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Evening star., 1924-03-25

the property, including the Harris ranch
or any other land Falls company bought
Senator Walsh checked over the rec
ords of deposits in the cattle company's
account They correSponded with the
amounts and dates of the loans by he
Thatcher Company.
Asked whether Fall got any loans
except those in the name of the cat
tie company, the witness replied:
Fall Got Covering Loan
Nothing during the period you
speak or
WAS there any other?" asked Sena-
tor Adams
There was a loan to Fall in Janu-
ary 1921, of $4,000. That was to
cover loans carried over from 1916
or 1917"
''Were there any other records in
your bank of people connected with
Senator Dill.
Mr.. Everhart had an account"
Did you loan him through your
company
He had an interest with us. He
was our manager in Colorado and
New Mexico"
NO loans to him in relation to the
Fall ranch?"
Nothing that I know Of"
Accountant On Stand.
Anderson Fl. Tackett, an accountant
of the Federal Trade Commission, was
called and gave the committee more
details of the oil stock transactions of
Jess w. Smith, confidant of Attorney
General Daugherty. He said Smith s
accounts, listed as "W w. Spaid, No.
a." was closed out and a wv. w.
Spaid, No. o. account was opened,
which the witness said he had been
told at the Office of the brokerage
firm. w. Il. Hibbs & Co, was joint
account of Smith and Daugherty.
Asked what the net result of the
operations Of this account was, Tack
EFT said it was difficult to say, but
that there might have been a total
loss of $4,000. This was in 1929.
There was a transaction by Smith
of 1000 shares of Sinclair Consoli-
dated, Tackett said, with net profit
of $3,317. In addition Smiths account
showed a transaction in 100 shares of
Mexican Petroleum with a profit of
$556; and a transaction in 500 shares
of Mexican Seaboard with a loss of
s172.
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COMMITTEE SCORES
GENTLEMAN'S PACT
House Members Say Text Is
Unknown and Japan Has
Violated Intent.

