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HOUSE IS BELIEVED
CERTAIN TO APPROVE
FEDERALJUOGEBILL
Webb Measure Empowers
President to Name Addition
al Circuit and District Court
Judges in Certain Instances
■T HALTS SMITH.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 15.—Congrees
min Webb, of North Carolina. chairman
of the judiciary committee, expressed
the "expectation that the house will con
cur in the senate’s passage of the bill
authorizing t/ie president to appoint ad
ditional circuit and district court
judges in certain instances. The bill
haa been reported favorably by the ju
diciary committee and awaits action bj
the house.
CongreMtnin Webb's faith in the
probable passage of the bill by the
house rests on two important essentials: ,
First. the measure was inspired by
tne administration and has the warm
support of the preaident and the de
partment of justice
Second, the bill is meritorious to the
last degree and is’ calculated to appeal
to the house’s sense of fairness and pa
triotism.
Contrary to the popular impression,
the bill contains ro provision that is
intended to retire the judge who has
grown old in the service. It authorizes
the president to appoint additional
judges only when a judge has passed
the age of seventy years and the presi
dent is convinced that, on account of
these advancing years, the judge is un
able to discharge all the duties of his
office.
Under the law as it now stands, a
judge who has served ten years on the
* bench and reached the age of seventy
years may retire on full pay. There
are a number of judges throughout the
country eligible for retirement, under
this provision, but who prefer to re
main in harness.
The bill in question seeks to avoid
the enforced retirement of these faith
ful servitors, yet at the same time fur
nish a vjounger judge to help dispatch
the business of the court, when, in the
president’s opinion, such an appoint
ment is necessary.
THE BUaL’fi ORIGIN.
Although the senate bill bears the
name of Senator Hoke Smith as its au
thor. the legislation originated in the
department of justice, and was first in
troduced by Congressman Webb, of
North Carolina. in the lower house of
congress
Mr. Associate Justice Mcßeynolds,
who was President Wilson d first attor
ney general. Initiated the legislation,
and strongly urged its enactment in his
first annual report to the president and
congress. These recommendations were
repeated by Mcßeynolds before his ele
vation to the supreme bench, and re
newed twice by Attorney General Greg
ory.
When Senator Smith first evidenced
an interest in the legislation he stated
that it had been called to his attention
bv Judge William T. Newman, federal
judge for the northern district of Geor
gia, who expressed a desire that that
legislation might pass which would
free judges who had passed seventy from
the necessity of retiring when unable
to perform the duties of the office, and
yet leave them where they could con
tribute such service to the government
as their health and advancing years
would permit.
ORIGINAL SCHEME MODIFIED.
As originally recommended by the de
partment of justice, it was proposed
that the bill should provide that where
the judge had reached -the age of seventy
jears and failed to retire; the president
should appoint an additional judge. This
provision was modified at the instance
of Senator Smith so as to make the ap
pointment discretionary with the presi
dent if he found tne agea judge unable
physically to properly perform the du
ties of the office.
The need of the legislation is recog
nized throughout the United States.
There are fifteen or more United States
court judges over seventy years of age.
and in some instances the business in
terests have been sadly neglected. Cir
cuit Court Judge McCormack, of Texas,
fifth judicial circuit, failed to retire al
. i hough he was over eighty years old
and had been physically unable to sit on
the bench for a number of years. The
* passage of the legislation will facilitate
the dispatch of business in the federal
courts, and at the same time retain
for the benefit of the government the
* service of judges of advancing years
Every Democratic member of the sen
ate, recognizing it to be an administra
. tion measure, voted for its passage, and
Senator LaFollette was the only Repub
lican to give it his support.
Verdict Is Affirmed
WASHINGTON. Jan. 15.—South Car
oiina decrees for about 110.*>00 damages
against the Atlantic Coast Line in fa
• vor of the widow of W. E. Mulligan,
Columbia. S- C.. a locomotive engineer
accidentally killed, were affirmed today
by the supreme court.
