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Show THE HELPER JOURNAL, HELPER, UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over Economy in Government Gets a Boost Senate Ousts Sergeant at Arms Barry for Traducing It Roosevelt Invites Governors to Parley, By EDWARD V. PICKARD ECONOMY was given a real boost senate when It passed office bill, for It Inthe treasury-pos- t serted Into the measure provisions giving the Incom- i President al- . 1"S moat dictatorial power In reorganizing the structure of the federal government, Sen. Brat ton consolidating or reducing the number of agencies and eliminating over-lappin- g and duplication of duties, "in order to further re duce expenditures and increase efficiency In govern- ment" The measure withholds au- the fight against the McFadden banking bill, and that In reality his article was meant to defend the reputation of congress despite Us Inept wording. By a vote of 53 to 17 the senate deprived Barry of his post on the ground that he had traduced that body and could not prove his charge. In the words of Senator David Reed of Pennsylvania, the senate "made a holy Bhow of Itself." Barry did not lack defenders, the warmest of these being Senator Otis Glenn of Illinois and Senator M. M. Mr. Glenn, beLogan of Kentucky. ing a lame duck, was not afraid to say what he thought, and he had a lot of thoughts on the matter. He pointed out that what Barry had written was but one smali voice In a chorus of criticism of the senate, and continued: "I ennnjt distinguish very materially between attacking a body of this kind, as has been done In the present Instance, and the privilege which Is exercised nearly every day In committee rooms of the senate of browbeating a witness, accusing him, attacking him as he sits there, called In response to a summons. "I do not distinguish between the attacks made upon this body and the attacks made In this body day after day by distinguished members of this body, attacking, abusing, condemning, blackening people's names and reputations, knowing that the next morning upon the front pages of responsible newspapers of this country those charges, unsustained, will be broadcast to the world." The debate was lively and rather vituperative, and was Immensely enjoyed by the occupants of the galOne of these was heard to leries. quote: "The lady doth protest too thority to abolish or transfer an executive department lu Its entirety, though Senator Norrls urged that this privilege also be given the Chief Executive. His proposal was rejected because senators feared It might lead to the combining of the army and navy Into one department of national defense, as has often been suggested. The bill as approved by the senate grants the new President much greater latitude than was asked by President Hoover for the same purpose. The executive orders will not become effective until sixty days after being submitted to congress unless congress Itself provides by law for an earlier effective date. Besides the grant of power to reorganize the federal establishment the senate moved toward further economies by adopting an amendment offered by Senator Sara G. Bratton of New Mexico, one of the leading Democrats In the matter of savings. It requires all department heads to cut their expenditures for 1934 5 per cent ; though much, methinks." this must be done without cutting was wages this being Insisted upon by WHILE the President-Elec- t Senator Costlgan of Colorado. Mr. about the Caribbean Bratton estimated that his plan trying to catch fish the amateur would result In the saving of about cabinet builders kept rlglt on work Late gossip $140,000,000 In the cost of operaf-In- g ing. was that William the government during the next fiscal year. Other economy meas II. Woodin of New ores attached to the bill, It was said York would be sec-rwould realize some 20 millions of t a ry of comOne of these additional savings. merce; Henry L. Includes the enlisted personnel of Stevens of North the army, navy and marine corps In Carolina, former commander of the the present SM per cent salary cut American Legion, affecting other federal employees. In the house all kinds of attempts secretary of war, to economize were beaten during and Archibald McNeil of Connecticut consideration of supply bills. The Jesse H. or O. Max Gardner representatives even declined, by of North Carolina, Jones an overwhelming vote, to reduce their own salaries to $7,500 or secretary of the Jesse I. Straus, New York $5,000, opponents of the proposal arnavy. guing that they could not afford the merchant, also was put In the runcut and that lowering the pay ning for the commerce portfolio. would make the house a "rich man's More definite than these rumors was club" and make It Impossible for a the report that Jesse H. Jones, emThe inent Democrat and business man poor man to enter congress. proponents of the reduction were of Houston. Texas, would be