The secret "gentleman's agreement"
between the United States and Japan
on immigration must be Cancelled, the
House immigration committee urges
in favorably reporting the Johnson
immigration bill.
Some modification has been made
to meet objections raised by Secre-
tary Hughes, and the committee has
agreed to give wider latitude for ad-
mission of Japanese coming to this
country for business purposes. The
committee has firmly declined, how
ever, to yield on its contention that
aliens, generally. who are ineligible
for citizenship should not be permit
ted to enter.
Terms Are Unknown.
Asserting that terms of the gen
tlemen's agreement" have never been
disclosed, the committee said it gives
Japan, instead of the American Con-
gress, control over Japanese immi-
grants. While it has been in force,
II was added, the Japanese population
in the United States has steadily in
creased.
In its endeavor to find solution Of
the question the committee declared
it had been handicapped by a "lack
of information" as TO the provisions
TO which cannot be had without
Japans consent.
This. much is certain, as indicated
by instructions to immigration offi-
GERS at ports of entry" the report
continued. Under the agreement the
United States bound itself to admit
any Japanese who presented himself
bearing Japan's passport unless he
IS afiicted with contagious disease.
Congressional prerogatives of regulat-
Ing immigration from Japan have been
surrendered to the Japanese govern
ment. That condition coupled with
the fact that the terms of the agree
rnent are secret would justify imme-
date cancellation of the agreement"
Charge Intent Violated.
The committee declared the Labor
department, in charge of immigra-
tion, is not even in possession of the
provisions of the agreement and that
| the report OF the commissioner of
immigration in 1908 and depart
mental regulations make il appear
that the only intent of the agree
| ment is to prevent an influx of Japa-
nese laborers. The purposes of the
agreement as outlined by President
Roosevelt, the report added, have
not been carried out.
Secretary Hughes proposal that
Japan be placed on the same quota
basis as other nations would prove
most Objectionable" said the report,
adding that it would place Japanese
nationals in this country in conflict
with naturalization laws and would
discriminate in favor Of Japan and
against other Asiatic nations.
The United States has been lax in
permitting an increase Of an unas-
lsimilable population which is inetig-
ible for citizenship" the report con-
tinued. 1T has deferred remedial
measures too long"
With regard to the admission OF
Japanese tradesmen, the committee
expressed the opinion that an amend
ment which it had approved would
comply with all clauses of the 1911
commercial treaty with japan and at
the same time would not permit
control of immigration to pass out
[ of the hands of Congress.
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The action of the United States Sen
ate yesterday in certifying to United
states Attorney Gordon for presenta-
tlon TO a grand jury the refusal of
Harry f. Sinclair, millionaire oil
magnate, to answer questions in the
Teapot Dome scandal recalls the first
time. nearly thirty years ago, that the
Indictment method was adopted by
the Senate as punishment for refusal
to answer interrogatories of one of
Its committees.
indictments for alleged contempt
of the United States Senate were re-
ported by the local grand jury Octo-
Der !, 1894, against Elverton r. Chap
man, New York stockbroker and
member of Moore & SchIey of New
York; Henry Q. Havemeyer. an official
of the American Sugar Refining Com
pany; John Z. Searles of New York
and others. They were charged with
declining to tell the Senate committee
If certain United States senators had
been dealing in sugar stocks while
the Senate was debating on the sched-
ule Of tariff TO be placed on sugar.
One Was Convicted.
MIR. Chapman was convicted and
sentenced to serve thirty days in the
District jail and to pay a fine of 500.
jury returned a verdict acquitting
Havemeyer and Searles after Justice
Bradley had ruled that the questions
propounded to them did not fall with
IN the scope of the inquiry then before
the committee.
Counsel for Mr.. Chapman attacked
the validity of section l02 of the Re-
NiSnd nd
jurisdiction OF the Senate to inquire
into the private affairs of the citi-
zen or TO ask and receive answers to
the questions upon the refusal to an
swer which the Indictment was
based.
The demurrer of the defendant was
orerruled and a special appeal taken
TO the District Court of Appeals.
Chief Justice Alvey rendered the
opinion OF the appellate court jan
uary 4. 1895. affirming the decision of
the lower court A writ of review
to the United States Supreme Court
was sued out, but the highest court
IN the land, in a decision by Chief
Justice Fuller, declared that tribunal
had no right to review the District
Court of Appeals in criminal cases.
Mr. Chapman paid his fine and served
the months Imprisonment, less the
usual allowance for good behavior.
Three Points Considered.
In sustaining the ruling of the Dis
trict Supreme Court Chief Justice
Alvey OF the Court of Appeals de-
Clared there were three points to be
conSidered-th., validity of the stat
ute, the power of the Senate TO con-
duct the inquiry and the pertinency
of the questions propounded to the
subject-matter of the inquiry which
the committee was charged with con-
Quoting. If any of these PROPOSE
tionS or requisites be resolved in the
negative, then the lower court should
have sustained the demurrer, but if
they arc all resolved in the affirma-
tive the demurrer was properly over
ruled, the chief Justice declared.
Havemeyer and Sedries were not
brought to trial until the Chapman
case had been acted upon by the
United States Supreme Court and
Henry +. Davis, then United States
Evening star., 1924-03-25
PROMINENT WOMAN
PUT IN POLICE PATROL
Policeman Refuses Mrs. de Sibour
Permission to Ride in
Private Car.

