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Show IS REVIEW OF II R RENTE VENTS iate Approves Tax Cut and French Debt Settlement. y EDWARD W. PICKARD "ITI1 the tax cut bill passed by both house and senate and the Mi-Iierenger agreement for the ins of the French debt ratified :ie upper house, congress quit on Saturday and went home elebrate Christinas and New 's. urteen senators, most of them ed as radicals, voted against :ax reduction measure but 63 recorded in Its favor, and it promptly signed by President er. The act, whose terms are tfy quite generally known, re- in effect only one year, but presumed that congress a year : will provide for another re-on re-on If tax revenues continue at resent high level, a vote on the ratification of 'rench debt settlement was 02 . Senator Howell of Nebras-tepublieau, Nebras-tepublieau, led the opposition ehalf of the radical group, i consistently fights every- the administration seeks to lpllsh. Howell contended that ffect of the settlement was to 1 the entire principal of the His theory was that the pay-i pay-i over a period of 02 years sent merely interest at a rate 7 per cent. French indebtedness, which funded nt a total of $4,02o,-i0, $4,02o,-i0, not only was one of the ;t of any of the debts but is jst to be disposed of except of liussia and Armenia, which at present listed in the ;ss class. The principal and s'd interest at the time of the ig of the debls totaled ap-nately ap-nately $ll,oU0.0U0,000. ess the entire debt question is :ied at some future time the jversy Is now officially closed, is an impression that if the can public debt continues to tired at its present rate and :irely wiped out within the 17 or 18 years an agitation nmediately develop for a canon can-on of all foreign debts which a outstanding at that time. SPECTS for-the naval limlta-m limlta-m conference In London in ry are not quite so rosy as were. In the first place the ese delegates, who have been alned In Washington on their D England, revealed that their im differs sharply from that United States In the matters ilsers and submarines. The ese are still asking a 10-7 for all auxiliary craft, Includ-e Includ-e big gun cruisers, though it ed they will modify their de-! de-! slightly in order to gain point concerning submarines, wish to retain 78,000 tons of vater craft now in their tlect icier construction. As the I States Is anxious to sharply ! her submarine tonnage and are some indications the - demands by Japan may he ?d, the Japanese submarine al now furnishes the chief le to an accord between the iwers. rican naval officials, especial-opposed especial-opposed to permitting Japan large submarine force. One ison for the nave's opposition the fact that possession of a bmarine navy, together with ous naval liases, would give control of the Asiatic trade over which the United Slates ;ran.spoit Its supplies of tin ihlier, raw materials not pro-In pro-In sufficient quantities in this y, but absolutely essential to isrcution of n successful war. In Paris the chamber of :s' commission on foreign af-and af-and naval matters, sitflng , approved tiie government's lint that all results of the i conference must be eonsid-.'iHntive eonsid-.'iHntive and must be eubmit-the eubmit-the League of Nations' distent dis-tent commission for consider-of consider-of their possible iucorpora-llo iucorpora-llo a general disarmament m. Foreign Minister llrland icd to the commissions that France had accepted the theory of limitation on the basis of global tonnage Instead of categories ; that she demanded the right to devote as high n percentage of her global allotment as she wishes to submarines, subma-rines, and that she insists that each power tell the others just what types of vessels it is using in its tonnage. Premier Tardieu and his delegation, it is believed, will demand a full SO0.OO0 tons for the French fleet, which figure is thought too high by both Great Britain and Italy. There is reason to believe, be-lieve, however, that France and Italy have made progress in reconciling recon-ciling their viewpoints. A correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph says the American delegates have prepared a series of charts, graphs and data that actually actual-ly demonstrate that the British navy not only is not superior in strength to the American, but is really greatly inferior. The correspondent corre-spondent understands that these revelations have "deeply impressed the members of President Hoover's cabinet and other American statesmen states-men who previously had accepted the view, carefully fostered by propaganda, that the American navy is below the treaty strength and badly outclassed by the British navy. It is an ironical circumstance circum-stance that this disclosure should have emerged from the work of American naval ofiicers who were, of course, anxious to .make out fhe case for a larger ship building program." pro-gram." JAPAN is deeply concerned over the new situation in Manchuria, and statesmen the world over see in it the possibilities of another big war in the Far East. Mongols in the Barga district have seized control con-trol and declared Barga independent independ-ent of China, and the young Mongol Mon-gol parly in Hailar is reported to have organized an independent government, gov-ernment, installing as otlicials -emissaries from Urga, the capital of outer Mongolia. These movements are believed to be inspired and supported actively by the Soviet Russian government, and if they are successful they will bring the Soviet zone several miles inside the present Chinese-Russian frontier. Dispatches from Harbin said Japan had lodged a verbal protest against the Soviet activities with the Russian Rus-sian ambassador to Tokyo. p RESIDENT HOOVER'S request for authority to send a commission commis-sion to investigate affairs in Haiti was approved by the house of representatives. rep-resentatives. The debate provided an opportunity for Oscar