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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Senate Passes Its Revenue Bill, Rejecting Sales Tax After Hearing President Hoover Von Papen Becomes German Chancellor. By EDWARD W. PICKARD SPURRED Into action by President Hoover'a warning that government credit was endangered and foreign raids on the dollar were imminent. President Hoover the senate in a night session passed its tax bill designed to bring In a total revenue of $1,121,000,000. The Chief Executive unexpectedly un-expectedly appeared In person before the seuute, for the first time In his administration, adminis-tration, and read a statement of the serious seri-ous condition. lie urged the inclusion of a sales tax, and restated restat-ed his position re garding relief measures and his opposition op-position to the huge public works program pro-gram fostered by Speaker Garner. There was no chance for the sales tax, most of the Democratic senators having signed an agreement to defeat It It was rejected by the finance committee, 12 to 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 confusion due to relief from the strain, the senators adopted their measure. The vote was 72 to 11, Having been informed by Secretary of the Treasury Mills that their committee com-mittee bill was still some $275,000,000 shy of the amount needed to balance the budget, the senators provided for most of this by a gasoline tax of 1 cent a gallon, the restoration of income in-come tax rates to the 1922 level and a 3 per cent tax on sales of electricity electric-ity by private power companies. It was believed the senate and house conferees would speedily adjust the differences between the senate and house bills and then the measure would go to the President One amendment to the bill adopted by the senate is worth especial mention. men-tion. Proposed by Senator Glenn of Illinois, it puts a 100 per cent tax on Incomes earned through violations of state or federal laws, thus taking the government out of what has been called its partnership with crime. NECESSARY in balancing the budget, bud-get, the national economy bill providing savings of $239,000,000 was reported favorably by the senate appropriations ap-propriations committee. Among its features Is a flat 10 per cent cut in the salaries of all government workers work-ers except the enlisted personnel of the army, navy and marine corps, and those whose salaries are specifically protected by the Constitution, such as judges. There Is also a saving of $43,000,000 in the amount given to veterans. The economy bill passed by the house carried reductions in expenditures ex-penditures of only $52,000,000. Both measures authorize the President to reorganize the executive departments. SPEAKER GARNER himself appeared ap-peared as a witness before the house ways and means committee to advocate his $2,300,000,000 federal relief re-lief bill, which was assailed by the President as a pork barrel raid on the treasury because it listed a multitude multi-tude of post offices to be built all over the country. Garner defended the measure and reminded the committee of Mr. Hoover's Indorsement of a $2,000,000,000 advance public works recommended by the conference of governors in 192S. Both his bill and the program favored by the President Increase the capitalization of the Reconstruction Re-construction Finance corporation and empower it to make loans for nonfederal non-federal construction. HEINRICH BRUENING chancellor of Germany, and his cabinet were forced to resign by President Von lliiulenburg because the latter did not agree with their program pro-gram to save the country coun-try from further financial finan-cial collapse and to provide work for the unemployed. This was really a considerable triumph for Hitler's Nazis but they decided de-cided to permit a stopgap stop-gap government to function until autumn, when it is expected there will be a general election in which they Herr Bruenlng will havo nance to make gooa ineir claim of controlling the reichstag. The aged president selected for temporary tem-porary chancellor Lieut CoL Franz von Tapen, a man of whom the United States has heard little since 1915. At that time he was military attache of the German embassy In Washington and became Involved with Karl Boy-Ed, Boy-Ed, naval attache, in plots that violated vio-lated neutrality. Both of them were dismissed by the American government for "improper activities." Returning to Germany, Von Tapen became a general gen-eral staff officer. He Is a Catholic Centrist, as Is Bruenlng, and Is editor and principal owner of the Catholic organ Germania. Von Papen's government, largely rightist, Is called a "feudal" cabinet by the Berlin press because it is dominated dominat-ed by members of the old German nobility. The new chancellor is expected ex-pected to be a stern ruler for be has often demanded a "national dictatorship dictator-ship freed of parliamentary trimmings." trim-mings." He is known to favor a Franco-German union against Russia. "" E. HUFF, head of the Farmers' Na-' Na-' ritual Grain corporation, recently recent-ly filed charges against the Chicago Board of Trade because it denied membership mem-bership to the corporation. In a communication com-munication to the Department of Agriculture Agri-culture Huff alleged the board was violating the grain futures law. Secretary Sec-retary Hyde took up the matter and announced that the grain futures commission com-mission would investigate the complaint, com-plaint, the hearings to begin in Washington Wash-ington on June 8. The commission is composed of Secretary Hyde. Attorney General William D. Mitchell and Secretary Sec-retary of Commerce Robert P. La-mont La-mont WRITING of the Republican national na-tional platform was intrusted by President Hoover to James R. Garfield of Ohio, son of President Garfield and I " J J. R. Garfield secretary of the Interior In-terior under President Roosevelt. He is to be chairman of the resolutions committee and has been busily gathering together the various planks proposed pro-posed by party leaders lead-ers and building the structure on which Mr. Hoover and the party will stand. Some days ago he took a rougn draft of the platform to the White House ana it was edited by the President who deleted de-leted some portions and made several additions. So far nothing is known to the public pub-lic of the manner in which the controversial con-troversial questions will be handled. Mr. Garfield is not known to have made any statements concerning prohibition, pro-hibition, but he has already conferred with Senator Borah, an Inveterate dry, who had drawn up a plank dealing with that subject The senator had a talk with Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, chairman of the woman's national committee com-mittee for law enforcement, who afterward after-ward said the senator "agreed with me that the voice of the people is In congress and that other matters do not concern us deeply." Representative Bertrand