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May 22, 1926

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does not forget THE POST should be genuinely informative | as well as entertaining. | that a newspaper | , Weather — Increasing cout ness and somewhat warmer,~fol- lowed by showers this afternoon |; and tonight; cooler tonight. | Temperature yesterday—High- | est, 73; lowest, 49. | ENTERED AS POSTOFFICE, NO. 18,237. SECOND-CLASS MATTER WASHINGTON, D. C. WASHINGTON: SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1926.—TWENTY-TWO PAGES COPYRIGHT. 1926, BY THE WASHINGTON POST CO. T VV O CENTS. — POST-SCRIPTS GEORGE ROTHWELL BROWN \. “Some of you nicely ken the laws, To round the period and pause, And wi’ rhetoric clause on clause, To make harangues.”’ The “Booster train’ from Ver- ‘mont-arrives a little too late to head off the debate in the Senate. Some of those statesmen on the Hill act as though they were per- fectly dazed by the astounding dis- covery that a Vermont Republican’s States’ rights principles are only skin deep. The President and Gen. Andrews are severely criticized for making dollar-a-year Federal prohibition agents out of State officials, but after dll, what’s the between — Constitution » a * IN WARSAW REVOLT; U5, FLAG FIRED ON Uncensored ed Cable Re- veals Wanton Slaughter by Troops in Streets. PILSUDSKI PRACTICAL PRISONER OF COTERIE Clique That Caused Killing of Women and Children Fears Reaction. It seems that the guests at Earl | Carroll’s party could hardly wait for Saturday night to come. Mr. Wilbur approves the drastic sentence of the court-martial, and the next time Col. Williams attends a party there'll be four more of- ficers senior to him who’ll have to be served first. ’Tis a cruel world! FRENCH EMBASSY TORN BY GUNS OF FRANCE Opposition to New Regime Spreads Among People Gen. Smedley Butler has made. almost as much of a success in'| cleaning up the Marine Corps as he | achieved in Pamesepne. = oo The increase in the price of gas by the Standard Oil Co. doubtless will dilate a good many colleges in this gay commencement season with lively expectations of endow- ments to come. “Praise John from whom oil blessings flow.”’ and Army Circles. By WILBER FORREST. (Special Cable Dispatch.) Warsaw, (Via Berlin), May 21.— Marshal Pilsudski, contrary to the highly censored dispatches which have emerged from Warsaw, is fig- uratively a-prisoner in the hands of a small clique of Polish officers who managed to maneuver him into the disastrous adventure which threatens to ruin Poland. First Returns on Primary From 140 Precincts Out of 1,848 Show Vote Is Well Scattered Among 8. Bert E Haney, Formerly of Shipping Board, Has Close Contest for Demo- cratic Senate Choice. Portland, Oreg., May 21 (By A. P.).—First returns from today's primary election gave Frederick Steiwer a lead in the race for the Republican nomination for United States senator. With 140 precincts reported out of 1,847 in the State, Steiwer had 3,265; Alfred E. Clark, 1,911; Senator Robert W. Stanfield, 1,946; L. B. Sandblast, didate, 1,006; J. J. Crossley, 800; A. R. Shumway, 305; Mrs. Rose E. Barrett, 254; Clarence F. Evey, 31. For the Democratic nomination for senator, 57 precincts gave Bert E. Haney 1,075; Elton Watkins, 1,025. For Republican nomination for governor, 142 precincts gave: W. A. Carter, 1,743; I. N. Patterson, 4,447; Jay H. Upton, 2,721. For Democratic nomination for governor, 60 precincts gave: Gov. W. M. Pierce, 602; Mrs. Louise P. Weber, 221. Mrs. Weber favored modification of the dry laws. Mr. Haney was formerly member of the United States Shipping Board, but resigned recently, and Watkins, “wet” can-| LFEATIONS RIDDLED 'Steiwer Leads in Oregon; Stanfield Running Second Henry Miller News Picture Service,- Inc. FREDERICK STEIWER. WAITTEMORE GUILTY Mercy by Court; Sen- tence Is Deferred. BANDIT’S WIFE FAINTS Face; Defense Is Silent as to Appeal. was not raised on the Democratic side. I. N. Patterson, Jay H. nor. interest. Representative M._ E. cation. Senator Stanfield made campaign on the slogan: senator—member of powerful com- Upton, State senators, and William A. Car- ter, Portland attorney, sought the Republican nomination for gover- Their contest attracted much Crum- packer was opposed for the Repub- lican nomination for representa- tive of the Third district by B. F. Mulkey and Norman Richards, the latter proposing liquor law modifi- his ‘*Present minutes. hanging The penalty, or .