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Senator Clark Will Direct JIM LANE'S DEFENSE RECALLED. Fight Against Court Bill. Government Leader's Replies to Criticism (By a Member of The Star's Staff.) Like Picturesque Free Sailor's WASHINGTON, June 21.-Senator 70m burny Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri, From the Saturday Evening Post. regarded as the best parliamen- The replies government leaders have been making to specific criticisms of their acts and Charlie Michelson, the eminent doctor of comard shadow tary expert in Congress, will di- policies have led us to conclude that Prof. rect the floor fight in the senate against President Roosevelt's Su- political science at Washington, has unearthed preme court proposal. the collected works of Jim Lane and is giving The Missourian conferred today courses based on them. with Senator Burton K. Wheeler Jim Lane was the picturesque Free Soil leader, of border warfare days, in Kansas. He of Montana, leader of the forces once was accused of doing away with a home- opposing the court bill: It will steader. His defense, delivered in public meet- his be Clark's job to watch the ma- ing, was as follows: neuvers of the Roosevelt forces "I have heard all the charges against me a and I am here to answer them. I will take and prévent a vote from being them up one by one. They say that Jim Lane taken as well as to assist Wheeler is a murderer. What are the facts? When in arranging for senators to speak the noble women of Lawrence were endeavor- in opposition. ing to establish a public library, what did Jim Lane do? He took his old claybank horse out of the field where he was plowing to raise a little corn for his family and sold that horse for $37.50 and gave the money to those noble women to help establish that library. And yet, great God, they say that Jim Lane is a mur- afraid derer!" a chartor 05 Walsonwouts THE NEWS GETS AROUND. Colonel House, Texas millionaire, who helped make Woodrow Wilson President, steered him through the war and who the President later discarded and refused to see, comes out of his retirement to announce that Mr. Roosevelt will not be President a third term. You telling us, Colonel?-Arch Hollenbeck in West Plains Journal. Senator Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina declared that people in his state were unable "to see the least justification for the several strikes called by the C. I. O." and deplored the fact that law enforcing agencies were not affording protection to steel workers who did not want to strike. Farley, Not the Senate, Is the Senator Rush D. Holt, West Vir- Head Man, Holt Says. ginia Democrat, said it was time to (By the Associated Press.) remove the "hypocritical cloak" from WASHINGTON, June 28.-Senator the administration. He flayed the "lawless element of the C. I. 0." for Holt of West Virginia, comment- boasting it had government support. ing today on the senate postof- "The record proves," Holt said, 1 fice committee's defeat of efforts "that John L. Lewis has had the to call Postmaster General Farley silent co-operation of the administra- as a witness in its steel strike in- tion in these industrial disputes. It vestigation said: also proves that whenever Lewis "Call Farley? Ridiculous! The starts losing ground, the administra- tion steps in to save his face." senate tell Farley what to do? T.C.A. Absurd! Farley will tell the sen- ate what to do."

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