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Show NEWS REViElV OF CURRENTEVENTS Cruiser Bill Fight Nears the End; Supply Measures for Army and Navy. Ey EDWARD W. P1CKARD BROUGHT to time by threats of night sessions made by Senator Hale, chairman of the naval affairs committee, the senators opposing the fifteen cruiser bill abandoned their filibuster tactics and consented to limitation lim-itation of debate on the measure. This was to take effect at noon on February Febru-ary 4 and the prospect was that a vote would be reached by the middle of the week. If the pacifists succeed In attaching at-taching amendments to the house bill making necessary the appointment of a conference committee, there might be a final filibuster against the conference con-ference report. One amendment was favored by President Coolidg(? the elimination of the clause fixing dates for commencement of the construction of the cruisers. It was made known at the White House that if the bill passed even without the time clause, the President will ask for an appropriation appro-priation for an Immediate start in the building program. Representative Britten of Illinois, urging passage of the bill, said early In the week that he was "sure the time limit will be pleasing to President-Elect Hoover." But that gentleman gentle-man immediately telegraphed to President Presi-dent Coolidge that he had made no public or private statement upon this question, acd added : "As you know, I warmly support your views and you may so inform others if you wish to do so." This telegram was handed to Senator Hale, who read it to the senate, and at the same time he read a message from Taul V. McNutt, national na-tional commander of the American Legion, urging passage of the bill with the time clause, on behalf of the Legion. Senators Borah and Walsh both spoke In favor of elimination of the time clause, arguing that such action was proper as a preliminary to another an-other disarmament proposal. Senator Reed of Missouri, who retires to private pri-vate life on March 4. delivered what will be one of his last speeches, exercising exer-cising his great powers of ridicule and sarcasm against the pacifists and arguing strongly for preparedness. DESPONDING to the appeals of Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, the appropriations committee of the house reported a naval supply bill calling for approximately J.'t51,0i0.000 and providing fund.? for the addition of 500 enlisted men to the naval establishment. estab-lishment. This would bring the navy personnel up to 8I,r,00. The recommendations recom-mendations of the budget being thus exceeded, the committee, la order to make up the deficit, advised the decommission de-commission of older ships and the transfer of their crews to newer vessels. ves-sels. The bill's total Is about 000,000 le."3 than was appropriated for the current fiscal year and ?70,000,000 less than the estimates submitted to Secretary Wilbur by the heads of the naval bureaus. The War department supply bill, which had been passed by the house, was reported to the senate by Its appropriations ap-propriations commit tee with an addition addi-tion of JJ.-i.OOO.OOO, for purely military n'livHies, made to the $ I I7,'KK).0'KJ total of the house measure. Of the funds added by the senate committee, approximately. $::,0')O.O'XJ will go for the puniinse of new bombing, pursuit and training planes for the air corps, TOO.OOO for the National Guard maintenance, main-tenance, new construction nod an Increase In-crease In the ration iillownnee. and approximately !l,00O,0'Hi will be turned out to the or;-:mizc( reserves. Other Semite changes ineln.,., t,e Addition of two lleiri'l f irn vi 1 1; n;- Z ', . 000 for forage for l.O'Ki lior-.es nv. nod by jinny oflieors niid M'.r.'iM for the pure!, a' e of .VHI 10J 111 ional Im.; for the ca va try. en: '.iu-v, a a ::d 11 1 1 v. P.otli Ileum v. i , o ,,. r.,... ,y I budget, (Oil I; id l,e,.,l !!!.'. I. .. SI I..V the l.on .e. l)i:i;.",iii;;.'."r '""r,n n,:;. ;i: .. tils f ire ,ve ri 1 '. 