Despite offers from her son and
others to take her to the seventh
precincts station in private automo-
biies or in a taxicab, Nine. Margaret
de Sibour. wife of J. II. de Sibour,
local architect, prominent in society
circles, was forced to ride in the
patrol following arrest by Motor Cycle
Policeman Redman on q street near
27th street yesterday on charge of
reckless driving
The arrest took place following a
collision between the automobile Nine.
de Sibour was operating and an au-
tomobile owned by John Doolan of
1898 1st street northwest, which was
parked on the south side of Q street.
A wheel was torn off the parked car.
At Police Court today arrangements
were made by Assistant Corporation
Counsel Thomas to continue the case
until Saturday. Mr.. de Sibour. who
talked to Mr.. Thomas, announced his
willingness to bear all expenses connect
ed with the injury to the automobile of
Mr.. Doolan. Mr.. Doolan announced he
did not wish to press the case.
Nine. de Sibour was confined to her
home today with a recurrent attack OF
illness from which she was convalescing
yesterday when she decided to take
motor ride. The shock incident to the
accident and the subsequent occurrences
were said to have contributed to the
recurrence of her Illness
Nervousness resultant from her ILL
ness and the crowded condition of Q
street because of the parking of au-
tomobiles at the curbing were cited
ass causes for the accident.
Shortly after the accident Nine. de
Sibours son appeared on the scene
and offered to take his mother to the
precinct station house in either a. taxi
cab or his automobile. This request,
it was stated, was refused by Police
man Redman, who ordered that the
patrol be used.
Charges Of reckless driving and op-
Grating an automobile without a per-
NIT were placed against Mime. de
Sibour at the seventh precinct. Mr..
de Sibour deposited $500 collateral for
hpr release
Evening star., 1924-03-25
FORMER GRANGE MASTER
URGED AS COMMISSIONER
Sherman, J.. Lowell of Fredonia,
NY, Backed for Appointment
I to u. S. Trade Body.

Sherman J. Lowell of Fredonia, n.
Y. former master of of the National
Grange for two terms. has been
recommended to President Coolidge
for the vacancy on the Federal Trade
Commission, to which the President
has stated he desires to appoint a
FARMER.
Mr.@Loweu has been mentioned to
President Coolidge by Senator Wads-
worth, republican of New York, and
IS being backed by the National
Grange, claiming a million farmer
members in the United States.
During the war Mr.. Lowell was a
member of the New York state food
commission. He is said by the Ma
1ionai Grange to be known to more
farmers as real farmer than any
other man in the country" He is
now living on and working his farm
at F'redonia
Evening star., 1924-03-25
DAUGHERTY PRAISED
BEFORE ST. LOUIS BAR
A, A. Wheat, Special Assistant,
Lauds Honesty, Integrity
and Patriotism

By the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, March 25.-The efficiency
of the Department of Justice under
Attorney General Daugherty found
an ardent champion in Arthur A
Wheat, special assistant to the Attor-
ney General, in his lecture before the
st. Louis Bar Association last night
Wheat expressed implicit corfi-
dence in Daugherty personally" and
confidence in his honesty, integrity
and patriotism.
The Supreme Court of the United
States constitutes the last line of
defense between the Constitution and
those who wish to destroy it," the
speaker declared I'VE have got to
be on the alert, not so much against
thieves as against demasogues.'
Cites Court Victories.
Explaining the present-day work of
conducting cases before the Supreme
Court, Wheat stated that the De-
partment of Justice, during the last
year had won decisions in IS per cent
of 253 cases of appeal before it in
which the government was an inter
ested party.
Wheat declared the tax law and
the eighteenth amendment are the
TWO laws in this country which or
dinarily good people are prone to
Violate" and likened the present sit
uation to the whisky tax rebellion in
Pennsylvania in early days of con-
stitutional government.
The present outspoken attitude to-
ward prohibition will subside. as did
the feeling which prompted the whis-
KY rebellion of more than a century
ago" Wheat predicted.
The speaker paid high tribute to
the work Of william J. Burns, head of
the secret service, referring particu-
larry to his activity during the rail-
way strike OF 1922, in which approx
mately 100 convictions were return
ed for strike disorders out of 1000
cases investigated.
Evening star., 1924-03-25

Time savers: The railroad, the tele
graph, the telephone the wireless
and Star Want Ads
Evening star., 1924-03-25

March, 1924, a copy CT which is hereto
attached and made a part hereof.
Given under my hand and the seal
OF the United States Senate, this 25th
day OF March, 1894.
GEORGE II. MOSES.
Acting President of the United
States Senate
ATTEST: GEORGE A. SANDERSON.
Secretary OF the United States
Senate"
Another bankey-Lewis w. Bald
win, president of the Empire Trust
Company of New York-has been sub
poenaed in connection with the re
publican deficit, having been sum
moned yesterday after the Committee
had received conflicting statements
relative to the story in the New York
Times saying Ii was understood that
Will III. Hays. former chairman of
the republican national committee
would testify that Sinclair securities
had figured in the financing
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SOURCE OF $4,000 FALL
SPENT ON RANCH NOT
DISCLOSED AT HEARING

