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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over House Passes Relief Bill in Face of Veto Threat by the President Bingham's Beer Rider Seems Blocked Plans for Campaign. By EDWARD W. PICKARD WITO the aid of 35 Republican members tbe Democrats put through tbe bouse the compromise emergency relief bill carrying $2,122,- 000,000 as revisea Dy the conferees and containing provisions that President Hoover Hoov-er had plainly indicated in-dicated would lead him to veto the measure. meas-ure. Chief of these Is a clause empowering the Reconstruction Finance corporation I to make loans to Individuals In-dividuals and muni- Speaker cipalities unable to Garner obtain funds from normal banking facilities. fa-cilities. Speaker Garner had Insisted on the retention of this provision for the "benefit of the masses," and Mr. Hoover had been equally iLSistent on Its exclusion, asserting it made the government a pawn broker and would jeopardize the credit of the nation. . The bitter controversy between President and speaker followed two futile conferences at the White House. Mr. Garner violently attacked Mr. Hoover on the floor of the house and Mr. Hoover retorted with a scorching scorch-ing statement placing all the blame for the disagreement on the shoulders shoul-ders of the speaker. As the bill went to the senate following fol-lowing a flurry of debate shot through with politics and peppered with attacks at-tacks on Speaker Garner as "obstinate "obsti-nate willed" and "demagogic," It provided for Increasing the capitalization capitali-zation and borrowing power of the Reconstruction Finance corporation from $2,000,000,000 to $3,760,000,000. It also carried In addition $322,000,000 for public works construction to be financed by the treasury. Of the $1,760,000,000 turned over to the Reconstruction Finance corporation corpora-tion all but $300,000,000 Is set aside for loans. Part Is to be loaned directly direct-ly to individuals and cities on such security as they can command. The balance bal-ance is to be loaned to states, cities, public and private agencies, corporations corpora-tions and various sorts of organizations organiza-tions to build toll bridges, waterworks, water-works, tenements and other projects of what is termed a self-liquidating nature. TWO American aviators, James Matters and Bennett Griffin, undertaking un-dertaking to set a new record for flight around the world, flew from Harbor Grace across the Atlantic ocean in record time, making their first stop at Berlin. Thence they hurried hur-ried on toward Moscow, but were forced down 50 miles from Minsk. Their plane was wrecked. SENATOR BINGHAM'S effort to force a vote In the senate on the legalization of beer was not getting along very well. He sought to attach the proposition to the home loan bank bill as a rider, but the drys came to the front strongly, and at least delayed matters by precipitnting a long debate on the bank bill itself. This measure was amended amend-ed In a way that left It no longer a pet bill of the administration but at the same time o j it . u Sen. Bingham used It so wets who a had disliked it could vote for It. Bingham admitted the chances for his rider were slim. In the house the wet Republicans tried without success to force the hand of Speaker Garner, insisting that he have brought out for action ac-tion one of the bills for legalization of beer that have been Introduced. The attitude of the Democrats In congress seemed to be that they should not be called on to carry out the Volstead act modiflcaiton clause of their national program until after the country has had a chance to vote on the proposition In November. Anyhow, they do not Intend that the Republicans shall get credit. If any, for restoriug beer to the people. PRESIDENT HOOVER'S campaign r for re-election is to be conducted from Chicago, according to the state-mem state-mem of Everett Sanders of Indiana, the new chairman of the Republican national na-tional committee. He went to Chicago and engaged headquarters rooms on the sixth floor of the Palmer j house, and said he expected to spend J most of his , time 3 there. He added thai of course there would be consulerahlB ,s.. Henry J. il-v directed from Allen Washington and hp would often be in New York. He continued: "Henry Allen, the former governor ' of Kansas, will be in charge of the publicity. Mrs. Ella Yost of West Virginia is to continue In charge of the women's activities. And I hope that Robert Lucas, who has been in charge of the executive work, and Ray Benjamin of California, who has been of material assistance, will continue con-tinue their services with the