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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Revised Cuffey Coal Bill Is Passed Republicans Map Campaign Strategy England Abandons Anti-Italian Trade Sanctions. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. LAST minute passage of Important Impor-tant legislation marked the closing sessions of congress before adjournment for the summer. The house, by a vote of 1G1 to DO, passed the revised version of the Cuffey hill to restore federal control con-trol of soft coal production, Invalidated Invali-dated by the Supreme court. It passed the measure on to the senate. Observers pointed out that this was the quickest repair Job on a Supreme Su-preme court decision that the New Deal has thus far achieved. The new bill eliminates provisions governing gov-erning working hours and wages which the court held Invalid. It retains, however, two features which the court neither approved nor disapproved: 1 The granting to a national bituminous coal commission com-mission authority to fix prices and approve marketing agreements. 2 The Imposition of a tax on the production pro-duction of coal. The tax feature has been altered somewhat from the original bill. Instead of a flat 15 per cent tax on coal production, It calls for an outright excise levy of 1 per cent on all soft coal, plus a 13 per cent tax on coal In Interstate Inter-state commerce. The house, likewise, adopted the two billion, 300 million dollar relief and deficiency bill. At the same time, It killed two other measures. One was for the appropriation of funds to complete the $150,000,000 Florida ship canal, which had been approved by the senate. The other was the anti-lobby bill sponsored by Senator Black of Alabama. As presented pre-sented to the house It would have forced the registration of lobbyists, including those appearing before congress and before government departments. de-partments. It would also have required re-quired Information on contributions for lobbying purposes and payments made to lobbyists. The senate by a vote of 42 to 24 passed the Wagner bill providing for a $460,000,000 program to encourage en-courage low cost housing construction. construc-tion. The bill would set up a federal fed-eral housing authority to administer adminis-ter the act. DEATH "in the harness" came to Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, dean of the senate, who had represented repre-sented Florida In the upper house for the last quarter of a century. He died suddenly at his home In Washington. Washing-ton. Senator Fletcher, Flet-cher, a strong supporter sup-porter of the Roosevelt Roose-velt administration although he was considered a conservative, con-servative, was chairman of the banking and cur-Sen. cur-Sen. Fletcher rency committee which bore the brunt of the task involved in-volved in the currency reform legislation legis-lation and the banking act of 1035. President Roosevelt, in a statement state-ment eulogizing the senator, said "the country has lost an able and conscientious servant in the death of Senator Fletcher." He declared the Florldian "was ever actuated by motives of high patriotism and unselfish un-selfish devotion to the public welfare." wel-fare." The death of Senator Fletcher followed closely the passing of Senator Sen-ator Park Trammel of Florida and the death of Speaker Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee. Senator Fletcher was born In Sumter county, Georgia, January 6, 1S59. He was graduated from Van-derbilt Van-derbilt university in 1SS0 and began the practice of law in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1SS1. He was elected to the United States senate in 1908 and had been renominated and re-elected in each subsequent term. While no movement had been undertaken un-dertaken to select his successor as chairman of the important banking and currency committee, it was felt in Washington circles that Senator Carter Glass, senate veteran, Virginia Vir-ginia Democrat, wartime secretary of the treasury and staunch gold standard advocate, was in line for the post. Although a critic of some of President's policies, Senator Glass has never gone far off the reservation of party regularity. SIX red-robed Judges of Canada's Supreme court declared two of the Dominion's eight "social reform" re-form" laws unconstitutional, decided decid-ed that two others were valid, one partly valid and returned tie verdicts ver-dicts on the other three. The two major laws declared unconstitutional un-constitutional were the National Products Marketing Act, similar In some respects to the nullified American Amer-ican NRA and the Employment and Social Insurance Act, proposing a compulsory contributory employment employ-ment Insurance system. The laws were passed In 1031 and 1035 under the Conservative government then