Show NT ass IN emilw TRADE TREATY WITH RUSSIA 8 1 RS SHARP ATTACK ON SECRETARY HULL by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper Newt paper union T Y months of apparently futile moves to the commercial relations between tile me united states an and Itus russia sla anil and then lien suddenly washington announces that tile tho two nations had concluded a one aa year car trude trade agree ngi cement ment under tinder which S soviet 0 v I 1 e t republics agreed to increase their american imports Z by per cent in return for purchases of W 30 worth of secretary sec r american goods hull russia la Is to bo be granted wide tariff concessions by the united states russia runia will buy railroad equipment machinery for making new auto automobile mobila models and other products of heavy industry in addition tile tho soviets will buy cotton tile tho railroad equipment Is needed badly for modernization of a weak cak transportation port por tation atlon system in return lefurn russia expects to sell sausage casings certain grades of iron ore manganese furs and dairy products in largo quantities to the united states tile the pact concluded by the en exchange of notes between ambassador bullitt in moscow and maxim commissar for foreign affairs provides for no further loans to russia and makes no mention of the more than TOO in debts contracted by former russian governments ern ments it to Is in line with secretary hulls policy of trade agreements Fort for heso two reasons espe dally it Is attacked attach edby by many republicans and not a few democrats in congress senator pat mccarren of nevada was ono one of tile tho angriest of those these gentlemen lie ile declared secretary hull was a arizo diplomatic lupo dupe and announced ahat lie would demand an immediate modification of tile the reciprocal tariff act to rescind powers under tinder hull Is 18 negotiating such treaties key pittman chairman of the senate foreign relations committee also la Is earnestly opposed to giulla trade program w willin one witness before the house ways and means committee opposing tile the presidents now new tax ins program called con congress gressa a rubber stamp chairman dough ton and other democrats declared they had been insulted and would hour hear no more from the witness bitne is nearly every ono one else they heard was as aa insistent in the proposed tax bill but more tactful most of 0 them represented represents q various sections of the chamber of commerce of tho united states then tile tho committee apparently decided that it really would bo be a rubber stamp for it quit work on tho the tax measure for the time being ami according to report left the writing of it to certain brain tr users 0 of f tile the treasury department thoeub ilio public hearings had been noisy bullof full of and probably use whatever lenders leaders then began planning for postponement or 0 the proposed tax legislation until tho the winter session it was said president roosevelt had consented to this course provided proved d a MR bill can bo be agreed upon before adjournment tint thit shall be acceptable to all tile the groups whose object p Is redistribution trib ution of wealth by taxation the prospect of an early adjournment was so pleasing to tho the house that one mein member ber deen of georgia was givena given n veritable ovation when he made a speech telling how tired the legislators were ivay thousand dollars was appropriated F by tile house for investigation vesti gation by tile rules cot committee umit of lobbying for and against bills utilities interests inep rankin of mississippi declared that representative senta tive oconnor ot of N now 0 v y 0 rk chal chairman of the committee was unfit T ak N to conduct tho the inquiry because he W was antagonistic to the administration T 0 corcoran corcora oconnor rising to reply was given an ovation by tile the house and promised iho lie investigation would bo be thorough and impartial already the committee has begun its ta work the first witness being brewster Brewst cr or of maine who declared thomas 0 corcoran new deal lawyer had tried to force him to vote for the I 1 death sentence provision in the utilities bill alii by threats of stop atop ping work on the project corcoran was then put on the stand and denied the tha main features of Brew story whereupon the maine congressman shouted youre a liar corcoran Cor cornn explained with facility his activities in behalf of the tha utilities maanum ile he said lie ile was assigned to help with the original drafting of the bill through a direct request front from the president senators wheeler and It he said naked asked him to help bring about passage of the bill unofficially lily an and informally the lie general opinion seems to be that tile the wagner labor disputes act Is unconstitutional and will bo be so BO decIn declared red by the united