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Show r Saturday jsilvt-- r Iead THE WEATHER. generally fair; Sunday fair and warmer. Local Settlement Prices. Domestic, fHc; foreign..:. Copper (cathodes) Buyer and seller get together promptly through the medium of Tribune Wants. . $7.S8 ......,..$14.?TS SALT LAKE CITY, SATURDAY ;.M011N1KG; FE13HUAKY 3, VOL. 10G, NO. 112. IMS' URGES TO a : GET RIG T ilFin QflMIll! DiriLD U UUI.UiJ IIIUI.il DR. HUBERT WORK fI Denounced at Heated Session Pre ceding Formal Action. Feb. 3. Charges and WASHtWiTOX, countercharges which have accompanied the effort In congress to adjust claims against Pueblo Indian lands In New Met-- I' O will be aired by- the' house Indian affaire committee. It waa announced today after an executive eesaion of the committee. Chairman Snyder said that If a point waa reached where It waa found, that "certain things were done which should not have been done," the house would be asked for further Instructions retarding committee Meanwhile, the procedure. committee will continue tta efforta to frame a bill dealing with the subject, hearing at the same time any complaints from those Interested. Edward C- Wilson, an attorney of Rant Fe, ff. M., representing the Pueblias and certain organizations, told the committee today that his clients would present "at the proper time" facts which ha believed would prove the bureau of Indian affairs to- - be "wholly Inefficient.," non-Indi- , .i s , ' V '- -- I I I A K Ely TO GET FILL'S POST Postmaster General Is Fa vored by President for Secretary of the Interior. 2. President WASHINGTON, Feb. Harding has about completed plana for the cabinet readjustments made necessary by the resignation of Secretary Fall of the interior department, and it waa confirmed against the Indians claims of Indicated today at the White House that ail kinds, some of which were fraudulent." a formal announcement on the subject Charges made by Commissioner Burke of the Indian bureau that a flood of might be expected .within A'll Indications have been that the propaganda had been let loose on the subto have president's choice for the Interior portject were said by Mr. Widson resulted from the fact that action was folio ia Postmaster General Work, who necessary when the Injustice of the Bur- has a .wide knowledge of the western sum bill was realised. The witness ap- problems with which the Interior departproved In principle a bill introduced in ment is chiefly concerned. the senate by Senator Jones, Democrat, it was understood also tonight that New Me.ico, and in the house by RepreSenator Harry S. New of Indiana, who sentative Leatherwood, Republican, Utah, retires from congress on March 4. still which he said could be made into a satiswas foremost among those under considfactory measure from the viewpoint of eration to succeed Dr. Work as post, the Indians. master' general. It was predicted in some Mr, Burke, who testified briefly, tcld that hit selection for the place the committee that the question of propa- quarters would be announced at the same time Investigated. the president makes known formally the ganda should be thoroughly Mr. Wilson objected to a letter dealing transfer of Dr. Work to the Interior post. with the Pueblo Indian lands written by Senator New was offered a place in the a resident of New Mexico, and Inserted In cabinet which went Into office with Presithe Congressional Record by Chairman dent Harding in 1921. and he has been was inaccu Snyder, which be contended a close personal friend of the Xfor years rate. president. - He was defeated last year lor renominatlon as senator. Clashes Feature Session. , M )rtment ST. PAUL, Minn.. Feb. 2. Sharp drops In temperature to well below sero marks and flurries or snow were reporieu in in nnrthwHt tonleht. Aberdeen. 8. D.. re- an hour wind ported a and snowstorm in northern South Dakota. The temperature was IS below aero forty-five-mi- le 7 p. m. below aero nnw.tnrm ilrlvan hv a thirteen-mil- e an hour wind. OMAHA. Neb.. Feb. 3. With a blind dropping Ing anowstorm and steadily eastern Nebraska and temneratur.es. western Iowa tonight were in the path of a cold wave, which was expected to send the mercury tumbling to below sero by A hlEh northwest wind and morning. snow flurries threatened blizxardy conditions at Omaha, but after nightfall the skies cleared. Similar weather conditions were re ported from southeastern Nebraska and western lowa. The coldest aempers.turs reported In Nebraska during the day was at Neligh In where S below xero was registered. Omaha a drop was experienced during the afternoon, the mercury tum bling from 10 above at z or lock to above af s" o'clock. No relief from the cold wave is promised until Sunday. Forks. Grand v. JC. D., had 10 Last