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Description: Secretary Of Water Commission Called;
Hoover Tried To Adjust;
Legislation On Shoals First;
Black and McKellar On Opposite Sides;
Feathery Frill Flutter Army Hearts;
Senator McKellar Charges Mellon;
Illegitimate Account;
Dry Laws & Church Lobby
Newspaper published in: Huntsville, AL
Source: Library
Page/Column: Pages 1, 5 & 9
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SECRETARY OF WATER COMMISSION CALLED
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (AP) – F. E. Bonner, executive secretary of the federal water power commission today was summoned to appear before the senate interstate commerce commission tomorrow to answer the charges against him after chairman Couzens of the committee had said he understood that affairs in the commission showed one of the “rottenest exhibitions of government I ever heard of.”
Attacks on the matter and methods used by utilities groups were continued today in testimony before the committee by William King, chief accountant of the commission who reiterated charges by Charles Russell, commission solicitor, that power groups included lobbying expenses in valuations and that Bonner favored the “power interests.” King also said that he knew of many cases of illegitimate expenses and other irregularities in the commission’s affairs.
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HOOVER TRIED TO ADJUST IT
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While Secretary of Commerce He Considered the Muscle Shoals Problem
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (AP) – Testimony that President Hoover while secretary of commerce tried to aid in solving the long standing problem of Muscle Shoals by an effort to reconcile the divergent views of the power and chemical groups was heard today before the senate lobby committee.
The information was received in the form of a letter written to Claudius H. Huston, now chairman of the republican national committee, by J. W. Worthington, chairman of the executive committee of the Tennessee River Improvement Association, July 25, 1927.
The letter said Huston and Worthington in the fall of 1925 “did our utmost to bring the power and the chemical group together and we made a dismal failure.”
It added that Huston, a former president of the Tennessee River Improvement Association, “along with Mr. Hoover attempted to do so later and that Mr. Hoover even undertook to bring these interests together thru Owen D. Young and failed.”
Young is a former chairman of the Radio Corporation of America.
W. G. Waldo, consulting engineer of the improvement association was on the stand today. He testified that the Nashville Railway and Light Company had contributed $200 to the Association in 1916 or 1917 and that the Knoxville Power and Light Co. might have made a contribution.
Waldo was questioned concerning his promotion of Aurora Dam in Kentucky. He denied that Worthington and Huston had any financial interest in the project.
Senator Black, democrat, Alabama, asked if the Aurora Dam was a “dummy organization with Worthington and Huston the men behind it.” Waldo denied this.
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LEGISLATION ON SHOALS TO HAVE THE FIRST CALL
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Watson Looks Forward To Break In Senate Jam
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BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FIRST
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Senate Leaders Are Agreed That Tariff Debate Is To Be Ended Soon
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By FRANCIS I. STEPHENSON
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (AP) – Looking ahead to the break in the legislative jam in the Senate when the tariff is finally disposed of, Senator Watson of Indiana, the Republican leader, gives the first call to Muscle Shoals legislation.
However, as a result of the White House conference of yesterday, Republican congressional leaders are also picking out all bills relating to the business improvement program for early consideration.
Behind the tariff dam in the Senate are the bills to expand the public buildings program, all of the annual supply measures carrying funds for next year’s expenses of the government, the measure increasing funds for Federal road aid and the prohibition proposals.
But, Mr. Hoover has told the Senate leaders his first concern is the tariff, and to the tariff they are re-applying themselves. The Republican leaders have passed the responsibility for the tariff over to the coalition of democrats and western republican independents which has undertaken to rewrite the bill. All hands agreed today that the bill should be out of the Senate by March 10.
The storm which broke on Capitol Hill following the general conference of Republican party leaders at the White House yesterday has done much to clarify the general situation at least, in the opinion of party leaders.
The Senate chieftains believe there is a renewed spirit of determination to wind up the long tariff debate. The bill has been before the Senate since last June and under discussion on the floor since early last September.
A sharp contest is in prospect over proposals for disposition of Muscle Shoals but those interested in this issue believe it can be settled without prolonged debate. It is an old problem with Congress. Ever since the war, Congress has been quarreling over ways and means of disposing of this gigantic war-time power plant in Alabama.