headed by Premier Bennett. Declared valid were the Unfair Business Practices Act and the Farmers and Creditors Arrangement Act. The Judges decided that the Dominion Trade and Industry Commission Com-mission Act was partly valid. They reached a tie verdict on the Minimum Mini-mum Wages Act, the Limitation of Hours of Work Act and the Weekly Day of liest In Industrial Undertakings Undertak-ings Act. TN TOPEKA, Kan., Gov. Alfred M. Landon, Republican nominee for the Presidency, met Col. Frank Knox, Vice Presidential nominee, KJi j cussed as well as John Hamilton other campaign strategy. Youth is definitely represented in the reorganized personnel of the executive ex-ecutive committee which will chart the Republican course. Hamilton, the new chairman, Is forty-four. The youngest member, Robert P. Burroughs Bur-roughs of Manchester, N. H., is thirty-six. Seven new members attended at-tended the meeting, Including Burroughs; Bur-roughs; Representative Joseph W. Martin, Jr., North Attleboro, Mass.; J. Will. Taylor, Knoxville, Tenn. ; Mrs. Horace Sayre, Ardmore, Okla. ; Mrs. John Wyeth, St. Joseph, Mo.; Ezra Whitla, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; and Earl Warren, Oakland, Calif. Members returned to the committee are : Charles D. Hilles, New York ; Harrison E. Spangler, Cedar Rap-Ids, Rap-Ids, Iowa; R. B. Creager, Brownsville, Browns-ville, Texas ; Mrs. Bertha Baur, Chicago, Chi-cago, 111. ; Mrs. Paul Fitzsimmons, Newport, R. I.; Walter S. Hallahan, Charleston, W. Va. ; and George Ball, Muncie, Ind. In the reorganization of the committee, com-mittee, Hamilton traded posts with Henry P. Fletcher, who took over the job of counsel for the committee. commit-tee. C. B. Goodspeed of Chicago succeeded George F. Getz as treasurer. treas-urer. The other committee officers Include four vice chairmen: Ralph E. Williams, Oregon ; J. Henry Rora-back, Rora-back, Connecticut; Mrs. John E. Hiliman, Colorado; and Mrs. James Worthington, Pennsylvania. p ANGERS of civil war in China S and an armed intervention by Japan were lessened somewhat by reports that Gen. Li Tsung-jen, military mili-tary overlord of Kwangsi province, and his supporters had decided to yield to the superior strength of the Nanking central government, of which Chiang Kai-shek is the generalissimo. gen-eralissimo. The rebellious chieftains of Kwangsi had been coupling their agitations against General Chiang with warlike demonstrations against the Japanese. Tokyo has demanded in no uncertain terms that the nnti-Japanese nnti-Japanese activities throughout China be suppressed. DONUS bonds and checks deliv-ered deliv-ered to veterans of the World war throughout the United States spurred the tempo of business as buying was given a fresh impetus. Retail merchants, department stores, automobile companies and housing construction enterprises were expected ex-pected to benefit most by the bonus payments. The two billion, 643 million dollars dol-lars required by the treasury to meet the bonus payments raised the nation's gross public debt to 34 billion, bil-lion, 331 million dollars, as the government's gov-ernment's largest peace-time financial finan-cial transaction was recorded on the statement of the treasury's position. 1EFINITE abandonment of Brit-ain's Brit-ain's trade sanctions against Italy and advocacy of their official removal by the League of Nations il 9 A and Chairman John Hamilton and members mem-bers of the executive execu-tive committee of the Republican national na-tional committee to make plans for the coming campaign. Speaking itineraries for Governor Landon Lan-don and Colonel Knox were dis- was decided upon by the British cabinet, cab-inet, under the presidency pres-idency of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. This action ac-tion of the cabinet had been expected for some time, following fol-lowing the failure of the sanctions to halt Italy's prog- . , ress In the conquest Anthony Eden M . . of Ethiopia. It was expected that Capt. Anthony An-thony Eden, foreign secretary, would go to Geneva to attend the league meeting and urge abolition of league sanctions against Italy. Dispatches from Paris indicated French support of the British program. The cabinet was also reported to have formulated a program regarding regard-ing Germany and t he reformation of the league which may call for continued pressure on Keichsfuehrer Hitler to use his power and Influence Influ-ence to promote European peace. British statesmen believe that the Nazis are the keystone of the present pres-ent situation. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT returned re-turned to Washington from his tour through six western states and, tliom-h he was rather tired, he hoped to run up to New Ixmdon, Conn., for the Yale - Har-vard Har-vard boat race. That depended on the congressional situation. He had to deal with the lawmakers who were all tangled up In the controversy over the tax bill, and also to com- . , . . . , President plete his speech of . . Roosevelt acceptance to be delivered at Philadelphia on the twenty-seventh of June. The final speech of Mr. Roosevelt's Roose-velt's trip was delivered at Vin-cennes, Vin-cennes, Ind., where he dedicated the handsome memorial to George Rogers Rog-ers Clark. He paid eloquent tribute to that conqueror of the Northwest, and found occasion to appeal for support of his own program. Said he: "In his (Clark's) day among the pioneers there were jumpers of land claims and those who sought to swindle their neighbors though they were poor In this world's goods and lived in sparsely settled communities. communi-ties. Today among our teeming millions mil-lions there still are those who by dishonorable means seek to obtain the possessions of their unwary neighbors. "Our modern civilization must constantly protect itself against moral defectives whose objectives are the same but whose methods are more subtle than their prototypes of a century and a half ago. We do not change our form of free government gov-ernment when we arm ourselves with new weapons against new devices de-vices of crime and cupidity." In a series of rhetorical questions ques-tions the President defended the AAA subsidies to farmers, soil conservation, con-servation, reforestation, and preservation pres-ervation of wild life. From Vlncennes Mr. Roosevelt went to Hodgenvllle, Ky., for a brief visit to Lincoln's birthplace, and then his train carried him back to Washington. A SEMI-ANNUAL checkup re-vealed re-vealed that 10 debtor nations had notified the State department that they would default on their indebtedness in-debtedness to the United States. Included In-cluded among these nations are: Great Britain, France, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Esthonia, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Yugo-slavia, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Finland alone promised to pay. Belgium and Hungary had not yet replied to the State department's notice that an installment on their war debt was due. While the present debt payment was being passed, in informed circles cir-cles it is regarded that some basis of settlement will be sought by the European debtor nations in the near future. Increasing possibility of war In Europe, It Is believed, will induce these nations to repair their credit situation in the United States. JUST as his office was about to expire, Joseph B. Eastman, federal fed-eral co-ordinator of transportation, submitted a report in which he pro- ' $ I '-if; k v 1 ( i .X' .. .: l , posed a lot of reforms re-forms by which the railroads might win back the business they have lost to the truck and the automobile. Among his suggestions are lower fares, lighter weight, and speedier speed-ier cars, use of busses and trucks by the railroads to J. B. Eastman meet competition and consolidation of terminals and other facilities. He also advised the development of a nation-wide "container" service in the movement of freight by railway, rail-way, highway and water, predicting that this would save millions of dollars dol-lars in the handling Of present freight and would create much new business. The containers are now used in a limited manner in some localities and industries. Eastman recommended a "searching "search-ing examination and thorough overhauling" over-hauling" of railroad pullman service, serv-ice, and a plan of operation under which the pullman company would own and operate the cars and railroads, rail-roads, leasing them and retaining the entire revenue from the sleeping sleep-ing and parlor car service. IN A secret consistory Pope Pius XI raised to the rank of cardinal two of his old friends, Giovanni Mereati and Eugenio Tisserant. Twenty-seven cardinals were present pres-ent at the ceremony, among them being Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. During the consistory the pope formally proclaimed appointments of three American and two Canadian bishops. They were Msgr. George L. Leech, bishop of Harrisburg, Pa.; Msgr. Hugh L. Lamb, auxiliary bishop to Cardinal Dougherty, Msgr. William Adrian, Nashville, Tenn.; Msgr. Francis Carrol, Calgary, AHa., and Msgr. Patrick Bray, St. John. ONE of England's most distinguished distin-guished and Interesting authors and critics passed from the scene in the death of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Ches-terton, generally known as "G. K." He was sixty-two years old. Chesterton Ches-terton was converted to Catholicism in 1922 and thereafter much of his writing was devoted to his championship cham-pionship of that church. For many years his wriiiims were very popular popu-lar and in 1!'i; lie established his own weekly maa.ipe. |