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J. B. CHRISTIAN, the new ad
jutant general of Florida. Gov
ernor Catts named Christian, an old
classmate, to succeed J. C. R. Fos
ter. who has held the place for six
teen years and is chairman of the
executive committee of the National
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BLOOD-RED FIELDS
OF BATTLE UNDER
MANTLE OF WHITE
Front Line Trenches in Mystic
Quiet Which Comes With
Snow Whjle British Guns in
Rear Thunder Out Requiem
(By Assotiatrt I'rese. >
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
FRANCE (Via London i, Jan. 15.—Thin
has been one of the strangest days in
ihe strange world war. It has been a
wonderfully while day—a day of snow,
white fog. white fields, and strange
white trees glistening in magical man
ties ot clear white frost. Even the
brown, gripping, remorseless mud of
the Somme —the mud that has been al
most the master of the war for these
past two months —has hidden its
treacherous depth for the time at least,
beneath the sort, fleecy flakes that came
during the night to spread a Sabbath
vestment of purity over the wretched,
squallid and somber battle grounds of
northern France.
In most of. the front line trenches
there was the mystic quibt that comes
with snow. No man's land had been
lifted for the moment out of its de
graded and abject state of melancholic
desolation and placed on a picturesq&e
ly white equality with the untrammeled
lands that lie about the fighting zones.
The tortuous rusted barriers of grim
barbed wire in front of the many posi
tions had been transformed into tangled
and graceful strantid of crystal ice and
clinging snow.
Baek of the lines the British guns
that never seem to tire or s-leep—guns
that winter cannot muzzle or frosts
subdue—spoke with a white hot breath
from hiding places screened and double
secure beneath the white cover of the
newly-fallen snow. Under the spell of
the snow and ftie mists there was. what
is not often the case out here, an al
most tangible touch of Sunday in the
air. Whether it was the white fog that
enveloped so much of the front or
whether it was just some shadowy spir
it of the Sabbath, the strident voices
of the guns seemed more muffled than
usual and farther away. But the mes
sengers that the guns sent smashing
through miles of glacial space spoke to
their fioes in the same determined tones
that have been heard with such unre
lenting regularity during all these win
try days.
The war that stretches out over the
years is the war that necessarily re
solves itself into a routine of much
the same thing over and over again. To
day, however, in all its whiteness it
seems just a wee bit different.
U. S. Sup reme Court
Decides Test Mail
Cases Against Roads
(By AaaocUted Press.)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 15—Tert cases
regarded decisive of about 800 railroads’
claims against the government for ap
proximately $35,000,000 for additional
compensation for carrying the mails
from 1907 to 1911 were decided today
by the supreme court against the rail
reads.
Appeals of the Chicago and Alton and
Tazoo and Mississippi railroads from re
jection of test claims were dismissed.
CHOWD SHIVERS IN COLD
th nomm biiffilii bill
Estimated 25,000 Stood in
Line to Take Farewell
View of Noted Scout
'By Asiociated Press.)
DENVER. Jan. 15.—The west Sunday
paid honor to the memory of Colonel
William F. Cbdy (Buffalo Bhll). While
the body of the man who had done so
much to make her cities possible, lay
in state beneath the dome of the capi
tol, troopers from Fort Ixigan formed
lines in the rotunda of the capitol
through which passed the governors of
two states, delegations from the legis
latures of those states, officers of the
L nited States army, members of fra
ternal organizations of which the fa
mous scout and plainsman was a mem
ber. veterans of the Grand Army of
the Republic, women and thousands of
childen. Not the least the conspicuous
among the mourners who passed the
great bronze casket were a handful of
old Indians and former scouts —those
who had been youths in the famous wild
west show which bore Colonel Cody’s
pseudonym.
