| Show News Review of Current Events the tIle World Over Senate Passes Its Revenue Bill Rejecting Sales Tax After Hearing President Hoover Hoover- Von Hoover Hoover V Von on Pap en Becomes German Chancellor By Bv EDWARD W PICKARD i PURRED Into action by President President dent Hoovers ers warning that gov- gov credit was endangered d and foreign raids on the dolla dollar were imminent Im- Im ImmInent Im Imminent the senate s 3 In a night session passed Its tax bill F designed to bring In a total re em revenue e P o in sari Chief Executive un an- an anS S V J expectedly appeared in pers person n before the senate for the Fr first time In his nd ad administration ministration ml n a and n d read statement a n of President the serious condl condl- Hoover tion De urged the Inclusion of ot a sales tales tax and restated hIs bis position re- re regarding regarding re garding garding relief me measures measures sur s and his his op- op opposition op opposition the position to lo the h huge g p public works program fostered by Speaker Gar Car Garne Carner Gar ner ne ner There was no chance chance for the the sales tax most of the the Democratic sena- sena senators sena senators en tors having signed ned an agreement to defeat It It was rejected by the fins nce committee 12 to S 8 and just before the bill was voted on by the senate It was defeated by that body by a vote of 53 to 27 Then In the midst of great great confusion due to re- re re- re relief re relief lief from from the strain the senators adopted their measure The vote was was 72 to 11 Having Ha been Informed by Secretary of the Treasury Mills that their committee bill was WIlS still I some shy of the amount needed to balance the budget the senators provided for tor most of this thisby thisby thisby by a gasoline tax of 1 cent a n gallon the restoration of or Income tax rates to the 1922 1022 level and a n 3 per cent tax on sales of electricity by prIvate power companies It was believed the senate and house conferees would speedily nd- nd adjust ad adjust just the differences between the sen sen- senate senate senate ate and hou house e bills and then the measure would gp gp tp tp tp the PresIdent President President dent r r One One One amendment to the bill adopt adopt- adopted adopted ed by the the senate Is worth especial mention Proposed by Senator Glenn of Illinois It puts a per percent percent percent cent tax on Incomes earned through violations of state or federal la lam thus taking the government out of what has been called calleJ its partner partner- partnership partner ship with crime NECESSARY In balancIng the budget the national economy bill providing savings of was reported favorably by the senate appropriations committee Among Its features Is a n flat fiat lat 10 per percent percent cent cut In the salaries of all gov gov- government gov- gov government government workers except the enlist enlIst- enlIsted enlisted enlisted ed personnel of the army navy and corps and those whose sal sal- salaries salaries salaries aries are specifically protected by bythe bythe bythe the Constitution such as judges There Is also a saving of In the amount given gl to vet vet- veterans veterans erans The economy bill passed by bythe bythe bythe the house carried reductions In ex- ex expenditures ex expenditures of only Both measures authorize the President President President dent to reorganize the executive re de de- department de- de departments departments S SPEAKER GARNER GARNEn himself appeared appeared ap- ap as ns a witness before the house ways way and means committee to advocate his fed fed- federal federal federal eral relief bill which was assailed the President as a pork porI barrel raid on the treasury because It list list- listed listed ed a multitude of post offices to be built all aU over the country Garner defended the measure and reminded the committee of Mr Ir Hoovers Hoover's In- In Indorsement indorsement In Indorsement of a advance public works program recommended l by the conference of governors in 1923 Both his bill and the program favored by the President increase the capitalization of the Reconstruction tion Finance corporation and em em- empower empower power It to make loans for non non- nonfederal nonfederal non federal federal construction HEINRICH BRUENING chan chan chan- chancellor of Germany and his cab cab- cabinet cabinet cabinet inet were forced to resign by President President dent von Ton Hindenburg because the latter did not agree with his program to t save ave the country l from further finan- finan r- r collapse and to y t provide work for forthe forthe S the unemployed considerable This was really a considerable t r i 1 x tor for Hitler's Nazis but they de- de de decided Bided hIed to permit a gap top stop govern govern- government government W ment meat to function Herr err BruenIng Until autumn when It t Is expected there will wOl be a gen gen- general gen gen- general general eral election In which they will have havea a chance to make good their claim ot of controlling the reichstag The aged president selected for temporary chancellor Col Franz von yon a n man of ot whom the United States has heard little since 1915 1015 At that time he be was military of the German em- em