- life Eugene O’Dunne. Judge. O’Dunne. Herbert R. O’Conor. only two victed slayer, who is 26. OF MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE, OAS JURY Fails to Recommend ON HEARING VERDICT) Slayer Spits Into peanander’ S Baltimore, Md., May 21 (By A. P.).—Richard Reese Whittemore was found guilty of murder in the first degree late today by a jury that deliberated one hour and five death by imprisonment, rests with Criminal Court Judge The “‘Candy Kid” turned sudden- ly savage as he heard his life turned over to the discretiou of As he was led from the room he spat viciously into the face of State's Attorney O’Conor is years older than the con- | Mrs. Margaret Whittemore faint- ed when the jury foreman, J. H. JAPAN'S PROPOSAL FOR NAVY ARMS CUT HELO INDPPORTUNE Plan for Parley Here Not Wise at Present. SUCCESS AT GENEVA IS SEEN IMPERILED ——— + es | to Do All Possible for League Efforts. ' By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN. Inopportune—to say the least! gestion, naval force reduction. There Geneva. proposal may well be questioned. cles that President Coolidge al- | | | Pages. United States Is Committed | It is felt that it is made at a time when the sincerity of the ways has been most sympathetic to- ' ward any movement which would tend to bring about world peace) and reduction of war machinery of | every character, and that this gov- | ernment entered whole-heartedly Administration Regards | | L0-—'W eather esthe News in Pictures. PRISONER IES SMILING | That is the view of the adminis- | tration on the latest Japanese,\sug- | fathered at Geneva, that Japan favors a second parley on is not the slightest suggestion of sym- pathy for the proposal voiced at WAS LIKE FALLING ASLEEP It is emphasized in official cir-| |form of. capital punishment. |of Ruth, Nev., Index to Today’s Issue. | PRESIDENTS ORDER. ON RY LAW CALLE ~TLLEGAL IN SEMTE Party Leaders Protest Coolidge Tells of Needs. | Action to Make Police 7-8 Society. | Prohibition Agents. sume |AUTHORITY LIKELY TO BE CHALLENGED 11—Radio Programs. ;12 —Magazine Pace. 13-14-19—-Financial. 15-16-17-18—Sports. 19—-The Legal Record. *” hu. § . |Senater Goff Takes Position Executive Has No Right to Issue Deoree. USURPATION OF POWER, SENATOR BRUCE SAYS Walsh Defends Legality, Cit- ing War-Time Draft Act as Precedent. 1—Legations Fired on in Warsaw. Steiwer Leads in Oregon. Whittemore is Found Guilty. Naval Arms Cut Frowned On. Dry Law Order Called Illegal. 2—-Calls Mexico Protest Futile. Seek Change in Baptismal Rite. &’—Saw Girl Step in Bathtub. | Gov. Small Called in Inquiry. 4—Say Britain Shuns Naval Parley Charge Fraud in Primaries. IN EXECUTION BY Gh Jukich, Slayer of Fiancee, on Way to Death, Waves and “Keeps His Nerve.” By ALBERT W. FOX. President Coolidge’s executiye order, which was issued yesterday State’s Prison, Carson City, Nev..| and authorizes the employment of May 21 (By A. P.).—Nevada for-| state, county or municipal officers feited the life of a murderer today ” | as Federal prohibition agents, pro- by lethal gas, this commonwealth’s| o;eq expressions of incredulity and marked protest in the. Senate. By the time the Senate adjourned; after several hours of cloakroom Stanko Jukich, 28, copper miner was the man who 3| rs Bauer, pronounced the verdict with- out adding the words ‘“‘without cap- ital punishment,’’ which would defi- nitely have saved her husband from the rope. Earlier she had for the first time broken into tears as O’Conor demanded her man’s life. Judge O’Dunne announced he would impose sentence next week. Edgar Allan Poe, Whittemore’s counsel, did not immediately indi- cate whether he would appeal. Court Orders Her Removed. Before court adjourned Mrs. Whittemore, who had fallen into the arms of her father-in-law, John Rawlings ‘Whittemore, regained consciousness. Her moaning dis- rupted the formal court procedure, and Judge O’Dunne ordered her taken from the room. “It is a complete vindication of justice,’’ State’s Attorney O’Connor said of the verdict, ‘‘and a definite