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WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow: wanner tomorrow'; strong south shifting to west winds. Temperature for 24 hours enued at 2 p.m. today: Highest. 03, at noon today; lowest. 40, at r.;30 a.m. today. Full report op page 5. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 'V',-, *>Q 1 QJ. Entered as second-class matter 1 lOT. post office Washington. D. C. POINCARE RES AFTER SENSATIONAL DEFEAT OF CABINET Flatly Refuses to Form New! t j Ministry—Minor Bill Beaten 271-264. FEW IN CHAMBER WHEN SOCIALIST OPENS FIGHT Overthrow Brings Consternation, j May Affect Dawes Com inittee Findings. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March. 26. —The Poincare ministry fell today. Premier Ray mond Poincare, after an adverse vote *n the chamber of deputies, handed i the resignation of his cabinet to j President Millerand, who accepted it. j The premier announced he had de cided irrevocably to give up power. “Gentlemen.” said M. Poincare to i the newspaper men as he left the ■ palace of the Elysee this afternoon ; after the cabinet meeting with the | president at which the resignation I had been presented, “my resignation is final.” M. Poincare raised his hat. entered hia car and drove off homeward. Poincare waa summoned to the j palace late this afternoon by Presi- ; dent Millerand. It was understood , the president desired to urge him to | i econsider hia determination not to | attempt the formation of another ministry. A motion for a vote of confidence ! in the Poincare government was 1 ruled out of order in the chamber j » of deputies this afternoon. The chamber adjourned to meet on ! Friday if a cabinet shall have been i formed in the interval. The fail of the cabinet, after it i -■ hnd survived a long and arduous I struggle in putting through parlia- 1 meat it© program of heavily increas- | taxation to balance the budget. ! during which it was constantly ; obliged to pose the question of con- i fldence, fell this morning on a com- j paratively insignificant issue. Soeinlisl Opens Eight. The chamber was considering a j revision of the civil and military , Pensions with only a couple of hun dred members present. Socialist Deputy Bouy.sou demanded that the j measures under consideration be re- 1 < erred bach to the finance commit- i tee to be considered in connection I with the senate bills on the same i question. Finance Minister de Lasteyrie, in i charge of the measure, objected He I pointed out that the senate | bills in volved a heavier outlay than those in I the chamber. Premier Poincare was not present, I hut the finance minister declared i himself obliged, in line with the econ- I • >my policy of the government, to j make the question one of confidence. Consternation Reigns. When the vote was announced j showing that the government had j been defeated by seven votes—264 to ! 271—there was surprise, with con- i on the majority benches, 1 . while the radicals and socialists j cheered and cried "Resign! Resign!” j The finance minister reported to his j chief, who called the cabinet together, | and it .was decided to resign. Thev j proceeded to the palace of the Elysee ] and went into a eabinet council with | President Millerand. to whom M. j Poincaire presented the cabinet’s res- I ignation, t President Millerand insisted ear- ( pestly that the cabinet appear this ! afternoon before the chamber, retain- ! ing power meanwhile. The president ; said he was ready to explain by a spe- : cial message to both houses the rea- j sons for this procedure. After each cabinet minister bad I given his opinion the. president re- j • fired and left the cabinet free to de- t liberate on its decision. Resignation Is Pinal. It was at the conclusion of this I meeting that Premier Poincare an- j nounced that his -decision to resign I whs irrevocable. The Poincare ministry, which thus i comes to an end. has held power since January. 1922—its slightly more than j two years of life covering a most i momentous period in post-war history. Taking up the reins of government on i a program of a more vigorous foreign j policy than had been followed by his | predecessor. M. Briand. Premier Poin- | care adopted ay energetic attitude on I the question of reparation payments 1 bv Germany, and when the year 1922* !iad gone by without any satisfactory i adjustment the Poincare government n January of last year decided upon I . ihe seizure of “pledges’’ tYom tier- j Hijutr. The occupation of the Ruhr valley) hv joint action of France and Belgium follow ed. Great Britain was not in ■ sympathy with this move, and the dif ferences between the two nations on this and other questions relating to; reparations led to something of a rift in the entente, which only lateriy has | seemed about to be bridged over , through negotiations -between the MacDonald governmcntland flio Poin care ministry. May A fleet Havre*’ Report. The fail of the