Walsh of Montana Scores G.O.P. at Meeting of Democratic Club

Speaking before some 1500 people in Symphony Hall Thursday night, as the guest of the Harvard Democratic Club, United States Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana, severely scored the Coolidge administration as well as the President himself for their attitude toward the corruption in the federal government.

Earlier in the day the Senator gave an interview to a CRIMSON reporter, and when the question of corruption, as exposed in the government was mentioned, Senator Walsh made it clear that the situation does not call for legislation at all, but strict enforcement of the laws already on the statue books. "We have all the laws we need," said the Senator, smiling. "All we need is honestly to enforce them. That goes for prohibition as well as other laws."

Strong for Prohibition

Although the prime purpose of coming to Boston was to trace through the whole story of the oil scandals, Senator Walsh was brought around to the prohibition question in the course of the interview. "While the law has been notoriously violated in a good many sections of the country and ineffectively enforced," he remarked, "I am still convinced that it has been of inestimable value. Moreover," the foremost dry advocate in the Democratic ranks stated, "It may be of interest to you to know that there is no appreciable sentiment in Congress that promises any recession whatever from the policy of the Eighteenth Amendment."

Recently the Senator fought to get through the Senate an investigation of the alleged power trust. When asked what was the aim of the investigation, he replied, "The power investigation had as its purpose the protection of two classes of the public, namely that class which uses the various public utilities and that which invests in the various power enterprises."

On the subject of corruption, however, Senator Walsh made his heavy attacks during the course of his Boston visit. At Symphony Hall he declared that "nothing has been divulged that surpasses in iniquity or touches more vitally the public interest than the shocking venality, laid bare by the Senate, in the official career of Fall, Daugherty and Forbes."

When Secretary of the Treasury Mellon testified before the Senate investigating committee in regard to the bonds contributed to the Republican Party by Harry F. Sinclair, the newspapers generally gave the Secretary credit for his action, but the committee's prosecutor let Boston know that he disapproved of Mellon's action by pointing out that Mellon must have known from the beginning of the iniquity attached to Sinclair's contribution. Mellon refused to censure Will Hay's acceptance of the money or to give any information to the committee at the time. Senator Walsh said that when Mellon was made aware of Sinclair's huge contribution, the investigation of the Teapot Dome lease had already begun.

Following the Symphony Hall meeting, A. M. Barnhart 1G, president of the Harvard Democratic Club, called an informal meeting of students present at the address to plan for an intercollegiate convention to take place late in May. Twenty-one colleges will be invited to participate. Barnhart appointed an executive committee consisting of representatives of Harvard, Radcliffe, Wellesley, Boston University, Smith, Amherst and Vassar. Barnhart, besides being the Harvard representative, is chairman of this committee, of which Miss Gloria Allen of Smith is Secretary.

Senator Caraway to Speak

The Harvard Democratic Club's own convention will take place on May 15 and May 16. Next Monday, Senator T. H. Caraway of Arkansas is scheduled to speak at the Union, and at this meeting signs with the names of the States of the Union will be placed in different part of the Living Room. Students attending the Caraway meeting will be seated by States and the temporary State chairmen will begin active organizations of their delegations for the mock convention. The speech of Senator Walsh of Montana won him many new supporters among the Harvard Democrats, and before May 15 Senator James Reed of Missouri, another Presidential candidate, may come to Cambridge. Governor Smith of New York has declined all invitations to speak outside of New York State.