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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CUilRENTEVENTS President and Senate in a W ordy Warfare Relief Measures Passed. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. PRESIDENT HOOVER and the senate, sen-ate, or part of that nominally august au-gust body, came to verbal blows over legislation. The Chief Executive, who seemingly doesn't feel so restrained now that the election is over, was vexed because of the introduction of measures which would impose an expenditure ex-penditure far beyond the sum he had recommended, "and mostly under the guise of giving relief of some, kind or another." as he said to the White House correspondents. He directly accused ac-cused some members of congress of "playing politics at the expense of human misery." The President obviously referred to the proposal for immediate payment in cash of the soldiers' bonus and the Shipstead plan, a $500,000,000 bond issue for river and harbor work. His statement also was regarded as directed di-rected at Senator David I. WaJsh of Massachusetts, who had criticized Mr. Hoover for the inadequacy of his relief re-lief program. When this statement reached the senate the war broke out fiercely, and the President was bitterly attacked by Senators Robinson, Caraway, Glass, Harrison and other Democrats. Next day in a prepared speech Senator Mc-Kellar Mc-Kellar of Tennessee scathingly assailed as-sailed Mr. Hoover for what he called his tirade of abuse and declared the President owed an apology to every member of the senate. His reputation and his sincerity were Impugned. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania alone came to Mr. Hoover's defense, and he showed little enthusiasm in Ids task. The senate on Tuesday passed, without a record vote, the drought relief re-lief loan fund hi!' amended to ap propriate $60,000,000. which is more than twice what the administration considered necessary and which In that form provided not only for seed purchase pur-chase loans but also for loans for the purchase of food for the distressed farmers. To this latter feature Secretary Secre-tary of Agriculture Hyde had objected on the ground that It was "perilously near the dole system," and this elicited caustic comments from the antl-admin-istration senators. WITHOUT opposition the house passed the bill appropriating $110,000,000 for an emergency public ' construction fund, which Is the administration's ad-ministration's chief step in the relief of unemployment It had been revised to meet the objections , of the Democrats, Demo-crats, who opposed the granting of blanket authority to the President in the expenditure of the fund, so that he could only transfer funds from one of the specified purposes to another. an-other. The senate removed even this authority, added $S,000,000 to the total, to-tal, and passed the bill. Of the tolal, SSO.000,000 is for advances to the states for federal aid highway projects proj-ects and is to be paid back within live years by deductions from federal contributions. con-tributions. Rivers and bailors gets $22,500,000. COME leaders in congress, both Re- publicans and Democrats, expressed ex-pressed a fear that the submission of the world court protocols to the senate would result in a legislative Jam that might make necessary the calling of an extra session of the new congress in the spring. In his message transmitting the protocols the President Presi-dent asked for early consideration of the question. lie said that the protocols pro-tocols as revised "free us from any entanglement In the diplomacy of oilier oili-er nations" and urged that the United States "lend its eo-opcralion in this effort of the nations to establish a great agency for pacific settlements." It mav be the appropriations legislation legis-lation will be completed in time to give tl"-J soate a few weeks to lake up the world court mailer before March 4, but the radicals are likely to filibuster unless their pet measures are acted on also, and thus an extra session might be forced. FtiANK R. KELLOGG, former secretary sec-retary of slate, received the Nobel peace prize for 102!) In Oslo. Norway. Wednesday, In Ihe presence of King Haakon and a distinguished gathering. At the same time the peace prize for 1030 was handed to Dr. Nathan Soed-erblom. Soed-erblom. Mr. Kellogg, in acknowledging acknowledg-ing the award, asserted there was no Indication of war in the world, but rather the prospect was for continued peace. Should there be a war. however, how-ever, he gave warring, western civilization civil-ization could not withstand it. Among (he other Nobel prizes handed hand-ed out was that for literature to Sinclair Sin-clair Lewis, American novelist, who received It in Stockholm from the hands of King Gustav of Sweden. HAVING adopted an outline of a general disarmament treaty, the preparatory disarmament commission of the League of Nations ended its sessions at Geneva. This draft convention con-vention will be the basis for the deliberations de-liberations of a world conference that probably will meet early 4n 1032. Am bassndor Hugh Gibson, who represented represent-ed the United States, in a closing statement told his colleagues that the outline treaty "falls far short of our hopes and expectations." failing to include in-clude the various methods which Americans regarded as essential to real disarmament. He said, however, he consoled himself with the belief that the scheme adopted would permit at least the stabilization of armaments, arma-ments, the setting up of machinery to receive and spread information on armaments, and "to prepare systematically system-atically for the work of future conferences." confer-ences." XJR. HOOVER transmitted to the house of representatives a formal request for the immediate appropriation appropria-tion of another $150,000,000 to the federal fed-eral farm board from its $500,000,000 revolving fund. The money is needed, he said, "in order that important operations op-erations of tli e board, now in prospect, pros-pect, may be carried through promptly," prompt-ly," and it was understood this meant further outlays for the stabilization