St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 17, 1926
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» ~ ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH aid SUNDAY MORNTN G, JANUARY 17, 1926. ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH hte eth HONOR MEDAL OF CONGRESS EE ee ye pds sri MAYOR TO Stt PUBLIC VIEW 0 CAR FRANCHISES MAY BE DECORATED CO en ye ‘Senator Williams and Rep- | resentative Cannon Spon- ee nr aed sf 5 slecealial ‘ rds ets re a % . — 3 " : 2 : Ly ¢ % oa - nn! ee * ied oS a Oi min he ‘Uy 8 Dt csp P gk Pa eth JyPay * i ; Fe) 5 atlas 26 eee i Thy Pe » ie Se w ‘ . afin - - - 2 Y is R - - Sen. eer ‘ igh y ‘ $ te “3 Pps . ee : ‘ a , ‘ hte cas wi Fe bts, ee re aS eee nn r — Care Fe ke Oe Fea . ns an mi ‘ ae ; ¢ Mess? I SO x J} Mya von aa sn) ie oe » ae oe ‘ (3 ain 4 | tor Bills for Capt. R. D. \ Hd. : | White, U. S. N. { AL ee | . = ree | Miller Plans Council Table 3 : Pete 7 x PS. ae . *_¢ _- | ay 0S at Which Citizens, the t ost -Dispatch Bureau, * . tj 20-23 Wyatt Building. | | x fee if "AS IGTON, . . 16.—After; * Heo. City and Company Will) wasiincTon, Jan. 16.—After| | : ir. ih lrec eiving hundreds of letters from; &° ie “4 a Be Represented. | Missourians, Senator Williams | . = Bee: ik (Rep.) and Representative Clar-/ §& . 3 es i i SS aed a awe t ‘ence Cannon (Dem.) of the Ninth; & 33 i PE i +e District have introduced bills in| * s ¢ iE out & ON —* ie PEOPLE the Senate and Housegasking that | kK — Taep oe : la congressional medal of honor be | Sr. °° ag at eh (awarded to Capt. Richard DPrace’ eS re 4 8 fe - . . » i & %, + ite yl W ites te New Con- White, U. S. N., of Montgomery, | SS | Bit Mit ts ts City, Mo., for his courage and for-| 5 S ich cern to Take Over the U. |titude in navigating the Transport) © es i Orizaba from the bridge with an| » s as at Hel R. to Provide for Service /arm and a leg broken and a jaw, : 1 i gee | bone smashed. White is now sta- | ee at Cost. jtioned at the War College here.| - : ae ai ; He has served in the navy for al- | i a ; sia 8 re | most 30 yvears. eat ae Negotiations for the grant of @! According to Dr. Connie Wynne, | Vie SA ae WEES) ee Service Co., as the | : : HE St. Louis Public aieiars will! killing the executive officer and i wie { reorganized United Ka : wounding White andadozenmem- >) SHEE Zz . werd Ee be known, will ensue shortly at 4/ hers of the crew, White later ma- ‘ ‘fp He + Council table where Mayor Miller neuvered his ship past two subma- | ee ae RC EE mi TE ee me oer ee PSP oa an SS | «(CAPT R. D. WHITE, U. 5..N. -% a eH. 4. ; a : ‘ = ym D . re re- | z. ‘ i ‘ a ik and the railway company *°P “White was in command of the | tinguished I had the Captain taken i: if! y : sented. 'Orizaba in 1918 when we were go-to the sick bay, and stopped his + an | ee i f The Mayor: outlined in a state- ing over jammed with troops and‘ hlecding temporarily. He wrote i ey | ment yesterday his conception of | with only naval reservists for of-/on a slip of paper, ‘Tend to the Hits’ oe 'ficers,’ Wynne ts quoted as say-! others first.’ ‘ rg) | the requirements a franchise | Be | ce hebtnttinl ing. “The executive officer had} Lashed, to a Stanchion. should include, and sal oo? " sd devised a method of launching | “Tl had him carried to his cab- that the people should a wile nai depth charges at a greater distance in and ordered him to stay there ate or approve ws es alps it from the ship,, but Capt. White; while I attended to the other vote the ordinance under pronounced the method dangerous! wounded men. Finally I was in- & is granted. and forbade him io experiment! formed the Captain was not in his of 12% per cent to 13 per cent on Louis “do not @xpect something for ' taxes payable this year and to 13% SOUGHT FOR MISSOURI HERO On mt Oe Rt eames ; ‘ t Debt Commission, the House dis- the American Government is busi- | posed of the last of the settlements | ness.” negotiated eS the summer, that | Coming down to cases, - Norris with Italy having been approved | recalled that in 1924. the Tariff | yesterday. , Commission was prosecuting an ' Ag sent to the Senate, all of the | important inquiry into the tariff on agreements provide tor a funding | sugar. of the respective obligations over | “it i¢ my .opinion.” . he seid. 62-year period. Inclu ling : aha . ‘that President ero used the i e ,o United States Will re- ' great power of his office to influ- ae xe Nae eo ly $3,000,000,000 -encé the Tariff Commission, which ‘from the six war loans. ‘ought to have been absolutely in- Status of War Loans, , | dependent of any interference by, | Of the 19 war loans to foreign him or from any other source in ‘nations, settlements with (reat the world, for the purpose of de- Sritain. Finland, Hungary. Lithu-/| laying the report which was going | corps toh and Nicarague have to be made to the President, rec- been ratified by Congress, ogpeadeses | “> eiganate a reduction of the tar- action by the House today brings /1 on sugar.’ sab dozen more jJoans to the last | Norris went on to explain that i step in their coifgre sssional Journey . | the term of David J. Lewis, one of| - Of the seven other loans, Austria the original members of the com-| has heen granted a 20-year mora- ' mission, expired in Septeimnber, ‘torium, while France, Greece, Li- 11924, during the campaign, ‘beria and Yugoslavia’ have 4s yet | Lewis’ Stand on Sugar. ‘to agree finally on their respective | Norris described ,Lewis us “a! ‘settlements. The present Russtan |man of the highest honor. a man Government has repudiated an lof great ability, a man of unlim- 'American loan of $192,009,000, and ‘jteq:- courage and of unlimited in- | ‘Armenia, with an obligation of | dustry.” lt was generally under- $12,000,000, has ceased to exist @8 |stooud, said Norris, that T.ewis an independent. nation. ‘would join in the recommendation Interest in the five agreements for a lower duty on sugar, though lapproved by the House today cen- at no time had it een intimated tered chiefly on that with Belgium, !that Lewis wags moved to take this | ‘which was i akciabe! by a vote of .course by his personal views. 114 to 24. For the President to fail to re-| Feeling as to Belgiun. sppoint Lewis while the campaign |; Speaking in favor of the agre@- was on. continued Norris, would }ment, Representatives Burton ihave been a very bed political | ‘(Rep.) of Ohio and Crisp (Dem.) | stroke, and if he did reappoint him of Georgia, both members of the: jn good faith “then it would be- Debt Commission, described the come his duty when Congress re- ‘havoe the World War brought to convened to send his name to the the little kingdom, while Represen- Senate.” tative Andrew (Rep.) of Massachu- The President gave Lewis a re-| setts asserted he regretted thatthe cess appointment, thereby getting | HOUSE APPROVES DEBT A WITH FIVE NATIONS, toa - ment of Approximately. $600,000,000 to U. S. Over a 62-Year Period. ee - ae RESOLUTIONS NOW UP TO THE SENATE oe Chief Laaiias in Proceed- ings Centered in Belgium —_—-- i GREEMENTS Settlements he ies the Pay- ,dent Coolidge belongs to that class. ‘that I think he holds, 'the same time I do not want any- _ Norris in Attack on President ——_- Cc ontinued from Page One. data on the tariff for the informa tion of the President and Congress ‘in framing tariff schedules. “There are those, however,’ he i;eontinued, “who believe that the Tariff Commission should be used 'as an instrumentality, partisan Mn \its nature, for the purpose of up- holding one kind or another view of the tariff. I believe that Presi- “Tl have in my mind or in my heart no prejudice of any kind against President Coolidge, and I am not chargifig him with dishon- esty or malice in holding the view and yet at body to take what 1 say as an apology for what I do say. “Bh think he has misconstrued not only the law but the spirit of the law and that he has to use his high office in the con- trary to the real spirit and inten-| the Vote Being 314 to 24 for Acceptance. : Associated Press. w ASHING TON, Jan. agreements with Belgium, and o i§.-—The war debt Rumania, Czecho-Slovakia, Tatvia, esthonia epg approx- | ' imately $600,000;000, were aPp- provea succession. By adopting re solutions 10 4U- thorize acceptance of the terms recommended by the American | i d today by the House in rapid | { ! o ee me See ere eee Mayor Miller said that ne further. cabin, but was on the bridge. planned to ask a committee —. Officer Blown to Bits. “I rushed up there and expos.- prominent citizens, representing | '« “Later, however, the executive !tulated. He wrote: ‘TI have no the public, to confer with a com. | officer again attempted to set off | one to navigate the ship.’ He had mittee of the railway operatorg 1), firing apparatus. The Captain | caused himself to be carried to the and members of the Board of Al- |was warned and came tearing aft, | bridge and tied to a stanchion to dermen, Comptroller, dar ert ‘shouting orders to desist. As the | hold himself upright though his} selor and Director of Public Util- ‘Captain neared there was a terrific; leg and arm had not been set. ities, representing the city, on the | / explosion. “I had him taken to the sick matter of what the franchise shall | “FT rushed to the deck and met| bay and began work on him. We grant the operating ee el | some seamen carrying a sheet. Ij carried a speaking tube connected Ordinance Likely Resu x |ordered them to lay it down, and | with the bridge to ihe side of the | It is likely, in view i sel a looking within I saw the body of] operating table. | or’s stand, that this comm aaa | the executive officer blown to| “When the Captain. bad been ‘i conclusions will - eorcacninaany A | pieces. A dozen men were fright-|cared for I had him carried to his Ey. an = “BRE . fully wounded, three of them dy-jcabin and for a week he navigated | i rien, a ing the next day. his ship from there by the pad ie Pee : nee ance a handling “At that moment, hearing 1 se-/and pencil and tube method. In vestment ba orb ries of terrible grunts I looked/that time he fought off two sub- ihe financial phases of the wre around and saw Capt. White at-| marines which attemptel to tor- ganization, arrived in St. iouls sae tempting t@ pull himself from the] pedo us." 7 terday, presumably to ne pars n | deck by a fianchion. One arm Among those who have asked cae Genberations whieh vw ©F®-land one leg hung limp. His jaw|that White be awarded tle high- cede a franchise sient 41} bone was broken. He was pep-/est award for bravery are Dr. J Mayor Miller offers his approval pered all over with the wounds of!C. Jones. former president of the | 3 (0 a Bervice-ai-cost plan which per | flying steel. Unable to speak, ne|University of Missouri: Prof. F. F | mits.oi.the appointment of a Strect | .. ee te . 3 : &s desperately trying to indicate |Stephens of the history depart- | | . Raliway + em gm ins the danger of a small fire started | ment; Isaac H. Orr of St. Lo ais; + ; gla * at OP-|by the explosion reaching the|Charles H. Ruffum of Louisiana; be , pany are at/ depth charges along the deck. W. Wallace Fry and Frank Hol a cost. He favors co-ordinated servy- “When the fen nad tne sali ssw rt} : eX xico. ' ee noe 3 :, ice, presumably. of motor bus and : ee Of Mexico. e cf street car lines, in order that the| eae a : a e createst amount of service ‘‘with FOE OF MILITARY TRAINING | AGREEMENT ON is 7 the least waste’’ may be given. Bid In this connection it is known! QUSTED BY SECURITY LEAGUE; 74% BILL HED i that the annual report of the Uni- BY SENA E. BODY Wee a 7 ted Railways, expected shortly, will Prof. W. B. Otis Resigns As Di- | PV) i ee + show an operating loss of about rector. At Request of Maj. | Continued ftom Page One. ate f 250,000 which Receiver Welts has | py ee Bullard. He | 4 Attributed in large part to motor | th saints - can | ments on account of war debts or id ' i. bus competition. | or JILIN, ve — 2 interest, would be applied to it. a ii 7 For “Recapture” Provision. William Bradley Otis a the Col- | Other Charges Maale. Mi Gods The Mayor further stated that {lege of the City of Ney York to-i In its consideration of the non- ages he. believed a new franchise night resigned as director of the partisan Ffouse bill, the commit- ze pod should include a recapture provi- National Security Leasusyat the re-| tee has made the following addi- eae sion whereby the city might exer- p ' tional changes: cee ati cise a right to operate the com- |2Uest of the League president,) ftnorease in the exemption from ie AN pany itself, or have another com- | Maj. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard, who the admission tax from 50 to 73 AN 3 pany operate it. He said the city |opposed Prof. Otis’ views against. cent tickets. ; w4s fi ; should reserve the right to desig- compulsory military training in! Repeal of the House provision be fy ’ p. nate the kind and character of |colleges. Prof. Otis said he would exempting tickets to spoken drama tt HESS | service the company should give. |continue to oppose compulsory mil-! productions from the admission te He : He pointed out that all the nego- {itary training. levy. Bt te ‘es | Uiations at the present time should While a majority of board of di- Repeal of the stamp taxes on dt fi q fProgeed with a consideration of rectors concurred with Gen. Bul-' custom house entries and with- ie fi bas future’ requirements in the way of lard in asking for Prof. Otis’ res- | drawals and on steamship passage ceaede subways or elevated lines. ‘ignation, the action was not unani- | tickets. : Cae It is likely that a 50-year fran- | ;mous. The chairman of the board, Restoration of a two per cent ea ehise will be discussed, providing | 8. Stanwood Menken,. told Prof.;tax on automobile trucks. The if for co-ordination of busses and | Otis that if the league “cannot have! House had voted to repeal the ; street cars, with a provision that free speech and free thought it hadipresent three per cent tax on t investors will receive a fair return, | better go out of wire ig trucks. 