government comes j just on the eve of the expected pres- , rotation by the. Dawes expsjt com- j mittee of its report for the reparation j committee on tierrriany’s financial and economic status and the committee’s anticipated presentation of a. program which it has been hoped would lead to an adjustment of the reparation question, solve the Ruhr difficulty, start Germany pn a path of economic soundness and eventually bring about renewed economic stability in Europe, j Just what effect the withdrawal ! of the Poincare ministry at this crucial time may have upon the result of the expert committee's in vestigations and conclusions remains to be developed. Raymond Poincare himself has for fortv years been prominent in French public life/ Elected in 1887, at the age of twenty-seven, a deputy from ( the. department of the Meuse, he has almost continuously been in the pub lic service, as deputy, senator, min ister. premier and as president of the republic, to which high office he was • elected in 1913, and held throughout ibe world war. His term expired in 1920 and he engaged in literary work on public questions for a tjme, taking a strong stand for a firmer policy ’oward Germany. Finally in 1922 he ’ook up the premiership and Imme fContlnued on Page 4, Column 4.) n jk I Premier Overthrown i i .... RAYMOND POINCARE, INCREASES IN PAY IFOR WORKERS HERE ! INCLUDED IN DILL ' Independent Offices Appro priation Provides for Raises of Nearly Half Million. ——————— j Despite a sharp reduction in expen | ditures by the Veterans’ Bureau and j several other federal bureaus, the in ; dependent offices appropriation bill was | reported to the House today with In -1 creased compensation for government j employes in the District of Columbia I totaling $458,880. The bill, which was reported out by I Representative Will R. Wood of In- I diana, recommends appropriations for i personal services in the District on I the basis of allocations established by the personnel classification board. The increase is the direct result of salary classification In Washington. The appropriations coincide with the I practice adopted by the House appro- J priations committee in previously report ; ing appropriation measures for 1925, j several of which have already passed •; the House. The restrictive provision | regulating the expenditure of appro ; priations for personal services in the District contained in the other bills j Is recommended in today’s measure. I.es* Than Last Year. j The bill carries $398,496,890. or ! $103,324,486 less than last year’s ap ‘ propriations and $241,741 less than i budget estimates. The Veterans' j Bureau get $349,065,000. a reduction i of $98,388,086 under a year ago. The ' Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet 1 Corporation are allotted $30,344,000. | or $20,607,500 less than the last bill j carried. In addition the measure provides I $75,000 for President Coolidge's sal -1 ary, $25,000 for his traveling ex i penses. $93,520 for salaries and $37.- | 000 for contingent expenses in the I executive offices, and $55,540 for the pay of the White House police force. I In many of the appropriations for personal services recommended in the | independent offices bill, the amount I recommended for the fiscal year 1925 ! is considerably greater than the ap propriation for similar purposes dur i ing the fiscal year 1924. Chairman Wood of the special subcommittee I explained that this is due to the fact I that increased compensation (J 244) ■ bonus) was provided by a special act j for the current fiscal year to the var ious offices and bureaus, as follows; Kate* for Bonos. Executive office, $38,000; bureau of efficiency, $7,200; Civil Service Com j mission, $1 14,000; Commission of Fine j Arts, $480; Employes’ Compensation | Commission. $15,840; Federal Trade j Commission. $55,000; general account j ing office, $504,388; Interstate Com j memo Commission,. $300,000; national i advisory committee for aeronautics, $24,000; Smithsonian Institution. $92.- 744: Stale. War and Navy buildings, $309,360: Tariff Commission. $42,000; Veterans’ Bureau. $3,353,280. and a I transfer to the State. War and Navy ' departments building of $20,208. in computing the rates of com pen l sation. the classification act provided i that the existing pay should be the I base pay plus any bonus the employe ; was receiving. To this amount was I added the increase necessary to make i the rate of pay for the particular po sition come within the rates of pay established in the classification act of I 1923. The actual increase, therefore, under the ad. is not the difference hc- I tween the base pay for 1924 and the amount recommended for 1925, but the difference between the combined amounts for base pay and bonus, and i the amount recommended for the | fiscal year 1925. Effect Shows Paradox. In several of the bureaus and offices, | the effect of this has been that, al j though there is an apparent increase ] in a