Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-24
Donations From Criminals.

Senator West suggested that the church
frequently received donations from GRIM
tnals for the use OF the poor.
Would the senator have the church
receive money from train robber If
the church knew how the robber had
obtained the money!" demanded Senator
Kenyon.
Senator MARITIME of New Jersey told of
many women from the scene Of the strike
In Colorado, for which the Rockefellers
are being held responsible in many quar-
ters.
"One of these women, the wife of a
miner, told us this morning. said Sena-
tor MARITIME. that she had seen men in
uniform putting oil on the tents in which
men. women and children were living and
then set fire to them. Women and chill
dren were burned to death. These men
in uniform were brought to Colorado by
the mine owners and through their in
fuence placed in the state militia. It was
a horrid and brutal tale
Senator Gore suggested that it would be
far better to have the $3.50, 600 donated
by the general education board annually
for the use of farm extension and boil
weevil work as pensions for the widows
and orphans of the miners killed through
the use of Rockefeller money in the
mines. He declared that the United
States, the most wealthy nation in the
world. should not accept money from
Rockefeller or any other individual.
Senator West said that the government
does not scruple to take money from
Rockefeller and other rich men in the
shape Of taxes.
why not let the people receive these
gifts which are to be used for their own
benefit" said he.
Senator Nelson asked If the Rockefeller
dollars would not be Just as effective in
exterminating the boil weevil as any
other dollars.
IF the money Of Rockefeller were used
on the boil weevil as effectively as on the
wives and children Of the miners in Colo
rado." said Senator Lane, undoubtedly
it would exterminate the boil weevil.''
Women Are Suffocated.
Senator Lane told the Senate how wom-
en- and children who had crawled into q
pit were suffocated through the fire al
legged to have been started by the mine
guards.
TT is such things as this that have
upset the stomach Of the American peo-
ple" continued Senator Lane, land have
made them unwilling to enter into a
partnership with John D. Rockefeller"
Senator Hoke Smith Of Georgia said
that while he intended to vote against
the West amendment. he wished to bear
had done splendid work in the cotton
belt in helping to exterminate the boil
wcevil and that its aid to the govern
ment had been given with such great
modesty that he had not known Of it
until recently. although much of the mon
ey had been expended in his own state.
Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire
after eliciting the information that the
House was conducting an investigation
into the Colorado strike. declared that it
was unfortunate that the Senate had en-
tered upon such a debate until it had all
the facts in the case before it.
ut is unfortunate that we should have
used such lurid language as has been
used here in the last half hour without
knowing the facts said Senator Cal
linger.
Senator West finally withdrew his
amendment and the agricultural bill was
passed. It carries about $19.7OO.000. a lit
tie more than the House provided. Be-
fore its passage Senator Smoot criticised
it as a particularly bad measure. He de-
clared If some Of the amendments in the
bill had come before the Senate In sep
arate form not ten senators would have
voted for them.
The bill will go to conference at once.
and on Monday the Senate, after its usual
tolls debate, will take up the naval ap-
preparation bill. Although democratic
leaders expect some debate on the two
battleships provision and on other fea-
lures, they believe 1t will not take more
than ten days to reach vote.