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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President's Program Driven Through Congress Before Adjournment Mussolini Refuses to Abandon His Projected Conquest of Ethiopia. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. LEGISLATIVE action In both house mid senate was fast and furious during tlie closing days of the session. While House pressure was freely used ; fil- yrn,- ihusters were start- y ed and stopped : J senators and repre- I? 1 sentatlves, hot and I bothered, were In ' " ; cHiumJ to be quar- . . relsouie. Hut con- r: "'C gross had Its or " ders and it wunti d to go home, so the 4 w" A administratinn pro fcJ j gnun In A"tieral was . . , , Senator pushed through. Guff One of the most u controversial measures on that program, pro-gram, the (iufl'ey coal bill, had been driven through the house by orders from above and threats of. a strike, and when it was taken up by the senate every effort to kill It, by eliminating the tax feature, was defeated. de-feated. During the debate, Senator Sena-tor Walter I'". George, Democrat, created a sensation by denouncing denounc-ing the bill In these words: "Outside of political circles. It Is questionable whether there are Ave reputable lawyers In the United States who would declare this measure meas-ure constitutional. However, that Is not the worst feature of the bill. The worst feature Is the defect de-fect and Infirmity In the legislative legisla-tive program that we are developing. develop-ing. This nation cannot remain free and happy, If we are to legislate legis-late for groups, and beyond all of that. If groups are to legislate for themselves the end of things Is not very far distant. "That Is the situation we have confronting us. And to this kind of program the Democratic party is willing to commit Itself!" Senator George was assailing the proposal to set ,up district boards In the coal Industry, which would make their own laws as to trade practices and regulate wages and houts, allocate tonnages and fix prices, with regard only for their own Interests. 'This Is the type of absolutism from which we revolted to establish estab-lish this Republic," he declared. The house gave up the fight against the "death sentence" In the utilities bill and instructed its conferees to accept a "compromise" that was pretty much one-sided. This means that all holding companies com-panies beyond the second degree are to be sentenced to death by the SEC promptly after January 1, 19158. Even a holding company in the second degree would not escape es-cape unless its operations were confined to a single integrated system sys-tem within a state or within contiguous con-tiguous states. Both senate and house adopted a resolution making mandatory the embargo on munitions shipments to both belligerents in- case of war. This was what the administration did not want, claiming it would tie the hands of the executive so. that he could exert no influence toward averting war. Senate and house accepted the conferees' report on the hill increasing increas-ing the powers of TVA and legalizing legaliz-ing that body's past actions and it was sent to the White House. The senate passed without a record vote the railway bankruptcy amendments amend-ments recommended by Coordinator Joseph R. Eastman, which are designed de-signed to prohibit minorities from blocking reorganization plans. MUSSOLINI Is determined to conquer Ethiopia, and all Europe Eu-rope is trembling. II duce evidently feels that his personal prestige is at stake, and to him I t'lnt n,eans the con- tlnuation of the I Fascist regime. An- I thony Eden and J I'ierre Laval offered Italy what would amount to a man-s4 man-s4 date over Halle "s' Selassie's re aim, p .. .' hut that was not IaL enough, so the tri- power conference Premier i , ,. , in Paris was de-Mussdlmi de-Mussdlmi cIared !u,i,lnrne( The friendship between France and Italy must be ruptured. Great Britain Bri-tain will insist on action by the League of Nations council when it meets September 4. There is no reason rea-son to believe that the council will do more than It did In the case of Japan's seizure of Manchuria, but it seemingly will be forced to denounce de-nounce Italy's action, and that would be enough to induce Mussolini Musso-lini to withdraw his country from the league. If and when Italy defies de-fies the league, that pretentious body, previously defied successfully by Japan and Germany, will amount to little. No wonder the statesmen of Europe are jittery. One high French official was quoted as saying that Europe "faces a crisis like that of 1014," and he admitted that "France must resign herself to losing Italy's friendship." Others