Denizen of Once Flourishing Town Dies DENVER, Feb. 1 Twenty-seve- n ago Bald Mountain, Colorado, years in Gilpin county, waa undergoing a mining boom and had a population of 15.000. Yesterday its last oitlsen wag burled. He was William Rlckerson, the mayor. With his death the settlement is no more. The street are houses deserted, comfortable that formerly sheltered the wives' and children of sturdy miners are boarded up and the business building of the town are in decay. Bald Mountain has joined the "ghost cities of the west.' Only a few months ago Mavor Dickenson turned over the last bit of money in the town treasury, $300, to the county treasurer of Gilpin county, declaring It was not legally his and belonged to the "ghost city." Dickerson was a member of I he volunteer fire department during the town's prosperous days and waa influential in the community. Finally he was named as mayor. He served year after year and then the boom ended. One 1y one residents of the town departed. iJickerson and his continued to reside there with as the populatnn their children dwindled, until only they were left. With the mayor's demise, his wife and five children hare moved to Central City, near by. war-tim- . Call (Oeioma T Im.) More Treasures Taken From Tomb of King Universal Service LONDON. Feb. Cable. 2. Sand storms t6mb of King at1hr this until Tutankhamen afternoon, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch said. When removala started again the first article brought out was a Slnwabti figure, said to be the finest in the world, made of wood Inlaid with gold, with folded arms and head bowed In humility. d Then came a Mlver figure of a sun god, With a disc, a wooden shrine decorated with figures of the king and his courtiers hunting lions, and goldenas hieroglyphics king of updescribing Tutankhamen per and lower Egypt and river of all good things. Other artidee. brought out were two Republic. hawk-heade- Forbes to Post, Washington Report ; burea- u-director- ' HAS the - I ar sixty-secon- Food Situation Compelling Alarm in Berlin Circles ; No 'I Senator Heflin's second offense was dur ing his criticism of Senator Couxens' vote against him In the Wadsworth matter. when he referred to the Michigan sen ator as a millionaire representative vi big business interests. Without a record vote upon motion of Senator cousens and after protest had been made these references were ordered expunged. In the some vote the senate also expunged statements by Senator Couxens that Sen to the galleries ator Heflin was play-.nand bad "sneaked out In the night time" o change the record of his clash yester- . dav with Senator Wadsworth. On the vote regarding Senator Hetnn s Resix Wadsworth. attack upon Senator Democratic publicans voted with a aolld wno uciuru ineup to sustain ir. neiiin, tne had words is overstepped that rules. Three of these. Rtpubl cans, now-evSenators Johnson, California; N'or-riNebraska, and. Capper. Kansas later vigorously crit'clsed henstor Hernn ior his criticism of Senator Couxens. s, Cause of Rumpus. Senator Heflin's remarks regarding Senator Wadsworth wre made yester that Senator day and were held to Imply nan street Wadsworth represented Those relating to Senator Cousens, it was charged, .implied, mat he. reDresen.ed big business Interest. The reply of Senator Couxens, aiso ex punged, referred to Senator Hefl.n as playing to the galleries, heand suggested had changed that "in the night time" the record of his speech yesterday in the rtash w th Senator waaswortn. The most violent ciawies in many months took place during the debate. Mnt.nn to ex Dunne and charge of ma terial alteration by senator neiun 01 Ms remarks flew about the senate for thro twmra. hlocKlrur all otner Business, TUfnre the senate acted Senator Heflin Seizure Booze. offered to withdraw his remarks regaro sen ni Hanator uouum lr tne siicnigan Senator a tor would reciprocate. This to motion do. The cm refused to nen WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. J. L, Asher, waa orrerea oy nensior a revenue agent from the Kentucky exminre then Oeatlauad ea Pag Tar mountain, who came o Washington (Col an a One.) three weeks ago and. has put In hia time since in giilsefranging from an ash cart driver ,to a Kentucky colonel at a fash Million lonab'.e ball, today directed more, than t Is by sixty capital revenue agents and Police SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Feb. S. While in liquor raids on sixty plaoes, netting the arrest of about ninety Persons, in th Investigation to determine the cause eluding twelve women, and the con fi sea of the explosion in the purifying plant of lion of more tnan 3W gai.ons ol lntoxi the Springfield Gas Light company yescants. Evidence preceding the raids, begun