Another statement made over in
congress "was that they did -not
wish to pay th ! expenses attendant
upon dancing in our school bujld
iiigs. Again I ask,granting that we
have a moral right to use. the school
buildings, is it .my of their busi
ness what we do in them, whether
we listeu to socialist speeches or
whether we dance? It was even
suggested the other clay on the floor
of the senate that -we should not be
allowed to talk politics in the cen
ters. Isn't that' amazing?
"Suppose that v,e should initiate
a nation-wide referendum . to make
new rules, for senate discussions.
What an outcry there would he. It
would not be a lawful proceeding, I
know, and therefore impossible, but
would it not be more'logical and rea
sonable for us to make rules limit
ing the discussion of those who are
accountable to us than that they
should make rules for 'our meetings?
"The community center is the peo-
Armed Invasion
Of Pamir Region.
Started by Reds'
Communique Issued by India
Office - - Says Offensive
Commenced Last October j
"... by Bolshevik Forces. i
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London, Feb. 17. Armed invasion j
of the Pamir region of central Asia,
on the thresholds of India and
China, was begun by Russian bol
shevik troops last October, it is in-1
dicated by a communique just issued j
by the India office. , The commu-1
nique gave the text of an "order ot I
the day" sent out on October 10 by
M. Sokolinkow, chief commissar on !
the Turkestan front, to a soviet di
vision ordered into the .Pamir. It
stated the men should "make them
selves at home" and carry on bolshe
vik propaganda with a view to in-,
fluencing the people of India to re-f
vOltagainst the British.
"Comrades of the Pamir division."
said the order, "you have been given
a responsible task. The soviet re
public sends you to garrison the
posts on the Famir, on the frontiers
of the friendly countries of Afghan
istan and India. . The Pamir tabic
land divides revolutionary Russia
from India, which, with its 300.Q00.
000 inhabitants, is enslaved by a
handful of .Englishmen. On this ta
ble laud you. the signallers of the
revolution, must hoist the red flag
of the army of liberation. May the
peoples of India, who fight against
their English oppressors.; soon know
thatv friendly help is not far off."
Bandits Hold Up Patrons
, Of Sheridan Pool Hail
Sheridan. Wyo., Feb. 17. Be
tween $1,600 and $2,300 was stolen
by marked bandits who enterad a
pool hall ar Diet, Wyo.. a mining
camp near here last night, held up
18 men who were' playing pool and
ransacked their pockets, the cash
register and; the safe, according to
intormation received today. . .
Fire Destroys Cotton' j
Ennis. Tex., Feb. 17. Six thou
sand bales of cotton were lost here I
last midnight in a fire which de
stroyed three warehouses. The loss
is estimated at $400,000. Officers j
are working on a theory of incen-
diarism.
Features for Next
Sunday's Bee
Scenes at Mount Vernon, home
of George and Martha Washing
ton, photographed by Louis Bost
wick, Omaha photographer, make
a striking rotogravure page you
will want to preserve. You will
cet this page with The Bee fox
next Sunday.
Page Two of the Rotogravure
Section is-a collection of snap
shots of movie stars during play
hours.
The story of "a man who wins
with a smile" is a strong human
interest trie that will be another
feature of next Sunday's Bee.
He's an Omaha public officer.
Others failed to get results with
methods widely approved. He
does things differently and with
marked success.
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pics'
ucd.
machine." Mis Wilson contin
"It works in tli;; open."
Urges Disbandment.
Mi
is iison lorcsnaaowca inc aa-
vice of political speakers to the con
vention tonight by urging the wom
an's party to disband and not to rc
brganizc. There is no doubt, however, that
the woman's party will remain in the
field, cither under its present name
or as the "National Woman's union,"
or "National Woman's Political un
ion." Tiie only question now and the'
one which will be totight out on the
floor tomorrow, is whether it will
concentrate o'n the removal of all
remaining forms of legal and other
discriminations against women, or
whether, as a strong group within
the party is urging, it will reorganize
to work for disarmament.
