Show news review of current events the world 0 over ver new deal badly hurt by ruling that AAA processing taxes are arc unconstitutional democratic senators score schall of minnesota 6 by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper union T TWO WO to one against the new deal was the weeks score in federal court decisions the administration suffered severely the circuit court of appeals in cincin nati natt first held ancon the con dem nation of land by the for slum clearance then the circuit court of ap peals in boston dealt the AAA a terrific blow by declaring un constitutional the processing and flour taxes the one favor chester able g becis on was by lavis davis the circuit court of appeals in new orleans and was that the sale of cheap electric power by the tennessee valley authority was consal tut lonal ional harold ickes who Is adminta said the slum clearance work would be carried on though necessarily in modified form but chester davis AAA administrator openly admitted that the end of the processing taxes would mean the end of the agricultural adjustment administration in all its important aspects he would not con fess that he believed for a minute the supreme court would confirm the rul ing of the court at boston he as sorted he had bad expected that decision to be adverse saving that section around boston is a hotbed of res stance to the processing taxes why its it s right up there among all those cotton manufacturers this was most ee ex e e tra ordinary comment from a high gov eminent official but the appeals court in boston has not yet cited davis for contempt most well informed and unbiased persons have never believed the proc essing taxes would stand up under court test the guffey coal bill has some similar features so that those who debate it should read these para graphs in the boston decision the power of congress to regulate interstate commerce does not authorize it to do so by taxing products either of agriculture or industry before they enter interstate commerce or other wise to control their production mere ly because their production may in it directly affect interstate commerce the issue is not as the government contended whether congress can ap prop funds tor for any purpose deemed by congress in furtherance of the general welfare but whether con gress has any power to control or reg matters left to the state and lay a special tax for that purpose several hundred suits to enjoin col lection of the processing taxes have been filed in federal courts by groces sors if they pay the taxes and the act Is held unconstitutional by the su preme court they will not be able to recover under a provision of the pend ing amendments ting recovery suits against the government all their rebellious in D dig nation the democrats of the house did everything the adminis tra tion wished in considering the social security bill as altered by the senate the conferees had settled all dif ferencek feren ces after two weeks of hard work but one of the amendments they ac cepter was that permitting private pension systems to function under the measure the majority members of the house were informed that prest dent roosevelt wis w is opposed to this so they refused to accept it the senate would not permit the elimination of the amendment so back to conference went the bill T THOMAS HOMAS D SCHALL the blind senator from minnesota has been one of the sharpest tongued critics of the administration in the senate recently he described president roosevelt as a megalomaniac and though the word was subsequently eliminated from the irk record the democrat ic senators were de miffed so a little later senators I 1 black and I 1 one found anity to tell schall senator schall what shat they think of I 1 im un ana to demand that he conform to the rules of decency the argument started when schall had read by a clerk an editorial from a texas editor and an address of his own all critical of the administration robinson protested he ile asserted when one whose moral obliquities re so great as are those of the senator horn minnesota AlInne sota it becomes necessary fr fir some one to object he ile added schall hall cannot shield himself behind n unfortunate affliction the schall speech said president oo sevelt was imitating mussolini and hat ben cohen an administration aid d bill drafter hai hat assumed the leg ilive functions by the ex robinson called schall shall the misrop from minnesota and ex I 1 the opinion the senator had employed some one to write his breeches it Is small business and only could be done by a man of small mentality said the arkansas senator replying schall said if the people knew what was behind this govern ment they would not stand for or it a minute s SENDING ENDING floods ot of telegrams to senators or representatives for or against pending legislation will not be so effective in the future as a result of the disclosures before the senate lobby investigators they heard evi dence to the effect that large numbers of telegrams against the utilities bill were sent from warren pa by an employee of the associated gas and electric system flat tl at the messages were signed with names taken from a city directory and that the originals were destroyed at warren the senate committee evidently planning a nationwide nation wide inquiry asked the western union telegraph corn com pany to prohibit the destruction of any messages transmitted during the last year and officials of the company promised to operate cooperate T TWENTY WENTY months of apparently fu tile file moves to revitalize the corn com mercial relations between the united states and russia and then suddenly washington announces that the two nations had concluded a one year trade agreement under which the sovi et republics agreed to increase ther the ameri amert can imports by per cent in return for purchase pur clase of worth of american ajaj goods russ russia la Is to be granted wide t tariff a r I 1 f f secretary concessions b by y t the h e hull united states russia will buy railroad ament machinery for making new automobile models and otter other products pio duets ducts of heavy industry in addition the soviets will buy cotton the railroad equipment Is needed badly for modernization of a weak transportation system in return russia expects to sell sausage casings certain grades of iron ore manganese furs and dairy prod nets in large quantities to the united states the pact concluded by the exchange of notes between ambassador bullitt in moscow and maxim litvinov corn com for foreign affairs provides for no further loans to russ a and makes no mention of the more than in debts contracted by former rus sian governments it is in line with secretary hulls hull s policy of trade agree ments for these two reasons espe chally it Is attacked by many laicans and not a few democrats in con gress senator pat mccarren of nevada was one of the angriest of these