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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Supreme Court Takes Up Cold Clause Abrogation Case Senate Committee Favors World Court Adherence -Congress Ccts the Budget. Ey EDWARD W. PICKARD by Western Ntwa.a)er Union. LT A VINO given the Now Deal a 'slight swat hy holding the petroleum pe-troleum control feature of the NIKA unconstitutional, the Supreme court ,.. .j. .,..,., moved rapidly to-f to-f "-,V ward a Judgment a - ', uh to the legality ' S of the abrogation ii of gold payments. v .y,. Several cases chal-' chal-' ' longing this act b y a i were lumped and t i oral arguments x 31 were lieard. Tills , , heing a matter of fck. ' "'.rJ vast imporlance. Involving In-volving $100,000,-AttorneyGen- (mm) Attornev eralC.mmings (,cnerlll g C'umutlngs liirnself appeared to pre-Kont pre-Kont tlio case for the government. Mr. Cumndngs Is an excellent lawyer, law-yer, but not much can be said In praise of the legal abilities of most of the men whom the exigencies of politics have shoved Into tils olilce in Washington. So probably he was wise to handle this matter himself. Cummings defended the constitutional consti-tutional authority of the President and congress, to adopt the present monetary policy as inherently the right of the government to preserve ilself. In an argument distinguished for oratorical display as well as for Its legal aspects, Cummings said an adverse decision by the court would : 1. Increase the public and private pri-vate debt of the nation by $00,000,-000,000. $00,000,-000,000. 2. Create a special class that would he beyond the pale of the general financial structure, a class composed of those holding bonds demanding payment In gold. 3. Reduce the balance in the United States treasury 52,500,000,-000. 52,500,000,-000. 4. Add $17,000,000,000 to the public pub-lic debt and Increase the interest charges on tlds debt alone by $2,-500,000,1X10 $2,-500,000,1X10 a year. The latter sum alone, Cummings sjild, is equal to twice the value of the 1034 wheat and cotton crop. The attorney general referred to the troubled state of the country In the spring of 1033 and added, "I contend and shall show that the congress and the President of the United States acted reasonably in a period of very great difficulties and that their acts were not the product of caprice." From the questions asked by the Justices, observers gained the impression im-pression that there was a sharp division of opinion among them. SENATOR JOSEPH T. ROBINSON, ROBIN-SON, majority leader of the sen-1 sen-1 ate, being Informed that the for eign relations committee had voted 14 to 7 In favor of the project for i American adherence to the World . court, said he would bring the resolution up on the floor of the senate as soon as possible. However How-ever he recognized the sentiment against It was strong and would not predict the outcome of the fight. The new resolution as approved by the committee is slightly altered al-tered to meet the objections of other nations to what is known as res- i ervation five. Mr. Robinson said: "The legal import and effect of reservation five has been preserved In full. It is provided that discussions discus-sions rrmy take place under the Root protocol, but in the end the court may not entertain over the objection of the United States any request for an advisory opinion on any dispute or question in which the United States has or claims an interest." Of the Democrats on the committee commit-tee Senators Lewis and Murray voted against the resolution: Republicans Re-publicans who favored it were Van-denherg Van-denherg and Capper. THOSE Democrats and Republicans, Republi-cans, eminent and otherwise, who are banded together as the American Liberty league are now really getting Into action against what they believe to be the radical features of the administration's program, and their executive council coun-cil has put out a ten-point platform. It declares the league's opposition to such practices as sweeping delegations dele-gations of legislative authority to the President, lump sum appropriations appropri-ations to be doled out by the White House, socialization of Industry and regimentation of American life. In the first plank of its platform the league pledged Itself "to preserve pre-serve American institutions which safeguard to citizens in all walks ' of lire the right to liberty anil pursuit pur-suit of happiness" and at the same time "to combat the growth of bureaucracy, the spread of monopoly, monop-oly, the socialization of industry, and the regimentation of American life." i Invasion of the law making and law Interpreting functions by New I),.l adminstrators was also rapped by