Show news review of current events the world over supreme court takes up gold clause abrogation ra case senate committee favors world court adherence congress gets the budget by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 by western newspaper union HAVING given the new deal a slight swat by holding the petroleum control feature of tte the NIRA ancon the supreme court moved rapidly toward a judgment as to the legality of the abro gatlon gation of gold pay ments several cases challenging this act were lumped and oral orai A arguments were heard this being a matter of vast lin involving at torney general homer attorney gen S cummings himself eral cummings to appeared present the case for the government mr dummings Is an excellent lawyer but not dot much can be said bald in praise of the legal abilities of most of the men whom the exigencies of politics have shoved into bis his office in washington so obly he was wise to handle this matter blin himself self cummungs defended the cons titu dional authority of the president and congress ton gress to adopt the present mone tary policy as inherently the right of the government to preserve itself in an argument distinguished for oratorical display as well as for its legal aspects cummings said an ad I 1 verse decision by the court would 1 increase the public and private privat e debt of the nation by 2 create a special class that would be beyond the pale of the general financial structure a class composed of those holding bonds demanding pay ment in gold 3 reduce the balance in the united states treasury 2 4 add 17 to the pub lie ile debt and increase the interest charge on this debt alone by 2 2500 DOO a year the latter sum alone cummings laid Is equal to twice the value of the 1834 1934 wheat and cotton crop the attorney general referred to the troubled glate of the country in the tpring of and added I 1 contend md and shall show that the congress and the president of the united states act td ed reasonably in a period of very great difficult difficulties les and that their acts were not he me product of caprice from the questions asked by the fust justices ices observers ers gained the imbres eton that there was a sharp division of opinion among them SENATOR S JOSEPH T ROBINSON majority leader of the senate b being informed that the foreign rela eions committee had voted 14 to 7 in favor of the project for american ad cherence to the world court said he would bring the resolution up on the floor of the senate as soon as pos bible however 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 to meet the objections of other nations to what Is known as reservation five mr robinson said the legal import and effect of reservation erv er five has been preserved in full it Is provided that d discussions may take place under the root pro tocol but in the end the court may not entertain over the objection of the united states any request for an adil advisory sory opinion on any dispute or question in which the united states has lias or claims an interest of the democrats on the committee senators lewis and murray voted against the resolution republicans who favored it were and capper athe 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 lional abdication of legislative power to he the 1 resident eight of the justices united in rendering this decision jus tice cardozo alone disputing and the opinion was read bv chief justice hughes the section declared void vold authorized the president to ban interstate shipment of hot oil that Is oil pro deuced in excess of state quotas while the opinion did not deal with other phases of the recovery act it aroused widespread speculation as to disposition of other cases this was the first major new deal case to come before the court emergency legislation by congress to remedy the s tuition and to meet the objection of the court was re ported to be an immediate likel hood HOSE democrats and republicans T eminent and otherwise who are a re banded together as the american lib erty leigue league are now dow reilly getting into action against what they deem the rad leal teal features of the adm n str atlon s program and their executive corneil has put out a ten point platform plit form it ue ec clares lares te league s appo tion to such practices I 1 notices as s beeping delegations of legislative authority to the I 1 resident lump s im alq o 0 ol 01 riat rations ions to be doled 0 t by U UP P alite house social bation f of industry and regimentation of amer lean life in the first plank of its platform the league pledged itself to preserve american institutions which safe safeguard u ard to citizens in all walks of life the right to liberty and pursuit of happi ness and atthe at the sime time to combat the growth of bureaucracy the aspre spread ad of monopoly the socialization of in austry and the regimentation of amer lean life invasion of the law making and law interpreting functions by new deal ad was also rapped by the league in promising to uphold the american principle that laws be made only by the direct representatives of the people in the congress and that the laws be interpreted only by the courts other points in the 10 point declara tion of policy pledged the league to fight tor for government economy a sound federal fiscal policy a stable currency protection for investors and individual liberties work relief must be car bried ried on the federal budget will not dot be balanced for the coming fiscal year and probably not for several bears ears thereafter in present ing the budget to con gress president roosevelt poosevelt admitted this but without qualms he estimated 8 WO as the amount of money necessary to carry on the govern ment ments s activities for the 1936 fiscal year be ginning july I 1 next the expenses expenses for or the president current year partly roosevelt estimated are 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 fis cal year 1936 1 legislative judicial and executive 36 2 civil departments and agencies m 3 national defense 4 veterans pensions and benefits 5 debt charges interest retirements 6 refunds 64 7 recovery and relief 4 oil oll 8 supplemental items tor for above groups I 1 to 4 inclusive 4 40 total expenditures 8 total receipts for the same period are put at so the esti estl mated deficit will be 4 J 0 of the recovery and relief fund the president ailed ed that 4 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 OW at the close of thia this fis cal year to no new taxes are requested con gress Is asked to continue the so called nuisance taxes which expire soon and the scent 3 cent stamp rate A