NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS President's Veto of Farm Relief Bill Arouses Ex- cited Comment. By EDWARD W. PICKARD YEN of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill was so fully expected that the only surprise was caused by the extreme vigor and strong words of the President In expressing his dis approval of the measure. “It em bodies,” said Mr. Coolidge, “a formi- dable array of perils for agriculture which are all the more menacing be cause of their being in maze of ponderously bureau cratic paraphernalia.” The six “major perils” of the bill the President listed follows: t : obscured futile weaknesses and as mpted price-fixing fallacy tax of the fee. 8 at 2. The lization The widespread which it would set up. 4. Its encouragement to profiteering and wasteful distribution by middle men. J characteristics bureaucracy ts stimulation of overproduction. 6. Its ald to our foreign agricultural competitors, These features, the President sald “by no means exhaust the list of fal lacious and indeed dangerous aspects of the bill, but they afford ample ground for its emphatic rejection.” Appended to thé velo message was the opinion of Attorney General Sar geant which concluded: “1 feel bound to advise you that the act In question if approved, would violate the Consti tution of the United States, in that legislation having for its main purpose the control of the price of food in the interest of the producer is not author- ized by the Constitution; in that, if congress possessed the power to do the things attempted by this act, it could not delegate it, as it Is legislative in character ; in that it vests id those not officers or agents of the United States the power and duty of participating in appointments to fill places in the service of the United States; in that it contravenes the provisions of the Constitution against the taking of property without due process of law.” It was agreed by all that the Pres {dent's action was consistent and courageous, but there agreement ceased. Opponents of the bill were gratified with the way In which he tad scotched a plan which they be- lieve would not work; and its sup- porters, both in congress and among the leaders of farm organizations, were correspondingly indignant and resented what they considered his want of sympathy for the farmers and lack of knowledge of the subject. Gov. Adam McMullen of Nebraska immediately issued a call for 100,000 furmers to march on the Republican convention in Kansas City to demand their rights. He declared the farmers could expect “no effective farm legis lation from the present administra, tion or from any candidate like Hoover, whose only é&lalm for recog- nition and whose only hope of secur. ing the Republican nomination is based on his blind adherence to the antiagricultural attitude of the Chief Executive.” Frank ©. Lowden. when he learned of the veto, said only: “1 have de- clared my position on the bill, and that is that | am for It until some. thing is advanced that is better for the farmer.” The opinion of some prominent sup porters of the measure, that the Pres dent's action greatly endangered the Republican party's chances in the Middle West were pot shared by edi tors from that section who were at tending a convention of the Inland Dally Press association In Chicago. It was admitted; however, that the veto probably would bave far-reach- ing political consequences, and’ the Democratic politicians were not no ticeably displeased, though they had little to say for publication. — ERBERT HOOVER, it Is now known, told his supporiers among the Pennsylvania delegates to Kansas City that be agreed with Secretary Mellon that Mr. Coolidge would be the strongest candidate the Republican party could name and ought to run again, and that if the President would accept renomination he, Hoover, would gladly withdraw from the con- test and release all his delegates to vute for Coolidge. In Washington it is expected that Mr. Coolidge will make a new and definite statement as the renomination before the Kan- sas City convention meets, Texas Democrats administered a re- buff to Gov. Al Smith of New York when their convention voted that their forty delegates in the Houston conven: tion should work and vote for a dry platform and a dry candidate. Dan Moody promoted thie “harmony” program and defeated both the Smith faction and the radical dry group that to Instruct the against Smith by name, chairman of ind sald afterward that concerned it neve New however, will shift to Al on The Republic: was split into structing * for uninstr {to Gov wished delegation Wis Moody elected the delegation, as far a WUus for ' ents, the Yorker, believe the delegution the second ballot. in convention of Texas faction in the delegates, two, one other The ttied in Kansas Hoover and naming ucted controversy must be se City. REDUCTION of taxes, according to the biil passed by the senate last amount to $200.875.0xK, $2 which is only a little more than $5. 000.000 above the maximum reduction week, will first set by President Coolidge and the treasury and ac ceptable to the Chief Executive. But it is nearly $85,000,000 below the total in the bill as adopted by the house. Just before the bill the senate unexpectedly the amendment for a graduated tax on corporations with incomes below $15.