Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-12-24
Lodge Picks Senators to
Begin robe January S;
Soviet Ambassador to
Be Chief Quarry.
State Department Sends
Note to Various For
eign Capitals, Asking
Passage for Exiles.

Washington, Dec 23.-Institutior
early next month Of general congress
sional inquiry into radical activity in the
United States is announced by leaders
In both the senate and house.
Chairman Johnson, Of the house i'm
migration committee, returning from
New York, where he saw the first boat
load Of undesirables leave American
shores for soviet Russia. said that his
committee planned to resume its hear
ings on radicalism soon after the holi-
days. at Eastern ports, and that in the
meantime, members of the committee
would review the large mass of seditious
documents seized in recent department
of justice raids
Representative johnson incidentally
gave out the information that there were
many radicals. anarchists and COM
munists in western jails who would fol-
low Alex Berkman and Emma Goldman
and 247 others from this country.
Probers Are Named.
To conduct the investigation Of the
activities Of Ludwig G. A. X. Martens.
ambassador to the United States from
soviet Russia. and of Russian propa-
ganda in general, ordered by the senate
just before the holiday recess began,
Chairman Lodge Of the foreign relations
committee has appointed sub-con,-
mittee to be composed of Senators
Moses. Of New Hampshire, Rorah, Idaho.
and Knox. Pennsylvania. republicans. and
Pomerene, Ohio. and Shields. Tenn,
democrats. Hearings are to be started
by the committee soon after the senate
re-assembles January 5.
Officials of fifteen governments have
been notified Of the action of the United
States in deporting Berkman, Goldman
and many of their associates, the state
department making public a message
sent to various foreign capitals" which
said:
There are being deported from the
United States to soviet Russia about
80 citizens of Russia who are undesir
able here. These persons, while enjoying
the hospitality of this country, have con-
Quoted themselves in most obnoxious
manner; and while enjoying the benefits
and living under the protection Of this
government, have plotted its overthrow
They are a menace to law and order
They hold theories which are an
tagonistic to the orderly processes of
modern civilization.
Cites Charges Against Reds.
They have INDUCED in practices whicn
tend to subvert the rights which the
constitution Of the United States
guarantees to its citizens.
They are arrayed IN opposition to
government, to decency, to justice.
They plan to apply their destructive
theories by violence, in derogation Of
law
They are anarchists. They are per-
sons of such character as to be undesir-
able in the United States Of America,
and are being sent whence they came.
Their deportation is in accord with the
law
Precautions has been taken TO re-
quest for them safe conduct and humane
treatment at the hands of the authori
ties under whose jurisdiction they will
pass enroute to soviet Russia"
Will Determine Port Abroad.
While explaining that the destination
OF the transport Buford and her cargo
or undeSlrabes was soviet Russia,
Anthony Caminetti. commissioner gen
eral of immigration, said that the exact
landing place of the radicals aboard
would be decided by conditions prevail
ing when the vessel reached Europe and
on future orders transmitted to the
agents Of the immigration service en-
foufp