recommended appropriation for i personal services for 1925, compared with the appropriation made for the fiscal year 1924. an actual reduction has taken place. The hearings on the bill disclosed that statements were made showing by offices and bureaus the salaries in the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1924, separated according to base pay and bonus, compared with the initial rates fixed for the fiscal ; year 1925, in accordance with the classification act. Amount of Increases. _ Following is a ilst showing the amounts required above base pay and bonus on account of classification for the fiscal year beginning July 1 next: Executive office, $11,080; bureau'of efficiency, $4,670; Civil . Service Com mission. $19,340; Commission of Fine Arts, $4 20. Employes' Compensation Commission, $4,020; Federal Bower Commission, $1,000; Federal Trade Commission, $2,960; general account ing office, $187,644; Interstate Com merce Commission, $11,426: national advisory committee for ’aeronautics, $660; Smithsonian Institution, $53,956; State, War and Navy buildings, $60,- (Continued on Page 2, Cojumu 6.) 5 . Mje Ipticratm Skf. V y J V, X WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION V-/ COOUDGE RETAINS I MARGIN IN DAKOTA! BUT RACE IS CLOSE Holds Edge of About 2,000 Over Johnson as Returns Come in Slowly. BACKERS OF OPPONENT CLAIM 10,000 MAJORITY j McMaster Beating Sterling in Sen atorial Race by Nearly 5.000 Ballots. By the Associated Press. SIOUX FALLS, S. D„ March 26. President Coolidge held his majority ’ of 2,000 votes, over Senator Hiram. Johnson in the republican presidential preference in the first additional re turns received today from the state wide primary in South Dakota Tnes . day. When 634 precincts had reported j opt of the revised total of approxi > i niately 1,825 in the state, the Presi | dent had a lead of 2,079 votes, the ! count standing: Coolidge, 24,867, and ( Johnson, 22,788. , j In the contest for the senatorial J nomination Gov. W. H. McMaster I continued to lead Senator Thomas i Sterling. 662 precincts giving the I governor 26,185 and Sterling 21.445. Lead Is Cat Dam. Gained largely through the city vote in the southeastern part of the | state, the lead was reduced by re i ports early today from heavy John son counties, and rural precincts in . the central and northeastern parts 1 were expected by Johnson workers . to cut deeper into the Coolidge lead, i Coolidge workers, answering the claim of Johnson managers that the Californian had won by 10,000 ma t jority, insisted the western part of l tlie state and more nearly complete returns from the southeastern sec tion would enable the President to hold his lead. Meanwhile the majority of Gov. W. . H. McMaster over Senator Thomas i Sterling for the republican senatorial nomination had grown to more than ’ 5.400 early today, apparently assur . ing the governor’s nomination, which ' waa -claimed by the Sioux Falls Press. Victory for McAdoe. ’ On the democratic ticket, only ■ scattered , and incomplete returns were available, but the state head- , , quarters of the party at Huron, ' ! backing the majority column filings, 1 : declared Wiliam O. McAdoo had ob . j tained the presidential indorsement, i i He was opposed by a faction seeking |to send an uninstructed delegation jto the national convention, i Minehaha county, in which Sioux 1 Falls is located, gave ITesldent Cool | idge an early- lead and additional re (ConUnued on Page 4. ColumnTL) DYED FISH FOUND BY CAPITAL DEALER I . Fowler Orders Check-Up of 1 Salmon Supply—Not Held Dangerous. I Chemist.* of the District health de- I partment today found that a sample ! of rod salmon obtained from a local i fish dealer had been colored with an j aniline dye. j As soon as the report of Dr. T. M. I Price, chief chemist, became known, 1 Health Officer Fowler directed his food inspectors to get samples of all red salmon being sold in Wash ington. The food inspectors will proceed with their check-up on the local i salmon supply as rapidly as possible, i To confirm his analysis. Dr. Price ' extracted the liquid from th© fish and I dipped a strip of white cotton cloth j into it. The goods came out a rich j s».ad» of oryjige. t Not Considered Dangerous. Dr. Fowler made it plain that the coloring matter found in the fish is not necessarily injurious. He is sat isfied, however, it constitutes a vio lation of the food and drug act as well as the local regulations, in that it would, he said, deceive a house | holder into buying white salmon in the belief she was getting the more expensive red variety. The healthy officer told his in spectors, under the leadership of Dr. R. R. Ashworth, to condemn all sal mon found to be artificially colored. Several days ago. news dispatches from Philadelphia tola of the dis covery of painted salmon in that city. The next day. a Washington dealer brought a sample of fish to the health office voluntarily and asked that It be