The. appeal of Woman's Interna
tional League for Peace and Free
dom, and of the National Woman's
Peace society were receivedwith out
bursts of applause this afternoon, but
?ny attempt to divert the woman's
party from its program for the com
f lete emancipation of women will be
resisted to the end by pacifists and
nonpacifists alike, who urge that
such activities' should be . carried
through other organizations than the
woman's party. '
Belgian Teacher,
Facing Exposure
As Spy, Kills Self
Madame Louise Thulicr, Asso
ciated r With Tdith CaveH
and Herself Condemned to
Death, Commits Suicide.
Paris, Feb. 17. Madame Louise
Thulier, a Belgian school teacher,
who was awarded the insignia of the
Legion of Honor and the war cross
during the great war,l has choseu
suicide rather than iacc exposure as
a spy and betrayer of patrt ,Jc
friends, it is declared by today's
newspapers. The woman, about
whom revolved one of the most stir
ring tragedies of the war, swallowed
rat poison at her home in the village
of , Wiherics, near Mons. yesterday
when called to appear before a mag
istrate. -
Madame -Thulier was associated
with Edith Cavcll, "the English
nurse who was fcxecuted by the Ger
mans in Brussels kPia October IS,
1915. and with CSuiffess Joahenna
de Bcvillc, who was doomed to die
by the Germans.' but whose sentence
was commuted through the interven
tion of President Wilson. She her
self was taken prisoner by the Gcr
maus and was sentenced to death,
but King Alfonso of Spain made a
plea in her behalf, and she was re
prieved. . .
During an investigation of espion
age operations at Mons evidence was
found, it is declared by newspapers
here, that Madame 'Thulier had be
trayed a number of companions, one
of whom was Philip Baucq, an ar
chitect, . , - '
F our Pennsylvania Plants . j
For Beer Making to Reopen j
Washington. F"eb. 17. Stockhoid-
ers of four Pennsylvania breweries
serzed by the government for manu
facturing beer containing more than
J5 of 1 per, cent of alcohol were
warned today by Internal Revenue
Commissioner Williams that they
must "clacn house" if they expect
to be permitted to resume business.
It was recommended that officials
and employes guilty of disregard of
the law be discharged.
Meanwhile, the commissioner said,
it has been deccided to permit the
companies upon sufficient bond to
take possession of the plants and
operate- them to tile extent of law
fully utilizing the raw materials on
hand at the date df their seizure.
Pagosa Springs, Colo., Hit
By Very Disanstrous Fire
Pagosa Springs. Colo.. Feb. 17.
A targe section of the business sec
tion here was destroyed by a fire
that started early today in Hard
man's candy store. The loss at
noon 1 was estimated at $250,000.
Twelve buildings, including the
plant of the Pagosa Journal, were
destroyed or damaged. A bucket
brigade fighting the flames saved a
large hotel building.
Agriculture Department
To Study Insects of Hawaii
Washington Feb. 17. Considera
tion of measures to protect Hawaii
from certain insect pests which are
damaging crops in the United States
will be given by the Department' of
Agriculture at a hearing set - for
April 15 at Washington. ,
The department stated today it had
been informed there was danger of
the stiffar cane and corn moth borer,
Borah
Armament
Generally Accepted Forecast
Of President-Elect's Naval
Program Arouses Ire of
Idaho Senator.
Will Continue His, Fight
Hi lea go Tribune-Onialia lice Leased Wire.
Washington, Feb. 17. In a senate
speech today generally interpreted
as forecasting the new administra
tion's policy towards disarmament
and telated issues. Senator Mcdill
McCormick of lllionois, just return
ed from a conference with President
elect Harding, declared for "the
completion "of an American, navy,
comparable in power and varied
fight iug strength with any other."
Senator McCormick toid the sen
ate that the present agitation led by
Senator Borah of Idaho, for an
agreement to curtail naval building,
would "confuse and hamper the
president-elect in the heaviest duties
he had to perform," and would
"compound the difficulty," of the
new president in securing a general
himitation of armament by sea and
land.
1 These statements aroused the ire
of Senator llorah who quickly re
plied that he would continue his ef
forts in behalf of a disarmament
agreement undeterred by prospec
tive White House dictation. Senator
Borah was unable to see, he said,
how the program he had proposed
conld possbily embarrass Mr. Hard
ing. Will Back Own Judgment.