In Paris declared that France Is now solidly with England. Eng-land. After Baron Pompei Alois! had submitted the Anglo-French proposition propo-sition to Mussolini and had received the duce's reply, he told Eden and Laval that bis master would be satisfied sat-isfied with nothing less than "annexation "an-nexation of Ethiopia In whole or In part." Laval was furious and directly di-rectly accused Mussolini of breaking break-ing a personal promise to him when he visited Rome. Eden abruptly brought the conference to a close. Hurrying back to London, Captain Cap-tain Eden took part In conferences held by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the members of his cabinet, together with various former for-mer ministers, opposition leaders and public men not in ollice. The situation was admittedly tense and the advice of such men as Lloyd George. Lord Cecil and Winston Churchill was sought by the government. gov-ernment. Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign for-eign secretary, also called In representatives rep-resentatives of all the self-governing dominions. It was understood the British government would be prepared fully to honor its obligations obliga-tions under the League of Nations covenant, these Including the denouncing de-nouncing of a nation that attacks another member of the league. Of course the air In London was full of rumors of war, but officials gave assurance that Great Britain would move with the greatest caution. Paris heard unconfirmed reports that Mussolini was trying to negotiate nego-tiate a secret military alliance with Hitler. If such a pact Is signed it will greatly Increase the chances of another general European war. CAMUEL B. PETTENGILL, Dem- ocratic representative- from Indiana, In-diana, aroused the house to wild cheering by a downright attack on - - ::'sM:-"-. '0I" Corcoran, the .-"'K White House lobby-lt lobby-lt 1st who has been j - f charged with try- S vBi inS t" intimidate J? ,,V v congressmen. Pet-fy--x- tengill challenged tne house lobby 3 committee to sum- jj mon Corcoran again -Sk and question him 2,Jr ILJ abo"t his reported T.G.Corcoran baling In utility Is-sues Is-sues on the New York Stock exchange market at the same time he labored for legislation leg-islation against utilities at Washington. Wash-ington. The Indiana representative thus brought out Into the open the rumors ru-mors whispered about the Capitol, Cap-itol, that administration lobbyists were profiting secretly by stock roarket deals in securities affected by legislation for which they were exerting tremendous efforts. Corcoran once admitted to a committee com-mittee that he had been a stock market plunger and had made and lost a small fortune. "In view of this admission," Pet-tengill Pet-tengill told the house, "the rules committee. Investigating lobbying, should summon Corcoran and question ques-tion him as to whether he Is now in the market with reference to utility stock." MORE than 30,000 troops of all branches of the armed service got well started in the great war maneuvers in northern New York which were organ- i Ized and directed ' - by Maj. Gen. Den J nis E. Nolan. The v J regular army men S of the first area . -"? y- A and the National i $ Guardsmen of New lp- England, New York fvVtl and New Jersey , 'J ? participated, and in ' ' muddy fields, tan- 21. -gled pine forests, backweftds roads, M'JrGen.ral they bad a series Nolan of "engagements," troops opposing troops under conditions closely simulating sim-ulating real warfare. An interesting inter-esting feature was the use of a big fleet of taxicabs from New York city. Pine camp, just south of the Thousand Islands region, was the center of operations. Ranking high officers of the army and military mili-tary attaches of foreign nations observed ob-served the maneuvers. During the opening days the . Twenty-seventh New York division commanded by Maj. Gen. William N. Haskell was pitted in the eastern east-ern portion of the 100 square mile maneuver area against the Forty-third Forty-third New England division, commanded com-manded by Maj. Gen. Morris B. Payne. In the western portion of the changing terraine the Forty-fourth Forty-fourth New Jersey and New York division, commanded by Maj. Gen. John J. TofTey, opposed the Twenty-sixth Massachusetts division, commanded by Maj. Gen. Daniel Needham. I ONE of those 6udden govern- mental upsets frequent In Latin America, President Jose M. Vel-asco Vel-asco Ibarra of Ecuador was thrown out of office and Antonio Pons, former for-mer premier, was put in his place. It all came about because Ibarra tried to make himself a dictator and imprisoned the leaders of the opposition. The senate objected and Ibarra closed