analyzed with a view to deter mining whether its bright red hue I was natural. Dr. Fowler said he would not seek to prosecute the merchant who brought in the sample. Officials of the health department to- ■ ' day called attention to the following paragraph from a bulletin issued by the Department of Agriculture: Covered by Food Raw. "Section ", subdivision 4, under foods, of the federal food and drugs act, states that a food will be re . garded as adulterated if it be mixed, powdered, coated or stained - in a manner whereby inferiority is concealed; that is to say, artificial color, whether harmless or not, may not be used in to the act if in violation of this paragraph.” Dr. Fowler is of the opinion that the question of artificially colored salmon is one of concealing the grade of the fish and not a source of danger to health. Health office attaches say the red salmon costs considerably more than the white variety. * WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1924-FORTY-TWO PAGES. I TICKLED TIGE. WILL Fill SINCLAIR I 1 CASE BEFORE IIMI I ,| Gordon to Present Evidence on Oil Magnate's Re fusal to Testify. I I United States Attorney Gordon said j | today that .he will present to the | | grand jury tomorrow the evidence in) j connection with the refusal of Harry j F. Sinclair, millionaire oil magnate, j Ito answer questions propounded to ( ! him by Senator Walsh at the Teapot Dome inquiry before the Senate oil 1 committee. Maj. Gordon will ask the Department of Justice to designate J A tlee Pomorcne and Owen J. Roberts ! as special assistants to aid in the pres , rotation of the matter to the grand | Jury and In the prosecution of Mr. Sinclair should the grand jury pre- ! sent an indictment. The commissions which the two I special counsel in the oil cases hold i from President Coolidge, it is stated. J ! would not permit them to attend ses- 1 ! sions of the local grand jury. Hence ‘ * their appointment by the Department I iof Justice as special assistants to I Maj. Gordon will be sought. Maj. i Gordon consulted with Mr. Pomercne and Mr. Roberts yesterday and re ceived assurance that they would par- I ticipate In the case. Return Before Monday. ■ Ts the case is presented to the pres- : I ent grand jury fn indsntment, if any, ' ; would have to be returned in court * before Justice Hitz next Monday. The i life of the present grand jury expires ' on that date. Maj. Gordon fyad not decided today as to the witnesses to Ve summoned 'in the Sinclair matter. He may call j Senator Dadd, chairman of the com- I mittee, and the official stenographer, 'or he may use only one of them. In i the case of Klverton R. Chapman, who . defied the Senate sugar investigating | ' committee, in 1894, the only witness i used by the then district attorney was i Chairman Gray of the committee. Bond Action Likely. Should the grand jury present an indictment against Mr. Sinclair for contempt of the United States Senate, it is expected, the oil magnate would be immediately placed under bond. The case will likely be contested I through all the courts, and a final de ! cislon is not expected for several | morses and probably years, unless the I prosecution should fail to satisfy a | petit jurv of the guilt of the oil mag nate and a verdict of acquittal be ren dered. . ... 1 The Senate committee on public j I lands and surveys—the oil commit- | tee —suspended its hearings today to ! consider a number of pending hills, but it will get back to its invostiga- ( tion tomorrow to question several j 1 witnesses about reported "oil deals ’ i during the 1920 republican national 1 convention. , A1 Jennings, one-time train robber 1 in Oklahoma, who became an evan j geiist and was a friend of Jake j liamon, the late republican national ! committeeman from that state, is ex- , i pected to provide most of the testi-s : mony before the committee tomorrow' | about the convention “oil deal" gos- | ! sip. Several other witnesses have i been summoned in this connection, j I however, and Dewis W. Baldwin, i | president of the Empire Trust Com- I pany of New York, is to be asked I about the security provided for a loan ! negotiated with his institution when j the republican national committee in j curred a deficit during the 1930 cam i paign. j Jennings arrived here today from ! Dong Beach, CaJif., and had a confer -1 ence with Senator Walsh, the com- I mittee prosecutor. He promised "a w'hale of a story” when he takes the stand tomorrow, but would not d>s ; cuss a statement recently attributed i to him to the effect that, there was' j a million-dollar “oil deal" at the I Chicago convention in connection with the nomination of the late President ‘ Harding. ! FORMER DRY OFFICIAL , CONVICTED IN BRIBE, Egan Found Guilty of Taking SSOO for Permit to Milwaukee Finn. V William P. Egan of New York, for mer assistant chief of the legal di vision of the prohibition unit, was convicted today before Justice Hoeh llng and a jury in Criminal Division 2 of accepting a bribe of |SOO to influence his decision in granting a permit to a Milwaukee firm to sell sac ramental wines. Pending an appeal to the court of appeals, Egan was r#- * leased on $5,000 ball. ’ f / * “Dry Navy” of 65 Skips and 500 Men To Hit Rum Rotv By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 2(s.