of wheat prices. OPERATION of Muscle Shoals by a co-operative organization of farmers was asked by the American Farm Bureau federation at its con vention in Boston. It also voiced opposition op-position to amendment of the agricultural agricul-tural marketing act at this time. The federation also recommended stricter regulation" of grain and cotton cot-ton exchanges; that funds to be loaned to farmers In the drought area be made immediately available; that con Kress appropriate money to Insure ini mediate carrying out of the authorized development projects, nnd that the federal treasury have a revolving fund to be used exclusively to stabilize fed eral land bank bonds. TWO hundred men and women representing rep-resenting thirty-three dry organizations organi-zations held an annual conference in Washington and asked that congress provide more men ami more money for enforcement of prohibition. A con vention of wets also was held In the National Capital and agreed on a unified uni-fied substitute plan for prohibition. fTERE is one record of achievement i A to brag about. The forest service reports that lire damage to national forest lands this year was held down to $237,370, a reduction of nearly !V5 per cent from last year. This despite the fact that Ihe season has been the driest on record. Forest area burned over amounted to 105.!G5 acres, only one-fifth of last year's acreage. pUOl'F.RTII'S of the Chicago & . ton railroad, which since thv iimP of the Civil war has operated I 0"S miles of track In Illinois ami Missouri were sold at public auction in foreclosure fore-closure proceedings of ,ho r,,,,,,,..,, curt, the sale taking p:l,.e ilt wj, mington. III., the first station outside of Chicago actually owned bv the com puny. The railway, valued' at Slot) OdO.ooO. was purchased by ,0 n-dti more & Ohio railroad, which owned a majority of the Alton's bonds. The Alton company had been in receivership re-ceivership for eight years, brought to that condition by financial difficulties that started with ,.he failure to pay dividends on mortgages Imposed by the Hnrritnan interests In the '90s. Strikes and bad business In the bituminous coal region helped the company on the downward path. RUSSIA'S picturesque trial of eight engineers accused of an anti-Soviet anti-Soviet conspiracy in which foreign nations nnd notabilities were declared to be involved ended as expected la the conviction of all the defendants. It could not be otherwise, since all had confessed. Five of them were sentenced to death and three to ten years in prison, and all the Communists Com-munists applauded. Next day the central cen-tral executive committee of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics commuted com-muted the five death sentences to ten years' imprisonment, and two years were taken off. the other sentences. The press of London and Paris looks-on looks-on the whole affair as a put up job. JO SATISFACTORY explanation A has yet been given of the "poison fog" which killed 67 persons in the Meuse valley of Belgium and France. The Belgian authorities tried to belittle belit-tle the affair but Queen Elizabeth, ruled otherwise and appointed a commission com-mission of physicians to make an investigation. in-vestigation. HENRY CLAY now stands, in marble, mar-ble, in the center of a wide plaza in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, and he is labeled the "Apostle of fraternity fra-ternity between the countries of America." Amer-ica." The statue is the present of the United States to Venezuela, given iu return for one of Gen. Simon Bolivar, hero of South American Independence, Independ-ence, which was unveiled in New York in 1021. It was dedicated on Tuesday by James R. Sheffield, former ambassador ambas-sador to Mexico, and received by the high officials of the Venezuelan government. gov-ernment. In his address Mr. Sheffield said: "In speaking to the people of Venezuela, Vene-zuela, I am trying to interpret to all Ihe republics of South America the friendly attitude of my country and Its faith in the complete triumph of free institutions and governments In the western world. We aspire to no leadership In your affairs. We only wish to help you In attaining the highest high-est development of your national consciousness con-sciousness and sovereign rights." C ECRETARY of the Navy Adams in v-' his annual report points out the perils In the administration's policy of reducing navy enlisted personnel to a minimum. He says that during last year there were not enough enlisted men to man fully all types of ships in the navy. To operate the navy with the remaining 70.S00 men it will he necessary to decommission a number of vessels. Appearing before the house naval committee. Mr. Adams asked that congress approve a $34,000,000 construction con-struction program designed to stnrt our country on the way to having such a fleet as is authorized by the London treaty. Chairman Britten of the committee thereupon Introduced a bill authorizing the construction of seven new cruisers nnd submarines and one aircraft carrier, the only vessels ves-sels on the navy program not now authorized. au-thorized. TN!E annual report of the Internal revenue commission shows that ten slates with an aggregate population popula-tion of less than one-ball of the total for the country pay more than three-fourlhs three-fourlhs of the federal tax bill. These states. In their order, are: New York. North Carolina. Il.'inols. Pennsylvania. California. Ohio, Michigan. Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, Virginia and Missouri. Few of the southern and western stales, except ex-cept those with large Indaatial cities, paiil tax percentages approaching their population percentages. The total International revenue receipts re-ceipts for the fiscal year were set by the report at $3,010,115,733. of which $2.4l0.25!i,2."0 was paid ill Income 'axes and $lVJ'.i,s M'.,"ii2 In miscellaneous miscellane-ous UINOS. I EE S. OVERMAN, veteran serial.: -J fi'otn Soulh Carolina, died in Wa r-Inglon r-Inglon after a week's illness. He was seventy-six years old and had served In the senate since l'.Hi'J. S. 1930, Western N'ewapnpor Union ) |