embassy em embassy bassy In Washington and became berame In- In involved In Involved with Karl Ed Boy oyEd naval at- at at at tache tache in m plots plot that violated neutral neutral- ity Both of ot them were dismIssed by the American government for improper activities Returning to Germany Von Yon became n a geni gen general era eral staff officer Ue lIe Is a n Catholic Centrist as Is Bruening and Is ed- ed editor ed editor and principal owner of ot the Catholic tI organ orS yon Won Von ns n's government lar largely ely rightists Is called a feudal cabinet by by the lie Berlin press because It Is domInated by members of the old German German nobility The new chan chan- chancellor chancellor Is expected to be bo a n stern r ruler ler for tor he has often demanded a national dictatorship freed treed of par par- parliamentary parliamentary trimmings He Is known to favor a German Franco union agaInst Russia 1 X BITING of the Republican naV na- na V 1 Y V platform was by Pre President Hoover to James R n Gar Garfield eld of ot Ohio son of President Garfield and secretary secre- secre tary of ot the Interior 3 u under n d e r President f a Roosevelt He De Is tobe to s be chairman of the thes resolutions commit commit- committee 31 5 tee and has been beenEy Ey t busily gathering to- to together tor to together r t gether the various planks proposed by 0 S party leaders and bull building ng the structure ture to re on which Mr Ir J R Garfield Hoover and the party will 11 stand Some days ago he took a n rough rous-h draft of the platform to the White Whitehouse Whitehouse Whitehouse house and it was edited by the Pres Pres- PresIdent Pres- Pres President President ident who deleted some portions and made several additions So far nothing Is known to the public of the manner In which the controversIal questions will be handled Mr Ir Garfield Is not known to have made mode any state statements concerning con con- concernIng concerning prohibition but he has al- al already al already ready rendy conferred with Senator Borah orah an Inveterate dry who ho has drawn up a n plank dealing with that sub subject subject The senator had a talk talk with Mrs Henry W Peabody chairman or of the womans woman's national committee for law enforcement who afterward saId the senator agreed with me that the voice olee of the people is la In congress and that other matters do donot donot not concern us deeply Representative ertrand Bertrand H II Snell of New York minority leader lender In the house told newspaper men he Is certaIn certain tain the prohibition plank In the Republican platform will be lib eral Snell said he was Vas express express- expressIng expressing expressing ing his own opinion but that It If anybody tells you the plank wont ont be liberal don dont don't believe eve them I H HEn HERBERT En ERBERT EnT DO HOOVER OVEn ln ha having expressed ex- ex expressed 1 pressed a desire to be placed In nomination by a man from Cali Cali- California California California fornia the grateful job has been given to J Joseph 0 s e p h Scott of ot Los Angeles Angeles An- An geles Mr Scott 4 who was born In England Is one of ot of the states state's most emInent 1 lawyers a w y e r s sand and also Is wIdely wide- wide Ji f ly known In Roman noman Catholic circles He j t was awarded ed the r an a Laetare medal bythe bythe by fH the University of c 1 Notre Dame In 1918 j Joseph p scott and was created a Knight of St Gregory by the pope In H 1920 1020 O tor for work during the World war It Is not likely the Republican convention will last more than five day days and nominations probably will willbe willbe be made on Friday night The plat plat- platform platform form will be submitted on Thurs Thurs- Thursday Thursday Thursday day and there may be a day dap of open debate on prohibition and some other controversial questions Democratic managers also are now hopeful that their convention con will willbe willbe willbe be short t hort for they naturally wish It to have an appearance of ot harmony that would be ruined by a deadlock Franklin D Roosevelt probably will start In with more than a majority both of delegates and of states At thIs writing he be has pledged votes from 27 states and territories His camp claims he will have on the first ballot cas delegates to ISO for nil all others And he believes a few v ballots will brink brings over enough votes to give him the required for nomination under the two thirds two rule Of Ot course there will be q Ii recurrence of ot the attempts to ab ab- abrogate abrogate abrogate rogate that ancient rule e C SE eE E HUFF head of the Farmers National Grain corporation recently filed charges against the Chicago Board of Trade because It denIed membership to the corpora corpora- corporation corporation tion In a communication to the Department of Agriculture Huff Hull nl- nl alleged al alleged the board was violating the graIn futures law v Secretary Hyde took up the matter and announced that the grain futures commission would Investigate In the complaint the hearings to begin In Washington on June 8 S The commission Is composed of Secretary Hyde Attorney Gen Gen- I eral William D Mitchell and Secre Secretary tary of ot Commerce Robert Hobert P La- La Lamont