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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Sugar LoLby Gift Story Under Investigation, Senator Davis Promising Help Lame Duck Sessions Probably Will Be Abolished. By EDWARD W. PICKARD T N THE closing days of the session of congress the senate ran into " what gave some promise of developing de-veloping into another lobbying scandal. Mr. Borah read to It an article In a New York newspaper w h i c h said, in effect, that a senator, during his former occupancy of ,S?na'r. a high ollicial posi-J. posi-J. J. Davis tjon haJ re,.,,ive j $100,000 Tiom the president of a domestic do-mestic sugar company in return for his agreement to lobby for a high sugar tariff. Senator Nye of North Dakota had already alluded to the story, deploring de-ploring the fact that such an unsubstantiated unsub-stantiated report had been given publicity pub-licity and credence. Replying to questions. ques-tions. Nye admitted Ihat the campaign expenditure committee, of which he Is chairman, had come upon the report of a SKKl.nuo gift. to a senator, had incompletely in-completely investigated it and had turned over a memorandum to the committee on lobbying. He said he thought the senator in question was entitled to have an inquiry made and the truth established by the lobby committee, com-mittee, which is headed by Senator Caraway of Arkansas. At the Instance of Senator Borah, supported by Senator Uobinson of Arkansas, the senate instructed the lobby committee to investigate the story. Immediately thereafter Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, former form-er secretary of labor, announced off the senate floor that he sto"d ready to appear before Ihe lobby committee at any time and that he would assure the committee of the presence of several sev-eral witnesses whom it would desire to hear. Among the witnesses he named was Bror G. Dahlberg of Chicago, Chi-cago, pre-ident of the Southern Sugar company. Mr. Davis declared he would assist the committee in investigating the charges "to the bottom." Appearing later before the lobby committee, Senator Davis declared the charges, if directed at him, were absolutely ab-solutely false. WITH little or no expectation that his veto would be sustained, President Hoover put the mark of his disapproval on the veterans' bonus loan bill. His veto message to con; gress included data provided by Secretary Sec-retary Mellon showing how the bonus loans would aggravate the financing difficulties of the treasury, and also new estimates of the number of veterans vet-erans who will apply for the loans. A BOLISHMENT of the "lame duck" session of congress seemed assured as-sured when the house adopted the Gilford resolution to that effect and providing for the inauguration of the newly elected President In January instead of March. The resolution, which proposes an amendment to the Constitution, differs somewhat from the Norris measure passed by the senate with the same purpose, but It was believed the differences would be ironed out In conference. It is planned that the terms of the President Presi-dent and Vice President shall end on the twenty-fourth day of January and the terms of senators and representatives representa-tives at noon on the fourth day of January of the years in which such terms normally would end. Congress would assemble on January 4, and the President would be sworn iD on January 24. ONLY a veto by President Hoover can keep the government from going go-ing into the power business, for the senate sen-ate joined with the house in accepting accept-ing the conference report on Muscle Shoals. The senate vote was 55 to 2S. This indicated that a veto would be sustained. Twenty Republicans voted for tlie measure, eleven of them being of the radical group which has the power question for Its chief issue. Another rebuff for the administration administra-tion was administered when the house passed Senator Wagner's bill setting up federal and state employment agencies, agen-cies, without a record vote. It was believed be-lieved President Hoover might kill the measure by a pocket veto. j (")NE of Oklahoma's lame duck Republican Re-publican congressmen, V. S. Stone of Norman, Nor-man, put forth a part-ng part-ng wail Ib'S aroused little If an ympaihy among the national law makers but considerable con-siderable among the public at large. Mr. Stone had iniroduced V 1 a bill barring relative.; ., , , . U. S. Stone of members of con gress and of high o iiciais from becoming be-coming federal employees, and the other day he called at the White House to ask President Hoover's support for the measure and also to tell what this attack on nepotism was getting him. "I never dreamed." said Mr. Stone, "that a simple, constructive move on my part could make