congress. Then the army got Into action. Ibarra was arrested by Col. Nlcanor Solis, Inspector general; the political prisoners pris-oners were released, and Pons was Installed as president. WILL ROGERS and Wiley Post, crushed to death In Alaska when their plane fell not far from Point Barrow, were brought back to the States for burial by Joe Crosson, their Intimate friend. In an airplane. And all their countrymen stood figuratively fig-uratively with bared and bowed heads as the broken bodies were laid to rest. None was too great and none too lowly to pay tribute in words and action to those two fine Americans, one a beloved comedian, humorist and philosopher; the other oth-er a leader among the world's aviators. avi-ators. They died as they had lived, adventuring gallantly, and the world Is the poorer for their passing. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S cotton cot-ton textile committee submitted to him certain recommendations to better the industry, and he passed ""JWX tllem on t0 coa" " gress for future ac- I i lion. Secretary of f,X ' Commerce Daniel i Roper heads the iV . is committee and the MiTf'A other members are - - -' ' -r ; Secretary of Labor Perkins, Secretary t.-i"'-. x. -- j of Agriculture Wal- t x ? lace and Secretary Eil ' I of state Hun- The report proposed Secretary tha a f r , e n d , y Roper agreement besought with Japan to limit the export of textiles to this country. The committee com-mittee found that, although the Japanese Jap-anese imports have been small, the American market has been disturbed, dis-turbed, with a resultant depression' In the Industry here. A continuance of the labor standards stand-ards provided under the KKA code was suggested. To this end It was recommended that the government supplement such voluntary efforts as are being made by administrative and legislative measures which may be feasible to aid the workers. The committee recommended against discontinuance dis-continuance of the cotton processing process-ing tax "during the existing eco- nomic emergency as reflected by existing price disparities." It held that tax increases the purchasing power of farmers and thus benefits bene-fits workers in the cotton textile industry. in-dustry. The government's cotton loan policy pol-icy was found to be primarily important im-portant to the textile industry through its possible stabilizing effect. ef-fect. . Various technical recommendations recommenda-tions were made by the report, but the proposition of representatives of the industry that the government virtually subsidize cotton textile exports ex-ports by an allowance of 7 cents per pound was disapproved. MINORITY members of the senate sen-ate and house committees that are investigating the doing of lobbyists lobby-ists started out the week with the determination to -v find out why Mar- if vin H. Maclntyre. IfrjjjVw A" secretary to the pf4 I ; President; Law f rence W. Robert, f Jr., assistant secre- tary of the treas- t ury, and Amon G. jf J Carter of Fort N " Worth, . publisher v-,W8 and friend of the Roosevelt family, , . B. B. Robinson were all found In the apartment at the Shoreham hotel ho-tel of Bernard B. Robinson of Chicago, Chi-cago, chief loobyist of the Associated Associ-ated Gas and Electric company. Mr. Robinson himself also was there, and It was said when the door was opened at the knock of the sergeant at arms of the senate a "scene of revelry" was disclosed. For a day or two the news of this affair was not sent out from Washington by the news associations, reportedly because of the efforts of Mr. Carter to have it suppressed entirely. This, too, some of the investigators want explained. Republican members of the house committee also said they would insist in-sist on the interrogation of Undersecretary Under-secretary of the Interior Charles West and Emil Hurja, executive director di-rector of the Democratic national committee. West is reputedly the President's lobbyist and Hurja acts in a similar capacity for Postmaster General Farley, and both of them were Involved with Tom Corcoran In the utilities "death sentence" lobbying lob-bying that started, the whole inquiry. JAPAN has been offended by our navy on various occasions, especially espe-cially by the staging of lleet maneuvers maneu-vers at Hawaii and the Alaskan coast. Now the sensitive islanders should be pleased, for Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Roosevelt has announced that the fleet maneuvers of 193G will be held at the Panama canal and on the western coast of Central America. Amer-ica. Mr. Roosevelt and the navy high command asserted, not very convincingly, that the shift was not made in response to unofficial Japanese criticism. |