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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Hoover Asks More Economy in Expenditures Revolt in Santo Domingo. By EDWARD W. PICKARD PRESIDENT HOOVER started off the week with a plea to the people of the nation to be moderate in their requests to congress for appropriations appropria-tions for projects in various parts of ' the country. His aim is to keep gov-7 gov-7 ernmental expenditures down to a figure fig-ure so reasonable that an increase in taxes will be obviated. Though this hould seem a worthy aim, and in stating it the President carefully made It plain that he was not reflecting on the wisdom of congress, he brought upon himself the wratb of some of the eenators, notably Mr. Glass of Virginia. Vir-ginia. The appropriations situation was the subject of a White House breakfast conference attended by Republican leaders of both houses of congress, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Undersecretary Un-dersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills, Col. J. C. Roop, director of the budget, and Walter II. Newton, one of the President's secretaries. Mr. Newton Issued a statement In which he enumerated proposals for Increased expenditures totaling $1,-735,000,000, $1,-735,000,000, which he said if approved would imply an increase In taxes of 40 per cent. The list, however, included in-cluded many projects that the congressional con-gressional leaders had either never heard of or knew would not be given lerious consideration. Consequently the Imposing list did not appear to frighten them. Senator Glass, reading Newton's statement in the senate, declared that "nothing more shameless has ever emanated from the White House vvith- In my thirty years of service In congress." con-gress." The President, he said, was Betting np a straw man merely for the purpose of knocking him down, since, as every one knew, many bills were Introduced at every session of congress only for home consumption and with no Idea that they would be . enacted Into law. Mr. Hoover, meanwhile, had given out a statement obviously intended to pacify congress. In It he said: "It should be understood that the unprecedented unprece-dented drive now In progress for new legislation and for expansion of es-' es-' tablished services which increase ex penditure beyond the budget, only in s small per cent originates with members mem-bers of congress or heads of government govern-ment departments. It originates from different sections of the country itself nd from various groups and organisations, organisa-tions, each vigorously supporting: their own projects. Many of these projects are worthy and no doubt can and should be undertaken some time over future years, especially when funds are free by completion of legislation already adopted." And he urged "the people at home" to realize that the government cannot undertake Immediately Imme-diately every worthy project. IMMEDIATELY after the Issuance of the President's economy plea the house adopted a senate resolution appropriating ap-propriating ??.OC(i.O00 for loans to farmers In the Hood stricken areas of fifteen Southern and Western states, though opponents declared the measure meas-ure was "pork" and "political pie." Under the resolution, as adopted, the ' iccrotary of agriculture may make advances ad-vances for the purchase of seed, feed and fertiliser, which banks refuse. Loans In only six states, Alabama, Florida, Georgia. North Carolina. South Carolina and Virginia were authorized under the original senate resolution. The house agriculture committee, however, added Ohio. Indiana. In-diana. Illinois. Minnesota, North Dakota, Da-kota, Montana, and New Mexico and the house Itself tacked on Missouri and Oklahoma. j Representative O'Connor of Okla- " soma said : "Everybody knows the purpose of this bill Is to get congres-lional congres-lional votes, but so long as you arc cutting the pie, Oklahoma wants Its ilece." THE Dominican republic was in the throes of a revolution last week. Insurgent forces, determined to keep President Vasquez from running for re-election and to assure the free choice of his successor in May, assembled assem-bled in various parts of the island and marched on the capital city, Santo Domingo. They entered the city tiring volleys In the air and were enthusiastically enthusi-astically greeted by the populace. There was no bloodshed as the rebels took possession of all the public buildings. build-ings. President Vasquez took refuge In the American legation and other administration leaders sought the protection pro-tection of various foreign consulates. Vice President Alfonseca resigued. Charles P.. Curtis, the American minister, min-ister, was acting as intermediary between be-tween the insurgents and the government govern-ment and was trying to bring about an agreement whereby the situation could be solved without bloodshed or damage dam-age to property. The Insurgent leaders lead-ers had promised to respect all lives and properly and made no changes except in the police force of the city. John M. Cabot of Massachusetts, a young member of the American embassy em-bassy staff, was most active as the emissary of Minister Curtis and after a swift trip to Santiago to confer with Rafael Urena, chief of the insurgents, in-surgents, he was hopeful that a peaceable peace-able settlement of the whole controversy con-troversy could be arranged. In Washington It was said by officials offi-cials that it probably would not be necessary to send marines to the Dominican republic to protect American Ameri-can lives and property. If they are needed, however, there are plenty within with-in easy reach, and the scouting fleet Is now in Caribbean waters. OAMILLE CHAUTEMPS, Radical Socialist, and his government of France lasted only five days. Then they were denied a vote of confidence by the chamber of deputies and were forced to resign. Chautemps told parliament par-liament he had no Intention of following follow-ing the radical policies of the left wing, except that taxes would be reduced, re-duced, but would maintain the lines of action which Andre Tardieu, his predecessor, had outlined, including his policy In the naval conference at