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Show WITH some reluctance the senate sen-ate begun consideration of the Walsh bill giving the President power to require minimum wage and maximum hour standards of all firms bidding for government contracts. con-tracts. That measure has been added add-ed to the administration's "must" list. The Republicans were preparing prepar-ing to fight the bill as another government gov-ernment plan for regulation of private pri-vate Industry. They point out that It hits about every industry In the country, since It not only applies to corporations selling to the government gov-ernment but extends also to state and local projects wholly or Dart- News Review of Current Events the World Over .Victory in Rhode Island Election Elates the Republicans Republi-cans Guffey Coal Bill Undergoes Changes -Black's Probers Enrage LTurley. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union, Ti KPUIil.ICAN leaders throughout the country were Immensely liearti'iidd probably too much so by the resnlt of the bv-electlon In If 1 rJ the Fir.st district of Rhotle Island. Charles F. It Isle, Republican and determined de-termined opponent of the New Deal, defeated Antonio Prince, Democrat, by nearly 13,000 votes, capturing the seat In congress which Francis B. ly financed by federal funds. "NOT to be dismayed by the death il of NltA, Senator J. C. O'Ma-honey O'Ma-honey of Wyoming thinks the objectives objec-tives of that contraption, high labor standards and fair competition, can be realized, and for that purpose he has drawn up a measure for the regulation of all national commerce by licensing business. The senator, who Is a lawyer, carefully avoided the phrase "interstate "inter-state commerce." He proposed to define "commerce among the states" in the language of the leading decisions de-cisions of the Supreme court The bill creates a licensing system sys-tem for businesses engaged In commerce com-merce among the states and provides pro-vides a national Incorporation law. The federal trade commission, the government's business policeman In Walsh, Tumulty said, are attorneys and aided In work done for the utility util-ity clients. 'TPIIKKK were strong indications A that the house ways and means committee would produce an entirely en-tirely new measure to replace the CufTcy bituminous coal bill. Chairman Chair-man Doughton revealed that the committee had adopted a number of amendments designed to bring the measure within constitutional 11m-I 11m-I Us and to meet objections that It would discriminate against some coal districts. The committee still stood 14 to 11 against the bill, however. how-ever. The President was said to have Informed the Democratic members mem-bers that he was agreeable to any changes they might wish to make provided the main objectives of Condon, Democrat, F resigned to go on sk the State Supreme court. The reversal was so decisive that the Republicans hailed It as a clear Indication that President the days before NRA and the agency to which the New Deal turned after NRA codes were outlawed, would be the keystone of the new plan. O'Mahoney's bill would Increase Its membership from five to nine, with three commissioners representing employees, three employers, and three the general public. XTOTWITHSTANDING warnings 1 by Dr. I-Ijalmar Schacht and other sane Germans, some of the Nazi leaders Insist on pushing to jtooscveit would he defeated for reelection re-election next year. Representative B. H. Snell of New York, minority leader, made a speech about It In the house in which he said : "This Is the first time the people of any part of the country have had an opportunity to pass on the reckless reck-less and extravagant expenditures of the administration. They have passed upon it in a very decisive manner. The election shows the people are beginning to think. The handwriting Is on the wall. From now on we will witness similar rejections re-jections by the citizenry of the New Deal program." Other Republican congressmen spoke in similar vein, but John J. O'Connor, New York Tammany Democrat, Dem-ocrat, countered with the assertion that there was a split in the Democratic Demo-cratic party In the Rhode Island district; dis-trict; while Tom Blanton of Texas shouted shame on Rhode Island be- CmiCa It Jin nW,, h . . . the measure were maintained. According to current report, the changes agreed upon in the committee com-mittee Included: Elimination of the section forbidding forbid-ding the Interstate Commerce commission com-mission to Issue certificates of convenience con-venience and necessity for operation opera-tion of railroads to bltiminous mines