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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CUR P.E NTE VE N TS Storm Raised in Congress by President's New Order for Dry Enforcement. By EDWARD W. PICKARD PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S executive order authorizing the appointment of state, county and municipal officers as prohibition agents at nominal salary sal-ary has raised a great storm in congress, con-gress, and on Tuesday the senate decided de-cided its Judiciary committee should conduct an inquiry into the legality of the order, "to enable the senate to determine de-termine whether legislation is advisable advis-able or necessary" in connection with the enforcement policy it embodies. The resolution directing this inquiry was introduced by Senator King of Utah, a dry, who said the order was unauthorized by congress or any state legislature and "appeared to be of dubious legality." Senator Robinson j of Arkansas, minority leader and an ardent dry, denounced the order as executive usurpation and a serious blow to state rights and to prohibition itself. And naturally the wets in the senate, led by Edge of New Jersey, did not overlook - the opportunity. In the lower house Mr. Coolidge's action caused almost as great a rumpus. Britten of Illinois and Hill of Maryland introduced resolutions to prevent the order from being put into effect, and Linthicum of Maryland made a warm speech in which he declared de-clared the order was centralization gone mad. He and others called attention at-tention to the contrast between the President's order and the warnings he uttered in his recent Williamsburg speech of the danger of federal encroachments en-croachments on the sovereignty of the states. The Republicans had said, that in that address he had forestalled the raising of the state rights issue by the Democrats in 1'JL'S, and now some of them feel that he has lost the ground he then gained. The Democrats Demo-crats assert that his actions do not square with li Is professions. : Mr. Coolidge was seemingly surprised sur-prised by the storm of -criticism that met his order. On his behalf it was explained that it was issued at the request of General Andrews, chief prohibition enforcer, and was designed de-signed especially to cope with a situ- ation (hat had arisen in California. There was no intention of applying it generally or in any state where such j dual holding of ofliee. is forbidden by law. Attorney General Sargent has j held that the order is legal, but Sec-j Sec-j retary of the Treasury Mellon has said he would not have indorsed it if he had known it was to meet with such opposition. White House spokesmen spokes-men said it never occurred to Mr. Coolidge that the order would be at- -tacked as an invasion of state rights, . ,for tfie reason that in the eighteenth' i amendment the states have invited, and in Ids opinion commanded, the ! federal government to share I he concurrent con-current enforcement of national prohibition. pro-hibition. When the states invited the federal government into what had, theretofore, been their exclusive jurisdiction, jur-isdiction, the federal government could hardly be called a trespasser, acceding to the President's reasou-j reasou-j ing. T N HIS speech attacking the execu-1 execu-1 tive order Senator Robinson gave the wets occasion for joy by this statement : "There has been considerable discussion dis-cussion on both sides of this chamber as to whether prohibition enforcement lias failed so completely as to justify such radical measures as amendment of the Constitution or modification of the Volstead act. A referendum on the question has been proposed. Passing Pass-ing over the constitutionality of the proposal, I am moved to say that the course of events is tending to compel those who favor prohibition to consent to a referendum. There are some states in which there is widespread wet sentiment which are taking stops for state referendums. hi my opinion there are five or six states which might vole for modification on such a referendum, but the rest or the stales would vole dry." Senator Glass of Virginia, who Is as dry as they make them, thought It not unlikely the Volstead act might be modified by congress. "Some of us drys," said be, "might concede that the act overshoots the eighteenth amendment." ADMINISTRATION senators who are candidates for renomination and who are listed as drys got another an-other jolt In the Oregon primaries, for the Republicans of that state rejected Senator Stanfield and gave the nomination nom-ination to Frederick Steiwer of Pendleton, Pen-dleton, a lawyer and wdieat grower. Stanfield formerly was considered a liberal on the liquor question but has become a militant dry. Steiwer, though indorsed by the Anti-Saloon league, also was hacked by certain organizations that have a leaning toward to-ward wetness. CONSTRUCTION of post offices and other government buildings to cost $105,000,000 during the next five years is provided for in the public buildings bill signed last week by the President. The measure specifically provides that .10,000,000 shall be spent for new buildings in the District of Columbia, $100,000,000 for new buildings throughout through-out the country, and $15,000,000 for the completion of projects already authorized. au-thorized. The secretary of the treasury treas-ury is to submit to congress when it convenes each year a list of estimates for the construction of needed buildings, build-ings, distributing the money among the states fairly on a basis of area, population and postal receipts. "p HE Haugen farm relief bill was defeated in the house by a vote of 107 to 212, and though Senator Cummins Cum-mins of Iowa did not support the administration ad-ministration in Its opposition to the measure, the result is said to be reacting re-acting against him in the Iowa primary pri-mary campaign. Letters from Mr. Haugen declaring that Mr. Cummins has been indefatigable in his aid of measures advocated by the corn-belt leaders are being broadcast, but still the farmers are represented as being grouchy. Chief of the senator's opponents op-ponents for the nomination is Smith W. Brookhart, who was unseated in favor of Dan Stock, Democrat. His main argument in li is campaign speeches is that he was