| Show news review of current events the world over senate committee defies president arid and on extension roosevelt lists must bills and business opposes them I 1 by EDWARD W PICKARD c western nc newspaper shaper union tile the known disregarding wishes of president resident 11 roosevelt the finance committee of the senate adopted and reported for passage a simple resolution continuing the national afo rial recovery act ac t until april 1 1936 and at alie same time making mailing these provisions 1 no price fixing shall be permitted or sanctioned in codes except in those relating to mineral or donald natural resources ehberg Ri which now have price fixing provisions 2 no trade engaged in intrastate commerce shall be eligible for a code 3 the president Is given specified time in which to review present codes to carry out the conditions laid down in the first two exceptions to the resolution both president roosebelt Roo elt arid and donald head of the had urged the passage ot of a new lew two year bill which would set up a stricter dictatorship over bustness business arid and industry the senate finance committee bo boneer weer would not consent to tills his arid and instead passed the resolution which was drawn up tip by senator clark of missouri and approved by chairman pat harrison fijn lson twelve senators first called at tile the white house and the president seemed willing to accept the continuing resolution until mr Rich bers came in and protested urgently whereupon mr Roos roosevelt eielt turned it donn don the committee then took the action noted by a vote of 16 to 3 defung both the president and chberg Rl senator harrison arrison II said lie he had find no doubt the senate would adopt the resolution HIGH optimism marked the fireside chat which abich resident president roosevelt delivered oer the radio to the people ot of america which people he said are as 14 a whole feeling a lot better a lot more cheerful than for many in many a n y years ile he asserted we are already on the unmistakable march toward recovery and told how he means to promote the return J to normal conditions v etli his works president relief program ile he roosevelt promised to put to worl three and a half million persons now on the relief rolls and to press for enactment of legislation he considers tor for carrying on the new deal only once did mr roosevelt ril nl lude jude to such critics of his administration as senator long father coughlin and governor talmadge ue ile said the overwhelming majority of people in this country know how bow to sift alft tile the wheat front from the chair chaff irk 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 reek to confuse them and to profit by their confusion these six fundamental principles said the president must guide the work relief program projects must be useful most of the money roust 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 will he approved in a given area in proportion to the unemployed in that area admitting that graft will creep into such vast and speedy spending as his program calls for the president asked naked citizens to help liim jilin make tills this the most efficient and cleanest example of public enterprise I rise the world orld his has eer seen and thus to give a sma hang answer for those cynical men who say sav that a democracy cannot be hoheb t and efficient L which tile the prem 1 lent said in ills his radio talk br be enacted by congress im mediately medin tely included the old age and unemployment insurance nince bill the exten extension slon bill the public utility holding company bill the transportation por port tation atlon control bill and tile the banking hill bill here he comes into conflict again iab alth the views of business leaders ot of tile the country the national association of manufacturers has just issued its economic analysis ot of conditions dit ions which says bays recovery Is within our grasp and that the nation Is closer to breaking ealing br the back of the depression thin than at any time for years but asks that in order to stimulate business the administration and congress temporarily shelve as disturbing such legislation as unemployment insurance the dmn omnibus banking bill the utility holding holdin company bill the 30 hour wor work week the lie wagner labor disputes bill the guffey currey bituminous coal measure and aud proposed changes chang es in railroad laws of tied up capital the analysis said tills this surveys Ind indicate lente that close to in expenditures which would give employment to men for two years Is pent up in the field of factory expansion renovation and rehabilitation alone the release of this flow of private capital by removing political uncertainties would dwarf the billions appropriated by congress for relief and make unnecessary the expenditure of much of the taxpayers money this document was given out oat its as the members of the united states chamber of commerce were gathering in washington for their 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 opposing the banking bill asking ashing for relaxation and extension extension of the instead of the fulminis bill and postponing for further study the question of social security henry L I 1 harriman who nho his has been president of the organization for throe three years vears retired front from that ollice office in favor of harper sibley or of rochester V LUI N Y the new new president Is a banker and a firmer farmer or 06 a big scale ny IMES ICKIS department S 0 of f the interior has now been elevated to the iciel of the state treasury and agriculture departments for congress his has granted one of harolds dearest wishes and given him an undersecretary whose salary Is to be a year tills this was a senate amendment to the interior department appropriation bill and was accepted by the house to 92 only after considerable pressure had been applied by tile the administration many of the house democrats have asserted that mr ickes snubbed them and they would have liked nothing better belter than tha i n to administer a rebuke to him by defeating the amendment but the party leaders drove them bliem into line HOW ahto OW the new dealers propose to redistribute wealth by double taxation of large estates Is re healed by secretary of the treasury in a letter to senator I 1 pat a t II 11 harrison a r r I 1 s 0 n chairman of the senate finance coin ruit tee mr moi evell J 4 outlines a plan of imposing in I 1 herl tance taxes and vl also retaining the I 1 existing estate taxes assorting this Is in line with our fundamental object secretary th thes es that tills this reneau