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Show PLEASANT GROVE REVIEW r News Review of Current Events the World Over -7 : : Congress Not Accomplishing Anything Important Budget Balancing Likely to Be Postponed . Johnson Assails Borah in Senate Debate. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Rep. Ralney Tr ANYTHING of moment Is ac- 1 conipllshed by the present ses Dion of congress, almost- certainly the last "lame duck" session that ver will be held political observers will be astonished. The Democrats, in numerical control of the house, seem bewildered be-wildered and uncer tain ; the Repnb llcans gleefully as sist In distracting tbeTr opponents and complicating tbelr attempts at leglsla tion; the more rad leal members, of both parties slash right and let to add to the confusion. The senate doesn't especially like the house's . beer bill, and the bouse doesn't i approve of the repeal resolution before be-fore the senate. Proceedings In the .upper chamber at this writing are held, up by a filibuster conducted by Senator Huey Long of Louisiana fer the purpose of defeating, the Glass banking bill. And over all hangs the prospect that President. Hoover will veto certain of the most Important measures If they reach the White House. As for balancing the budget, that probably will have to wait for the special session of the new con gress. President Hoover apparently apparent-ly has abandoned hope that It can be accomplished at this session, and the Democrats, Including President Elect Roosevelt, give no Indication thaV they have decided how ft should be done. They now deny that they plan to raise the In come tax. the . leaders who con .ferred with Mr. Koosevelt reputfl ated their first statements that such to see bow they could be more specific. spe-cific. . . . . ' "....' '. .. ; Johnson thereupon soundly berated be-rated Bdrab for his stand, and satirically sa-tirically scolded him for not giving the senate the "facts" known to him when the moratorium was before be-fore that body In 1031.' The exchange ex-change of personalities between the two erstwhile close friends was acrimonious. Though Mr. Roosevelt declined to co-operate with President Hoover on the war debt questions, he Is get-Ing get-Ing ready to tackle this and other international matters Immediately after his Inauguration. In pursuance pursu-ance of this plan he held long conferences con-ferences In New York with Secre tary Stlmson,. Col. Edward M. House, who Is an authority on for eign affairs; James V. Gerard, American ambassador to Germany at the time the United States en tered the war; Sumner Welles, who whs assistant secretary of state In the Wilson administration, and Sen ator Swanson of Virginia, one of our delegates to the disarmament conference." . . - Over In France there Is a grow ing belief that Mr. Roosevelt - se cretly engaged himself to a drastic revision of the war debts, and the public; also refuses to accept Laval's denial that "resident Hoover prom ised him a reduction. - the arms convention for years and Is still against It, be and othersH holding that It would not Interfere with the enterprises of the greater powers, but would discriminate against small nations. Senator Shlpstend of Minnesota said he could approve neither plan, and some of the Republicans, notably Representative Hamilton Fish of New fork, declared themselves against them. REPUBLICAN membership In the bouse - of representatives was reduced by two during the week by death. Congressman Robert R. Butler of Oregon died of heart disease dis-ease Induced by pneumonia. Nest day the eaplta) was shocked by the suicide of Samuel Austin Kendall of the Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania district. For months he had grieved over the death of his wife and final' ly gave up and put a bullet through his head as be sat In his room In the bouse office building. Among other well-known men who died were.Guy D. .Goff, former United States senator from - West Virginia, and Benton McMilllir, for mer governor of Tennessee and for 20 years a member of congress. was their Intention. Representative Henry T. Ralney of - Illinois, majority ma-jority leader, declares congress can balance, the federal budget without the Imposition of additional taxes, except a tax on beer, and his statement state-ment Is greeted with general -pressions vt approval TronFthe taxpayers tax-payers and many members of con-gress. con-gress. He says the budget should be balanced by cutting down the cost of governmenta proceeding that has the nominal approval of both parties and that the Impost Hon of a heavier tax burdetTon the people would be -to "Invite revolution." revo-lution." All of which sounds fine, tut so far congress has failed to reduce re-duce governmental costs In any appreciable ap-preciable degree. The amount It will save In this session may not be ; as much as $100,000,000. - Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Missis-sippi, one of the most astute of the Democrats, agreed with the Ralney program. "We," he said, "are going to retrench