robbed of bis seat and that thereby the voters of Iowa were disfranchised. All in all. however, it was predicted last week that the veteran Cummins would win a renomination. y ELEGATES from the United States and 13 Latin-American countries and representatives from Europe and Asia -ssembled in Washington Wash-ington for the second Pan-American Red Cross conference. President Coolidge opened the proceedings with a graceful speech in which he gave the highest praise to the Red Cross societies of the world for their work-in work-in alleviating human suffering and in preparing the peoples of the world for international peace. T.N THE Geneva preliminary conference confer-ence on disarmament considerable progress was made. The delegates decided, at the suggestion of M. P.on-cour P.on-cour of France, to urge the council of the League of Nations to speed up its machinery that is designed to terminate termi-nate hostilities quickly. Hugh Gibson, Gib-son, American delegate, did his part by declaring, in the course of a debate de-bate on the desirability of exercising some sort of control over the armaments arma-ments of participating nations, that his delegation would not present any obstacle to a discussion of armament problems which might have League of Nations aspects, though of course the Americans could not participate In such discussions. Hungary submitted a memorandum to the commission complaining bitterly bitter-ly that, though she was practically disarmed, she is surrounded by a group of allied countries possessing powerfu military forces-meaning the "t ie entente. She gave warning that unless some general reduction of armament arm-ament materialized Europe and the League of Nations would be grnvely endangered. This protest Is similar o one already made by Count von ornstorfT on behalf of German" -prosentatlves of the little omen e P "l"stod against the (enor of ,e nn,,,,.mi (l,unu,lUi (V t M' -hly a Peti.lo,, for the vl "t l.e treaty of Trianon, which 2 contended, had no place 'in , , ' era'ions of the disarmament commission. commis-sion. ABD-EL-KRIM, leader of the Rif-fians, Rif-fians, having lost his headquarters headquar-ters town of Targuist and being abandoned aban-doned by many of his supporters, has given up the fight against the French and Spaniards. He made some peace proposals last week that were rejected reject-ed by the French on the ground that he was merely playing for time, and the chieftain thereupon surrendered to the French, putting his person, his family and his property under their protection. Previous to this he re- " turned all the French, Spanish and native prisoners who had been held in the Riff. It was said by Paris officials offi-cials that Krim would be treated "with generosity but with prudence," which means he will be exiled from the Riff but maintained in suitable state. MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN, president presi-dent of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, in her annual report re-port to the convention of the federation federa-tion in Washington, said that the specific objective of her presidential regime was the improvement of the American home so that "our people might be turned from their sad flight after irresponsible pleasure to a lasting last-ing satisfaction found in ideal life." Her recommelidations included the establishment es-tablishment of a "General Federation Foundation" fund for special work; creation of a permanent federation board of trustees; an organized body of law observance and law administration adminis-tration for all departments, and support sup-port of legislation "in principle" rather rath-er than in the letter of the bill. About 5.000 women attended the convention. Mrs. Sherman and Mrs. Edward Franklin Frank-lin White of Indianapolis, first vice president, were re-elected. The new officers are Mrs. Grace Morrison I'oole of Brockton, Mass., recording secretary, secre-tary, and Mrs. H. G. Reynolds of Paducah, Ky.. treasurer. CROWN PRINCE ADOLPHUS ami Crown Princess Louise of Sweden with their large suite landed in New York Thursday and went Immediately Immediate-ly to Washington for the unveiling of the memorial to John Ericsson, inventor in-ventor of the Monitor. They are re- v ceiving all fitting official and social attentions and plan to make a tour of the country before returning home. MT. TOKAICHI, a long quiescent volcano on Hokkaido island, Japan, suddenly erupted with disastrous disas-trous results. Streams of lava poured over the countryside and there were numerous landslides. Hundreds of farmers were believed to have perished per-ished and at least one village was wiped out. A little later the Mayama Irregato reservoir in the Akita prefecture prefec-ture of northern Japan, burst its banks and swept away half of (lie town of Kitsura. The town had a population of 7,000 and it is feared that the casualty list may be heavy. ACCORDING to a report Just Issued Is-sued by the federal trade commission, com-mission, the national wealth of ttic United States amounted to S:S,13.000.-000,000 S:S,13.000.-000,000 in 1!1'22, an apparent increase in the ten-year period of 72 per cent, but only 1(3 per cent when allowance is made for changes In the purchasing power of the dollar. National Income of the Jnited States is estimated nt $70,000,000,000 for the year 1923, which is somewhat less than the total in 1020, when it was S75,0(X),000,(HX), but more than hi 1921, when, during that year of depression, de-pression, it dropped to $33,000,000,000- MARSHAL PILSCDSKI seems t have decided Unit Poland needs a dictatorship for about a year lo ?'ve the national assembly time to revise the constitution. The election of a new President lias been postponed for some days and the marshal himself iilIir' ently has consented to be one of die candidates. In order to Impress the country with the fact that he hud no intention of setting up a military dictatorship, dic-tatorship, Pilsudskl ordered live reRl-ments reRl-ments to leave Warsaw for their provincial pro-vincial garrisons. Americans who "n engaged In extensive llnnnclal deals with (be Polish government nrf min'" dissatisfied, and Minister Stetson fSj gested to Foreign Minister Valcsk Hint America be kepi better Inform concerning (he government of l'ollU und lis plans. |