—Capt. William V. A. Jacobs, divisional commander of the coast guard, to day disclosed plans for mobilizing a dry Navy of sixty-five armed vessels and 500 men, which, he de clared, would scatter the far famed New York-New Jersey coast rum fleet before the year’s end. He said he would assign a de stroyer, cutter or speed boat, equipped with one-pounders and machine guns, as a day and night guard over vessels on Rum row. These craft will stand by the liquor runners from the time they drop anchor off the row until— even if it takes months—the skip pers of the rum fleet give up in disgust and sail away, he asserted. No- boat of any kind will be per mitted to communicate with the rum fleet, said Capt. Jacobs. PUTS BONUS COST at upon Legion Actuary’s Figures Giv en Senate Committee Are Compromise. A new estimate on the cost of the soldier bonus bill passed by the House—s3.3oo,ooo,ooo —was presented to the Senate finance committee today by the actuary of the American Degion Herbert Hess. This figure is a compromise be tween the cost of $4,850,000,000 esti mated by Joseph McCoy, government actuary, and $2,119,000,000 estimated by H. P. Brown, Veterans’ Bureau actuary. Hess, like nrown, argued the cost of the paid-up insurance policies to the government would not have to include interest on funds advanced by the government to purchase the policies. These funds, he said, would take the form of direct appropriations. Mr. McCoy insisted the government would be taking the money from one pocket to put if in another and there fore it would have to account for In trest in figuring the cost of the bonus. Committee Divided. ! Chairman Smoot, although defend ing the argument of McCoy, said the i committee was divided as to the j merits of the estimates. Also there was solnc difference of opinion among the three actuaries as to the number of veterans entitled to the bonus and the average length of their service. Army and Navy ofllcials have been asked to present these data to the com mittee tomorrow. Meanwhile, the <*ommittee again re- ' sumed consideration of the revenue bill, agreeing to several sections of administrative provisional .Senator Reed, republican, Pennsylvania, serv ed notice he would offer an amend- j ment to make Interest received from I tax-exempt securities taxable. This will again open the fight against tax exempt securities. Chairman Smoot i said he believed it would be Impoasi- I ble to tax these securities without a constitutional amendment, which al ready had been defeated by the House. The committee will-hold another session tonighD Representative Green, republican, lowa, chairman of the House ways and means committee. Which framed the bill, and Senator Walsh of Massa chusetts, a democratic member of the finance committee, issued statements assailing the estimates of Joseph Mc- Coy, Treasury actuary, after .the com mittee meeting yesterday. PolaU Oat “Emu.” Pointing out a series of “funda- | mental and glaring errors,” Mr. Green declared “the Treasury estimates on the cost of the bonus are wrong, as usual.” Senator Walsh said the theory on which Mr. McCoy based his estimates was “absurd.” and asked if it was “another attempt to juggle figures on the cost of the adjusted compensation bill' and to attempt to mislead the Congress and the people of the Unit ed States?” Explaining the means by which he arrived at his estimates, Mr. McCoy told the finance committee that he had figured the government would have to pay interest on ail money ap propriated to pay for the Insurance policies under the bonus bill. WmU Invest Fonda. H. P. Brown, Veterans’ Bureau ac tuary, who figured the cost of the insurance alone would amount to only $2.025,000,000, and which figure was (Continued on Page 4, ColumnC.j VOTE ON RENT ACT EXPECTED TODAY House District Committee Is Considering Commission Extension Bill. The House District committee is in session this afternoon considering the Dampert bill to extend the life of the District Rent Commission until August. 