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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over IIou.se Democrats Defy President Lohhying for and Against Utilities Bill to Be Investigated Senator Glass Bests Eceles. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. f) KVOIr In congress n fjiil nst al-leged al-leged dictatorial attempts lit tlie uiliiilnlstralliiii reached u climax when the house, by the decisive Li .. .. ii LJ Rep. Brewster vote of 258 to 118, rejected the "death M-nt;ine" In the utility holding companies com-panies bill us passed by the senate and demanded by the 'resident. Tin; record rec-ord vote came on u motion to substitute substi-tute the house bill placing utility holding hold-ing companies under un-der regulation of the securities and exchange commission com-mission for the senate bill which prescribed the dissolution of the holding companies of more than drift decree beginning In 11)10. The adoption of this motion killed the "death sentence." After substituting substi-tuting the house bill for the senate sen-ate bill, the perfected measure was passed by a vote of 322 to 81. Immediately utter this action, the house voted unanimously for an Investigation of alleged lobbying by both supporters and tlie foes of tlie utility measure. During the debate on the hill It was frequently charged that the cnpitol was swarming with utility compnuy lobbyists, lob-byists, and then came two serious accusations against the other side. Representative John 11. Hoeppel of California. Democrat, asserted an Biinamed administration lobbyist had ottered to get California's relief re-lief allotment Increased If Hoeppel would vote for the bill as the President Pres-ident wanted It. This didn't greatly Impress the house, but later Representative Repre-sentative Ralph O. Brewster, Maine, Republican, charged that Thomas G. Corcoran, a young brain truster who Is co-author of the administration adminis-tration bill, had threatened cessa tion of construction of the $37,000,-000 $37,000,-000 Passamaouoddy dam project In the congressman's district If Brewster should vote against the "death sentence." Mr. Brewster said he did not believe be-lieve the President was aware that such tactics were being used by his aids or would countenance them, and Rankin of Mississippi and Moran of Maine defended Mr. Roosevelt. Put the President's contact con-tact man, Charles West, and Postmaster Post-master Farley's lobbyist, Emil Hurja, had been so active among the house members that the resentment resent-ment of the lawmakers was aroused and they gladly directed that the lobbying charges be investigated. AXT HAT would be the final fate of the utility measure was doubtful. Senator Wheeler of Montana, Mon-tana, after a call at the White House, said he was confident a satisfactory sat-isfactory hill would come out of the conference, and If one did not, the measure would he allowed to die. In either case the war on the holding hold-ing companies Is likely to he made a major Issue of the next Presidential Presiden-tial campaign, and administration leaders are predicting that the Democratic congressmen who dared to vote against the "death sentence" sen-tence" will he defeated at the polls. These "doomed" men number 1 00. as against l.'il Democrats who stood by the President. Republican leaders were Jubilant, professing to see In the episode the beginning of a real uprising against the President and his New Dealers; Deal-ers; many neutral observers looked upon It as only a battle between the two lobbies In which the victory vic-tory went to the utilities lobby. TN TUB buttle between Senator Carter Class and Marriner S. Eccles, governor of the federal reserve re-serve hoard, the former has. at this writing, scored the most points. The astute Virginian extracted ex-tracted from the Eccles Ourrle hank Ing bill most of the radical provisions that would have led to government or public ownership of the federal reserve system, and. Indeed, practically rewrote the measure. Then I Sen. Glass his subcommittee handed It on to the senate banking and currency committee, which promptly gave the hill Its approval, without a record rec-ord vote, and after making only two minor changes. Covernnr Eccles and Secretary of the Treasury Morgcnthnu expected to he called before the committee and were prepared to tell why the bill would not suit the administration, administra-tion, but the committee didn't give them a chance. As passed hy the house, the banking bank-ing bill would give autocratic powers pow-ers over the banking system to a politically dominated federal reserve re-serve hoard; and the party In power pow-er would have the authority to force the twelve reserve hanks to lend unlimited amounts to the national