N THE closing days of the congress the an into what gave some promise of de- veloping into another lobbying scandal, Mr. Borah read to it an article in a New York newspaper which said, in effect, that a senator, during his former occupancy of Senator a high official posi- J. J. Davis tion, had received $160,000 from the president of a do- mestic sugar company in return for his agreement to lobhy for a high sugar tariff. Senator Nye of North Dakota had already alluded to the de- ploring the fact that such an unsub- stantiated report had been given pub- Heity and credence, Replying to ques- tions, Nye admitted that the campaign expenditure committee, of which he Is chairman, had come upon the of a 100,000 gift to a senator, had in- completely Investigated it and had turned over a the committee on He sald he thought the secator In question was entitled to have an inquiry and the truth established by the lobby com- mittee, which Is headed by Senator Caraway of Arkansas, At the Instance of Senator Borah, supported by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the senate instructed the lobby committee to Investiguter the story. Immediately thereafter Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, form- er secretary of labor, announced off the floor that he ready to appear before the lobby committee at any ti he would assure the committee of the nce of sev- eral witnesses whom iL to hea Among sses he named was Bror G. Ix srg of Chi- cago, president of the § hern Sugar comnj Mr. Davis declared assist the ¢ session of senate aA story, SOT report memorandum to lobbying. made senate stood me and that prese would desire the witne tor Davis declared the Pes, lirecte t him, ab- charg solutely false, were V ITH little or no expectation that his veto would be sustained, President Hoover put the mark of his disapproval on the veterans’ bonus loan bill. His veto message to con- gress Included data provided by See retary Mellon showing how the bonus loans would aggravate the financing difficulties of the treasury, and also new estimates of the number of vet- erans who will apply for the loans, duck” A BOLISHMENT of the “lame med as- session of congress see sured when the house adopted the Gifford resolution to that and providing for the inauguration of the newly elected President in January instead of March, The resolution, which proposes an amendment to the Constitution, differs somewhat from the Norris measure passed by the senate with the same purpose, but it was believed the differences would be ironed out in conference. It is planned that the terms of the Presi- dent and Vice President shall end on the twenty-fourth day of January and the terms of senators and representa- tives at noon on the fourth day of January of the years In which such terms pormally would end. Congress would assemble on January 4, and the President would be sworn in on January 24. effect NLY a veto by President Hoover can keep the government from go- ing into the power business, for the sen- ate joined with the house in accept- ing the conference report on Muscle Bhoals. The senate vote was 55 to 28 This indicated that a veto would be sustained. Twenty Republicans voted for the measure, eleven of them being of the radical group which has the power question for its chief issue. Another rebul for the administra- tion was administered when the house passed Senator Wagner's bill setting up federal and state employment agen- cies, without a record vote. It was be. lieved President Hoover might kill the measure by a pocket veto, NE of Oklahoma's lame duck Re publican congressmen, U. 8. Stone of Nor. man, put forth a part- ‘ng wall that aroused little If any sympathy among the national law makers but con- siderable among the public at large. Mr, Stone had Introduced a bill barring relatives of members of con. US Stone gress and of high officials from be coming federal employees, and the other day he called at the White House to ask President Hoover's support for the measure and also to tell what this attack on nepotism was getting him. “I never dreamed,” sald Mr. Stone, “that a simple. constructive move on my part could make such a difference. I pass fellow house members In the hallways of the office building and they do not speak to me. My wife Is punished for my daring. Even bureau clerks In legislative departments give me the shoulder and Interfere with my work as a member of the house, 3 “I have had members whisper that I am right, but that I would not suc- Others have warned me thar | would suffer for my vashness. The reaction against my proposal to make it ‘unlawful’ for any legislative, min- Isterial, or judicial officer to appoint any person relaled to him when the pay is to come out of public funds