RESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent to congress his long-awaited message on monetary matters, and it should be in & measure reassuring to business g and finance. He asked that the gold supply of the country be na- tionalized and that his powers be redefined to enable periodic reval- uation of the dollar within a range of 50 to 60 per cent of the present gold content. He already had the power to devalue the dollar down to 00 per cent, but he does not do so yet, saying that “because of world uncertainties, I do not belleve it desirable In the public interest that an exact value be now fixed.” He added that careful study had led him to the cenclusion that any revaluation at more than 60 per cent would not be in the public Interest. The President asked full power to take over the last outstanding supplies of gold in the country, much of which belongs to the federal reserve banks. The legislation he requested, he ex- plained, “places the right, title and ownership of our gold reserves in the government itself; it makes clear the government's ownership of any added dollar value of the country’s stock of gold which would result from any de crease of the gold content of the dollar which may be made in the public in- terest.” The profit that may result from cut- ting the gold content, the President proposed should be used to set up a two-billion-dollar fund for purchases and sales of gold, foreign exchange and government securities, No further recommendations concern- Ing sliver were made in the message, the President saying he belleved “we should gain more knowledge of the results of the London agreement and of our other monetary measures.” In talking with the correspondents, Mr. Roosevelt explained once more that the objective of his monetary pro- gram is to bring the purchasing power of the dollar back to the level at which President Roosevelt He made it clear that does not call back currency. Immediately after the reading of the President's message, Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida, chairman of the senate banking and currency com- mittee, Introduced the ndministration’s bill to effect the monetary changes proposed. He called his committee to- gether the next day to consider it. and Becretary Morgenthau was the first to be heard In argument for the legls- lation asked. Only two Democratle senators came out in the open promptly in opposition to the President's program, Carter Glass of Virginia and Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma. Both declared that the appropriation of the reserve banks gold was unlawful and immoral. Most of the Republicans were cautious in their expressions of opinion. However, Attorney General Homer Cummings rendered to the senate banking and currency committee a formal opinion upholding that section of the proposed bill “The monetary gold stock (of the federal reserve system) may be taken by the government in the exercise of its right of eminent domain,” the at. torney general's opinion declared. “Such power,” he went on, “extends to every form of property required for public use.” Gov. Eugene Black of the reserve board was heard by the committee In closed session and Senator Fletcher sald Black was unchanged in his op- position to the seizure of the federal reserve gold and the loss of the profit which would acerue from the devalu. ation of the dollar, Senator McAdoo of California was veraciously reported as sharing the views of Senators Glass and Gore, but Inter sought to silence the rumor, as serting that he had not yet made up his mind. his program for a resort to green 4 HO Is president of Cuba this morning?’ asks the man in the street, and there is reason for his un. certainty. At this writing the head of the island republic Is + am Col. Carlos Mendieta, conservative leader of the Nationalists and presumably srcept uble to the adminis tration In Washington, Ramon Grau San Martin, unable to hold on any longer, resigned and some of the factions united In ; choosing as his sue cessor the youthful Hevia Carlos’ Hevia, secretary of agriculture in Grau's cabinet and a graduate of Annapolis Naval academy. Hevia ae. tually wae sworn in. Gafore the Su- preme court, but he lasted only one day. Then Col. Fulgencio Batista, powerful commander of the army, took command of the situation, There was Carlos ‘ a loud demand that he resign his mil itary post; a strike to force this was started by Antonio Guiteras, late sec- retary of war and navy, and Hevia or- dered that Fulgenclo get out. But the army leader promptly brought 3,000 of his troop# from Santa Clara province to reinforce the 5,000 at Camp Columbla, on the outskirts of Havana, and compelled Hevia to re sign. He then declared that Mendieta was the only man capable of contin- uing the junta’s revolutionary program without the extreme measures that had prevented recognition by the United States; that, he, Batista, rec ognized the costly mistake the junta had made in Installing Grau and would now rectify it. He ordered govern- ment employees to remain at work on pain of losing their jobs, but the strike went Into effect far enough to tie up Havana's power, light, gas and trans- portation systems. Batista ordered the arrest of Guiternas, whom he held re sponsible for this. A bomb exploded near Mendieta's residence but no one was Injured, Mendieta was assured the support of the Nationalists he leads, the polit ical socleties ABC and OCRR and the newer revolutionary organizations, Moreover, he had performed the high- ly difficult feat of reuniting the army and the navy. They had been split apart previously over the breach be tween Guiteras and Batista, (GERMANY great church quarrel