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Show 1 Gorst amphibian passenger plan.2 being hoisted out of the waters of Puget sound after its plunge that cost two lives. 2 Santa Maria volcano In Guatemala, an eruption of which ruined several towns and killed many persons. per-sons. 8 Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut who was censured by toe senate for employing a lobbyist to help him with the tariff bill. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Elections in Virginia and Elsewhere Cause Democrats Demo-crats to Rejoice. By EDWARD W. PICKARD DEMOCRATS were Jubilant over the results of elections held In Tarlous states, seeing tn them evidence that the split In the solid South made last fall by the Republicans was not permanent ; that the people do not like the Republican tariff measure now pending; that the Democrats have a good chance to cut down the Republican Repub-lican majority In both houses of congress con-gress next year and pave the way for real fight in the next Presidential campaign; and, as Chairman Jouett Shouse of the Democratic national executive committee put it, "the country, coun-try, for the time being at least, Is Democratic-minded." Most interesting was the election In Virginia where the regular Democratic Demo-cratic ticket, led by Dt. John Garland Pollard for governor, was easily victorious vic-torious over the coalition of Republicans Repub-licans and anti-Smith Democrats which was directed by Bishop Cannon, Can-non, C. Bascom Slemp and Henry W. Anderson and which had William M. Brown for Its gubernatorial candidate. candi-date. The political power of Bishop Cannon In the Old Dominion was completely com-pletely upset and the use of religious strife for partisan purposes was discredited, dis-credited, and observers generally admitted ad-mitted that Virginia wag restored to the list of safely Democratic states. Kentucky also gave the Democrats cause for rejoicing, for they retained two-thirds majority of the lower house of the state assembly and a majority ma-jority of the senate. Last year Kentucky Ken-tucky was carried by Hoover and the Republicans elected nine out of eleveD congressmen. Mayor Jlmmle Walker of New York elty retained his office by virtue of a genuine landslide, his plurality over Florello H. La Guardla, Republican-Fusion Republican-Fusion candidate, being almost 500,-000. 500,-000. George U. Harvey, borough president pres-ident of Queens, was the only Republican Repub-lican to win In the metropolis. In a dozen other New York cities the Democrats Dem-ocrats elected mayors. Indiana voters apparently turned flatly against the Ku KIui klan, for throughout the state the candidates who had klan affiliations generally were defeated by Democrats. The wets also saw In the results evidence that the people were tired of the domination of the Anti-Saloon league. 1 Reginald Sullivan, Democrat, won the Indianapolis mayoralty by a two to one vote, and In many other state centers, cen-ters, most of them former Republican strongholds, the Democrats were victorious. vic-torious. Detroit staged an exciting mayoralty contrast between former Mayor John W. Smith, liberal, wet, and Catholic, and Charles Bowles, former Judge and a Catholic. The klan, prohibition and religion all figured In the fight and the race was so close that the result was In doubt to the very last Then It appeared Bowles had won by about 6,000 majority. SENATOR BINGHAM of Connecticut has received his punishment for charging that the subcommittee on lobbying was pocked against the administration, ad-ministration, though ostensibly his offense was the employment of a lobbyist lob-byist to post him on tariff matters, by virtue of which employment said lobbyist lob-byist gained admission to executive meetings of the fliiiince committee when It was working on the tariff bill. Bingham refused to apologize and so Senator Norrls, chairman of the Judiciary committee, who had named the subcommittee on lobbying, Introduced tils resolution censuring J'.ingliam for action that "Is contrary to good morals and senatorial ethics find tends to bring the senate Into dishonor dis-honor and dlMrepute." Twenty-two Republicans Re-publicans voted against the resolution, but a like number lined up with tblrty-tv.o tblrty-tv.o Ifemornils and the tneusur wus adopted, (A to 22. "pHAT remarkably voluble Senator - Brookhart of Iowa, after giving fair warning, arose in the senate and told his story of the "Wall Street dinner" din-ner" given In Washington three years ago by Walter J. Fahy of New York and attended by a number of senators and financiers. It was a fairly amusing amus-ing old tale but far from exciting. Brookhart said that before entering the dining room each guest was offered of-fered a silver flask of liquor, and that he and Senators Smoot and Gooding declined. But he failed to name those senators who accepted the flasks, saying say-ing that the "boys" could answer for themselves. Beside Brookhart at the feast sat E. E. Loomls, a railroad official offi-cial and connected with Morgan & Co., and on his other side was Otto Kahn. "During the course of the dinner, Mr. Loomis took his hip flask out of his pocket and he poured, out some of that alcoholic stuff," said Senator Brookhart. "I have had enough experience In the chemical laboratory to know that it had a heavy content of alcohol. He poured that In the glass, and then he poured in some water it was too strong to take raw and he drank that A lot of similar operations went along down the table." The Iowa senator was called before the grand jury In Washington last week and presumably told that body the same story of the Fahy dinner, though he may have glveD more vital details. In the course of his speech in the senate he berated the administration adminis-tration for the failure to enforce the dry law along the Canadian border and In the best clubs and hotels. He especially attacked Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and said President Hoover should dismiss him from the cabinet MORE than the expected success Is attending the efforts of the Democratic-radical Coalition In the senate In changing the tariff rate schedules. After having their way with a number of chemicals, the coalitionists showed their strength