gentlemen he ile declared secretary hull was a prize d plo matic matle dupe and an bounced that he would demand an im mediate modification of the reciprocal tar ff act to res rest ind powers under which hull Is negotiating such treaties key hey pittman chairman of the senate for foreign eln relations committee also Is earnestly opposed to hulls trade pro gram J HAMILTON S SENATOR of illinois a member of the for eign relations committee long hag has urged that great britain be persuaded persuaded to cede to the united states her island pos sessions in the bean sea in payment of her war debt the other day he was moved to bring the subject up a again gain and I 1 delivered an interest 1 I ing speech in the sen ate this time he based his proposal up on the peace offer of senator lew s england to cede a por tion of her territory in Somal Soma lland liland to ethiopia which in turn would cede certain territory to italy with a view of averting the impending war between tl ose countries the senator also suggested 7 that ang land surrender all alg rights ats she claims to privileges of constructing a nicaraguan canal recalling as a precedent that england compelled france to yield all claims to territory adjacent to the suez canal the british islands in the west in dies the senator said are both useful as defense and necessary as protection for the united states they could be seized in time of war between nations fighting among themselves to possess the caribbean and southern seas they could be used as the backyard of the united states from which sup plies could be stored to be used in as sault on america ahari CHARI ES TAUSSIG who had served the administration for two years without official title or position has been appointed chairman of the advis ory committee of the national youth administration in antoune ng the ere atlon of the NYA the president allo bated to it of work funds HAILE SELASSIE appeared E EMPEROR before the Eth lopan an par diament and made an impassioned ap peal to his countrymen to fight italy to the death declaring he had pre pared himself to die in the contest if need be ethiopia knows how to fight to preserve its independence and its sov he said soldiers I 1 follow the example ot of your warrior ancestors soldiers I 1 traders Trader sl peasants Peasant st 1 young and old men and women unite to face the Inva invader derl your sovereign will be among you and will not hesitate to give his blood for the independence of his coun try though the league of nations coun oil ell was scheduled to meet for conald aeration of the italo ethiopian quarrel between july 2 20 and august 2 there were ind that the european nations were about ready to abandon eth opia opla to its fate and that it if the lion of judah doesn doean t give in corn com plemely mussolini will be permitted to have h s way with him that probably will mean a long guerrilla warfare the details of which will not be pleasant read ng newspapers of northern italy antl inti mated that premier mussolini might abandon his projected war with ethiopia if be he could find a way of backing out without losing face but the poman oman public was quite sure the duces duce s aggressive policy would be un impaired this opinion was strength ened by the sending of more troops to east africa secretary of state hull entered the picture again with a rather mild statement expressing america americas s abhorrence of war and confidence in the kellogg pact the italians like this ni at t all HUEY LONG has the po S SENATOR litreal fate of bis his chief opponent mayor T semmes Wa walmsley linsley of new Orle orleans ansIn in the palm of his hand but he is forcing the peo pie of the city to put the mayor out A ma of walmsley s followers tired of the 4 conflict formally de sorted him when the commission council c 0 u n e I 1 I 1 adopted a resolution ae endorsing recent statements of two commis calling for the city to make peace T semmes with long the may or standing stand ng almost Wa walmsley linsley alone declined to yield he ile told the council he would not deal with men who have been called crooks and thieves by every member of the corn com mission council in a caucus preceding the council session 13 of walmsley s 17 ward leaders voted for bis his resignation for the good of the city the mayor told them he was going to stick from h 1 to breakfast breaU ast HEN chinese rivers overflow WHEN they do the thin thing in a big way the han which joins join s the yingtse near dankow broke through the dikes and rushed through the densely land drowning about men women and children unofficially and informally the U unofficially gene general ital opinion seems to be that the wagner labor disputes act Is un constitutional and will be so declared by the united states supreme court when that tribunal Is called on for a becis on william green president of the american federation of labor urges labor leaders to pay no attention to claims that tl ti e law Is 18 invalid leading legal authorities of the na tion are of the opinion that the act Is constitutional in every respect he wrote but added in a letter that he expects a court test and that the american federation of labor will get the best legal talent even if the wagner law Is knocked out by the supreme court the admin believes it has a plan that will avert at least ao per cent of the usual number of strikes walk outs lockouts lock outs and other disorders it Is being launched in toledo ohio and has been called the toledo plan be cause it was conceived by assistant secretary of labor edward F mcgra dy when he was trying to settle a dispute in that ohio city it has no sectional characteristics carries no federal compulsion and rests solely upon the willingness of workers and employers in every city that adopts the plan to abandon the larsh economic vve weapons apons of old and substitute peaceful discussion for violence here again green throws a monkey wrench into the mad mael anery he says the A F of L will not operate cooperate in promoting the mcgrady plan because it provides that the mediation panels would include on the labor side depre senta tives of company unions and of independent and rival unions under green greens s lea dersh p the policy of the A F of L e evidently Is all for the fed aeration or nothing for anyone WITH ITH the approval of the house labor committee a new bill in tended to replace the was brought forward in congress but its chances of passage at this session were small it would create a federal commission to license industries sending goods or commod ties into interstate commerce to obtain a federal license an indus try would be compelled to work employees not more than 30 hours a week provide wages adequate for a decent and comfortable stand ard of living accept collective bar gaining outlaw dealings with to 5 yellow ellow dog contracts and bin workers under sixteen years of a and convict or forced labor |