such a difference I pass fellow h nise members in the hallways of the office building and thoy do not speak to me. Sly wife is punished for my daring. Even bureau clerks in legislative departments give me the cold shoulder and interfere with my work as a member of the house. "I have had members whisper that I am right, but that I would not succeed. suc-ceed. Others have warned me that 1 would suffer for my rashness. The reaction against my proposal to make it 'unlawful' for any legislative, ministerial, min-isterial, or judicial officer to appoint any person reia.ed to him when the pay is to come out of public funds has been most extraordinary." The last annual report of the clerk of the house reveals that approximately approxi-mately 100 relatives are now on the pay rolls of members, and a survey shows that many of these have never done a lick of work in the offices for which they got their appointments. One letter to Mr. Stone points out that the daughter of a certain representative repre-sentative signed vouchers for $3,500 last year and spent almost the entire time abroad. Another report which he would like to Investigate before a committee Is that a southern member has paid his father 510,000 and the man has never been in Washington. MINNESOTA Dem-ocrats Dem-ocrats an-nounced, an-nounced, through Chairman J. J. Far-rell Far-rell of their state exec ex-ec u 1 1 v e committee, that they would try to unseat Senator Thomas D. Schall, Republican, Re-publican, who was reelected re-elected last November Novem-ber in a five-cornered Senator contest. Farrell said T. D. Schall Schall would be charged with violating the state corrupt practices act and also with violating federal regulations governing the use of postal franking privileges, and that the state elections committee wTould be asked to declare the seat vacant so that a new election elec-tion may be called. When Senator Schall was told of this in Washington he said only: "That does not deserve comment." The blind senator's dispute with President Hoover and Attorney General Gen-eral Mitchell over the appointment of a new federal judge for Minnesota continues. After rejecting Schall's choice for the post, Ernest D. Michel of Minneapolis, the President named Gunnar B. Nordbye, now a Minneapolis Minneap-olis district judge, and Schall Immediately Immedi-ately announced he would contest the nomination in the senate. His course in this matter, it is said, has led some Hoover Republicans in Minnesota to support the ouster move. i V RY Democrats in congress were exceedingly active during the week getting get-ting ready for the meeting of the Democratic Dem-ocratic national committee com-mittee scheduled for March 5. Chairman John J. Raskob had announced that the committee would con- tens-. I I ,f I - ; sider future policies j j Raskob of the party, and assuming as-suming that he would try to commit It to the wet side of the prohibition controversy, the drys were lining up to tight him to the bitter end. Senator Sen-ator Morrison of North Carolina, one of the most arid ones, said his group had enough votes to defeat any wel resolution. Senator George of Georgia asserted the committee had no right to form parly policies, that being the function of the national convention. Other Democratic leaders were anxious anx-ious to head off any discussioL of the liquor issue. Naturally the approaching committee commit-tee meeting caused a lot of talk about presidential possibilities. The names heard oftenest were those of Governor Gover-nor Roosevelt of New York, Governor Gover-nor Ritchie of Maryland and Senator-elect Senator-elect James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois. Illi-nois. In Chicago there developed quite a boom for Colonel Lewis on his return home from a sojourn in the Southwest. South-west. pEHR EVIND SVINHUFYUD. who has just been elected president of Finland, is joing to have the prohibition pro-hibition question put up to him promptly. Distinguished women of the country, of all parties, are circulating a petition asking his support of a speedy repeal of the "pernicious prohibition pro-hibition law." The petition urges mothers to "feel deep concern in the ever increasing intemperance which ruins men, women, wom-en, and children morally and physically. physical-ly. It is awful to contemplate how alcohol will affect the descendants of the present poisoned generation unless legislators abolish the prohibition system." sys-tem." The petition further points out that women are unable to restart a temperauce movement until the de moralizing prohibition law Is repealed and replaced by reasonable legislation. legisla-tion. ONCE again the United Sfates Supreme Su-preme court has upheld the validity val-idity of the Eighteenth nmendment. This time the action, which