has been most extraordinary.” The last annual report of the clerk of ‘the reveals that approxi mately 100 relatives are now on the pay rolls of members, and a survey shows that many of these have never done a lick of work in the offices for which they got their appointments. cold ceed, house One letter to Mr. Stone points out that the daughter of a certain repre sentative signed vouchers for £3.500 last year and spent almost the time abroad. Another report which he would like to Investigate before a committee Is that a southern member has paid his father $16,000 and the man has never been in Washington. entire N INNESOTA Dem- i ocrats an nounced, through “halrman J. J. Far rell of thelr state ex- ecutive committee, that they would try to unseat Senator Thomas D. Schall, Re- publican, who WAS re elected last Novem- ber in a five-cornered ontest. Farrell sald Senator T. D. Schall the state also with governing privileges, an at the state elect would be Yacant so asked to declare that a new committee the seat eles tion may be called When Senator this In Washington he “That does not The blind senator's dispute wit} President Hoover and Attorney Gen- eral Mitchell over the appointment of a new federal judge for Minnesota continues, After rejecting Schall's choice for the post, Ernest D. Michel of Minneapolis, the President named Gunnar B, Nordbye, now a Minneap- olis district judge, and Schall immedi. ately announced he would contest the nomination in the senate. His course in this matter, It is said, has led some Hoover Republicans In Minnesota to support the move, was told of sald only: deserve comment.” Schall ouster De® iY Democrats in Congress were exceedingly during the week get- ting ready for the meeting of the Dem- ocratic national com- mittee scheduled for March 5. Chairman John J. Raskob had announced that the committee would con- sider future policies of the party, and as- suming that he would try to commit it to the wet side of the prohibition conhiroversy, the drys were lining up to fight him to the bitter end. Sen- ator Morrison of North Carolina, one of the most arid ones, said his group had enough votes to defeat any wet resolution. Senator George of Georgia asserted the committee had no right to form party policies, that being the function of the national convention. Other Democratic leaders were anx- lous to head off any discussiol of the liquor Issue. Naturally the approaching commit- tee meeting caused a lot of talk about presidential possibilities. The names heard oftenest were those of Gover nor Roosevelt of New York, Gover active J. J. Raskob nor Ritchie of Maryland and Senator- elect James Hamilton Lewis of [Ii nois, In Chicago there developed quite a boom for Colonel Lewls on his return home from a sojourn In the South west, EHR EVIND SVINHUFVUD, who has just been elected president of Finland, is going to have the pro- hibition question put up to him promptly. Distinguished women of the country, of all parties, are circulating a petition asking his support of a speedy repeal of the “perniclous pro hibition law.” The petition urges mothers to “feel deep concern in the ever increasing intemperance which ruins men, wom. en, and children morally and physical. ly, It Is a 1 to contemplate how alcohol will ect the descendants of the present polsoned generation unless legislators abolish the prohibition sys- tem.” The petition further points out that women are unable to restart a temperance movement until the de moralizing prohibition law Is repealed and replaced by reasonable legislia- tion, OXc¢ 'E agaln the United States Su- preme court has upheld the val- Idity of the Eighteenth amendment, This time the action, which was unan- Imous, was In reviewing the degision of Federal Judge Willlam Clark of Newark, N. J., who held that the amendment should have been ratified by state conventions instead of by state legislatures. This decision was reversed, the opinion being written by Justice Owen D. Roberts, the new- est member of the Supreme court, In a case appealed from Michigan, the Supreme court held that the severe penalties of the Jones “five and ten” law are not applicable to conviction for possession of liquor, \A/ BLE the econ- ference on nar in Washington, word came that Joseph C, Grew, American am- bassador to Turkey, was getting there In the fight to suppress the illegal ex- from that country. Mr, Grew made Ambassador J. C. Grew government at An- brought about the sealing of the three big drug factories of Istanbul with their entire stocks, to be effective until the factories pre attesting the amounts and exportation. from Turi ¥ United Sta gora and sent documen of production Drug countries exporting such as the which do not allow unrestricted en of narcotics, Is