without prior approval by the bituminous coal commission. Establishment of a consumers' counsel to safeguard the interests of consumers. Addition of a provision for hearings hear-ings to determine whether the method meth-od of fixing prices was working to the detriment of any district Reduction from nine to five in the number of commission members, I and the addition of a stipulation that none shall have any outside connections. Reduction from 25 to 15 per cent In the amount of the tax assessed against mine operators. I - -i ill'. t u r i n e r extremes the war on Jews and Catholics. For instance, Paul Joseph Jo-seph Goebbels, minister min-ister of propaganda, In a speech at Essen Es-sen announced drastic action against all "enemies" "ene-mies" of the Nazi state Jews. Catho- .. .,lu usneu more recierai aid than almost any other state. Anti-New Anti-New Deal Democratic senators, like Gerry, Byrd and Tydings, agreed the election was significant, but from the White House there was no comment. Former Senator Fess of Ohio with . . . lies, the foreign Pau Goebbe s , press and the Stahl- heim war veterans. He predicted these important developments: L Suppression of the Catholic press and intensification of the Nazi campaign against all Catholic opponents of the third reich ueuuction rrom ay to 90 per cent in the amount of credit allowed the producers who abide by the code. VTIOLENTLY attacked from all sides and nowhere defended with enthusiasm, the President's new share-the-wealth tax bill never- ! ' : L ) I k I U i ? 3 1 theless was put s through the house 5 because of the ' great administra-s administra-s tion majority and i also because the ! congressmen are i tired out and eager to go home. Representative Rep-resentative Tread-way, Tread-way, Republican, of XI a s s a c h u setts, surprising frankness expressed the belief that the G. O. P. would have to wait until 1910 to elect a President Presi-dent Voicing the opinion of many, the veteran campaigner said: "I don't see how the strongest Republican Repub-lican without all that money next year can beat the weakest Democrat Demo-crat with nearly $5,000,000,000 at his disposal." T EPUBLICANS of the ten Mid-AX Mid-AX western states that participated In the Grass Roots conference in Springfield, IIL, have made the Grass Roots' movement a permanent perma-nent auxiliary of the party. Harrison Har-rison E. Spengler of Iowa Is its chairman, Mrs. Leslie Wheeler of Illinois the vice chairman, and Jo Ferguson of Oklahoma, the secretary. secre-tary. Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky not represented at the Springfield meeting, have been Invited to Join In the movement CENATOR HUGO BLACK of Ala- bama may bring out a lot of facts In his Inquiry Into lobbying, but his way of conducting the in- 2. Nationwide dissolution of the Stahlheim. 3. An official ban In near future on marriages between Jews and Aryans. pNGLAN'D and France were still trying to find the way to avert a war between Italy and Ethiopia, but Premier Mussolini of Italy was so skeptical that he ordered 75,000 more men to the colors. By the first of October he will have a million mil-lion men in uniform. Haile Selassie, Selas-sie, the Ethiopian emperor, was reported re-ported to have sanctioned the concentration con-centration of 60,000 of his troops on Italy's east African frontiers. The chiefs, it Is said, are finding it Increasingly In-creasingly difficult to restrain their warriors from overt acts that would precipitate warfare. A NADA, the eleven-year-old king of Slam, nearly lost his throne the other day. A widespread plol was formed under the leadership of noncommissioned officers of the regular army to overthrow the government. gov-ernment. The loyalists uncovered Sen. Barbour maf (a '"st efTort against the measure meas-ure with a resolution to send it back to the committee, but this was easily eas-ily defeated. As passed by the house, the bill Is not quite what the President asked for. Briefly summarized, it Increases taxes on individual incomes in-comes over $50,000, substitutes a graduated corporation-income tax for the present flat levy, puts new taxes on inheritances and gifts In addition to those already borne by estates and gifts. Imposes new taxes of 5 to 10 per cent on "excess" "ex-cess" profits of corporations. It Is designed to raise revenue vestigauon is not winning him any credit. The house has all along fell that he was trying to bully It Into accepting ac-cepting the utilities bill "death sen tence" clause and has been correspondingly corre-spondingly resentful. resent-ful. Various wit- . V 4 estimated at between $250,000,000 and $270,000,000. Its warmest