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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Senate Committee Defies President and Ricliberg on Nil A Extension Roosevelt Lists "Must" Bills and Business Opposes Them. By EDWARD W. PICKARD C, Western Newspaper Union. DISREGARDING the known wishes of President Roosevelt, the llriiiiice committee of the senate adopted 11ml reported for passage :-- A RIZuNA'S victory over tiie go.-- ernrnent In the Parker dam case ruled on by the Supreme Court alarmed the New Dealers for the safety of some of their other hi,' projects of the same nature. The court decided that Secretary Ickes. as public works administrator, was without authority to dam navigable rivers unless specifically ordered by congress and that the law creating cre-ating the 1'WA had not listed any such specific projects as the I'arker dam. The same applies to many huge reclamation projects that have received re-ceived PWA funds, and it is not unlikely that sails will be brought to stop some of them. Mr. Ickes said congress would be asked to authorize specifically the construction construc-tion of the I'arker dam. CETTING a new transcontinental record for transport ships, a TWA test plane flew from Burbank, Calif., to New York in 11 hours and 5 minutes. ' What is more Important, Impor-tant, for all but about one hundred miles it was controlled by a robot pilot. D. W. Tomlinson, the pilot, was accompanied by Harold Snead, an expert on radio beam flying, and Peter Iiedpath, navigation engineer. Tomlinson had the controls for only three brief intervals over the San Bernardino range, at Durango, Colo., where a snowstorm was encountered, en-countered, and at the landing at Floyd Bennett field. The plane reached its greatest cruising speed of 262 miles an hour over the Allegheny Alle-gheny mountains. UAVING listened to Senator Long of Louisiana and other orators who do not like the administration admin-istration and Its New Deal and also "- r u simple resolution continuing the national na-tional recovery act until April 1, V.Y.'M, and at the same , time making these provisions: 1 1. No price fix-lug fix-lug shall be permuted per-muted or sanctioned sanc-tioned In codes1, except ex-cept In those relat have little love for the G. O. P., the National Farmers' Holiday association, associa-tion, In session at Des Moines, Iowa, decided that a third national political party should be formed. MiloReno.natlonal president of the association, as-sociation, had a live s'0" ilSPW, 1 as "disturbing" such legislation as unemployment Insurance, the omnibus omni-bus banking bill, the utility holding company bill, the 30-hour work week, the Wagner labor disputes bill, the Guffey bituminous coal measure nnd proposed changes in railroad laws. Of tied-up capital, the analysis said this: "Surveys Indicate that close to .$20,000,0(10,000 In expenditures, which would give employment to 4,000.000 men for two years, is pent up In the field of factory expansion, renovation and rehabilitation alone. "The release of this flow of private pri-vate capital by removing political uncertainties would dwarf the billions bil-lions appropriated by congress for relief and make unnecessary the expenditure of much of the taxpayers' taxpay-ers' money." This document was given out as the members of the United States Chamber of Commerce were gathering gather-ing In Washington for their twenty-third twenty-third annual convention, and their speakers endorsed It and attacked much of the proposed legislation mentioned as unwarranted Intrusion of the government Into business. Before It adjourned the chamber adopted resolutions condemning abolition of utility holding companies, compa-nies, opposing the banking bill, asking ask-ing for relaxation and extension of the NRA Instead of the administration adminis-tration bill, and postponing "for further study" the question of social so-cial security. Henry I. Harriman, who has been president of the organization for three years, retired from that office In favor of Harper Sibley of Rochester, Roch-ester, N. Y. The new president Is a banker and a farmer on a big scale. SECRETARY ICKES' Department of the Interior lias now been elevated to the level of the State, Treasury and Agriculture departments, depart-ments, for congress has granted one of Harold's dearest wishes and given him an undersecretary, whose salary Is to be 510,000 a year. This was a senate amendment to the Interior In-terior department appropriation bill, and was accepted by the house, 243 to 92, only after considerable pressure pres-sure had been applied by the administration. ad-ministration. Many of- the house Democrats have asserted that Mr. Ickes snubbed them, and they would have liked nothing better than to administer a rebuke to him by defeating de-feating the amendment, but the party leaders drove them into line. HOW the New Dealers propose to redistribute wealth by double taxation of large estates ts revealed re-vealed by Secretary of the Treasury ing 10 uiiin.'im Donald natural resources Richbcrg wli(.h now mve price fixing provisions. 