"Furthermore," he added, "we
have heard a vast amount of crit
icism, in the last eight years about
waiting upon ihe nod from the
White House. Congress has been
accused of abdicating, not only its
judgment, but its functions. I have
not participated in that so mucji as
some, but let pie say here with the
utmost respect for the president
elect, that I shall not abdicate my
judgment in this chamber during
the next four years, any more than
I have during the last eight years.
"T c . ..c i'..:. i c..
sees fit to advertise to the world
upon this question which involves
the' future welfare of the human
family, that it has no judgment, no
opinion, no conscience, and no con- !
viction until the president-elect
nods, the congress may do so, but1
l shall not be a party to it.
Senator McCormick . began his
speech s by summing up the argu
ments made by Senator Borah in a
recent speech advocating adoption of
his resolution for a six months' naval
building holiday to give time -for
study of the question of what con
stitutes, a modern navy. As he un
derstood Mr. Borah's position, he
said, it was "to have the president
invite the other naval powers to a
conference on disarmament, after we
have stopped arming, while Japan
continues to do so and while the
British sea force is twice as power
ful as the American."
Cannot AgreeL
""I cannot agree with hi:
said
senator JJccormic::. I cannot agree
that our shipwrignts and gunsmiths
should Jay down their tools while
Japan arms herself. I cannot agree
that the limitation of armahieiUs
should be fixed on a basis of a Brit
ish sea power more dominant than
ever in modern history."
The Illinois senator contended that
Senator Borah's arguments wcr.
based largely upon the opinions of
British navy authorities whom he
sarcastically referred to its "literary
admirals." He insisted that the capi
tal ship was not obsolete and de
clared that tin's opinion was held
by the officers who were at sea and
took part an the fighting during the
war. He added: "It is not inertlv
mistagen it is heer nonsense to
rate of exchange, by the indebted-
drain noon tV VrZuu . -V
dram upon t.ic. i.ntish exchequer.' j
N rl 1 Iir- 1 1
POrn I harorpH Wifh i
fov.v- ,,.u.
MiirrLi. leil I
Athens, Ga., Feb. 17. A mob of
5,000 persons tonitrht stnrmi'rt the :
Clarke county jail and after forci
bly taking John L. Eberhardt, a ne
gro, charged with the murder of Mrs.
Walter Lee of Oconee county,. from
the jail, burned him at the stake.
The mob secured the neuro aftrr
i A ....... . j r. . '
leaders . had climbed an elevator
shaft to the top floor of. the county
court nouse and Dunieri their wav
into his cell with a blow torch.
Mrs. Lee was killed earlv todav
after she had been attacked on en
tering a barn on the Lee farm. She
resisted her assailant and ran back
toward her home, but was shot from
behind. Eberhardt was arrested
about noon at a neighboring farm.'
Sheriff Jackson tried to protect the
jail, but a mob gathered in the vicin
ity immediately before nightfall
thousands of persons from surround
ing Counties had assembled
Rear Admiral Joseph Jayne
Suffers Stroke of Paralysis
Washington, Feb. 17. Rear Ad
miral Joseph Jayne suffered a stroke
of paralysis late last night while on
duty with the Pacific fleet, returning
from South American waters, the
Navy department was advised today.
He was taken aboard the hospital
ship Mercy immediately and the ad
vices said his condition was not criti
cal and that he was expected to re
cover. -
Archbishop- Granted Passport
Newark. X. J., Feb. 17. Passports
for Archbishop Dougherty of Phil
adelphia, soon to become a cardinal,
and six priests r.f his diocese were
obtained here today. The prelate wilj
sail, Saturday, for. Rome.
SfoSlueS 7 I' T Vof lliem strick-
HtsZ "lrlL?& !- hM into the counto;
i j
. Home Folks Don't Count
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1 ief
Loot in Robbery
Of Postoff ice at
Toledo Mounts
rPostal IllSDCCtors Estimate
Five Bandits Secured at
Least Half Million in
Nine Sacks of Mail. ,
Toledo, O.. Feb. 17. Estimates of
the loss in then postoilicc mail rob
bery earlv this, morning ranged aS
high as- $500.000.. The-police- said the
currency taken alone mav aggregate
between $300,000 and $400,000.