1926, and hopes to reach a vote reporting the bill to the House. Acting Chairman Zihlman secured permission of the House for the com mittee to sit this afternoon while the House is in session in order to ex i pedite action upon this legislation be | cause under existing law the Rent [Commission would pass out of exist j ence on May 23. Hearings Held Today. Hearings were held on the measure (earlier in the day. j Representative Dampert of Wieoon | sin. author of the Rent Commission i extension bill and chairman of the I subcommittee which conducted hear i ings for three weeks upon the sub | ject. read a report to the committee | jin favor of the bill. Opposition Report Read, i A report in opposition to the bill I was read before the committee by | Representative Underhill of Massa j chusetts, who said it had been pre | pared by Representative Yost of Mis -1 sourL Representative Blanton of j Texas also declared his intention to j fight the bill on the floor of the House, if necessary, j Edward P. Colladay, president of I the Washington Board of Trade, who said he did not represent landlords, registered the opposition of the 2.500 members of his organization, repre senting, he said, every walk of life in Washington. Speaks in Reniter*' Behalf. Bates Warren, speaking for the real estate interests, argued at length against the Dampert bill, claiming I that it absolutely destroys the right of real and earned property. He argued that continuation of the Rent Commission breaks down the rights of property and conlraotoral rights. Mr. Warren said he was speaking not only for the owners of property in the National Capital, but for the owners of every piece of property throughout the country. He warned that in attempting to put through this legislation the committee was about to set in motion a tide of gov ernment ownership. Blanton Offers Objerfian. Representative Blanton said he spoke against the bill from the standpoint of a tenant here for the last seven years and ns an American citizen. He declared his belief that if Congress will let the old princi ple of supply and demand operate through abolishment of the Rent Commission that within six months rents will generally he reduced 25 per cent. He believes he is acting ‘ for the interests of the poor tenant-s. he said, and asked the committee how far it proposed to go in taking a man's property away from him in peace time. “You are taking away the sacred rights of private property, on which this government was found ed.” he. said. Both Representative Blanton, demo crat, and Representative Underhill, republican, declared they would put up tlvg strongest fight they could against the bill on the floor of the I House. Majority Report Pmintrd. I Representative Dampert, in present j ing the majority rejiort of the sub- I oommiU.ee which conducted hearings. which report was authorized by a •4 to 1 vote, Representative Blanton I voting in opposition, read as follows; “Your subcommittee appointed for the purpose of considering this bill held hearings over a period of more than three weeks. At these hearings testimony was given by tenants, rep resentatives of labor, representatives pr * :eral employes, the commission « of the Rent Commission, owners, real estate agents and buildem In addition, the subcommittee has re ceived letters from a very large nutn- Iber of tenants, all asking, in sub stance, the continuation of the pres ent rent legislation and the Rent ■ Commission. I Bays Conditions Are Bad. “Your subcommittee finds that the rental condition in the District of Colombia which prompted the enact ment of the original legislation on rentals approved October 22, 1919, and the extension thereof approved Au gust 24, 1921, and May 22, 1922. not ; only continue to exist In both dwell ing houses and apartment properties, but in the lower-priced rental prop erties appear to be growing worse. These conditions, which arose early in 1919, were acute and believed to be temporary. They appear, however, to have become chronic and more or less permanent, and this condition appears to have spread throughout the larger cities of the United States and throughout many foreign countries. “After careful consideration of the question whether permanent rent legislation should be enacted for the District, the subcommittee is of the opinion that for the present an ex (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) V ■ * .V. . ... “From Press to Home Within the Hour** The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers arc printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,610 3 SENATORS NAMED TO HEAR PROTESTS AGAINSjM HEADS Subcommittee Also to Re ceive Pleas for 0. K. on Oyster and Rudolph. WILL PASS ON MERITS OF OBJECTIONS MADE ; I Opponents of Commissioners Given Until Monday to File State ment of Views. j A subcommittee of the Senate District committee was authorized to ; day by the committee to receive all j protests and objections against the i confirmation of Commissioners Ru- I dolph and Oyster. These protests ) must bo written and must be signed i by the person who makes them. They i mast be in the hands of the sub- I committee by Monday morning, j The subcommittee will then con : slder whether these protests are suf i flciently serious to warrant going j into and whether hearings should jbe granted to the persons making ’ . them. I The subcommittee will then report to the full committee and the full ,! committee will decide upon the ques , tion of hearings and whether the I hearings should be open or in execu | live session. [ j