The body was dressed in a frock coat
on which were pinned the badges of
the Legion of Honor and of the Grand
Army of *thc Republic. The casket bore
the tnscrip.t'ion “Colonel William F.
Cody, ’Buffalo Bill.’ ”
BODY TAKEN TO CAPITOL.
Colonel Cody’s body was brought into
the capitol at 9:50 o’clock Sunday morn
ing. Al 12 o’clock, the hour set for
the closing of the casket, the crowd stiil
was coming.
The public was held back while the
family bade the colonel farewell. In
the family was “Johnny” Baker, of New
Rochelle. N. V. who was with Colonel
I Cody in his adventurous enterprises for
1 many years.
Following the family, a delegation of
Knights Templar from North Platte,
Neb., passed the bier. Afterwards march
ed a delegation of former cowboys.
“Good-by, old pard,’’ “Good-by, Bill,”
were some of their'greetings.
The guard of honor at the casket in
cluded delegations from Colorado na
tional guard, the Pioneers society, the
Elks and the Grand Army of the Re
public.
The public again was admitted at
12:10 o’clock for twenty minutes.
A line extending more than a block
shivered in the cold wind, waiting for
a chance to enter. Twenty-five thou
sand persons passed by the casket, ac-
I cording to estimates.
TWO GOVERNORS PRESENT.
From the capitol the funeral proces
sion passed through the downtown
streets led by city policemen. Behind
was the caisson on which rested the
casket.
Among the distinguished citizens of
this and other states in the procession
were Julius C. Gunter, governor of Col
orado; John B. Kendrick, governor of
Wyoming; Edward Howard, lieutenant
governor of Nebraska; the secretaries of
state of Colorado and Wyoming; legisla
tive delegations from Nebraska, Colo
rado and Wyoming and Elks from Kan
sas and New Mexico. Bringing up the
rear of the cortege seventy cowboys
walked. Two of them led Colonel
Cody's horse "McKinley.” with the
plainsman's pistols hung from the sad
dle horn.
Several thousand persons followed the
coffin to tlie Elks' home, where the fu
neral services were held. Several hun
dred. unable to gain admission, stood
two hours outside to view the body at
the close of the services. I .ater the
body will be placed in a rock-hewn vault
at the summit of Lookout mountain at
Golden.
Florida Arsenal
To Be Moved Back
lo Tallahassee
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 15.—The
state arsenal and adjutant general’s de
partment which is now located at St.
Augustine, will be moved back to Tal
lahassee soon. J. B. Christian, the new
adjutant general, will superintend the
moving of the department.
General Christian, a jeweler of Talla
ernor Sidney J. Catts and was appointed
hasse, was an old schoolmate of Gov
to the office to succeed J. C. R. Foster,
who had held the place for sixteen
years and had become one of the leading
national guard officers of the country.
Foster is at present chairman of the
executive committee of the National
Guard association of the United States.
His failure to receive the reappointment
from the new governor occasioned no
surprise here as it was generally known
that Christian would get the place.
Christian is a man of military expe
rience and holds the rank of captain, the
same rank that Foster held when he was
appointed to the place by Governor Jen
nings in 1901. Soon after taking office
Foster had his department separated
frpm the rest of the state government
and moved it to St. Augustine, his home.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1017.
ADMIRAL DEWEY,
NAVAL HERO, NEAR
DEATH IN CAPITAL
Bulletin Issued by Attending
Physicians Monday After
noon Says Death Is Expect
ed at Any Moment
(By Associated Press.)
WAaHlN'jrib.i, oan. 10. —Admiral
Dewey, hero ot Manila Baj, who has
been confined to his home here tor the
last five days by a general breakdown,
was reported as •’slowly sinking” by his
doctors at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
The following bulletin was issued:
Admiral Dewey has been slowly de
clining since early this morning. The
primary condition is arterial senle.-oris
which affects practically every organ in
’he body, especially the kidneys and
brain. Although he has shown great
rallying power at times, he is slowly
s : nking. So fat his heart, is strong and
•us lungs are clear, out these organs
may be suddenly and seriously affected
at any time.