committee." commit-tee." There was no such certainty of location lo-cation in connection with the Demo-l cratic organization. James A. Farley, New York state chairman and Roosevelt Roose-velt preconvention manager, who has been elected chairman of the Democratic Demo-cratic national committee, has Indicated Indi-cated a tendency to favor New York as the center of operations. ALFRED E. SMITH settled all doubts as to his Intentions when he issued a statement that he would support the Democratic candidates, candi-dates, platform and party. He said he had received many letters urging him to run independently for President Pres-ident on the Democratic platform but regarded such a course as Impracticable Im-practicable and impossible. VICE PRESIDENT CHARLES CUR-tis CUR-tis and Speaker Garner, who hopes to succeed "Charley," both expect to do a lot of speaking throughout the West for their respective tickets. Indeed, In-deed, the heavy work of the campaign will fall to them, for President Hoover will make only a few speeches in large cities and Gov. Franklin Roosevelt probably will not often depart from Albany. Mr. Curtis said in Washington: "I expect to do a lot of campaigning this fall and would be glad to meet Mr. Garner on the stump." Mr. Garner said little of his plans except that as soon as congress adjourned he would go to his ranch home near Uvalde, Texas, for a rest Both these gentlemen gentle-men are seasoned campaigners, familiar famil-iar especially with the West and the South. And both of them like the old style of oratory, with plenty of gestures ges-tures and language that appeals to the "common people." DOWN in North Carolina the wets scored a decided victory in the defeat of Senator Cameron Morrison, veteran leader of the drys, n the Democratic r u n-o ff primary, which is equivalent to an election. elec-tion. The senator was swamped, losing by more than 100,000 votes to Robert It. Reynolds. The winner, win-ner, who campaigned as an advocate of re peal of the Eighteenth amendment, received the largest majority liiii ever given a candl- ,. date in that state. He is forty-seven years old and practices law in Asheville. J. C. B. Ehringhaus of Elizabeth City won the nomination for governor. ONE after another the insurgent Republicans of the senate are turning toward Roosevelt and the Democratic ticket. Norris of Nebraska Nebras-ka was the first to announce himself and Frazier of North Dakota came next. Both declared they would support sup-port the New York governor in his campaign against President Hoover. Then came Hiram Johnson of California Califor-nia with a statement in which he gave high praise to Roosevelt's acceptance speech as "the most important speech of the day." He also lauded the Democratic Dem-ocratic nominee's airplane journey to Chicago as a commendable change In national political custom. Although Senator Johnson declined to say whether he will openly support Governor Roosevelt in the campaign, bis statement left little doubt that he prefers the Democratic nominee to President Hoover. MEETING in convention in Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, the Prohibition party par-ty decided It wanted Senator Borah as its Presidential candidate and so Informed him. His reply was noncommittal non-committal as to his acceptance but advised the party to nominate some one else and then leave the door open for withdrawal of Its candidates If an amalgamation of all dry groups is arranged at the coming conference confer-ence in Washington. Therefore the convention nominated William D. Upshaw, former congressman congress-man from Georgia, for President and Frank S. Regan of Rockford, 111., for Vice President. n Y COMBINING the Liberty, Farm-er-Labor, Progressive and Socialist Social-ist parties, the Monetary league and the Farmers' union, the New Liberty party was formed at a convention held in Kansas City, Mo. Frank Webb of San Francisco was nominated for President, and Andrew Nordskog of Los Angeles, for Vice 'resilient, both being named by acclamation, though "General" Jacob S. Coxey of Ohio, also was offered as a candidate. Roland Limner of Kansas City, the chairman, railed a meeting of the national com mittee in Kansas City August 30. I DINO GRANDI. Italian foreign minister, and Premier Herriot of France both gave utterance to declarations declar-ations that greatly disturbed the con- ference on repara- nTT?!5! tions and war debts Li '''I in. Lausanne. First - J Grand! made a de- L vf- mand for complete - cancellation of all k ? ; European post - war l ,&. 1 financial obligations. I ' 1 Prime Minister J. f-", V' Ramsay MacDonald 'fV.y A of Britain flatly re-X re-X : " fused Grandi's de- .