Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-12
FACTS DEVELOPING OF
 KU KLUx KHAN ACTIVITIES

Washington, Oct. 11.-Digging into the activities of the Ku Klux Klan, the house rules committee developed testimony to- day that the organization had taken in $1,4S8,710 since in foundation, that the department of justice was still conduct ing an investigation of Its own and that according to the Klan's confidential infor- nation to field agents the chief of police of Norfolk Virginia, was member.
 Through news letters said to have been sent from Kan headquarters and not in tended for general publication, the state ment also was made that the Norfolk chief had promised 260 rifles to the loca. | order fin time of trouble" and that Rep resentative Upshaw, democrat, of Georgia, | in whose home district the Klan was born, had been put to it to deny mem- 1 5ership in the Klan and at the same time 1 square his conscience as a preacher and church member.
 The imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Kan, William J. Simmons, of Atlanta,
 sat all day in the crowded committee room and heard witnesses declare that he was not it's actual head. that all pow CTS seemed vested in Edward Young Clarke head of the publicity or propa- sating bureau and Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler, his assistant All the evidence today
 was by witnesses demanding an inquiry
 and those who had conducted independent
 inquiries for the post office department
 and newspapers
 ] o. B. Williamson, 8 post office in-
 spector, told of a seven day preliminary
 investigation at and around the Imperial
 Palace at Atlanta. Mir Williamson who
 presented the news letters in evidence
 declared their transmission established
 proper use of the mails and that they
 had been sent out for the purpose of stim- ) ulating the drive for members at ter
 dollars a head. Asked by Chairman 2 Campbell If any part of the funds col = lected by the Klan had been spent for the ) needy, the witness replied:
 3 If you call Colonel Simmons needy then some thousands were spent for him but none for charity. Colonel Simmons salary is s1.800 a month.'
 l There was sharp conflict between thu testimony of Williamson and that of c
 Anderson Wright, former Klansman s who recently published what purportet t to be an expose of the order concerning "; . palace" at Atlanta owned jointly b, s Clarke and Mrs. Tyler. Wright said h q had often been entertG ined within 1t a hospitable portals and that it cost up $ wards of $75,000 but Williams said if 5 5 was there he could not get track of it. Wright, who testified that he quit tn , T. Klan because he objected to the method l. of management by Clarke and Mrs lyle, 3 was pressed by committeeman to sa 70 whether acts of violence committed b . alleged Klansmen actually could [ -e charged to item. lie declared he had n
 knowledge of such affairs, nor was +
 able to state whether member of COT
 gress belonged to the organization, b, he added that Simmons had "oneoI
 ooasted" of a congressional membershi n list
 IF There was buzz in the room, wit IL nearly one hundred members of the hou. It sitting and standing around, when Chai Ill man Campbell called William j. Burn le director of the department of justice b, C' reau of investigation to the stand. Br '- he was there only moment, merely sta ting that the department was still at wo - lnVestiga ting the Ku Klux that it was n .i i ready to report and that its inquiry hs e e not been stopped or held up by the cor - mittee hearing.
 .d Representative Gallfvan, democr, ,s Massachusetts, made a plea to the cor n- mittee to consider his resolution providil in for appointment of a joint committee
 the senate and house to ascertain if me1
 bers of congress were identified with f
 'Ku Klux
 In the course of his examination I TX spector Williamson gave detailed inform
 tion as to the financial status of the r ss klux, saying that Clarke and Mrs. Tyl n- in general charge Of the records made mt objection to the inspection.
 ay Available records, the inspector sa -al showed collections amounting to sS6O 2 we from June 1, 1920, to September A. 1s.