made head of the Reconstruction Finance denounced as demagogues. corporation. He would succeed Atlee Pomerene, whose appointment the grave formality WITH and house met together In as chairman by President noover the house chamber and watched was blocked with all other nominatheir official tellers extract from tions In the senate. Mr. Roosevelt the mahogany chest the. reports of will rely greatly on the Reconstrucstate electors on last fall's election. tion Finance corporation and Its vast credit In carrying out his plans The reading clerk loudly announced the state totals, and when these In the "new deal" and would -- eceive had been set down on big tally strong and able support from Mr. sheets and added up, the congress Jones as Its chairman. was solemnly Informed that Franklin D. Roosevelt and. John N. GarPLENTY of expert advice on ways ner had been elected President and the nation out of the Vice President of the United States slough of despond Is to be offered by a vote of 472 against 59 for Hoo- soon. First the senate finance committee Invited more than half a hunver and Curtis. dred of the nation's leading men In their rules, all lines to present their views on despite SENATORS, ways to say some the cause of the economic depresmighty mean things about one an- sion and the needed legislative remother; but an outsider mustn't cast edies, and those views presumably are now oetng formulated. Then aspersions on their President Elect Roosevelt sent to ' N Integrity. David S. 5 the governors of the 43 states InBarry, who has vitations to meet him In the White been sergeant at House on March G to discuss means arms of the senate In of solving national problems for 14 yeas, has r which the governments of the states "ound this out and and the nation have a common vital has lost his Job. Interest. The seventvthree In his letter Mr. Roosevelt said: official year-ol- d "It Is my thought that we should wrote an article for discuss for our mutual benefit cerAl Smith's New tain subjects, such as: Outlook, the openD. S. Barry "(a) Conflicting taxation by feding paragraph of eral and state governments: which was: "(b) Federal aid for unemploy"Contrary, perhaps, to the popular belief, there are not many ment rell f ; crooks In congress that Is, out and "(c) Mortgage foreclosures, espeout grafters, or those who are willcially on farm lands, and "(d) Better land use by afforestaing to be such; there are not many senators or representatives who sell tion, elimination of marginal agritheir vot.es for money, and It Is cultural hind, flmd prevention, etc.; "(e) Reorganization and consolidapretty well known who those few are; but there are many dema tion )f local government to decrease gogues of the kind that will vote tax rosts." It Is believed all or nearly all of for legislation solely because they think thai It will help their politi- the governors will jeeept Mr. Roosevelt's Invitation gladly. All but ten cal and social fortunes.'' Indignant senators were swift to of them are Democrats and m!;:hl call Hiirry to account. Sitting as a he expected to be In Washington for trial court, tliey heard him admit the Inaugural ceremon'". he wns unable to prove that there were bribe takers and grafters In I WITH considerable Democratic support, the government's pro congress; and they refused to con Kldcr his pleas that Senator Glass tram for aid to the unemployed was It provides, bad ttald about as much concerning grefitly broadened. e r among Dtlier things, for an add! tional 1300,000,000 direct relief loans to states, and In Washington there was a belief that it had a good chance of passage during the present session. The bill as drafted also would liberalize the law under which the it. F. C makes loans for construction pro ects; and It makes provision for loans to private corporations for the development of community farming and ocean air transportation if such projects are TPIIAT flurry over the activities of - William C. Bullitt, who was re ported In Europe as being a secret representative of Mr. Roosevelt sent over to deal with the govern ments of nations that owe war debts to the United States, has blown I". ttt good. probably over for Bullitt, who was a State depart ment representative under Woodrow Scenes and Persons in the Current News THE UTAH LEGISLATIVE , ILjmmmmMmmm The most severe cuts in any budg et ever prepared In the history of Utah are urged in the report of the "committee of nine" presented to Governor Blood and each house of the Utah legislature. The committee of three senators, three representa tives and three appointees of the governor, named to study the organi zation and operation of the state government, In view of the present stringency in state revenues, brought In the results of their work, which was to work for a balanced state budget A reduction of $1,500,000 from the total of over $0,000,000 re quested by departments and lnstitu tlons as required to