Continued from First Page.)
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tant things to find out are the causes
of lawlessness and the failure of law
enforcement agencies to apply the
law. He asked them to ascertain the
number of arrests that resulted in
actual trials and convictions. He sug-
gested that they inquire closely re-
garding the taking of collateral and
allowing forfeiture to take the place
of trial
He advised that they look into the
question of long Sslays and dismis-
sails of cases because agents were not
present. He asked that they con-
slider the small fines imposed and the
failure to use the abatement section
and to inform themselves regarding
how few prison penalties were i'm
posed. Mr.. Wheeler advised the COM
mittee that the Sheppard act is still
in effect in the District and discussed d
the penalties under both the Sheppard
act and the national prohibition act.
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Continued from First Page.)
Falls son-in-law and manager of
both the Fall ranch and the Thatcher
ranch. He is a cousin of Thatcher.
Thatcher listed the other borrow
ings under the arrangement with
Everhart as follows:
January 10, 1923. SIS. 900: April 13.
$4,000 (probably consolidation, the
witness said: July 9, $4,000; July
p, $4,000; August 16, $4,000; Octo-
ber =, $4,000, and November 9, $1O,-
900.
Certain of Dates.
you are quite certain all of these
were in 1923; that your books are cor
rect?" asked Senator Walsh.
Il am certain OF it,
Thatcher explained that all OF the
loans he had listed were made by the
NJ. d. Thatcher Estate Company and
went into the checking account of the
cattle company. His understanding was
that the loans were secured by all of
Evening star., 1924-03-25
MAY PROBE DEATH.
Brookhart Not Satisfied That
Smith Was Suicide.
Coolidge Is Assaulted.

Smith Was Suicide.
DR. J. r. Nevitt. coroner for the
District of Columbia. was quoted as
stating that Smiths death was a
plain case of suicide" in a report
submitted to Chairman Brookhart
last night by II. l.. Scaife, Washing
ton attorney, who said he had been
instructed to investigate the cir
cumstances of the death by Senator
AShurSt, a member OF the committee.
Scaife said the coroner told him
that no autopsy was made or in
quest held, but that an inquest would
have been ordered If any one had
suggested it,
He reported the only record the
coroner had was a death certificate
setting forth the cause of death as
'Eunshot wound of brain suicide"
He was making further inquiry to
furnished the information upon
which the coroner based his conclu
sIons. Scaife reported, as DR.. Nevitt
had not recalled these.
How Smith met his death may be a
phase of the inquiry pressed further
by the committee, according to Chair
man Brookhart Despite Nevitts sui
eide finding, the testimony of Miss
Stinson last Saturday and other in
"r-nation reaching the committee
committee, the chairman amplified, to
Establish the facts"
BroOkhart Is Dubious.
Smith died in the apartment here
which he and Attorney General
naugherty maintained
A revolver was found near his body,
but Miss Stinson said she observed no
powder marks about tire E wound.
Chairman Brookhart is firearms ex-
pert, a renowned rifle shot and
doubts if powder marks could be
absent in the case of such suicide
aS Smiths has been reported.
Determination of the committee to
secure the testimony of Howard Man
nington of Ohio, linked with Smith in
the testimony as a receiver of money
in the Dempsey-C Carpenter prize fight
film and whisky deals, resulted to-
day in a request by Chairman Brook =
hart to Secretary Hughes asking the
state Department to help induce
Mannington to return from Paris.
Mr. Hughes replied that, although
the Department of state was without
power to compel the return of an
American citizen except by extradl-
tion proceedings in cases where a
crime had been formally charged, he
would be glad to use his good Off
Ces." The American embassy in Paris
was instructed to locate Mr.. Man
nington if possible and advise him OF
the committees desire to have him
return here for examination.
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The committee then adjourned the
hearing nnffl ThuYSdav