na-tional treasury. Under the bill as rewritten by Glass, reserve board 1 members are to he appointed for 14-yeur 14-yeur terms and are to be discharged only for cause; chief ollicers of the reserve banks are to be chosen by their directors, subject to reserve board approval, for riveyear periods, peri-ods, and tlie reserve banks need not buy additional government bonds unless they etioose to do so. INVESTIGATION of the adminls- tratlon of the Virgin Islands by a senate committee was certain to be lively. Ttie very first witness heard, Charles II. Gibson, was threatened with Jail by Secretary of the Interior Ickes for removing oilicial documents from the files. Mr. Gibson, who was government attorney for the Islands until Ickes ousted him, had testified rather vaguely against the regime of Gov. Paul M. Pearson. Gibson testilied that Governor Pearson had exceeded his authority under the law, was unpopular with a large section of the population of the Islands, and was not frank In his administration. To support his testimony Gibson Introduced several letters which were the documents doc-uments to which Ickes alluded. ATTORNEY GENERAL CUM-MINGS CUM-MINGS announced that on July 20 a school would be opened by his department In Washington for the purpose of training state, county and city poliee In law enforcement en-forcement theory and practice. A twelve weeks' course will be given to selected officers, the Instruction being free and the equipment of the bureau of Investigation being utilized. n EPURMCAN senators were ad-vised ad-vised that former President Herbert Hoover will not be a candidate can-didate for the Republican nomlna- Herbert Hoover tlon In the Presidential Presi-dential race of 1036. They were advised ad-vised that Mr. Hoover Hoo-ver would make the formal announcement an-nouncement some time this summer. He is staying out, it was said, because be-cause he Intends to remain In private life and has planned his future career along that line. For his active criticisms of administration administra-tion policies the reason was given that, although he does not "choose to run," he thought the party needed need-ed some sort of direction; now that his candidacy Is shelved. It Is expected ex-pected that his political utterances will be clothed with considerably less authority. Tlie Informers, however, assured the senators that Mr. Hoover would get behind the party's candidate and enter the campaign for him, and that he thinks, with unification growing, the Republican prospects are looking brighter day by day. AITORLD war veterans from both ' the Allied and the Central powers met officially In Paris and debated ways In which future wars may be averted. They denounced as enemies of their own countries those who would seek to foment a new war, and passed a resolution declaring: vThe respect for treaties being the basis of international relations, re-lations, this confidence can be durable dur-able only when- International accords ac-cords and the resulting obligations are mutually and sincerely respected." re-spected." The meeting was held under the auspices of Fidac. The American delegates included S. P. Bailey, Winona, Minn.; Julian W. Thomas, Salt Lake City; Bernhard Ragner, McKeesport, Pa., and Harold L. Smith. Coatsville. Pa. nVID LLOYD GEORGE, whose ' New Deal program was not well received hy the British government, govern-ment, has resumed active participation participa-tion In politics, "reluctantly." but with expressed determination to "go on with It." The little Welsh veteran vet-eran statesman addressed the national na-tional convention of the peace and reconstruction movement, and asserted as-serted the menace to peace and the economic confusion throughout the world are growing worse, ANDRE CITROEN, famous for years as "the Henry Ford of France" because he built most of that country's low cost motor cars. Is dead. And probably he was happy to pass on. for his vast enterprises en-terprises had collapsed and his once huge fortune wns gone. PURR T. ANSFLL, a young attor-U attor-U ney whose father, Gen. S. T. Ansel!, Is suing Senntor Huey I,ong for libel, wns enraged when I-ong Intruded on his party at a Washington Wash-ington hotel and took a swing at the Klnglish. One of Hie senator's companions seized Ansell's arm and the young man says Long then ran away. PAI'T. ANTHONY EDK.V, Eng-' Eng-' land's Journeyman trouble shooter, shoot-er, electrified the British Nles by announcing that Great Britain hud offered to give Hiiilie Sfusi em peror of Ab sinia. a generous srrip of British Somaliland to replace territory ter-ritory acquired by Italy. If the Italian Ital-ian government would promNe no! to wage war against the domain of Africa's "Conquering Lion of J u-dah." u-dah." Nothing doing, said