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VOL. XXV. NO. 184
TJX CLASSIFICATION
Jffl BUDGET BILLS
ARE LOST IN SENJTE
Both Measures Tabled on
Unfavorable Vote —Three
Senators Smith Named as
Income Tax Conferees
Defeat of the administration tax
classification and budget bills and
rejection of house amendments to
the Lankford income tax measure
marked the session of the senate
Wednesday. The vote on the sev
eral propositions was, in each in
stance, so overwhelming as to leave
no doubt as to the attitude of the
upper house.
Following rejection of house
amendments to the income tax bill.
President Cars well appointed Sena
tors G. C. Smith, of the Twenty
third; Ernest M. Smith, of the Thir
ty-fifth, and Fred A. Smith, of the
Forty-fifth, as conferees on the part
of the senate to undertake to reach
an agreement with a like committee
of three from the house concerning
the disputed income tax issues.
“Having great respect for the in
tegrity, industry and ability of the
great family of whicn they are mem
bers, the chair names the Senators
Smith as conferees on part of the
senate,” said President Carswell,
amid applause
Speaker Neill appointed Repre
sentatives Covington, of Colquitt;
Harris, of Jefferson, and Ellis, of
Tift, on the conference committee to
represent the house.
Kills Are Tabled
Os the two administration bills'
that were consigned by the senate
to “things that might have been,’
the budget bill, as sponsored b>
Senators Phillips and Pace, made by
far the best showing. It mustered
an actual majority of the senate,
but failed of passage because, be
ing a constitutional amendment, a
two-thirds vote was required for its
passage.
The record vote on . the budget
bill showed 29 senators favoring it,
as against 19 opposing its passage
Eut an actual majority of the sen
ate recorded itself as against the
classification measure, which had
been favorably reported by the con
stitutional amendments committee.
For the bill, only 20 senators regis
tered themselves, whereas 22 voted
against its passage.
The journal of the senate w-ll not
record the defeat of either classifi
cation or budget legislation, because
each of them was tabled by unan
imous consent before the presiding
officer could announce the adverse
vote and chronicle their death. But
Senator Phillips, who has waged a
persistent and relentless effort to
pass the budget measure, reflected
the true situation, when, in asking
that his bill be tabled, he smilingly
described his remarks as a “swan
song.”
After debating me classification
bill, which was favorably reported
by the constitutional amendments
committee, and which in effect
amends the constitution so as to per
mit the legislature to classify and
segregate property so rthe purposes
of taxation, a record vote showed
that twenty-two members were op
posed to the measure a_ against
twenty who favored it. Being a con
stitutional amendment, a two-thirds
vote is required for its passage
through the senate. The records
showed that a majority of the body
was opposed to the bill-
Measure Is Saved
Realizing that it had been defeat
ed, Senator Mason, an administra
tion spokesman, saved its parlia
mentary status by moving that the
measure be tabled. This motion
automatically prevented the presid
ing officer from announcing the
record vote.
The vote on the classification bill
follows:
Ayes—Senators Adams, Arnow.
Davis, Garlick, Gillis, Green, Ham
by, Hullender, Johns, Keith, Ken
non, Lankford, Little, Loftin, Ma
son, Moore, Phillips, G. C. Smith,
Fred A. Smith and Spence—2o.
Nays—Senators Beauchamp, Boyd,
Chastdin, Duke, Ficklin, Garrison,
Gilstrap, Grantham, Henderson,
Hodges, Horn, Kennedy, King. Lat
timer, Miller, Morgan, Owens, Pace,
Parker, Redwine, Ernest M. Smith
and Whitaker —22.
Income Amendments Rejected
With the disposal of the classifi
cation measure, the senate imme
diately took up house amendments
to the income tax bill. President
Carswell ruled that a two-thirds
majority of the members of the
senate would be required to accept
any of the amendments, and Sen
ator Henderson moved that the sen
ate recede from its position. Adop
tion of this motion by a two-thirds
vote would have meant the passage
of the bill. •
Body of Georgian
Shot in the Head
Found in Automobile
REYNOLDS Ga., Dec. 5.—H. F.
