Show MELLON COUZENS Ul S SAYS Michigan Senator Renews Eff Efforts for Action on Resolution WASHINGTON March 22 AP After After provoking two hours of sharp debate today in the senate the Couzens resolution proposing the resignation of Secretary Mellon was sent to the calendar automatically automatically automatically cally under the rules and it may maybe maybe maybe be days if not weeks before it can can- again be brought up WASHINGTON D. D C. C March 22 AP Senator AP-Senator Senator Couzens' Couzens attempt to drive Andrew W. W Mellon from the cabinet got under way today with a two fisted attack on Mellons Mellon's ad adminis administration administration ad ad- minis ministration ration of the treasury department de department department de- de and and a stout defense defenso by friends of the secretary in the senate Couzens calling up his resolution resolution I tion to declare it the sense sensa of ot the senate that Mell Mellon n should resign assailed tIle the secretary for his failure to disclose that Will H II Hays had approached him with Sinclair bonds bonds' to be exchanged for fora a Republican campaign tion lie He asserted Mellon banks had d defrauded the government In tax matters insisted the tha secretary could not hold office legally becauSe because because be be- cause of his business connections and asserted hundreds of ot millions of ot dollars had been lost fost by mal nal administration of ot the treasury Concluding a long list of complaints com corn plaints plaint against the treasury In- In eluding chiding one that conditions In the treasury were rotten wIth ith fa- fa a- a Couzens was answered l first b by Moses and then by bye Senator e Reed Republican Pennsylvania Intimate friend of tho thc secretary I protest that tho the senator is bringing to th the floor looi of the the- the senate senate Moses said a 2 personal leu feud be- be Continued on page 5 MELLON UNFIT COUZENS SAYS Continued from page 1 I. tween himself and Mr 1 l Mellon n whIch has gone on fr ye years uS Since ho 10 has seen fit to portray a a 3 recital here lere of vicious maU malicious statements state state- ments which were untrue in soine instances 1 I protest further that the orderly more procedure would have b seen for fOl him to ask for tor impeach impeach- ch- ch nent in the manner manner prescribed by bythe Ut the Uie constitution Urging adoption of his resolution declaring the senate in favor of the resign resignation UOn of ot Secretary Mellon senator enat r Couzens declared that thai th the tha treasur treasury head had proved himself totally unfit to hold hoid office Taking raking the tho floor soon after Indications Indications Indi Indi- had come from the treasury that Mi Mellon would not resign regardless regardless' ss of the outcome of th the senate vote unless requested sted t to do doso doso so 0 by the president the Michigan l senator said Mellon had been appealed ap ap- ap- ap pc pealed led to by Will Vill II n. Hays former chairman of or the Republican national na na- na- na tiona committee to help conceal part of Harry F. F Sinclair's O Oc c contribution to the Re Republican 1020 1520 20 campaign deficit Ho Ito recalled that Mellon had hal de declined declined de- de dined to accept t. t te e Sinclair bonds brought to him by Hays to tobe tobe tobe be exchanged for a campaign contribution con con- but that the secretary had refused to tell of the In incident ident FORCED BY DEATH Only Only death death finally forced him to talk tak Couz Couzens said A note on a paper of or a dead deal man Mr Pratt iatt saying ying ying Andy brought out the stOry finally of how Mr Mellon had been tendered these bonds bonda The Michigan senator who has quarreled u 1 with the treasury for years on tax matters then went into Into- a. a detailed discussion of ot Mr 10 Mellons Mellon's testimony ny recently before the senate oil committee Couzens also so complained that the secretary was Interested sted in the Coal company Which he charged had done don everything it could to defeat t the obtaining of accurate findings as aa to its mines s sin in C connection nn with the senate enate enat In- In in inquiry inquiry into the bituminous coal sit sit- itu it- it u tIOn CITES LAW He- He r referred ferr d to a a. contribution by Meil Mellon n to th the campaign f fund nd of of f George Wharton Pepper in the 1926 Pennsylvania senatorial primary pr and aid how Mellon had spoken for Pepper Ho Ito next cited the law de declaring do- do cl daring claring it to be a criminal offense for any person appointed to the theoffice theoffice theoffice office of secretary of the treasury to be directly or indirectly concerned concerned concerned con con- or interested In carrying on the business of ot trade trade trade-or or or commerce and as assert asserted rt d th that t Mellon Is Isa a stockholder stockholder stock stock- holder bolder In corporations such as Gulf Oil co corporation tI on Gulf Refining cOrporation cOr- cOr Gulf Production company Mexican l n Gulf GUte Oil company the Aluminum Company of ot America and others Republican senators stood by closely and Reed ot oC vania vanla Edge of or New ew Jersey and Moses of New Hampl Hampshire lre occasionally occasionally occasion occasion- ally any asked Couzens for tor more mare specific information Senator MoseS asked if It any qualified man could be found for or the treasury who had an income Inde Independent pendent of any connection with business Perhaps the senator is in that c category he Senator Couzens who is a millionaire mil mU- e. replied that he was w-as not a candidate for the treasury post Couzens said that upon Mellons Mellon's entry Into public service he Ite turned over his Interests In the Whisky company to be held In trust which he declared to be Indirect in direct vol violation of the policy established by the sen senate tc He lIe charged that the Mellon s sIn th the the- In Pittsburg had defrauded government of by making l consolidated tax returns against the practice of the treasury and while Mr Mellon was secretary He lie named in this the Mellon National bank the tM Union Trust company and and- th the Union UnionS S Savings bank Hundreds ot f millions minions had haJ been lost to the government in tax cases case by of pf the treasury treasury trea trea- sury the Michigan e senator notor asserted William Boyce Boyed Thompson described a as as' a a. Republican was charged b by bythe bythe the treasury tr for almost additional additional ad ad- taxes but he came down downto to th the tl treasury treasury- and Settled for ho continued USES IMAGINATION Now eNoW I dont don't know juat jUit what b happened l ened he Ie added but I 1 have imagination enough to figure It o out t There are cases which still show that there thel e arc fraudulent iI s settle settlements ments meats 1 1 i do not charge chal air Mr is lit dishonest but he ho can tell tall Com Com- missioner Blair of the Int internal revenue rev v bureau ho how to to- settle ases Senator M Moses asked Mr l Couzens to lo produce re records showing ol orders by y Mellon to Bl Blair lr but the tho MichIgan Mich- Mich i Igan an man said that was not maYou ma- ma You You are trying to get et him out of ot office Why is isn't t it material l' l countered counter d Moses Moses' Yes I Mellon i Is hi holding office illegally gaIlY Couzens said Then rheim why d dont don't nt you b bU get tet someone In the tIme to stu t Impeachment proceedings and do this lit iii an or ordeny orderly orderly or- or derly deny way vay questioned Moses Mosel I 1 have nothing to to-do to do 10 with the Couzens retorted e house mOUse |