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Show mi ' "mull i i in imi, m ihii mw i miiiiiiiiiwi MWi mil 1 1 uiiimiiwiiwi "IW iill'PI'i 1W imiMllwllnnTfc v L " 1 u -- ' ) . . .. 1 Preiicl.'iit Coolidge presemlng to Alaj E- I-- Hoffman of the air corps the Collier trophy tor outstanding accomplishment ac-complishment in u iutlon in tlie past year. 2 Refugees from Hankow and Kuiklang, China, disembarking from steamship at Shanghai. 3 Postmaster General Harry S. New after receiving honorary degree of doctor of laws at Butler university of Indianapolis. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS President Asks Powers to Agree on Further Cut in Naval Armament. . By EDWARD W. PICKARD ON INSTRUCTION from President Coolidge, the American ambassadors ambas-sadors at London. Paris, Rome and Tokyo presented last Thursday to the governments of Great Britain. France. Italy and Japan a' memorandum suggesting sug-gesting that they "empower their delegates dele-gates at the forthcoming meeting of the preparatory commission for !he disarmament conference at Geneva to negotiate and conclude at an early date an agreement further limiting naval armament, supplementing the Washington treaty on that subject, and covering the classes of vessels not covered by that treaty." The President in n special message to congress explained the considerations considera-tions that moved him to take this action, ac-tion, and included the text of the note to the powers. In this be stiid the American delegates at . Geneva would have "full powers to negotiate definitely regarding measures for further fur-ther naval limitation, and. if they are able to reach an agreement wilh the representatives of the other signatories signa-tories of the Washington treaty, to conclude a convention embodying sneh agreement, In tentative or final form as may tie found practicable." The American government and people, peo-ple, the President said, ' are convinced that competitive armament constitutes one of the most dangerous contributing contribut-ing causes of international suspicion and discord, and is calculated eventually event-ually to lead to war." Despite the hope of the, United States to complete the work of Hie Washington treaty and extend limiting limit-ing treaties to cover cruisers, destroyers destroy-ers and submarines, the message continued, con-tinued, "far-reaching building programs pro-grams have been laid down by certain powers, and there has appeared In our 'jwii country, as well as abroad, a seu-tlment seu-tlment urging naval construction on the ground that such construction is taking place elsewhere." PRESIDENTIAL eaitiptvgu politi.-s and the third lerm problem came out Into the open last week, and probably prob-ably will stay there for some time to come. Nicholas Murray Duller, president presi-dent of Columbia university, a wet Republican and fur long a potential candidate, started things with an ad dress in New York in the course of whicli he asserted that in his judgment' judg-ment' Calvin Coolidge would refrain from injecting the third term is: no into tlie campaign of and would i not be a candidate to succeed hiinseif. J He declared I hat other Republican leaders throughout the country felt as hp did and that Mr. ("lonlidge's ci.ni-i ci.ni-i mon sense would keep liim from si-k-, lng a renominnt i"U. Doctor Butler's I speech dealt with Issues be believe--. I will have to hi' hum in 102S and told the Republicans that Iho party would face the li'ht of its life ami that victory vic-tory would go to that party which stood squarely on three issues -pro-li"'1 ion. farm relief and foreign policy. Tin' lid thus being taken n.ll. Beck of Wisconsin, insurgent Republican, introduced a resolution in the house, declaring it to be "tin: sense" of that body that congress is opposed to a third presidential term. Speaker Nicholas I.ongwortli. who is supposed ; to have presidential ambitions, in nn address before the women's patriotic 1 conference on national defense in Washington, caustically criticized the administration's economy program, es-! es-! peclally tin It affected the navy ''The leading argument of those lu the bouse who opposed any appropriation appropri-ation for the cruisers was that another I limitation of armament conference 1 might be held In the comparatively 1 near future, and that, under the circumstances, cir-cumstances, we should proceed with no new actual building progrr.rn," cahl Mr. Longworth. "To my mind, that f argument refutes Itself. 1 have uot t i 10 slightest doubt that It was our commanding strength and generous willingness to make great sacrifices that brought about the successful results re-sults of the Washington conference. "Today we are in no such position of superiority but rather In a position of inferiority. We must then take up the question, of a new conference on the limitation of armament, not as a nation willing to make great sacrifices sacri-fices in the cause of peace, but as a nation begging others to make sacrifices sacri-fices themselves." Senator Borah responded to Doctor Butler's challenge concerning prohibition prohibi-tion by admitting that was a proper issue in the coming campaign and asserting as-serting that the Republican party declare itself unmistakably on that question. He Enid this would be done by the voters themselves and therefore there-fore the issue should be presented in the states and districts prior to the election of delegates so that the delegates dele-gates might be chosen in accordance with the popular view. This proposal j sent shivers down the spines of many Republican leaders. Henry Ford contributed his bit revisiting re-visiting the White House and then informing in-forming the correspondents that hp had told the President that the country coun-try generally Is "solid as a rock" and that existing prosperity will not only continue hut Increase, lie added that he considered the President "more popular with tlie people of the United States than ever before," but he refused re-fused to discuss the President's chances for renominalion. AT THIS writing it appears likely that the McNary-Haugen farm relief measure will be passed by congress con-gress and that it will be vetoed by President Coolidge because he still considers it a price-fixing measure and therefore economically unsound. The President was said to favor rather