terday afternoon, which resulted in three in five police precincts at 1! o'clock to scores snd widespread this morning and not completed un deaths, injuries it is now bedamage. Is still under way,wss til late in the day, the mot cattsed by sive campaign conducted in the city since lieved that theanexplosion eieciric elevator in tne the advent of prohibition, was obtained a spark from center of the building. almost entirely ty Asher. Just how extensive the damage caused The five precinct stations presented their busiest appearances in years as by the explosion will be inmay not be dethe opinion of bondsmen hastened to gain the release termined for some time, of prisoners, practically all of whom- were building experts, who point out that the the held for jioOU oail. and police and reve foundatfons of many structures nearEstinue agents guarded prisoners and d plant may have been weakened. rected the storage of huge supplies of mates of the damage caused vary, but It corn whisky, bonded goods and wine is expected that the figure will total apcarried in from tne raided homes in gov proximately $800,000. Replacement damernment trucks and automobiles. In only age Is estimated at about $1,000,000. one Instance were tne raiders disappoint ed by failure to find the goods described Union by the KentucKian. Asher- first drove Into the underworld In quest of the bootleggers' rendexvous aboard an Ice wagon as a helper. He John INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Feb. Cautioned aa Pag Tear L. Lewis of Illinois received 193,8244 (Columa Thr.a.) - RI 1 - Poll Count of Mine Completed at Headquarters i of the CnftedTflne of America In th election De 12, according to the official count of the International teller, who complet 04-OtO 040 ed their work today. Phillip Murray of Pennsylvania receiver isi,6& votes for vice president snd William Green of Ohio The three 1S9,97 for secretary-treasure! International officers were named with04-OtO OtO out opposition. The present auditing and credentials p committee, composed of John I,. of Ohio. T. G. Morgan of Indiana and Albert Neutsilng of Illinois was reelected out of a field of eleven candidates. Thomas Haskell of Ohio, Will Young BrltaihMo retire anv additi onal iTinnnti of Pennsylvania and Thomas Holiday of me oonos oi tier 'position permits, provided notlcexpf ninety days is given the Illinois were elected international tellers. American government. As a further libprovision, the American goveralizing ernment grants fox Great Britain the right to defer payment of one-haof Rights tne interest payments during the first rive years ana to consolidate it with the $. Th world will be 8T. LOCIS, Feb. principal. British Internal bonds wrirk be Issued In a healthier condition when Great Britto cover such deferred payments. ain fully rehabilitates her financial conpayment or interest or principal mav Hi Barnes,, president of the he made in United States government dition, Juliu Chamber Of Commerce, debonds of Issues since April ,, 1J17, or United State address here tonight at a the Amerlesn wartime issues.' This pro clared in atanwhich he was the guest of vision allows Great Britain to enter the banquet his fiftieth birthday in celebrating honor American markets and purchase American government bonds at the most' op- anniversary. Barnes sain is snout g ner portune time, 'according to an official behind in ner goia parity and cau view, and will aid mot only in sustaining cent mat the United tioned against tnmaing par or near par quotations on the Amer- states was the leading financial coun ican issue of bonds and other treasury declaring that "we have securities as they may be issued, but will try inas the world, yet learrted international banking act as a stabiliser of exchange between not as gnglano nsa. Great. Britain and the United States. The principal of the debt when th LAMAR SEEKS PARDON. funding arrangement becomes operative FeoX 3. Pri wlU be $4.604.12S.(T3.74. This includes $4,074,818,358.44 In the principal of the HarWng. H was learned today at the n applicareceived has several loans made under the liberty White House, for a pardon from DaviiKljunar, bonds acts permitting the extension of tion -financial aid to America's associates In the wolf of Wall street," whose mo. to the war, together with $29.S3.lo.M in ibn for a writ of .habeas corpusone-yeaccrued interest less payments lotallng vent his Incarceration under a sentence, for conspiracy in restraint of $100,000,008 made by the British last October and November on the interest foreign commerce, was overruled Monday .." total. by the supreme court. . Worker cember r. lf Mo.i-so- x - ar ' DUESSELDORF, reb. I. (By the As sociated Press.) The blockade of the Ruhr valley from within was