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Show News Review of Current Events die World Over Victory in Ilhrxle Inland Eld-lion Elates the Republicans Republi-cans Gull ey Coal Uill Undergoes Changes Llaclv's IVuLers Enrage Hurley. By EDWARD W. PICKARD 'S Western tlcwipa;)er Union. RMI'mil.M'AN lf-rirt.-rs rhriMiglii'iit the cniimry were Immensely henrlencd i r 1 1 : 1 1) I .y ti murli so hv Ihc result of tin? Iiy-clectii'll In T. , " -l f i' -w 1L k . - A Chas. F. Risk the First distrirt of Kiimle Island. Chiirlcs K. Itisk, Kepiihllrnn iiinl determined de-termined opponent of tlit! New Deal, defeated Antonio I'rlnce, Democrat, by nearly l.'i.ono votes, ciipt nrEiiK Hie sent In congress which I'YancIs li. Condon, Democrat, resigned to go on the Stale Supreme court. The reversal was so decisive that the Republicans hailed It as a clenr Indication that 'resident ICooscvelt would he defeated for reelection re-election next year. Representative li. M. Snell of New York, minority leader, made a speech ahout It In the house In which he said : "This Is the first time the people of nny part of the country have had an opportunity to pass on the reckless reck-less and extravagant expenditures of the administration. They have passed upon It In a very decisive manner. The election shows the people are beginning to think. The handwriting Is on the wall. From now on we will witness similar rejections re-jections by the citizenry of the New Deal program." Other Republican congressmen spoke In similar vein, but John .1. O'Connor, New York Tammany Democrat, Dem-ocrat, countered with the assertion that there was a split In the Democratic Demo-cratic party In the Rhode island district; dis-trict; while Tom Hlanton of Texas shouted shame on Rhode Island because be-cause It had asked more federal aid than almost any other state. Anti-New Anti-New Deal Democratic senators, like Gerry, H.vrd and Tydings, agreed the election was signilicant, but from the White House there was no comment. Former Senator Fess of Ohio with surprising frankness expressed the belief that the (J. O. 1'. would have to wait until 11)10 to elect a President. Presi-dent. Voicing t lie opinion of many, the veteran campaigner said: "I don't see how the strongest Republican Repub-lican without all that money next year can heat the weakest Democrat Demo-crat with nearly lfo,0U0,lKJU,000 at his disposal." T KI'UBUCANS of the ten Mid-western Mid-western states that participated In the Crass Roots conference in Springfield, 111., have made the Crass Roots' movement a permanent perma-nent auxiliary of the party. Harrison Har-rison K. Spongier of Iowa Is its chairman, Mrs. Leslie Wheeler of Illinois the vice chairman, and Jo Ferguson of Oklahoma, the secretary. secre-tary. Michigan. Ohio and Kentucky, not represented at the Springtield meeting, have been Invited to join In the movement. OKNATOU HUGO BLACK of Ala- hama may bring out a lot of facts in his inquiry into lobbying, but his way. of conducting the in vestigation is not winning him any credit. The house lias all along felt that he was trying to bully It Into accepting ac-cepting t he utilities 1)111 "death sen tence" clause and has been correspondingly corre-spondingly resentful. resent-ful. Various witnesses wit-nesses before the senate committee have felt, seeming- fit- P. J. Hurley ly with reason, that they were being be-ing treated unfairly. One of these witneses who complained com-plained bitterly was Patrick J. Hurley, Hur-ley, secretary of war in the Hoover administration. He testilied that he had received $1()IUHXI from the Associated As-sociated Gas and Electric system in the last three years, but insisted he was paid for legal advice only and had done no lobbying. Hurley was not permitted to read a prepared pre-pared statement, and Black's Interjections Inter-jections and questions so angered the witness thai he rose to his feet and shouted: "Everyone knows all you gentlemen are good prosecutors! Of course, yon don't know what it is to be fair or just. You try to put words Into a witness' mouth. Your questions are all on the type or 'Why don't you stop beating your wife?' query." Joseph I". Tumulty, who was secretary sec-retary to President Wilson, also was put on the stand and was not treated treat-ed so roughly. He. too, admitted receiving considerable sums from utility concerns, and like Hurley he denied that he had done any lobby, lng. Tumulty testified that be paid ! former Senator George H. Muses ' (Hep.). N. H., .ffUXKl and would pay another SL'.oOO to John Walsh, a brother of the late Senator Thomas J. Walsh (Dein.), Mont. Moses and Walsh. Tumulty said, are attorneys and aided in work done for the utility util-ity clients. 