sufficiently to rEMOCRATIC logrolling and Re-publican Re-publican tactics of hampering marked the debate on the domestic domes-tic allotment farm relief bill In the house. Even If It were passed by house and snate It probably would be subjected to veto by the Presidents Presi-dents The measure was loaded down with amendments by representa Uvea who refused to be controlled by their partyTeadefS Proposals to Include rice within the benefits of the act were adopted adopt-ed Dti to 24 ; peanuts were added by the close teller vote of in to 110 and the buttei fat products of the dairy Industry Included 102 to 75 on a rising; vote. When lt"wasflnatljr assured of passage by the house thenRooseyelt farm relief program was rounded out with the Introduc tion In the senate of - companion bills designed to lighten the bur dens of agricultural mortgages through the use of further federal aid and federal money. ' - ; T ING FISH" against "TlTOld levying of new taxes. It Is too early now to tell Just how close we can come to balancing the bud get through economies. Our plan Is to hold off on revenue . legislation legisla-tion for several weeks while we trv to secure enactment of the beer bill, re-enactment of the gasoline tax. and all possible economies When we know hjw much we can raise and save It will be time enough to talk of new taxes." S LAID before the senate, the resolution f orrepenL. of the Eighteenth amendment was a com promise between the drys and wets on the Judiciary committee, and satisfied no one. It Is designed to bar the saloon, retains for the federal fed-eral government a certain amount of control over the lkjuor traffic; alma to protect dry states from the importation of liquor from wet neighbors, and provider for submission submis-sion of 'the amendment to state leg islatures rather than to special "tat conventions;" Speaker" CarneT and Representative Ralney said the resolution In that form would not even be introduced In -the house" If It were passed by the senate, b - cause It does not conform to the . Democratic platform. . QE.NATOR BORAH'S assertion In - the senate that France was Jus tilled In her stand on the war debt . Because President Hoover In bis "." conference with M. Lava had given the European debtor- nations reason to believe their obligations ob-ligations to the United States would be scaled down If . reparations were reduced brought on a sharp debate between the Idaho gentleman and Sen ator Hiram John- - Senator on . of California. Johnson Th row started- ; K 1 Sen. Glass .. with the reading In- the senate of letters from Secretary of State Stlmson and Secretary of the Trees my Hills denying that Mr Hoover bad given Laval any such assur ance These denials. Borah salt. , were Inconclusive, though It Is bard i LONG'S filibuster the Glass banking bill amused a handful of senators and a lot of visitors In the gal leries, but kept the somite from .accomplishing .accom-plishing " anything Uuey made a n urn: her of sarcastic a! luslons to Senator Glass, which rather annoyed the Virginian, Vir-ginian, llensserted that when recently he said he knew more about branch banking than Class, he really, "was not giving himself much credit." Then he produced a big Bible and wad from Isaiah: "Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone lit the midst of the earth." . "Just change that to branch banks," he shouted, "and you've got what'll happen to the independent bankers." "If you don't take the bouse of Morgan Into consideration," was another contribution, "yon ain't go ing -to regulate many banks with any bill yon pass here. The bouse of Morgan Is the undisputed king fish of the banking business." ' Longer plan te enfflhe depression was. characteristic . He would sur vey the country, order production to cease of any product of which there Is now plenty, Issin lion dollars of federal bonds for food, clothing, and public works and "Just a little capital levy" on the rich would pay for a!) of this program. I LLINOIS Democrats victorious In the November election gave the country's lesson on how to get elected at small cost . Figures sub mitted by the can dldates In that state to the clerks of the senate and house showed that William H. Diet erich, spent only $272 In winning the United States sena-t sena-t o r s b I p; the expenses ex-penses of his defeated de-feated rival. Senator Sena-tor Otis F. Glenn, were $5,838. Martin A. Brennan expend- . ' ed only $2 in his successful race for the place of con-gressman-at-large. The most expensive victory In Illinoisthe Il-linoisthe contested -victory . of James Simpson, Jr., Tenth Illinois district Republican congressman-elect, congressman-elect, cost $.1,050. Personal, exempted exempt-ed expenses brought the total up to $1-8,914. Ills election was contested by C. H. Weber, Democrat, who spent $1,525. . William H. Dieterich rTHOSE Iowa, farmers who con- I A dueled tlm -Ktrlkp" nf liiat vmir are making- rather ; successful at tempts to stop the sales of propertj for ' delinquent taxes and unpali mortgages. In several localities they gathered