In a bulletin Issued this morning by
Dr. A M. Fauntleroy. Cnited States
navy, senior surgeon in charge of the
admiral's euse, and Dr. Luther Sheldon,
Jr., U. S. N., the admiral's condition
was stated as follows.
“Admiral Dewey has been suffering
for the last five days from a general
breakdown consequent upon his eighty
years of age. For several days there
was somo improvement and at times It
appeared as if he might rally and suc
ceed in overcoming the depression of
tertain organs.
‘ Last night the admiral slept fairly
well; at times he was irrational and
showed evidences of a gradual decline.
“This morning he is very weak and
his general condition is such as to fear
that his once great vitality may fail
at any time.”
The admiral is being treated at his
home.
CONVICTION OF CiMINETTI
MO DIGGS IS SUSTAINED
Supreme Court Holds Mann
Act Includes Personal, Im
moral Escapades
(By Aaancisted Pres*.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. —Interpreting
the Mann “white slave traffic” act the
supreme court today decided that prose
cutions for transporting women in inter
state commerce are not limited to com
mercialized vice and included personal,
immoral escapades. Conviction of F.
Drew Caminetti and Maury I. Diggs, of
Sacramento, was affirmed.
The court divided in its opinion which
was given by Justice Day. Chief'Jus
tice White and Justices McKenna and
Clarke dissented. Justice Mcßeynolds
took no part in ’the consideration of the
cases.
“The plain terms of the act must take
precedence over the designation and the
report that accompanied it to congress,”
said Justice Da» "It is said It will
open the door td blackmail, but that is
to be considered by congress.
"We think the power of congress to
regulate transportation of passengers
affords ample basis to exercise authority
,’n ’he casr of U e statute."
Following inuTiyi>«.n of the Mann
act the court also affirmed conviction of
L. T. Hays, of Alva, Okla.
Justice McKenna announced the dis
sent. but did not deliver any opinion.
Justice Day's* majority opinion said:
"In none of the cases was it charged
that the transportation (of the women
involved) was for gain or for the pur
pose of furnishing women for prostitu
tion for hire. There is no ambiguity in
the terms of this act. It is elementary
that the meaning of a statute must in
he. first instance be sought in the lan
guage of the act as framed and if that
is plain the sole function of the courts
is to enforce it according to its terms.
“To cause-a woman to be transported
for debauchery or for an immoral pur
pose, for which Diggs and Caminetti
were convicted, would seem by the very
statement of the facts to embrace trans
portation for purposes denounced by the
act. While such immoral purpose would
be more culpable in morals if accom
plished with expectation of gain, sucn
considerations do not prevent the lesser
offense against morals from the execu
tion of purposes within the meaning of
the laws.”
■Whether women involved become, tech
nically, acomplies, argued in behalf of
the three defendants, was not directly
decided by the court. It disposed of
that feature as follows:
“It is urged as a' further ground of
reversal of’ the judgments below that
the trial court did not instruct the jury
that the testimony of the two girls was
that of accomplices, and to be received
wti-th great caution and believed only
when corroborated by other testimony
adduced in the case. While this is so
there is no absolute rule of law pre
venting convictions on the testimony of
accomplices if juries believe them.”
Preliminary Hearing of
Yeaky is Postponed;
Donehoo Grows Worse
The case of Gordon Yeakey. who shot
Paul T. Donehoo through the lungs at
the Donehoo home on Ridgeway avenue
last Tuesday night, was called Monday
morning by Judge E. D. Thomas, in the
municipal court, a warrant being held
there charging Yeakey with assault with
intent to murder.
When Coroner Paul Donehoo arose at
the outset and announced to the court
that his cousin’s condition was extreme
ly critical, the wounded man having
taken a turn for the worse Sunday
night. Judge Thomas stated that he
would assess a bond for Yeakey in keep
ing with the report on the patient’s
condition by Dr. Willis Jones.