J goes on unabated and the Evan. gelical pastors are still determined that their religion shall not be nazl- fled Relchsbishop Ludwig Mueller, who is a confidant of Chancellor Hitler, is sued a decree forbid. ding pastors to criti cize the Nazi Protest- ant church adminis tration from the pul pits under pain of dismissal from the church. But the re bellious Ones, organ Dr. Ludwig ized ns the Pastors Mueller Emergency league, de fled Doctor Mueller for the gec- their congregations It was up to the councils of churches to enforce the re the clared openly they would not do so. 3ishop Mueller showed some Inclina- tion to recede from his position, but the militant Nazi Christian pastors brought great pressure to bear, telling him they would support him only so long as he stuck by his creeds, The bishop also seeks to annul all church laws passed in 1033 so he can proclaim new ones. teverend Doctor Richter, highly considered by President Yon Hindenburg, declared in the Berlin cathedral that “a storm is brewing In German who Is and heathendom.” In this contest a figurehead. ESIGNATIONS from the Demo cratic national committee seem to be In order and some have already been received. The President let it be known that he did not approve of members of that body opening law offices In Washington and apparently trading on their supposed influence with the administration. Robert Jack. son announced his resignation as see. retary and committeeman from New Hampshire, and Frank O. Walker sald he had resigned as treasurer in order to devote full time to his work as chair man of the President's national execu tive council, J. Bruce Kremer, prae- ticing law In the Capital, resigned some weeks ago as member for Mon. tana. Postmaster General Jim Far ley, it was sald, wants to quit as na. tional chairman, but Mr. Roosevelt may not permit this. Arthur Mullen, committeeman from Nebraska and vice chairman of the committee, and Or man Ewing, member from Utah, both have established law offices In the Capital and it would not be surprising if they resigned from the national com. mittee, SENATORS BORAH of Idaho, Nor. ris of Nebraska and Nye of North Dakota, all independent Republicans whose support has been counted on generally by the administration, have started a concerted attack on the NRA, charging that its codes foster monop- olies and result In forcing the small dealers out of business. Their fight is not against the President and his policies, but against Gen, Hugh John. son, NRA adm'nistrator, upon whom they place the blame for the faults they say have developed. PRACTICALLY without opposition, #4 measure was put through the house and senate extending the life of the Reconstruction Finance corpora. tion for another year and providing it with $850,000,000 of new capitnl. There only Louis T. McFadden of Pennsyl vania voted agninst the Lill, ow IRTH control has been put up to -* both congress and the President. A bill designed to promote It by re pealing certaln clauses of the penal code has been Introduced and hear ings started; and a committee headed by Mrs. Thomas N, Hepburn of Con- necticut and Mrs. Margaret Sanger carried to the White House a resolu. tion from the birth control and na- tional recovery conference in Washing- ton asking Mr. Roosevelt's support for the measure, TALO BALBO, the bearded Itallan alr marshal who commanded the great mass flight from Italy to Chicago and back last summer and thereby became too popular to sult v. Premier Mussolini, 4 has made his peace with the Duce and has assumed his new du- ties as the governor of Libya In north Af- rica, He crossed the Mediterranean In state on the new cruiser Al- berto di Giussano with [#1 another cruiser in es a2 cort, and when he © landed was received Italo Balbo by all the Italian officials In the colony and a colorful gathering of the native troops, Balbo, who Is just thirty-seven years old, replaces Marshal Pletro Badoglio as Libyan governor. While a new line of activity, it will be a job with an opening for him, for Mussolini wants to make Africa In time an outlet for Italian emigration, lalbo will keep up his Interest in aviation, even though he 18 just gov- ernor of the sandy North African coast, EPUBLICAN members of the house ways and means committee pro- posed two Important tax reforms, A constitutional amendment authorizing the taxation of federal and state gov. ernment bonds was suggested by Rep- resentative Allen T. Treadway, with the statement that there are now some $40,000,000,000 of such securities out standing and free from taxation. Representative Isaac Bacharach pro- posed the restoration to the federal tax laws of a credit against earned income, His plan, Mr, Bacharach de- clared, would lighten materially tax burden of the small salaried class without seriously cutting into present income tax revenues. he WO thousand or more persons were killed and 10,000 injured by violent earthquakes that shook all parts of India. The full measure of the dis- aster will not be known for some time, but airplane surveys revealed that many cities and towns had been vir tually destroyed. In some regions the devastation was Increased by floods resulting from the Com- munication system were shattered and was great danger of pestilence temblors there ong the survivors, — UERTO RICO has a new governor who may please the Islanders better than did Robert H. Gore. He is Gen Jlanton Winship, former judge advo- cate general of the army, and a man of experience In insular affairs He served in Cuba and the Philippines as an adviser to the highest American officials in those parts. Also he was a military aide to President Coolidge. His town is Macon, Ga. Mr. Gore, whose