| Show news review of current events the world over norris urges Con congress ress to curb supreme court oratory on lincoln day death of charles curtis long r newspaper tax invalid by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 newspaper union SPEAKING in advocacy of the administrations itt substitute farm bill senator norris the independent republican from nebraska scathingly attacked the supreme courts AAA d decision and urged congress to use its ri right lit to curb the courts power lie he argued that the 6 to 3 decision itself was unconstitutional by the courts own reasoning and shouted it cannot stand the re regulation of 0 agricultural prod prodoc uc senator S n or tion y they say Is un norris constitutional because not mentioned in the constitution norris asserted nowhere in that great document Is there a syllable a word or a sentence giving to any court the right to declare an net act of congress unconstitutional hence when I 1 the lie court indulges in that pastime it Is itself violating the constitution according to its own words norris quoted from the majority opinion of the supreme court holdin holding that the regulation reul atlon and control of agricultural production was a local affair reserved to the states and beyond the power of congress under that decision he declared not only the pending bill but a large portion of the laws which congress has passed du during r the last hundred years are absolutely unconstitutional of the later decision ordering return of processing taxes to the processors the senator said secretary wallace perhaps was too severe in calling it the greatest legalized steal in history and added but it Is a gift the greatest gift since god made salvation free fe norris urged that congress pass a law requiring unanimous decisions by the supreme court to overrule the acts of the legislative branch of the government ern ment un LINCOLN day was the occasion tor for a flood of oratory largely by republican opponents of the new deal herbert hoover spoke at portland ore on the state of the union which he be said was a state of confusion in thought government economic life and the ideals of liberty the new deal sald said the former president has been a veritable fountain of fear the day after the new deal was given life at the election of 1932 began the great fear which created the bank panic of march 4 the stock boom today Is not from confidence in the future it Is partly from fear of inflation fl fla tion in greensboro N C senator dickinson of iowa warmly defended the supreme court as the only remaining guardian of the liberty of the people and inveighed Inveigh ed against what he said was waa the new deals planned economy and its attempted bribery of the states through the invalidated AAA and its proposed substitute the soil conservation measure senator of M michigan was a speaker in new york city and like his fellow republicans he fiercely assailed the administration terming it the third party now in power among the few leading democrats heard was secretary wallace who in indianapolis defended the administration referring to the constitution he declared that most of us thought the agriculture adjustment act was valid and some of us ns including three justices of the supreme court think thin xa 0 o still CHARLES CURTIS former vice president of the united states and before that representative and senator from kansas died suddenly of heart disease at the washington home or of FY ys i hla his brother in law anil and r v sister mr and mrs edward E gann he was seventy six years old and was the first men man of indian blood ever to preside over the senate he was one quarter raw kaw indian his grandmother i 1 having bavle been princess julle julie of that tribe who charles charle married a french voya curtla curtis agear la in lilg his boyhood curtis was a jockey and later a reporter having studied law he became a prosecutor at the age of twenty four la in shawnee county kansas and was elected to con gress in 1892 he was made sen ator in 1907 was wag defeated in and two years later was again elected senator ile he was elected vice president on the ticket headed by herbert hoover and was tor for that position in 1932 1032 mr air curtis was greatly liked by his bis associates in washington and ills his death caused genuine grief president roosevelt said cald 1 I an am deeply distressed to learn of the sudden passing of my old friend charles curtis whether they knew him as a senator as the vice lar resident e 91 of the united states or as the man he was wag in his big own right his legion of friends will remember him bin always affectionately and will mourn liz him passing vice president garner said 1 I was always fond of 0 him I 1 was wag associated with him in the house and senate he was a fine man and a good friend funeral services for mr curtis curels and the interment were in topeka kan ONCE again the supreme court of the united states comes to the rescue or of a free press unanimously the nine justices ruled that the louisiana law imposing a punitive tax on the advertising of the principal newspapers of that state Is 13 unconstitutional the law was passed by a legislature controlled by the late senator huey long the court said of it it Is bad because in the light of its history and of its present setting it Is seen to be a deliberate and calculated device to in tile the guise of a tax to limit the circulation of information to which the public Is entitled in virtue of the constitutional guarantee A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people to allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves in view of the persistent search for new subjects of taxation it Is not without significance that with the single exception of the Louls lani statute so BO tar far as we can discover no state during th the e years rears of our national existence has undertaken to impose a tax like that now in question the form in which the tax Is imposed Is in itself suspicious it Is not measured or limited by the volume ol of advertisement it Is measured alone by the extent of the circulation of the publication in which the advertisements are carried with the plain purpose of penalizing the publishers and curtailing the circulation of a selected tel group of newspapers LETTERS ir ETTERS have been sent by president roosevelt to the heads of the latin american governments invite inviting them to participate in a pan american conference probably in washington the purpose of which will be to organize the peace machinery of the western hemisphere our state department part ment says the meeting will endeavor to provide means for adjusting disputes by peaceful means the conference may bring up the monroe doctrine tor for a new dell netlon mitlon through multilateral endorsement PRESIDENT RESIDENT WILLIAM L RANSOM bof of the american ear bar asio asso catlon cation with headquarters in chicago announced that newton D baker former secretary of war has accepted the chairmanship of the W A associations special committee on cooper co oper aaion between the press