De Priest, colored representative from Chicago, Chica-go, to make his maiden speech, in support of the proposition. He took occasion to give the Southern Democrats Dem-ocrats some shrewd digs that made the Republicans laugh. One opponent op-ponent of the opposition was Representative Rep-resentative Hudilleston of Alabama, who recently declined to serve on a house committee because De Priest had been appointed one of its members. mem-bers. Seven Haitian political organizations organiza-tions have asked the United States to supervise the island's presidential presiden-tial election in April, I'.KIO. Their petition is considered the climax of a campaign of the anti-Borno factions fac-tions which hope to effect the withdrawal with-drawal of American marines before the expiration of the treaty in lO.'IO, under which the United States took over the safeguarding of the re-tublic. T NDER the terms of a decree recommended to the Supreme court of the United States by Charles Evans Hughes, special master, mas-ter, the Chicago sanitary district would be required to complete a $170,000,000 sewage treatment program pro-gram within the next nine years. Meanwhile there would be successive succes-sive reductions in the diversion of water from Lake Michigan al Chicago Chi-cago from SiOO cubic feet per second sec-ond to G.fiOO, 5,000 and finally, on completion of the sewage treatment works, to 1,500 feet per second, which Mr. Hughes holds is all that is required for navigation purposes in the Chicago river. The figures given are exclusive of puinpage for domestic purposes. The proposed decree Is of Interest to the entire Great Lakes region, and the Mississippi Mis-sissippi valley. In the light of the adverse decision de-cision of the Supreme court of lust January, which held that there is no legal basis for diversion of water wa-ter beyond the comparatively small amount Decessury for navigation In the Chicago river, the Hughes report re-port was regarded as being about as favorable to Chicago as could have been expected. Mr. Hughes made It clear that It is within the power of congress to, provide for a greater diversion for i navigation purposes. It appeared evident that if congress approves the Illinois state waterway as a federal project the way will be opened for a sufficient diversion of water to maintain navigation in a nine-foot channel from Chicago to the Mississippi. TWO members of the British royal air force, Squadron Commander Com-mander Jones-Williams and Flight Lieutenant Jenkins, started on a G,(HKI-mile nonstop flight from England Eng-land to Cape town, but crashed and were killed on a mountainside 30 miles southeast of Tunis. They had run into a severe storm and supposedly lost their way. More fortunate were Maj. Tadeo Larre-Borges of Uruguay and Lieut. Leon Chnile of France, though they, too, failed in accomplishing what they set out to do. They took off from Seville, Spain, hoping to fly without stop to Montevideo, but, having crossed the ocean safely, they lost their bearings in the dark and made a forced landing In a Brazilian forest. Their plane was smashed and both men were injured slightly. f NE of the worst mine disasters of the year occurred at Mc-Alester, Mc-Alester, Okla. An explosion in the Old Town coal mine trapped 09 men, and not one of them escaped death. Seven others who were on upper levels got out alive. Rescue teams penetrated with great effort to the lower levels, which were filled with gas, and there found the bodies of the victims, many of them charred by the blast. The majority had died swiftly of gas suffocation. CONSIDERABLE relief was assured as-sured disabled veterans of the World war when the senate unanimously unani-mously passed the veterans' hospitalization hos-pitalization bill which had previously previous-ly been put through the house. The measure carries a total appropriation appropria-tion of $10,050,000. World war veterans and dependants depend-ants of deceased veterans who have not filed applications for federal compensation are warned by officials offi-cials of the veterans' bureau that they must do so not later than January 2. p RESIDENT HOOVER appointed ' Joseph B. Eastman of Boston, a Democrat, and Robert M. Jones of Knoxville, Tenn., a Republican, members of the Interstate Commerce Com-merce commission for terms of seven years beginning January 1. Eastman has been a member of the commission for more than ten years representing the New England Eng-land section. Jones, who is chancellor chan-cellor of the Eleventh judicial district dis-trict in Tennnessee, will succeed Richard V. Taylor of Mobile, Ala., appointed three years ago by President Pres-ident Cooiidge to fill out an unexpired unex-pired term. D WIGHT W. MORROW, ambassador ambas-sador to Mexico and delegate to the naval conference, has formally for-mally announced his acceptance of the appointment as senator from New Jersey upon the resignation of Senator Baird. He will assume his new duties as soon as his wor! in connection with the London parley is completed. Baird was given the place when Edge resigned to be ambassador to France, with the understanding that be would step aside for Morrow. SP. McNAUGIIT. who has been engaged in prohibition work in Iowa, was elected superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon league to succeed the late E. S. Shumaker. He was the choice of F. Scott Sic-Bride, Sic-Bride, the national superintendent of I he league, so other candidates retired from competition. SENATOR J. THOMAS HEFLIN of Alabama, who opposed A! Smith and supported Herbert Hoover Hoov-er in the 102S election, has been read out of the Democratic party, together with other "Iioovererats'' who had announced themselves as candidates for noinlnat.on In the Alabama primary on August 12. This action was taken by the Democratic Dem-ocratic executive committee. Heflin announced he wouid run for re-election as an independent. (. 1923, Western Newspaper Colon.) |