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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over EiglitccnlL Amendment Held Invalid Congress Wrangles Over Relief Measures Revolt of Spanish Republicans Ruthlessly Crushed. By EDWARD W. PICKARD RECACKE It was adopted by legislatures, legis-latures, but without action liy coimitutlon-al coimitutlon-al conventions In the states, the Klghtecnth amendment In Invallil, according to an opinion opin-ion of Federal Judge William (lark of New Jersey, lie ruled that only by constitutional conventions anil not Judge Clark )iy Htu(e legislatures can such amendments which trunst'er to the Hutted States powers hereto fore reserved to the peoples, be ratified. rati-fied. Validity of the manner In which the prohibition amendment was adopted was tested before Judge Clark by a (roup of attorneys all members of the New York County Lawyers association asso-ciation lifter a study of two years. The group represented William Sprague, n township clerk In New Jersey, Jer-sey, who hail been Indicted for transporting trans-porting beer. I'.y the decision the Indictment In-dictment was quashed. The Jurist declared de-clared the question he was deciding had never been presented to any court and said he was not hound by any earlier ear-lier or higher authority. Judge Clark's decision created wide Interest, though all except perhaps the most Inveterate wets believed It would In the end amount to nothing. Atly. Cen. William D. Mitchell in-Btructed in-Btructed United Slates Attorney Philip Forimin of New Jersey to take an Ini-meillate Ini-meillate appeal to the United States Supreme court. At the same time Mr. Mitchell and Prohibition Director Amos W. Woodcock notified their subordinates sub-ordinates and the public that pending the nppeal prosecutions under the Vol-etead Vol-etead nnd Jones laws will continue without Interruption In New Jersey and throughout the country. Study of Supreme court decisions disclosed that on June 1, 1020, the tribunal handed down a unanimous decision sustaining the authority of congress to determine whether proposed pro-posed constitutional amendments shall he submitted to state legislatures or conventions. However, the complexion of the court has changed since then. The new members who will pass on the Clark decision are Chief .Tustice Hughes nnd Justices Sutherlaild, Butler, But-ler, Stone and Roberts EMERGENCY relief measures were held up In both bouse and senate while the members of congress wrangled nnd debated. debat-ed. The Democratic and radical Republican Republi-can senators were stubbornly opposed to the provision in the $110,000,000 building V - " f 1 fund bill which would Sen.LaFollette permit the President to transfer funds from one class of projects to another. They finally yielded. Senator McKellar of Tennessee Tennes-see nuule another bitter attack on Mr. Hoover In the course of which he assorted as-sorted the President had never finally accounted for the one hundred million dollars which he administered for European Eu-ropean relief in 1019. Sentaor Otis F. Glenn of Illinois and others warmly defended Mr. Hoover and scathingly rebuked McKellar. Senator I.nFollette of Wisconsin put through without opposition a resolution res-olution calling for the appearance before be-fore the appropriations committee of Col. Arthur Woods, chairman of the President's employment committee; John Barton Payne, head of the Red Cross and others, to tell the facts concerning con-cerning unemployment. The President bad previously refused to transmit to the senate any reports to him from Colonel Woods, declaring he had received re-ceived only notes nnd verbal suggestions sugges-tions that were confidential. PROCEEDINGS In the senate were cut short Wednesday by the sudden announcement an-nouncement of the death of Senator Frank L. Greene of ennout at a hospital in St. Albans following follow-ing an operation for hernia. Senator Greene had been part ly paralyzed since 8en. Morrison 1;,;4 when he wa3 struck by a stray bullet tired in a gun fight between bootleggers and prohibition prohibi-tion agents in Washington. He was sixty years of age. In his earlier years lie was an editor, nnd he served through the Spanish-American war, after which he was In the regular army. Cameron Morrison, former governor ' of North Carolina, was sworn in as j senator from that state to fill out the term of the late Senator I.ee Overman. Ml EMI1ERS of congress representing represent-ing ten of the central states called on President Hoover to solicit his aid In a drive to obtain the elimination of ! restrictions against the use of corn sugar In various products, thereby i opening a market for perhaps 30,000,-000 30,000,-000 bushels of corn annually. The American