Evening star., 1922-04-07

withheld her name. Her letter in
closed a communication from the IN
diana republican committee of the
District of Columbia, of which the
chairman is o. P. NJ. Brown, and
members are DR.. Harvey w. Wiley
and Stanton J. Peelle. This communi-
cation asked if the woman was a
voter in Indiana, and whether she
intends to vote in the primaries IN
May. Senator Caraway read her let
!, ter, showing that a canvass had been
made in her office. to learn what
clerks had a vote in Indiana.
Senator Stanley predicted that in
the end Senator New and Senator
Moses would be made a pair of
political goats" that the President
will continue to be the angel of the
pudiate the statements of the two
senators.
The Kentucky senator also read a
letter addressed by Representative
Carl w. Riddick of Montana. chair
, man of the publicity committee of
the republican congressional com
| mittee. to a civil service employe
urging him to contribute SO every
three months to the republican cause
| saying that such aid would be re
3.
Senator Stanley said this man was
getting $3.50 month. and that. ap-
parently, judging from the demands
of the republican politicians. they
! wanted to put republicans in office.
Senator Moses insisted that the
law. as charged by democrats. in or
dering dismissal Of the bureau en-
| ployes. He said that the President
had authority to act as he saw fit and
that the law requiring charges to be
filed in case Of dismissal of employees
applied only to such action when
| taken by heads of bureaus. etc.
To this Senator Harrison replied
that il this Interpretation was to be
! placed upon IL the whole civil service
| law might as well be repealed.
! New Explains Letter.
Senator New, replying to the demo.
cratic assaults. referred in particula,
| to the letter read by Senator Cara
way. He said that the communication
undoubtedly was from an organiza.
tion aaintained here by Indiana resi-
dents. all of them republicans. He
referred to the high standing of the
members of this committee, particu.
larly DR.. Wiley and Stanton J. Peelle
former member of Congress and a
Judge. He said that similar letters
had been sent TO Indiana people re-
siding in Washington at every other
election for a great many years past
people here would avail themselves
of the opportunity offered to vote.
Great Indignation has been express.
ed here said Senator New. 1T ap.
pears that some democrats are about
| to be Jared loose from the jobs into
i which they set their teeth and tc
| which they have been hanging with q
! resolution worthy of a better cause
But the probability, the prospect OF
! that, has occasioned great consterna
| ton.
| 1T started with a wall arising from
| the swamps of Arkansas. which swept
[ through the miStletoe and moss. ac.
| companied by scalding tears. 1t has
[ crinkled UP the blue grass of Ken.
lucky. 1t has waited across and bills.
tered the buffalo grass of Nebraska
! 1t has caused the cane in the brakes
| of Mississippi to tremble and to bend
and, in fact, has caused the senators
| on the other side to forget the ravages
! of the boil weevii and all the other ills
| from which they have suffered al
these weary years.
| "I regret that their anguish O.
spirit is 50 deep and firmly seated
as to cause them to forget the bodil!
| ills from which they 50 long have
suffered My sympathy is with them
| I hope the occasion for it, however
! is not to be diminished
| Senator Moses read to the Senat,
a statement made by former Civi
! Service Commissioner Galloway
whom he characterized as "bour
hon democrat from South Carolina
In this statement Mr.. Galloway sais
| that he had been dismissed from
office because he refused to co
operate with former Postmaste,
General Burleson in debauching tn,
civil service.
! Senator Moses cited this instanc.
as an illustration of democratic ad
ministration of the civil service.