Show OF C U R HE N T E U E INT S senate coalition deals a rebuff to president in farm legislation by EDWARD W V PICKARD and radical elcans in the senate combined last week to deal a rebuff to the farm relief plans of president hoover and his administration the mcnary bill was under consideration in the upper house and the elements named succeeded in inserting into that measure the export debenture scheme to which the Pres president dent had declared his opposition the senate committee on agriculture already had declared itself in favor of the plan which the house ho ase had bad rejected when it passed the haugen bill the motion of senator watson of indiana to eliminate the debenture provision from the mcnary measure was beaten by a vote of 44 to 47 consideration of the lineup line up in this vote leads the unprejudiced observer to the conclusion that the supporters of the debenture plan were not necessarily sincere their number included all but two of the democratic senators I ransdell lansdell of if louisiana and wo ang ner der of new york and thirteen republicans nearly all of whom are classed as radicals the democrats had decided to make a party issue of the matter and the radicals have a habit of opposing the regular republicans senator johnson of california was among those atho ho spoke for the debenture scheme and he could not retrain refrain from giving mr hoover some slaps there was no doubt that the mcnary bill would be passed after con olde ration of some suggested amendments ants and it was equally certain that when w ben to conference the house conferees would insist on the elimination of the export debenture provision it was understood in washington that president hoover would veto the farm bill rather than permit it to become law with that plan included As approved by the senate the debenture provision authorizes the farm board to provide an export bounty on any or all farm products the bounty would be equal to one half of the existing tariff rates on the same commodity debentures equivalent to those these rates would be issued by the treasury department to exporters who could realize cash by selling them to importers the debentures would be redner redeemable in the payment of customs duties on all kinds of imports PROMISING even a sharper conflict than the farm legislation the new tariff bill was introduced in the house with the backing of the republican majority of the ways and means committee ant and the united opposition of the democratic members the formulators of the measure seeking to conform with th the presidents wish to avoid as far as possible ill feeling and retaliatory action by canada and other countries did not raise the tariff duties on agricultural products nearly as high as the farm organizations had desired and according to the democratic spokesmen they did increase the duties on many articles which the fa farmer buys burs republican congressmen of the central and far western states also wore were dissatisfied with the agricultural features of the bill meat bleat duties are about doubled find this pleases the farm groups but their request for a tariff on hides was rejected the rates on oil sugar are considerably sider ably increased sugar importations from the being excepted this brought brou glit lout loud walls from cuba sugar producers and importers of cuban sugar and from bottlers of carbonated beverages and other groups and the fa banners fan ners as users of sugar alsa objected the bill Is more inclusive elusive than mr hoover desired space splice is lacking for a summary of uie me bill bijl as offered to lu the house in its entirely it anyone some borne 0 of f its clauses being distasteful to administration congress congressi i men as well as democrats so it was certain that there would bi be a great battle over the mea measure wre in both the house and the senate H ARRY F r SINCLAIR oil magnate 1 Is lo in the washington jail serving out its his sentence of 00 days tor for contempt of the senate but still his foes are not sa satisfied satia Fied maj william peake superintendent of the jail declared ills his noted prisoner would be given no special privileges but dr morris hyman the jail physician needed a pharmacist and ns as sinclair is the holder of a degree in pharmacy lie he was assigned to the job this saved him from being put in the bull gang at the occoquan Occo quan workhouse brick factory theu then suddenly an order was issued by george S wilson director of the local bourd board of public welfare barring newspaper men from the jail while sinclair Is a prisoner there naturally this created something of a rumpus and senator heflin ot of alabama took the occasion to make a speech denouncing what he called official truckling to a millionaire criminal inal other senators admitted they were making inquiries into rumors that the oil ronn man was receiving undue consideration some of these rumors coming by gra grapevine peNIne from his tel fel low prisoners ON GRESSMAN st if ALFRED ill III C congressman of chicago ignot Is not guilty of importing liquor into the united states from havana so declared the jury which heard the case against in key west fla fia the government proved that tho the congressman I 1 and his party brought six trunks labeled with his name that one of them leaked at jacksonville and that two of them were found to contain liquor but walter gramm of chicago brother in law of michael milchael son came to the rescue and swore that those two trunks were his and that the legislator know what was in then them and testified test lOed to the same effect therefore the jury brought in a verdict of acquittal gramm standing on his constitutional rights righta refused to tell what he had put in the trunks federal very promptly arrested the complaisant brother in law on nearly the same charges brought against the congressman OPE for an agreement on german preparations HOPE reparations based on a plan offered by owen