Show SMOOTH NEW YORK MEN OPENED BANK Only 1500 1 Capital but That Was Enough to o Do Busi Business B si siness ness in Florida PEOPLE EASILY ROBBED BATCH OF GOOD STORIES RELATED RE RELATED RELATED BY CONGRESSMEN Washington April 16 Speaking of or taking candy from Cram a child why It is just as easy to take money from the innocent folks in some small country towns said Representative Frank Fronk Clark of or Florida to a party of ot friends discussing the law governing national and state banks There is no opportunity for making money like opening a bank he contin continued continued continued The law makes it inviting to the schemers to do so Just as an illustration illustration tion I 1 recall an Incident that happened in a a county in Florida not many m ny months ago Two very smooth New Yorkers came down our way and with witha a capital of 1600 1500 opened a a bank They were hustlers and soon were doing a good business They were smooth all allright allright allright right for when a depositor presented a check for money the bank charged a discount of 1 per cent for cashing it The depositor never questioned the charge thinking It was legitimate One day however a fellow from Missouri who had received a check on the bank tar for presented presen ed it for payment The Tho paying teller took out the discount but the holder of the check asked what he meant We discount our checks said the paying teller Well VeU you dont discount this check The check was returned and the holder of oC It went back to the depositor and complained ned The result was that the news soon spread all over town The bank closed the tho next day Postoffice Censor While we dont boast of a press pres s censor and the people I am sure would not stand for such an undemocratic undemocratic undemocratic cratic Institution yet our de department department department in a measure exercises all the powers of or a censor said Congress Congressman man Victor Murdock himself an editor commenting on the power of the tho post postoffice postoffice office department You know he continued it was through the postoffice flee fice that we broke up the Louisiana lottery and after atter the passage of the law the department really became the guardian of dr the people in more ways than one At least the of officials officials of that department d felt that It is their duty to protect the in innocent innocent recent from the schemers who use the advertising columns of certain news newspapers newspapers papers and magazines to separate country and city folks from their coin by promises of small fortunes for a amore amore amore I more song We Ve have now before the I committee on and post roads a bill to codify the postal laws eo so as to 1 I protect the newspapers and advertisers whose mail mall may not shut off without due process of law lawA lawA A fraud order may be issued against an innocent person and much harm done but under the existing law there Is la no redress A newspaper per may be excluded from privileges that is what the department terms it claiming that it is not a right and anti the tb I publisher i In m powerless to have the wrong remedied rom died led by bylaw law But it is the he post office department nt that furnishes the funny tunny stories stories that have the origin In the th censor branch of the de department department I Boston Soston Mans Scheme I 1 recall an advertisement which appeared ap appeared in a number of ot newspapers a afew afew afew few years yeara ago to which the department took exception A man in Boston I J believe belleve advertised scenes from higher j life lite rare and rich most interesting book ever published Sent securely sealed seal d on receipt of ji 1 The advertiser did a big business It aroused the suspicions sus of oC the tul inspectors They bought a book and found it to be a cheap Bible The ad advertiser advertiser advertiser was notified that If it he be did not change his ad in the papers a fraud order would be issued against him He pleaded that the Bible was not nits mis misrepresented represented as it was a rich and rare book and purported to give scenes scenes from the higher life lite Now that fellow did some good he sold Bibles to persons that perhaps otherwise would never have seen one Of OC course the department does good goodin in trying to keep the mails malls from from tram frauds t who prey upon the credulous but in the hunt for frauds it often hap happens happens happens pens that the innocent are made to suffer and they have no redress Jt It is this knowledge that makes it impera imperative Imperative imperative tive that we should pass the bill to codify the postal laws Motion to Expunge Among the measures pending before the committee on rules of o the House HOU se is isone Isone isone I one known as the Bennett resolution to expunge from the permanent Con Congressional Congressional Congressional gressional Record of the last Con Congress Congress Congress gress the resolution of censure reported by the special committee appointed bythe by bythe bythe the House to pass upon that part of oC President message in which he handled without gloves the members who criticised the secret service and the use usa to which It was put by President President dent Roosevelt Congressman Bennett Is an ardent admirer of at the former strenuous President and conspicuously defended him at the time Ime the House ordered the offensive portion of the th message expunged from the record And now he has renewed the fight to expunge the sharp things said against the former President The committee on rules has not yet found time to take up the resolution and the Indications are that so far as the rules Jules committee is concerned the tho House will wUl not have another opportunity opportUnity opportunity to throw bricks at the African hunter Mr Ir Bennett says saS the matter will be heard from before the session adjourns Advocates of Big Navy Representative Hobson of ot Alabama is always pointed out to visitors as the most earnest advocate In the House of a large Jarge navy nav His prediction of a war with Japan has served to attract t attention to him as the one Congress Congressman man who most favors a powerful navy nary But Mr Hobson Is not the only member mem mein member ber who desires Uncle UncIa Sam Bam to have tho the largest Jarge t and most powerful fleet afloat |