The committee then adjourned the
hearing until Thursday.
The certificate in the Senate con-
tempt proceeding against Harry r.
Sinclair, as signed today and for
warded to the district attorney, is as
follows:
"To the Honorable, the District At
torney of the District of Columbia:
Take notice: That one Harry r.
Sinclair, appearing pursuant to its
lsubpoena before the committee on
public lands and surveys OF the United
States Senate on the 22d day Of March,
1924, refused 10 answer questions per-
before the said committee under SEN
late resolution lat and that his refusal
so to answer and his failure TO tes-
!tify and the facts in relation thereto
have been reported to the Senate, all
Iof which will more fully appear by
the report of the said committee made
to the Senate on the cath day of
Evening star., 1924-03-25
FIREARMS INQUIRY
!. FAVORED BY WHEELER

of the Anti-Saloon League, told the
special subcommittee of the House
District committee. that in investi-
eating the carrying and use of fire
arms and bootlegging in the District,
that this committee has the greatest
opportunity of any in the present
Congress to perform a real public
service
He told the committee the fmpor-
New Britain herald., 1924-01-08

Then what are you doing here?'' She turned fercely upon her daugh- ter. Somebody must go down there at once and bring those poor babies up here. and see poor William be- tore he goes. Is he conscious?"
 Yes. and has asked for some, of Elizabeths people to come" Harriet repeated the message as l had heard it from her husband. Edwin is going to take the first train down there. It goes late this afternoon
 Cant you catch it"''
 Harriet looked dubiously at Dr. Petit and me.
 Yes, but Mother-I don't---'
 I'm not going to die while you're gone" her mother interrupted. reso- lutely, and if I were. l wouldn't want you to stay here, when those poor babies need you so terribly. Iou set ready and get that train. There are plenty of people here to take care of me. There is nobody who knows just what to do for me the way Margaret does. I shall be all right
 She held out her hand to me with q little smile. far more pitiful than tears and as I pressed it close. I felt like giving a reNerential salute 10 the frail old figure so gallantly conquering illness and heartbreak because of the duty which confronted her.
New Britain herald., 1924-01-08
NICk-NACK REvUE-LyCEUM.

The Nick-Nack Revue, now playing at the Lycenm theater is one of tn, breeziest little musical comedy ef fects brought here in some time Three girls and two men are in tho company and they feature not onl. the latest song hits and special sing ing numbers, but also do bit of req good dancing. On the same bill 1. dainty Marcelle, a comedienne who's, vocal numbers call for a good hand at each performance. A couple ot male clog dancers who also crack jokes and inject considerable comed, into the bill are on the bill and the opening act is a novelty one, fea. turing clownish activities and some stilt walking demonstrations.
 The feature picture being present. cd, in addition 10 the latest episode Of Fighting Blood" is Where the North Begins" starring Rin Tin Tin the famous police dog. This is a story of love and hate, adventure and daring in the frozen country around tho Hudson Bay trading stations. For the last half Of the week Guy Bates Post in Gold Madness will be tho featured picture.
 The Lycenm also announces that "The Mail Man" companion picture of the famous "Third Alarm" which so wonderfully eulogized the work of the firemen, is scheduled for an carly showing here.
New Britain herald., 1924-01-08

| large and capable cast and presents a melange of Scotch mirth, melody, and song. They were given a big ovation al both the shows yesterday and will win first honors during their stay here. The Walsh Sisters were also well received with their singing, both girls have exceptional voices; Mack and Jess have real good comedy act; Weber and Ridnor. just a couple of nifties,' were well liked in song and batter and Bud and Eleanor Coll are a clever pair of juvenile enter tainers.
 Nita Naldi, famous samp of the screen, had considerable trouble in determining the kind of a head-dress she should wear in the Cleopatra role which she plays in the prologue for Allan Dwan's Paramount production of Lawful Larceny" which is on view at the Capitol theater now. There are many different conceptions of the famous vamp of history. The German artists showed her with a bandana scarf about her head while the French conceived her with no head Mress at all. Miss Naldi wears gold head-piece, fashioned some what like crown with an asp in front and suggestion of the lotus flower in the back. She is a most striking figure and is much admired by all who have seen the picture.