London. Lon-don. The center refused to believe him, and the left wing was displeased. The vote, which was 202 to 277 against Chautemps, showed there is no real majority In the chamber of deputies and that any government can survive only through a coalition of center and left groups. Raymond Poincare was called by President Doumergue but declined to undertake the formation of a ministry on the ground of ill health. So Tardieu Tar-dieu was given the job again and Poincare said he would help him, though he could not accept a place In the cabinet. The expectation was that Tardieu would be able to make up his government in time to resume work In the naval conference by March 5. TN THE absence of the French dele-gatlon dele-gatlon the chief delegates of the other nations in the London naval conference resumed their negotiations, and It was reported the Americans, English and Japanese were making notable progress in adjusting their differences. The British official spokesman gave out a communique laying stress on the fact that "the live-power live-power pact is still holding the center of the picture" and adding that "any sort of an agreement reached will be purely tentative, will be dependent on French and Italian acceptance and will also depend upon Its inclusion in a five pov or treaty." WHEAT misers and wheat speculators specu-lators had a lively time last week. Europe had the idea that the United States and Canada were going to boost the price of wheat, so it obtained its supplies in other markets and cut down its consumption. Then Chairman Chair-man Legge of the federal farm board made the statement that the board would not support the wheat market so as to stabilize the price somewhere near the price its purehasin:: agency was paying and that It would buy only from co-operatives. This was somewhat some-what distorted and misunderstood in parts of the country and the result was that non-ce-operative wh'it was dumped on the market and pries fell ujarmingly. The farm board's funds were then used to purchase large amounts of May and March wheat, tips led other buyers Into the market and prices rallied considerably. . Mr. Legge, after conferring with President Hoover, Issued a statement designed to co-ordinate the farm board's program with the government's govern-ment's efforts to stabilize business generally, gen-erally, and asking the co-operation of the grain trade in restoration of the grain markets. Mr. Legge added significantly sig-nificantly that the board will stand firmly on its wheat loan policy and that he is confident Its co-operative agencies "will get the loan figure out of their wheat," namely, $1.18 a bushel at Chicago. DIERRE S. DUPONT, chairman of the board of the E. I. Dupont de Nemours company of Wilmington, N. J., was the star witness of the wets before the house judiciary committee and he and others almost as well known argued strongly for modification modifica-tion of the dry laws. The day before the committee heard W. W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, who urged that the Volstead act be repealed re-pealed and authority be delegated to the states to determine for themselves what Is intoxicating liquor and whether they should enact legislation to enforce en-force the Eighteenth amendment. He expressed the opinion that "a great advance ad-vance in the real cause of temperance" temper-ance" would be made by properly regulated reg-ulated manufacture and sale of lii,uor under state and national supervision, similar to the Canadian and Swedish systems, with these modified to suit conditions peculiar to America. DOLITICS in Wisconsin have reached the pot and kettle stage. Members Mem-bers of the La Foliette faction of the Republican party are trying to oust Gov. Walter J. Kohler from office because be-cause of alleged violations of the election elec-tion law, and now the Kohler faction has retaliated. A petition asking for the naming of special counsel to start removal proceedings against Lieut. Gov. Henry A. Huber, Attorney General Gen-eral John W. Reynolds and Secretary of State Theodore Dammann was filed with the governor just before he left for a two weeks' vacation in Florida. These three men, who are La Fol-letteites, Fol-letteites, are accused of pooling their funds in the late campaign and thus conspiring to bring their filings under the limit of $1,500 each, and of otherwise other-wise circumventing the election law. The only constitutional state officer not now under charges Is State Treasurer Treas-urer Solomon Levitan. ROMAN Catholicism lost one of Its most eminent churchmen In the death of Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val, arch-priest of the basilica of St. Peter's and secretary of the congregation congre-gation of the holy office, and former papal secretary of state under Pope Plus X. The cardinal, who was a member of a noble Spanish family, passed away after an emergency operation oper-ation for appendicitis. He was sixty-four sixty-four years of age. In 1003 and again in 1914 he was urged as a candidate for the papal throne but failed to get the necessary two-thirds vote of the t college of cardinals. He was prom- i inently Identified with the intrnn- j sigeant party that upheld the church's i right for temporal power, and was an opponent of modernism. Only a few days before the death of Cardinal Merry del Val came that of Carlo Cardinal Pcrosi. The college of cardinals is thus reduced to 23 Italian and ."0 foreigners, there being j twelve vacancies. j Other deaths of the week Included ' those of Mabel Normand, screen star; J Ahmed Mirza, former shah of Persia ; j Maj. George II. Putnam, New York publisher, and Eugene Byfield, Chicago hotel man and sportsman. CHARLES EVANS HUGHES was sworn In as chief justice of the j Supreme court on Monday, the oath being administered by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Nestor of the bench. Amorg the decisions handed down by the Supreme court was one declaring de-claring cons' ;tut ional the proviions of the packers and stock yards a-t authorizing the secretary of acriel-ture acriel-ture to prescribe maximum rates for the services of commission dealers at public stock yards. ti 19.10. Wwem Newspaper Cnton.) |