Show NEWS MEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Coolid candidacy announced and cleveland gets the f G 0 P convention 11 s MEN in mm GERMAN PARLEY by EDWARD W PICKARD THE HE republican political pot t was boiling merrily last week to be gln with president Coolid lint was cat cast into the ring by this statement issued by frnnk frank IV stearns steams the wealthy bostonian who for years has been interested in M ur r Coolid political advancement in answer to a question frnnk frank W stearns steams said gald that the friends of president coolidge Coolid go are organizing under the guidance of william M X butler fh he massachusetts member of the rational national committee and a friend of mr Coolid coolledge go of many years standing who will act as tho the presidents personal representative As he perfects ahe he organization he will from time to time make known those in various parts of the country who will coop co op erate with him in the organization two days later united states senator W B mckinley was selected to handle the coolidge campaign in illinois Is considered it a pivotal stated fi tate national committeeman W it 11 crocker of california after a talk with the president announced that mr Coolid name would be on tile the primary ballots in that state a and nd that Ms bli canvass was already being organ fred lyca the had leyle let it be known knorn thit that it believed the national tint lonal convention should not bo be glan to chicago find and that it favored cleveland ostensibly the objection to chicago wits was that it lied bad had the conventions for a good nanny many years and mr coolidge thought the honor should be passed around actually lac according cording to the ho well posted the coolidge managers feared the johnson sentiment in would be so strong that the convention ball would weald be packed with supporters up porters of the call dornlan forn for rilan lan anyhow tile the presidents preference settled the contest and when iben the tha republican national committee met fred upham withdrew achl afi cass bid and that of cleveland wile accepted the date selected for tile opening of the convention convent lori la in june IQ 19 the committee then proceeded t to 0 r rescind life the previously approved reform of convention representation whereby the delegations delegat lona of the southern states were nit cut down to correspond to their votes now instead of losing 23 delegates the south will have IS 18 more than in 1620 the friends of senator johnson on the committee hotly opposed this asserting that it was the re result 8 alt of a series of deals between the coolidge supporters end and the tha negro republican 11 1 forces of the south this was wag dented by the administration crowd and they backed up their dental denial by increasing the representation outside the south by votes these being given mainly to states which john ton son Is said to claim HS aa his own most of the northern states gei get three more delegates massachusetts galna four and tennessee which went republican for the first time in 1020 1 2 gains seven in ii the convention of iq 4 there will b bi a total of 1109 delegates that of had senators natora ee and R RADICAL the he two bartner labovites laborites from minnesota combined with the democrats democrate to prevent the election of senator cummins as chairman of the interstate commerce committee and the deadlock continued throughout the week the fight on cummins Is due to the fact that he already Is presiding officer of the senate the insurgents voted most of the time for la follette bollette and thi th dem democrats arsts voted for smith of south carolina on wednesday smith lacked but one vote buse some lome of the shifted to him bli bl b senator bruce of maryland democrat brat prevented the coup by br casting his vote tote for cummins justifying his bis action by it was wai time alir e for the democrats to quit playing into the hands of the la ciol follette let toila to ila gnus john son brookhart radicals aside from it the e interstate committee the entire slate of committee assignments was approved magnus johnson Jo linson was given the ohp place on the foreign relations committee committe 6 which lie he coveted in tho the house the republican committee of committees save gave file he radicals only such lucli representation as they were entitled to by seniority the democratic representation was increased in proportion to their increased strength in the house PRESIDENT COOLIDGE submitted to congress con gresa tile the budget for or the next fiscal year proposing tt a tax reduction of more than and a cut of about in the cost of government ern ment lie recommended a revision of the tax laws along the lines suggested by secretary mellon ue he also took another rap at the proposed bonus asserting that there la Is no sound reason for it and that compensation should be limited to the war incapacitated Inca and wounded an additional for prohibition enforcement to la asked of congress president coolidge tinting stating that a considerably sider side ably rubly enlarged field force should be provided ile ho added that he would present to congress soon boon a supplemental estimate of mainly for additional vessels for the coast guard for the purpose of combating more thoroughly rum running suit and unlawful importations 11 it this appropriation Is granted the president said lie he would ask for an additional addition sil later for a stroller similar purpose MORE monn than 2000 nominations were sent cent to the senate by the prest dept dent many of the nominees already alread y holding office under recess appointments t among the appointments were frank D B kellog to ile be ambassador to great britain richard M tobin of Call california fornia to be the netherlands frank Me Manamy of washington D C and mark W pot ier ter of new york to be members of the interstate commerce commission george georga R james of tennessee and adward 11 II of lown iowa to be members of the federal reserve rescue board find and edward P parley farley of bf it II linets frederick 1 I thompson