Farm bureau Is co-operating with the group of congressmen. WITH remarkable speed the house passed a bill grunting $150,000,-000 $150,000,-000 additional to the farm board so that It can continue Its loans to grain and cotton stabilization corporations. Chairman I.egge of the farm uonnd told the house committee on appropriations appropri-ations that more drastic control of the national grain exchanges would be necessary before the board can operate oper-ate to the complete benefit of the farmers. He urged an amendment of present laws to that effect. HOOVER'S drought reJief measure was the subject of hot debate In the house, the chief point at Issue being be-ing the amount of the appropriation. One side wanted this to be $00,000,000 with provisions for food for the farmers, farm-ers, and the other insisted It should be only $:SO,000,000 and that the aid should be limited to crop production. At last a compromise was reached, the sum appropriated being $10,000,-000 $10,000,-000 and the wording being such that Secretary Hyde can, in emergency cases, make loans from It for food. In this form the bill was passed by the house and went to the senate, where there was little opposition to It. It suited the administration. IMMEDIATE cash payment of, adjusted adjust-ed service certificates is not asked by the legislative committee of the American legion, le-gion, but the organization organi-zation will try to get reduction of the Interest In-terest rate of 4 per cent on adjusted compensation com-pensation loans and Rep. Roger, fu" Pents to per-mnnentJy per-mnnentJy and totally disabled veterans nnd to dependents of deceased veterans. Most important among the measures backed by the Legion at this session is a veterans' hospitalization bill sponsored by Representative Edith Rogers, authorizing an appropriation of $52,000,000 to provide 13,200 beds and committing the government to a policy of providing hospitalization for all veterans, whether their cases are service connected or not. r Y THE close vote of ten to nine the senate foreign relations committee decided to postpone consideration of the World court protocols until the first Wednesday of the regulnr session of congress In December, 1031. Senate leaders believed this would serve to avoid complications that might have made necessary a special session of congress In the spring, though in Washington It was regarded as still a possibility that President Hoover might call a special session of the senate to consider the World court Issue immediately after the March 4 adjournment. PRESIDENT HOOVER'S appointment 1 of Eugene Meyer as governor of the federal reserve board was attacked by Representative Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania, chairman of the house committee on banking and currency, cur-rency, and the senate was urged to reject it. The appointment of Meyer, said the congressman, means control of the federal reserve system by International In-ternational financiers. "A careful analysis discloses the fact that Mr. Meyer has been very closely connected during his whole financial career with hanking houses of International reputation," said Mr. McFadden. "He has a very close connection con-nection with J. P. Morgan & Co. and as head of the war finance corporation and In carrying out its activities those close relationships were actively disclosed. dis-closed. He is a Wall Street man." ECONOMIC conditions condi-tions in the United Unit-ed States are Improving, Improv-ing, and the resource and enterprise of business men with faith in the future have kept many industries in-dustries on an even keel and maintained employment in the face of a general re- fc V C ' - cession, according to the monthly report of J- H- Barnes the President's business survey conference. con-ference. Evidence that industries with courageous managers in charge have forged ahead and successfully balanced bal-anced production and market consumption con-sumption was cited by Julius H. Barnes, chairman of the conference, as one of the most favorable indications indica-tions in the present business situation. situa-tion. Mr. Barnes also saw "definite signs of improvement" in a number of foreign countries. XJOT of vast Importance to the na-tlon na-tlon but nevertheless Interesting Is the fact that Speaker Nicholas Longworth and his wife, Alice Roose velt Longworth, have at last won their long fight for social precedence of the speaker ahove the cabinet otlieers and next to the vice president. This was settled when President and Mrs. Hoover accepted a dinner Invitation to the Longworth home last week. Heretofore during the social season the President's dinners outside the While House were first Willi the vice president, then with the ten cabinet members a-coriling