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Show REVIEW Of CURRENT EVENTS President and His Critics Accuse Each Other of Playing Politics. By EDWARD V. PICKARD PRESIDENT COOI.IDGE. personally In conversation with the Washington Washing-ton correspondents, and then through a White House spokesman, told the country Inst week that the critics of his administration were "playing politics" poli-tics" and should not be taken too seriously. seri-ously. Mr. Coolldge alluded apparently apparent-ly to the investigations of the Department Depart-ment of Justice for failure to proceed against Secretary Mellon's aluminum company, to charges by Senator Nor-ris Nor-ris that the President exerted questionable ques-tionable influence to keep, the tariff board from making sugar tariff recommendations recom-mendations before the election of last Sail, and to attacks made on the fed-era! fed-era! trade commission. Mr. Coolidge said these charges were unfounded, that the government was not derelict in enforcing the law and that such attacks at-tacks were seasonal, coming in years in which Presidential elections were held. No sooner were these statements made public than Senator Pat Harrison Har-rison of Mississippi arose in the senate sen-ate to express his great indignation at them. He described Mr. Coolidge as a-"matchless politician" and said: "It does not become a resident of the White House to tell the country that all the speeches here are to have a political tinge. There are political speeches made here, and we invite the President to make his political speeches, whether he makes them to the farmers in the West or the chamber cham-ber of commerce in New York. He has not made a single speech from that in New York to the fly-by-night journey to Chicago but that was an effort to win favor with the people playing politics in his speeches. When he persuaded per-suaded some gentlemen on the other side of the aisle to change their views with respect to international peace in the world he performed one of the ' seven wonders of the world." A MONG the Important statements fi of the President's attitude, emanating ema-nating from the White House are these : The President Is disappointed by the postponement by the League of Nations of preparations for a disarmament disarma-ment conference, and if the league's conference does not materialize, Mr. Coolidge will return to his original' plan to convene in Washington another conference on further reduction of naval armaments. Mr. Coolidge is still ns much opposed op-posed as ever to the United- States Joining the League of Nations be-Ueves be-Ueves the country still overwhelmingly overwhelming-ly determined to stay out, and regards our entrance into the World court not a step toward the league, but a demonstration dem-onstration of our care to avoid league entanglement. The President condemns publicity statements emanating from the War "'id Navy departments charging deterioration de-terioration of our national defies characterizing them ns misrepresent n- fons, designed to obtain !, ,. propriatlons. Mr. Coolidge regards he condition of the army and m v satisfactory. -N as bershlp in the League of v P.'obablvwil, nve rp ''-dinury session 0fX, :;;;: ex: once to act on it t , '"""fil t "ill be n spec "Xt u special meet ng f n, ""nihly. probablv i M,L , lls- Germany i frilnl . uh; to tnko -imittoe'of" he ft' vo'e of 18 to S ,ii , ( llsU by a membership na ,? 1 "P1,l-V f"- " Trunin " 1 ' 1?"" " M I'-.-lin for C1' ,7eSU!nm,''''l to f-n of appnc , niss1"" " the ber ;;"7U"' " --sx';-r-rihe marched out of Cologne, the French evacuated Bonn and the Belgians moved out of Meets. Dusseklorff and lx la Chnpelle. Thus 2,000,000 returned re-turned to the sovereignty of the reich. It was said in Paris that the occupation occupa-tion forces would be reduced to G0.000 as soon as Germany entered the league. But the ollicial view in Berlin Ber-lin is that after Germany has entered the league and all the provisions of the Locarno pact and the Dawes plan are carried out, any occupation of the Ehineland will be an incongruous obstacle ob-stacle to general pacification. FAIBLY rapid action marked the senate's consideration of the tax bill last week, and on the controversial controver-sial features the "regular" Republicans Republic-ans and Democrats voted together, sustaining the finance committee's action ac-tion and defeating the efforts of the radicals to amend the measure. Toward To-ward the end of the week the proposed pro-posed repeal of the estate tax and of the publicity" provision of the present law were the most interesting features remaining to be acted upon. It is believed be-lieved the house will accept the senate's sen-ate's changes which make greater reductions re-ductions in the middle brackets. THE house received from committee commit-tee the Wnr department appropriation appropri-ation bill, which calls for an army of approximately the existing strength and recommends the expenditure during dur-ing the next fiscal year of $339,CSl,000. This is nearly ,$7,000,000 more than last year's appropriation and ?1,0S7,-000 ?1,0S7,-000 above the budget estimates. Of the total amount military activities would be given S'-Xil.OSl.OUO, or an increase in-crease of 51,223,000 above current funds and .fS(,000 above budget lig-ures. lig-ures. Nonmilitnry activities would receive re-ceive $7S,50O,00O, an increase of $5,-741.000 $5,-741.000 over current funds and $223,-000 $223,-000 above the budget. OMUGGLING operations along the United