Senator Ball chairman of the Dis- i | trict committee, said following the 1 I meeting of the committee today that | there was some question as to j i whether the hearings on nominations ! | could be open, if the rules of the | j Senate are strictly adhered to. ; ! Will Hear Both Sides. The subcommittee appointed to re- j i eeive the protests against the Com- ; • missioners will also receive any j recommendations that may be sub- j mitted in favor of the confirmation ; j of the District Commissioners. ! ! Senator Edwards ol New Jersey,! ; democrat, is chairman of the suboom- j • | mittee and the other members are 1 1 Senator King of Utah, democrat, and I Senator Weller of Maryland, repub t ! Ucan. The protests or recommenda- J tions must be sent to the office of I ' the chairman. Senator Edwards. ■ I The session of the full committee i > j today at whlcli the nominatfbns of j •, the Commissioners were considered I and this procedure decided upon was t executive, lasting for nearly an hour. Protests Confirmation. Senator Ball today received a let » i ter from A. M. Dawson, president of j the Central Labor Union, protesting t j against confirmation of the nomina- i > | tions of the two civilian Commissioners, ' i Rudolph and Oyster, and suggesting j , i that Seator Ball, because of “bust- ■ j ness association” with and "warm 1 I personal feeling-” for the Commis i Blotters not conduct the hearings on I j the nominations and not vote on the ! nominations. . | Senator Ball said that he had no : : intention of abdicating the chair- j 1 manship of the committee tempo- j i I rarily, as suggested, and that he had : j no business relations with the Com-j I missioners which could embarrass i ■ ! him it) handling the nominations. Text of Protest Letter. i 1 , i The letter received by Senator Ball 1 .(from Mr. Lawson follows; I "It has come to our attention that j the District Commissioners in giving : ' j their names and influence to stork j ! promotion schemes have failed to : maintain that high standard of per- j 1 sonal conduct becoming their official ! . position. | "Cares in point are their associa- | • tion with the Walker Hotel Company ; . promotion plan, Commissioner Oys- i ter’s affiliation with many concerns, I I such aus the American Coal Company, I , a mortgage and invsetment rompani, , the Hazen Oil Company and the Grand Central Garage Company, of which you probably have full knowledge be cause of your own close connection with the last three. In view of these • and such other matters as Commis s sioner Rudolph s illegal granting of ■ contracts to the firm of Rudolph & i West, Commissioner Oyster’s use of police, force for private purposes, his failure to enforce the health and nuis • ance laws, his general unfitness for public service, and the failure of both : Commissioners to enforce the build i ing regulations, we do hereby protest : against their reappointment. •Because of your warm personal friendship for the Commissioners, and i 1 your business assoc iation with them, i we also ask that some other person • than yourself conduct the hearing* . and that you be spared the embarass ment of voting- in the matter. A list of persons who can substantiate these ■ statements will be placed in vour , hands. I am for the Central Libor ; Union and its executive board, verv 1 sincerely yours. “A. M. LAWSON, President." DAUGHERTY, LODGE ; GALLON COOLIDGE i | Both Deny Conferences Were for Same Purpose or Simultaneous. Attorney General Daugherty and ; Senator I»dge, republican leader, j conferred with President Coolidgc to- I day, but White House officials said ! their conferences were separate and I that the republican leader’s confer- | i ence did hot concern Mr. Daugherty’s ; ■ situation. Mr. Daugherty said nis con- ' ference was “about routine matters.” ' Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, j the republican Senate leader, who ; prior to the beginning of the Senate : inquiry urged the President to re- ] , quest Mr. Daugherty’s resignation, conferred with the Executive Just before the Attorney General saw Mr. i Coolidge. Senator Lodge on leaving the Pres i ident's office stopped in one of the i | other offices and this led to the sup i position that he and* the Attorney ■ General were in Joint conference with 1 the President. Eulers May Visit Spain. ROHE, March 26.—1 tis officially ' stated that the king and queen will visit Spain the first fortnight in June. TWO CENTS. $33,000,000 PROFIT IN OIL DEAL HINTED OY ROXIESTINSON Names of Five Men Alleged to Have Been Involved Not Given by Witness. BELIEVES JESS SMITH DIED BY HIS OWN HAND | Repeats Statement That Daugher ty’s Friend Increased Fortune Materially While Here. A hint of an oil deal in which “five men made $33,000,000” in the fall of 1922 was brought before the Daugh erty investigating committee today by Roxie Stinson, divorced wife of the Attorney General’s friend and political lieutenant, Jess W. Smith. The witness said Smith had told her of such a transaction, and that she understood.it had to do with stock in the Sinclair interests which on April 7, 1922, leased Teapot Dome. She added that Smith had said he and the Attorney General were “sore" because the men who made the money were friends of theirs, but had not let there, in on the deal. She could not name them. Otherwise Tame Session. The flitting reference to the $33.