absolute!, complete today. Not a single ton of coat or coke has entered Germany from the Ruhr in the last thirty-si- x hours, the? Plun- - French authorities announce, adding that wie measures mey put miv turee at nwu. night Wednesday are totally effective., T Courts. by - 1 Strike Called Off. ht 1 Favoring Germans. IN III The comolete cessation of coal produc tion at the mines, and the inability of the French to send by rail Into Frsnce any enal for the reparations account, were th developments in the situation favoring Germany In her policy of resistance. m , in in assuming? cnarse civil population In th Ruhr where ths n rrencn me railway stria persists, three trains Into th region today manned by French crews, consigned to runcn Dortmund ana ueisensirco. of coat through tugs began the haulingRhine Duesseito down the nt D..(,rnr upp,'-tn,eoV01 awumm on u nmu. resumption or won Coblens. Treve st Cologne, Ludwlgshafen. snd partially com-- n ih. Ruhr lines, excepting those . FREEDOM Indicted Chicago : The calling off of the railroad' strike b the German authorities and obedience by ths railway men to a request of the au-- i thorities that they resume work on ail lines where they would not come in con tact with armed French soldiers, ware the outstanding developments today la the events of a day that was regarded by observers ss having brougnt forth a great Improvement in the French position in the Ruhr and the Khlneland. A majority of the railroad workers in both regions' adopted th euggestion of the authorities; tnst tney resume tneir joos. Complete stoppage of ail exports of coal and coke Into the inferior of Germany hours, to- during the last forty-eigI gether with the extension today of slml- isr restrictions on smpmems ot oenxou were tar and all other mine other developments considered, pf. advanFrench:1 tage to the In addition, the French have taken over the handling of food trains consigned to the reslons traversed by the railroads. where strikes still ar In effect, and also directed the" transportation by barges on the canals snd the Rhine of sufficient coal for the need of local populations snd Industries. mi Political IThe Supplies Bond of $10,000 encs the strike is in iun wui. refusal to. obey an ultimatum the French -v men that they release v reo. rreu buimin, on I strikers under arrest ior sauoiag. V.M11.AUU, . .L .- . , . V j, vi. wis wuet spectacular iigure in me Level history of Illinois politics, who was In At Low The mining operations today reached dieted recently In connection with alleged level. In an endeavor t solve school board frauds totaling mora than the lowest a shortage In the question created byhavs $1,000,000, appeared in criminal court to been Issued empty cars. Instructions the day and was released on 110.000 bonds. RAr morsfrom out send to Known for years as the silent power not car dally thsn empties ar rebehind the political organization of Mayor loaded William Hale Thompson, Lundln hurried '"it 'developed today that orders from directly to the court from the train on Berlin for the strike Of tne railway mn which he arrived from Indianapolis, where Cntinrnd ea Pag Two he had stopped over, en route from Ml Oelsas Pan'.) ami, Fla., for a conference with, his at - .' torneys. I.unciln refused to comment on his In. dictment, meeting all queries with a sin gle word. "Nothing." in all the years of bis political power Lundln ha refused ta- - be Interviewed, The-elAmeric'I'm Just a poor Swede" and "I'm out of polities'' he has told all seeking inon formation political issues. The tru American believe In In his early career the vender of a equality and justice. concoction known as "Juniper Juice" and fie believe in freedom of religdeclared to be good "for what ails you," Lundln later entered politics and was ion, free speech and free press. elected to the natlonsl congress, and then He obey the rule of the majority. became the backer of Mayor Thompson e i a patriotic American who and Governor Len Small. knows and understands the three Although, he was seldom seen in public, the greatest American document he was .reputed to havs wielded an alDeclaration of Independence, the most autocratic power in both city and ' , Article of Confederation and the state politics. Lundin's Indictment resulted from a Constitution of the United States. of of affairs the grand Jury Investigation An attractive booklet issued by the school board under the Thompson the American Peace society containtwenty-thr- e With administration.. masterIning thee three historical others, he was accused of conspiracy i offered free to our reader. in than public $1,000,000 pieces volving jnor i Send for a copy of this work and funds. -- -- .. The Doctrine of 7 an lib-crt- . World Healthier When Itself Police