The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-04-18

plan to have it passed at this session
of congress so it will apply to this
years national election. 1t will pro-
vide for:
1. Limitation of the total campaign
expenditures by any political party.
2. Limitation of the amount that
may be contributed by any individual.
8. Publicity of contributions to liqui-
date deficits in party hands after an
election, as Is required Of contribu-
tons before the election.
4. Penal punishment for violation of
any provisions OF the law.
G ENATOR LAFOLLETTE has made
~ public the radical platform which
his Wisconsin delegates will submit
for adoption at the Republican ma
tional convention. 1t includes all the
senator's well-known ideas and is
designed to appeal to almost all pro-
gressives or radicals. Its rejection
1 by the convention is certain, and it is
supposed the Wisconsin bunch will
then withdraw and join with other ele-
ments in nominating LaFollette on
third ticket.
CHAIRMAN SMOOT of the senate
~ finance committee introduced in
the senate the tax reduction bill as
approved by the committee. The
measure carries the Mellon income tax
rate Schedule, the provision for %
per cent reduction in the income taxes
of 1928 payable this year, rs per
cent reduction on earned incomes up
to $4,000, and repeal or reduction of
many of the excise taxes.
| The senate committee toward the
end of the week took up consideration
of the soldiers bonus bill and the in
dications were that it would be re-
by the house.
| G ENATOR BURTON X. WHEELER,
~ the implacable prosecutor in the
senate investigation of the acts of
Harry Daugherty, was indicted last
week by federal grand jury in Great
Falls, Mont, on a charge of unlawfully
receiving money as retainer fees to
influence the issuance of Oil and gas
prospecting permits by the secretary
of the interior and the commissioner
of the general land Office. With him
were indicted Gordon Campbell and l..
| G. Stevenson, oil men. 1t was alleged
| the offense was committed after
| Wheeler was elected senator but be-
fore he qualified for the Office.
Wheeler rose to defend himself in
the senate Wednesday, giving brief
outline of his career and his version
of the transaction upon which the
charges are based. He said he tried
and won a case in Great Falls for the
Gordon Campbell syndicate before he
went to Washington and was paid
$4,000 of his $4,000 fee, but that he
had refused to appear for Campbell
before any department of government
in Washington. He declared the in
dictment was part of one of the most
damnable conspiracies ever started in
the United States" and that the fore
man of the grand jury which indicted
him is one of the most bitter political
enemies he has in Montana. At Sena-
tor Wheeler's request, the president
pro TEN. of the senate, Albert b. Cum
Minis, was instructed by resolution to
appoint committee of five to investi-
i gate the circumstances surrounding
| the indictment of Wheeler.
| CONSIDERABLE testimony was
" heard by both the Daugherty ard
the Teapot Dome committees last
week, much of it suggestive but none
of it at all conclusive. The oil lease
investigators were hurrying to con-
clude their work. Howard D. Man.
nington, who was wanted by the
! Daugherty committee to tell about the
little green house" and the alleged
deals concocted there, arrived from
France and was at once subpoenaed
n1SPATCHES from Riga say that
- Turkestan and surrounding dis
tricts have revolted against Bolshevik
rule and that the rebels, mostly fanat-
ical Mohammedans led by czarist Off
GERS, are threatening Khiva. The
soviet government is hurrying large
bodies of troops to the scene.
DREMIER MUSSOLINI and the Fas-
cisti won an overwhelming victory
in the Italian elections, but this was
a foregone conclusion, for the election
law had. been so arranged that IT coule
! not be otherwise.