States-Canadian border are to be thoroughly investigated by a special committee of the Canadian parliament ns a result of sensational charges made by H. II. Stevens, minister minis-ter of trade and commerce in the former for-mer Conservative government. After asserting that the smuggling during the last year had caused the Canadian government a loss of $200,000,000 in revenues, Mr. Stevens declared that a notorious crook, perjurer, thief and smuggler had been promoted to be chief customs officer at the port of Montreal though the cabinet ministers knew of his activities. George H. Bolvin, minister of customs cus-toms and excise, told parliament ho was willing to Institute the Jnvesti-n-tion demanded. He said the immense smuggling of silk, cotton goods cigarettes cig-arettes and tobacco into Canada with return cargoes of whisky, was not con-fined con-fined to the Quebec border. Conditions Condi-tions at Toronto, Windsor nnd rM,t through to Vancouver needed the thorough probing which the government govern-ment was prepared to give. Conservative Conser-vative leader Arthur Meighen expressed ex-pressed entire accord with the proposal pro-posal to hold a wide open pub,ic ,. NOTHKR "ttnek on the drv laws from a rather unexpected source' came lust week. HPv. Dr. los T''"l"'ninco society of the I'd. scopal church, announced that POM of the 20,000 members o, iM&;;r::,,,,;K- U'Merunee teaching. k"-"lllU-'-. It has dlscourugci n,, ., tion -i,10 ml , , ",sul"p- for ,,,,!: "m,,K"t disros, , " '''nw'tMt,';" tm - --';':.n;:;V'::r cord with its new policy concerning prohibition. . , KENTUCKY authorities gave an ex- , hibition of efficiency last week In protecting a prisoner from would-be lynchers nnd this was followed by the swift meting out of justice to the offender. of-fender. Edward Harris, a negro, was accused of murder and an attack on a woman, and when a mob gathered at Frankfort, where he was confined, a thousand National Guardsmen with all equipment, including tanks, were called out, the threatening crowds were dispersed by tear gas and Harris Har-ris was safely transported to Lexington. Lexing-ton. There he pleaded guilty to the criminal attack and was sentenced to death on the gallows on March 5. WILLIAM M. WOOD, millionaire resident of Andover, Mass., and former president of the American Woolen company, committed suicide near Daytona, ITa. He had been in poor health for several years and had been despondent since his son was killed in an automobile accident in 1922. He nlso had grieved over the partial abandonment of his plans to build a model village for the thousands thou-sands of employees of the woolen company. com-pany. His associates did not approve of the expenditure of millions for this philanthropic purpose. He retired from the presidency of the company in j March, 1925. WILLIAM A. CLARK, former senator sen-ator from Montana, who died j Inst March, left a fortune of snrae I $50,000,000. The other day th.'ee women wom-en appeared in Butte. Mont., as claim- I ants to a share to this estate, assert- I ing that thoy were Clark's daughters I by his alleged marriage to a woman I in Missouri in lSG'.V Attorneys for I the Clark estate say they know notli- I ing of these women or of the adejed I marriage. I GRADUALLY some of the truth j concerning the renunciation of I Crown Prince Cnrol of Rumania is I leaking out. The stories coming from I Bucharest reveal n pnlace scandal that I reflects seriously on Queen Marie and I Prince Babu Stirbey, her favorite, whose power in the government the I opposition party has been trying to de- I stroy. Gregoire rhilinoscu. a deputy, I has been issuing n series of posters I lampooning the prince nnd the latest report is that Babu has fled from the j capital nnd that the queen has foi- lowed lilni. Phllipescu's pnper accuses I Prince Babu of robbing the Rumanian j deputies and of falsifying the parliamentary parlia-mentary reports to deceive the people. I A NOT1IKR gallant rescue of sailors on the storm-swept Atlantis marked the week. The crew of the sinking Dutch steamer ' Alknid was I taken olT by tho men of the Ilamhur:-American Ilamhur:-American liner Westphalia In mi ocean, the rescuers displaying (treat I brnvery. Captain Tried nnd his men I of the President Roosevelt, who saveJ 25 men from the British frel.chtf Antlnoe, have boon awarded gold, sll- I ver and bronze medals by the Friti government, the British hoard nf trade and Lloyds. , poRTTGAL bud another of Its In- ; 1 olplonl revolutions the other W i under the leadership of Col. Justinian;' Kslevos. But the government I"1' down win, neatness and disp.'itch a"'1 Ibe loader and bis lieutenants w(Ti c arrested while they were nllenirl'". to eapture the barracks at Cnim"'1'"1 f The day before two bat (cries of nr"1" s lory revolted and wore shelled W" submission by the fortress of a George. hi Greece a communist plot I" 9 a snsslnale Premier Pnnvnlos and oil"'' Ko eminent leaders was uncovered W t, u raid on a Coniinunlst center. Til PINANCK M1NISTKI! POl'MM '' ',' 1 Krnnro announced that the f,v0 m "lent was ready to receive offers fr cc 'iy American syndicates for '"j. pl i-linse lonso of the operation of r i 'olograph and telephone syxloni W co Ibe monopolies In tobacco and i"" 0 An American, group, reported I'' K!l backed by tho American Tebaeeo o , Puny, recently offered appro!"1; $1.1X10,000.000 for n POyenr inoroV , on the sale of matches ami l'1,:""' m A syndicate 1ms been dlobM'Inc J long time to take over t'e I"'""' J',,' of telephones and tclci'.raplis. |