The resolution of Senator Norris, republican, Nebraska, proposing government ownership of the plant has been reported by the Senate agriculture committee and will form the basis of the Senate discussion.
In addition to legislation already on the Senate calendar, the committees are busy at work on other proposals and no prospect of an adjournment of this session before early June is now entertained.
The long threatened outburst over prohibition in the Senate promises to overwhelm everything for a time. The drys have given notice they will vote on the resolution of Senator Blaine, Republican, Wisconsin, for repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Then too, there threatens to be a floor fight over the resolution of Senator Norris, Republican, Nebraska for an investigation into prohibition enforcement.
It now appears certain that he only prohibition legislation likely to go through will be the house bill transferring the prohibition enforcement machinery from the treasury to the justice department.
BLACK AND M’KELLAR ON OPPOSITE SIDES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (AP) – Consideration of the confirmation of Hugh M. Tate of Knoxville, Tenn., to be a member of the interstate commerce commission began in the senate today with Senator McKellar, democrat, Tennessee, supporting and Senator Black, democrat, Alabama, opposing the appointment
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Feathery Frill Flutter Army Hearts
Two Bachrach photos with the following caption: Miss June Crosby (right) and Miss Katherine Carr (left), two popular army girls of the capital’s younger set, show new fashions in fans and flowers.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Army girls in Washington present the ultra feminine mode in dance frocks this season in striking contrast to the background of sever tailor-made uniforms of their escorts.
Feather fans, flowers, beads and bows are favored for that demure effect which the up-to-date members of the younger set prefer.
Mrs. Coolidge introduced the huge feather fan at a White House party last winter and since then it has been gaining in vogue. Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, sister of the vice-president, carried a huge one of gold feathers which was sent her as a gift.
So many artificial flowers are worn by the younger girls that often they cover the whole shoulder and side. In color they range from flame to green and in kind from orchids to violets.
Katherine Carr, daughter of Col. and Mrs. Daniel Carr and Miss Jane Crosby, daughter of Major General and Mrs. Herbert Crosby are two popular army girls in the capital’s younger set. Major General Crosby has just been named by President Hoover to head the district’s police.
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BULLETINS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (AP) – Senator McKellar, democrat, Tennessee, brought the charge in the senate today that Secretary Mellon “has never really tried to enforce” the dry laws and that no president since their enactment had been “really interested” in their enforcement “except for political consideration.”
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (AP) – A confidential memorandum of the Federal power commission inserted today in the record of the Senate internal commerce commission gave reported illegitimate accounting by the Niagara Falls Power Company, Connowingo; Susquehenna river Power company, Maryland; Claron River Power Company, Pennsylvania; the Alabama Power company and numerous others.
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DRY LAWS AND CHURCH LOBBY
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Advocate of Repeal of 18th Amendment Appears Before Committee
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (AP) – The eighteenth amendment; what was termed the “protestant church lobby,” and Chairman Wickersham of the Hoover law enforcement commission, drew fire today from persons advocating repeal of the dry laws in the current discussion of the subject at the capitol.
Although he had not gotten all of his testimony into the record of the house judiciary committee hearing on prohibition, Henry B. Joy, of Detroit, former head of the Packard Motor Company, charged Mr. Wickersham with “preconceived bias” on the subject.
“I shudder at the thought,” he said, “of the consequences in case the recommendations of Mr. Wickersham should be enacted into law.”
Mr. Joy said he favored control of alcoholic beverages by the individual states.
Before Joy took the stand, Grayson M. P. Murphy of New York, a director of several large business corporations, had told the committee that he did not know a leading financier, banker, industrialist or manufacturer who would not break the dry laws. Amid much laughter from the audience and in answer to a question he said he did not know Henry Ford.
Outright repeal of the prohibition amendment and regulation of liquor by the states was asked by William H. Slayton, chairman of the board of directors of the association against the prohibition amendment. Stalton [sic: Slayton} argued that the people had lost respect for the government because of the dry laws and that the government had employed thugs and defended murders in enforcing them.