, The five bandits made a clean es
cape with nine sacks of mail after
holding up fcur employes of the
main postoffice and compelling them
to lie down on a loading platform
while the robbery was executed. The
pouches, four of them containing
registered mail, were thrown in an
automobile ar.d the robbers sped
away. '
Later the automobile, a stolen one,
was found abandoned, but sheriff's
posses, police and postal inspectors
found no further trace of the holdup
men. .
Republican Leaders ' .
Start Drive to Speed
Up Immigration, Bill
Washington. D. C, Feb. 17. En
actment of the immigration restric
tion bill before March 4 was made
the object of a drive started today
by senate leaders. The movement
was instituted after Senator Harris,
democrat. Gcoigia. had advised
speedy passage of the legislation, de
The immigration, measure will be
givc priv:legcd position tomorrow,
ahead of :a!1 pending .legislation. A
final vote next week was predicted.
Althnutrh the bill will have priority.
senate leaders said they expected to
lay it aside temporarily for passage
of several appropriation hills.
.Slaver i( Fripnrl TtiKani
Coroner 8 Jury Declares
Xewton. 111.. Feb. 17. That F.
R. Robertson, real estate and in
surance man shot and killed Charles
Sutton, member of the firm of
Houscr and Sutton, hay and grain
brokers here Tuesday morning in
a m oi insanity unasiwuu
brooding over financial fosses w
as
the theory virtually established
after a complete - investigation of
the affair by State's Attorney Isley
and Coroner Live. Robertson, follow-in.!!
the shooting of Sutton; fired
a builet into his brain and died
eight hours later. ;
Man Given One to. 14 Years
For Attack Upon Woman
. San Francisco. Feb. 17. Thomas.
Brady was, sentence to serve from
one to 14 years in the penitentiary
for an attack on Miss Jean Stanley.
Foun other young men have been
sentenced from one to 50 years for
attacking Miss Stanley and hercom
iVanion. Miss Jessie ' Mongomery of
Reno. New, early Thanksgiving day.
Judge Tries Out Auto,
Then Fines Speeder
MianATIa., Feb. 17. Seeing is be
lieving. Municipal Judge Trice here
holds, and when H. J. Jeasee, arrested
ior motor speeding, protested that
his car could net gtt up a speed of
15 miles an hour in two blocks, the
court went out to see. Hopping into
Jeasec's machine. Judge Price had it
going 35 miles an hour in two blocks
and hustled back to slap a $25 fine
cn the offeiuki
f ". : .1 ,.f ..,!.,
unless immijrraiion oarncrs woe pu;
i .
Censorship in
of Jury
Fate of Movie Bills in Hands
Of House Committee, Which
Will Hold Executive Session.
Lincoln, Feb. 17. (Special Tele
gram.) The movie case went to
the jury tonight Following appeals'
from club -women and others jfor a
stringent censorship law that would
bar sex and crime pictures from Ne
braska, the standing children's code
committee announced that the next
step would he iQ; hold an executive
session at which time the committee
will pronounce sentence to be passed
upon by the lower house and later
by the senate. ;
The meeting tonight ended a spec
tacular scries of sessions, in which
the value of sex and crime plays,
always ending with virtue and justice
winning, -was pitted against the evil
of suggestion contained in, such pic
tures. There are four alternatives facing
the committee: to recommend the
movie censorship bill ; to recemmmd
the Byrum-Gilford antidote'' which
specifies strict punishment for show
ing of certain pictures: to recom
mend the McFarland bill, which, is
similar but les? diastic than the By-rum-Gifford
bill, cr to turn all the
bills out to the lower house without
recommendation.
Stuart Gould, business agent of the
Nebraska Moving Picture Exhibi
tors' association, declared he believed
that the legislature would not take
steps that would place three persons
in charge of the pictures which thous
ands see and, that the movie censor
ship will be killed.
Italian Authorities
Prohibit Emigration
1 From Central Europe
Trieste, Feb. 19. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Emmigration from
central Europe 1o the United States
has been suspended and the eastern
frontiers ot Italy hav'c been closed,
pending the cleaning up of the sani
tary situation here.