1,: Hi- K-iril annual lunoUn;: of U e In; iue..a organ ization of the government, dwelt upon up-on the extraordinary prosperity which the nation Is enjoying, but warned the country that this can be continued only by the exercise of rigid economy in federal, state and local expenditures. expendi-tures. While admitting that as a result re-sult of the expansion of the country federal expenditures show a tendency to rise, Mr. Coolidge warned that the greatest menace to continued prosperity pros-perity now lies In the rapidly mounting mount-ing costs of local and state governments. govern-ments. This heavy drain on the earnings earn-ings of the people, he said, "is a red flag warning us of the danger of depression de-pression and a repetition of the disaster dis-aster that overtook the country la the closing days of 1P20." The President warmly defended hl3 policy of drastic economy in federal expenditures, and was seconded In this by Director of the Budget Lord. D ECEIVING few political visitors and devoting part of each week to fishing, Herbert Hoover Is having a fine time down In Florida. Most interesting in-teresting of his callers last week was Al Smith, who was stopping in Coral Gables. With .Tohn J. Rascob and W. F. Kenney, the recent Democratic standard bearer drove over to Belle Island and spent half an hour chatting chat-ting with the man who defeated Mm. Later he said to the newspaper men:. "I found Mr. Hoover very friendly and affable. We told each other some of the funny things that happ-ned during ti:e campaign to each of us. but did not talk of anything Important. I can't go into that any more." Thursday Mr. Hoover, still eager to catch a sullfish, went to Long Key on the yacht Saunterer. Ills guests were Ju-tice and Mrs. Ilar'nn F. Stone, Verne Marshall of Cedar Rapid.-, Iowa, and Mr. and Mrs. Mark Sullivan. Correspondents at Mhiml Reach now believe tliat Mr. Hoover has decided on his cabinet but wiil not announce bis selections until Immediately after his Inauguration. They are satisfied that neither Ambassador Morrow nor Ambassador Fletcher will be secretary of state. There was a report that that portfolio or the attorney generalship might be offered to Thomas Nelson Perkins, the Boston lawyer who Is one of the American alternates In the reparations rep-arations conference of experts. It was believed Mr. Hoover wanted a New Engender In the cabinet. Mr. Coolidge also was in Florida last week, but only for n brief period. Accompanied by Mrs. Coolidge and a few others, he ran down to Mountain Lal;e and on Friday delivered an address ad-dress at the dedication of the bird sanctuary and singing tower estab lished by i.dward u. J. ok. aiiit a dinner und brief rest at Mr. I'.ok's home, the party relurned to Washington, Washing-ton, arriving Saturday evening. FOR the time being Gen. I'.ramwell Booth Is winner In bis fight to retain re-tain his personal centred of the? Salvation Salva-tion Army. But the high council hasn't given up yet. The chancery court In London decided that the council's coun-cil's action ousting the aged general was void because the commander's legal representatives were not permitted per-mitted to plead his cause before the council voted against him. Therefore the council had to start Its proceedings proceed-ings all over again. One of the leading lead-ing members wild that the position of the reform element hail been consolidated consoli-dated by the legal proeeedings, and that there was no doubt the council would reiterate Its previous decision and proceed to elect a new general without further parley. It. was said the outstanding candidate for the position posi-tion was Evangeline Booth, sister of the general and commander of the Army In (he United Slates. UNDEI! proclamation by the Nationalist Na-tionalist government a'l China celebrated "Customs Autonomy day" on Friday because Japan, the last of the powers to hold out. has t'mall.v roc oglli.e.l the new (illlie-.e tariff lltlil thin admitted (iiiln'i has the r'glil to regulate Its o'.'.n eiiglonn rae. As the proela inal ion says. ( "1 1 i 11 11 "is at able to throw olT the economic Vol.e iuiio-.cd eighty Jesir.l ago by I ill-rep, ill-rep, an Imporlalh.t"." 