- therefore would be wis passed defeated 000 which was approved in the com- mittee of the whole. the aggregate iax down by $24 000.000, and Vice voted in the negative. By this action reduction cut The vote on this Dawes was was a tie President In conference, changes were agreed upon which brought the aggregate re duction up to about $223.000000, The conferees consented to the elimination of the senate provision for full publie- ity of tax returns, which had been ob- jected to by the President. Thursday evening the house adopted fixing the adjournment hour of the session at 5 p. m., Tues day, May 20. a resolution RoR the second time General Nobile has viewed the North pole from the air. In the dirigible from Spitzbergen (0 world and, because of the difficulty in locating the pole exactly, cir cled several times over the re gion. The plan of dropping men for exploration was abandoned, but the cross given the explorer by Pope Pius was let fall onto the ice.cap and the pope was notified of this by wire fess. The flags of Italy and Milan also were dropped, and the airship was then headed back to its base at King's Bay. Colonel Lindbergh has been ap pointed chairman of the technical com- mittee of the new Trans Continental Alr Trausport, Inc, and has assumed iis duties which will have much to do with the work of organizing and plac- ing in operation the air lines of the concern. The company is to establish air and rail passenger service between New York und Los Angeles, Lind bergh said he did not contemplate giv: ing up other aeronautical Interests and that his office was etill in those of the Guggenheim fund, of which he will remain a director. He will make no transogeanic flight this year. ——— Italia he flew the top of the EAVY fighting began last week be tween the Nationalist armies and the forces of Marshal Chang that are defending Peking and Tientsin, and the Southerners had the worst of sev. ernl encounters, notubly at Hokien, Chibli province. The main battie was expected to take place on a line be tween Puotingfu and Machang, nearly a hundred miles south of Peking Chang recmed to have made up his mind to go down to defeat rather than flee to: Manchuria, but it was reported in Tokyo that he was negotiating with Jupan in an effort to arrange for an orderly retreat without giving battle. Jupan still lusists there shall be no fighting in Manchuria between the Chinese factions. The Nationalist gov- ernment deeply resents what it con- siders unwarranted Interference by Japan and may complain to the signa- tories to the Washington treaties, Rus sia also officlally disapproves the Jap- anese activities in China, WW ik a few days 222 miners perished in a series of disusters in the coal fields of the United States, The worst of these was at Mather, Pa., where nearly three hundred men were entombed by a gas explosion ; the dead there numbered 108. At Yukon, W. Va., another explosion resulted in 17 deaths; and a dynamite blust at the Kenvir mine In Kentucky killed at least seven. Over in Hamburg, tank deadly Germany, a of phosgene, one of the fumes spread of » most WAr gases, raked and the Over a « art jes of Fascism In Boenos Aires, Argentina, exploded a bomb in the italian cot sons sulate there, Killing six per thirty-seven All Italian jmmigrants with the exception of four consulate Another found in' a owned prominent Italian Fascist les The police made hundreds of arrests and in) INDE the victims were employees, bomb was store by a } TATIONALISTS were defeated In + the German pa tions, loving many cent of the members stag are rilamentury elec Forty per of the new reich Communists The Socialists were ready lo join the middie forming = demanding concessions on labor prob lems. The Marx center party lost seven of its sixty-nine seats and there fore could not retain the post of chan cellor, Greece's cabinet, headed by Premier Zaimis, resigned and the parliament after receiving the resignations was suspended by President Koundouriotis Eleutherios Venizelos, former premier agreed to form 8 new government, sents Socialists or parties in cabinet N ETHIODISTS ip their general con + at ference Kansas City settled for the wing a long debated proposition by voting against the elec tion of bishops for a limited term in stead of for life as has been the rule since 180% They also al most unanimously, a declaration stat ing that “we are opposed to all mili tary training in high schople and to compulsory training in and universities.” An expected on doctrine was averted by the adoption of a report on doctrinal beliefs which, while it reiterated all the usual. doc trines of the Evangelical churches, spoke a good word for independence of thought and the accepted conclu gions of science. Dr. Raymond J Wade of Chicago and Dr. James C Baker of Urbana, Il. were elected bishope. time adopted, colleges clash NE of the foremost scientists of the day passed when Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, bacteriologist for the Rocke feller Institute for Medical Research died in Accra, Gold Coast Colony, Af rica, from yellow fever. Ile had gone to Africa to study the relationship between South American and African yellow fever and contracted the dis ease during a laboratory experiment. Bravely he uzed his own illness to fur ther his scientific study. ECRETARY KELLOGG'S peace proposals have been accepted, with slight reservations, by the British gov. ernment and Its readiness to co-op erie with the principal powers in a multi-lateral anti-war treaty on those lines is announced.. Sir Aysten Cham perlain In his note explained that Great Britain must protect her special interests throughout the world and that her existing commitments under the League of Nations and other interna- tional agreements must uot be affected by the proposed pact. Statesmen in both countries believe these reserva tions will not be a bar to formulation of the treaty. Exposition of Weakness He = throug! 5 m shmits himself! 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