indication that law and order in Baltimore still has the upper hand.” The young State’s attorney has paid the extreme penalty for the slaying last year of Jennie Madek, his 16-year-old sweetheart. She had refused to carry out a marri- age pact arranged between Jukich, herself and her parents. The spark of life vanished quick- ly from the body of the condemned man. Four nods of the head, a period of two and one half min- utes, told @ graphic story of the effectiveness of the hydrocyanic acid sprayed into the concrete vault in which Jukich sat strapped to a chair. No torture of the body marked his passing, in the opinion of spectators. If there was pain,. Jukich did not betray it. His face remained calm, a faint smile play- ing around his lips. It seemed as though he was simply lulled into a deep and restful sleep. The charge of acid was pumped into the chamber at 10:56 a. m. turning into gas immediately in the temperature of 80 degrees. As the grayish fumes curled around his head, Jukich inhaled deeply and leaned forward. ‘Thirty seconds into the plans for the conference now being held at Geneva. Conse- quently he can not approve any proposition which might indicate in advance that the present gathering is doomed to failure. The position of the President was outlined yesterday by the White House spokesman. It was made plain that Mr. Coolidge has had no intimation that any new naval disarmament conference, to be held in this city with Japan, Great Britain and the United states participating, was under con- sideration. The latest’ suggestion is considered by him to represent ex- clusively the viewpoint of the Jap- anese government. The adminis- tration spokesman, while pointing out there was very little that could be said officially at this particular moment concerning the plan, em- phasized in unmistakable language that the United States formally is committed to the success of the conference now in session. his opponent, was formerly Oregon representative. The liquor issue HAUGEN FARM RELIEF BILL DEFEATED, 212-167 Aswell Will Try to Obtain Ac- tion by Committee on - Compromise. discussion and some debate on the floor, there was every indication that the President's action is to be challenged as a usurpation of pow- er, an infringement on State rights. and a questionable proceeding with respect to its legality. Instead of accentuating a cleav- age between the wets and the drys, the executive order apparently caused the most pronounced drys to join the extremes wets in making up overwhelming opposition to the policy initiated. Kepublicans and Democrats forgot party lines in ex- pressing their amazement and seek- ing an answer to the question of where the President got the au- thority to put State officers on the Federal pay roll, even at a nominal salary of $1 a year. mittees—helped secure largest ap- propriations in Oregon’s history.” SENTENGE OF WILLIAMS APPROVED BY WILBUR Colonel, Accused by Brig. Gen. Butler, Dropped on Promotion List. I am sending this message over German telegraph wires because I found it was utterly impossible even to approach the truth of Poland’s tragic situation through the censor- ship the so-called Pilsudski govern- ment erected in an effort to hide the chaos that has followed last week’s slaughter in the streets of the capital and the surrender of the Wojiechowski government. The defeat of the Haugen bill for the relief of ailing demagogues having been gained by the House, the way is now open for the concoc- tion of some other political nos- trum that may taste as bad but won’t cost so much. ~ sé 2. 2 Commissioner Fenning bases his defense on the theory that the ‘‘Federal Capital” is a tank town. Turn Guns on French. As an example of the blind fury of the Pilsudski troops, led by of- ficers now hiding their leader from the gaze of the outside world, they turned their rifles and machine guns wantonly on the embassies and legations, in one of Warsaw’s most fashionable districts, leading toward the Belvedere palace, and riddled them with bullets. French machine guns, with cart- ridges which France furnished to her ally, were turned against the French embassy, threatening death Maybe the gentlemen who stepped up with such alacrity to get a drink from Earl Carroll’s bathtub thought he was just making bootleg gin. VOTES TO PASS CLAIMED |LOSS MAY BE SEVERE In view of the fact that on the point of “collective bargaining” El- bert H. Gary and his associates stood firmly against laber in Mr. Wilson’s famous conference, _ it seems rather strange for him to be advocating ‘“‘the right of men to act collectively” in their disputes, but we suspect he would be just as firm now as in 1919 against William Z. (By Associated Press.) Farm relief legislation received | a setback in the House yesterday with the defeat. 