Pater a bond of $2,000 was assessed.
County Policeman Davis, the sole
witness at the hearing, testified brief
ly that he arrested Yeakey following
the shooting, that Yeakey admitted the
shooting, but refused to explain the
cause.
Coroner Donehoo stated that his cous
in’s condition was due perhaps to a
coagulation of blood in the abdomen.
Both Donehoo’s wife and his father, the
former for the first time since the
shooting, were refused admission into
the room at the hospital Monday morn
ing where Douehoo is fighting for his
hfe. . ’
ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY, annihilator of Montojo’s Spanish
fleet in Manila bay, who is ill at his home in Washington. Little hope is
held out for the recovery of thh aged sea fighter, who is in his eightieth
year.
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COPYRIUitT isol 3r wauui ta-cerr ————
Atlanta to Make Fight for
Great Divisional Army Post;
Would Bring 20,000 Here
Committee Appointed to Lead
Fight for Designation After
Address by Major General
Leonard Wood
A committee appointed by the Atlanta
chamber of commerce will begin Mon
day making plans to have Atlanta des
ignated as a location for one of the
three divisional posts, accommodating
20,000 men, assigned to the Atlantic
seaboard by the war department under
the provisions of the new defense act,
calling for a complete reorganization
and distribution of the nation’s land
forces.
The fight for the post for Atlanta defi
nitely began Sunday morning at a break
fast given to Major General Leonard A.
Wood, former chief of staff of the
United States army, by the Atlanta
chamber of commerce at the Capital
City club, when the general outlined in
detail the plan of the government for
the establishing of a post in what is
officially known in army circles as the
Atlanta-Chattanooga division of the At
lantic seaboard.
The general spoke in a straightfor
ward, clean-cut manner, telling just ex
actly what the requirements for the
camp were and what would be the final
tests of each site proposed. The control
ling considerations are, according to the
general, first, the railroad facilities,
that is, the number of trunk lines that
are able to handle large bodies of troops,
north, east, south and west in the short
est length of time.
Spur lines could be run to the camp
and bring the troops to a central dis
tributing point, but the camp must be
located in a place where troop move
ments can be made in any direction
without delay and also where supplies
can be brought without delay in case
one line of communication should be
cut.
The second consideration is the cli
mate. No place could be considered
where the heat became so intense as to
render it impossible to work soldiers to
a training point at any time. The camps
are fundamentally for war training.
! This statement would imply that towns
along the gulf which suffer from a low
humidity and intense heat will be ellmi
i nated at once.
The third point is the strategic loca
i tion of the poet. No place would be
■ preferred tha* would be near a probable
i landing place of an attacking force. This
I would necessarily eliminate all coast
towns. The general showed that the
place must be where It would not oe
harrassed by hostile troop actions, as
the post would have to be used for the
training of citizenry troops In time of
war and no time could be allowed for
these troops in defending their post. In
a sense according to the general, the
i post in time of war would be in the na-
I ture of a factory for turning out troops
! to take the firing line as soon as they
i were in condition.
The physical consideration of the
j camp site were then handled, the mini
mum amount of land required being
j 1,000 acres, with It practically neces
sary for the post to have 1.500 or more.
The land should be of a rolling type,
very little clay, easily drained and ad
jacent to territory sparsely settled, for
a radium of fifteen or twenty miles m
1 order that there might be as little In
convenience and damage done as pos-
I sible, by the maneuverings of the 20,-
000 men who would be stationed 'at the
post.
The nearness of the camp to streams
and land suitable for the disposal of
sewage is also an important factor.
This would comprise the main camp
site, where the troop dormitories and
all buildings housing the accoutrements
would be located.
The outlay of the camp also calls for
a rifle range of a thousand yards. This
will probably be on the original tract.
There will also be an artillery range.