1e : Mayor Miller itn his statement | svt ae Repeal of the capital stock tax. {t Points out that the citizens of St. ACTION m INSURANCE SUITS Increase of the corporation tax £ _ nothing, but want their money’s Federal Judge Fitz Henry Settles i eel Certificates of Evidence. per Cent on taxes payable after spi wees year ago the Reor- By the Associated Press Jan. 11, 1927. This was done to gy gAaniaztion Committee conducted BLOOMINGTON. IUl.. Jan. 1¢.— offset. the repeal of the corpora- Et negotiations looking toward the: " vt hd asia oe ee tion tax. f purchase of the People's Motorbus | 2 U48* Fitz Henry has settled the} «4 motion by Senator Shortridge Co. for $2,800,000. The negotia- | certificate of evidence In two of the | (Rep.), of California, to permit wives and husbands to fle se ate returns on their ineomes states where community tions fell through and although there have been frequent rumors about their renewal, no definite injunction suits pending before him against the TIllinois Bankers’ Life Insurance Assocfation «of Mon- par- in property ial step has been taken. mouth, he announcea today. The |laws are in effect, was defeateds i: ORE ITE , . .-{|Such laws are 1 ffec . Chicago Men Bu case will be presented as an emer n effect in elght : ¥@ uincy Theater, gency cause to the Circuit Cofirt of | States. ¢ By the Associated Prea QUINCY, Tn. Ja 16.— The Washington Square Theater of this tity, one of the largest and finest vaudeville ana movie houses of the Appeals in a few weeks. Judge Fitz Henry previously had granted a preliminary injunction preventing the directors from vot- MRS, E, R, BRADLEY DIES ON LINER ON TOUR OF WORLD f West, today passed under the con- ing gertain proxies in a special | Special to the Post. Dispatch. + trol of the Great proms Theatrs, meeting to contract reinsurance LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 16 «2 | Inc., of Chicago, | dominated by with the Illinois Bankers’ Insur- | Confirmation of report that Mrs. ra ea & Kaz, moving spirits in | @mce Co., especially organized for | E. R. Bradley, wife of E. R. Brad. : the exhibitors’ end of a prominent the purpose. Judge Fitz Henry also | ley, millionaire owner of. Idle Hour moving-picture concern. The con. | sued a statement to polity hold- | Farm near here, had died on the sideration was not made public. ers that their interests would be | steamer Belgenland, near Shang- The theater, when built less than protected in all actions in the fu- | ‘hai, China, while emaking trip cost $400,000. / ture. pereund the world, -was recei¥bd in iwo years ago, cablegrams TELLER EMBEZZLED $107, 550 here today. by Lexington Accom panted : a | 3T. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH A opted daughter, Miss Woffa Ha- i Founded py JOSEPH Lf. ILITZER. Baltimore Man Says He Toast a ; mon, Mrs. Bradley left ] ington : 878. | in Stocks and Horse Racing. | Nov. 22, salling two d H a Dally by The Pu Pulitzer Pu Ry the Aagrsociated Preas. iN Y k. wie oe . | fin boclevert and Olive johin eee a ; ew York. Death was dffe to heart . LAS Sine Burea t Q | BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 16. ~| disease. j TH SOCiA TED aes Embezzlement of $107,550 from; Col. Bradley is at his hote] re- a ett P sence nee BI ication “ot ~ Robert Garrett & Sons, banking! sort at Palm Beach, Fla. 14 ‘vows tches credited "to aot not oth-| and brokerage house, was disclosed Mrs. Bradley was Agnes Currte ie fora ews publabed rein. _.. | rights at today with the arrest of Clarence and was born in Columbia. Mo. a rep ica o i rela ©. Dix, 38-year-old teller. “Dix She frequently visited relatives in oe SUBSCRIPTION ATE BY MAIL In previously had confessed to officials | St. Louis. . She told friends here it iaite ws ANCE. 8: 7 of the firm and repeated his con-| before she departed to remember 1 : : wid nday Sunday. one year. 4 fession: to police. He told police; her Jan. 16, as she was going to tf : ‘ © ter peotal ‘inder’ enneus es lost . Stock speculation and/ have a hig birthday celebration on 4 money gither St. Louls exchange orse racing. the Belgeniand. She died o 4 = ., Pye ager apetone yim rr) , , ' n h er + x Delivered by ci 1 OF out-of-town Tam glad they caught me," said | birthday. a eet 291th carvicen otc tzwras tnd te | ene a tat ehcola ot) aa wa ' : @Xx- iat she met Bradley, about 80 + i} . “ Seta at ii hed monte ih desire to be sentenced | “years agro. and igi were married