812 to 167, of the Haugen price stabilization bill. This action cleared the calendar of all farm proposals, as the two other bills, the Tincher credit plan and the Curtis-Aswell commodity marketing measure, were with- (By the Associated Press.) The hectic case of Col. Alexander’ Williams, marine corps, convicted by a navy court-martial at San Diego on charges of drunkenness, became a closed incident yesterday when Secretary Wilbur approved the findings of the court and the sentence of loss of four numbers Recommended By Andrews. ONS) VRS The executive order, understood to have been recommended by Pro- hibition Director Andrews, reads as follows: “In order that they may more mi eal Dy scape Or: Sema 9 Foster undertaking to dicker with him on behalf of the steel mill to the French Minister and his as- sistants if they dared to show their drawn by their authors. After the adverse vote on the on the promotion list. Col. Williams will drop from: No. yet to lose his first murder case. A few minutes after the verdict Would Impair Geneva. President Coolidge, it was stated, later he was unconscious. Just two and one-half minutes from that time prison physicians saidfthat life ment of the national prohibition efficiently function in the enforce- was read Whittemore was taken back to his isolated jail cell, man- acled to two guards, in a police van. An automobile load of armed plain colthes men followed closely behind in the journey between the court- house and the jail. Police Guard Escorts Judge. Judge O’Dunne was taken to his home in a police car chauffeured by a patrolman and guarded by a detective. State’s Attorney O’Con- or also was accompanied from the building by a bodyguard. The jury had heard from Whitte- more’s own lips how he had struck Robert Holtman, a_ penitentiary guard, down with an iron bar, taken his keys, and let himself out into the street. It had to decide heads. The windows and walls of build- ings stand as mute evidence today of this wanton attempt at slaughter. The American legation is not in this district, or it doubtless would have been plastered with lead, de- spite the some $200,000,000 lent to the Polish government by Amer- icans in the last few years. During the fighting in the streets, Pilsudski’s troops executed movements the horrors of which were not even attributed to Mos- cow’s terrible slaughter, centering in the Kremlin @quare some years ago. One eye-witness saw a group of eight women mowed down by machine gun fire in their terror- stricken effort to escape to safety act, any State, county or municipal officer may be appointed, at a nor- mal rate of-compensation, as prohi- bition officer at the Treasury De- partment to enforce the provisions of the national prohibition act and acts supplemental thereto, in States and Territories, except in those States having constitutional or statutory provision against State officers holding office under the Federal government.”’ ' Discussion in the Senate did not break out until late in the after- noon, as advocates of farm relief legislation held the floor until Sen- ator Bruce finally obtained recog- nition. Senators on both sides of the chamber, including members of the Senate judiciary committee, had already issued statements declaring 18 on the list of 35 marine corps Haugen bill Representative Tilson, colonels to No. 22. The sentence the Republican leader, announced carries with it no other penalty, that the next move was up to the but in view of the fact that the agriculture committee. marine corps selection board will Representative Aswell, of Louisi- meet here next month to prepare ana, ranking Democrat on the com-|a list of colonels eligible for pro- mittee and coauthor of the