was unanimous, unan-imous, was in reviewing the decision of Federal Judge William Clark of Newark, N. J., who held that the amendment should have been ratified b state conventions instead of by state legislatures. This decision wns reversed, the opinion being written by Justice Owen D. Roberts, the newest new-est member of t'.ie Supreme court. In a case appealed from Michigan, tiie Supreme court held that the severe penalties of the Jones "five and ten" law are not applicable to conviction for possession of liquor. WHILE the conference con-ference on narcotics nar-cotics was In progress in Washington, word came that Joseph C. Grew, American ambassador am-bassador to Turkey, was getting results there In the fight to suppress the Illegal exportation ex-portation of the drugs from that country. Mr. . , . Grew made vigorous Ambassador sentatlons t0 the J. C. Grew , f , government at An- g-'n and brought about the sealing of tne three big drug factories of Istanbul with their entire stocks, to "be effective until the factories present pre-sent documents attesting the nmounts of production and exportation. Drug exporting from Turkey to countries such as the United States, which do not allow unrestricted entry of narcotics, Is henceforth expected to be impossible, as a government official has been attached to each factory fac-tory to control production and exportation. ex-portation. Factories must report to the government every 24 hours the amount of raw material purchased and the amount of production. The director of the Japanese factory In Istanbul says the new order Is so severe that his factory probably will be forced to cease functioning. THOUGH King Alfonso Al-fonso of. Spain told American correspondents corre-spondents that all was calm In his country now and that danger of a revolution had passed, Admiral Juan Aznar, the new premier, pre-mier, was not finding the sailing weather especially fine. This was - mainly because Admiral the national executive Juan Aznar committee of the Socialist So-cialist party and the labor union de cided to boycott the national elections and co-operate fully with the Republican Repub-lican revolutionary committee. This determination was so forcible that some of the moderate leaders among the Socialists resigned from the committee, com-mittee, their places being filled with real revolutionists. These resignations ended the government's govern-ment's dream of splitting the revolutionary revolu-tionary ranks by divorcing the Socialists So-cialists and their 300,000 workers with their terrible weapon of a general strike from the purely Republican element with their backing among the bourgeoisie and friendly soldiery. The government announced that the municipal elections, the first In a series of elections that will end eventually in balloting for an assembly to amend the constitution, would take place on April 12 instead of March .29. Educational Educa-tional institutions, closed by the Ber-enguer Ber-enguer government a month ago, are ordered reopened. In his talk with correspondents Alfonso Al-fonso said he had done all he could to satisfy his people and that he was willing to give up almost everything but Ills crown, which, he added, was not his to give away, being his Inheritance In-heritance of which he is only the temporary holder. r ECAUSE of divided opposition Wil-l-J Ham Hale Thompson won renom-ination renom-ination by the Republicans for mayor of Chicago after one of the hottest primary contests that city has ever enjoyed. The attack on him was fierce and he would have been beaten by Judge John Lyle, "nemesis" of the gunmen and gangsters, had It not been for the candidacy of Alderman Albert who was supported by Senator Deneen and his dwindling faction. The hope of those Chicagoans who seek to eliminate elimi-nate Thompsonism now rests with Anton An-ton Cermak, who Is the nominee of the Democrats. r OUNTER . revolu-tion revolu-tion broke out In Peru under the leadership leader-ship of friends of the deposed president, Augusto Leguia, and threatened the regime of Provisional President Presi-dent Luis M. Sanchez Cerro. The uprising was quelled In Caliao but the revolution- President lsts se,zed Arequipa Cerro 0IHi set "1' a govern ment under the name "Southern Junta." They were joined by considerable parts of the army and held control of southern Peru. To prove the sincerity of his intentions inten-tions in leading the August revolution, revolu-tion, Cerro issued a proclamation declaring de-claring that he would not be a candidate candi-date for the presidency when the elections elec-tions are held. This, he and his adherents ad-herents thought, would pacify the Arequipa rebels and lead to peace through negotiations. (. 1931. 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