tt : ss wraps Bost ie as soon as possible, in St. Loults. GS Se bur ee P " e - Ave., United States was alone among na- tions in asking. repayment of | money loaned that country while its territory was occupied by Ger- man troops. POLICE SEIZE QUANTITY OF BEER IN “BUCK” KEENAN'S SALOON Find Only Cracked Ice And Beer | Pipes at First, but Negro Porter Gives ae Hunch Detective Sergeant T¢ yakley his rum squad, armed with search warrant, walked into } “Buck” Keenan's saloon a 13 | North Seventh street vesterday aft- | ernoon, and after the Rereuut | read the document to George Heff- | man, the barkeepers, the squad searched the place. They found | cracked ice and beer pipes in the | ice box, but no beer. They were about they saw the Negro porter, Wil- | liam Jones, enter oan adioininyg |! room. The squad followed and found barrels of beer and 6 | cartons, containing ?4 pints, of a | like fluid. gHoffman and Jones |! were arrested, as Keenan was not. there. Last loons and | a + leave when > Lu " ~ di Sa- and | making night the squad raid: at 1854 Cass avenue 2145 Chouteaun avenue. five arrests. ederal prohibition agents last night raided the saloon of David i. Peebles, at Grand boulevard and |} Couzens avenue, confiseating 450 pints of home-brewed beer and 40° pints’ of whisky. They arrested | Peebles and Thomas J. Foster. ‘of 3100 Cliften place, who was behind the bar. _ADVERTISEMENT Piles Can Be Cured | Without Surgery An instructive book has been pub. | lished by Dr. A. S. McClearv, the ——s enoted rectal specialist of Excelsior | This book tells how suf- | ferers from Piles can be quickly and | easily cured without the use of knife, scissors, “hot” iron, electricity or any | eutting or burning method, | without confinement to bed and no | hospital bills to pay. The method has been a success for twenty-six years | and in more than twelve thousand cases. The book is sent postpaid free | to persons afflicted with piles: or! other rectal troubles who clip this | item and mail it with name and ad-* dress to Dr. MeC learv, 5866 St. Louis Excelsior Springs s, Mo. Springs, Mo. other. | ' The burden of the White article. ‘not ‘during the : g£rTess, | the ‘organ with shortly |; Was ithe lwho iclenecy | pointed.”’ tion of the law itself.” . Quotes William Allen White. Norris then read from a pub- ‘lished article in which William Al- } len White, whom Norris described as one of the best friends of the President, told ,how the President had “loaded’’ the Tariff Commis: sion, the Trade (Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion with men of his own point of | and how this illustrated the. view, habitual tendency of the President | _to place business ahead of justice. | as was that the Presi- “the read by Norris, dent believes that in the campaign for fairness broad-mindedness, but he send his name to the Senate ensulng session credit and of and when the of the Senate opened he .sent in name man, who was confirmed. March another last the of Norris read to the Senate a sig- nificant item which appeared in ‘“‘Protectionist.”” a high tariff which Thomas O. vin, chairman of the mission, was connected at the of his original appointment to commission. This item, published , after the lav any fears that might have been created among protectionists ‘that action. ‘Protec tionist” The ‘Protectionist” said that not to be inferred from the naming of Lewis that the President was unaware of conditions within commission. More than this. the gProtectionist’’ told its read- ers, could not lation of confidence, but them to rest assured Explanation. it he “that gged the Tariff Commission will in due time “eae the into and that no one executive will be disap- pulled out of which it has fallen looking for in that body THiOYTass is Continuing the story of the Pres- (nats “ed. pe mse is Different “= from all other laxatives and reliefs Defective Elimination Constipation Biliousness The =— of Nature’s Remedy (NR Tablets) is more natural and thor ough. i effects will be a revela- tion—you will feel so good. Make the test. You will] appreciate this difference, Used For Over Thirty Years Chips off the Old Block RR JUNIORS —= Little Ws The same NR —in one-third doses. » Candy-costed. F.