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Show EUROPEAN DEBTS ARE CONSIDERED Ogden Mills, Treasury Official, Offic-ial, Says Administration Merely Asks Delay; Hoover's Hoo-ver's Accuser Is Assailed. WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 j.R) Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills today assured the. senate finance committee that the administration adminis-tration is opposed "without qualification" to cancellation of war debts. He made the statement while supporting the Hoover debt mora-!orium mora-!orium proposals before the committee. com-mittee. At the same time Mills wa? before the senate committee, Sec retary of State Stimson was prer tfntinj? the case for the moratorium morator-ium before the house ways and jeans committee. He characterized granting of a moratorium as only :be act of a wise creditor. MoFadden Under Fire The day's econsideration of the moratorrum was spiced with attacks at-tacks upon Rep. Louis T. McFad-dm, McFad-dm, Repn., Pa., who yesterday condemned President Hoover as jntruo to his oath of office when hi arranged the moratorium. Rep, Treadway, Repn., Mass., denounced de-nounced McFadden before the touse ways and means committee. On the floor of the house, Rep. 3eedy, Repn., Maine, defended Mr. Hoover agalnBt McFadden's charges charg-es that the president had "sold out" 10 Germany. ''There is not one iota of truth in those charges," he said. The Pennsylvania delegation in congress met in McFadden's office during the morning and voted to support the moratorium, McFadden alone dissenting. It was known that McFadden's speech was discussed dis-cussed in the meeting, but none of those who attended would reveal what was said. McFadden remain, td silent alone. McFadden, a Republican, took a seat on the Democratic side of th( chamber and sat there while Becdy aaBailed him and questioned his motives for attacking Mr. Hoover. "It would be interesting to have in Investigation and find out just where is the Machivellian hand behind be-hind the gentleman from Pennsylvania' Pennsyl-vania' said Beedy. He declared he could recall nothing in history 'paralleling the enormity of the cjiarges" McFadden made against the president. Beedy in conclusion challenged McFadden to bring forward proof of his charges. Sits Foker-Faced "I demand proof that he Ho; ver) was an agent of Germany," Beedy roared. The whole Republican Republi-can side of the house rose and cheered. Most of them turned to look at McFadden. Ho sat, poker-faced, poker-faced, in the seat on the Democratic Demo-cratic side. He made no move and shortly afterward left the house chamber. In the senate, McKellar, Dem., Tenn., introduced an amendment to the moratorium resolution which would express "the sense of the congress1' that there should be no extension of the moratorium beyond be-yond next July, no additional debt funding legislation, and no further debt cancellation. The amendment struck directly at Mr. Hoover's proposal for recreation recre-ation of tho debt funding commission commis-sion to reconsider the capacity of certain debtors nations to pay. |