In large crowds and veil the TJropertieTnSrTarmersTar least temporarily. Their demonstrations demon-strations were orderly. FIVE THOUSAND Indiana farmers farm-ers met In their annual conference confer-ence at Purdue university and adopted a program developed by the farm management experts of that institution. The fourteenth point plan, worthy of the attention of agriculturists of other - states, in eludes a policy of '"pay as you go, reduction In cost9:especlally Those for outside labor, jiroduction of concentrated products to reduce marketing costs, production of high quality Koodsr taking advantage of marketing short cuts. Increased In tensity of operations on good lands, culling of live stock 'vigorously' and feeding of good anil mil Is well. In creased attention to seed selection, testing and other crop practices, in creased study of management prac tices. Increased use of home grown seeds, producing more of the fam lly's requirements on the farm,'" In creased "production 'of legume crops, avoidance of Investments In perma nent Improvements, and making more use of governmental sttd edu cational forces available to farm er" ... . Intermountain News -Briefly Told for Busy Readers WEEDS ON INCREASE. niGH TEST CATTLE. . DOG DERBY CALL OUT. AUTO CREMATES DRIVER. 7 PER CENT RATE ASKED. IN RESPONSE to a special mes- sage from the President urging "emergency action" to stave off wholesale forced ftirechwurea. con gressional leaders promised a par tlal revision of" the bankruptcy laws at this session. The Onus Judiciary committee began consideration of a bill embodying the principles suggested sug-gested by Mr Hoover lo ease the deht situation during the present period of depression. nUKSIDENT II m iVEIt In a spe-' spe-' clal message asked congivss to ratify the long eoding intcrnatinn " al arms tm-ejiin or tn etmt-t t-g 4s4atiMi at -this srsstnn jftrlnit 1h Chief Exn-utie wider powenr- In placing emlhi mw on shipment of arms to N-'M,;.rpms Nelfher re quest Is Ukely to Im graotml "halr man Borsh of thp sen.Tte foreign relations mmniiiiif h rr;sel Gen. Tsal Ting-Kai r KSPEUATET MghlTng for :",'ioeses- s-' slon of the rich.Jehol province was- going on between the Japanese and the Chinese armies toward the close of the week. The scene of the battle was Chlu-menkow Chlu-menkow pass In the Great Wall" the 'Pass of the Nine Gates." The Jap-a Jap-a n e s e, employing infantry, cavalry; artillery and bombing bomb-ing planes, attacked fiercely and occu- pled the northern end of the pass, but the Chinese concentrated concen-trated at the south ern end and put up a stiff resist a nee, being aided by the mountain ous nature of the country. Jap anese planes flew far across the border of the province and bom harded the city of Jehol and other towns, the war ofiW Justifying this action by charging that the pres ence of .Chinese troops there con stltuted a "menace" to the Jap snese forces Of coarse the Chinese were on their own soil, but a little thing Hke that does not deter Japan. Ja-pan. The Tokyo war office claimed victory at Cbinmenkow. Gen Tsal .Ting kaL who com nianded the ' Chinese 'Nineteenth route army in Its gullant defense of hnnglinl a year aito. has come to the front and asked that he be per mil t ed to lad his army from Jt s encampment in Fuklen province nuninst tf Japanese Invaders. He has .tittle confidence In the stamina of Marshal Chang and seeks to re place him as commander In tht ASHTON, IDA. First call to the annual Ashton American dog derby February 22, has been sounded by the association. No charges will be made for spectators this season. Several lending mushers have already al-ready announced their intention of entering the 1933. races. MALAD, IDA. The noxious weed problem on the irrigated farms of Oneida county is becoming more serious each year. PROVO, IT. Only 84, or .5 per cent, of the 15,375 cattle tested for tnberculosis in 1932, were reactors, according to a chart In the annual report of Utah County Agents Ly man H. Rich and Anson B. Call, Jr. TONOPAII, NEV. Dj. P. D. Mo Leod, CO, Nye county health officer, was burned to death when his automobile auto-mobile turned over and burst into flames thirty-six miles east of here. BOISE, IDA. The Arrowrock Ir rigator's association has gone on re cord through resolutions adopted at- a recent meeting in favor of assessing assess-ing and. taxing mortgages, notes, and cash'in liVks and making T per cent the maximum rate of interest in the state. " WEISER, IDA. State highway work has been suspemted in the Weiser country, with the exception of keeping the highways free of snow, until the close of winter. DRAPER, IT. Six-tenths ,. of a mile of snow fence is now complet ed along the highway between State street and Draper. The fence pro tectsthe worst points along this section of road from the ..heavy drifting of snow, which caused, ex tensive snow scraping during the recent windy weather. LOGAN, "IT. Births nearly doubled deaths during 1932 In Logan City, City Physician E. L. Hanson reports. During the year 859 births were recorded, as against 