Underwood, well-known man living
near here, was shot in the back of
the head and killed Monday. The
body was found in his automobile
this morning, six miles from Rey
nolds. The body was on the rear
seat covered up. The coroner and
sheriff are investigating, but have
found no evidence that would throw
any light on the supposed murder
Apparently. Underwood was shot
from the back with buckshot.
Underwood was married and leaves
ten children besides his wife. He had
been traveling for a medicine com
pany hess of late. He was last seen
late Monday afternoon, near where
the car and oody were found this
morning. No arrests have been
made.
Bibb Jury Still Out
In Yarbrough Case
MACON, Ga., Dec. s—At 2 o’clock
Wednesday, the jury in the case of
Dr. C. A. Yarbrough, charged with
rioting in connection with flogging
cases here, had not reached a verdict.
The case went to the jury shortly
after 6 o'clock last night.
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I NEWS OF THE WORLD
i TOLD IN BRIEF
NEW YORK. —Marriage of Riccar
do Martin, opera star, and Miss Jane
Grey, actress, last month, is made
known.
NEW YORK. —Committee of Na
tional Association of Book Publish
ers condemns cxploitatjng salacious
books for money.
SAN DIEGO, Cal.—Three naval
airmen are killed when two planes
collide at height of about 1,000 feet
here.
WASHINGTON. Awards total
ling $1,800,000 are made in favor of
United Shoe corporation by German-
American mixed claims commission.
LONDON.—British election cam
paign assumes feverish stage; Lady
Astor is told to go back to United
States by laborites who seek to dis
credit her American birth.
URBANA, 111. Recognition of
athletics as an integral part of col
lege education is recommended to
senate of University of Illinois by
President David Kinley.
NEW YORK. —Emanuel Kessler,
alleged “king of bootleggers,” and
six co-defendants, are found guilty of
violating national prohibition laws
by federal jury.
LOS ANGELES.—May Allison
motion picture actress, native of
Birmingham, Ala., brings suit for
divorce against husband. Robert E.
Reel, charging cruelty.
WASHINGTON.—Navy dirigible
Shenapdoah is suggested for use in
last lap of dash by air for North
Pole which navy department pro
poses to undertake next summer.
BERLIN. —Socialists resolved not
to oppose bill before reichstag grant
ing government of Dr. Marx power
to carry out such economic a d finan
cial measures as it deems necessary.
C LEVE L AND—Dr. Robert E
Speer tells National Presbyterian
conference at Cleveland that neve
was there so deep inhumanity in
the relations of man to man as
day. '
CHICAGO. —President Coolidge ac
cepts honorary leadership of 700.000
farmer girls and boys and praises
early influence of farm life upon
manhood and womanhood of this
country.
WASHINGTON? Compromise
breaks deadlock in house of repre
sentatives and Gillett is to be re
elected speaker, according to agree
ment reached by Republican regu
lar and insurgent leaders.
WASHINGTON.—Edward L. Do
h?ny. veteran oil operator, tells sen
ate 'public lands committee that he
has known Albert B. Fall 39 years
and that Fall’s reputation has not
been/ injured with him- •
SHEFFIELD, Eng.—Seven mi
ners are killed and 51 injured, sis
teen -seriously, when breaking of
rope causes several cages to fall to
bottom of shaft of Nunnery mine
near here.
SOUTH DAKOTA INDORSEMENT
PLEASES PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Leased Wire Service to Th- Journal.)
(Copyright, 1923.)
WASHINGTON. Dec. s.—The
White House had an atmosphere of
serenity today after a period of nerv
ousness not only over the situation
in the house of representatives but
in those states where Senator Hiram
Johnson has begun to contest the
leadership of President Coolidge.
The willingness of .the insurgents
to “play ball” and elect Frederick
Gillett speaker was gratifying news,
joy derived from the action of the
proposal men in South Dakota’s con
vention who unanimously indorsed
Mr. Coolidge for the presidential
nomination. i
This action was not u lexpccted
for tne White House had been hear
ing for several days recently that the
sentiment for the president was
crystallizing. While there is some
uncertainty here as to the exact
meaning of some of South Dakota’s
election laws, the impression is that
the action taken by the proposal
men now excludes Hiram Johnson’s
name from the balloting in the pri
maries next May unless, of course,
his friends endeavor to put it on
by petition. This seems difficult to
accomplish, for the leaders who sup
ported Johnson now have come out
for Coolidge. *
Friends Hail Victry
Defeating Hiram Johnson in an
agricultural slate and in a section
of the country in which it had been
supposed the president would be
weakest is regarded by Mr. Cool
idge’s friends as quite a feather in
his cap. Indeed, it is reliably re- '
ported that within the next twenty
four hours Republicans in another
state hitherto friendly to Senator
Johnson will indicate their prefer
ence for Mr. Coolidge.
