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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Dispute Between President and Senate Over Power Board Nominations Wrecks Co-Operation Red Cross Asks Drought Relief Fund. By EDWARD W. PICKARD - . - . :" V 4 f. I . ft CO-OPERATION between be-tween President Hoover and the senate, sen-ate, never notable for Its warmth, was practically prac-tically obliterated by the dispute over the appointments to the power board. When the senate asked the Chief Executive to return re-turn to it his nomlna- Sen. Wheeler fn0,,fwrf "tis Smith. Marcel Gar- sund and Claude L. Draper so that It might rescind its confirmation of those names, Mr. Hoover with undcrstan I-able I-able indignation curtly refused, declaring de-claring that he "cannot admit the power pow-er of the senate to encroach upon the executive functions by removal of a duly appointed executive officer under the guise of reconsideration of his nomination." The President was fortified in his action by an opinion of Attorney General Gen-eral Mittcliell, and be gave out a public pub-lic statement explaining his course and Intimated that the action of the senate was actuated by "a hope of symbolizing me as the defender of the power Interests If I refuse to sacrifice three outstanding public servants." He said there was no issue for or against the power companies involved. Senators who are in opposition to the administration thereupon rose In their wrath and scathingly denounced Mr. Hoover, and the body, by a vote of 36 to 23, ordered the clerk to restore re-store the names of the three power commissioners to the executive calendar, calen-dar, which placed the senate on record as holding that no power commission exists. Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana served notice that he would seek to tie up the salaries of the commissioners com-missioners in the annual Independent offices appropriation bill, Intimating that if necessary a filibuster would be conducted against the measure. While the action of the senate was in order under Its rules, it was unprecedented un-precedented and docs not seem to have met with general public approval. Since the commissioners had been duly sworn In and the attorney general has ruled that the appointments were constitutionally con-stitutionally made. President Hoover was on solid legal ground In rejecting the senate's demand and Indeed that was the least he could do under the circumstances. In this case the rules of the senate are In conflict with the law and the Constitution. Whether or not Mr. Hoover was wise In Impugning Im-pugning the motives of the senate Is open to question. SINCE the destruction of private grain operators Is held by the federal fed-eral farm board to be no part of Its function. Chairman Legge has virtually virtual-ly warned them to be ready for the July 1 settlements. He discloses that the board not only holds huge contracts for future delivery but also Is fast gaining control of the cash wheat supply. sup-ply. Legge said the grain stabilization corporation is holding about 75,000,-000 75,000,-000 bushels of cash wheat, and about 55,000,000 bushels of futures contract wiieat which must be delivered between be-tween now and next July 1. He admitted that on July 1, when the new crop begins coming in, he expects ex-pects the board to be holding "virtually "vir-tually all of the national carry-over." Such a position with any futures contracts con-tracts outstanding would place the board In a position to wipe out short-speculators short-speculators who happened to be due to deliver wheat to the board. A similar sim-ilar condition existed several months ago. and at that time the board spared the short sellers by extending the delivery de-livery date. WITH the warm approval of President Pres-ident Hoover, an appeal ap-peal for funds for the relief of sufferers In the drought-stricken districts of the United States has been Issued Is-sued by John Barton Payne, head of the Red Cross. It is the hope of Mr. Payne that $10,000,000 will j B p be contributed by the generous citizens of the country. He says the demands for help in the drought areas are increasing. Not only food, clothing and fuel for human beings are needed, but also feed for he live stock. In his letter to Mr. Payne the President Pres-ident reviewed briefly the drought relief re-lief work of the Red Cross since last fall, w hen $5,000,000 was set aside for the purpose and appeals for further funds were postponed until it should he possible to measure the volume of requirements. He continued : "The problete bss now developed more than the available funds and is not wholly one of food, clothing, and other personal care among farmers, who have suffered from the drought. There Is also difficulty in the smaller rural and industrial towns as a double dou-ble reaction from the drought and de-oression. de-oression. I understand that these