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...investigating the Bureau of Internal Revenue to continue its labors until May 30. ¶ Passed a Deficiency Bill carrying appropriations of $56,000,000 (see below), after Senator Borah had attempted to add an amendment to repeal the salary increase for Senators, Congressmen, the Vice President, Cabinet members (TIME, Mar. 2) and forced a roll call on which the vote was 64 to 18 against the repeal. (Went to the President.) ¶ Passed without a record vote, after two days' debate, a Rivers and Harbors Bill carrying $40,000,000 for improvements after the Gooding amendment to prohibit railways...
...which enable them to catch smugglers of jewelry and other valuables.* An amendment was attached on the floor to increase the salary of the President's Secretary from $7,500 to $10,000. Representative Sanders of Indiana, who was to become the President's Secretary on Mar. 4, was absent at the time. Later, he protested and the amendment was removed at the last minute. (Went to Senate...
...House committee investigating the Air Service reopened its hearings for a few days before the close of Congress. Its previous hearings (TIME, Feb. 16, Mar. 2) had developed a definite controversy. Brigadier General William Mitchell, Assistant Chief of the Army Air Force, had advocated a united Air Force for Army and Navy. His supporters in that recommendation were mainly civilians. The Navy in particular was opposed to it. As the controversy developed, General Mitchell took the stand that development of aircraft had rendered battleships obsolete -the airplanes could easily sink battleships. Here again he collided with wholesale denial...
...Death came to Friedrich Ebert, first President of the German Republic. He was in the 55th year of his life. His malady was peritonitis (acute inflammation of the membraneous lining of the abdomen), caused by appendicitis. Death came unexpectedly in a sanitarium after a few days of illness (TIME, Mar...
Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor (TIME, Mar. 2), hurried along a stony path, mallet in hand. At his heels skulked one J. C. Tucker, accessory. Wrath was printed upon the Borglum countenance, sympathy upon that of Tucker. At the end of the path, they came to a small hut-the studio wherein, for many months, Sculptor Borglum has worked with plans, models of the relief of Generals Jackson, Lee and their armies which is to be chiseled into the rock at Stone Mountain, Atlanta, as a memorial to the arms of the South (TIME, Aug. 13, 1923; May 26, Mar...