friends couldn't explain how this would bring about what the President calls "wider distribution of wealth," or In the way of balancing the budget. The measure was handed on to the senate with dubious prospects. It was expected the senate finance committee would study it for about a week, and in the meanwhile the conservative Republicans and not a few Democrats were preparing to fight It. Senator W. W. Barbour of New Jersey, Republican, fired an opening gun with a statement In which he said: "Votes, and votes alone, are the objective of this half-baked half-baked measure." Declaring the bill "has no relation rela-tion to making Income meet outgo, but Is Intended to accomplish some weird social objective," Barbour continued : "What this bill actually attempts Is to cilmh upon that hard-ridden steed, "Share-the-Wealth," and ride it and effectually smashed it The plotters Intended to seize and kill their superior officers and oust the regency council that rules the country. coun-try. C UDDEN death put an end to the career of Nathan P. Bryan of Jacksonville, Fla., presiding Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Judicial circuit. Judge Bryan, who was sixty-three years old, was formerly United States senator from Florida.' Frank H. Hitchcock, publisher of the Daily Citizen of Tucson, Ariz., succumbed to pneumonia after several sev-eral months of ill health. Prominent Promi-nent In Republican party politics all his mature life, Mr. Hitchcock managed man-aged Taft's Presidential campaign In 1908 both before and after the convention con-vention and was postmaster general in the Taft cabinet For years he was actively interested in the progress prog-ress of aviation. nesses before the senate committee p- J- have felt seeming- Hurley ly with reason, that they were being be-ing treated unfairly. One of these wltneses who complained com-plained bitterly was Patrick J. Hurley, Hur-ley, secretary of war in the Hoover administration. He testified that he had received $100,000 from the Associated As-sociated Gas and Electric system In the last three years, but Insisted he was paid for legal advice only and had done no lobbying. Hurley was not permitted to read a prepared pre-pared statement and Black's Interjections Inter-jections and questions so angered the witness that he rose to his feet and shouted: "Everyone knows all yon gentlemen are good prosecutors! Of course, you don't know what it is to be fair or just You try to put words Into a witness' mouth. Your questions are all on the type or 'Why don't you stop bearing your wife?" query." Joseph P. Tumulty, who was secretary sec-retary to President Wilson, also was put on the stand and was not treated treat-ed so roughly. He, too, admitted receiving considerable sums from utility concerns, and like Hurley he denied that he had done any lobbying lobby-ing Tumulty testified that he paid foruier Senator George H. Moses tftep.). N. H., $5,000 and would pay another S2..100 to John Walsh, a brother of the late Senator Thomas J. Waish (Dem.), Mont. Moses and him away while the demagogues who have pressed him sorely In the past are looking In the other direction. direc-tion. "The bill should be laid away nn-tll nn-tll the next session of congress when the budget for the ensiling year will be presented. Then. In the light of carefully appropriated federal moneys. we can determine how much revenue will be needed to operate. "Taxes can be levied deliberately as a true revenue measure. Any other program Is not good business and Is not eood government. One change made hv the honse against the President's wishes Involved In-volved corporations' girts to charities.' chari-ties.' Mr. Roosevelt was firmlv against letting corporations deduct from their taxable Income any gift to charity. Just flK firmly the house voted to let them deduct up to 5 per cent of their Incomes. TOE LOUIS, negro pugilist of De-trolt De-trolt who hopes some day to be the heavyweight champion of the world, advanced another step toward to-ward that goal by defeating "King" Levinsky In the first round of a scheduled ten round bout In Chicago. Chi-cago. Levinsky was knocked down four times in little more than two minutes, and the referee theb gave the fight to Joe on a technical knockout Louis and Max Baer, former for-mer champion, have signed for a battle in September. OAMUEL INSULL'S annual pen-J pen-J slon of $21,000 has been restored re-stored by vote of the directors of the Chicago utilities companies which he formerly headed, and he also receives about $33,2ro to cover payments accruing since the beginning begin-ning of last year when payments were suspended by the companies |