the league In promising "to uphold up-hold the American principle that laws be made only by the direct representatives of the people In the congress, and that the laws be interpreted in-terpreted only by the courts." Other points In the 10-point declaration dec-laration of policy pledged the league to fight for government economy, a sound federal fiscal policy, a stable currency, protection for investors, and Individual liberties. PETROLEUM control provisions of the national Industrial recovery act, specifically section 9 (c), are held by the Supreme Court of the United States to be Invalid as unconstitutional un-constitutional abdication of legislative legisla-tive power to the President Eight of the justices united in rendering this decision, Justice Cardozo alone dissenting, and it was read by Chief Justice Hughes. The section declared void authorized author-ized the President to ban interstate shipment of "hot" oil that Is, oil produced In excess of state quotas. While the opinion did not deal with other phases of the recovery act, it aroused widespread speculation specula-tion as to disposition of other eases. This was the first major "New Deal" case to come before the court. T3 ECAUSE work relief must be " carried on the federal budget will not be balanced for the coming fiscal year, and probably not for - -i several years there- " nfter- In present- A Ing the budget to I 1 congress, President Low Roosevelt admitted H , ' this, but without -i. k qualms. He estl-'' estl-'' 3.-. A mated $S,520,000,000 , v- ' as the amount of "bspsi ' , money necessary to ' carry on the gov-f gov-f Vjr j ernment's activities for the 1036 fiscal President year beginning July Roosevelt x nexL Tne ex. penses for the current year, partly estimated, are $S,5S1,000,000. If one wishes to know who spends all these huge sums, an Idea may be obtained from these figures showing the estimated expenditures for the fiscal year 1036: 1. Legislative, judicial and executive 36,595,000 2. Civil departments and agencies 788,057,169 3. National defense ... 792,484,265 4. Veterans' pensions and benefits 704.885,500 5. Debt charges: Interest 875,000,000 Retirements 636,434.000 6. Refunds 64,946,200 7. Recovery and relief 4,532,011,475 8. Supplemental items (for above groups 1 to 4 inclusive) 40,000,000 Total expenditures. .53,520,413,608 Total receipts for the same period peri-od are put at $3,001 ,004,030, so the estimated deficit will be $4,52S,30S,-070. $4,52S,30S,-070. Of the recovery and relief fund the President asked that $4,000,000,-000 $4,000,000,-000 be placed at his disposal to be allocated by him "principally for giving work to those unemployed on the relief rolls." Here are some other vital things disclosed by the message: The national debt will increase from $31,000,000,000 at the close of tliis fiscal year to $34.230.000.(X)0. No new taxes are requested. Congress, Con-gress, is asked to continue the so-called so-called nuisance taxes which expire soon and the 3-cent stamp rate. A national defense appropriation of SSfl0.94S.0G5 the greatest in the history of the country is requested. A total of 137.134 federal workers are to be dismissed. The S2.S 11.000.000 gold profit has not been disturbed. Veterans pensions in 103G will reach the staggering total of $704,-000.000. $704,-000.000. The accumulated New Deal deficit for three years on June 30, 103G, will total $11,700,000,000. While the trend of recovery and relief expenditures is downward, regular federal expenses will increase. in-crease. Tliis is due In part to a 5 per cent pay restoration for federal workers which involves $03,000,000. MARY PICK FOliD went before Judge Ren I.indsey in Los Angeles An-geles and obtained a decree of divorce di-vorce from Douglas Eairhanks ; and thus came to an end the union of the "royal couple" of moviedom. who for ten years were regarded as the model wedded pair so far as happiness and worldly success went Mary's suit, lii.'ri more than a year ai:o. char"i'd Dtr.ig with mental men-tal cruelty, in.'li'.Vivnco and neglect She told Judge 1 .ii;I--'(v the charges were true end i: a! a fair and just property settlement had been made; and af:ei '.;:.. ilii'th Lewis. Miss Pickford's secretary, had testified the decree was granted and Mary !or! :he co-ir; nii.m almost in tears. KiilrtKtnk. in St. Morltz. Switzerland, Switzer-land, was informed of the divorce Inn declined to comment. I N THE highly dramatized trial of I'.runo Ilatiptmann for the kid naping and murder of the Lindbergh Lind-bergh baby the state continued to weave a strong net of circumstantial circumstan-tial evidence around the defendant. Lindbergh first identified his voice Hi that of the'man who received the ransom; next