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Show Senator New Plans Drastic Laws to Curb Bolsheviki May Day Demonstrations Bear Quick Fruit; Indiana In-diana Solon to Press Matter at Coming' Session of Congress. ' j I (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) WASHINGTON, May 2. Congress is not going to stand for the red flag in the United States. Yesterday's May day demonstrations, demon-strations, signalized with the waving of red flags iu various cities, have served to emphasize tho determination determina-tion of congressional leaders to force enactment of legislation which will prohibit pro-hibit and penalize such demonstrations. While the propaganda committee of the senate has had the subject under consideration and probably will submit a bill on the Issue, there is one senator who Is not going to wait for a committee commit-tee to initiate such legislation. He is Senator New of Indiana, who submitted an anti-red flag bill in the maelstrom of legislation at the last session, which went down in the flood of uncnacted measures in the closing day.1-; of congress. New Is Writing a Drastic Measure. Nov.- tbe Indiana senator is writing another an-other bill, and he plans to introduce it as soon as tbe new congress is convened. The measure, -art iculariy dire -ted against the Bolshevik propaganda. mo e-niejj e-niejj t now being a gi la ted in the United Stnte.v, lias already been tentatively prepared, pre-pared, a ) id. a it hough subject to revision before p rescu rat in lo congress, ii will be substantially as follows: That if :-hali be unlawful for any person per-son lo advocate or advise, to write, or villi the intent to forward tbe nurn -se i hereinafter mentioned, to print, publish, sell or distribute any document, book, j circular, paper, journal or other writc-n ; 01 printed eoinrnunieai ion in nr by which 1 there is advk-cd o erihrow. by fore. or violence, or by pi ivsiea 1 injurs to person or property, or by the qeniM-at cessation nf i nd U.-T; . of tbn go ver P 1 n uu t of I he U-nhcd Slates or of ail k "crn men t . That the display or exhibition at a;n-mep a;n-mep finer, ga thori ng or pa rade, publ ic or prival e. 'if a ny 1 ;li g. ha imer or - "blent y ir. b 1 I i 7. ; n g or i 1 1 1 n d 0 d by t n - p e rs o 1 1 nr per 'Ts d i .-; -j:-;. i 1 1- or elohitiTi:; the. sa me to :;y mbuli.e a purpose to over- , throw, by force or violence, or by phvsi-cal phvsi-cal injury to person or property, or by'the general cessation of industry, the government govern-ment of the United States or all government, govern-ment, is hereby declared to be unlawful. That every document, book, circular, paper, journal or other written or printed communication in or by which there is advocated or advised the overthrow, by force or violence, or by physical injury to person or property or by the general cessation ces-sation of industry, of the government of the United Slates or all government, or in or by which there is advocated or advised ad-vised the unlawful use of force or physical physi-cal injury to, or the unlawful seizure' or destruction of, persons or property as a means toward the accomplishment of economic, eco-nomic, industrial or political changes, is hereby declared to be non-mailable and shall not bo conveyed in the mails or delivered fom any postoffico or by any letter carrier. Use of Mails Forbidden Reds. That it shall be unlawful. Willi intent to forward the end. in or by the tame, advocated or advi:-ed to import or causo to be imported into t lie I'niled states or any place subject to its iurisdi.-tlon any matter de.-iorerl In tills' ;o-l to tie non-mailable. or with r'leh j.,i,-M,t p, transport or cause to he transport .-d anv such matter from any state to .-inoilier. or to any place subject to the jurisdiction jurisdic-tion of the l:uited Stales. That whoever shall use or attempt to use the mails or the post..! .service r the "United Starts for the transmis.-iou ,f any matter declare. 1 by u,js act lo b,-. non-muiinble. or who shall otherwise late any provision -f this act. .-hall h fined net more than Is.i'e'j or impris'med not mure than five years, or both. "There is entire!) P-o mucl nsid-'-ra- tion shown to the. ej iss. of peoolc v-h.-. employ tin- red nR iti this count,---'." -aid Senator New toda.. "J certaiiilv propose to heist upon early com Uh r.i t ion in Hie next conu-i ess ,.f a measure 'o deal -.villi the -o-idiiions en-It'rontiuu' en-It'rontiuu' us. To" joalieiL ty commit- ! 'tee took Hie matter up jo the last i congress, but it w as lost in u,o rn:-h of 'him-'s in the closlnc el; vs. I believe that tic- ermimipe-- can e.,-m.- j an nn-der: nn-der: landi'-nr early jn ill(. j,,., ,4 l-iyl sueu as 1 have outlined ." j |