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Show rEWS REVIEW DF ' ngress Hears Hoover's Message and Gets Busy on Tax Cut. "By EDWARD W. PICKARD I JNOnESS Is doing business i again at the old stand, the lirst i dar session having opened Mon- wltli perfunctory meetings of I I houses. Next day President 'ver's annual message was read piiate and house, being listened ;ith intense Interest, and praised J administration supporters and i ci.ed by tlie opposition, lie document was long and com-icnsive, com-icnsive, consisting of a matter I'act statement of what the i.d-' i.d-' 'istration litis done and of what I 1 opes to do in the near future, r : iwed by many recommendations r ' he legislative body. Concern-international Concern-international matters the Presi- !; expressed "high hopes" for the 1 ess of the naval conference in 'don, and made the significant anient that if the movement for lictlon of armament fails, the I " r :ed States may find it necessary rj 1 jend upward of $1,200,000,000 in i I il construction In tlie next six s. He gave praise to the Kel-! Kel-! -Briand pact, and said he would I nit to the senate later the ndod world court reservations, .urged ratitlcation of the French I ; settlement. In view of the hrtainty with respect to future : nue, the President recommend-7hat recommend-7hat the proposed 1 per cent in ' vidual and corporation income 7 s be limited to the present year, i .urged early action on the tariff 'gaiu asking that the measure" 'revised to aid agriculture and :stris that have not been pros-,'us. pros-,'us. and once more advised that ; ' flexible tariff provision be re-1 re-1 "ed. A-. Hoover's liking for commis-i commis-i s was evidenced in several rec-i'lendations. rec-i'lendations. These included sug- ions for a commission to study problem of branch, group and 1 u banking a commission to dis-i dis-i of the Muscle Shoals contro-t contro-t : y and a commission to study con-i con-i , ms In Haiti. The message ad-J ad-J ;ted an Increase in appropria-3 appropria-3 for rivers and harbors Im-, Im-, ; jement from $50,000,000 to $55,-; $55,-; D00 annually, at least half of : h should be available for the issippi inland waterways sys-It sys-It also asked bigger appropri- : is for construction of public . lings and for ocean mail con-ts. con-ts. Concerning the reorgnniza-i reorgnniza-i of government departments, the , ! ident said he had come to the lusion that the only way to , d endless controersy was to gate authority to the execu- hen he reached the subject of ibitlon and law enforcement the ldent used decidedly vigorous uage. In dealing with the for-he for-he said that "It Is not to be eted that any criminal law will be fully enforced so long as j ' ilnals exist," and of law en-.'inent en-.'inent and observance generally : - ;aid it is "the most serious is-before is-before our people." Lie scored , citizen who Insisted on select-the select-the particular laws" which lie : obey, branding liim as the en-of en-of society. He made a num-pf num-pf recommendations for legis-a legis-a to aid in enforcement of the libition law, including Inmiedi-concentration Inmiedi-concentration of responsibility strengthening of enforcement icies by transfer to tlie Uepart-. Uepart-. t of Justice of the federal func-! func-! s of detection and to a cousid-'le cousid-'le degree of prosecution, now he prohibition bureau of the ty. I N WEDNESDAY the President sent to congress the budget for fiscal year 1031 calling for the ' nditure of S3.S30.000.000. Of j sum about $710,000,000 is for :nal defense activities, includ-' includ-' the laying down of the three 1 K) ton cruisers on which suspen-! suspen-! of work was ordered by Presi-' Presi-' : Hoover last summer. An out-1 out-1 of ?:?3,0O0,O(X) for the army and ' nir services is contemplated, ' $30,000,1)00 is to be expended 1 public buildings. EEDY action on the adminis- -ration's $100,000,000 tax redii" f program was obtained in tic j house, the Joint resolution for the legislation going through practically prac-tically without opposition. It was assumed that the senate also would adopt the resolution after some debate, and that the legislation would be enacted hefor? the Christmas Christ-mas holidays. While the reduction applies to only one year, there were indications that the President hopes H can be made permanent. TPnE senate, according to pro-gram, pro-gram, took up the three year old controversy over the right of William Wil-liam S. Vare of Pennsylvania to a seat in that body. Efforts to delay de-lay the debate were defeated, and on Wednesday Mr. Vare himself, crippled by partial paralysis and watched over by his physician, appeared ap-peared in the senate chamber and read a detailed denial of the charges of fraud and corruption in his campaign for nomination and election in 1920. Every one kuew that Vare's appeal was hopeless, for a majority of tlie senate were hostile hos-tile to his cause. The privileges and elections committee had decided decid-ed in his favor the contest brought by W. B. Wilson, the defeated Democratic Dem-ocratic candidate, but a minority of that committee reported that alleged al-leged ballot box stuiling' and corruption cor-ruption made Vare's election illegal. Radical Republican senators could vote for this report because it would accomplish the exclusion of Vare without seating a Democrat. WHEN President Hoover and Secretary Stimson, backed by Great Britain, took cognizance of China's appeal and sent a note to Russia and China asking them to remember their obligations under the Kellogg pact and stop their warlike war-like activities In Manchuria, they ran against an ugly snag. Maxim Litvinoff, acting Russian commissar of foreign affairs, replied with a brusque note virtually telling the United States to mind its own business. busi-ness. He attempted to justify Moscow's course in the Manchiirian embroglio, and then emphasized that the United States government had appealed to Russia at a time when direct negotiations were being carried car-ried on with Manchuria. By strength of this circumstance, the American note to Russia was termed an unjustified un-justified attempt to influence tlie Chinese-Russian negotiations and consequently could not be considered consid-ered as a friendly act. Tlie commissar followed this with a public statement In the course of which he advised the United States and Great Britain to turn their minds toward activities in South America, warships in Chinese waters, wa-ters, and armies in colonial countries