forth expected to be Impossible, ss a offi cial ha tory to cor portation, Factories the hence gover: attached to enc and ex- must report to government every 24 the aw material purchased amount of production The Japanese factory in the new order is so his factory probably will functioning Corre | nas § country janger 8 been h itrol production hours amount of rs and the director Istanbul severe that be forced to of the SAyVS cense King Al- of Spain American spondents that all HOUGH Azn the A uh espe Admiral tha nating thie nation Juan Aznar ities of party an cided to boycott the national te fully with the Reps revolutionary commitiee., TI was so forcible moderate leaders amo comm the ! labor union clalist electio and coopera lican determination some of the Socialists resigned from the their places being filled revolutio gnations ended the govern ment's dream of split revolu- tionary ranks by cialists and thelr 300.000 worl their terrible strike from element with bourgeoisie and frie The government the mittee real nists, These res ting the divorcing the So rs with weapon of general the their bac r purely publican king among the wndly soldi ry. announced that the municipal elections, the first in a series of elect that will end eventually In balloting for an assembly to amend the constitution, would take place on April 12 instead of March 20. E tional Institutions, closed by the Ber enguer government a& month are ordered reopened. In his talk with correspondents Al fonso said he had done all he conld to satisfy his people and that he was willing to give up almost everything but his crown, which, he added, was not his to give away, being his In. heritance of which he is only the temporary holder, ions duca ago, ECAUSE of divided opposition Wil liam Hale Thompson won renom- ination by the Republicans for mayor of Chicago after one of the hotiest primary contests that city has ever enjoyed. The attack on him was flerce and he would have been beaten by Judge John Lyle, “nemesis” of the gunmen and gangsters, had it not been for the candidacy of Alderman Albert who was supported by Senator Deneen and his dwindling faction. The hope of those Chicagoans who seek to elimi- nate Thompsonism now rests with An- ton Cermak, who is the nominee of the Democrats. OUNTER revoln- tion broke out In Peru under the leader. ship of friends of the deposed president, Augusto lLegula, and threatened the regime of Provisional Presi- dent Luis M. Sanchez Cerro. The uprising was quelled In Callao but the revolution. ists seized Arequipa Pravidem and set up a govern ment under the name “Southern Junta.” They were joined by considerable parts of the army and held control of southern Peru. To prove the sincerity of his inten tions In leading the August revolu. tion, Cerro issued a proclamation de- claring that he would not be a eandl- date for the presidency when the elec tions are held. This, he and his ad hereuls thought, would pacify the Arequipa 8 and lead to peace through negotiations. 1@ 153). Western Newapaoer Union.) By ELMO SCOTT WATSON JHIRTY years 1 & new nat effery esc was Frederick the Orient, if not in that time been no insu of man in the whole three T0000 suxilis end of other On rrectos world ag had American troops ries =a the who years merry cl March 23. came to an daring and the Kansan, this wily native taken Insignificant have been nrovinee of it ¢ Of . i end when strategy prisoner though in appearance lives had been pached as full venture as had his Into fame aimost overnis born in Ohio in 1865, lieutenant In the Union who in 1867 mi rederick was two years old, where he e was elect. ed to the Kansas state legislature and later elected and repeatedly re-elected to congress Young Funston was educated in Jola, Kan, attended the University of Kansas for two years and then went to work as a newspaper first at Fort Smith, Ark... and the Kansas City Journal. During the summer of 18068 tended a mass meeting In New York arouse sympathy for the to throw Funston be- army, wed to Kansas whe reporier, later on he at off the yoke of Spain. liberty and offered his services to the Cuban Junta, After drillicg recruits kiss guns owned by the Cuban revolu- Two weeks later he was During his 18 months in Cuba Fun. including 3 pneumatic dynamite gun, the first ever used in battle) that the Spaniards set a price upon his head. At the battle of Samal his lungs were pierced by a Mauser bullet and while he was re- covering from this wound his hip was Injured by his horse falling upon it during a cavalry charge. This was followed by an attack of fever and with his health broken Funston at tempted to reach the coast and escape to the United States, He was arrested by the Spaniards but succeeded in convincing them