Hie most rigid regulations have
been put into effect with regard to
the movement of all emigration not
covered by the suspension order.
The cases of ' typhus here are
under the strictest quarantine. No
new cases were reported todWy.
Italian authorities have forbidden
railroad or sea passage to emigrants
from Poland. Czecho-Slovakia and
Jugo-SIavia as a result of the dis
covery that travelers from thost
countries were in some, cases suf
fering from typhus ffPtt. This regu
lstion vvjll continue for one. month,
during which time conditions among
immigrants awaiting steamers here
will- be thoroughly investigated.
After that, no emigrants will be ;
allowed to embark, until regulations i
prescribed by the United States!
government have, been carried out. t
Counter Proposals Are
Asked of Germany, Is Word
Paris, Feb. 17. Germany has been
asked by . England and France to
communicate to them the counter
proposals of the Berlin government
before the opening of the London
conference, which is fixed for Match
1, says the Journal. The newspaper
adds "it would not be surprising if
the conference should become un
necessary because of the derisive
character of the German offers." In
this case, it is said, the allies will
notify Germany of their decisions
and give the German cabinet a few
days to make known if it' accepts or
refuser, to execute them.
Rail Shops to Close
Roanoke, Va., Feb. 17. East end
shops here of the Norflok & West
ern railroad will close Saturday until
March 1 for lack of work, tinder no
tices posted today. " " ,
Two Teachers Are
Found Murdered:
Slayers Sought
Children on Way to School
Find Bodies of Women,
Brutally Beaten , to Deadi
With Stick.
Cleveland. O., Feb. 17. Miss
Louise Wolf and Miss Mabel Foote,
two young school teachers at th
Parma High school," were 7 found
beaten to death in a road in Parflia
Heights, near here, early today.
They were last seen leaving the
school building late yesterday. A
bloody stick was found near the
bodies.
Children on their way to school
this morning found the two muti
lated bodies lying jn the roadway.
Part of the women's; clothing had
been torn from their bodies and there
were signs of a desperate struggle,
in the snow.
Police' believe ihe teachers were
on their way to board a trolley car
for home when killed.
There are no houses in the imme
diate vicinity of the spot where the
bodies were found and no one in the
neighborhood heard cries for help.
Miss Wolf, who was 37 years old,
was the principal of the high school.
Miss Foote was the only other teach
er in the high school. She was 24
years told.
An liour after the bodies wtre
found a posse of farmers was search
ing the neighborhood for two roughly-dressed
men seen hurrying along
a road shortly before dark last even
i'lg. Tracks leading toward a dense
wood were bcir.g followed at noon.
The women's lings were not taken,
although a suilcasc they carried was
torn open.
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Fordney Leaves for
Visit With Harding
Washington, Feb. 17. Chairman.
Fordney of the house ways and
means committee, left today for St.
Augustine, Fla., to seek the approval
of President-elect Harding to a plan
to put through at the extra session
ot the new congress this spring,, a
second emergency tariff to provide
protection for all products of Amer
ican industry.
The measure Mr. -Fordney has in
mind would be designed as a stop
gap until a scientific tariff law could
be framed in the light of after-thc-war
conditions in the various coun
tries. Conference Report on Cold
Storage Passes Senate
Washington, Feb. 17. The con
ference report on the bill for govern
ment regulation of cold storage was
adopted today by the senate without
discussion or a roll call.' It now
goes to the house for final approval.
Chairman Gror.na of the agricul
ture committee, who charged yester
day that the meat packers were try
ing to "strangle the bilt." obtained
unanimous consent to take up the
conference agreement ahead of other
pending matters.
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Texan Butt
Of Attack
In Congress
Hoots and Cat Calls Accom
pany Charges Made Against
Representative Blanton by
His Colleague.
Defendant Howled Down
- By Th Antorliitrtl l'rrv.
Washington. Feb. 17. Hoots, cat
calls and the word "liar" were shout
ed in the house today, in the storm
iest session in years. The uproar
started when Representative Suni
ners of Texas, having left a sick
bed. appeared and supported by
most members of his own state, at
tacked his colleague, Representative.
