Show lay M 2 f 41 I 1 seven hundred italians on board the stean steamship iship dante denied admittance to the united states talking with mends friends on the pier at new york 2 mrs D A mcdougal mrs emily blair sirs mrs T L krown brown and mrs birs bannister leaders of democratic women completing arrangements for the new york convention 8 new home of prince uric eric of denmark and Ws his bride at arcadia cal where they have a chicken ranch NEVIS REVIEW OF mm CURRENT EVENTS congress adjourns and the Count rys eyes turn to G 0 P convention by EDWARD W PICKARD linSS adjourned on saturday C CONG and the country heaved one great gereht sigh of relief business which had been depressed began to perk up tip and stocks which had been in something of a slump regained somo of their lot lost values the people of tile the united states turned with interest unmixed with excitement toward cleveland where the republican party was gathering for tile the purpose of nominating calvin coolidge for president Ident in the closing days of the session several pieces of projected legislation went by the boards tile the mcnary hougen haugen bill designed for the relief of the farmers was defeated in the house by a vote of to and modifications of it were also rejected the farm bloc did not wish any of the other farm relief relict bills passed end and then president coolidge told the congressional leaders that lie ho would not approve of any measure that included price fixing that settled it for the present As for muscle shoals Sli that also went over until next session the senate floriculture agriculture committee reporting favorably the norris bill providing government control of power from the site kite denounced unsparingly the bill which would give the project to henry ford and exposed the financial fallacies of the Detroi offer tile the report was wag written by senator norris who took full advantage advant uge of the chance to say what he thought of the adain admin pointing to fords denunciations ciati ons of secretary of war weeks beha and indirectly of the administration at the time the gorgas plant was sold tho the report said to apper tso his anger a vacillating administration publicly announced that the amount received tor for the plant would be credited on tho the ford offered for muscle shoals if hla his bid was accepted by congress T this his kindly favor perhaps super induced by other considerations so be pleased mr air rord ford that hla his anger at the administration was not only turned into love and admiration but he became so violently friendly that he himself withdrew as a candidate tor for president and announced its ills support of the executive who made such liberal conces ismons alons 11 senators heflin ladd smith nar ilar alson and caraway submitted a minority report favoring the ford bid but the best beat they could do was to obtain unanimous consent to make muscle shoals the first order of bustness business after the next session on december 8 senator McCorm leks resolution proposing the twentieth amendment to the constitution by which congress Is empowered to control the labor ot of persons persona under eighteen years of age was passed by the senate the voted vote being 01 to 23 the house approved of the proposed amendment last april so BO it now goes to the states for ratification sixty bills for the modification of the bolstead Yol Yola stead tead act were left reposing in the room of the house judiciary committee despite the efforts of their sixty authors and of others who declare alo per cent beer should tot be called intoxicating RESIDENT COOLIDGE took the P PRESIDENT tax tar reduction bill and the treasury departments analysis thereof on a weekend week end trip down the potomac and when he returned to the white house monday lie signed the measure at the same time he issued ft a statement severely verely ee criticizing criticising critic ising many features of the bill and pledging himself to do nil all be can la III the next session ot of congress toward the passage of a tax bill ness less political and more truly economic tile president said that in its administrative natures the bill depre vents bents generally an in improvement over ot lallur lawt law that pat it will troyite CI tr oyide dent clent revenue for the fiscal year 1025 1925 end and probably thereafter if unforeseen expenses do not arise that the retro betro etive active tax cut of 25 per cent Is expected by the people end and should be promptly given and that it Is desirable to have a dennite definite determination of tile the taxes as applying to 1021 1921 incomes while the income la Is still being received for these reasons lie he gave it hla approval 0 FAR os as the republican national S SO committee could do so everything was fixed up for or the cleveland convention ven tion frank W mondell former congressman from wyoming was selected as permanent chairman and charles D B warren ambassador to mexico was chosen to be chairman of 0 the resolutions committee which builds the platform mr coolidge picked on marion leroy burton president of tile the university of n to present ills his name to the convention and doctor burton accepted the grateful task lie ile told the press that lie would speak not as a partisan but ns as a citizen and a friend and admirer of mr coolidge fred upham of chicago announced that he would resign from the post of treasurer of the party and his election as national committeeman from illinois was assured ati airman adams and secretary lockwood of the national committee also will retire roy hoy 0 west of chicago will succeed the latter ile he has been long prominent in politics and Is even more silent than the president naturally most moat of the pre conven tion discussion was concerning the vice presidential nomination there developed it a strong demand dem an d that frank 0 lowden be given tho honor and mr coolidge let it be known that the illinoisan would be ba very acceptable na as his running mate no arrangements were announced tor for placing senator niram hiram johnson in nomination