D young one of the american experts Is not abandoned but seems rather slim the details of the plan have not been made public but protests are made by england france and belgium each of which fears it would suffer by the proposed revised schedule of payments none of them Is willing to have its receipts from germany cut down especially it if the united states makes no further concessions in the allied debts due it IL the alie british government was trying to stall oft off any parliamentary discussion of the matter because of the pending elections but chancellor of the exchequer churchill told the house of commons that the proposals in question would be to uio the baldwin cabinet LEAR weather was vouchsafed to C CLEAR most of the scientists who went to the east indies to observe the total eclipse of t the sun but the british party at Pa franl slam saw nothing for the on was entirely obscured by clouds clouda at hollo philippine islands where several american groups were stationed and on the island of cebu where there were others from this country the weather lier conditions were excellent the eclipse was see seen n for about he flie hours though its totality lasted only four minutes what tile the astronomers and physicists learned will be made known to the world later THOUGH BOUGH the preparatory disarm disarmament commission in geneva adjourned until an indefinite date later in the summer without apparently having accomplished anything definite president hoover expressed gratification over the promising cha character of the results obtained by tile the naval powers represented said lie all of tile principal naval powers liae expressed adherence to the principles suggested by mhd american delegation Iii include lude the conception of reduction instead of limitation of niva strength streng th they have expressed their desire for full and frank discussion and the development of the american formula into a u step the manner by which these discussions are to ile be initiated has not yet been determined out dut the quest question lon will be followed up promptly TRAVELING about miles from pittsburgh to prince edward lalund laland the navy balloon no 1 piloted by aleut thomas settle and ensign wilfred bushnell won the national elimination race and will represent america in the international contest the navy bag was in the stir about forty four hours for a time it was wag feared that the detroit times balloon with E J hill and arthur G aboard was lost put but after hours of travel in rain and mists it came down in a desolate region ot of the adl ron dacks T HERE were three pieces of news newa last week of especial interest to the movie fans first constance talmadge long ion one of the most popular of the screen stars became the wife of townsend chicago millionaire and announced that she had retired to private life then ina claire anti and john gilbert both prominent notion motion picture actors were married in las vegas nev but there was no intimation that either of then them would quit the screen thirdly tom mix hero of scores of westerns We sterns was indicted by a federal grand jury in los angeles on charges of withholding in income taxes and conspiring to defraud the government out of about in income taxes for the years 1923 1925 1920 1926 and 1 1927 the conspiracy charge Is also made against E J forde brother in law of mix and J T Marj marjorie orle berger hollywood income tax counselor in announcing dixs indictment federal officials intimated that similar action would follow against other prominent flim film performers it was said that the governments losses from income tax frauds lit iff the film colony have been approximately in the last few years ASHINGTON social circles are upset again by a revival of the I 1 mrs gann controversy brought about by the action of mrs alice loosevelt Koo sevelt longworth the speakers wife declined to conform to the decision of the foreign diplomats giving the vice presidents sister the ranking place and tor for tire the time being those two ladles adles are not to be seen at the some game dinners mrs gann has plenty ot of friends and supporters but the alves of most of the senators and supreme court justices are in the opposite camp of course when mrs gima GIB stays away from a function vice president curtis also Is absent la ia december president and mrs hoover will entertain the cabinet and their wives for the first time and mrs hoovers no overs method of solving the troublesome problem will be viewed with greatest interest BEn LINS bloody may Mayday day riots that lasted through nearly a week were finally ended by theal orous efforts of rf the government the reds beds threatened a general strike on the day the 24 victims of the demonstration were burled buried but the workers foiled to heed the plen plea of the communists and funeral ceremonies were not marked by furt further lier serious disorders them the government in berlin asserts it has bag proof roof that the riots were deliberately staged by agents from moscow and the minister of the interior read to the telegrams substantiating tho th c charge h arg e on the other hand the communist leaders accuse the nationalists and monarchists of provoking the battles with the police as a means of forcing the authorities to disband the powerful red organization the communist lighters were dissolved throughout prussian and bavaria and in the free city of hamburg and all ali their funds were confiscated THE university of porto rico klco sustained a severe loss in the sudden death of dr albert B hale professor of economic geography there for the last three years doctor hale in former years was commercial of the state government at buenos alres aires and later was connected with the pan ilan american union ho he was an authority on latin america ys col max bauar chief adviser to during the world w ur alii and afterward the organizer of the chinese nationalist armies died fin aa hal of ain |