coun-tries rather than attempt to obstruct ob-struct the Russo-Chinese negotiations. negotia-tions. Secretary Stimson in a statement to the press made a sharp rejoinder rejoin-der upholding the right of any nation na-tion to mobilize world public opinion opin-ion against a threatened outbreak of war. The Nationalist government of China announced it would do all possible to effect a peaceful settlement settle-ment with Russia of the controversy contro-versy over the Chinese Eastern railway. XT EARLY four hundred of the ' country's leaders in business, finance and industry gathered in Washington Thursday at the invitation invi-tation of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States to take steps for the advancement of President Hoover's campaign of business progress. prog-ress. Mr. Hoover himself told them first of the progress made through the series of conferences held previously, and Assistant Secretary Sec-retary Klein of the Commerce department de-partment addressed them on "the elements of strength and weakness in the present business situation.'" A general discussion followed, culminating In the organization of a permanent committee, which is to maintain an alert scrutiny over national na-tional production, distribution and consumption, for the purpose of noting depressions in particular fields as they develop, and of evolving evolv-ing a means of ending them before they become serious. In his survey Mr. Klc-in, although saying that "admittedly in some industries in-dustries the situation is not as satisfactory sat-isfactory as it might be," and nothing noth-ing is to be "gained by gilding these less solid wheels in our business mechanism," me-chanism," went on to declare that agriculture, in a broad sense, is sound, transportation active and efficient, ef-ficient, mining and most major manufacturing man-ufacturing activities 'predominantly 'predominant-ly healthy, with a sound fiscal and banking system and available credit I at reasonable rates. Prices are steady with a somewhat downward trend, and inventories are low and without Indication of any serious congestion." TINO VICTOR EMMANUEL and Queen Helena of Italy made history Thursday, when they paid their formal visit to Pope Pius. They were the first sovereigns of united Italy ever to enter the Vatican. Vati-can. Minister of Foreign Affairs Dino Grandi, Count de Vecchi, Italian Ital-ian ambassador to the holy see and a great throng of courtiers accompanied accom-panied the rulers to tiie Vatican City, all being in closed automobiles ! and escorted by cyclist police. Hundreds Hun-dreds of thousands of persons gathered gath-ered in the streets to witness tlie procession, and on buildings along the way the Italian and papal colors were displayed. High officials of tlie Vatican City met the king and queen at tlie Arch of Charlemagne, the papal gendarmes presented arms and their band played the royal march. After a lot more stately ceremonial the visitors entered the throne room alone, the pope me; them and raised them up as they bent to kiss his hand ; then the door closed and the three conversed alone for a time. The royal pair as they left carried precious religious re-ligious gifts bestowed by tlie pontiff. pon-tiff. After calling on Cardinal Gas-parri, Gas-parri, papal secretary of state, and receiving holy water from Cardinal Merry del Val, they worshiped in St. Peter's and returned to their palace. ALL of our biggest oil magnates and Sir Henri Deterding of Holland, Hol-land, managing director of the Royal Dutch Shell companies, went to Chicago last week attending the annual meeting of the American Petroleum Pe-troleum institute. The fact that Henry F. Sinclair is still popular among oil men was demonstrated by his re-election as a director of the institute. Edward L. Doheny was retired at his own request. Deterding De-terding addressed to the convention e plea for conservation of oil. "A great many today," he said "think the oil supplies inexhaustible. We pay too little attention to wasteful waste-ful exploitation (apart from producing produc-ing too much), forgetting that new fields in the States may still be discovered, but that they can never be created. Nature put them in limited number and it is almost childish to state that the more that are discovered the fewer are left to the fate of discovery." E. B. Reeser, president of the Institute, In-stitute, asserted that the American petroleum industry had succeeded in balancing demand and supply of crude oil supplies, but that there was still an overproduction of gasoline. gas-oline. POSTMASTER Genera Brown's annual report revealed that the deficit In his department for tlie year ending June 30 was $85,461.-176, $85,461.-176, or more than twice as big a3 the previous year. Among the factors fac-tors responsible for this fact were tlie granting of $7,470,000 additional pay to postal workers and the payment pay-ment of $7,390,000 on ocean mail contracts; also the downward revision revi-sion of postal rates during the last year reduced revenues about $21,-52S.0O0 $21,-52S.0O0 below what they would have been. Mr. Brown's report said that the department handled free of ) 1 charge special privileged mail that otherwise would have paid in nearly near-ly ten millions of dollars. REPRESENTATIVE TINKIIAM of Massachusetts has prodded the senate committee on lobbying j so severely that it may inquire into tlie activities and sources of revenue rev-enue of a lot of lobbyists other than those whose concern is with the tariff. These may include the Anti-saloon Anti-saloon league and other bodies that are supposed to influence the votes of congressmen in matters relating to prohibition. Chairman Caraway of the committee told Mr. Tiulcham the investigators would give him a public hearing. The Massachusetts representative has introduced a measure fo require, under the threat of heavy penalties for violators, viola-tors, the registration of persons attempting at-tempting to Influence legislation. COBLKNZ, GERMANY, was ablaze with bonfires and torches and gay with banners dicing a twenty-four twenty-four hour celebration of the liberation libera-tion of the second zone of occupation occupa-tion of tlie Rhineland. As the allied al-lied troops marched out, the German Ger-man authorities marched in, the tlie bands playing and the people rejoicing hysterically. It has been announced that the last of the British Brit-ish occupational troops will leave the Rliinelnnd on December 12. ((c). l'J23. Western Newspaper Unlou.) |