Curtis- motion to the rank of brigadier Aswell proposal, said he would at- generals as vacancies occur, the ef- tempt to obtain a favorable report fect of the sentence may prove on a compromise measure contain-| severe. ing the principal provisions of his} Conclusion of the incident came and Tincher bills. He had such an/ with a terse statement by the Sec- amalgamated bill ready for pre-|retary that he had /approved the sentation yesterday, but the par-| conviction of Col. Williams on the liamentary situation prevented its following specifications: consideration. He predicted that . “In that Alexander §S. Williams, the two. measures combined would now a colonel, United States marine command sufficient gtrength to corps, while so serving in com- pass. mand of the Fourth regiment, The vote on the Haugen Dill,| United’States marine corps, marine workers. A theory works fine un- til it becomes practical. a - oo a thinks that the Japanese sugges- tion, if considered seriously at the presént moment and approved even in principle, must very seriously impair the prospects for any suc- cessful and practical conclusion be- ing reached by the various nations which now are _ represented at Geneva. In the opinion of the President should one of the great powers in- sist on a proposal that three of the interested parties to the present ex- change of views should hold an independent conference, devoted ex- clusively to reduction of naval armaments, such action would put the other nations, which now are a part of the Geneva gathering, in the position of being compelled to ask what would be the use of going ahead with a session called to de- was extinct. Jukich walked unfalteringly to his doom, As he neared the death house he sang out cheerily, ‘‘Good by, boys. I haven’t lost my nerve. I’ll-save a place for you there.” He was bound to a chair inside and the door was closed and sealed, A slight hissing warned him that the gas was entering the room and “By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms dnseen their dirge is sung: There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay.” | The thin gray line of heroes re- vives in the streets of Birmingham a Cause as lost as Monmouth’s rebel- lion, a bitterness as deeply buried as the pangs of William’s conquest, a glory as uncontroversial as the Wars of the Roses. Close ranks! a + Ne e (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 3.) Political Prisoners Freed by Nicaragua Managua, Nicaragua, May 21 (By A. P.).—The Niearaguan govern- ment, believing that the revolution is nearing an end, has released 140 political prisoners. Fire destroyed nearly the entire city of Matagalpa, of 6,000 popula- The French franc gets a little more cents. ie a . on the gas increasing her but enlighten- ye Nevada ttrns without * countries. ’ Fifteenth. Watch your step! * . +. 7 his head up just at a moment when a mod to hiteevery head in sight. e . - . 4 a correspondent who saw war— 3 which makes Poland look like the of Western Front we used to read ment. “There’s music in all things, if men had ears, Their earth is but the echo of the spheres.” And now the Sultan of Morocco has trick chairs for members of the Diplomatic Corps, which play the national tunes of their respective The penalty for - the royal eunuch who puts the Italian Ambassador in a seat playing the Marseillaise is too painful to dwell on. uv x ¥ * Dry politicians from the wet South, where licker and the ballot are for the white folks only, wouldn’t care how far Mr. Coolidge carried idolatry of the Eighteenth amendment if it were not for what this Executive encroachment might mean some day with respect of the Senator Stanfield — oh, wurra! wurra!