administration was bit. terly and constantly attacked by is land politicians, resigned, stating his reason was ill heaith, President Roosevelt also selected a new of the weather Lureau In Washington In the person of Willis G. Gregg. He succeeds Dr. Charles F. Marvin, home chief CHAUTEMPS, his AMILLE desperately to fzhting ave French pawnshop scandal, promised the cham. ber of deputies to clean up that affair, and thereupon was given a vote of con fidence, 300 against 220, The vote came on the government's opposition to the cre- ation of a parliamen- tary commission to in. vestigate the collapse of the Bayonne insti. tution, the death of ita founder, Serge (Handsome Alex) Sta- visky, and the part several deputies have accused high officials of taking in the affair. The premier insisted that such a commission would not get to the bottom of the charges, The premier promised to Investigate the affair personally and to spare no names, During the heated debate he admitted there had been looseness and poor functioning of various services, but denied the charges of government. Premier Chautemps plied vigorously and made the assertion that a coup had been prepared several days previously to put the government in the hands of a few “energetic” men to act as a directory, Cx S86 Natiohalist forces after severe fighting captured Foochow, the headquarters of the rebels In Fu kien province, and it was reported that negotiations were proceeding to settle the dispute between the Nanking gov. ernment and the leaders of the rebel movement. There was great disorder in Foochow, for all the officers of the Nineteenth route army except its come mander, Gen. Tsing Ting-kual, had fled ning wild, On the request of Vice Consul Gordon Burke, an American naval party was ordered ashore from the gunbant Tulsa to protect 14 Amer leang In the city. © Ly Western Newspaper Union. Washington, -— In my ramblings around Washington, I find a consider- able number of Re Republicans publican leaders who Chuckle seem to be chuckling about their loss of the election to the Democrats in November, 1082, They are, or seem to be, quite well satisfied at having the country pick Franklin D. Roosevelt over Herbert Hoover, and they seem to be equally well satisfied that the President has such a vast majority In the house and senate of congress, Campaign threats and promises just will not down, The victors have to make good or the vanquished In poll | ties pick up the fallures and call at tention to them, Consequently, as con- gress begins to grind away on the big. | gest federal budget ever submitted In | peace time, the Republicans are find. { Ing Juley morsels to talk And | don't think op portunities to do so! All of which i8 by way up to the fact that C date Roose i velt told the over and over | again In the fall of 1032 that he pro- i posed to cut government about. they are overlooking of leading country expenses by one-fourth. like he (n- He started out | tended to do it by compelling the ex- | tra session of congress to trim every- {| where, but the trimming seemed only fresh shoot up, nd they constitute items of expendi | tures that, why the President ever made ation as to re tion of ex- ile he was a ca to cause sprouts to when totaled, cause one to months of the Roosevelt ad tion have elapsed; nearly ten iths are passed, but official figures y able for ipiete : i 3 5 » are avall months, and so we have to i those, Arn | going in the general sky. Assuming tha tration i for com: only nine oo! 0 rely on i t} ditures keep on : the SOD direction of the t the previous admi should accept responsi ments that were fu 4 expend res made prior to the end | the fisenl year that 1033, we ze figures July 1 to t 31. or a half of one fiscal year over which Mr. Roose. velt had total outgo those six months In the corresponding previ cember 31, 1082, ended in June, from i ‘ 1 has compiete control the treasury was $2021, rom gix months of the to De outlgo was tak- late. or from July 1 the i £2850 305 O04. "hese Is year, gures are yin the treasury's offi en fre i wlition and they cannot be ment of cor wrong * * - 1 do not know whether Mr. Roose veit's reference to the 25 per cent re duction was meant Little Changeoniy to apply to in Outgo what he calls * nary expenditures, as distinguished from those payments that are used in the emergency spend ing. If that be the case, the assertion that the expenditures would be cut by one-fourth was not understood by a good many people, including myself Further, if that was the application, then I ean ask only what has been ae. complished by cutting one item and increasing another so that the total ig approximately the same over the six months under review? The figures for the six months show that for “ordinary” governmental costs, the outgo was £1.400.0450.214, whereas for the six months ending De cember 31, 1832, the “ordinary” ex- penditures were $2,182172.342. There has been no 25 per cent reduction there, either, although it still is possi. ble for accomplishment of that prom. ise before the current fiscal year ends next June 30, It happens that through more than a decade I have been In close contact with the treasury and government financial questions, generally. Through that period and for two score years before, there was no material change in the form in which the treasury pub- lished its fiscal condition statement, a dally statement, But Mr. Roosevelt brought about a change. He contend: ed, and with Just grounds, that the expenditures for relief from the de pression constituted outgo that will : mot recur each year. It is the Presi | dent's view, therefore, that the relief expenditures should be accounted for separately. He chooses