Probe Death of , England Chicago Varsity Student ",.'"' Reported COBLENZ, Fb. 2. (By the Asso. elated Press.) The railroad strikers in this area ar returning to work. The men were repairing signals and putting th locomotive In shape to day and full train service between Cobleni snd Cologne I protnld for tomorrow. , MOSCOW, Feb. 2. (By the Associated ba Press.) The soviet government launched a nation-wid- e campaign stamp out the corruption of public of ficials, , with death the penalty .for ' flagrant offenders. Throughout Russia, the courts are busv convicting bureaucrats who have fol lowed the custom of Cxarlst days in ac cepting bribes (or public services and are bringing swut retribution to numbers ol village soviet officials who have used their offices to oppress the nooulace Five men, including the chairman of the village revolutionary tribunal nave been tried and shot t IgoHeffsk. In the 111 ran district, for. accepting bribes, fourteen officials, incitia lng the president of one village aoviet, are on trial on charges ot arresting peasants for the purpose of confiscating their atork, as well as accepting bribes, In Moscow Itself last week three otflclals of the railway administration in were ordered shot for corruption office. Explosion v6tefofpresIdenT Xwaa.! IT Sentences lu - : Corrupt Officials and Death Given derers Dollar Damage Done nis. ii.i i ..i,. ROSS R g er i Disorders COBIJCNE. Feb. 2. (Rv the A san daled Press.) Major General Henry T. Allen, who commanded Ihe Amer' lean' forces :n occupied tier man v. re cently withdrawn, has been directed by the state department in Washing- tun to discontinue Immediately his unofficial relatione with the Rhine-lan- d high commission. jtI ; Turns on Couzens. Installments Contemplated r ..it Feb. GRIP OF France Completes Its I sola tion of Occupied Zone From Interior Germany. 2.Senata action record taemena made yesterday by Senator Heflin, Democrat, Alabama, during dis cussion of the British debt funding ar rangement precipitated the moat bitter and protracted exchange In recent years. Exploding tempers sent hot persona'i- les siczllng through the air during hours of debate which ended with Senator Hef- n being reproved a second time for' and with reuse of improper-languag- e marks by Senator Cousens, the new Re- (.ubtlonn member from Michigan, also being declared objectionable, and ordered xpunged from the record. Several other senators were charged with similar but no action was taken against " ' them. the senate first By a vota of 40 to decided that Senator Heflin volaled the rules by referring to Senator Wadsworth, Republican. New York, in jestcrday a discussion of British dett fuuding as a rep resentative f the bona snurni and big financiers of Wall street. WASHINGTON, A nnual Payments to Begin This Year 00 other-thing- Rebukes today in expunging from Ml FULL BLOCKADE From Vice President! Provisions of British Funding Proposal O-f- Forth CENTS PAGES-JI- VE RURR REGION IS SENATOR HEFLIN References to Wads- worth and Couzens Agent Stages tal's Spectacular and of DUBLIN. Feb. 2. (By Ihe Associated Press.) The campaign of incendiarism continues unabated and is directed largely against the homes of members of the legislature. Today's cases of complete or partial destruction included the residences of two senators, Colonel Moore of Bally-glas- s, brother of George Moore, the novel ist, and Thomas Ltinehan of Wbitecburch, horse yokes for a chariot, worn chariot County Cork. and an ebony stool. Both houses were completely razed. wheels, knen robes Moore nan, tne Moore residence, was a fine historic mansion, where the Independ Resign ence of the Connaught republic was signed in Says otner nousea also were Numerous ' burned after their ' inmates cere given 2. Inquiry at Feb. WASHINGTON. Drier notice to leave. X the White House today concerning the for Europe of Colonel DUBLIN, Feb. 2. (By the Associated recent departure R. Forbee. director of the vetCharles Press.) Notwithstanding the refusal of erans' bureau, and of reports that his senator jonn uagweu to ten the adven might be forthcoming dur tures that followed his kidnaping Tuea or upon nis return, day night, it is said that the military ing his absence statement that President authorities are acquainted with the de- brought the "In a position to connot was Harding tails of his capture by the irregulars. The Intention of the that the senator, who firm or deny"tothe story Is current resign. left Dublin- - last- night for England,- - es-- 1 caped his captors. According to this account, Mr. Bagwell waa taken from his home in Sutton to the northern part of the County Dub- lin, where . the occupants of a private OtO house were compelled to admit him for 040 the night. ,'A comfortable bedroom was