states enie ilie court when that abat tribunal Is called on for a decision william green president of the american Feder federation atlon of labor urges 1 labor lenders leaders to pay no attention to cealma that the law ly Is invalid Lenol leading ng legal authorities of tile the nation are of that tile act la Is constitutional in every respect lio lie wrote but added in it a letter that lie expects a court test and that the Ani american erlean federation of labor will get tile the best legal talent green in a pamphlet sent to anem ber unions of tho the federation advises them to be absolutely sure of their ground before prosecuting employers under tho the wagner act liven even if the wagner vaguer law it is knocked out by the supreme court tho the administration believes it has a plan that will avert at least 00 per cent of the usual number ol of strikes walk outs cuts lockouts lock outs and other disorders it Is being launched in toledo ohio and ling has been called the toledo oledo 11 plan because it was conceived conc elved by assistant Ass latant secretary of labor edward F mcgrady when he was trying to settle n dispute in that ohio city it ling has no sectional characters characteristics carries no federal compulsion and rests solely upon the willingness of workers and employers in every city that adopts the plan to abandon the harsh economic weapons of old and substitute peaceful for violence mr mcgrady explained it thus A panel of business and labor leaders of equal number Is chosen with a federal official lelal off to act as aa chairman this olli cial presumably would bo be one wh who has made a record in the regional labor service setup under the national labor relations board the employer would continue to io bargain with his workers is as usual in event of a disagreement between them the workers agree not to strike and the employer agrees not to lock out or oy discriminate against the men as the issue Is carried to the newly created panel this group debates the problem and it if it Is unable to agree the heads of the business and labor representatives on the panel and the federal ed eral chairman continue seeking an avenue of settlement if they are unable to agree then an appeal Is made direct to the owner of tho the business involved and the head of the union controlling the workers only after nil lanes of compromise have been closed can a strike be called LONG has the S SENATOR political fate of his chief opponent mayor T emmes walmsley of now new orleans inthe in alie palm of ills his hand but lie ho pa Is forcing the peo aco be wa aa kev a pie of A the H city il to 1 put the mayor out A A majority of Walin followers tired of df the k conflict formally nl desert deser cil teil him when the ello comm commission isit on council bounel I 1 adopted 6 resolution endorsing recent state T semmes es ments of two corny coiny walmsley W a miss loners calling for the city to make peace with long tho the mayor standing almost alone alond declined to yield lie ile told the council connell lie ho would ifould not deal with men who have been called crooks and thieves by every member of tile the commission council in it a caucus preceding tile the council session 13 of walmsley 17 ward leaders voted for tits his resignation for the good of tile tho city tho the mayor told thern them lie he was going to stick from h I 1 to breakfast senator long received a committee of the se ceders and saldie said he would call a session or of flie ho state legislature to force WaI walmsley out of ohlee within 23 hours after tho the old regulars obtained approval of a majority of the cites voters for a petition re queuing ahr mayors removal ren loval PRESIDENT Pv RESIDENT ROOSEVELT led various arlous of tits ills cabinet inc members lubers leaders leader of tile the majority in congress and capt captains altis of tho the new den deal on a week weekend end outing that was ut at dubbed the kiss and make up tip 0 excursion r cur sion 11 for a lot of these juen had been snarl snarling ln at one another in tile physical anti political heat of re recent cc at lays days in washington and the chief executive evidently thought it time tile the quarreling was ended the entire bunch went to jefferson island in fit clies chesapeake speake bay mr air loosevelt Ioos sevelt evelt on oil tits his yacht sequoia and tile the others on a fleet of boats cabinet hibl net members mei ubera included were vice president garner postmaster general parley farley attorney general cummings secretary oi of tho the interior akes secretary of war dern and secretary of commerce roper speaker byrns headed a congressional delegation including senators pittman robinson cope land dieterich Dle walsh gerry duffy and relief belief director hopkins no I 1 brain truster tugwell and treasury general counsel oliphant also were in the party of northern italy