AU this happens at an opportune
time, when members of both houses
of congress are assembling. Many
of them will play an influential part
in the selection of delegates to the
Republican national convention and
the psychological effect of South
Dakota’s action, will, from the Cool
idge campaign viewpoint, be consid
erable.
South Dakcta originally favored
Mr. Coolidge for vice president, but
the agricultural discontent in the
Republican party has developed
since 1920, so that indorsement at
this time is of much more signifi
cance at the present time when the
regular Republican leaders have
feared that their most perplexing
problems would come out of the
camp of the western Renublicans.
Message’s Effect Awaited
Perhaps the most important devel
opments, however, in the national
The Weather
FORECAST FOR THURSDAY
I Virginia: Fair and colder.
North Carolina: Fair and colder.
South Carolina: Fair.
Georgia: Fair, fresh west and
I northwest winds.
Florida: Fair and cooler.
Extreme Northwest Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi: Fair.
Tennessee: Fair.
Kentucky: Fair.
| Louisiana: Fair, warmer in the
i interior.
j Arkansas: Partly cloudy, warmer.
Oklahoma: Fair, warmer in east
portion.
East Texas: Fair, warmer in
north and west portions.
West Texas; Fair.
BOSTON. —Democrat is elected
mayor of Northampton, Mass.,
President. Coolidge’s home city, and
in Salem. M?ss., Republican wins
mayoralty on pledge to close bar
rooms and banish bootleggers.
PIERRE, S. D.—South Dakota re
publican convention gives President
Coolidge preference over Hiram
Johnson for presidential choice, and
Senator Capper, of Kansas, is unan
imously indorsed for vice president.
CHICAGO.—Suits totalling $200,-
000 alleging breach of promise and
libel, filed against Gordon C. Thorne
and his mother by *iary Lygo, for
mer chorus girl, are settled out of
court for sum which is not divulged.
ROME.—King Alfonso s request
that Spaniards and South Americans
be appointed cardinals at coming
consistory has resulted In pope’s de
cision to avoid naming any foreign
cardinals at this time, and so none
but Italians will be chosen.
NEW YORK.—Edward S. Van
Zile, author and journalist, will be
in charge of publicity in east during
pre-convention campaign of Senator
Johnson, of California, for Republi
can presidential nomination, it is
announced.
CHICAGO.—New safety device
that will automatically stop speed
ing train qgainst which a block has
been set, even though engineer may
not be in cab, is announced by of
ficials of Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific railway.
PIERRE, S. D.—McAdoo over
whelms Henry Ford as choice of
South Dakota Democrats for' presi
dential indorsement and platform
framed by McAdoo supporters is
unanimously approved; platform de
clares for strict enforcement of Vol
stead act.
PIERRE S."Dak.—South Dakota
Anti-Saloon league head charges that
Ford-for-president movement has
neither Ford’s consent nor support
and declares it is a smoke screen
concealing concerted effort of at
least four national anti-prohibition
organizations to capture delegates to
Democratic convention.
WASHINGTON. Administration
officials deciare that President Cool
idge’s action in remitting Craig sen
tence is final and that as far as
United States government is con
cerned, Craig may take remission of
sentence or nothing; that Craig will
not get executive pardon formally
exonerating him of his guilt for con
tempt of court.
NEW YORK.—Dr. T. T. Shields,
of Toronto, president of the Baptist
Union of North America, in address
here, says he refused to sit on same
platform with President Faunce, of
Brown university, and that he be
lieves conferring of honorary degree
on Dr. Faunce by a Baptist univer
sity is dishonor to university and
disgrace to Baptist denomination.
political situation will follow the
delivery by President Coolidge on I
Thursday of his message to con
gress. While the document has been
distributed in confidence to the news
papers of the country, and is to be
held until released for publication,
when Mr. Coolidge begins speaking,
many members of the senate and
house have read the message and
are talking about it among them
selves. Their comment cannot be
published until after the message
is released to the public.