ren tau would result to in the dissolution of 0 large properties the secretary recognizes zes for he says to prevent the necessity of hasty liquidation of large properties to 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 fr mor genthon Is to impose graduated inheritance taxes on estates with rates following those of the pre present ent income tax rates rate S which mate CO per rent on incomes of a million dollars doll irs or more the present nt est estate lie taxes have a maximum of GO CO per cent over ten million dollars thus thim there would first tp be a tax tat of CO per cent upon the estate or gift gart and then another tax of co SO per cent to he be paid by those inheriting or receiving it this would amount to it a combined combine rate of 85 8 per cent on an estate of one hundred million dollars if all tills this money were handed out to the poorer even huey long iong might be satisfied JOHN T J ot of the house military affairs committee sent seat to the president a letter of apology for disclosure of defense plans outlined in sessions of the committee and assumed full responsibility for the unfortunate incident mcswain was rebuked by letter from the president for tile the cutill cation in a house document of possible defense plans against canada and british and french islands in the atlantic arid and the caribbean in the event of war prig erie gens F M andrews and charles E R 11 bourne had hadl outlined the program before a secret meeting ot of tile hie commit committed tep VS i bictory over the government Aern merit in tie the parker dam am case ruled on by tile supreme court i alarmed arm the new dealers for the safety of some of their other big projects of the same nature linture the court decided that ali it secretary ickes as public works administrator was without authority to jim dam navigable nav isable chers unless specifically ordered by congress and that tant the law creating the had not lifted any such snell specific projects as the parker data dain the same applies to many hu huc c reclamation projects that have live received funds fund and it Is not unlikely that suits will be brought to stop some of them air ickes said congress con giess would be asked to authorize specifically the construction of the parker dam S SETTING ETTING a now new transcontinental record for transport ships it a TVA test plane low flew from burbank Cur bank calif to new york in in 11 hours and 5 minutes what Is more important for all but about one hundred miles it was controlled by a robot pilot D W tomlinson the pilot was wag accompanied by harold snead an expert on radio beam flying and yeter ieter naNi na gation engineer tomlinson had the controls for only three brief intervals over the san bernardino nardino range at durango colo where a snowstorm was nas encountered and nt at the landing at floyd bennett field the plane reached its greatest cruising speed of 1021 miles an hour over the allegheny mountains H t listened to senator 1 long of louisiana and other orators who do not like I 1 the 11 c adm administration in and its new deal and also have jiahe little love for the G 0 P the national farmers it holiday 0 I 1 I 1 d a y assoria tion in session at des lown iowa W ft decided that a third national pol political I 1 I 1 I 1 ca p party a r t y should be formed I 1 president or of the association LA la kir so had a lively milo reno encounter mill etli a group of alleged communists dar during a business session they sought ait adoption of a resolution calling for legislation for relief without debts production credit without strings and immediate repeal il of the AAA you cant talk you cant argue dont try to get the floor im run ning this meeting merlin reno sat said sit down and shut up tip get out before we get really mad R D PUBLICANS or of nine midwest ern states n vho aho ho met at excel springs mo aio decided that tile the grass roots conference of leaders of tile the party should be held in springfield ill III tile the tinte date to he fixed liter later though it probably will he be early in june tile pur purpose linse of tills this gathering will he be tile the of nf the party arid and the lann ebing of if a campaign to restore popular government ern ment the nine states part participating lel which will name delegates delegat pe are illinois inan own inglina Ind lina minnesota kansas nebraska asim Misso missouri missoura url wisconsin and oklahoma latest reach breach of GERMANYS G tile the treaty of versailles I 1 the lie building of submarines Is stirring up a lot of angry talk in great DOI I 1 rit nin ain france and italy the english are arc especially disturbed for they remember only too vividly how near the germans came to starving them during the war by tile the destruction of shipping by the undersea boats anglo german conversations on naval restriction were to hive have been held in london the second week in may and these may now lie be called off or at least postponed the french are less vexed because they think the development may force a showdown on the whole status of the german navy anny and hit lers demand for at least 35 3 per cent of the british tonnage and approximate parity with fill that of france naval experts in paris said the lie clr di closure might well prove proe of inestimable benefit for military franco france lit in awakening navil naval britain to the file dangers of hillers Hit lers arnin armaments ments pol I 1 icy cy information obtained by the powers was that germany already tin biad under tinder construction a number of ton submarines at abid planned a large fleet or of them spokesmen for fir the german goern government ment denied that any were being built yet ill hut I 1 at tile rame time admitted that submarines were ere being considered in connect tion with plaris for foi rebuilding the navy inN IGN MINISTER IllIn fIr FLAVAL FRI LAVAL of france arance anil and dor or of finally lived up lit the mutual assistance pact between the two countries lit in a way acceptable to both an ami it was signed ig ned in paris NI laval then prepared to leie leae for moscow planning to stop in warsaw en route it would that laval had liis his way with the treaty for it subordinates ordin ates military action of the two powers to tile the procedure of th the league of nations to provisions of tile locarno pie pact and also to tile lip franco alliance all of that probably won would keep heep france out of f ward war even if russia wore were attacked in paris it was wag taken for granted that a secret military supplementing the the pact would soon be signed using the methods of mutual assistance |