H. Snell of New York, minority leader in the house, told newspaper men he is certain cer-tain the prohibition plank In the Republican Re-publican platform will be "liberal." Snell said he was expressing his own opinion but that "if anybody tells yon the plank won't be liberal, don't believe be-lieve them." For two days Immediately preceding preced-ing the opening of the Republican convention the Crusaders, an organization organi-zation favoring prohibition repeal, and the Republican citizens' committee against national prohibition will stage a big demonstration In Chicago. On Sunday there will be great parades of airplanes and water craft and a mass meeting under the auspices of the American Federation of Labor; and on Monday there will be a ground parade and another big public meeting. meet-ing. HERBERT HOOVER having expressed ex-pressed a desire to be placed in nomination by a man from California, the grateful job has been given to Joseph Scott of Los Angeles. Mr. Scott who was born in England, Eng-land, Is one of the state's most eminent lawyers and also Is widely known In Roman Ro-man Catholic circles. He was awarded the Laetare medal by the University of Notre Dame in 1918 and was created a Knight of St Gregory by the pope In 1920 for work during the World war. Joseph Scott It is not likely the Republican convention con-vention will last more than five days, and nominations probably will be made on Friday night The platform will be submitted on Thursday and there may be a day of open debate on prohibition and some other controversial contro-versial questions. Democratic managers also are now hopeful that their convention will be short for they naturally wish It to have an appearance of harmony that would be ruined by a deadlock. Franklin D. Roosevelt probably will start In with . more than a majority both of delegates dele-gates and of states. At this writing he has 419 pledged votes from 27 states and territories. His camp claims he will have on the first ballot bal-lot G08 delegates to 4S6 for all others. And he believes a few ballots will bring over enough votes to give him the 770 required for nomination under un-der the two-thirds rule. Of course there will be a recurrence of the attempts at-tempts to abrogate that ancient rule. PROF. NICHOLAS JORGA, onct tutor of King Carol of Rumania, has resigned as premier and may be succeeded by Nicholas Titulescu, now minister to London. Which means that the semi-dictatorship of the country coun-try has been found a failure. The resignation of the government was the result of financial difficulties. Rumania is broke and the treasury is empty. WASHINGTON'S police force had a problem when the hitch-hiking army of 1,500 war veterans reached the capital city to present their de mand for Immediate payment of the soldiers' sol-diers' bonus. The men had been conveyed most of the way from the Far West in trucks supplied by state authorities eager to get rid of them, and Senator Costigan of Colorado introduced intro-duced a bill calling for Immediate appropriation appro-priation of $75,000 to feed and house them. Senator Lewis Senator J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, Illi-nois, in a Memorial day address at the Washington Soldiers' home, declared de-clared that by adopting a course based on threat and coercion these veterans vet-erans were causing their fellow countrymen In this time of national distress to wonder whether their soldiers sol-diers served for patriotism or merely for pay. "I warn you as your fellow soldier and friend," Senator Lewis continued, "that you risk the defeat of the relief measures you now have a right to hope for, by placing yourselves where the charge can be made that you have come here to terrorize the public servants and force their surrender through weakness or cowardice." JAPAN'S new coalition government under the premiership of Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito Is naturally finding Its chief problems in China, Premier Saito and especially Manchuria. Man-churia. They planned early recognition of the new Manchurian state of Manchoukuo, but surprisingly this is earnestly opposed by Count U c h i d a, president of the South Manchurian railroad and perhaps the most Influential Japanese on the mainland. main-land. He says recognition rec-ognition should be delayed until the new state proves its ability to stand alone, and that Manchoukuo Man-choukuo with Its tremendous natural resources will continue to exist even if no nation is prepared to recognize It as an autonomous state, r Uchida, who may yet become foreign minister In Saito's government feels that Japan Ja-pan should continue to pour money into in-to Manchoukuo and that other nations should be given equal opportunity of commercial and financial penetration. Japanese military forces continued their drive against the rebels In Manchoukuo, Man-choukuo, forcing them toward the Siberian Si-berian border. Hallun was bombarded bombard-ed from the air and set on fire. Isvestia, organ of the Soviet Russian Rus-sian government charges certain Japanese Jap-anese elements with seeking an Invasion Inva-sion of eastern Siberia to "facilitate Japan's preparations for war against the United States by making available avail-able for the Japanese military machine the rich natural resources of Asiatic Russia." In a sharp warning to Japan not to try to lay her hands on Siberia, the vigorous editorial pronouncement called attention to "recent demands In certain sections of 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 preserve the future of Manchoukuo. MM. NEELY, Democratic senator from West Virginia, seldom speaks in that august body, but the other day, after listening to his col leagues, he raised his voice and for fifteen minutes told them in scathing language what he thought of them and their verbosity ver-bosity which, he said, was losing the government gov-ernment more than $83,000 an hour. He quoted the Bible and lambasted the Congressional Con-gressional Record, and In conclusion he read into the record a 34- M. M. Neely line poem on the value of terse speech. 11, as he maintains, senatorial speech costs nearly $200 per heart beat the rhyme he recited must have set Uncle Sam back about twenty-five hundred bucks. And the whole speech, based on his estimate of $S3,0O0 per hour, cost $20,000. However, the lay citizen will sympathize sym-pathize with Mr. Neely's Indignation, though with no hope that the senators sena-tors can be persuaded to talk less and do more. FORMER members of the marine corps living in the Middle West gathered In Chicago for a colorful reunion re-union commemorating the valiant deeds of the corps In the Battle of Belleaa Wood. In the way of entertainment enter-tainment the ex-leathernecks were taken on a tour of the Century of Progress exposition grounds and were given theater and baseball parties, and In the evening there was a big banquet with MaJ. C. L. Fordney, U. S. M. C, as toastmaster. (!&. 1932, Western Newsjarer Union.) |