The message will create a consid-.
erable amount of talk, and may even
affect the wavering lines of Repub
licanism m congress, either making
the cleavage wider or tending to
draw some of the groups closer to
the titular leaders of the party in
the White House, though it is im
possible to forecast the result until
the public has read and digested Mr.
Coolidge’s recommendations.
To whom the president will send
his message of acknowledgment had
not been determined today, decision
being withheld pending receipt from
Republican leaders of a communica
tion setting forth the action of yes
terday’s convention.
The belief has been general in
Washington for several weeks that
soon after the president delivered
his message to congress an occasion
would be found permitting him or
his friends to make clear whether
he proposed to be a candidate. The
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DAKOTA CONVENTION
INDORSES COOLIDGE;
HEW FORD LOSES
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I PIERRE, S'. D„ Dec. s.—(By the
Associated Press.) —President Cool
idge, William Gibbs McAdoo and
Robert M. La Follette, United States
i senator for Wisconsin, were.indorsed
las presidential standard-bearers for
J th* Republican, Democratic and
• farmer-labor parties, respectively, at
i state proposal meetings here last
I night, the selections in turn being
I made over Hiram John. U. S. sen
i ator from. California, and Henry
Ford, who was named by both Dem
ocrats and farmer-laborites.
After President Coolidge had been
named by the Republican proposal
men by a vote of 50,379 to 27,340 for
Senator Johnson, the indorsement
was made unanimous by a rising
vote.
In the Democratic meeting the De
troit manufacturer got 5,072 votes to
Mr. McAdoo’s 39,018, and the farmer-
• labor vote was: Ford 7,247, and La
Follette 31,999.
Arthur Capper, U. S. senator for
Kansas, was chosen for second place
on the Republican ticket and the
Democrats chose James W. Girard,
of New York.
Bolt Farmer-Labor Meet
Late in the night a group of ap
proximately thirty men broke away
from the farmer-labor meeting, de
nounced the national platform, and
began negotiations with the Demo
crats for joint selection of a ticket
from United States senator down.
For the Republican senatorial in
dorsement, a bitter fight was waged
between adherents of Thomas Ster
ling, incumbent, and William H. Mc-
Master, governor, with the latter
winning out, 40,207 to 37,827, and
thereby creating a surprise. Gov
ernor McMaster had publicly in
dorsed the candidacy of Senator
Johnson, and while he had not an
nounced his stand, Senator Sterling
was regarded as a Coolidge supporter.
Regardless of the majority nomi
nation given the governor, Senator
Sterling will file either as an indi
pendent or minority Republican sen
atorial Candida 1 " 1 , according to S. W.
Clark, h : * '•anifV’'"Ti manager.
Tom Ayres, chairman of the sen
ate central committee, won the sena
i torial indorsement at the farmer-la
bor convention by a large majority
over Mark Bates, former leader in
the non-partisan league.
Platform Feature
High lights in tne various plat
forms included:
Republican—lndorsement of the
national administration; progress
and economy in government; strict
enforcement of the Volstead act;
agricultural development and co-op
erative marketing; completion of the
Muscle Shoals project; a child labor
amendment, and conscription of
money, wealth and property as well
as men in the eVent of war.
Democratic —Reduction of taxes;
restoration of agricultural prosperi
ty; preservation of world peace:
strict enforcement of the Volstead
act and all state and local legisla
tion enacted under the eighteenth
amendment; favoring adjusted com
pensation for form service men “not
as an act of charity, but as just rec
ognition of valiant service;” favoring
a Great Lakes-St. Lawrence deep
erwrv, and commendation of the
federal reserve system.
Farmer-Labor—Public ownership
of transportation, natural resources
and banking; urging government is
sue and control of money and credit;
payment of all war debts from ex
cess profit taxes; repeal of the Esch
Cummins act, and a five-year mora
torium for farm mortgages.
JOHNSON PLANS CONFERENCE
WITH EASTERN MANAGERS
NEW YORK, Dee. s.—Senator
Hiram W. Johnson, of California, a
candidate for the Republican presi
dential nomination, is coming to
New York tonight from Washing
ton for a conference with the men
who are to manage his campaign in
the east, Frank H. Hitchcock, his
campaign manager, announced to
day. The senator will remain
through Thursday.