to their rank, and finally with the speaker. This year the speaker's dinner was moved up ahead of the cabinet and made second only to that of the vice president. Miss Elizabeth Evans Hughes, daughter of the chief justice and .Mrs. Hughes, was married Friday non to William Thomas Cossett at t lie Hughes home in Washington. Dr. Harry Emerson Em-erson Fosdick of New York officiated, with Dr. William S. Abernaihy of Washington assisting. D EAR Admiral Mark L. Bristol, chairman of the executive committee com-mittee of the navy general board, a-pearing a-pearing before the house naval affairs committee to testify regarding the merits of the SS.'i,(H HJ.OOO cruiser, submarine sub-marine and aii-craft nulhoriruitlnn bill, stated frankly that he would not favor fa-vor building any six-Inch gun cruisers at this time If treaty limitations did not restrict this country to building that type. The admiral surprised the committee commit-tee by disclosing that the Navy department de-partment has not yet worked out the characteristics for the ordinary six-Inch six-Inch gun cruiser nnd is still studying the problem of whether to build a small ship or one of the maximum size permitted hy the treaty. THEODORE STEEG formed a new ministry of France, composed of "leftists," nnd with a program of good will and non-controversy. It was believed be-lieved in Paris that the parties of the right and center would speedily bring about the downfall of thla cabinet. C PAIN'S latest re- publican revolt has ended in failure, according to the official offi-cial reports from that country, but Alfonso's crowned head doesn't lie easy by any means. Strikes and riotous demonstrations continue con-tinue in ninny parts of the country, and . . ,. the anti-monarchists King Alfonso , . have not given up hopes of upsetting the throne. The revolutionary movement was well planned and, according to its Ifaders, was to have been bloodless; but a too eager army officer at Jaca, near the north border, started things prematurely prema-turely and the government was thus apprised of what was going on. Regular Regu-lar troops and civil guards quickly and ruthlessly suppressed the rebels In the north and their chiefs were killed or arrested. Maj. Ramon Franco, Fran-co, the transatlantic aviator, who had recently escaped from jail, tried to stage a revolt of the air force, but was forced to flee In his plane to Portugal, where he was Joined later by some of his companions. Premier Berenguer, overcome by the strain, was confined to his home by illness, but King Alfonso, after the worst seemed to he over, appeared in public in Madrid with but a skeleton guard, smiling as usual and exhibiting lii s customary disregard for personal danger. PROF. Albert Einstein, Ein-stein, the eminent relativity mathematician, mathemati-cian, after being dined, interviewed, photographed and otherwise "received" as only New York city can or will do it, has sailed via the Panama canal route for southern south-ern California, where f ' si i hi he Is to visit other . , . . . , , , . , Prof. Einstein noted sclent ts and make contact with educational institutions. insti-tutions. While In the eastern metropolis metrop-olis Einstein made a speech decidedly pacifist in its suggestions, even going so far as to urge that men of military age should refuse to fight as a means of preventing war. This brought from Dr. A. D. Houghton of Los Angeles, one of the founders of the American Legion, the proposition that Doctor Einstein should be barred from landing land-ing in California by the federal authorities au-thorities there. lie declared the German Ger-man physicist was a pacifist traveling in the guise of a mathematician. G' UATEMAI.A offered a characteristic character-istic incident. President Chacon having fallen 111, Baudillo Palma took over the presidency hy a smart coup. But this didn't suit the military and there .was a short and sharp revolt, accompanied by street .fighting in Guatemala City, the capital. Palma and some of his followers took refuge ref-uge in the German legation and a military junta headed by Gen. Manuel Orellana was installed as the government. govern-ment. The junta informed the diplomatic diplo-matic corps that it intended to return the presidency to Chacon if he recovers recov-ers his heal tli. O EVEN bops in several weeks. It is hoped, will take from Italy to Rio de Janeiro, Erazil, the air armada of twelve planes that started Wednesday Wednes-day from Orhetello. Italy. The first lap took them to Cartagena, Spain. The ambitious expedition is under the command of Gen. Italo Ealbo, air minister of Italy. The longest hop will be across the Atlantic from Portuguese Portu-guese Guiana to Natal, Brazil, 1,900 tulles. (IB, 1830. Western Newspaper Union.! |