to call them | “eapital expenditures,” So the change | in the treasury's statement shows the | “ordinary” expenditures of the regu lar governmental agencies such as the executive departments, congress, the White House, and permanent bureaus, | boards and commissions, and temizes | the "eapital expenditures” separately. His budget that was sent to congress when It convened was a reflection of this view. There was the “ordinary” budget and then there were the “cap ital expenditures.” We actually have two budgets for our government now, yet as 1 said earlier, the expenditures of the government must be totaled eventually, and that total must come out of the taxpayers’ pockets, eall them “ordinary,” “capital expendi tures,” “extraordinary” or what have you. ‘ordi- The thing that appears to puzzle most of the observers In Washington is how the adminis. Puzzles tration is going to Observers succeed In spending such a vast sum as + $6,357,480,700 between now and June 30, the end of the current fiscal year, as the President announced. The new budget lists that amount for emer gency expenditure In the remainder of the fiscal year, and in addition con- gress Is asked to appropriate $3,533. 001,757 for the “ordinary” running ex- penses during the twelve months be ginning with next July 1. There is the basis in those two items that has given rise to the expression : “this is a ten-billion-dollar congress,” The budget lists the “ordinary” ex. penditures as follows: Departmental (the wvarlous executive departments), $£2,800,116,200 : legislative, (congress and its staff) $17,718,000, and for in- dependent establishments, boards, bhu- reaus and The category of Independen commissions, ments, of course, includes the spending veterans' which Is 01 for pe i present yea next June 30, o there has F RK (XN, wy reduction the full 25 per cent. ig, however, that that total somewhat, The obviously will more if any group can do so, for they always cause chills to run up and the backs of politicians, especis Just ahead of an been a congress may boos veterans obtain 5 ive Gown 511 ally cold election, So ans’ funds can reasonably be exy iy the President & be greater tha 4 i posed, ® * * to the issatialston] dissatizia r 1 proposed present reductio veterans rankling 4 harp Veterans Still Sore * given the so-called { was advertised Xx: but “re ] “borderline” cases and economy s8¢t last year, 8 a cut of £400 0x3, stents,” reviews of other methods been § Rnd i used In have the resulting cious application of the Mh until straightening out tang from an injuc Coot iy Ia the cut of now to represent total funds w £400.000000 is gal a cut In veterans of actually far the less than £200,000000 from the high-water What I am * viel perpendl mark. that a into the pile of mones trying fo cua slash wa fo the veterans, officials have nin pu heard ne the restoration the the nstead of been buss have are needed ; directed at ship, ployed at the expense o . But, adverting ie emergency or tures” section of the budget, few of the officials of government are willing to admit that they know how six and one-third billions are going to be spent, how they can be spent in the five months remaining of the fiscal year, it is to be assumed that the President has plans for the expenditures, and that they will be disclosed In due course, the veterans the or even . + » The military affairs committee of the house has voted a trip for itself, The congressmen de Plan Junket termined it ig neces to Florida ™'7 to go down to Florida to Inspect Chapman field, an air base, with a view to making it “into the first of a series of army sea frontier defenses” They are going in an army airplane, “if one is avallable” which, of course, it will be, and how onerous the bur den is going to be on them! on the fromfier tell me that the hase is still there and that the congress down to Florida, even though they will time the “winter season” of the re. sorts i= in full swing. Besides, from there now and otherwise enjoy the de ter, It Is to be remembered that only a short time ago, a congressional come mittee had to make the junket across the continent to see whether the Pa- cific fortifications were still there. They were still there; so the congress. men came back. It was only a year or found it necessary to go down to Flor. ida to inspect the everglades. The genntors found the evergindes even. tually, 1 learn, but according to the expense account that the committee filed with the senate, the way they proved that the everglades were still intact war by hiring the best hotel) gultes In the best and most fashion able hotels, buying mineral waters to drink because they must not change water so suddenly, hiritg glass-bot. tomed boats with which to view the glade mud and pay for a dirigible to ride over the morasses for an accurate view. The current inspection of Chap. man field won't cost much, either, only $200 an hour while the plane is firing, several hotel suites for several days and several other items. 1 certainly hope this country will not be attacked from Cuba or Haltl, or Bermuda, be- fore congressmen get to see Chapman field, © by Western Newspaper Union, More or Less Joyous School Days Recalled Did you ever old school book, particularly a read- glance through FF er, and note the pencilings of mora or less happy school days? On the fly leaves will be found suel senti. mental doggerel us red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet and “roses are 80 are you”; “sure as the vine grows ‘round the stump, you're my sugar lump,” But spenk- ing of sentiment, do you remember the canceling of and that of a childhood sweethenrt? 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