| Show news review of current events the world over chancellor chamberlain says great britain wants war debt cancellation lose in senate lame duck amendment ratified by EDWARD va W PICKARD BRITAIN has been invited ato GREAT to discuss with the united states the war debts with a view blew to revision and possible reduction I 1 on the invitation having been extended by the hoover administration st with tile the almost illi ali most certain concurrence of president rieca Roo roosebelt the conference if the british ish accept will be held in march and it will be followed immediately to by similar conferences w till the nations thit agrenot are not chancellor in default in chamberlain to this country namely italy lithuania czechoslovakia finland and latla but secretary of state St linson in sending out the invitations invitation s omitted france belgium poland flun hungary gary and esthonia Esth onla the nations that lieve defaulted and this too loo it Is understood met with the approval of mr roosevelt who will be resident when the negotiations are under wily way Ho however eier there were ind indications in washington that mr roosevlt will have arranged separate conferences with the defaulters default ers Eri erizland gland is especially interested in tin vini france if included in such arrangements as may be made beliel beli cUni ng a final settlement of delit debt and economic subjects cannot well be reached unless france is taken into account representative kalney or of illinois floor leader in the house seemed to he roused by ahe nes the conferences wont amount to anything in my opinion 1 kainey a iney said because the american people are not going to stand small for a reduction in the debts the debt conferences should be linked with ith the world economic con ference the thins thing to do Is to bring about a removal of international trade so that trade can tie be revived the conferences already projected hold only a possibility of pening opening up trade routes arid and giving the hie debtors a chance to pay england accepted the invitation find and her stand on the war debt ques lion alon was stilted stated plainly by chancellor neville chamberlain in an address before the leeds chamber of commerce brielly briefly the british government will ask either cancellation ancel lation or reduction so BO drastic that it will almost amount to the same thing if f this cannot be obtained suld chamberlain the file settlement reached must be finni and must not involve resumption of the german reparations to disturb the lausanne agreement he be said would be to reopen old wounds and to destroy demroy for an tri indefinite definite period all prospect of prospect agreement on matters afeei alTe cling the he happiness and prosperity n not merely of europe but of the whole world undertaking to explain the matter to llie he farmer of the middle west the chancellor said that if the war debts payments were to be resumed they could not be made by loans or by further shipments of gou gold ef means of pa ing he contin aed would have to be found and they could only be found by increasing sales bales of foreign goods to Arn america erlea or what would come to the same thing by diminishing purchases from amer lea ica will be no more lame duck sessions sessions of congress for the awen aleth amendment to the constitution has now been ratified ra tilled by more than an 36 states and will go into effect october 15 next action by the missouri llis legislature 14 clinched clin clied lt it and several other legislatures came into line the J same day under this anin amendment dment both senators and represents presenta re tives assume office on january 3 following their election the president and vice sen norris morris president take office on january au following election the newly elected congress Is automat leally called into session on january 3 8 and on the same date one year later the changes to do not affect the terms of hoover all and curtis or any member of the present congress adoption of the amendment Is some thing of a personal victory for senator norris of nebraska who ha fought for it through ninny many years it was passed by the senate leeral times but always previously was blocked in the house are becoming more vociferous and apperea apparently more numerous dany to in washington but bill at this writing they have not got anywhere their first big effort was put pill forth during debate on the glass bank hig 1 K bill in the senate wheeler of montana independent democrat of tin an amendment prodding for the free coinage of silver at the lie ratio of sixteen to one the old formula of william jennings bryan and fluey long of louisiana proposed another aine amendment Adment authorizing the govern ment purchase of silver and tion at approximately 1438 14 sa to 1 after violent discussion bulli these schemes were defeated by a u vote of 0 56 50 to IS in fit each case during