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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Hoover Asks More Economy
in Expenditures—Revolt
in Santo Domingo.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
PRESIDENT HOOVER started off
the week with a plea to the people
of the nation to be moderate in their
requests to congress for appropria-
tions for projects in various parts of
the country. His aim is to keep gov-
ernmental expenditures down to a fig.
are so reasonable that an increase in
taxes will be obviated. Though this
should worthy aim, and in
stating it the President carefully made
it plain that he was not reflecting on
the brought
apon himself the wrath of some of the
Mr. Glass of Vir
seem a
wisdom of congress, he
senators,
gir
The appropriations situation was the
subject of a White breakfast
attended by Republican
both houses of congress,
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Un-
dersecretary of Treasury
Mills, Col. J. C. Roop, director of the
pudget, and Walter H. Newton, one of
the President's
Mr.
which he
nereased
735.000.000, which
notably
House
conference
leaders of
the Ogden
secretaries,
issued a statement in
for
£1,
Newton
enumerated proposals
totaling
he said If
imply an increase in
The list,
projects
had
would
expenditures
approved
taxes of
however, In-
that the
either
would
$0 per
cluded many
gressional leaders
heard of or knew
serious
the imposing
righten
cent,
con-
never
given
Consequently
not appear to
not be
consideration,
list did
them.
reading Newton's
statement in the senate, declared that
“nothing more ever
emanated from the White House with.
in my thirty years of service in con-
gress.” The President, he
setting up a straw man
knocking him
since, as every one knew, many bills
were introduced at
congress only for
and with no
enacted into law,
Mr. Hoover, meanwhile, had given
out a statement obviously intended to
pacify congress. In it he said: “It
should be understood that the unprece.
dented drive now In progress for new
legislation and for expansion of es.
tablished services which increase ex-
penditure beyond the budget, only in
a small per cent originates with mem.
bers of congress or heads of govern
ment departments, It originates from
different sections of the country itself
and from various groups and organiza-
tions, each vigorously supporting their
own projects. Many of these projects
are worthy and no doubt can and
should be undertaken some time over
future years, especially when funds
are free by completion of legislation
already adopted.” And he urged “the
people at home” to realize that the
government cannot undertake imme
diately every worthy project,
Senator Glass,
shameless has
said, was
merely for
the purpose of down,
every session of
home consumption
that they would be
idea
MMEDIATELY after the Issuance
of the President's economy plea the
house adopted a senate resolution ap-
propriating $7,000,000 for loans to
farmers in the flood stricken areas of
fifteen Southern and Western states,
though opponents declared the meas
gre was “pork™ and “political ple.”
Under the resolution, as adopted, the
secretary of agriculture may make ad
vances for the purchase of seed, feed
and fertilizer, which banks refuse,
Loans in only six states, Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Virginia were
authorized under the original senate
resolution, The house agriculture
commitiee, Bowever, added Ohlo, In.
diana, Illinois, Minnesota, North Da-
kota, Montana, and New Mexico and
the house itself tacked on Missouri
and Oklahoma,
Representative of Okla.
homa said: “Everybody knows the
purpose of this bill Is to get congres.
slonal votes, but so long as you are
cutting the ple, Oklahoma wants its
plece”
O'Connor
HE Dominican republic was in the
throes of a revolution last week.
Insurgent forces, determined to keep
President Vasquez from running for
re-election and to assure the free
choice of his successor in May, assem-
bled in various parts of the island and
marched on the capital city, Santo
Domingo. They entered the city firing
volleys In the air and were enthusi-
astically greeted by the populace,
There was no bloodshed as the rebels
took possession of all the public build-
ings. President Vasquez took refuge
in the American legation and other
administration leaders sought the pro-
tection of various foreign consulates,
Vice President Alfonseca resigned.
Charles B. Curtis, the American min-
ister, was acting as intermediary be-
tween the insurgents and the govern-
ment and was trying to bring about an
agreement whereby the situation could
without dam-
to property. The lead-
ers had promised to respect all lives
and
he police force of the
be solved bloodshed or
age nsurgent
changes
city
and property made no
except in
John M.
young member
¥
i
Cabot of Massachusetis, a
of the
staff, wns most
emissary of Minister Curtis and
a swift trip to Santiago to
Urena,
American
active as the
after
MISSY
confer
with Rafael chief of the In
surgents, he was hopeful that a peace-
the
arranged,
able settlement of whole con
troversy could be
was sald by offi.
mild not be
necessary to send marines to the
Dominican republic to protect Ameri-
can and If they are
needed, however, there are plenty with
in easy reach, and the fleet
is now in Caribbean wi
In Washington it
cials tha it probably wx
1
lives property.
scouting
ters.
AMILLE
Socialist,
CHAUTEMPS,
and his
five
Radical
government of
lasted Then
they were denied a vote of confidence
y¥ the
orced
France days,
only
i chamber of deputies and were
f to resign. Chautemps told par-
he had no intention of follow-
the left
llament
the radical policies of
except that taxes would be re.
but would maintain the lines
which Andre Tardien, his
predecessor, had outlined, including his
ing
in the naval conference at Lon
don. The
him, and the left wing
Vins
policy
center refused to believe
was displeased.