for the presidency and the lafollette headquarters in washing ton said the wisconsin xena senators tors name would not be presented to the convert conven alon ills ilia little block of delegates probably will vote for him to the end now to the democrats tone TURNING one reads with interest the statement by franklin D roosevelt manager tor for gov al smith t that hat the new york delegation as a whole will make no effort to td have a dry plank inserted in the platform nor will the new york democratic organization sanction such an attempt senator ralston alston Il seemingly put himself out of the running by requesting tho the indiana state convention to send an uninstructed delegation to new york it to Is probable that senator thomas walsh of montana will be permanent chairman of the democratic convention george brennan of illinois to Is for him asserting that aside from geographical reasons the distinguished record made by senator walsh in disclosing to the country scandals without parallel in the history of the na tion should make his selection election inevitable senator pat harrison Harrt ton of mississippi has been selected as temporary chairman and the keynote sounder IN N SOME respects the report of the senate oil committee prepared by senator walsh and submitted thursday was surprisingly mild it charged flagrant disregard of the law in the sinclair and doheny leases which were declared to be indefensibly wasteful and based on a policy which congress alone had hka authority to determine former secretary falls secret negotiation of the leases wits was described as in disregard of the statutes anil and his acceptance of from doheny was called in the tha last degree reprehensible hen hensl sible ble the executive order by which president harding transferred the oil reserves from the navy to the interior department was held in the report to have been illegal lecal ll on the other hand the report exonerated former secretary of the navy denby and assistant secretary roosevelt of any part whatever in the alego leading to the leases and declared that the he committee found no facts of importance in support of tho rumor that thai public officials had bad in doheny and sine sinclair ai oil stocks furthermore it said tile the evl evi dence failed to establish the existence or of uny any conspiracy between oil operators and others at tile the republican convention in 1920 for exploitation of public resources the sending of marines to drive claimants from teapot dome after the sinclair lease had been signed was denounced as aa a perfectly outrageous uso use of the armed forces of the united states resorted to to avoid a judicial inquiry into the validity of f the sinclair lease H hanily ARRY DAUGHERTY refused last week to testify before the senate committee that lias has been investigating him so chairman brookhart who has just been by the cleans of iowa drew up a partial re port and tile the future course of the in will depend on the supreme court decision as to tile he committees powers in a letter read by his attorney mr air daugherty expressed his resentment against what lie he considered we the unfair actions of the committee and added at this point I 1 take occasion to contradict and deny any inference our aur mise or suspicion that I 1 profited in tiny any illegal corrupt or unethical way directly or indirectly by reason of any activities of political associates ar t friends at any time or that my coh conduct either official or personal was directly or indirectly influenced at any time in any way by venal and corrupt motives of france franca PREMIER his has resigned and president has bas invited edouard herriot Herr lot leader of the radicals to form a now new ministry but Alil lerand hina himself self has up to to tile the time of writing refused refuse 3 stubbornly to comply with the tha demands of ills opponents slid and get out of office and the members of the left are not willing to form a government under Mille rands presidency paul Pain leve Is the man the left bloc wants for president and as a step toward that lie wits was elected president of the chamber of deputies opposition parties in germany having been unable to get together for the formation of a goT government emment president ebert re appointed chancellor marx man and his cabinet despite the howls of tho the communists and marx told the reichstag that tho the dawes report was germanys germanas Germ anys last chance of salvation and that the government was prepared to receive the report a is tin an unalterable and indivisible whole HAT was at first report oa to be wa WHAT k serious attempt at a revolution in rumania turned turne dout out to be a peaceful demonstration by peasants led by general averesch who marched into bucharest and presented a protest against the government of premier bratland Brat lano and then quietly dispersed the opposition to brattany Brat lano tano Is growing so strong that ilia his rest resignation Is predicted albania however really has a revolution led by razed Sc halja the rebels are reported to have captured and and there was waa a rumor that they had taken tirana the capital the tha fighting Is fierce in response to the request of the american minister vice admiral andrews commanding american naval forces in european waters was instructed to hold it a warship in readiness to proceed to durazzo 0 SEIVEL of austria was seriously wounded by a young communist and thereupon the hungarian police announced that this attack was part of a vast plot for the assassination of king george of england president of france chancellor marx of germany and other national leaders the plot was ds discovered when the hungarian police arrested a ronn man named Ze taron mem ber of a secret anarchist death society with headquarters in lobban austria for an attempt to kill resent regent II orthy world encircling army aviators after a pleasant stop to in japan flow last aeo week k miles lilies over tho thi china sea to Shang shanghai hal where they were ivere given agrest welcome th planned to start for amoy on satur day |