2. No trade engaged In intrastate intra-state commerce shall be eligible for a code. 1. The President Is given specified speci-fied time In which to review present pres-ent codes to carry out the conditions condi-tions laid down In the first two exceptions ex-ceptions to the resolution. Both President Roosevelt and Donald Don-ald Itichherg, head of the NRA, had urged the passage of a new two year NRA bill which would set up a stricter dictatorship over business busi-ness and Industry. The senate finance committee, however, would not consent to this and Instead passed the resolution, which was drawn up by Senator Clark of Missouri Mis-souri and approved by Chairman Pat Harrison. Twelve senators first called at the White IIouse and the President scorned willing to accept ac-cept the continuing resolution until un-til Mr. Rlchberg came In and protested pro-tested urgently; whereupon Mr. Roosevelt turned it down. The committee com-mittee then tool; the action noted by a vote of 10 to 3, defying both the President and Rlchberg. Senator Harrison said be had no doubt the senate would adopt the resolution. HIGH optimism marked the "fireside "fire-side chat" which President Roosevelt delivered over the radio to the people of America, which peo- pie, he said, are, as a whole, "feeling n lot belter a lot more cheerful than for many, m a n y years." lie asserted we are already on the unmistakable march toward recovery, re-covery, and told bow he means to promote the return lav ' Morgenthau in a letter to Senator Pat Harrison, chairman of the senate finance com mittee. Mr. Morgenthau Mor-genthau outlines a plan of Imposing inheritance in-heritance taxes and also retaining the existing estate taxes, asserting this is in line with "our ly encounter with a M" Reno group of alleged Communists during dur-ing a business session. They sought adoption of a resolution calling for legislation for "relief without debts," production credit without strings," and immediate repeal of the AAA. "You can't talk. You can't argue. Don't try to get the floor. I'm running run-ning tills meeting," Reno said. "Sit down and shut up. Get out before we get really mad." r EPUBLICANS of nine midwest-ern midwest-ern states who met at Excelsior Excel-sior Springs, Mo., decided that fhe "grass roots" conference of leaders of the party should be held In Springfield. III., the date to be fixed later, though It probably will be early In June. The purpose of this gathering will be the rejuvenation of the party and the launching of a campaign to restore popular government. gov-ernment. The nine states participating, partici-pating, which will name delegates, are Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Minne--sota. Kansas, Nebraska. Missouri, Wisconsin and Oklahoma. . GERMANY'S latest breach of the treaty of Versailles, the building of submarines, is stirring up a lot of angry talk in Great Britain, Brit-ain, France and Italy. The English are especially disturbed, for they remember only too vividly how near the Germans came to starving them during the war by the destruction of shipping by the undersea boats. Anglo-German conversations on naval na-val restriction were to have been held In London the second week In May, and these may now be called off or at least postponed. The French are less vexed, because be-cause they think the development may force a showdown on the whole status of the German navy and Hitler's Hit-ler's demand for at least 3n per cent of the British tonnage and approximate approxi-mate parity with that of France. Naval experts in Paris said t lie disclosure dis-closure might "well prove of inestimable ines-timable benefit for military France In awakening naval Britain to the dangers of Hitler's armaments policy." pol-icy." Information obtained by the pow ers was that Germany already had under construction a number of 250-ton submarines and planned a large fleet of them. Spokesmen for the German government denied that any were being built yet. but at the same time admitted that submarines were being "considered" In connection connec-tion with plans foi rebuilding the navy. FOREIGN MINISTER PIERRE LAVAL of France and Ambassador Ambassa-dor Potemkin of Russia finally fixed up the mutual assistance pact between