the debate senator tom con nally increased the perplexity of the senate by announcing he was preparing a measure to debise debase the gold content of the dollar hy by one third and perhaps if it were constitutional tut lut ional lonal to forbid individuals making contracts calling for payment in ID dol lars of current weight and fineness both senator glass and senator fogg fess argued strongly against fill all the inflation proposals as did reed of pennsylvania arter after being badly mangled by amendments the file class banking bill was parsed by the senate its fate in the house Is problematical FARMERS are to have the eunity of borrowing SOU from uncle sim sam with which to produce this years crops unless the hill passed by congress is killed by a presidential veto the measure makes available arai lible the sum gain named of the u unused ause of balance of of R F C funds allo bated to agriculture the loans will be made for planting fallowing following fal lowing and and the secretary of a aarl rl culture Is empowered to exact from bor borrowers agreements to reduce acre age not to exceed 30 per cent one million dollars Is allocated for feed for farm live stock in drought and storm stricken form farm bloc members of congress defended the bill asserting there would be widespread suffering ering on the farms unless such loans were authorized many member mem lier however hoever attacked attached it as paternalistic socialistic and bound to increase farm farin product surpluses snell of new york minority leader declared it was utterly inconsistent with the pending domestic allotment measure the purpose of which Is to increase farm product prices and decrease acreage the senate agriculture committee began hearings on the domestic allotment bill wednesday hoping they would be completed in a week or so the same arguments for find and against it that were heard in the house were repeated M MR it ROOSEVELT in warm springs after his inspection of muscle shoals was busy studying the aroh lems that will come conie before him anti and conr conferred erred avith many notable men of his big party and a few who are not of that persuasion among bis big callers were several who he according to the cabinet makers have good g chances chalices of being offered portfolios port folios A among rin 0 0 g these was bronson cutting cutten the senator from new sen cutting Sl mexico exico who A ho bolted the republican ticket last fall and helped bellied elect roosevelt the gossip was as that ali it he would be made secretary of the interior it he were willing to accept the place genitor Se cutting was accompanied on his visit by senator la follette of wisconsin another rebel republican bernard M baruch of new york tork chal chairman of the emergency national nit ional transportation committee also was in ID warm arm springs helping the president elect prepare his program and giving advice especially on no the railroad situation aber was talk lie might be appointed secretary of state ably the only cabinet position po lie he would take though many still thought thon glit that thai position would go to elther either senator walsh vaian or of montana owen D young toung or norman davis sir mr roosevelt told the correspondents he might announce une one cabinet choice before going on his bacht trip but no more than one pre surn ably that will be jim parley farley who it Is conceded will be postmaster gen ge eral PRESIDENT RESIDENT HOOVER vetoed the arst deficiency bill carrying ampro of and the house upheld his action tile hie vote being to the president disapproved of the measure because he and attorney general mitchell Ml held unconstitutional a placing control of all sub stant lal refunds from income gift and inheritance taxes in the hands of a joint congressional committee sena lna tor mckellar indicated that he would make another attempt to remove control over refunds from the treasury E elimination of the citizens mili tary training camps its as an econ economy orny naive move was rejected by the house added to the war depart ment appropriation lion to insure their continuance also was add ed to the appropriation for the re serve officers corps the measure was then passed the senate finance committee re ported the howe beer bill ani amended ended to include wine arid and to provide per cent alco alcoholic holle content this measure may get gel through congress before ad journ ment but probably will be if it does LANS for the inaugural of mr PLANS roosevelt sevelt are rapidly nearing collin completion n and the he wand bland from which 11 tile the new resident president and other di will review the parade Is being constructed ted the inaugural committee headed by rear admiral cary D grayson Is really arranging for quite a big show despite the request of mr air roosevelt that the affair be simple and inexpensive the committee decided that the parade should he be limited to about