NEW JERSEY COMMITTEE
UNANIMOUS FOR COOLIDGE
TRENTON, N. J.. Dec. 4.—Unani
mous indorsement of President Cool
idge as the most desirable and avail
able candidate for the Republican
nomination next year was given by
the Republican state committee at
a meeting here today.
South Dakota indorsement is re
garded by some political observers
here as furnishing such an oppor
tunity.
A TIGHT SITUATION FOR THE “TIGHT LITTLE ISLE”
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Bootleggers Worried
By Poison Publicity;
To Offer Guarantees
The bootlegging colony is wor
ried.
The corrugated brows of the “hip
hip” boys betoken that all is not
well in Moonshine Alley.
And all is not well.
The rollicking Yuletide is only a
few steps off and their stock of wet
goods is getting too much unfavor
able publicity.
Hot on the trail of the Red Oak
dispatch that barrels formerly con
taining arsenate of lead have been
stolen by dealers in the "gulp that
queers” for aging purposes, comes
the grapevine news that some liquor
dealers are experimenting with a
double distilled wood alcohol con
coction which looks, tastes and
smells like whisky—but isn’t.
Then, too, much notoriety is being
given to the ingredients forming the
concoctions. Some even go so far
as to say that unwholesome and
unthinkable components are being
used.
In short, the ultimate consumer
is being “wised up.” to use the
jargon of the alley. He knows that
when he takes a little nip instead of
being an eye-opener, it's liable to
take too much reverse English and
closer ’em up for good.
And here is the punch in the situa
tion. Underground and graveyard
information has it that the liquor
boys have been busy devising a
scheme to convince the ultimate
consumer that the stuff is “O. !<■”,
not “K. O.”
“Pedigreed stuff is the solution.”
one of the leaders is said to have
announced at a recent meeting of
the fire-water brigade. “We’ll just
have to produce a. certificate vouch
ing for the contents of the bottle.
We can assure him it’s good stuff.
If it ain’t —well, ‘dead men tell no
tales.’ ” •
The bootlegging colony is worried.
But the pedigree certificate may
turn the trick.
However, it takes no dog expert
to tell a poodle from a Saint Ber
nard.
Georgian Wrecks Auto
Os Fiancee; Quarrel
Follows, Then Suicide
WAYCROSS, Ga., Dec. s.—De
spondency over wrecking a four-cyl
inder automobile belonging to a
young woman to whom he was en
gaged and a resulting quarrel are
thought to have been the cause of
the suicide of .Leroy Hall, of Wood
bine, Ga.. according to a story told
here today.
Hall is said to have borrowed the
car to drive to a neighboring town.
On the way there he struck a bridge
and damaged the machine. He re
turned to ‘Woodbine and went to
work.
At noon yesterday his father found
him with a pistol bullet through his
brain. Near him was a note asking
that his watch and several other ar
ticles of value be given to the young
woman to help her defray expenses
of having her automobile repaired.
Hope Is Abandoned
That Bishop Atkins
Will Survive Stroke
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Dec. 5.
Bishop James Atkins, of the Meth
odist Episcopal churcn, south, who
suffered a stroke of paralysis here
Monday night, still was unconscious
at noop today and his condition vir
tually unchanged.
Bishop Atkins has been prominent
as a leader in southern Methodism
for more than a quarter of a century.
He has been particularly active in
the development of the Sunday
school.
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Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, December 6, 1923
Ostrich Feather Fan
Os King Tutenkhamun
Discovered by Carter
LUXOR, Egypt, Dee. 4.—(By the
Associated Press.)—One of the ar
ticles of Tutenkhamcn’s funeral
state in which moderns, especially
women, will take a sentimental as
well as artistic interest, is the
pharaoh’s great ostrich feather fan,
now awaiting treatment in the tomb
of Seti 11, which has been fitted up
as a laboratory.
