The Holly chieftain., 1924-04-17

| plan TO have it passed at this session
of congress so 1t will apply to this
| years national election. 1t will pro-
vide for:
l. Limitation of the total campaign
expenditures by any political party.
.. Limitation of the amount that
may be contributed by any Individual
3. Publicity of contributions to iiqui-
date deficits in party hands after an
election, as is required of conrrIbu-
tions before the election.
4. Penal punishment for violation Of
any provisions of the law.
G ENATOR LAFOLLETTE has .nade
y public the rndical 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
by the convention is certain, and 1t is
1
then withdraw and join with other ele-
ments in nominating LaFollette on a
third ticket.
| CHAIRMAN SMOOT of the senate
~ finance committee introduced in
the senate the tax reduction bill as
approved by the committee. The
/ al toY
rate schedule, the provision for 25
per cent reduction In the income taxes
of 1923 payable this year, IS 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 1t would be re-
ported substantially us it was passed
by the house. f
G ENATOR BURTON X. WHEELER.
- the implacable prosecutor In the
senate investigation of the acts Of
Harry Daugherty, was indicted last
week by a federal grand jury in Great
Falls, Mont, on 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 lhnd office. with him
were indicted Gordon Campbell and l..
c. Stevenson, oil men. It was alleged
the offense was committed after
Wheeler wAs elected senator but be-
fore he Qualified for the bflite.
wheeler rusa To defend himself in
the sshate 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 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
mad 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 corlsplsacies ever started in
the United States" and that the fore
man Of the grand jury which indicted
him is cie of the most bitter political
enemies he has in Montana. AT Sena-
tor aWheeler's request, the president
pro TEN. of the senate. Albert b. Cum
Minis was instructed by resolution TO
appoint committee OF Ave to fnwesti-
A gate the circumstances sutreanding
tho Indictment Of Nbsaa9or
| lTONSIDERABL.E testfm6tty was
~ heard by both the Daughsrty and
the Teapot Dome committees last
week, much OF It suggestive but none
of 1t at all conclusive. The oil lease
investigators we're 'hufrying to con.
clude their work. .Hb&ard d. Man
ningtcn, who was Wanted by the
Daugherty c6thmittee'to tell about the
little green house" and the alleged
deals .cohcocted There, arrived from
France and was at once subpoenaed.
n1sPATCfiEs from Riga say that
~ Turkestan and surrounding dis.
tricts have fetolted against Bolshevik
rule and that the rebels, mostly fanat-
Zeal Moharnmedans led by czarist off,
i GERS, are threatening KhIvn. The
I soviet government is hurryIng large
bodies OF troops to the scene.
DRENlIER MUSSOLINI and the Fas
cisti won an overwhelming victory
In the Italian elections. but this was
foregone conclusion, for the election
law had been so arranged that 1t could
not be otherwise.