marchers barchers mar chers who will take lake two hours to puss pass the stand As now planned it will be in four divisions led by general pershing as grand marshal marsh I 1 C CANADA ANADA scored a victory in a rum running case that was ruled on by the supreme court it grew out of the seizure of the nova rum ruin ship mazel toy the court held beld that in crises cases of vessels of british rind and canadian registry the 1124 treaty with great britain superseded the proal broil of the 1022 1922 and IWO 1930 tariff acts the opinion declared therefore th thai coast guardsmen guardsman guards men may board search and seize british and canadian vessels only when they are anre loss less than one hours sailing distance from the amer lean shore instead of within a 12 mile limit as provided by the tariff act LEXANDER the handsome young aking ALEXANDER king of accompanied by queen I 1 marle marie and his foreign minister bosko jeftich Jei tich spent the week in rumania visiting king ra carol at the lat utters country place palace it was just a family vis via it uarie marie being carols W sister but the co correspondents rr spon dents said it was for the purpose of seeking a common front on the question of equal armaments due to come up for king discussion in geneva alexander on january 31 the little entente powers which include these two nations anti czechoslovakia did not like the he fiction action of the great powers in giving germany German 3 judicial equality equably in Brina ments with out consulting the little entente and they propose now to demand more con when important ma matters aters come up at geneia genea king alexander was especially anxious to net get Ru manias backing on a protest which plans to ralso raise italis alleged pouring of ma chins chine guns and munitions into gary through austria diplomats in bucharest said an tin side issue of the royal v visit isit wa would uld be a private conference con corned with the problem of restoration of former king george as the ruler of greere greece such restoration it was explained would be immensely able to since a frien fr lendl greek government would secure use of Salor ilki harbor for should circumstances demand americas AMr A RICAS two tivo unofficial SOUTH wars attracted considerable atten tion lion during the week colombia sent seni a joint note to signers of the kellogg pact asking that they call upon peru not to violate the treaty at leticia Lc ticla toward which a colombian flotilla was steaming to recapture the town from the peruvian nationalists who seized it some time ago the place was ceded to colombia by peru tin lin der a treaty signed in 1922 the peru perti vion government asked the league ol of nations to order suspension of all letcia measures of force in the leticia area secretary of state stimson hurdled hurr hurriedly led y called to his hone the diplomatic representatives of the powers signa tory to the kellogg pact to consider alis critical situation lie he then sent a ante to peru invoking the pact find and making it plain that the united stater state considered peru was in the wrong in ID the dispute bolivians Polly ians lans and paraguayans Paraguay ans were fighting desperately for possession of fort nanawa in the disputed gran chilen and both sides claimed the ad vantage the battle lasted for days and the casualties were numerous from tokyo said the jap agnesc cabinet had decided that ju ja pans withdrawal from the league ol of nations was able and had I 1 in n yosuke matsuoka Matsi ioka to restate hit count rys position in regard to Man manchuria churla and then leave genena enea for home foreign minister basua was understood to have informed the cabinet that application of paragraph four of article fifteen by the lie league under which recommendation for den nite action in the manchurian dispute can be made ripp eared almost certain the cabinet it was suld said agreed that thai this step would he fol followed loved by con detonation of japans action in lecog izing the Mancha kno independent government headed by hemy vu iu the hie former emperor of illinois Is losing U its accomplished president ur dr illery ali rry Wo woodburn edburn thise chase who lias has been at the llie bell head of the big institution ont about two years hector doctor chase has presented his resignation effective at t the he end of the lie current shaoul year unil and will all become chancellor ol 01 0 new boil university succeeding chancellor bri brown 1 1 1 lie le 1 benl L to alte l anois ou atie 0 of f illinois 1 1 r aiom t i ahr ol of north arol arelinn ar olinn irol ulgere he be it heally nad had made a line hue reputation RESIDENT KAMON EAMON dl DC vailini VAI Liti IP won a sill ahing victar in tin irish free I 1 ree state ills his iiii patt 9 aaning votes totes ei 11 1 1 n ml e lit it tile lie ex ei pense of f hil of if ci z kiev his hier bier novi A OH 1031 W tl N pd til th I 1 I 1 jn |
