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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Congress Finishes Up Much Legislation and Ends the Special Session. By EDWARD W. PICKARD DETEItMINED to bring the special session to a close before the Fourth of July, congress was very busy the first part of the week, clearing clear-ing up the pending legislation. Taking Tak-ing up the new World war veterans' bill passed by the house, the senate again showed its utter disregard for President Hoover's views and Its keen desire for votes next fall. It loaded the measure down with amendments, chief of which was one increasing the pension rates to the Spanish war level. Another would permit veterans who contracted venereal diseases during their war service to obtain disability allowances. The bill was sent to conference for elimination of the features that would be most objectionable to the President. Among the bills passed by the house was the Wickersham commission's border patrol bill designed to help in curbing the smuggling of liquor from. Canada and Mexico. It establishes an enlarged and unified border patrol service In the treasury under the assistant as-sistant secretary in charge of the i coast guard, Increases the number of entry stations, and makes It a misdemeanor, mis-demeanor, subject to $100 fine, to cross the border except at an entry station, with certain exceptions. The senate passed the house bill which authorized the President to consolidate con-solidate and co-ordinate governmental activities affecting the war veterans. SECEETARY of the Treasury Mellon Mel-lon announced that the fiscal year 1930 closed with a surplus in the treasury treas-ury of $184,000,000. Tliis amount represented rep-resented the difference between receipts re-ceipts and expenditures. The public debt was reduced during the year by $746,000,000. There was a net balance In the general fund at the close of the year of $318,000,000. While the surplus was substantially substantial-ly the same as In the fiscal year 1929, Secretary Mellon pointed out that it included the abnormal sum of $70,000,-000 $70,000,-000 paid by foreign- governments in June in cash instead of in securities of the American government and also Included abnormal customs receipts, due to anticipation of tariff legislation. SENATORS JOHNSON of California, Moses of New Hampshire and Robinson Rob-inson of Indiana filed with the senate their minority report from the foreign relations committee, setting forth their reasons for opposing ratification of the London naval treaty. These reasons rea-sons are already well known to the public and need not be repeated. Dispntches from Washington said that the national defense committee of the American Legion had made a report two week"3 previously recommending recom-mending that the Legion declare for rejection of the treaty, and that nothing noth-ing more had teen heard of the matter. mat-ter. One rumor was that administration administra-tion influences had succeeded In bringing bring-ing about the pigeonholing of the report. Over In London two of England's most famous naval commanders, Earl Beatty and Earl Jellieoe, made hot attacks at-tacks on the treaty, asserting that by signing it their government was throw-: throw-: lng away "the sea power by which the British empire came into being and developed into what it is today." PRESIDENT HOOVER has named as head of the new federal power commission Lieut. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, who in his service as chief of army engineers gained a thorough knowledge knowl-edge of the waterways of the country. His nomination, with those of the other four commission members, will be sent to the senate in special session this summer for confirmation. When two members have taken office the new commission will supplant the old one, which had as its members the secretaries secre-taries of war, Interior and agriculture, agricul-ture, and which, since 1920. has supervised super-vised the expenditure of about S350,-JCO.000 S350,-JCO.000 far power development. In the new commission applications ' for power plnuls are to be placed In the hands of five $10,000 a year men who, the act stipulates, may have no other occupation. Nor may they have been connected In any way with, or hold any stock in, power companies. At present 70 applications are pending with the commission. IN A radio address to the governors' conference which met in Salt Lake City, President Hoover announced that federal, state and local governments had spent or contracted to spend a total of $1,700,000,000 for public works during the first six months of the present calendar year. This figure, fig-ure, he said, exceeded by over $200,-000,000 $200,-000,000 that of the boom year of 1929. He advised the governors that there Is still need for "continued serious effort" In every state and community to bring an early business recovery, and to reduce unemployment. Several of the western governors delivered addresses scoring the federal fed-eral government for its invasion of states' rights, especially with regard to the public domain, unappropriated lands, and mineral and oil rights. PROHIBITION enforcement was transferred July 1 from the Treasury Treas-ury department to the Department of Justice, and Attorney General Mitchell became the commander in chief of the federal dry army with Col. Amos W. W. Woodcock as his chief of staff. It was understood in Washington that the government's limited staff and appropriation ap-propriation will be devoted hereafter to detecting larger commercial bootlegging, boot-legging, while the effort to obtain greater co-operation by the states will be expanded. Many changes have been made already In the force of prohibition prohibi-tion administrators, the most important im-portant being In the metropolitan areas of New York and Chicago. In the former MaJ. Maurice Campbell resigned re-signed when ordered to Boston to take charge of alcohol permits and gave out a statement attacking "United States attorneys with political aspirations," aspira-tions," and Treasury department officials offi-cials who "have not been sincere in efforts to enforce this