I This will be built -where there are very
' few people, as the range will have to
'be at least eight miles in length. This
' range would not necessarily have to
be near the camp. Two or three days
march from the camp would be a good
distance, said the general.
TWO DECLINE OFFER TO
SUCCEED BRAND, REPORT
Governor Said to Have Prof
fered Judgeship to Both *
Qobb and Holden
That Governor Harris has tendered
l the superior court judgeship of the
western circuit to Judge Aaidrew Cobb
and Judge Horace Holden, two distin
guished lawyers of Athens, who have
both been judges of the state supreme
I court in the past, and that both of them
have declined the offer with mames,
was the gossip going the rounds in the
capitol Monday.
No information concerning the west
ern circuit judgeship could be obTa'ned
from the governor or nis executive sec
retary, Fritz R. Jones, beyond the fact
that two new names were presented to
the governor on Monday, these being
Judge A. C. Stone, of Monroe, and Judge
B. E. Thrasher, of Watkinsville.
A delegation of Athens lawyers call
ed on the governor Monday in the inter
est of Judge J. J. Strickland of that
city, a former judge of the Athens city
court.
Friends of Hal G. Nowell, of Monroe,
continue to press his qualifications.
They are laying much store by the fact
that Mr. Nowell is a graduate and trus
tee of the Georgia School of Technology,
in addition to his qualifications as a
i lawyer. Governor Harris' fondness for
Tech is well known, and grows out of
the fact that he put through the legis
lature the bill creating the school and
has been chairman of its board of trus
tees since the school was organized.
Judge Charles H. Brand, the present
I judge of the western circuit, who was
; recently elected to congress in me
Eighth district to succeed Congressman
, S. J. Tribble, deceased, has not yet re
signed, but is expected to do so in a
I few days.
Gov. Harris Not Thought
To Favor Extra Session
For Prohi Legislation
An extra session of the legislature
for the purpose of considering a ‘bone
dry” prohibition law has been suggest
ed to Governor Harris, but while the
governor is an ardent advocate of pro
hibition he has not given the sugges
tion any serious thought.
It is understood to be the governor’s
view that there can be no special hur
ry to act on such legislation in view of
the fact that the general assembly will
i convene in the next five months.
The suggestion of an extra session
! grows out of the recent decision by the
J United States supreme court upholding
[ the Webb-Kenyon act of congress.
Under the terms of this act, as sus
! tained by the supreme court, a state leg
! islature can prohibit the importation of
> any whisky, wine or beer into the bor
ders of a prohibition state.
Senate Passes Bill for
Naming of Wardens of
U. S. Pens by President
BY BALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—The senate
today passed a bill providing that in fu
ture wardens of the federal penitenti
aries shall be appointed by the president,
by and with the advice and consent of
the senate. The bill applies also to the
superintendent of prisons. Heretofore
the penitentiary wardens and the prison
superintendent have been named by the
attorney general.
If the bill passes the house It becomes
effective immediately and will make it
necessary for the president to nominate
a superintendent of prisons and wardens
for the penitentiaries at Atlanta and
Leavenworth.
NUMBER 3a
SECRETARY
M’ADOO IS
NAMED BY
MON
Famous Stock Broker Says '
Chairman of Rules Commit
tee Told Him Official Profit
ed by Leak
♦ (By the Associated Press.) ♦
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e- Adoo as the cabinet member who -e
-e it was alleged partiaipated in ♦
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WABHI2TGTO», Jan. 15 With, Thom-
as W. Lawson again on the witness
stand tne congressional investigation
into charges ot a stocx market leak on
President Wilson's peace note was re
sumed late this afternoon.
Clothed with authority to compel
Lawson to disclose the name of the con
gressman whom he says told him a cab
inet officer, a senator and a broxor wore
partners in a stock gambling pool, the
committee was prepared to question the
Boston financier again and comps Ihlm
to answer on pain of punishment.