given him, but two armed men mounted guard. The next morning, It Is said. Senator . OO Bagwell was removed to another house OO at a considerable distance. Being left alone for a few minutes, he ? jumped Three-Yeathrough a window and made a dash for freedom. raxing advantage of the ditches and hedges, he managed to elude his pursuers) until ne found refuge in the (By the Associated Press.) automobile which brought him here. In conformity with previous announcLONDON. Feb. 2. (By the Associated ement, the plan contemplates final Press.) WhateverIn peace movements may of the debt In sixty-tw- o Ireland, Eamonn de be in progress ' Valera has nothing to do with them and years with Interest rates fixed at 3 per will have nothing to do with them, but cent for the first ten year from Decemmaintains the uncompromising hostility ber 15, 12!, and M pet1 cent thereafter, he- has already expressed towards, the Free State government. He insists on a together with a fixed schedule of annual with for Ireland, complete sevrepublic amort ta tion payment approximating an erance of connection with Great Britain. of 1 per cent of the of one-ha- lf was avowed with the average Thl attitude principal. the by emphasis Republican greatest instalments are scheduled leader himself In an Interview with the toThe annual of 23.00o,0O0 begin with a payment Dublin correspondent of the Dallv Mall. the British government is but The Interylew was held at "De Valera s this year, the right to make the annual payhiding place." the location of which the given In three-yeperiods Instead of says he is unable to give, ments twelve correspondent months. The amount of the every as. he was taken there, after the appointwlHi progressively inpayments ment had been made for his visit, in a annual d in the year the closed automobile by a roundabout way crease until win be $175,000,000 and the total under the personal conduct of a young payment will aggregate the woman. He says, however, that it cannot of all the payments of the debt. be far from the heart of Dublin, aa the total principal of Great Britain will begin retirement ride occupied barely half an hour. He cash payment of $4,128.-0S- 5 was received In the drawing room of a the debt with athe debt principal 74, leaving ofjhe of furnished house by De Valera. who is on which-- tfierate 100.000.000, s, as having at $4 'cent qudted, among interest will apply retroactive 3 per said: Interest payments 1$ last. "Peace on the bas'a of acceptance of to December be due June IS and December Id, or the treaty of 1S21 is impossible. The will on the unpaid balances Irish Republicans will never consent to semiannually The present securities of the surrender Ireland's national Independence thereafter. held by the - I'nlted and sovereignty to any threats or In anv British government by British States wiU, e suppressed will be held in the internal bonds which Pag Fur Catln4 ia to Great reserved The (Columa FIt.) right treasury. !. debt BIG LIQUOR horus-crown- Below Zero Weather Reported in Northwest at to By the As- ISiGTON More Incendiarism Report ed; De Valera Still Clings 2. Senate Chamber Indulges in Bedlamic Scenes When Heflin Attacks Col leagues . E WITH Feb. The American funding commission in conversations today with Sir Auckland Geddes, the British ambassador, completed details of the of Great for the funding rrogrnm e debt to the United Britain's Slatei. The final draft of the plan Is expected to be sent to the White House tomorrow, with recommendations that it be givt-nexecutive approval and be sent to congress for. legislative action In confirmation of the commission's negotia tions. While the commission and the British ambassador were working the final de tails of dates of payment, denominations of the British bonds to be isaued and other minor phases of the Question. statements emanated from- - the White House to the effect that the president believed the settlement so worth while mat i ougnt to ue acceptea at tnis session of congress. High administration spokesmen represented the president as believing that the debt funding act shouid be adjusted to encompass the terms ot the British settlement and Indl cations were given that such would be : nis request to congress. It was raid In authoritative quarters to be the presidents Intention to send the commissions recommendations to congress early next week. His approval of the settlement in all of its details is taken for granted. The question of the soldier bonus amendment to any legislation transcrib Burton's Statement. ttie settlement Into law, fore ing More details of the proposed settle shadowed yesterday in congress, cropped ment, furnished by Representative Bur OoaUnnad a Pag Three ton, Republican. Ohio, a member of the (Column Two.) American