--Mua mand that the slate Dino Grandi be wiped clean. Great Britain, he said, cannot can-not cancel debts due to her unless the United States does likewise. Grandi precipitated the discussion discus-sion by asking Premier MacDonald to agree never to demand renewal of war debt payments by Italy, in line with the policy he had outlined as the ideal of Premier Benito Mussolini. Mus-solini. MacDonald replied politely but firmly that Great Britain is bound by the Balfour declaration, which sets forth that Britain shall ask from her debtors only as much as she needs to pay her own war debts. While she has to continue payment of her own debts, he said, Britain cannot agree to wiping the international slate clean. Then Premier Herriot came forward for-ward with the flat assertion that either the Dnited States must revise the war debt schedules or Germany must continue to pay reparations under un-der the Young plan. At the same time Germany continued to stick tightly to its contention that it can no longer meet the Young plan payments. pay-ments. Herriot's declaration was made at the end of a day of negotiations which led nowhere. It was given to the press in explanation of why France demands a safeguarding clause, protecting its reparation income in-come in case America remains adamant ada-mant on the debts, in any agreement negotiated. Chancellor Von Papen has proposed that Germany pay about $600,000,000 in a flat sum on condition that the war guilt clause be removed from the treaty of Versailles and that Germany Ger-many be permitted equality of armament arma-ment It was: the impression in Lausanne that Von Papen attached to the conditions even more importance impor-tance than to fixing the amount Germany Ger-many might be called on to pay. Herriot, Her-riot, however, declined to consider them at all. MacDonald, as the week closed, was trying hard to bring, accord between France and Germany. COL. FREDERICK POPE, a New Yorker, acting alone and in a private pri-vate capacity, is trying to bring about formal recognition of the Soviet Russian Rus-sian government by the United States, Dispatches from Moscow say he presented pre-sented to Soviet officials a suggestion that the United States send an unofficial unoffi-cial commissioner to Russia as a preliminary pre-liminary to negotiations for establishment establish-ment of normal relations. He gave, it was learned, an account of "satisfactory" "satisfac-tory" conversations he had held on the subject in certain quarters in Washington Wash-ington just before he sailed for Russia late last May. Pope is expected to return to the United States this month, and the prospect was that he would renew his conversations here. GREAT BRITAIN and the Irish Free State are at each other's throats over the matter of the defaulted de-faulted Irish land annuities. On motion mo-tion of J. H. Thomas, r secretary of state for " dominions, the house 1 of commons passed a resolution empower- n, Ing the government J to impose a retalia J, X tory tariff on Irish , JN imports up to 100 per J1 J cent as a means of collecting the annul J "Xfi A ties. The special du b V-J ties act was then put sca& on its way through . u T, . .. , .. J. H. Thomai parliament, though it was opposed by George Lansbury, Labor La-bor leader. President De Valera of the Free State has demanded that the dispute be referred to an international tribunal trib-unal for arbitration, but the British government insists it must be handled han-dled by an empire tribunal. As Mr. Thomas says. Great Britain could never nev-er permit foreigners to arbitrate a domestic dispute. The land annuities, amounting to approximately $11,000,000 a year, were set up by the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 and were Intended to reimburse landholders, mostly British, for land purchased for parceling to tenant farmers. WITHOUT having accomplished anything of Importance, the disarmament dis-armament conference at Geneva prepared pre-pared to adjourn until next autumn. Its final act was to be the issuance of a statement prepared by Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, lauding laud-ing President Hoover's proposals for reduction of armaments by one-third and setting forth certain points in them on which the various delegations were approximately agreed. It also said some phases of the plan would require considerable time for study by the powers concerned. Maxim Litvinov, soviet Russian foreign for-eign commissar, and Ambassador Na-dolny Na-dolny of Germany expressed dissatisfaction dissat-isfaction with the procedure, declaring declar-ing they could find no points on which the conference really was agreed. (. 1932. Western Newspaper Ualoo.) |