182 deaths, the records show. BOISE, IDA Hunting ducks by the noise of an airplane has become a new sport around Boise strictly Illegal. Reports to local game au thorities Indicated huntefs were hiding hid-ing thesound of their shooting un der the roar of airplane motors as they roared -aJongth e-mail route, which parallels the Boise river." BEAVER, LT. Beaver . valley farmers are becoming alarmed over the lack of rain and snow on the monntalnstoiana valley. All indications indica-tions point to a drought whk'h will exceed that of 1931. PROVO, UT. In spite of the ad verse economic conditions which obtained in 1932, there was less crime in Provo, Judging from the annual police report rTROVO", UT. Accidental deaths In ftah county numbered 'on'y during 1032 as compared with 20 In 1931, a reduction of more than 409 per cent, according to the annual an-nual report of Sheriff E. G. Durnell. ST,. ANTH.GaiXrli.DA. Every rural school in Fremont county is assured of at least a seven-month school term, according to E. Glen Cameron, county superintendent, as teachers of the various districts have agreed to take registered war rants and hold them until they can be cashed. BOISE, IDA. Northern Idaho had more than average snow fall during the four month ending Dec. 81, but southern Idaho fell short, a summary xif snow fall compiled by H, G, CarterJBoise weather bureau meteorologisftated. OGDEN, TJT. Work has begun on ; the new $300,000.00 forestry building here, - niESTON, IDA. J: urtner ex perimenting with phosphate as a sugar beet fertilizer will be conduct ed during the coming spring by County Agent Chase Kearl. Success of last year's experiments on the TJrven Earsen farm, on which 100 pounds of phosphate was used on 20 acres increasing the crop 10 tons per acre, accelerated . further tests. BEAVER, UT. According To ar report from Forest Banger, H. M. Ch ristenn there ha ve been seventeen seven-teen mountain lions killed in the Beaver mountains during the past year, 108 coyotes and 8 bobcats have been reported killed which is not the total amount killed. . TWIN FALLS, IDA.-lmmediate sale of 1,405,953 pounds of beans stored in the Jerome B. Rice Seed company warehouse since 1931, was permitted by fiver southern Idaho bean growers agreements in the district court.. The beans were stored stor-ed In the company warehouse when It went Into receivership. Calvin Coolidge Laid to Rest in Plymouth ' t f ' ,S vv t' tf it v Is&aKQ- " i. 'ft -v WW 4v . fA'"? if- Scene in the little cemetery of Plymouth,' Vt, as th body of former President Calvin Coolidge Ing interred. " - . " . Scenes and Persons in the Current News t. ....'... . . fA4V . wS-yif a 'jWi - t.. .KmmmmmmmA i BwiiWfri-rLj-iii'.-----7,v-l-.-.vJ----:.-n-iiri-iVjOfriLTinriiT iMmmm, i '...sr.. . ' V. . j. , t r....,.'. . -- - - . ; ,. " .' I 1 United States frigate Constitution Old Ironsides passing through the Culebra cut of the canaj on its voyage from Washington, D. C, to Seattle, Wash. 2-01d friends of the late President! veit doing nonor to nis memory at his tomb in Oyster Bay, u i on the anniversary of his death, i Tanker Doris Kellogg and Its 50,000-barrel cargo being destroyed by fire off the North Carolina coast, in havlhgbeen rescued by the steamer Delaware Sun. taxes in the desert J A Poet Laureate Looks Over New j j b Shnrthalkwan rlon. rROVO, UT. Covering In detail the work of the Utah State Hospital for the last biennlum, a report of the state board of Insanity haslieen Issued. The report shows an enrollment enroll-ment on July 1, 1932 of 938 patients I as comtred with 919 -two year befure.- During thfr WenniumfiOl pfttients were committed and 4"e duschar-ed and 106 died. The num-ler num-ler of patients to each officer and employe is shown to be 6.7 and the discharge percentage-.23 of one pt,' cent . . . m - r , 1 l ,c Nothing seems to be escaping the eye of the tax collector In these try lng times. The Compaghle Generale Transsaharlenne, controlling this tiny gas pump In the wastes of the Sahara desert, has been ordered by the collector of taxes at Adar to pay tax on the gasoline that Is be Ing sold at this station. So far the case remains unsettled with the company firmly refusing to allow the courts to arbitrate the matter. TO COACH FORfiHAM I- - I : J me8 EL Crowlev m-hn . football Immortality as a member of Notre Dame's S"nnr n,... - -" uviscmfu of 1924, has heen appointed football coach at Fnrdham university for a A5V. :,SH - -:;:W r) J I K - J i v F v ail, tii sztZ i six I I l" ' ' ' ' ft ' " 1 'V i i k J I I i F Dr. A. R. Mansfield, annerlntendpnt of the Seamen's Church, tute of New York, pointing out some of the interesting sights city to John Masefield, poet laureate of England, and Mrs. Mai who are visiting America. Hunting Dynamite inTWlnTW? C- -tJi viji' .--; ;7 ' 4 r. VV.1 . iK J. f - ! .11 I IT- j Illinois National Guardsmen stormlna autos In the mine regicl Taylorvjlle. I1U and searching them for dynamite 'stolen from i' !itt if t 1 lie i pi ilf ill jia 11 a: r ten I hi 4n I 1 fnft B Wmm Kmoud Csl t. the mine company'a storehbuses. |