'I l,e pro. la unit ion point ;t out the I,. t;:-i icpected to acciiie to I'hlnii g-t 1 ho re ult of cir.louis a lit 01 1 0111. v. I lie hi 1 of v.hbii la Hie enhancement of r '1 ,i n: pi.: ilioti III the fa tally of 11:1-I 11:1-I h,; :. :-h .oiul. II opena II new chapter 0 rhino'-; foioirn iliplnmullr relator rela-tor s ; I hii d, marliii Ihe downfall of foreign Imperialists, and fourth, opens the way to Chinese national economic development, enabling China to enter the world's markets on an equal footing. foot-ing. Lastly, the change Is declared to mark the definite passing of unequal treaties. Including the abolition of extraterritoriality, ex-traterritoriality, the rendition of foreign for-eign concessions, as well as the termination term-ination of foreigners' rights to navigation naviga-tion in Chinese Inland waterways. . CPAIN had another of her abortive rebellions last week. In Cludad Real, a hundred miles south of Madrid, a body of artillery revolted and ran their guns out Into the streets ready to shoot up the city; and In some other places there were Incipient uprisings. up-risings. The government troops wero sent Into action promptly, and promises prom-ises of immunity to all privates and noncommissioned otlicers Induced the mutineers to return to their barracks. Their officers were all arrested for trial by court-martial, and Sanchez Guerra, former Conservative party leader, was seized at Valencia. WAI.I'EMARES, dictator of Lithuania, Lithu-ania, said he had uncovered a plot against his regime by men who were acting with the knowledge of President Smetnna, and he caused the arrc.-t of the chief of staff of the army and eighteen high officers of the Kov-no Kov-no garrison. The dictator's opponents declare he has been supporting the So let policies against Poland. LEON TUOTZKY, that thorn In the side of ttie Russian Soviet government gov-ernment which he helped to create, has reaped the reward for his continuous con-tinuous plotting against it. He was taken from Ids place of Involuntary retirement re-tirement In southeastern Russia and doomed to exile. At first no country could be found that would receive him, but finally Turkey consented to let him be sent there. So he, at latest reports, was on his way to Angora. His friends. In Berlin nnd elsewhere, teiieved he would be nssasslnated on the v.ay, and there was a rumor that II. e murder already had been committed. com-mitted. IN Till" case of Glen Jennings, coast guard charged with the fatal shooting shoot-ing of J. D. Hanson, secretary of the Niau-ara Fulls lodge of Elks, the Jury could not agree on a verdict nnd was discharged. Jennings will be tried again, probably In May. The Jury deliberated de-liberated for twenty hours and at one lime stood 11 to 1 for conviction. El.INort SMITH, the "frying flap-ner" flap-ner" wiio Is only seventeen years old, went up from Mitchel field In on open cockpit plane In extremely cold weather and established an endurance record fer women of l.'i hours. 10 minutes min-utes and 4." seconds. This broke by one hour, 5 minutes nnd 4."i seconds the record made recently by Miss Bobby Trout of California. OSCAR UNDERWOOD, former United Slates senator from Alabama Ala-bama and for years one of the ablest leaders of the Democratic party, who died at his country home In Wood-lawn, Wood-lawn, Va., was burled at Birmingham, Ala., with simple but Impressive rites. Mr. Underwood was the last survivor of the big figures of the Democratic convention of l!ll- at Baltimore. In that convention and again In 11 t 111 New York he was an active candidate for the Presidential nomination. Ills service In congress was long and distinguished, dis-tinguished, lie retired voluntarily from the senate In 1H-". (igden Mills, New York financier 11111I father of Ogden U Mills, under I secretary of the treasury; George J. Chiiiilon of Chicago, passenger Iralilc manager of the Alton railway; Alexander Alex-ander T. Brown of Syracuse. N V., Inventor of shotguns and typewriters, and Robert L. Single, president of thu University of South Dakota, wero milling others who died last week. CinV. 1 1 F.N It Y S. JiillNSi'nN of 7 (li.laliomu pleaded not guilty to eight Impeachment million void by I bo lower bouse of Hie slale Icgialu- I ui e. and an lin ed be was 1 eaily for Immediate trial before Hie senate court. 'I he ca e Bin re for February Feb-ruary I I. .Moiuhora of the state Supremo Su-premo court al ai are under lire, i:rao cblirgea lo-ailet (belli being made by wlllie:"ea before a . g''lallve silbcnui-mlllee silbcnui-mlllee that Is mal.iiig general I" veMlgalloll. |