effectively when the first major Industrial In-dustrial schedule was reached, that fixing the duty od pig Iron. By a wide majority they were successful In fixing this rate at 75 cents a ton, Just half that proposed by the admin-Istratlon admin-Istratlon group and 37V4 cents less than the present duty. The vote was 48 to 30. Reed of Pennsylvania said this vote could only serve to confirm his contention that the tariff bill was dead and that the house could never agree to the changes which the coalition was making. CHIEF witness last week before the senate lobby committee was A. J. Arnold, Washington representative for the Southern Tariff association and the American Taxpayers' league. The Inquiry revealed some of the methods employed to get tariff protection pro-tection for products of Southern states and to promote abolishment of the federal Inheritance tux. A long list of names of more or less prominent men and corporations from whom Arnold obtained contributions was made public, and Arnold sought to Justify his collections from them and all his other efforts. He gathered in about $225,000 In the past year but was a trifle hazy as to how this amount was expended. CHARLES GATES DAWES, our ambassador am-bassador to Great Britain, on the eve of his return to his post In London Lon-don spent a day or two In Washington Washing-ton conferring with President Hoover and Secretary Ktimson. lie was given a detailed account of the conversations conversa-tions between the President and Prime Minister MacDonald and discussed various phases of the naval reduction situation. A mbassadors Dawes and Guggenheim were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hoover at u dinner, as were the members of the senate foreign relations committee, and there wns something of a scnsnllon when It was learned that Senator III nun Johnson of California, a member of that committee, com-mittee, was not Invllod. The newspapers news-papers mado n lot of the Incident, but Mr. Hoover promptly wrote the senator sena-tor explaining that bis ouiImhIoii from the list of guests wns wholly accidental und had caused lbs President great distress. PRIME MINISTER MAC DONALD reported to the house of commons on his visit to the United States and thanked the American officials and people for their cordial welcome and the honor paid him. He gave little Information In-formation on the agreements reached in Washington but in the course of his speech admitted the matter of Great Britain's fortified bases off the American coast had been discussed. Mr. Mac Donald's government does not face any considerable opposition in the matter of the naval agreement, but In domestic affairs, especially the plana for settlement of labor troubles, its course Is not to be so smooth. The question of granting dominion status to India, or rather how soon this should be done, also has given rise to bitter debate. One of the first acts of parliament was to approve the resumption re-sumption of relations with Soviet Russla. ANDRE TARDIEU formed a new cabinet for France, a "concentration" "concentra-tion" government with Brland still In as foreign minister, but there were fears that it would be short lived. The Communists, Socialists and Radical Radi-cal Socialists decided to vole against It solidly, and they would need only fifty right wing votes to overthrow it Such a result would seriously en- i danger the success of the Young plan and the Rhlneland evacuation. German Nationalists and Fascists ; mustered enough votes to call for a I plebiscite on the Young reparations plan the result of which shall be binding bind-ing on the relchstag. The present government has a majority in the reichstag and that body will reject the proposal for a plebiscite, whereupon where-upon It will be submitted to the national na-tional electorate. To override the relchstag's veto will require 20,000,000 supporters, or half the total eligible electorate, and so the scheme Is evidently evi-dently doomed to defeat CONFLICTING reports and claims made uncertain the situation la the civil wur In China, but there evidently evi-dently had been some bloody fighting between the rebel "people's" forces and the Nationalist government troops. There were no Important developments on the Manchurlan front. The American Ameri-can Red Cross sent over $20,000 for the relief of the white Russians who survived, the mnssacres perpetrated by the Soviet forces In thut region. UP IN Minneapolis rhe Co-operative Farmers Northwest Grain corporation cor-poration was organized with capital of $0,000,000, to be owned by the Farmer Elevator and Grain Pool associations as-sociations of Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Montana and to act In co-operation with and as the agency for the Farmers National Grain corporation In the four states. FOLLOWING a brief spurt of recovery, recov-ery, stock prices cn the exchanges went tumbling again until most of them reached the low figures of the previous wk, and each day many more billions of paper values were wljied out. If the New York bankers' pool was doing anything to support the market, It wasn't visible, and none of the bankers would say a word. The bears were Just permitted to have things their own way, and the terrl- j fled amateur speculators who had survived sur-vived the earlier debacle submitted their wool to the shearers almost unresistingly. un-resistingly. Later came some spasmodic spas-modic recoveries. RDSCOK C. M.CUI.LOCII of Canton Can-ton wns appointed by Governor Cooper of Ohio us 1'nltod States senator sen-ator to lill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Theodore IC. Burton. He has served three terms In congress i and held oilier public olllces. MeCul-loch's MeCul-loch's appointment Is for a period of one yenr. He must seek election In November, 1!.'10, .for the unexpired two years of the six year term of the late Senator Frank II. Willis. RI'X'KN'T deaths Include those of William (1. Lee, former head of tho Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen; Train-men; Maniiils Inouyo of Japan and Maurice Herbette of France, diplomats; diplo-mats; Prince Max of Baden, last Imperial Im-perial chancellor of Germany, and George Ilannauer, president of the Boston and Maine railroad. 2k 1131. MlM- HtvaMDW llaU |