mont La-mont monte mont NICHOLAS JORGA once P I tutor of King I Carol of Jf Rumania has resigned as premier and may mayI maybe maybe maybe I be succeeded by Nicholas cu cu now minister to London WhIch means that the semi dictatorship semi ot of the country has hns been found a failure fall ure The resignation of the govern govern- government government overn ment was the result of financial difficulties Rumania Is broke and the treasury Is empty police force V V had n a problem when the bitch hitch hiking hIking arm army of 1500 war veterans reached the capital city to present theIr demand for Immediate payment Mi 1 f of ot the soldiers bonus The men i had been conveyed w f most of the way from the Far WestIn West of t l-t i V In trucks supplied 1 by state author author- author'S authors t f rj tb S 'S I ties lies s eager to get l rid of ot them and andr andt 1 s r 0 r Senator Costigan ot of 5 S Colorado intro- intro Senator Lewis n a bill calling S for Immediate ape ap- ap appropriation of to feed and house them Senator J Hamilton Lewis ot of Illinois in a n Memorial day address at the Washington Soldiers home declared that by adopting a course based on threat and coercion these veterans were c causing their fellow countrymen In this time of national distress to wonder whether their soldIers served for patriotism or merely for pay I warn you as your fellow tellow sol sol- soldier sol soldier I conI dier and friend Senator Lewis con con- continued continued that you risk the defeat of the relief measures you now v have a arIght aright aright rIght to hope for by placing your your- yourselves yourselves yourselves selves where the charge can be made that you have ha come here to terrorize the public servants ser and force torce their surrender through weakness or cowardice JAPANS JAPAN'S APAN'S new v coalition government govern govern- government government ment under the premiership of Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito Salto Is naturally Lading finding Its chief problems In China and es- es especIally es especially Manchuria if 1 The They planned early carty A i recognition recognition of then the 4 n new e w Manchurian Man state state of ot jj v kuo but sur surprising surprising- surprisingly ly this Is earnestly 1 S I yI opposed by Count s r president ent ot of the South Man Man- Manchurian Manchurian railroad and perhaps the I m most o 0 s t Influential premier Saito Japanese on the mainland He lIe says recognition I should be delayed until the new newstate newstate newstate state proves protes Its ability to standalone stand I alone and that with I Its tremendous natural resources will continue to exist even e If no nation na- na nation na nation tion Is prepared to recognize It ns as asan asan I an autonomous state lda who may yet become foreign minister In Saito's government feels that Ja Japan pan should continue to pour money Into and that other na- na nations nations na nations should be given gl equal opportunity opportunity opportunity of commercial and financIal penetration Japanese e military forces con con- continued con con- continued continued their drive against the rebels In n forcing them to- to toward toward to toward ward the Siberian border was bombarded from the air and andset andset set on fire Is estla organ of the Soviet let Rus Ilus- Hussian Russian sian government charges certain Japanese elements with seeking nn an invasion of eastern Siberia to fa fa Japans Japan's preparations for forwar forwar forwar war against the United States by making available for the Japanese military maculae machine the rich natural resources of ot Asiatic Russia In a n sharp warning to Japan not notto notto notto to try to lay her hands on Siberia the vigorous editorial pronounce pronounce- ment meat ment called attention to recent de- de demands de demands mands in certain sections of or the Japanese press for war agaInst Soviet Russia It Is true that Fascist newspapers of Japan have been demanding that Siberia be conquered now to pre pre- preserve pre pre- preserve preserve serve the future of ot MM M senal M NEELY Democratic senator sena sena- l tor from West Virginia sel seldom sel- sel seldom dom dow speaks In that august body but the other day after listening to hIs colleagues he raIsed his voice and for tor W fifteen minutes told them In E scathing language what he heW i thought t ent of ot them them and their verbosity Aj which he said eald was X losing the government govern- govern went ment more thaw jl an hour He lIe quoted the Bible J 3 and find lambasted the theM theM M M hi Neely Congressional Rec Rec- Record Record ord and In conclusion sion slon he be read Into the record a 34 line 34 line poem on the value of ot terse speech if It as he maintains sena sean senatorial tonal speech costs nearly OO per heart beat boat the rhyme be recited must have set Uncle Sam Sum back about twenty five hun hundred red bucks And the time whole sp speech ch based on ou his estimate of per hour cost costS S OOOO However t the e lay citizen will sympathize with Mr Neelys Neely's Indig indig- indignation Indignation nation though with no hope that the senators can bo persuaded to talk less le s and do more mere 0 tJ C 1932 un Western r Union |