radio and bar against publicity I 1 interfering ter fering with fair 4 I 1 trial of judicial and quasi judicial proceedings the creation orthis of this N D baker special committee to define standards to be recommended to lawyers newspapers papers and radio broadcasters in the matter of publicity as to court trials said the announcement Is an outcome of the Inel incidents dents arising in the course of the bruno trial and various proceedings before governmental boards and bodies and it Is hoped that such standards can be made effective through rules of court or through legislation to the london dally daily AFI ACCORDING herald erald a secret decree providing for expulsion of all jews from germany as rapidly as possible has been prepared by nazi leaders nod and laid before chancellor hitler for his signature the paper said eald the decree pro tided for the confiscation conns catlon of all property of expelled jews this story stori may not be true but there Is no doubt that hitler and his associates are determined to extirpate all the organ organizations izat iong and groups which they consider in opposition to the nazi regime and hitler himself has declared the lie jews are to blame for all the troubles of the retch in recent years scores of catholic youth h leaders have been nr arrested rested charged with operation cooperation co with illegal communist groups and it to Is predicted their organizations will be dissolved the campaign Is carried on with great secrecy it was announced lo in berlin that district governors benc henceforth efort h would take orders from the gestapo the secret state police this was interpreted as an indication of an immediate carrying out of promises by nazi leaders for more ruthless more determined action against enemies within the retch P PRESIDENT RESIDENT LAZARO CARDENAS r of mexico went to monterrey to investigate a stoppage of business and industry in protest against labor troubles attributed to communists ile he issued this ultimatum employers who are fatigued by medicos MexIcO cos 9 social and economic scrugg struggle le con can turn over their industries to the workers or the government that would be patriotic but stoppage of activities cannot be countenanced A AMERICAS delegates to the naval conference in london consented to in an agreement that would bind this country for five years or more to refrain from building any more cruisers cruiser in excess of tons in size e W when ben the news reached washington there was immediate and loud prote protest st in congress against what was termed a colossal blunder high ranking navy officials ceals refused to comment officially upon the london agreement but said privately that any program which does docs not include the 1 operation cooperation co of japan and germany would be a failure any agreement will not affect the navys present building program these officials pointed out and they them refused to to be alarmed about the prospect of future limitations TRIAL RIAL of the assassins of 0 king alexander of ju oslavia at marseilles came to an end nd at alx en brov ence edee france with verdicts of guilty for the six defendants for three of the he band of croats choats members of the secret society who were apprehended ended mercy was recommended and they were given sentences of life imprisonment in french guiana the others who never were caught were sentenced to death one of the latter Is dr ante ellch reputed head bead of the achl 13 OUARA OHARA democratic E ELMER state chairman of michigan and former clerk of wayne county which includes detroit state senator A 3 J and 18 16 others of lesser prominence were convicted in detroit of having attempted to steal the 1934 election eight defendants in the recount case which had been on trial for nearly 12 weeks were ne acquitted quitted two other defendants previously had bad pleaded guilty elmer B thus byg bringing to 20 ohara 0 hara the g number facing sentence for their part in the vote recount conspiracy for ohara the verdict came as the culmination of a series of calamities in a brief political career last november a jury in macomb county adjacent to wayne found him g guilty of bribery in a drainage transaction in connection with real estate deals he be had made before 1932 when he entered politics and was elected wayne county clerk he awaits sentence under that conviction after conviction he was removed from office I 1 in the recount case ohara was found guilty on three counts permitting others to alter ballots conspiring to permit others to alter ballots and conspiring to permit others to conduct the recount in an unlawful manner and change the result of the november her 1034 1934 election by putting democrats in office instead of the republicans elected L LEADERS of congress hope tor for an early adjournment by may 1 at the latest and therefore they pushed the new farm bill forward trying to get it through both houses without much delay in their desire to get away from the capital they already hod bad decided to let the proposed permanent neutrality legislation go by the board the farm bill as rewritten by the senate agriculture committee Is based on the soll soil erosion prevention scheme some democrats joined with many republicans public ans in opposing the measure one of them being senator walsh of massachusetts in a statement issued to the press he declared it was a dangerous bill conferring autocratic and blanket authority on the secretary of agriculture ile fie said the measure was neither valid in law nor valid in economics chairman doughton of the house ways and means committee said he be expected definite word from the W white bite house or treasury soon on the amount and kind of taxes that might be imposed to finance the new farm program gra m speaker byrns said he could see no reason why the tax measure should not hot emerge from the committee by the end of february A A ago against lost john J raskob ax former chairman of the democratic national committee when al smith was the presidential nominee and who Is now president of the american liberty league has been begun by the government for an alleged deficiency of 1 on bis big 1929 income taxes the claim was filed in an amendment to the pe llalon recently filed against pierre S du pont font two days before ai MB A al I 1 smith had bad bitterly J J raskob assailed the new deal in the petition which raskob described as new deal eat persecution mr air du pont font was alleged to have understated understate 1 d his 12 1929 income e by and an additional tin at tax of was asked la in the amended petition accusing mr raskob it was alleged that be and the industrialist engaged in sales of securities one to the other to a total of about for the purpose of showing losses M RS HUEY P LONG widow ot of the slain senator from louisiana took tier her seat in the senate to complete hueys hues unfinished term becoming the second woman member of the upper house after eleven months she will be succeeded by allen alien allender speaker of the louisiana house of representatives who was nominated for the rez reg ular term |