was Atnandiis liocli-iii liocli-iii ii Hi, eighty-seven-year-old man who told of seeing lla.iptuiann driving a "dirty-green" car witli a ladder in it into the Lindbergh lane March 1, 1032, the day of the kidnaping. kid-naping. Then John Perrone, P.ronx taxi driver, identified him as the man who paid him $1 to deliver a ransom note to "Jafsie." "Jafsle," otherwise Dr. John Condon, the aged Bronx educator who undertook the negotiations with the kidnaper, next went on the stand and In his garrulous way identified Bruno as the man with whom he dealt and to whom lie handed the $,10,000 ransom money. His long and somewhat rambling story was bitterly assailed In cross examination by E. J. Reilly, chief defense counsel, but seemingly the great value of his evidence was not much shaken. Detective Arthur Johnson of New York was on his way home from Europe bringing relatives of the late Isadore Fisch to testify for the state. Ilauptmann claimed in his defense that the ransom money found In his possession was given to him by Fisch, a business associate associ-ate in New York. Fisch later returned re-turned to his home in Germany, where he died. A N APOLOGY to the Canadian government and payments of $50,000,50 damages is the penalty Imposed on the United States for sinking the rum running schooner I'm Alone in the Gulf of Mexico lu March of 1929. This decision was announced by Willis Van Devanter, associate justice of the United States Supreme court, and Sir Lyman Ly-man Poore Duff, chief justice of Canada, who were the commissioners commission-ers of arbitration under the ship liquor treaty of 1924 between the United States and Great Britain for controlling liquor smuggling. Of the damages awarded, $25,000 is to be paid as compensation to the Canadian government and $25,-606.50 $25,-606.50 to the master and members of the crew of the I'm Alone or their families. Included in the latter lat-ter Is $10,1S5 to the widow and children of Leon Mainguy, a French citizen of St. Pierre, Miquelon, who drowned when the schooner was sunk by the coast guard. The commissioners found that the master and members of the crew were not parties to a liquor smuggling smug-gling conspiracy. THERE were huge sighs of relief re-lief in the chancelleries of Europe Eu-rope when the success of the conversations con-versations in Rome between For- mfm:v:mz? eign Minlster pl' P.C erre Laval of France and re sTV5 mier Mussolini was announced In- rs. 5.1 formaUy- For two F days the two H j A statesmen dis- fyy I cussed the points I ft?V,f at issue between t 1 J tneir nations and ssJa conditions in general gen-eral in central Eu- Pierre Laval rQpe EmergiDg from the last of their meetings, La-.val, La-.val, smiling broadly, said to a group of French and Italian war veterans : "I am glad to tell you that Premier Pre-mier Mussolini and I are now in complete accord." Without waiting for an official communique, those best informed said Laval and 11 duce had reached a full agreement, the principal features of which are a joint declaration dec-laration to preserve the independence independ-ence of Austria, a five or six power pow-er pact of noninterference, and provisions pro-visions for colonial concessions In Africa. The pact agreeing not to interfere with one another's Internal Inter-nal affairs presumably will include Italy, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Austria, and Hungary; and later England, France and Rumania may be asked to adhere to it. EX-PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER has been elected a director di-rector of the New York Life Insurance In-surance company, at the instance of Alfred E. Smith. He was first offered the place two years ago when the death of Calvin Coolidge created a vacancy. Mr. Hoover said : "I have accepted in the hope of contributing con-tributing something to the protection protec-tion and advancement of the interests inter-ests of millions of policy holders, for In these great insurance trusts lies one of the most vital personal securities to the women and children chil-dren of the country." PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATOR ADMINISTRA-TOR ICKES has resumed his contest with Arizona over the building build-ing of the barker dam In the Colorado Colo-rado river and wants the Supreme court to keep that state and its i "navy," consisting of one scow, from interfering with the joh. Solicitor General Biggs asked permission of the court to file suit for an injunction. injunc-tion. The governor of Arizona recently called out his militia and his navy to keep the public administration from completing the dam. He held that It would interfere with the dis trihutinn of irrigation water iu his state. |