° children and adults. ° mem $0LD BY YOUR ORUGGIST undertaken. tro] of the Tariff Commission con- | business of | | | Sept. i fice i'received ing did | Con- | special session | , that of Mar- | Tariff Com- | time | the! President's recess} appoint ment of Lewis, sought to al-| ithe by! imatter it | — _ be said without vio-. effi- | | did not | Way, held only President. , ident’s maneuvering ed that at about the time term expired, in September, Viee Chairman Culbertsor, publican from Kansas, to the White House. “Commissioner Culbertson, ris proc eedpad, port to Mr. dent was going \to reappotir' but the attached to the reappointment. reading a letter from Mr. Culbert- son, written to Mr. Costigan, an- other member of the commission, then in Colorado.” ‘Norris explained that Culhertson was in the habit of writing memo- randa of things that occurred from day to day. He wrote one in this case, and inclosed it in the letter to Costigan at Palmer Lake, Colorado. The letter was on the letter head of the Tariff Commission and was ‘dated Sept. 9, 1924. Reads Memorandum. i: As read by Norris to the Senate, ‘it ran as follows: | “My Dear Costigan: | | “You will perhaps have seen to- i'day in the press that M;. Lewis lwas reappointed yesterday. I 'reached Washington Sunday eve- | ning and had not been in my office very long Monday morning before I was sent for by the President. The result af my interview is covered *% memorandum, copy of which 1 inclose. | “When L returnea to the office I ' took the President's suggestion up ‘with Lewis and later he reached the decision that he would not ; write the letter of resignation re- ‘quested by the President He, however, went to see tre President 'during the afternoon and, 1 pre- sume, he will write you the details | Of what took place. In general ‘this is what happened.” Norris here broke into the read- ‘ing of the letter to present the Cul- memorandum. it was as | 7 by a | bertson follows: “Contemporary memorandum of ‘the interview with the President, 8, 1924. “Shortly after this morning a request phone come to the ‘to see the President. immediately. The President was reasonably cordial. He began by isaying that the subject of the in- terview was Mr. Lewis’ reappoint- rent. Mr. Lewis’ term as a mem- 'ber of the pired vesterday. “The President stated “that intended to reappoint Mr. Lewis, but° he desired that Mr. Lewis pre- pare and give to him a letter of ‘resignation .as a member of the Tariff Commission, At first I did fully comprehend the nature that request, President's E.xplanation. “T spoke of Mr. Lewis’ term hav- already expired. Then the explained that: he want- submit his resig- new commission he (the Pres- time im the i my of- about 9:30, 1 over the tele. White House [I went over I reached Lo | not of President ed Mr. Lewis to nation under the to be effective in case ident) desires at any future to accept it. “The President at Mr. Forster, of secretaries, and instructed him make out Mr. Lewis’ commission of reappointment as a member of the Tariff Commission, effective today. “The sheet this point called in one to then handed me House down the tenor he wished Mr. Lewis to write. wrote down the! following words: ‘Il hereby resign asa member of the Tariff Commis- sion to effect upon your ac- ceptance.’ “ point tion this the record that desire to continue Tariff President replied for Mr. President of White I could the letter “a take which ] s take the objection at this | an unqualified resign | kind would imply on Mr. lewis did as a {‘ommission. that thts Lewis to decide. explanation of the President said that to be free after the cerning the position filled by Lewis. He said that if he were elected, the Democrats dertake to hold up other ments which he had during the next session of the Senate, and he implied that he desired to use the appointment wef Mr. Lewts for trading purposes in case of neces- | sity. Refused to raised that ¢ ay) was his request he “Tn not Give Assurance. “I thereupon asked the Presi- dent whether | could have his as- isurance that if he were -elected, Mr. Lewis could be continued as a member of the He said that he could not at time make any commitments. “We then talked of other m2t- ers, and at the end the Presiden! |asked me to have Mr. him during the afternoon, said he would give him | mission.” The rest of .the continuation letter to Costigan, as “He went in to the President's office and the President had be- . fore him the commission. He took iup his pen and signed it in ‘is’ presence. He then turned ‘Lewis and asked him whether he i had. ‘that letter.’ “Lewis then explained that ‘did not feel free furnish the President with the letter which he | requested. Lewis said that the | President was visibly disturbed ;and said with a little heat that it make any difference anvy- the position would be at the pleasure of the ro ~ this when he his com- the story is told in of follows: to h2 to that “Lewis then said to the President that only the two of them knew that the commissién was signed and he * Nor- “was directed to re- Lewis that the Presi- him, President had a condition I cannot better give that condition to the Senate and the country than by Tariff Commission ex- paper god) The ; Lewis sec to get a com- mission to his liking, Norris relat- Lewis’ 1924, a Re- was called not respond to this suggestion and | 'Lewis left the President's office | with his commission. A little later | he was sworn in. think. that there is a line beyond . which the President will not go ir opposing the principles for which he | a a eee . that the President, | pecullar | is a me - his | 'a Government. the three of us have stood in the development of the Tariff Commis- | sion. gan “We miss your ear A enna counsels very much, but I suggest that you stay | Chicago gang feuds ‘or in the Colorado climate until you,;tWo years, were sought | are certain that your return here | tonight in connection wie will not bring with it return of | ing of Harry your hay fever. “Very cordially yours, “CULBERTSON.” Norris then referred to the fact that Senator Dillon of Washington put into the record the other day “a telegram from the President in Which he said in so many words that before he (the President) had appointed a certain man to a posi- tion, he had a certain understand- ing with him and that the man had a j | morning. beer barons. of Schneider “Big Steve’’ formed the- CHICAGO BER SUSPECTED Ml A tn ete. “Thus ends another curious; Orders Issued for Ares chapter in the Tariff Commiissiog:s | ‘ol history. It indicates clearly, I| Tr) Druggan and F Lake, By the Associated Preagj CHICAGO, Jan. 16. and Frankie | beer runners and storm 4 Schn | old receiver of stolen /onee notorious “Valley Gi Orders also ¢ 2 round up former memiaes Valley Gang, once led b Police a connection ae : ? and * Ww icnlewa in Schneider is alleged te 4 authorities } mer that Wisniewsk: = ‘= a os “I ar NTO " OTURE ISSUE jnance Cor bers Want to Make W duction Bil OSES REN ATTACK Fails, Howev Question « When U; Convenes | not carried out that understanding |the instigation of § neil and that therefore he demanded} Lake, and later to eo tea P his resi a strumental in gs ne ene sapabapatecns Ss signation = pete ‘ ’ tar WASHINGTON This was Norris’ epitome of the | gation of charges j x | , case of Bert &. Haney of Oregon, | -ake“and ae fae move to invoke a member of the Shipping Board.|the county jail, wha World Court issu Haney was given a recess appoint- | held on a liquor vi oath ut of the way ment by the President on the ex- piration of his term in June 25. He had planned to retire but th: President insisted that he stay on the board. In August the President sent him a peremptory telegram from Mas- sachusetts calling for his resigna- tion. The President gave as his reason that “You (Haney) are pro- | last night.. Schneider. Seales eee Druggan and Lakin’ pending a Federal] " the recent jail scandal y ported in Flortda. they were in Chicago body was found on the f of his home this mon puted to have been the ¢ Be, Se | : ay for the tax eloped late tod: But lice les. : Some of thos movement said t whose bt ebate to one hot might be made hirds majority posing to remove Admiral Palmer | ™entor of Druggan, ary to make the contrary to the understanding 1} O’Bannion and other rative. had with you w hen I deercicnemmcne Sag of gangland. This subject wa you.’ A few months ago, C the Finance C Haney to Be Removed. | er, cafe owner, another — umber of memb Haney wrote to the President j member of the Valley Gang’ denying that there had been any | alleged to have given polie step under the gmie opponents Oo ‘ ‘ such uagderstanding and refusing to | mation about the Wisniew adertake to- del resign. He is scheduled to:be dis- | der, was shot and seriously | mx bill if that sh wate ed soon by a new appointee. ~|ed as he stepped out of ourt on the Sena After his reference to the Haney | talrant. ‘Some Democra matter, Norris cpntinued: ‘eh: se Mntified with ti “T wondered cones and I wonder | APPEALS T0 GOVERNOR . They con now how many resignations the | tactics have President is carrying uround in his; PAYING 18: ‘YEAR-O opponent, and appointed, who have accepted the Satisfy $300 State Dep ben: pending § ft conditions which Mr. Lewis refuged to accept. To my mend it is an in- | en Rg pe Fine. By the Associated nage Pars. Priority M. direct but a very forceful method DES MOINES, Ia, Jan. 1 An effort to d of influencing the official action of | Fearing deprivation of his hor oposal of its po commission and othe; officials of | satisfy the State’s demands f iled today and the Government contrary