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Show IMMEDIATE comprehensive re-vision re-vision of the national railway labor not to expedite and enforce the settlement of disputes between News Review of Current Events the World Over Irale Senate Rebukes Ifuey Long, Then Gags LTIm; Jobs and Wages Highest Since 1931; Senate Rejects Higher Normal Income Tax Rate. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ; " 1 i , -A k. " -i t!ie railroads and their employees and to safeguard the right of collec-1 collec-1 1 v e bargaining, was recommended by Joseph B. Eastman, East-man, federal coordinator co-ordinator of transportation, trans-portation, in a letter let-ter to Representative Representa-tive Sam Rayburn, posed plan would affect some 4,500,-000 4,500,-000 farm families, whose Income had been cut In half during the depression de-pression and whose products had been selling at 40 per cent below prewar "parity." ACTING under the power delegated dele-gated to him by President Roosevelt under an executive order, or-der, National Recovery Admlnlstra- tor Johnson approved ap-proved an amendment amend-ment to the bituminous bitu-minous coal code imposing a five-day five-day week of 35 hours and revising its wage scale upward, up-ward, figured on a $5 base with differentials, differ-entials, on the entire en-tire bituminous HCIiV P. LONG, the vituperative nenalor from Louisiana, was soundly spanked by the senate TbuiS'Iay. 'I heir patience exhausted, exhaust-ed, Ix-iuocrutic leaders united In administering ad-ministering a Hound rebuke for his conduct on the lioor. The proceedings proceed-ings were without recent precedence prece-dence In the senate, following the blustering remarks hurled at the Klngllsh, the senate clamped upon Mm temporarily a parliamentary muzzle that reduced him to silence. Senatorial veterans could not remember re-member a similar occasion when a Konator has been subjected to the humiliation of such a public chorus of disapproval from his colleagues. '1 be I.oiiislanian's behavior In the senate has disgraced him In the eyes of the nation, Senator Pat Harrison (lem., Miss.), told lluey. Thu Klnglisli screamed his protests. pro-tests. He shouted that Senator Harrison was the kind of a man who "would stick a knife in a friend's back and drink his blood." This brand of abuse brought Majority Ma-jority Leader Joseph T. Robinson (Hem., Ark.), Senator Rennett ('lark (Item., Mo.), and others to their feet and the senate rules were Invoked to stop the mouth of tin! yelling Long, lie sat down and milked in his chair. The senate has fumed for days as the excitable Long put on his typical exhibitions, shouting to the galleries. Thursday found almost the entire body In a wrathful revolt re-volt against these displays of temperament tem-perament which have been hampering hamper-ing the consideration of important bills. THAT MnJ. Gen. P.cnjamln D. Koulois, chief of the air corps, and others acted In "violation of the law" in connection with the pro- i CO!l industry. The Gen. Johnson anlen)inent Is subject sub-ject to a hearing on April 9. Authoritative Au-thoritative sources in Washington agreed that the operators would accept ac-cept the amendment, at least until after the hearing and that the threat of a strike is avoided at least until after that hearing by the action of the NRA head. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, Issued a statement praising the action of the administration and promising the co-operation of the union. THE Civil Works administration has gone out of existence, and this relief organization became the works division of the Federal Emergency Relief administration. Under this title It will use some $000,000,000 remaining from its recent re-cent grant of $950,000,000 for the year 1935 to provide relief for states, which are in turn to pass the money along to cities and counties. For a month district agents have been working to perfect the machinery ma-chinery for the change. Meanwdiile, administration officials offi-cials made It clear that Industry was not expected to take up the whole slack of unemployment, absorbing ab-sorbing the former CWA workers, in a day. QOAK the rich" forces were de- feated Thursday when the senate rejected an amendment to Ihe revenue bill by Senator La Fol-lette, Fol-lette, Wisconsin Republican, for a big Increase In surtax rates. The vote was 47 to 3G. The party par-ty lineup showed 25 Democrats, 10 Republicans and one Farmer-Labor-ite for the amendment, with 30 Democrats and 17 Republicans against it. Estimated to produce $1S5,000,-000 $1S5,000,-000 additional revenue, the La Fol-lette Fol-lette amendment called for a boost in the normal income tax rate from 4 to 6 per cent, with surtaxes graduated grad-uated up to 71 per cent on net Incomes In-comes in excess of $1,000,000. A "COMMON sense recovery plan" was laid before the country Thursday by France's aged premier, Gaston Doumergue. The program, t 4- 7 ; posed purchase of $7,500,000 worth of army airplanes, Is the conclusion of a subcommittee of the house military affairs committee commit-tee that has been Investigating the matter. The subcommittee sub-committee also found that Harry . II. Woodring, as- chairman of the J. B. Eastman n0USe interstate commerce committee. I lis outstanding recommendations were these: The creation of a new national board of adjustment, divided Into four independent parts, whose awards would be enforceable In the courts. The substitution of a new national na-tional mediation board of three members for the present board of mediation of five members. The Inclusion of all companies which operate equipment or facilities facili-ties or furnish service included within the definition of the terms "railroad" and "transportation" in the interstate commerce act. Provisions similar to those in the temporary emergency railroad transportation act of last year, Insuring In-suring "the complete divorcement of railroad employees and managements manage-ments In the choice of representatives representa-tives to deal one with the other" and providing adequate means for the enforcement of these provisions. The national adjustment board would be divided Into four Independent Inde-pendent parts to adjust future disputes. dis-putes. THE house of representatives got busy Wednesday, suspended its rules and granted quick approval approv-al to three important bills dealing with widely divergent subjects. They were: The administration sugar bill subject of heated controversy for months which slid through to final approval without even a record rec-ord vote. It includes sugar as a basic commodity under the AAA, quotas domestic production of sugar beets and cane, and gives Secretary of Agriculture Wallace power to quota Imports of Cuban and insular sugar. The so called Johnson bill, prohibiting pro-hibiting foreign nations which are in default on private or national