—-appears to be in the posi- tion of a gentleman who has stuck the American people are getting in * Here’s a tale from Warsaw—from i The Pole is the Irishman of he can govern everybody t himself. Th o— sineabitid may bene- from light but the blonde when the storm broke. U. S. Flag Fired On. Lying flat in the street to avoid fire suddenly opened by a machine gunner, one,of the number arose and fled, the others following. The gunner felled them like wheat. Many curious men, women and thildren were killed in their win- dows by riflemen and machine gun- ners when they showed their heads, As the fighting reached the district in which lived Lieut. Col. Richard I. McKenney, the United States military attache, this American of- ficer sought immunity for his family by attempting to hang out the American flag from his apart- ment baleany. The flag was furi- ously fired on and Col. McKenney narrowly escaped. The official announcement that the censorship has ceased is wholly untrue... The inspired information available to observers in Warsaw likewise is far from the truth. Poland at this moment is convulsed in a spasm of civil strife, which, although not marked/ by further military conflict at present, is not only dangerous to the very exist- ence of Poland, but to the general peace of Europe. Dissent Among Victors. There is no optimism anywhere among either Poles or foreign ob- servers watching the wheel of fate revolve in Warsaw and in other , of this country, is nothing but deep pessimism, and it appears that the only ra can again unite the a Poligh ieeere & pew sorely you ture seirad WF cecil on Pag! = Tee : (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8, COLUMN 4.) Dynamite Used Again In Akron Car Strike Akron, Ohio, May 21 (By A. P.). The second dynamiting in the N. O. P. & Ie Co. street car strike oc- curred carly today, when two sec- tions of the Kent-Ravenna street car track were blown up. The blasts did no great damage. Street car service had not been resumed this morning. Disorders followed the stoning of several more cars in Canton yesterday, and a disturb- ance at a strike demonstration ant night. Gas Prices Advance One Cent a Gallon - Gasoline prices advanced 1 cent a gallon yesterday, making the fourth rise this year. The latest price is 24 cents a gallon retail, and 21 cents wholesale. The price advanced to 21 cents retail and 18 cents wholesale last February. and moved up again on April 8 and 30. Conditions at this time of the year are blamed by the Standard Oil Co. for the rise. |Skidding Auto Kills Ww. B. Peters, Coach ter B. Peters. ecach and tonchale t Nottin an college, or Soumya mae Taian a ‘ ; — Pal T f phew’ ay te ial i t while ge w Mth his ice: 8 was 'wrenident of Cumber- A ' aut : their mitomeniie skidded, } ™east it ef hess! (CONTINUED ON “PAGE 8, COLUMN 5.) Five Fliers Are Killed In Two Accidents Coatesville, Pa., May 21 (By A P.).—Two men were killed when an airplane crashed in a plowed field 2 miles west of here today. The pilot of the plane was J Harry Jones, 30, believed to be of The passenger was J. Mercer, of Darby, either Lancaster or Pottsville. Pa. The plane went into a nose dive after both wings collapsed. Tripoli, May 21 (By_A. P.).—A large Italian airplane crashed while taking off from the air field here to- day. The two pilots, Lieut. Olvanez and Sergt. Fornai, and the observer, Lieut. Locirero, were killed, and the , mechanician seriously injured. Borah Will Press Lausanne Treaty (By the Associated Press.) The Lausanne treaty with Turkey is to be pressed for ratification at this session of Congress, Chairman) Borah, of the Senate foreign rela- tions committee, tary Kellogg. Senator Borah said he ‘thoucke the. treaty would be ratified, but : Democratic. Senator. Robinson, the announced yester- day after a conference with Secre- whether, in the blow which felled the guard. this afternoon. “Candy Kid”’ of self-defense and ,|charge of premeditated murder. Second Trial in a Month. ney. his guilt. der as deliberate. pleaded self-defense. ¢@ After Adams had concluded h perforation, Edgar Allan Poe, write Evangeline Booth’ Booth’s | leader, and other opponents of the} eV disagreed with him, and ‘Der’ copy "i en a long and meres h ner’ " ous e soi ilps 5 ee , ash es oe gt we eas jets os hi ES! a ‘a be ,, ye Pie bE De) Rae LET : the bandit-convict’s mind, the plan to escape preceded Whittemore’s fate was given into the keeping of twelve jurymen late Having heard the relate in his own words how he killed Holtman on February 20, 1925, the jury had to decide between Whittemore’s plea the State’s It was the second time in a month that Whittemore had heard such a demand from a prosecuting attor- At Buffalo, where he went on trial on April 19 last for murder in connection with a $93,000 rob- bery, the jury could