intimated that premier mussolini might abandon his projected war with if lie he could find a way of backing out without losing face dut but the itoman cubile was quite sure tile the duces sivo policy would bo be unimpaired this opinion wis was strengthened by the sending of more troops to kast hast africa secretary of state hull entered the picture again with a rather statement expressing americas abhorrence of war and confidence in the kellogg pact tile the italians like this at all eare ELEVEN states of the par far west airo to be represented in the next and third grass roots conference or of republicans it I 1 t will bo held I 1 in n tile the yellowstone national park august 2321 23 2 1 according to I 1 mike reynolds state director of tile young republican can league of montana ile he said george olmstead instead Ol des mottles chairman of the young republican committee anti and col theodore roosevelt were planning to attend and that among those invited to speak were senator william wilham E dorah borah of idalio idaho representative hamilton fish of new york and gov harold 0 of new jersey ONE 0 NB of the hottest scraps of the year developed between see secretary of the interior lobes ickes aud and senator tydings of maryland over the inquiry into tile the administration of t gov paul IAL pearson in the virgin islands the secretary seer m accused th the e senator of whitewashing a witness before the tydings committee and tile the senator retorted by advising the secret secretary tary a r y to confine yourself to the seely secy I 1 ickes ekes tor for which you have been appointed both of them were thoroughly angry and tydings in a letter accused ickes of seeking cheap publicity 1 federal judge T webber wilson of tho the virgin lalanda islands had given testimony that exasperated ickes and tho the secretary demanded that tho the judge be removed from office for official misconduct then ickes wrote tydings a letter carrying its his charge of whitewashing and saying of the judges testimony there was no cross examination to test tits his truthfulness and if any statement ever needed such a test it was his big judko judge wilson had toli told the committee that there had bad been administrative istra tive interference with ills his court and that morris ernst counsel 1 for the civil liberties union while a guest of governor pearson Pen had threatened to put him film on the spot in the press unless he granted a rehearing to a government employee accused of theft accused secretary ickes of gross deceit upon the american people by stating in an interior department part ment press release that paul 0 yates administrative assistant of pearson had been discharged when you know and I 1 know that mr yates fates had resigned five days before your press release was issued cheat it was the summer heat in lV washington ashington 1 berb perhaps UPS there was a lot of pressure from the direction of tho the white house anyhow the backbones of tho the house democrats recently so stiff against dictation by the ad administration minla tr tra tion atlon weakened most noticeably when the house took up the re drafting of tile the tennessee valley authority act nearly nil all the recent rebels among the democrats fell into line and the bill was shorn of livery major provI provision slon that was objectionable to the president this victory greatly hearte neI the administration forces and they pressed forward to try for another in the conference on the utilities bill also in the senate they carried on a determined light fight for the amendments broadening the powers of tho the AAA senators borah and byrd were the chief opponents of the new dealers in this latter battle MOST kf OST notable nobble of recent deaths was that of llert alert col alfiel dreyfus of france central figure of tho the finious famous dreyfus case of some 85 35 years ago which kept F franca rance in a turmoil for four years dreyfus a je jew w was then a captain and was tried and convicted of selling tary secrets to germany lie was a prisoner on devils island for four years and then was wag pardoned because it had been established that ho he was tile the innocent victim of plotters and traitors dreyfus served ills his country again in the world war lie ile was seventy five years old when lie he died aled 0 OLD LD JACOB S COXEY of massillon ohio Is again on bis ill s way toward the white house haying been nominated for president by acclamation by a national farmer fanner labor convention in omaha to ba sure there were only a few delegates and some of them bolted and the convention which was to have lasted jive are days hid only ona session but it was a regular affair leslie erickson of minneapolis was wn chosen to be ba general hoseya running mate the platform included a lot of things among thorn them being planks for sharing the tha wealth location and technocracy |