'TpIIEliE were strong Indications that the house ways and means committee would produce an entirely en-tirely new measure to replace the GulToy bituminous coal bill. Chairman Chair-man Doughton revealed that the committee had adopted a number of amendments designed to bring the measure within constitutional limits lim-its and to meet objections that it would discriminate against some coal districts. The committee still stood 14 to 11 against the bill, however. how-ever. The President was said to have Informed the Democratic members mem-bers that he was agreeable to any changes they might wisli to make provided the main objectives of the measure were maintained. According to current report, the changes agreed upon in the committee com-mittee included: (elimination of the section forbid: ding the Interstate Commerce commission com-mission to Issue certllicates of convenience con-venience and necessity for operation opera-tion of railroads to bltlminous mines without prior approval by the bituminous coal commission. Establishment of a consumers' counsel to safeguard the Interests of consumers. Addition of a provision for hearings hear-ings to determine whether the method meth-od of fixing prices was working to the detriment of any district. Reduction from nine to five In the number of commission members, and the addition of a stipulation that none shall have any outside connections. Reduction from 25 to 15 per cent In the amount of the tax assessed against mine operators. Reduction from 1)1) to 90 per cent In the amount of credit allowed the producers who nhide by the code. VIOLENTLY attacked from all V sides and nowhere defended with enthusiasm, the President's new share-the-weaith tax bill never- Sen. Barbour t h e 1 e s s was put through the house because of the great administration administra-tion majority and also because the congressmen are tired out and eager to go home. Representative Rep-resentative Tread-way, Tread-way, Republican, of Massachusetts, made a last effort against the meas ure with a resolution to send it back to tlie committee, but this was easily eas-ily defeated. As passed by the house, the bill Is not quite what the President asked for. Brielly summarized, it increases taxes on individual Incomes In-comes over $50,000, substitutes a graduated corporation-income tax for the present Hat levy, puts new taxes on inheritances and gifts In addition to those already borne by estates and gifts, imposes new taxes of 5 to 10 per cent on "excess" "ex-cess" profits of corporations. It Is designed to raise revenue estimated at between $250,000,000 and $270.0011.000. Its warmest friends couldn't explain how this would bring about what the President calls "wider distribution of wealth," or In the way of balancing the budget. The measure was handed on to the senate with dubious prospects. It was expected the senate finance committee would study it for about a week, and in the meanwhile the conservative Republicans and not a few Democrats were preparing to fight It. Senator W. V. Barbour of New Jersey, Republican, fired an opening gun with a statement in which be said: "Votes, and votes alone, are the objective of this half-baked half-baked measure." Declaring the bill "has no relation rela-tion to making income meet outgo, but is intended to accomplish some weird social objective," Barbour continued : "What this hill actually attempts Is to climb upon that hard-ridden steed. "Share-the-Wealth." and ride him away while the demagogues who have pressed him sorely In the past are looking in the other direction. direc-tion. "The bill should he laid away until un-til the next session of congress when the budget for the ensuing year will be presented. Then, In the light of carefully appropriated federal moneys, we can determine how much revenue will be needed to operate. "Taxes can he levied deliberately as a true revenue measure. Any other program is not good 'business and is nof good government. One change made hv the house against the President's wishes involved in-volved corporations' gifts to charities. chari-ties. Mr. Roosevelt was firmly against letting corporations deduct from their taxable income nny gift to charity, .Tn?t as firmly the house voted to let them deduct up to 5 per cent of their Incomes. WITH Home reluctaru-e the senate sen-ate be'an consider ation of the Walsh bill giving tlie President power to reijuire minimum wage und maximum hour standards of all firms bidding for government contracts. con-tracts. That measure has been added add-ed to the adiuitii-i ration's "musi" list. Tiie Republicans were