national defense appropriation of the greatest in the his tory of the country is requested A total of federal workers are to be dismissed veterans pensions in 1936 will reach the staggering total of the accumulated new deal deficit for three years on june 30 1936 will total OW while the trend of recovery and relief expenditures is downward regular federal expenses will increase ary went before M mars judge ben Lf lindsey in los J n geles and oata ned a decree of divorce from douglas rali blinks and thus came to an end the union of the royal couple of v ho for ten years were regarded as the model wedded pair so far as happiness and worldly success went marys suit filed more than a year ago charged doug with mental cruelty indifference and neglect she told judge I 1 lindsey the charges were true and that a fair and just property set had been made and after eliz abeth lewis at ss P cl ct ford fords s secretary had testified the decree was granted and mary left the courtroom almost in tears fairbanks in qt t moritz switzerland was informed of the divorce but de dined to comment x PRESIDENT HERBERT E EX EP er his been eleckel i a d i lector ector of the new york life insurance corn com pany at the instance In of alfred F smith he ile was nas first offered the place pi ice two years ago when the death of cal vin cool dge created a vacancy mr hoover homer said I 1 have accey accepted ted in the hope of buting something to the protection and ad an cement of tl ti e in teresta of m allons 11 inns of policy holders for in these great ins arance trusts I 1 es one of the most vital of personal se be to the women romen and chil children dien of the country TN N THE highly dramatized trial ot of bruno hauptmann for the and murder of the lindbergh baby the state continued to weave a strong net of de endall circumstantial eNi evidence dence around t the h e defendant f lindbergh first fled tied his voice as that of the man who received the ransom next was vas aman dus Hochi hochmuth nuth eighty seven year old man who told of seeing hauptmann driving a dirty green car v ith a lad der in it into the lindbergh lane march 1 the day of the then john bronx tasi taxi driver fled fied him as the man who paid him 1 to deliver a ransom note to jaksie jaisle otherwise dr john con don the aged bronx educator who un dercook the negotiations with the kid naper next went nent on the stand and in his garrulous way vay identified bruno as the man with whom he dealt and to whom hom he landed the ransom money his long and somewhat ram bling scoty was bitterly a assailed in cross examination by G E J reilly chief of defense counsel but seemingly the great value of his evidence was not much shaken Detec detective tiNe arthur johnson of new york was on his way home from a eu rope bringing relatives of the late isa dore risen fisch to testify for the state hauptmann claimed in his defense that the ransom money found in his pos sess on was given to him by fisch a business associate in new york fisch later returned to his home in ger many where he died A N APOLOGY to the canadian gov eminent and payments of 50 OGG damages is the penalty imposed on the united states for sinking the rum running schooner I 1 in alone in the gulf of mexico in march of 1929 this decision was announced by willis van devanter associate justice of the united states supreme court and sir lyman duff chief justice of canada who were the commissioners of arbitration under the ship liquor treaty of 1924 between the united states and great britain for control ling liquor smuggling of the damages awarded 25 Is to be paid as compensation to the canadian government and 25 50 to the master and members of the crew of the I 1 im in alone or their families in eluded in the latter Is 10 to the widow and children of leon mainguy Mal nguy a french citizen of st pierre mique ion who drowned when the schooner was sunk by the coastguard the commissioners found that the master and members of the crew were not parties to a liquor smuggling con tin THERE HERE were huge sighs of relief in the chancelleries of europe when the success of the conversations in rome between foreign minister pierre laval of france and premier mussolini was announced in formally for two days the two states men discussed the points at issue between their nations and con d eions in general in central europe eberg ing from the last of their meetings laval pierre laval smiling broadly said to a group of french and italian war veterans I 1 am glad to tell you that premier mussolini and I 1 are now in complete accord without waiting for an official corn com those best informed said laval and it 11 duce had reached a full agreement the principal features of which are a joint declaration to preserve the independence of austria a five or six power pact of ence and provisions for colonial con cessions in africa the pact agreeing not to interfere with one another s in affairs presumably will include italy czechoslovakia austria and hungary and later eng land france and rumania may be asked to adi adl ere to it HUI HOTY Y P I 1 IONG ONG after S SENATOR attall ing the administration on the floor of the senate betook himself to the radio and continued the assault he declared the roosevelt poosevelt policies were hopeless and summoned all the people to flock to his banner and help wipe out all fortunes above three or tour four millions making every man a king meantime the revolt against the kingfish in louisiana was growing citizens by tie tle hundreds were joining the square deal association which la Is pledged to march on the capitol in baton rouge unless the legislature repeals certain of huey s dictatorial laws PUBLIC WORKS administrator I 1 ICKES has resumed li s contest with arizona over the building of the par ker dam in the colorado river and wants the supreme court to keep that state and its navy consisting of one scow from interfering with the job solicitor general biggs ed derwis s on of the court to filp file suit for an in junca on the governor of arizona recently called out his in I 1 tia da and his navy to I 1 beep the public adm from completing the dam he ile held that it would interfere with the d str aution of irrigation water in h s state I 1 EWER P B of can pada pi ada appealing for support for bis his administration promises to give the dominion a new deal that bears a close u ince to pres dent roose velt s econom c and social program he ile outlined his proposals in a speech in which he demanded an end to the reckless exploitation of human resources and the trafficking in the health and happiness of canadian clu yere yem |