Evening star., 1932-04-14
CRISP CALLS POLICE
TO MAINTAIN ORDER
At BONUS HEARING
Persistent Veteran SpokeS-
man Stirs House Ways and
Means Committee.
CHAIRMAN'S WARNING
FAILS TO SILENCE HIM
Declares Stenber "Strays From the
Truth When Delegation
Finally Is Heard.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
With policemen standing close at
hand, the Ways and Means Committee
today listened to appeals for full pay
ment of the bonus from a delegation
that little earlier had interrupted the
session with demands to be heard.
j. w. Ford, colored, who said he was
a candidate for the vice presidential
nomination on the Communist ticket,
said the veterans get no sympathy
from the millionaire Congress of today"
Samuel j. Stenber identified himself
as representing the Workers Ex-Service
Mems League. He said Henry L. Ste
Vcns, national commander of the Amer
lean Legion, lies when he says the ma
Gritty OF the men do not want the bo-
nus"
Remarks Amended.
At the insistence of Acting Chairman
Crisp, he amended his language to say
that Stevens "Strays from the truth"
The police were called shortly after
Stenber asked when his delegation
would be heard
Stepping forward in the midst of the
hearing, man who identified himself
as Samuel J. Stenber, a representative
Of the Workers Ex-Service Mems
League, asked when his delegation
would be heard.
Crisp raped for order and said they
would not be heard at all unless they
observed the rules of the committee.
Representative Patman, Democrat, of
Texas has charge Of witnesses in be-
half Of the legislation calling for pay
ment of the two billion dollars out
a V16 fF1n
the order IN which they are presented
is decided by him.
Crisp Pounds for Order.
Despite Crisp's warning, Stenber per-
sisted
We have been waiting here several
Gays and want to know when we'll be
heard?" he said.
Crisp pounded for order and warned
Stenber his group would receive no
nearing unless he obeyed the rules. He
then instructed the committee clerk to
call police guard =
Stenber left the chamber and in the
corridor told newspaper men the dele
cation had been waiting since Mon
day for a hearing.
Later, Crisp called on Ford and STEM
Der, who had returned to the chamber
and were sitting in the rear Crisp said
the clerk had promised the group a
hearing and allowed each 10 minutes to
advocate payment of the bonus. Sew
eral policemen stood in the room
Coxey Last Witness.
Jacob s. Coxey, mayor of Masillon.
Ohio, and one time general of the ia
nous march of the unemployed in the
1906 was the days last witness for the
bonus
Exhibiting various kinds of money.
both paper and metal, to the commit
tee as he testified COXey said the coun-
try has been doing business on 81 per
cent Of checks and per cent of cur
rency.
We have been on a credit system"
he said. I'VE should get off that and
go on a currency system by printing
25 or 80 billions in currency"
The first witness at today's hearing
was Willford I. King, an instructor in
economics at New York University, who
reviewed recent economic developments,
beginning with the stock market crash
of 1929.
Patman Exhibits Appeals.
Representative Patman introduced
King after first exhibiting to the COM
mittee several thousand kilograms 1
have received since yesterday morning
favoring payment of the bonus"
These come from both veterans and
business men, especially small business
men," Patman said.
Patman and other advocates Of the
legislation are determined to press the
proposal to a vote, taking the attitude
the plans of the Federal Reserve Board
Tor expanding credit will not reach the
masses of the people.
They argue that the placing of
$4,000 100000 into the hands of the vet
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