the Curtis-Crisp bill, which contains no equalization fee provision and which Frank O. Lowden condemns for that reason 'as "wholly missing the point of legislation which we have been advocating." Farm bloc leaders in Washington said if Mr. Coolidge vetoed the McNary-Haugen bill, the corn belt would rally to Lowden for the Presidential nomination. One emergency agricultural relief bill was passed by congress and signed by the President. It appropriates $10,-000.000 $10,-000.000 to be expended in co-operation with tho states in the eradication of the corn borer. IN ALL likelihood the world court has ceased to be a political lssu; and the UnltPd States Is definitely oul of that tribunal. Last week the State department received from Great Britain Brit-ain and two other major powers, uot named, notification that they were not prepared to accept the American reservations res-ervations unconditionally. President Coolidge announced In his Kansas CHv s;.e"Ch that unless all the nations adhering ad-hering to the court protocol accepted the American reservations without change he would not again submit the matier to the senate and the United States would remain outside the court. It was stilled at Hie White House last week that Mr. Coolidge had not changed his mind in regard to this. l KMBERS of the senate commit-tee commit-tee on privileges and elections again failed to agree on a report In the case of Frank L. Smith, senator-di-siguate from Illinois.' A majority of tlie committee seemed to be in favor fa-vor of recommending the seating 0f Smith, hut several, including the Democrats, Dem-ocrats, thought that evidence ns' to the facts in the case should lie presented pre-sented before a report was made to the senate. One may repent the pro-diction, pro-diction, made several weeks ago, that the mutter will not he settled" before the present congress comes to uu end on March 4. tjVUl the second rime President Con'. 1 idle withdrew the noiuinmi,,n r. William J. Tilson of Atlanta to bo federal judge for the middle dis(,-i,.t of Georgia. The senate was about to vote on the nomination and rejection was certain. Senator Harris of o,,r. gla led the opposition, savin. rlni Tilson was personally obnoxious 't Mm. The Judiciary com,,,;,,,.,, , twice reported adversely 0 tl ' ,' nation. ' j PORTUGAL enjoyed one of Its periodic pe-riodic revolutionary movements last week. The revolt started with tlie military In Oporto and spread to Lisbon, the capital. There was fighting fight-ing In both cities and considerable bloodshed, and before the week ended 1 1 ; was announced that tlie affair was practically over, the government having hav-ing suppressed the rebellion. During the fighting in Lisbon the American legation was riddled by bullets and Minister Fred M. Dearing was forced to abandon It. The revolt was directed direct-ed primarily against General Car-mona, Car-mona, the president-dictator; UNDETERRED by protests from both the Cantonese and the northern north-ern Chinese, Great Britain went ahead with her preparations for the defense of the international concession at Shanghai, and the Gloucestershire and Durham regiments, having reached Hongkong, proceeded to Shanghai as did a number of British warships. Dispatches from Hankow, headquarters headquar-ters of the Cantonese,, said Eugene Chen, nationalist foreign minister, had resumed conversations with Owen O'Malley, the British charge d'affaires, and that an amicable agreement might result. One reason for this may have been the reported reverses suffered by tlie Cantonese troops in Chekiang province, which halted their progress toward Shanghai. Marshal Sun Chuan-fang. Chuan-fang. allied with the northerners, was said to have captured Chuchow. Much of the speech from the throne at the reopening of the British parliament parlia-ment was devoted to the Chinese tangle, tan-gle, and while both the king and Prime Minister Baldwin gave assurance assur-ance that Great Britain desired a peaceful settlement by negotiation, the latter made it plain the government govern-ment was determined to protect its nationals in China and would land troops at Shanghai if this was mad advisable by local conditions, regardless regard-less of any protests. Secretary of State Kellogg made an effort to solve the problem of Shanghai Shang-hai by proposing that that city lie excluded ex-cluded from the zone of warfare between be-tween the Chinese factions, but this was not considered favorab y by either the nationalists or the northerners, northern-ers, and of foreign nations only Japan gave it approval. Premier Mussolini announced that Italy would' support Great Britain's program and spiiI a warship and marines to the scene ot action. The transport Chauniont. carrying car-rying 1,200 American marines from San Diego, arrived at Honolulu am! proceeded eastward, for either Guam or China. About six hundred American Ameri-can missionaries have taken refuge in Shanghai and more arrive from tins interior dally. 'TWERE was heavy lighting In anil J- about Chinaudega between the Nicaraguan government forces and the rebels. The latter occupied the city but were driven out after Lee Mason and William Brookes. American aviators avi-ators in the service of President Dl::z. bad raided and liombiMl them. Th" city was practically destroyed by bombardment and flames. A dispatcli from Managua said Doctor Sacasa. leader of the liberals, was procuring to accept the government's peace terms or withdraw from tlie country. POR some two months following March 1 President Coolidge and his personal and oliicial household will occupy the Patterson mansion on Du-pont Du-pont Circle, that residence having been selecled as the temporary Whit. House while tlie executive mansion is undergoing repairs. The house is one of the show places of Washington and is now owned by Mrs. Elmer St ltl.in-ger, ltl.in-ger, the daughter of the late Robert W. Patterson, editor of the Cl.lea'.'O Tribune. yi'iSHiniTO. the late emperor of 1 lapun, was burled last wei k wilh a" the proscribed ancient riP's. lusting lust-ing for several days. A miili.m and a half persons gathered in Tokvo to see the funeral process!, ud 111 tbe crush two were killed ,u ;m;divds injured. Al'icr the ceremonies In a specially coi'.'-lruetcil ,;,vlen- the 'ody was tk, ,y nii , A.. i;. "d Placed In Uie tomb at the loot of a nearby hill. |