Blanton.
Rumors had been circulated that
the Texans were preparing an at
tack, but it was held off until Mr.
Sumners could direct it. When In
stepped forward, holding a faded
newspaper clipping, nearly every
member was on the floor.
Salary Increases Sought.
Read by the clerk, the clipping
revealed that Mr. Blanton. in a let
ter to Texas newspapers, had charg
ed members with a plan to raid the
treasury and obtain salary inreases,
which he alone had prevented here
tofore. The press was asked ,to
help, and many paper responded
frith bitter assaults on those charg
ed with backing the alleged salary
grab. V f
There waj a tense moment as the
reading was concluded and Mr.
Sumners, stepping close to , Mr.
Blanton's seat, shook his fist in the
latter's face, and shouted:
v"And when you sent that state-'
ment to Texas, you knew it was as '
false as hell.".
Blanton Howled Down.
The house broke into a wild
shout, half the membership rising.
Blanton, jumping up and trying to
make himself heard, demanded the
right to speak. , He was howled
down, the chair sustaining a point
of order that he could not be heard
at that time on a question of per
sonal privilege.
Mr. Sumners, walking back and
forth, continued. Blanton's eyes fol
lowing his every step. The speech
was constantly interrupted ' with
shouting. Mr. Sumners declared the
record showed no effort had been
made 1o slip through a salary in
crease bill, and that Mr. Blanton's
claim that he was forced to remain
constantly on he floor to block it
was absurd and untrue. The ques
tion had come up twice, Mr. Sum-i
r.crs said, and it was blocked '
cn points of order by Representa
tive Byrnes,' democrat, -Tennessee,
and Representative Wood, republi
can. Indiana.
Mr. Blanton, he asserted, was not
even "in on the wake."
The demonstration reached re
markable. proportions when a tap of
the gavel marked the close of the
time allotted for the speech. Dcmo-
(Turn to P Two. Column Two)
! Man Slashes His Throat
j After Shooting His! Wife
And Trying to Kill Son
j Des Moines, la., Feb. 17. (Spck-ial
j Telegram.) Charles Saunders, 55.
snot his wite, Margaret, 3s. through
the head and slashed his throat with
a razor, after shooting at his son,
Frank, 13. at their home here today.
Mr. and Mrs. Saunders are in the
Samaritan hospital in a critical con
dition. Mrs. Saunders is expected to
recover, but her husband has but a
slight chance to live.
Mrs. B. F. Foreman, proprietess
of the rooming house, t where the
tragedy occurred, said there was an
argument prior to the shooting. She
entered the room and found the
woman lying on the bcdmoaning.
while her husband was leaning
against the dresser mirror, blood
streaming from his throat. He still
held the razor in his hand and a pis
tol lay on the floor.
Passengers for U. S.
Undergo Examination
Paris. Feb. 17. Drastic measures
are being taken in- the examination,
of passengers bound to America
from principal European ports, so
that all steamers may have clean bills
of licalth, it was announced at a
conference of heads of Trans-Atlantic
steamship companies with Dr.
Rupijrt Blue, past surgeon-general of
the United States public health
service.
All second and third-class passen
gers, it was explained, are being sub
jected to a thorough medical exami
nation. The baggage is put under
heavy steam pressure and extraor
dinary personal cleansing processes
have been adopted.
The new regulations mean second
and third-class passengers must
reach the port of embarkation at
fca?t four days before the departure,
said Dr. Blue.
Lowden Has Definitely
Declined Cabinet Office
St. Augustine. Fla., Feb. 17. For
mer Governor Frank O. Lowden of
Illinois has definitely declined to be
considered for secretary of the navy
and will not be appointed to any post
in the initial makeup of the next ad
ministration. Admiral to Retire
Washington, D. ('.. Feb. 17.-Kc.ir
Admiral C. J. H.;oger. who has been
head of the navy general board sin"e
the death oi Admiral Dewey, will
return to the retired list at his own
request. February 28. Admiral Bad
ger retired in August, 1915. but hi-.
services were considered so neces
I sary that he w::s retained on active
J duty by special act of congress.
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