Show washington snapshots taken by the helm news service tor for the park record washington 1 D C june jims president III dent hoover sat beside a radio in the white house and heard himself tor for a second term A few minutes later one of his secretaries handed him a telegram from representative snell the convention chairman officially notifying him of the action he was obviously pleased with the outcome and promptly placed the emphasis of the campaign to come 0 on the economic situation he replied with with a brief message of acceptance pledging himself t to 0 labor as I 1 have labored to meet the effects of the worldwide storm hla his first move after the message of appreciation was to let the national committee know that he preferred the election of everett sanders of indiana as chairman of the committee W 40 0 the new chairman and the executive committee of the national committee are a re expected to come here shortly and map out campaign plans with the president no definite word escaped from the white house on the question but it Is predicted by mr hoovers close political advisers that he would conduct the campaign from there and make few speeches it was pointed out that this would be in accordance with past custom w when hen presidents standing for reelection election re have attended to the duties of their high office and not engaged in far flung campaign trips of many speeches vice president curtis received an ovation from republicans and democrats alike when news of his nomination re was announced in the senate chamber every senator rose and applauded mr curtis curels jose ose bowed and soon left the rostrum tor for his private office where his friends hurried in to congratulate him the announcement of the nomination re was as made by senator reed of pennsylvania who said 1 I have the very great pleasure of announcing that the republican national convention in chicago has just nominated re tor for vice president our distinguished presiding officer a 40 neither the sopping wets nor the sahara drys are satisfied with the amphibian prohibition plank said to have been adopted under pressure of lieutenants of president hoover by the republic can convention and although the plank Is wetter than would have seemed pos sible six months ago the wets seem to be more dissatisfied than the drys this was the reaction among the members and leaders of the allied repeal council as they prepared to renew the battle at the tl democratic national convention in this com coming ing struggle the drys have little hope of v victory and the wets confidently expect that I 1 even it if they should fail to get a repeal declaration they will get a plank much wetter than that adopted by the republicans 41 0 ab washington greeted the prohibition plank with brickbats brick bats and few bouquets democrats in the senate lost no time in sounding bounding off on the subject soon as the upper house convened numerous statements ratzing razzing raz zing the plank were issued jouett shouse on behalf of the democratic national committee called it weasel worded and blamed it on pre I 1 hoover senator tydings wet i democrat of maryland derided the i plank in a senate speech this a 1 plank its it a collection ot of splinters he shouted shaking baking a copy of the document its got every type of wood that could be ba raked up in it including even some of the sidewalks of new york 40 W the house passed by an over overwhelming helming viva voce vote the fulmer bill authorizing free distribution of bushels of wheat held by the grain stabilization corporation and bales of cotton of the cotton stabilization corporation both subsidiaries of the eral era farm board the vote was not in dica dilative tive of the sentiment of the house and it came after a tangle that tor for a tune time upset the members after representatives la guardia of new york and mcgugin of kansas had almost indulged in a fist fight and after a group of westerners headed by representatives burtness of iowa and hope of kansas had made a desperate but futile effort to delay final action the debate hinged on the provisions of the bill which gave the red cross authority to exchange the cotton and wheat tor for finished products flour and bread or any kind ot of food so 60 long as it was done without profit to lany any mill mili organization or other person 40 I 1 argument over the veterans bonus ran intermittently in the senate the finance committee opened the eksue by promptly but adversely reporting out the measure the house passed to provide 2 for immediate payment of adjusted compensation its friends in the senate held it up one day but on motion of senator james E watson re he publican of indiana the majority leader gave it right of way for final decision defeat being expected confidently w the installation of veterans of the bonus expeditionary forces on state and federal owned farm land as a 96 means of transforming the tha army into a tar far ilung flung homemaking movement was proposed by brig geri gen pelham D glassford Glas stord gen glassford said land Is available and cheap through federal channels large areas are falling failing under federal control the states are acquiring vast tracts thru nonpayment of taxes instead of remaining idle in washington camps these veterans returning to their respective hornet homes should be organized into rural communities all improvements in their condition will react favorably on commercial industrial du and agricultural interests he lauded the veterans tor for their conduct in the capital they have demonstrated their loyalty to the flag they were heroes in 1919 today they are without employment without means of support homeless and outcast they can not find work surely they are entitled to acquire a decent livelihood aw a two unexpected factors have operated to delay temporarily the progress of the double relief program congress hopes to enact before adjournment the illness of speaker john N garner and the sudden injection of the proposed bonus legislation in the senate both served to prevent action on the wagner bill authorizing in loans to states passed by the senate and the garner rainey bill embracing a program tor for relief and public construction passed by the house |