debt commission, disclose that the Cnltey States is to reduce the back Interest rate from 5 to 4V per cent, which the total diminishes 200,0(w.0)0 by amount of the British debt to be re ' funded;. "The settlement suggested by the debt funding commission of the United States to the British government," said Mr. Bur ton, 'is that the total indebtedness of Great Britain,- - amounting io approxion January I, WJ, mately' 4,SOO,000,W shall be represented by bonds to run not more than !xty-flv- e year, bearing interest at 3 per cent for the first ten and thereafter cent, payt', per years Also able In both periods semiannually. that payments on principal be made anIn or stated beginning Dry Capiperiods nually, at an early date sufficient to pay off the bonds within the period named. Arrests "The $4,80O,COO,O0 Is obtained by com- Coatlaned ea Par Tare WASHINGTON. Feb. J President Harding Is flatly opposed to any amend-mentthe war debt refunding legislation providing for a soldier, bonus to be financed from the proceeds of the British interest and principal payments. This was made known ofllclally today at the While House. The Inflaence of the president will be exerted to prevent the attachment of a bonus rider to the debt bill, but whether he would veto a measure carrying such a rider waa notj mad !esr. The president. It was stated, holds that the question of the disposition of the debt payments has no proper connection with the settlement of the terms. It would be unseemly and wholly lacking in In to his dignity. couple proviopinion, sions for the disposition of the funds with the settlement legislation. Congress, according to the president, ought to pass on the settlement proposed on Its merits and indeendent of other considerations, for congress at all times has a free hand to dispose of the principal and Interest navments aa It sees lit. The Inference ia that, after providing for the debt settlement, congress would be at liberty to provide for a bonus financed from' the debt payments. I'nless he has changed his attitude toward tne oonus, however, the president presumably would veto a bonus bill. - en- ident Approves Program. as Later Matter. WASHINGTON. By ARTHUR SEARS HENNINC. Chlrafo Tribune Salt Lake Tribam Leased Wire. sociated Preas.) 10 ET it1. Wants - Adjustment First, Adjustment Attacked and Defended in House; PresDisposition of Funds to Come IRK LI L 0 of White House Will Oppose Details' for Settlement 4" British Obligations ComAny Attempt to Tack Amendment to Legislation pleted by Commissioners. Mr, Wilson also denounced the Bursum bill, paBsed by the senate and then recalled, as well as the bill prepared in the house by Chairman Snyder. The Bursum bill, he declared, "would have ultimately Several clashes occurred between the witness and members of the committee over the purpose of sections of the Snyder and Bursum bills, Chairman Snyder aseffort had been made serting that a every to draw up measure fair to tne inaians. The committee engaged in a long wran that gle over the assertion of Mr. Wilson both the Snvder and Bursum billa would of courts state of the In the hands place New Mexico the decision over the legality nf claims to Indian lands. Under such an interpretation, the wit ness said, justice of the peace courts mirht even nass on some cases. "Then you do not think the Indian would get a fair deal in the state courts?" asked Representative Burtness, Repub ' Itcnn North Dakota. -- L'That has-betrua In many-aaes,Mr. Wilson replied, "not only in New Mexico but in other states, where the af fairs of the Indian were anectea. The witness asserted that the Bursum bIH went through the senate solely on ae the recommendation of tne interior as an administration measure. f hi ' Bursum Bill Scored. , T PRESIDENT SAYS Make Thorough Inquiry. Bill HARDING TO GET TO FUNDING BILL, House Indian Affairs Comto mitter Proposes Bursum . . t I 20 lO'JIJ. a CHICAGO, Feb. $, man's handwriting was th only clew the to surrounding the mystery today A letter In wo- Unideath of John. Mlnahan. who was versity of Chicago Infreshman, a chair and leanfound todsy sested In ths ing over a shotgun in bis room Aloha fraternity house. e of Fraternity brothers,, twenty-fivwhom were sleeping In the .house. Inwas accidental. sisted that the shooting Mlnahan, they aaid, h.- '. arisen early to clean his shotgun in preparation for a hunting trip to New Mexico. Hyde Park police, however, expressed the belief that youn Mlnahan had shot himself because of despondency over hi health. No one In the house heard the two shots that ended the student's life, due, the police said, to the fact that the muisle of the gun was placed In his mouth before the trigger was pulled. 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