that he was a deserter from the Cuban army (after swallowing the passport which would have betrayed him) and although they at first sentenced him to a firing squad and a stone wall, he was finally freed and sent to the United States. Thig was In 1800 and the next few years Funston spent on the lecture platform, At the outbreak of the Spanish-Aper fean war he organized the ‘Twentieth Kansas Volunteers a regiment similar to the Rough Riders, of which he was made a colonel, His regiment was or # x 4 24 dered to vember, 1808 Merritt at lared himss« lutionary pines an Gen he nald drea: tive land 4 feated the hated Spa dreams led to the the new masters Alm from the insurrection Funston field aguinst Aguin His strict discipline especially popular with soldiers, but after the affair at Murilao river in April, 1800, he had their unbounded respect. There he found the bridge across the river destroyed and a strong force of insurrectos on the other side to resist a crossing by the *Americans. Selecting 20 of those who volunteered to accompany him, Fun- ston swam the river, drove the enemy back and took 80 prisoners. A few days later, with only 45 men. he crossed the Rio Grande at Calumpit on & raft, and after a desperate fight drove 2.500 of the enemy from an in- trenched position, For this feat he was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers, Throughout 1800 and 1900 there was constant fighting but always the lead- er of the insurrectos eluded capture. Sometime during 1900 he seemed to have dropped out of sight entirely but in January, 1001, from his hiding place in the province of Isabela. Aguinaldo sent out a letter denouncing the sub- chiefs who had taken the oath of al- legiance to the United States and or- dered certaln Insurgent forces In southern Luzon to join him at the rendezvous In Isabela. The messen- ger entrusted with this letter surren- dered to an American lieutenant in February and upon securing the in. formation so long desired, General Funston determined upon a daring plan for capturing Aguinaldo. Going to Manila to lay his plans before his superiors, Generals MacArthur and Wheaton, he finally gained their con- sent to the attempt. Taking with him Capt, H. W. Newton and Russel T. Hazzard, Lieuts, Oliver PP, M. Has- pard and Burton J. Mitchell and a company of 80 Macabebes who spoke the Tagalog languages, he was landed oh a beach south of Casiguran in the province of Principe on March 13, 1001. these against islands of the in the followers. made him and insurrection of the Ost beginning had been aldo's had not his Aguinaldo’ Macabebe EOIVOR “ ow as ¥ vo gent Tags five Americar as pri BOLOTS tion of Funs gas a dang pended rabehe the Ames and after march of party reac! Pa ia message, nan General Lac porter, th e papers hand gent leader's messenger, was ward to Aguinaldo and a pre sponse was received, weld party. The Americans and their fake Tagalogs hastened forward. Funston himself was not present at the, actual capture. That he entrusted to a Span- iard, lazaro Segovia, and a detach- ment of the The story, as Funston told it later, follows: “Running up the bank toward the house, we were met by Segovia, who came running out, his face aglow with exultation and his clothes spattered with the blood of the men he had wounded. He called out in Spanish: ‘It is all right; we have him! We hastened into the house which scouts and 1 Intro. duced myself to Aguinaldo, telling him that we were officers of the American army, that the men with us were our troops, and not hig, and that he was a prisoner of war. He was given as surance that he need fear no bad treatment. He said, in a dazed sort of way: ‘Is this not some joke? 1 assured him that It was not, though, as a matter of fact, It was a pretty bad one on him. While naturally agi: tated, his bearing was dignified, and in this moment of his fall there was nothing of the craven.” In after years Aguinaldo was lood in his praise of Funston for the an- dacity and skill of his plan, saying that only by the stratagem used could he have been captured. The news that Aguinaido was captured was flashed to the United States and was hailed with delight as the sign that the long snd weary war against the Insurgents was over at last. Presi- den: McKinley on March 30 commis. sioned Funston a brigadier general In the regular army and had it not been for his untimely death in 1017 it is probable that he would have been commander in chief of the A. E. F, when the United States entered the World war. His only part In that great con. flict was to give his name to a train. Ing camp In Kansas where thousands of men received their training for “over there (@ by Western Newspaper Union.)
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