towns are unable to organize effectively effective-ly to meet their problems as are the municipalities. "The arrangement made by Secretary Secre-tary Hyde and yourself by which a representative of local Red Cross chapters will sit upon the local committees com-mittees created by the Department of Agriculture for administration of the crop relief will assure that every one truly deserving will be looked after with care and without waste. "I am confident that you will command com-mand the never failing generous Instincts In-stincts of our people toward those who are less fortunate." Investigation of conditions in Arkansas Ar-kansas shows that Senator Caraway was not exaggerating much when he told of the needs of the farmers of his stale In his argument for the senate sen-ate amendment to the $15,000,000 drought relief appropriation. The senate sen-ate wanted to add .$15,000,000 for loans for food, but the house rejected the amendment. Senator Robinson of Arkansas tried a new plan, offering an amendment to the Interior department appropriation bill providing for a federal donation of $25,000,000 to the Red Cross for relief in city and rural districts. A POLOGY and rep-aration rep-aration from tile Republican national committee are demanded de-manded by Alfred E. Smith, Democratic Presidential candidate in 1028, for permitting Its executive director, Robert H. Lucas, to circulate 800,000 copies cop-ies of the "A! Smith- ... ... Raskob Idea of Hap- A Smith piness circular m Nebraska Ne-braska and other states during the campaign last fall. On tne circular was a picture of a barroom. Mr. Smith made his demand In a letter which Senator Wagner of New York Introduced before the Nye senatorial sen-atorial campaign committee. He declared de-clared a quotation attributed to him was false, and said: "I am entitled to have 800.000 copies of a statement, showing that I was falsely quoted, distributed dis-tributed just as widely as the original cartoon was and to the same organizations." organiza-tions." Senator Nye told the committee that charges of perjury would be filed at Lincoln, Neb., against George W. Nor-rls, Nor-rls, the grocer of Broken Bow, who sought to run against Senator George W. Norrls in the last primary In Nebraska. Ne-braska. CEVERAL hundred delegates, maln- ly from Mississippi valley states, attended a waterway and flood control conference In Chicago promoted by Mayor William Hale Thompson. The men from Loulsiaua were especially active In -the meeting and presented a platform calling for more money for flood control, more rapid expenditure of the funds now available, and radical radi-cal changes in the Jadwin plan for a reservoir system, with a hoard of distinguished dis-tinguished civil engineers replacing the War department engineers in charge of construction, if necessary. Mayor Thompson was lauded as "the most effective friend the Mississippi valley ever has had." .and several delegates del-egates bitterly denounced Col. Robert Isliam Randolph, president of the Chicago Chi-cago Association of Commerce, who in a New Orleans speech had called the conference a ballyhoo and political rally for Thompson. y ft. John Grier IS Hiblien lias announced an-nounced that he will retire from the presidency presi-dency of Princeton university at the end of the academic year in 1032. There Is much discussion as to who will succeed him, but the board of trustees has not yet taken up i J J J the question. Most prominently men- R' A' FoBd,ck tioned for the place is Raymond A. Fosdick, an eminent New York lawyer law-yer who graduated from Princeton with the class of 1005. He Is now one of the trustees. Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, a member of the class of 1000. Is also suggested. He, too, is on the hoard of trustees. Doctor Hibbcn was elected president presi-dent of the university January 11, 1012, and inaugurated the following May 12. He succeeded Woodrow Wilson, Wil-son, who resigned in .1010 upon bis election as governor of New Jersey. Only three of Princeton's fourteen presidents served terms longer than the 20 years of Doctor Hibbcn. They were John Witherspoon, the sixth president, who served from 1768 to 1700; James Carnohan, the ninth, from 1823 to 1854; and James MeCosh.' the eleventh, from 1SGS to 1888. IF THE Democratic party wants another an-other wet candidate for the Presidency Presi-dency in 11132, Albert C. Ritchie is ready for the joh. Such was the Implication Im-plication in his address when he was inaugurated for the fourth time as governor of Maryland. Dealing with national rather than slate issues, be attacked prohibition, criticized the part played by tiie Hoover administra tion in the economic situation and declared de-clared his opposition to governmental interference with business. SERIOUS opposition by the senate to President Hoover's six nominees for membership on the tariff board developed de-veloped in the case