- j 000,000 affair was made in the midst ;of a session which otherwise had j lacked much of the momentum of j Miss Stinson’s previous appearances (as a star witness in the inquiry, i Senator Wheeler of Montana, the ; committee prosecutor, was kept at | home with a cold and the exaraina j tion for the most part proceeded : quite peacefully. I The witness said at the outset that i she wished to disclaim any previous j intimations in the testimony that she 1 had thought Smith met his death by i any hand except his own. She was j convinced he killed himself, she said. but believed Mr. Daugherty ’’morally | responsible" for his determination t<> j kill himself. Increase in Fortune. When he came to Washington. Miss ; Stinson said, Smith was worth some | $136,000, but when he was found dead |in the Attorney General’s apartment | last Memorial day an inventory of his • property showed a total valuation of ! $211,000. Asked whether she thought i there were other items omitted from I the inventory she said she would rather i not reply. She replied in the negative when j asked by Senator Ashurst, democrat, i Arizona, whether she knew that a note j was found in Smith’s pocket after his j death and never was turned over to the , authorities. | A good part of the session was taken * up with the reading of letters Smith | had written her on the Attorney Gen ieral's Depaitment of Justice stationery. I They referred largely to personal mat j ters. JHm Stimuli Called. Before the questioning of the wit j ness began Senator Ashurst, demo j crat, Arizona, read into the record a j lianscript of testimony before the 1 oil committee having to do with stock i purchases of Daugherty and Smith, j The stock accounts were under the ; name of ”W. W. Spaid” of the stock j brokerage firm of Hibbs & 00. and 1 one of them was identified as a Joint j account of the Attorney General and I' Smith. which, accountants said, might have resulted in a loss of $21,000. Chairman Brookhart then called j Roxie Stinson. j Smith had “put his house in order” very carefully just before his death, I the witness said, and she baaed her | judgment that he took his own life on that circumstance. “It was your belief that Jess Smith committed suicide?” Chairman Brook hart reiterated. "Yes, sir,” Miss Stinson said. "So far as I am concerned I am sure that he did take his own life. However C also consider Harry Daugherty mor ally responsible for his death.” Asked Property Details. Chairman Brookhart asked her to give, details as to the properly of Smith before he came to Washington remarking that by her testimony he had left an estate of between $!25 to $140,000. "When l*e went to Washington be i had,” she said, "some <-nu i stock worth slo.iioo and some 900 shares in another company, appraised at S7O 000, not worth more than that. He possessed a share of a drygoods store, which he sold for $40,000.” she son tinned, a $12,000 house and two cot tages worth $3,500. Me might have had a few stocks on margin an*! other minor things, inconsequential ’Now. what did he have when In died that Ire did not have when he t 'e, ame . Washington?” asked Senator ; Brookhart. ‘‘There was $63,000 in libertv bond at the Rjggs Bank,” the witness said According to your figures, on e D m mg to Washington.” Senator Moses, re publican. New Hampshire, put in “Mr Smith had about $136,000.” | Miss Stinson agreed I .s’ S f Ba .s° r Moses ‘hen pointed out | that the inventory of the estal. j showed he had at death $214,000. Disposition of ST 5.000. I ‘Arc the seventy-five SI,OOO hills I you testified Mr. Smith had listed in i the inventory?” asked Senator i Ashurst. ■ “No.” “Too do not know what became of them?” i "I do not.” i "Do you know the name of the i gentleman who was present when i Jess Smith died?” | "Yes. Mr. Martin, Mai Daugherty i tells me, was present.’’ ; Martin is private secretary to the Attorney General, j Senator Moses asked if there was a j “money belt” found in, Smith's per i sonal effects. Aliss Stinson said she j did not know. “Attorney General Daugherty has said I am an angry woman because I wasn’t his sole heir," she remarked. "If you have reason to believe he had other property I'd like you to state it,” Senator Jones said. “I'd rather not answer.” “Was a note found in Mr. Smith's pocket when he died?” Senator Ash urst asked. New Will Wm Found. *T only know there was a will found, all in his handwriting, made on Monday, and he passed away Wed nesday.” It appeared this will waa different (Continued on Page 4, Column 2*| ,