The vote, which was 202 to 277 against
Chautemps, showed there is no real
majority in the chamber of deputies
and that any government can survive
only through a coalition of center and
left groups,
Raymond Poincare was called by
President Doumergue but declined to
undertake the formation of a ministry
on the ground of {ll health. So Tar
dieu was given the job again and
Poincare said he would help him,
though he could not accept a place in
the cabinet, The expectation was that
Tardieu would be able to make up his
government in time to resume work
in the naval conference by March 35.
N THE absence of the French dele-
gation the chief delegates of the
other nations in the London naval
conference resumed their negotiations,
and it was reported the Americans,
English and Japanese were inaking
notable progress in adjusting their
differences, The British official
spokesman gave out a communique
laying stress on the fact that “the five.
power pact is still holding the center
of the picture” and adding that “any
sort of an agreement reached will be
purely tentative, will be dependent on
French and Italian acceptance and will
nlso depend upon its inclusion in a
five-power treaty.”
HEAT raisers and wheat specu
lators had a lively time Inst week,
Europe had the idea that the United
States and Canada were going to
boost the price of wheat, so it obtained
its supplies in other markets and cut
down its consumption. Then Chair
man Legge of the federal farm board
made the statement that the board
would not support the wheat market
80 as to stabilize the price somewhere
near the price ita purchasing agency
was paying und that it would buy only
from co-operatives, This was some.
what distorted and misunderstood in
parts of the country and the result
was that non-cooperative wheat was
dumped on the market and prices fell
alarmingly. The farm board's funds
were then used to purchase large
amounts of May and March wheat,
this led other buyers into the market
and prices rallied considerably.
Mr. Legge, after conferring with |
President Hoover, issued a statement |
designed to co-ordinate the farm|
board's program with the govern- |
ment's efforts to stabilize business gen- |
erally, and asking the co-operation of |
the grain trade in restoration of the |
grain markets. Mr. Legge added sig-
nificantly that the board will stand |
firmly on its wheat loan pelicy and
that he is confident its co-operative
agencies “will get the loan figure out
of their wheat,” namely, $1.18 a bushel
at Chicago.
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almost as well
and he others
president of the Pennsylvania railroad,
who urged that the Volstead act be re-
pealed and authorty be delegated to |
the states to determine for themselves
years.
what is intoxicating liquor and whether |
they enact legislation to en
force the He
“a great ad-
temper.
ily reg-
ol
ulated manufacture and sale of liquor
should
Eighteenth
expressed the opinion
the real
vance in cause of
w
ance” would be made by prope
and national
Canadian
these
culiar to
supervision,
and Swedish
modified to
America,
suit
pores in Wisconsin have reached
and Mem-
the La Follette faction of
tepublican party are trying to
Gov. Walter J. Kohler from
cause of alleged violations of the elec
tion and now the Kohler faction |
has retaliated. A petition asking for
the naming of special counsel to start
against Lieut.
Huber, Attorney Gen |
levnolds and Secretary
ti pot kettle stage.
Lo
bers of the
oust
office be
law,
removal proceedings
Henry A.
eral Jolin W
of State ’
with the
for a two
These
letteites, are
Gov,
Theodore Dammann was filed
Just before he left
vacation In Florida,
men, who are La Fol-
cused of pooling their
funds in the Iate campaign and thus
conspiring to bring their filings under
the limit of £1.500 erch, and of other
wise circumventing the election law,
The only constitutional state officer
not now under charges is State Treas-
urer Solomon Levitan,
governor
weeks'
three
thick oil.
extra Power.
OMAN Catholicism lost one of its
most eminent churchmen In the |
death of Raphael Cardinal Merry del |
Val, arch-priest of the basilica of St.
Peter's and secretary of the congre
gation of the holy office, and former |
papal secretary of state under Pope
Pius X. The cardinal, who was a
member of a noble Spanish family,
passed away after an emergency oper
ation for appendicitis. He was sixty. |
four years of age. In 1803 and again |
in 1014 he was urged as a cmdidate
for the papal throne but failed to get
the necessary two-thirds vote of the
college of cardinals, He was prom- |
inently identified with the intran-
sigeant party that upheld the church's |
right for temporal power, and was an |
opponent of modernism.
Only a few days before the death
of Cardinal Merry del Val came that |
of Carlo Cardinal Perosl. The college
of cardinals is thus reduced to 28
Italian and 30 foreigners, there being
twelve vacancies,
Other deaths of the week included
those of Mabel Normand, screen star;
Ahmed Mirza, former shah of Persia;
Maj. George H. Putnam, New York
publisher, and Eugene Byfield, Chicago |
hotel man and sportsman,
HARLES EVANS HUGHES was
sworn In as chief justice of the
Supreme court on Monday, the oath |
being administered by Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes, the Nestor of the |
bench,
Among the decisions handed down |
by the Supreme court was one de- |
claring constitutional the provisions |
of the packers and stock yards act |
authorizing the secretary of agricul. |
ture to prescribe maximum rates for
the services of commission dealers at
public stock yards,
(@®, 1920, Western Newspaper Union.)
“He married the lexicog-
rapher’s daughter.”
“Yes: and he says she inherited all
the words her father put into his die
tionary.”
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