Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-04-14
COOLIDGE ONLY
AGAINST PROBE
Of MR.. MELLON
Says Senator Watson, Chair
man of Committe Prob
ing Internal Revenue
SENATOR EDGE is HEARD
Presidents Message Did MOI
Strike at Any Other
Investigation
SENATOR EDGE is HEARD

WASHINGTON, April 14.-With
both sides newly fortified by en-
trenchments thrown up over the
weekend, the senate today re-
sumed it's war over Secretary Mel
lon and the future of the congress
sional investigation program.
Senator Watson, Republican, In
diana, chairman OF the special COM
mittee investigating the internal rev.
enue bureau, told his colleagues and
Democratic leaders privately after a
conference with President Coolidge
ana Mr.. Mellon, that the President
had not intended by his message last
week to strike at any of the senate
inquiries except that directed against
the treasury secretary.
Administration opposition to the
employment of Francis j. Heney as
special counsel for the revenue COM
mittee would be continued. the In
diana. senator said, regardless Of the
fate of the Democratic move to
| make that employment legal by a
| formal senate resolution.
When the Interpretation placed on
the Presidents message by Senator
! Watson was communicated to Sena-
! tor Robinson of Arkansas, the Dem
! ocratic leader, the latter declared
, the President ought in that case to
''send a supplemental message" ex-
| planning his exact purpose.
While these interchanges were in
progress at private conferences and
| in the senate cloakrooms. debate on
| the presidential admonition to the
senate to stay within the law, !"
broke out afresh on the floor. Sena-
| tor Edge, Republican, New Jersey,
declared Democratic criticism of Mr..
| Coolidge's message was based on dis
appointment that the revenue bu-
reau inquiry had not disclosed i'm
proper tax refunds to the mellon
companies"
Senator Watson said after the
| White House conference that he
would not press Immediately his
resolution to end the revenue bureau
| inquiry, and that he saw no occasion
now for a reply to the statement
made public last night by Governor
| Pinchot of Pennsylvania.
Governor Pinchot confirmed
! what I said in the senate Saturday
Senator Watson said. that he had
suggested to Senator Couzens OF
Michigan the employment of Heney.
l see no occasion for a reply"
With Senator Couzens seriously i'll
| in a hospital at Baltimore, the in
! e1Iiry has been suspended temporar-
| lily and 1t y not likely that there
! will be an effort to press it before
! his return to the senate. There is
every indication, however, that the
| part taken by him and by Governor
| Pinchot IN the controversy will have
a prominent place in the senate de-
bate until the issue is settled.
| Senator Edge re-opened the discus
sion with a prepared address almost
as soon as the senate convened. He
| declared the standing of the SEN
ate in the country today Is at the
/ lowest ebb in. the history of the ma
| tion," because of it's lilly convealed
| efforts to break down the morale OF
| important departments OF the gov
ernment."
I'm my judgment" Senator Edge
! declared, 'the Presidents messag ge
was not only justified, but if he had
| failed to so assert his responsibility
he would have been convicted OF
supineness and hesitation absolutely
| inexcusable. He unhesitatingly and
properly met the issue, and I trust
he will be needed"
"If the senate refuses to take due
notice, the country will not. If you
on the other side really believe this
program slander and assumption oi
the power of the courts will be ap-
proved by the country, in my hum
BILE judgment you will soon be rude
ly disillusioned.
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