be-tween the two countries in a way acceptable to both and It was signed in Paris. M. Laval then prepared to leave for Moscow, planning to stop In Warsaw en route. It would seem that I. aval had his way with the treaty, for it subordinates sub-ordinates military action of the two powers to the procedure of the League of Nations, to provisions of the Locarno pact and also to the Franco-Polish alliance. All of that probably would keep France out of war even If Russia were attacked. In Paris it was taken for granted that a secret military convention, supplementing the pact, would soot, be signed, fixing the methous o' mutual assistance. to normal conditions condi-tions with his works President relief program. He Roosevelt promised to put to work three and a half million persons now on the relief rolls, and to press for enactment enact-ment of legislation he considers necessary for carrying on the New Deal. Only once did Mr. Roosevelt nl-lude nl-lude to such critics of his administration adminis-tration as Senator Long, Father Coughlln and Governor Talmadge. He said : "The overwhelming majority of people In this country know how to sift the wheat from the chaff In what they hear and what they read. They know that the process of the constructive rebuilding of America cannot be done In a day or a year, but that it is being done In spite of a few who seek to confuse them and to profit by their confusion." These six "fundamental principles." princi-ples." said the President, must guide the work relief program: Projects must be useful, most of the money must go for labor, "a considerable proportion of the costs" must be returned to the treasury, only those projects which can employ persons on relief will be approved, and projects proj-ects will be approved In a given area In proportion to the unemployed unem-ployed In that area. Admitting that graft will creep into, such vast and speedy spending as his program calls for, the President Presi-dent asked citizens to help him make this "the most efficient and cleanest example of public enterprise enter-prise the world has ever seen" and thus to give "a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest and efficient." LEGISLATION which the President Presi-dent said. In his radio talk, should be enacted by congress Immediately Im-mediately iucluded the old age and unemployment Insurance bill, the NRA extension bill, the public utility util-ity holding company bill, the transportation trans-portation control bill, and the banking bank-ing bill. Here he comes Into conflict again with the views of business leaders pf the country. The National Association Asso-ciation of Manufacturers has just Issued its economic analysis of conditions, con-ditions, which says recovery is "within our grasp" nnd that the nation na-tion is closet to breaking the back of the depression than at any time lor years, but asks that. In order to stimulate business, the administration administra-tion and congress temporarily shelve fundamental objec- Secretary tlves." That this Morgenthau would result In the dissolution of large properties, the secretary recognizes, rec-ognizes, for he says: "To prevent the necessity of hasty liquidation of large properties In order to pay the tax, it might be provided that Inheritance taxes be payable In a convenient number of Installments.'' The plan as outlined by Mr. Morgenthau Mor-genthau Is to Impose graduated inheritance in-heritance taxes on estates, with rates following those of the present income tax rates, which approximate approxi-mate 60 per cent on Incomes of a million dollars or more. The present pres-ent estate taxes have a maximum of GO per cent over ten million dollars. Thus there would first be a tax of GO per cent upon the estate or gift, and then another tax of GO per cent to be paid by those Inheriting Inher-iting or receiving it This would amount to a combined rate of S3 per cent on an estate of one hundred hun-dred million dollars. If all this money were handed out to the poorer people, even Huey Long might be satisfied. CHAIRMAN JOHN J. M'SWATN of the house military affairs committee sent to the President a letter of apology for disclosure of defense plans outlined in executive sessions of the committee, and assumed as-sumed full responsibility for "the unfortunate incident." XlcSwaln was rebuked by letter from the President for the publication publi-cation In a house document of possible pos-sible defense plans against Canada and British and French Islands In the Atlantic and the Caribbean In the event of war. Brig. Gens. F. M. Andrews and Charles E. Kilbnurae bad outlined the program hefore a secret meeting of the committee. |