of only one, and during the week all of them were confirmed. con-firmed. They are Henry P. Fletcher, Thomas V. Page, John Lee Coulter, AlTred P. Dennis, Edgar B. Brossard and Lincoln Dixon. Robinson of Arkansas and Walsh of Montana attacked Brossard, who is from Utah, because of his alleged part in advocating a high tariff on sugar In 1024 when he was an economist econo-mist in the employ of the old tariff commission. But the radical Republicans Republi-cans failed to support the Democrats and some of them made speeches In favor of Brossard; and the Utah man was confirmed by a vots of 45 to SO. UNDER the auspices aus-pices of the International In-ternational Chamber f of Commerce a great j world business conference confer-ence will open In Washington May I and continue six days. J Business men from 40 j countries will attend and will try to deter- mine the causes of the present Interna-S. Interna-S. H. S'rawn nat,ona, trade depression. depres-sion. This subject will be taken up promptly at the first plenary session, which will be presided over by Georges ! Theuiiis, former premier of Belgium i and president of the international j chamber. I The program for the conference was j announced by Silas H. Strawn of Chicago, Chi-cago, chairman of the American committee com-mittee of the International chamber. In discussing the existing conditions he said: "The conviction is held In many quarters abroad that the first step toward business recovery in Europe Is the resumption of normal buying In the United States. Until our people, peo-ple, by the renewal of purchases abroad of both raw materials apd finished fin-ished products, can reduce surplus stocks and bring about a stable price level in the more Important countries, European business leaders see no probability prob-ability of substantial Improvement in the world economic situation. "Perhaps the most ominous clond that overhangs the whole economic world Is the dumping on the world markets of large quantities of grain, raw materials, and semi-finished products prod-ucts by Soviet Russia, at prices less than the normal costs of production. "The Washington conference will endenvor to Investigate carefully tbs distinction between cause and effect in the present situation, with a view to establishing to what extent remedies, reme-dies, can be sought and the first steps hastened by co-ordinating sectional endeavor." ONE of America's truly great Jews, Nathan Straus of New York, has passed on to his reward. Having acquired ac-quired a large fortune in merchandising, merchandis-ing, he devoted himself to aiding his fellow men and gave away many millions. mil-lions. Outstanding among his benefactions benefac-tions was his work for the conservation conserva-tion of infant life largely through the establishment of stations where pure milk could be obtained for babies by the poor. Chicago also lost a philanthropic philan-thropic Jew in the death of Edwfn F, Meyer, who gave large sums to dependents de-pendents of slain policeman and was an organizer of the Associated Jewish charities. KTO TRACE has been otind, at this ' writing, of Mrs. Beryl Hart and Lieut. V. S. MacLaren and the plane Tradewind in which they flew from Bermuda for the Azores on their way to Paris. For several days there were severe storms on the Atlantic and it was taken for granted that the two aviators were lost. A RISTIDK Briand's plan for a union of European slates is n o w under official consideration, for the committee appointed by the League of Nations Na-tions to study the proposal pro-posal and draw up a scheme for putting It into effect met Friday In Geneva for Its first Til session. Not oniv Europe, Eu-rope, but the whole M' Br,and world Is deeply Interested and will follow the doings of the committee closely. Th.e committee includes thirteen foreign ministers and is presided over by M. P.riand himself. Sir Eric Drum-mond. Drum-mond. secretary general of the league, is in South America, so the chairman is assisted by J. L. M. C, Avenol, the assistant secretary, who is a Frenchman. French-man. There are numerous opponents of the Briand scheme, and they say nothing noth-ing can come of It. Great Britain especially es-pecially cannot look on It with favor because she is both a European and a world power and such a union as Is proposed would probably work to the injury of her vast dominions. The "revisionist" states, such as Germany, Hungary and Italy, would scarcely support the plan before their boundary bound-ary lines were changed to suit them. The permanent officials of the League of Nations feci that the suggested union un-ion would weaken the league and Its worldwide ideals. Even In France there are many against the plan,' for Briand's political adversaries are Increasing In-creasing In numbers, lie himself apparently ap-parently doesn't hope for moi e at this time than to keep the project alive. ((c). lb;:l, Wraieru Xcuspup., Uulon.) ' |