to their|jment of a fine imposed 318 sion begins the own convictions. ago, Charles Eddy, 70-9 i} remain the fir “How many men are there, hu-| painter of Belle Plaine, hag SS. man as men are, who will under all | pealed to Gov. Hammill. Senator Moses, circumstances fail to deviate from The property has been ampshire, of the the path that they believe to bej|sold Jan. 23 to satisfy @ group, who | right, when they know that the! ment of the Benton Count eech on the subj man with their resegnations in his pocket wants them t@ take an- other course? “Before this question of the in- vestigation of the Tariff Commis- sion is disposed of I intend to add imposed Sept, liquor law gullty and sentenced to Hie served the was unable to lianas. EE ee another which seems’ to me to State for 18 years left demonstrate, even to a greater ex- | lested. W hile tent than what I have already said; ! growing to $725 according to his idea of his duty and his | right to control independent bodies, | in my judgment violating the laws of the land. Secret Understandings. - “If we are to have that kind med Fe ; bought-a home. thin if the Tariff Com-! 25 Violation, and was fined $306 pay Of interest he saved his @ Eddy’s attempt to obt in fon his property brought te | old judgement against him.@ ‘oke and Iron Compaay Associated Press, BLOC IMINGTON, 1907, tors Eddy4 90 days ii jail sentey the. dh i +e . Is r te It ll., Ja in as a Nations, and well. Another reservat Psolution azier, would produce a situa al lesisl onday, gnroot, Senate voted t its positio: Delivering ‘nator Moses . ation the but on m tepublis “au pre “atti “league creature he sat apologist” t oft: Republica pro Was | mission, the Federat Trade Com- | : : mt of an interns mission, the Interstate Commerce ,J@mes F. O'Donnell of B - te : pga: Commission, the Shipping Board. ton has been ‘appointed & ag on a ‘are to be controllea and handied | of the Midland Coke and “d ee through secret understanding with | | poration, formerly tie Sq —/ — ‘oe en: ‘the man who makes the appoint- | Coke and Iron Co., by apy irae: wp oe: ‘ment, then why not «abolish them {Judge Louis Fitzhengy. @ —s . = all, if that is the right way to doj;|succeeds James Duncan” if ene satietaiteen ates. ‘it? And why not extend the prin- | who-died on a recent. trip’ — . ciple to the courts? Are there not | York City. Under Dunem 7 mae -" phipe2e: tg now sitting upon the bench | ministration the co m pi | oe ae he Avho have signed resignations that | been reorganized as ; epee a {they have placed in the hands of |Coke and Iron Corpo - cea ps the President? Is this a common | —— Dns of he U 4 , thing? Is this secret understand- | ee : the Valaee i not } meniber of ! a | t ‘that this committee, when it is desired | ine that the President himself claims he had with Haney common with other officials of the Govern- ment ? “These of things ap- are some the Oo D E Oo NT 115—J ARS PADERE Cle aguc the 0 Pewers concerning may not be require AVisory opinion.” | “There certainly to prevent th f Nations | | : ae Se s: Parquet, $5.50, court the 'pointed to investigate the Tariff | rr . $3.30, $2.20, mpetence a ps ; ; . .* 4 any Commission, will very properly AEOLIAN CO., 1004 D pay the mi may! . ai : $m 2 0 - consider. Management ELIZARS 8.’ Senator Moses election con- | ' | Mr. | might’ un- | appoint- | Tariff Commission. | a re eee (‘ulbertson 's | —— Lew - eee oe ee suggested that the President was« it liberty to destroy the *ommis- ! &)O} The T how ho did President signs in best quality 18-karat meditate sélection. No extra charge for setting your diamond. MAIL ORDERS FILLED FLOOG ae 109 A Aread “St. Lows’ Daintiest Jewelry Store” ae D Wee are offering these draslic re@ ~ lions through a_ special PUrCHIes Your choice of over 200 beautifurae gold, with or without sap phi prong or basket style. The values @ so extreme that we suggesl your ti JEWELRY COMPAI Arcade & mh on ’ d dealt Lilies h it, ‘cr this Z lian Ppt: e] t Bome hateve grt the mama € nator Moses cal] Sking the t inasmuch ternational water he upon the court to cr muestio as 1 subie with in the and irisdiction over ma treaties which r fact 4 ister =f by De the Murt of 0 DEDICATE CARPENTERS’ “Ss Origin in 3 rests ; reting of Italy, iyi reference the eor his iA. UC bring question anal,” here ‘ et) that a fo Ss Ital to ft ountry, sa andpoint this cou: case bhefo: int rms —— ae an -O0 prendh penter ist brit He’ Carpe (srand boy ‘venue, for th 4 Wi la Ay ¢" oe es ‘ itech . Drealdens ‘ peri e0d of q*; ers of Americs ‘nis of Dian for wi Caffe liam “a? ana
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