of alabama and bert B H haney biancy of oregon to bo be members of the shipping board tho the nomination of walter L colien cohen negro to be collector of customs at new orleans was made mada despite the protest of the two louisiana senators senator ShIp stend of minnesota and eight others voted the confirmation fir of mr kelloggs appointment to tile the court of 0 st est james but tho the vote in his favor avor was TB 75 PREMIER rOIN POINCARE CARE probably because of tile the prospect of a labor government for great britain Is relaxing his opposition to an unrestricted inquiry into tile tho german reparations question and as a result the united states la Is to participate unofficially in such nn an investigation to be made by two committees selected by the reparations commission the allied governments government and germany requested this and president coolidge announced that he ha approved of 0 by american america n experts one of the coal committees Is to examine the german capital abroad and tile the other 1 to endeavor to find means of balancing the lemon german budget and of stabilizing german currency the american experts presumably will be approved it not chos chosen enby by the president among the names most prominently mentioned arefeen arc are flen gen charles 0 dawes mortimer L ondO end george eorge M reynolds all eminent bankers in paris it Is hoped general dawes danes will be naked asked to serve seive because of his exper experience terice tit in handling budgetary problems meanwhile the german geman government announces that it la Is dead broke and it has decided to make a worldwide appeal tor for financial ald aid sufficient to carry it teroz through the next year biar the germata gennan banks and industrialists refuse cretu tile the gor eov ern era eminent further financial help and taxes tares are not coming coining in minister of finance luther told a conference of german edir that the could not meet the odd gold noark lid boa outstanding and that the cabinet preparing a law whereby all these old debts including tha war loin loan lie he paid in paper under the provisions of this law the govern government will repay more than war loan and other debts for less than 3 cents on the dollar U T another coalition govern merit can be arranged great britain may find it neef necessary to hold another parliamentary election in the near future in the new parliament which meets january 8 neither of the three parties will have a majority after prime minister baldwin had talked with king george and the party leaders had held many conferences it was announced that the baldwin cabinet would continue until parliament had assembled about the il annie it nie timit time the labor party chiefs announced that they would undertake to form a government it if called upon with macdonald at the head the prospect Is that soon after parliament meets macdonald acDonald It will propose tin an amended address to the throne and that this will be of such a nature that the lib orals cannot refuse to support lt it this would mean the overwhelming defeat of the government and tle the immediate resignation of the baldwin cabinet followed by the summoning of maedonald macdonald to form a now new ministry but this too would be a minority government and could be ousted tit at any time by it combination of the and liberals it of the news from C censorship mexico makes it to learn just how the revolt against president egons government Is progressing it if the information given out by the rebels Is correct it Is doing very ery well indeed it may be that obregon will have been overthrown before this reaches the reader revolutionary armies from varIO various quarters were moving on mexico city lust last week and it ii was said de la Is aluerta had announced that he was in control of the country and had find begun appointing tits his cabinet Ilo however wever the latest dispatches pl itches atthe time this la in written say obregon has checked the rebel lebel adanie yance from the west gen angel flores denit the rebellion a blow hy renouncing his file candidacy for th the e presidency find casting in tits his lot with obre confor gon for lie ho Is believed to have the gup support of sinaloa chihuahua pas fine and the federal district an uprising of the yaqui indians probably was squelched etched by the execution df their chieftain A J MONO MONG those taken by death last lash week three are worthy of 0 mention in this column two were americans Wil william linni A pinkerton head of the detective agency that bears tits his name and hero of many exciting stories of crIt criminal hinal life and john R fathom editor odthe of the providence R 1 I journal an eminent newspaper man who during tile the first part of the world war vi ar obtained numerous scoops concerning the activities of germans in the united states the third was baron chairman of the board of directors of the pie canadian pacific railroad who Is properly regarded as one of the builders of modern canada 0 r NE of the worst wrecks in the his bis tory of the new york central lines occurred at Fo rathe N X Y when one section of the twentieth th century train ran into another section which had haa stopped after hitting an automobile nine persons persona were kIlled in their berths and about forty fort were injured darkness tog fog and an engineers neglect of warning signals were blamed for the disaster B ENITO DENITO premier of u italy believes ballf ves he and his government hayt have proved so acceptable to the country that it Is no longer necessary for him to dictatorial powers therefore at his request the ling king has closed the present session of parliament and new elections be held probably in april if af which mus bollal wll ask italy to approve his acts by returning him to power as pi emler ler there Is no SIP sign of organized opposition to him E IRNEST RNEST CHUARD of lausanne was elected president of the swiss confederation the swiss parlia ment velch chooses the president gave III him lu of the votes the new vice president Is 1 jean muy musy of Fri fribourg bour re |