Howard Carter, head of the ex
pedition, found the fan more or less
by accident, by opening at random
one of the very many boxes in the
so-called store chamber that opens
off the sepulchral room, and the con
tents of which have yet to be inven
toried. The fan lay atop the other
consents of the box, its bushy, curl
ing feathers, apparently once white,
discolored with age. Such interes*
has been excited by this relic of the
pomp that cnee was Tutenkbamen's
that a chemist is coming all the way
from England especially to examine
the best way of preserving the
feathers. By making them rigid, Mr.
Carter hopes to proceed with the
search for the handle without the
feathers falling to bits.
Man and Wife Given
Life Terms for Killing
Latter’s First Husband
DELAND. Fla.. Dec. 4.---Fred
Tedder, indicted jointly with his
w'fe, Mrs. Rhoda Tedder, for mur
der in connection with the death of
Courtland Smith, a farmer of this
county, was found guilty of murder
by a jury in circuit court here late
Monday. He was recommended to
mercy, the verdict carrying with it
a sentence of life imprisonment.
Mrs. Tedder was found guilty Sat
urday. She likewise was recom
mended to mercy, the verdict also
carrying with it a sentence of im
prisonment for life.
At the time of the shooting two
years ago, Mrs. Tedder was the wife
of Courtland Smith. She married
Tedder eight months after the slay
ing. Smith was shot to death in a
pasture near his home, and it was
the contention of the state that the
two conspired to kill Smith. Alleged
confessions of both obtained shortly
after the slaying were produced by
the state at both trials.
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Carolina Merchant
Killed; Prohi Agent
Is Held for Murder
RALEIGH, N. C., Dec. 4—Grover
Bradley, prominent merchant and
farmer of Northampton eountv, is
dead, and W. E. Woodfin, federal
prohibition agent, is under arrest
here charged by a coroner’s jury
with first degree murder as a result
of a shooting occurring near Little
ton, N. C., Monday. Woodfin, after
reporting to federal authorities here,
surrendered to Raleigh police otfi
cials. He is said by police officers
to claim self-defense. 1
The killing was the outgrowth of
a raid by prohibition agents several
months ago which resulted in a
1,200-gallon copper still being seized
on the Bradley vroperty, the largest
ever found in North Carolina. Two
brothers of Grover Bradley were ar
rested at the time of the raid a,nd
made bond for trial. One. John
Bradley, failed to show up for trial
and the officers Monday went to
serve a capias upon him.
The officers found the brothers
there and it was while attempting
to make the arrest that the shoot
ing occurred which resulted in the
death of Grover Bradley. Conflict
ing accounts of the occurrence have
been reported to officials.
Girl Appeals to Court
For Protection Against
Over-Ardent Suitor
Alleging that her admirer threaten
ed to use cave-man tactics if she
did not marry him before Christmas,
and that she was afraid of him, Miss
Thelma Braswell, fourteen years old,
of 33 Ethel street, petitioned the mu
nicipal court Tuesday morning for
a peace warrant against Charles
Smith, twenty-three years old. After
hearing the case, Judge L. Z. Rosser
dismissed the proceedings with an
admonition to Smith that he must
not communicate with the girl again
or walk on the same side of the
street with her.
Miss Braswell said she had been
in Smith’s cemnany several times
against the wishes of her mother,
and she admitted that she promised
to marry him, but said she did not
set any date. Later, she said. Smith
began to press his suit ardently, and
went so far as to tell her he would
drug her and kidnap her if she did
not marry him before Christmas.
Smith declared the girl had prom
ised to marry him of her own free
will, and he exhibited a marriage li
cense which he procured for the
nuptial event for last Saturday.
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COOLIDGE MESSAGE
Revision of Rules Promised
and Organization Quick;;
Completed After Battle
Lasting Two Days
WASHINGTON, Dec. s.—Freder
ick H. Gillett, of Massachusetts, was
re-elected speaker of the house today,
when the Republican insurgents
voted for him for the first time since
a deadlock developed Monday.
The re-election of Mr. Gillett com
pleted organization of the 68th con
gress. and paved the way for Presi
dent Coolidge to deliver tomorrow
his ‘first message to a .joint session
of the house and senate.
The president will address the
congress soon noon on Thurs
day, it was announced at the White
House.
The insurgents decided to abandon
their fight after they had LeCn as
sured by Representative Longworth,
of Ohio, the Republican leader, that
opportunity would be afforded later
to freely offer amendments to the
house rules. From the start the in
surgent group has maintained that
its real fight was for a rules re
vision.