not agree upon In Baltimore, where he went on trial again for murder, one month to the day later, he admitted killing Robert H. Holtman, a prison guard, on February 20, 1925. The State sought to establish the mur- Whittemore Peer sp s counsel, played his lone hand in an 5 apeeM es eater t to stay the rope. : Condition “Ve ery Low” ‘ New York, May 21. (By A. P.j— ‘Miss Evangeline Booth, commander of the/Salvation army in the United | no States for 22 ‘years, who is. seriously of (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4, COLUMN 2.) termine a program that would deal tion, yesterday. The city is in the] that the President had no authority center of the coffee region. under the law for the. promulgation Fenning Counsel to Deny His Being Federal Official of the order. “I'd like to know from what source the President deduces his legal right to issue.such an execu- tive order,’’ Senator Bruce began. Referring to Attorney General Sar- ning’s principal defense before the House judiciary subcommittee will be that he is not an impeachable Federal official, his attorney, Frank J. Hogan, made known yesterday. Mr. Hogan interrupted the recita- tion by Representative Blanton of cases in which the commissioner has figured as a guardian and as an attorney, to tell the commit- tee his principal defense. He said he had no objection to the intro- duction of the cases, but wanted the committee to bear in mind that he would contend that Mr. Fenning is not a Federal official, but an of- | ficial of a municipal corporation. Bearing on this was the state- ment of Represe tive Dyer; of ; Missouri, chairman of the subcom- mittee, that it was proceeding un- der a broad resolution, and that the strict rules of evidence would ‘not be applied. Under the terms of the resolution the committee wiil Commissioner Frederick A. Fen- |cific instance the gent, Mr. Bruce said he regarded him as a stranger to the law and that no authority could be found for the order. that the first witnesses will be heard Monday. Seven subpenas have been issued and are being served by an officer of the Capitol police force. The hearing was adjourned after a morning session, because Mr. Ho- gan had to leave the city. He had made his engagement, he explained, under the impression that there would not be an afternoon hearing. In the meantime a phase of the commissioner's case is to be shifted to the District Supreme court where today oral arguments will be held on Mr. Fenning’s contention that Auditor Herbert L. Davis, of the court, erred in finding his collec- tion of commissions on bond pre- miums in connection with his guard- ianship practice was illegal. A feature of Mr. Blanton's pre- sentment before the judiciary com- mittee was the introduction of pa- pers bearing on his charge that Mr. Fenning in the conduct of his prac- tice committed champerty and bar-/¢ ratry. Mr. Blanton cited as a spe- correspondence Not True to Expressions. “This is the most extreme stretch of Federal authority ever brought to my attention,” the senator from Maryland continued, adding that the President had made a speech in only a few days ago, and now was seeking to put into effect the very centralization of power he had con- demned. — “What it a pity is,’”’ ae prohibition appointment in my ‘a State, we have a governor who ill After declaring that President Coolidge had sought in vain to in-— 4 fluence the situation in Pennsyl- vania and prevent the wet land- slide, Senator Bruce added: i “Maybe, after all, there is some- : aan iat mctt ns ta ent has made u 4s to be a candidate for a piaedt ‘between Mr. Fenntng and H. P. Fel- and is nF: seéking to : lows, of Boston, in which it is al-| Pg, Of she .drys DY this . leged ‘Mr. argo “solicited 1¥ by : & 2 4 43 Bie rs ! : : ~* . ; 7° *y ~ y i” ’ * (ConTINUED ou "TL (cowriet vf : a ie TEE heer . : ae a> We eT Bu, mtiag +. vena ean 8 Pty Mis a” wher, x ah eae : bl Pais keine a ta, a, I Oe 4 Fe By ac 5. wy The. ot — iv. > pa: OO hg a B a tis » yt ae Te R x ? ere a z i ee i i Wee Start mM Ht ? * Pat x Pe ee yyy i ie favor of safeguarding State rights — ” Senator /— Bruce added, “‘that he is not more _ faithful to his own expressed con- 4 victions. p “If any State officer accepts a 4 forthwith remove him. ” | i) ig