operate for the next two years Is proposed. To accomplish this the committee recommends cuts in all salaries averaging fifteen per cent ; placing per diem members on various boards. suspension for the biennium of such institutions as junior colleges, ineludiing the Branch Agricultural College at Cedar City, the state fair, the Juvenile courts and eliminat ing all appropriations for charitable e or institutions. It is also recommended the combination of the functions of the state securi ties commission, the state chemist, the state board of agriculture, the department of registration, the state training school and others with oth er departments and institutions which it has been deemed necessary to retain. Should the revenues fall, as some expect they will, below such esti Wilson, also was thought by some W. C. Bullitt French officials to be an emissary of Col. Edward M. House. He visited London, Paris and other capitals and conferred with various high personages, and our State depart ment called on Ambassador Edge for Information. The ambassador replied that Bullitt was acting on his own responsibility as a writer Interested In foreign affairs and was representing no one In the United States. . Mr. Edge, It is understood, re ported that this Is only one of many similar Incidents. Ever since Mr, mates, the committee recommends Roosevelt's nomination, the embas- that power be given to the governor sy has had reports of a long sucto reduce expenditures of depart cess of such "emissaries."1 ments or Institutions so that they will come within the actual revenue, VARIOUS plans for the regeneraA measure which would memor tlon of the Republican party President-elec- t Boosevelt and ialize alone have been discussed, and session of con the coming special ready has been started. This is the gress to enact a copper tariff of not of Re National the organization was in less than 10 cents a publican league, with Vice PresI troduced in the house.pound The memor dent Charles Curtis at its head and ial sets forth thut the headquarters in Washington. Three condition of the domestic deplorable copper invice chairmen have been named-Sena- tors thruand distress the great dustry Felix Hebert of Rhode Is land and Daniel O. Hastings of out the western states is largely due to the dumping of cheap foreign Delaware and former Represents copper on the domestic market. Tilson Connecticut tlve John Q. of Two bills designed to aid in the The make-uof the league appears liquidation and reorganization of in to be strictly regular Republican. The new organization announced solvent building and loan companies were introduced in the house by by John A. Campbell of White Rep. Caine, of Cache county. One direcN. who Y., be its will Plains, measure provides that a building tor, is designed to carry on a vig orous campaign for a comeback not and loan company, battling with financial difficulties, could reorgan only In the 1930 Presidential elecs with the sanction of ize In next year's congression tion but en members. second bill Its The of al races also. It is professedly neither for nor against the inter ables members of a building and loan company, which had been tak ests of any one candidate. en over the state departThe senate Republican orgnnlza ment, tobydecide on abanking course of pro to tlon seems determined continue cedure either liquidation or reorIn good standing In the party cauUnder the present law a ganization. cus the Insurgents who supported company in the hands of the bankfall. last Charles Senator Roosevelt ing department has no choice but to L. McNary of Oregon, the probable proceed with liquidation. new Republican leader of the senComplete copies of the following to a declared that ate, proposal proposed laws, can be secured from rend out of the party Senators W. Norris of Nebraska. your - representative in the legislaGeorge Robert M. La Follette of Wiscon- ture. Introduced in the house: sin, Hiram Johnson of California, and Bronson Cutting of New MexH. B. SI Strengthening the bad ico, had "not a chance In the world" check penalty. to succeed. , H. B. 82 Liability of hotel keepSuggestions were heard recently ers. that Secretary of the Treasury II. B. 83 Exempting Utah low Mills would be made chairman of temperature made gas from taxathe Republican national committee, tion. but he said he would not accept the to default of II. B. 84 place. "I've had a lot of politics In state land Relating contracts. . the last 25 years and I don't intend II. B. 85 Delinquency of. taxes. to step out of here Into the chairH. B. 80 Issuance of tax deeds. manship of any political committee," Mills said. II. B. 87 Exemption from Jury duty. BRITAIN'S cabinet in II. B. 88 Pertaining to building GREAT. sessions gave final ap- and loan corporations. proval to the British policy for neH. B. 89 Reorganization of degotiations with Mr. Roosevelt In funct building and loan associations. the debt conference