"X am going to answer your ques
tions,’’ Lawson said.
testified that Chairman Henry
ofjthe rules committees, was the rep
resentative who told him that a cabtwt
officer, a member of congress and a F
banker were said to have profited in ’
the stock market by advance informa
tion on President Wilson’s recent peace
note.
Lawson said that the banker who told. I
him he knew another banker who dom- ■
inated a cabinet officer in Washington I
was Archibald S. White, of White & Co.. M
, Boston. The committee immediately is- ■
sued a subpena for White. W
Lawson said he could not give the fl
names of any members of congress who fl
were engaged in buying and selling ■
stocks.
Before the hearing began the commit- ■
tee met in secret session to pass on a ■
proposal to ignore a writ of habeas cog-, fl
pus in case Lawson should obtain it ln*fl
a fight against contempt proceedings. 1
Flans were considered to prevent Law- ’
son from introducing the game of any
I official of any foreign government in hie
( testimony.
, LAWSON IS DELAYED.
While the committee was deliberating
, behind closed doors a message was re
( ceived from Lawson saying he could not
i reach Washington at the time specified
for his appearance, but would arrive la
. ter in the day.
Chairman Henry ordered the sergeant
at arms to get immediate service on
Lawson and bring him before the com- •
. mittee. A recess was then ordered pend
; ing his arrival.
> The committee voted to recommend
■ to the house the adoption of another
; resolution which would broaden the
scope of the inquiry still further and ex-
■ tend the time in which the committee
might have to make report to niney days.
Among those called to testify were
Bernard Baruch, of New York, F. M. Kin
non, Chicago broker; James R. Reilly, of
, the Dow-Jones company ticker service
and the Wall Street Journal; Donald
. McDonald, of Boston; and members of
his brokerage firm of Lockwood & Co.,
New Yonk.
CONDITIONS NOT rfEEDED.
Chairman Henry received a telegram
’ from Lawson stating that could not
reach Washington until 2 o’clock an I
that he would be at the committee’s .
service as soon after that time as possi
ble. Mr. Henry then set the hearing for a
o’clock this afternoon.
It developed during the recess that
Chairman Henry received a letter from
Lawson yesterday laying down certain
conditions under which he would testify .
His principal contention, it is understood,
was that a special congressional commit
tee should be formed to interrogate him.
The rules committee will not heed tne
condition.
James Reilly, news manager of the
Wall Street/Journal, and Donald McDon
ald, head of a Boston financial bureau, .
to whom Lawson Is said to have given
the name of the congressman who, he
says, told him the name of a cabinet
member, a congressman and a broke- 1
who were involved in stock market op
erations, were waiting to testify. . •
Two revolutions to strengthen the
powers of the rules committee to compel i
witnesses to answer questions presented 1
by Representative Garrett, a member of I
the committee, were adopted soon after I
the house met. One of them was general *
in character but the other would comnei
Lawson to give names specifically.
Representative Campbell. Republican,
introduced a resolution for a special
committee of five to deal with the ’’leak’’
situation. ,
As an outcome of the Lawson case.
Representative Harrison. Democrat, of
the rules committee, today proposed
a constitutional amendment by which
senators and representatives will not be
privileged or immune in testimony be
fore congressional committees and mue«
have reasonable justification for words
spoken in congress.
Another Heavy Sentence
Put On Dr. Leibknecht;
Is Expelled From Bar
(By Asswiated Press, i
LONDON. Jan. 15.—Dr. Karl Lieb
knecht, the German Socialist leader, has
received an additional sentence of four
and one-half years at hard labor and
expulsion from the Berlin bar, accord
ing to a Central News dispatch from
Amsterdam today.
A courtmartial at Berlin last year
sentenced Dr. Liebknecht toefour years’
imprisonment for military treason. He
appealed to the imperial military tri
bunal, which gave a' decision on No
vember 5 last, rejecting the appeal.