The break came on the first ballbt
today, the ninth taken for speaker
since Monday noon. From the out
set the insurgents had been casting
seventeen votes for Cooper, of Wis
consin, one of their leaders, and five
for Madden, of Illinois.
Democrats Stick to End
On the final ballot, Gillett re
ceived 215 votes. Representatives
Garrett, of Tennessee, the Demo
cratic candidate, had 197, and two
voted for Representative Madden.
That gave Gillett a majority of
seven votes.
The Democrats voted solidly for
Garrett. The two who voted for
Madden were James of Michigan
and Reid of Illinois, both Republi
cans. 1
Representatives Kvale, independ
ent, and Wefald, farmer-labor, Min
-1 nesota, who had supported Cooper,
voted “present” as did Garrett and
Berger, socialist, Wisconsin. CHlletl
did not vote. Madden voted for Gg
left, as he had from the first. 3
Democrats .Jubilant
Before the vote was announced
Representative Cooper made a brief
statement saying he resented the
campaign of “vituperation and slan
der” against the members who had
supported him.
With an attempt was made to cut
off his speech by a point of order
Representative Madden appealed for
fair play and urged that every op
portunity lie given for harmony
ai. ng the Republicans, so that the
house might be organized. This
was greeted with laughter from the
Democratic side.
Representative Wood, Republican,
Indiana, suggested that there was
nothing in Mr. Nelson’s statement
that was not embodied in a resolu
tion which Representative Snell, of
New York, prospective chairman of
the rules committee, had had ’“in
his pocket for a week.” There were
jeers and cries of “pocket!” “pock
et!” from the Democrats and another
wave of laughter swept over the
house and galleries.
After the vote was announced Mr*.
Gillett was escorted to Ehe dais by
Representatives Longworth, Garrett,
Mat” n and Cooper and took the
oath of office.
A protest against the seating of
Edward N. Miller, as a Republican
from the Twenty-second Illinois dis
trict, was made from the floor by
Representative Rainey, Democrat, of
Illinois, as representative-elect from
that state were about to take the
oath of office.
Objection to the swearing in of
Representative James R. Buckley,
as a Democratic member of the
house from the Sixth Illinois di»«
trict was raised by Representative
Britten, Republican, Illinois. Mil
ler and Buckley, at Speaker Gillett’n
request, stood . aside while other
members of the Illinois delegation
took t’A oath.
Introduced by Garrett
As William Tyler Page, clerk of
the house, turned over the gravel to
the speaker, the house cheered for
a full minute. Representative Gar
rett, who. becomes minority leader,
then “introduced” Mr. Gillett, as “a
gentleman by birth, breeding and
culture, a legislator of long experi
ence and fine capacity, a robust
partisan, but a polite one, and a
presiding officer, honest and fair.”
The house members of all politi
cal persuasions and those in the gal
leries cheered and applauded again
when Mr. Gillett made a brief ad
dress of appreciation.
“I hope this cordial greeting
means genuine friendliness which I
heartily reciprocate,” he said. “Thia
honor to me is the greatest and
most acceptable the world could
give, and my gratitude is corre
spondingly great.”
Promising faithful execution of his
duties.*Mr. Gillett said the office of
speaker had become a judicial one.
He would administer it, he said,
"without favor or malice.”
"The country is waiting for this
session,” he continued. “We are
still suffering from the disorganiza
tion of the war. Equilibrium is not
yet restored.
"Let us try to preserve our
equanimity and dignity, mutual re
spect and forbearance."
The agreement for revision of the
rules was reached by the leaders,
last night, but there was an elev
enth-hour flurry today when Repre
sentative Nelson, of Wisconsin,
chairman of the insurgent group,
announced that he and his asso
ciates would not be bound by anv
agreement to support Gillett until
the terms of the rules understanding
had been reaffirmed specifically on
the house floor.
As soon as the session began, Mr.
Nelson presented a statement em
bodying his view of the status of the
understanding, and Representative
Longworth arose and told the house
that the statement was correct. The
clerk then called the roll for the
ninth time, and the insurgents
swung into line with their Republi
can colleagues behind Spwiker Gil
lett.