to be held In II. B. 90 Amending sections of Washington. Of course the cabinet's conclusions were not made Utah statutes pertaining to building public, but it was understood Am- and loan associations. II. B. 92 Special Improvement bassador Sir Ronald Lindsay would bring back a plan providing for a taxes. lump sum payment of between II. B. 93 Cadavers for school of and $2,000,000,000 as medicine, University of Utah. settlement for the entire debt of II. J. M. 3 Tariff of 10 cents on about $11,000,000,000 which the Eu- copper. ropean nations owe the United II. J. R. 9 Survey of workmen's States. This, the debtor nations act. compensation think, would be in accord with their II. J. R. 10 Minimum wages for own Lausanne agreement on Gerwomen and minors. man reparations. II. B. 08 Fixing time statutes Representative Rainey of Illinois take effect. declared: "The United States will II. B. C9 Certification of stat not accept any such slash," and utes. ,j OLM13PHMI'l"IHI'"ia Pi I- m f W U1U1JJU ' A fry -J If 1? Jl.,.r 'jr5- """'- - TIT I I..X.I. i s '"i " "P BiniiiaiiiiinnniTnilMMiiinimjrmBniimYmi-- group-servic- Roosevelt and his companions on board the Astor yacht Nourmahal as they started fishing trip. 2 Recent photograph of Henry A. Wallace of Iowa, dl-lor Jacksonville, Fla., on a ten-daof a farm paper, who may be made secretary of agriculture. 3 William James ("Curly") Guy, center, and his counsel at his trial In Los Angeles on the charge of murdering Capt Walter Wanderwell t .hoard the latter's yacht 1 President-Elec- t from -e- y Rapid Progress on New Federal Buildings two-third- us. ,.:.f.ja-rji- AmL&A 3- An aerial view of the National Capital made recently and showing the progress on the $500,000,0 00 In the group of new structures are the Department of Combuilding program of new federal buildings. merce building, Post Office building, Department of Labor building, Interstate Commerce building, Internal Revenue building, Department of Justice building and the National museum. TO FLY OVER EVEREST Capt. Guymon Gets Schiff Trophy r 1933 Western WwHpflppr ftilcn. The marquis of Clydesdale, "The Boxing Marquis," who has been selected as chief pilot of a British expedition which will attempt to fly over Mount Everest, which Is 29,000 feet high, and the highest mountain In the world. Lord Clydesdale, who is twenty-ninis the heir of the duke of Hamilton. e, ROOSEVELT'S ' 7 J A & 5s 'Wft Mikes' 'fW iP : opinion In congressional circles upIT. B. 70 Adopting and legalizing held this view, Moreover, Mr. Roosestatutes. naof velt's plan dealing with each II. B. 71 legalizing statutes foi tion separately will give the British purposes. publication small opportunity to put forward a II. B. 72 Bonding the sale ol all for of them. proposal olgareb? and clgaret papers. II. B. 73 Sale and disposal ol new government convict-mad- e GERMANY'S goods. Hitler Is not II. B. 74 Relating to manu to have smooth sailing by any factured goods by convicts means and may be upset at the II. B. 75 Quarantine of diseased coming elections. The Socialists poultry. and Communists were trying stren If. B. 76 Capital of hanks, loan uously to lay aside their differences and trust companies. In and joint the fight against the II. B. 77 Certificates of title for Nazis. resistered motor Vehicles. Von Vice Chancellor IT. B. 78 Requiring Paper. registrator armed with a decree signed by of motor vehicles. Von President B. llindenburg, as 79 II. Licensing of motor ve sumed the premiership of Prussia, hicle operators. dissolved the diet of that stale and H. B. 80 Cost of proceeding ordered new elections on March 5 brought by poor persons. Premlt-- r P.ratin and the other old Introduced In the senate: Prussian ministers were summarily R. B. 01 Coal corporations as ousted. The government also Issued public utilities. a new set of severe laws curtaillnc S. B. 02 Adjustment of fire loss the right of assembly and of frer es. speech and pging the press. S. B. C3 Issuance of tax deeds 4 I FTor. Secretary Of the Kflire Plinrlno ci.t.ii3 Auniua ........0 t;acu uig thn tito - bert Schiff memorial trophy to Capt Vernon Guymon,yi USMO, command ing ouicer oi me marine ngnung plane squadron 10-stationed at San DIeEO. Calif., which had jenr. William SdillT or New York city, brother f the late Lhut Uerbert SchllT In whose honor the trophy was gt.en to the na.y. Is In the center. A hto-hoc- First Twin Zebras Born in America BULLDOG r , V fcf.3 """3: Miss Jane Vance, stewardess for the United Air Lines, photographed as she arrived at Newark airport with "General Grant," a white bulldog, which wns sent as a gift of Saul Almond of Los Angeles, Calif.. to Presldent-Klec- t Roosevelt. . . A T - i' r j ' 4' i jtftKjfteilWtTlilii iv Horn several weeks ago In the Barnum circus winter quarters at El nrKt,tw,n wftraii ever produced In this country are her Vk . flr8t OUtdoor "PPeaMnce. Th circus men have named them . uie nuu "l. ' v |