preparing prepar-ing to light the bill as another government gov-ernment plan for regulation of private pri-vate industry. They point out that It hits about every industry in tlie country, since It not only applies to corporations selling to the government gov-ernment but extends also to state and local projects wholly or partly part-ly financed by federal funds. VTOT to be dismayed by the death of NRA, Senator J. C. O'Ma-boney O'Ma-boney of Wyoming thinks the objectives objec-tives of that contraption, high labor standards and fair competition, can be realized, and for that purpose he has drawn up a measure for the regulation of all national commerce by licensing business. The senator, who Is a lawyer, carefully avoided the phrase "interstate "inter-state commerce." He proposed to define "commerce among the states" In the language of the leading decisions de-cisions of the Supreme court. The bill creates a licensing system sys-tem for businesses engaged In commerce com-merce among the states and provides pro-vides a national Incorporation law. The federal trade commission, the government's business policeman in the days before NRA and the agency tu which the New Deal turned after NRA codes were outlawed, would be the keystone of tlie new plan. O'Mahoney's bill would Increase its membership from five to nine, with three commissioners representing employees, three employers, and three the general public. NOTWITHSTANDING warnings ' by Dr. Hjalmar Schncht and other sane Germans, some of the Nazi leaders Insist on pushing to I Paul Goebbels further extremes the war on Jews and Catholics. For instance, Paul Joseph Jo-seph Goebbels, minister min-ister of propaganda, in a speech at Essen Es-sen announced drastic action against all "enemies" "ene-mies" of the Nazi state Jews. Catholics, Catho-lics, the foreign press and the Stahl- heim war veterans. He predicted these important developments : 1. Suppression of the Catholic press and intensification of the Nazi campaign against ail Catholic opponents of the third reich. 2. Nationwide dissolution of the Stahlheim. 3. An official ban In near futur-j on marriages between Jews and Aryans. tNGLAND and France were still trying to find the way to avert a war between Italy and Ethiopia, but Premier Mussolini of Italy was S skeptical that he ordered 75,000 more men to the colors. By the first of October he will have a million mil-lion men in uniform. Haile Selassie, Selas-sie, the Ethiopian emperor, was reported re-ported to have sanctioned the concentration con-centration of 60,000 of his troops on Italy's east African frontiers. The chiefs, it is said, are finding it increasingly in-creasingly difficult to restrain their warriors from overt acts that would precipitate warfare. ANADA, the eleven-year-old king of Siam, nearly lost his throne the other day. A widespread plot was formed under the leadership of noncommissioned officers of the regular army to overthrow the government. gov-ernment. The loyalists uncovered it and effectually smashed It. The plotters Intended to seize and kill their superior officers and oust the regency council that rules the country. coun-try. SUDDEN death put an end to the career of Nathan P. Bryan of Jacksonville, Fin.., presiding Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Judicial circuit. Judge Bryan, who was sixty-three years old, was formerly United States senator from Florida. Frank H. Hitchcock, publisher of the Daily Citizen of Tucson, Ariz., succumbed to pneumonia after several sev-eral months of 111 health. Prominent Promi-nent In Republican party politics all his mature life, Mr. Hitchcock managed man-aged Taft's Presidential campaign in 100S both before and after the convention con-vention and was postmaster general In the Taft cabinet. For years he was actively interested in the progress prog-ress of aviation. JOE LOUIS, negro pugilist of Detroit De-troit who hopes some day to be the heavyweight champion of the world, advanced another step toward to-ward that goal by defeating "King" Levlnsky in the first round of a scheduled ten round bout In Chicago. Chi-cago. Levinsky was knocked down four times In little more than two minutes, and the referee then gave the fight to Joe on a technical knockout. Louis and Max Baer, former for-mer champion, have signed for a battle in September. SAMUEL INSULI.'S annual pen-sion pen-sion of $21,000 has been re-stored re-stored by vote of the directors of tlie Chicago utilities companies which he formerly beaded, and he also receives about $.'!". 2"0 to cover payments accruing since the beginning begin-ning of last year when payments were suspended by the companies, j |