obligations In this country from floating their securities in the American market. The measure 1s the upshot of a senatorial investigation investi-gation several years ago into the nature of foreign borrowings in the United States. A resolution ordering a federal power commission Inquiry into rates charged for electric energy by private power companies throughout the country. GENERAL JOHNSON said at his first press conference In six weeks that he favored allowing the licensing provision of the National Na-tional Recovery act to expire in June. The general's attention was called to a report that the President favored fa-vored extending the licensing arrangement, ar-rangement, which had not yet been invoked in a single case, and he Indicated In-dicated that he would be at the service of the President for further discussion of the matter. Inquiry in administration quarters quar-ters concerning the recent report of the federal trade commission on the operation of the steel code led to the information that General Johnson John-son would reply to this report shortly. The general Is said to hold views diametrically opposed to those of the trade commission respecting re-specting the regulation and supervision super-vision of business by the government. govern-ment. SAMUEL INSULL, fugitive utility magnate, has learned that Uncle Un-cle Sam has long arms. He thought himself safe aboard the chartered freighter, on which he escaped from Greece, anchored at Istanbul, but Uncle Sam's long arm tagged him and he was arrested by the Turkish authorities. The council of ministers immediately ordered his extradition to the United States. Two eminent Turkish lawyers on be'iaif of Insull filed an appeal with Hie supreme court of Turkey against the extradition order. But the appeal was denied. Unless the former utilities magnate mag-nate is able to perform some new wonder, his year and a half of flight almost half-way around the world has been brought to an end. t EPRESENTATTVES of the flout A milling industry decided to operate op-erate without a code of fair competition. com-petition. Their rejection of the NRA and AAA mark the first refusal of an entire industry to accept the administration's ad-ministration's recovery plans. The decision to go ahead without. NRA affiliation came after nearly nine mouths of fruitless negotiations with the NRA and AAA officials. Government officials were represented repre-sented as considering a legal test if the millers do not reopen negotiations. nego-tiations. There was some talk that the millers might be put under a license. The millers contend that the code offered would have brought ruin to the Industry and would have forced up prices of flour beyond the ability of consumers to pay. by Western NewgpMy Union. which was officially approved by a special spe-cial council of min-i min-i s t e r s at Elysee palace, Is comparable compar-able In scope with Russia's five-year plan and America's NRA. It rellects, however, the typical typi-cal distrust of experiments ex-periments by the , , .n. woouring, as-Gen. as-Gen. Fou o 8 ... . . sistant secretary of war, had attempted to assure competitive com-petitive bidding for the airplanes and thereby comply with the law and the intent of congress. The transaction in question dates back to the first of the year. Army ollicers, asking a public works allotment al-lotment to buy airplanes, made arrangements ar-rangements to purchase them from special companies without competitive competi-tive bids. Woodring, the committee decided, Intervened and demanded competitive competi-tive bids be sought Specifications were drawn and proposals submitter submit-ter to the Industry for bids. But the army judge advocate general held the proposals die! not assure competitive bidding. The committee contended that In so far as It had been able to find, Woodrlug's every act was to assure free competition, yet his desires were thwarted. It mentioned, in addition to Foulols, Brig Gen. Henry Conger Tratt, chief of the army air corps' procurements division. It said Foulols gave testimony before the Rogers committee and an appropriations appro-priations subcommittee which seemed to conflict CONTINUED improvement in business activity during February Feb-ruary and March and expansion employment and pay rolls to the highest point since the latter half of il'31 were announced by the Commerce department In one of Its most optimistic reports on business Binee 1930. The average weekly wage wr s $19.S1 in February, the highest ince 1931. The hourly rate of 55. S cents per hour was within 4.1 cents of February, 1929. The employment employ-ment Improvement wis general throughout manufacturing Industries. Indus-tries. Seventy-seven of the S9 manufacturing man-ufacturing industries reported increased in-creased employment in February and 79 reported higher total wages. When classified into 14 major groups only the food group did not make an employment or pay roll gain. TO PREVENT extreme demoralization demoral-ization In the Industry and not to create an artificial shortage, is the Intent of the production control proposals submitted to the dairy Industry by the farm administration, administra-tion, administrators asserted In an appeal for national support for the plan. The case for limiting milk supplies was presented in a series of : -fides prepared by the AAA. Ofllcia c.aid it would be easier for them to let the dairy problem work Itself out by natural processes, but It would mean starvation for the fanner. Tbey pointed out that the pro- French peasant. It Is marked by the Gaston same simplicity and Douiner3" absence of ballyhoo which has characterized all of "Gastounet's" actions since the dramatic February Febru-ary morning when he arrived in the civil war littered capital. The French program is based on the theory that if the government puts its own house In order and minds Its own business, industry will recover by itself. It all boils down to a question of restoring confidence, but the methods meth-ods laid down for achieving this purpose are nothing short of revolutionary revo-lutionary for France. The keystone key-stone in Doumcrgue's edifice of recovery re-covery Is the leveling of government govern-ment expenditures down to Income, which means eliminating immediately imme-diately the budget deficit of some $270,000,000. - THE liberal Spanish republic has discarded oue of the major pillars pil-lars upon which It was built. Marshaled Mar-shaled by the nominally moderate Radical party that once was violently vio-lently anti-clerical, the cortes In an uproarious session put 7,500 clergymen cler-gymen back on the pajroll of the state for life. For three hours before passage of the law, which directly violates article 20 of the republican constitution, consti-tution, Premier Alejandro Lerroux's supporters and the shrunken left opposition hurled Insults and waved fists at each other. |