Premier Mas solinl, who has turned a deaf ear to all Britain's proposals of an Italo-Ethiopian Italo-Ethiopian coinpronii.se. He was re ported as Intending to go right ahead with his plan for a four-years' war to effect the complete pacitica tlon of the African empire. He Insists In-sists that there must be more room In Africa for over-populated Italy to expand. Mussolini has threatened to "re member" the nations which have offered of-fered to furnish Abyssinia with arms, and they have withdrawn or modified their offers. The African emperor pleaded : "If we are In the right and If civilized nations are unable to prevent pre-vent this war, at least do not deny us the means of defending our selves." The British parliament was no better pleased with Eden's "offer" of land than was Italy, and the colonial secretary, son of former Prime Minister MacDonald, had a hard time explaining It. Then Italy heard that the British Brit-ish government was considering a proposal to Invite other nations to Join in an economic bloekade of Italy to check her aggression on Ethiopia. Rome was astonished by this report, but didn't seem in tlie least alarmed. Neither were the Italians frightened when thev learned officially that Ethiopia had asked the United States to study means of persuading Italy to respect re-spect the Kellogg pact outlawing war. The emperor himself made the appeal to W. Perry George, charge d'affaires at Addis Ababa. GEN. HUGH JOHNSON assumed his new office of federal works relief administrator for New York city. "Robbie," his ever present secretary, sec-retary, fended off the reporters for a day, but let them In then, and to them the general walled: "I hate this thing! It Isn't helping help-ing anybody, anywhere. When the source of money Is cut off we'll be right back where we started. It's disheartening to sit here, knowing that when the funds are gone, the Jobs will be gone." OECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE proclaimed the establishment es-tablishment of an AAA adjustment program for the 1935 rye crop which will Include benefit payments of amounts not yet disclosed. Representatives Rep-resentatives from 16 rye growing states met In Washington to discuss dis-cuss the program and outline plans for Its operation. Farmers from the nrinclpal wheat producing states met with AAA officials offi-cials and gave their approval to a tentative flexible plan for the payment pay-ment of benefits to wheat growers. JAPAN'S beautiful inland sea was the scene of a terrible disaster that cost 104 lives. The steamer Midori Maru, crowded with holiday passengers, collided with a freighter In the foggy night and sank almost immediately. Rescue boats picked up 91 of the 166 passengers and 56 of the crew. All the victims were Japanese. THE federal government began a new fiscal year with Intentions Inten-tions of spending more money than in any previous year of peace. Mr. Roosevelt announced that he would spend $8,520,000,000, of which $4,-5S2,0O0,0O0 $4,-5S2,0O0,0O0 will go for "recovery and relief." He expects the treasury treas-ury to collect 53,991,000.000. No, It doesn't add up. The deficit for the new fiscal year will be $4,52S,000,-000, $4,52S,000,-000, it Is estimated. The fiscal year Just passed came to an end with the public debt at a new peace-time peak of $2S,665,-000,000 $2S,665,-000,000 still some shy of the 331,-000.000.000 331,-000.000.000 the President estimated a year ago. To finance the new budget, he haJ counted In part upon the $500,000,000 extension of "nuisance" taxes Just passed by congress, but not upon the tax-the-rlch program which the New Dealers Deal-ers hope to Jockey through some time in August Estimates have It that this will net another $340,000,-000. $340,000,-000. The expenditure for the past year Is only $7.25S,0O0,000 instead of $8,-571.000.000 $8,-571.000.000 forecast at the start of the year. The deficit was $3,472,-347.000 $3,472,-347.000 Instead of the proposed $4,-8G9.O00.OO0. $4,-8G9.O00.OO0. If the expenditures outlined li. the 1936 budget reach the estimated estimat-ed total, the public debt on July 1 next year would stand at $34,230,-000,000. $34,230,-000,000. During the next year the President Presi-dent expects to spend $4.SSO,000,000 for relief and for the employment of 3.500.000 Idle workers. A general upswing in business would Improve the revenue expected by the treasury. treas-ury. The President counted on $3,-711.000.000 $3,-711.000.000 coming In during the 1935 fiscal year. Receipts proved to be $3,7S5.(X10.000. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT asked congress to prevent holders of federal gold bonds from suing the government for damages they may have suffered because the New Did, went back on the gold payment pledge. |