Texans

Texans are independent in their ways and opinions. When the House passed a resolution to permit President Coolidge to spend $100,000 in investigating the oil scandals, one adverse vote was cast--by BIanton, a Texan. Now the Pension Committee is considering a bill to grant a pension of $5,000 a year to Mr. Harding. Representative Hatton

W. Sumners of Dallas last week protested against the proposed grant in a letter to the Committee. Said he: "To bestow upon any individual or upon any member of his family a benefit or advantage not enjoyed by others, merely because the citizen may have been honored by his fellow-citizens, cannot, in my view, be justified in a democratic government, the very nature of which does not tolerate class distinction or special benefit among its citizens.

"I trust that it is not necessary for me to state that I have sentiments of highest respect for the proposed beneficiary under this bill, and it is with no small degree of embarrassment that I find myself compelled to take the position with regard to this matter which I have indicated."