law." He declared bis experience had led him to the following conclusion: "Prohibition is not the logical solution solu-tion for temperance under our form of government, and I now publicly advocate ad-vocate the repeal of the Eighteenth amendment before the nation is consumed con-sumed in the fires of Its consequences." conse-quences." Col. John H. J. Herbert became the enforcement boss of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, displacing E. C. Yel-lowley, Yel-lowley, who remains in control of alcohol al-cohol permits in that area. CONGRESSMAN E. E. DENISON of Illinois, a dry Republican who was indicted on a charge of Illegally possessing liquor because of a leaking suitcase, escaped being tried when Justice Gordon of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia sustained a demurrer and held that the indictment indict-ment failed to particularize the charge against Denison sufficiently to enable the latter to frame a defense and plead an acquittal as a bar to a subsequent sub-sequent indictment. WITH the stroke of midnight on June 30 the last of the French troops of occupation departed from the Rhineland and Germany was freed from the Incubus that had rested on it for almost twelve years. The German Ger-man people celebrated the event with the ringing of bells, with great parades of singing men and women, with the playing of bands and with fireworks. Especially impressive was the jubilee in the town of Speyer In the Palatinate. Pala-tinate. Torches and flares lighted the bridge across the Rhine over which marched the town's police force of 600 men as thousands along the water's wa-ter's edge and In boats sang "Deutsch-land "Deutsch-land Ueber Alles." The final phase of the military evacuation evac-uation began In Wiesbaden at 9:30 o'clock in the morning. The Inter-allied Rhineland commission, which has headquartered at Wiesbaden since September Sep-tember when the headquarters were moved from Coblenz, closed shop. A battalion of French troops lined up on Kaiserstrasse in front of the commission's commis-sion's building where three flags floated Belgian, British and French. The regimental band broke into the "Brabanconne" and the Belgian flag slowly descended. Then the military band played "God Save the King" and the Union Jack slid down the halyards. hal-yards. It was a tense moment as the strains of the "Marseillaise" burst ' into the air and the tricolor floated down. High Commissioner Paul Tirnrd and the other ollicinls crossed the Rhine bridge In motors nud a thousand French soldiers In full war panoply marched to the railroad station and entrained for home. A proclamation by President Von Hindenburg said : "After years of bitter distress, after the acceptance of oppressive burdens, we have regained for the Rhineland a freedom that we shall preserve for the welfare and future of our fatherland. father-land. "Therefore, In this solemn hour, let us be united in the pledge, Deutsch-land Deutsch-land ueber alles." ALMOST before the outside world knew anything about it, there was a successful revolution down In Bolivia, caused by the alleged efforts of Hernando Siies, resigned president, to regain the office of chief executive and hold it In perpetuity. Troops led by Gen. Carlos Blanco Galindo occupied occu-pied La Paz, the capital, after a hot fight, and Slles and his friends fled or took refuge In foreign legations. The military junta took charge of the government and announced financial and other plans for the immediate restoration of the republic to Its normal nor-mal condition on a constitutional basis. It was understood that free elections would be held and a new president designated in such a manner that he cannot perpetuate himself in office. The populace In La Paz was delighted de-lighted with the success of the revolutionary revolu-tionary movement, and great crowds surrounded the Brazilian legation which sheltered Slles, demanding that he be given up for trial by the courts. Gen. Hans Kundt, German chief of staff Of the Bolivian army, who wa accused not only of aiding Doctor Slles, but of Prussianizing the Bolivian forces, fled to the German legation. General Galindo took steps to protect all the former officials from violence. GREAT BRITAIN is taking relentless relent-less measures to end the "passive" "pas-sive" rebellion In India. The latest of these was the arrest of Pandit Motllal Nehru, a Hindoo and acting president of the All-India national congress, ami Sayed Mahmud, a Moslem, secretary i of the congress. They were tried immediately im-mediately and sentenced to six months' Imprisonment These arrests created a great sensation throughout India and a hartal or cessation of all work was proclaimed in protest. In Bombay Bom-bay a "boycott week" was started and housewives were urged to refrain from buying British goods. The spirit of the Nationalists seems far from broken. In many cities the school students, both boys and girls, have Joined the movement, quitting their schools, holding parades and assisting as-sisting in the picketing of British shops. AMERICANS of 22 countries gathered gath-ered In Paris with Frenchmen to celebrate the France-America committee's commit-tee's "week of American nations," heard Raymond Polncare, former president pres-ident and former premier, take the United States to task for Its new tariff law. M. Polncare presided at a dinner din-ner to national delegates. "There is a crisis in the friendship of the two nations which if not rem- A--edled promptly will grow worse," he said. "Countries that try to antagonize antag-onize other peoples will find that they are attached to those other peoples by bonds they cannot break." TWO feats in aviation marked the week. First Roger Q. Williams with two companions made a nonstop (light from New York to Bermuda and back In the Columbia, the transatlantic transat-lantic Bellanca monoplane, In 17 hours and 8 minutes. Second, John and Kenneth Hunter of Sparta, III., smashed to smithereens the refueling endurance record over Sky Harbor airport north of Chicago. They refused re-fused to come down until the motor of their plane was worn out. (, 1330, Wostern Newspaper Union.) |
