UEY P. LONG, the vituperative
senator from Loulslana, was
soundly spanked by the senate Thurs-
day. Their patience exhausted, Demo-
cratic leaders united in administering
a sound rebuke for his conduct on the
floor. The proceedings were without
recent precedence In the senate. Fol-
lowing the blistering remarks hurled at
the Kingfish, the senate clamped upon
him temporarily a parliamentary muz-
zle that reduced him to silence.
Senatorial veterans could not re
ember a similar occasion when a sen-
ator has been subjected to the humili-
ation of such a public chorus of dis
approval from his colleagues. The
Loulslanian’'s behavior in the senate
has disgraced him in the eyes of the
nation, Senator Pat Harrison (Dem.,
Miss), told Huey.
The Kingfish screamed his protests,
He shouted thht Senator Harrison was
the kind of man who “would stick a
knife In a friend's back and drink his
blood.” This brand of abuse brought
Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson
(Dem., Ark.), Senator Bennett Clark
(Dem., Mo.), and others to thelr feet
and the senate rules were invoked to
stop the mouth of the yelling Long.
He sat down and sulked in his chair,
The senate has fumed for days as
the excitable Long put on hls typleal
exhibitions, shouting to the galleries.
Thursday found almost the entire body
In a wrathful revolt against these dis-
plays of temperament which have been
hampering the consideration of im-
portant bills,
HAT Maj. Gen. Benjamin D, Fou-
To: chief of the air corps, aud oth-
ers acted in “violation of the law” In
connection with the proposed purchase
of $7,500,000 worth of
army alrplanes, is the
conclusion of a sub-
committee of the
house military affairs
committee that has
been investigating the
matter. The subcom-
mittee also found that
Harry H. Woodring,
assistant secretary of
war, bad attempted to
assure competitive
bidding for the alr-
planes and thereby comply with the
law and the intent of congress,
The transaction in question dates
back to the first of the year, Army
officers, asking a public works allot-
ment to buy airplanes, made arrange-
ments to purchase them from special
companies without competitive bids.
Woodring, the committee decided, in-
tervened and demanded competitive
bids be sought. Specifications were
drawn and proposals submitted to the
Industry for bids. But the army judge
advocate general held the proposals
did not assure competitive bidding.
The committee contended that in so
far as it had been able to find, Wood-
ring’'s every act was to assure free
competition, yet his desires were
thwarted.
It mentioned, in addition to Foulois,
Brig. Gen. Henry Conger Pratt, chief
of the army air corps’ procurements
division. It sald Foulols gave testi
mony before the Rogers committee and
an appropriations subcommittee which
seemed to conflict,
r
wei
Gen. Foulois
(COXTINUED improvement in busi.
ness activity during February and
March and gxpansion of employment
and pay roils to the highest point
since the latter half of 1931 were an-
nounced by the Commerce department
In one of its most optimistic reports
on business since 1080,
The average weekly wage was $10.81
in February, the highest since 1081.
The hourly rate of 55.8 cents per hour
was within 4.1 cents of February,
1929. The employment improvement
was general throughout manufactur
ing industries. Seventy-seven of the
80 manufacturing Industries reported
Increased employment in February and
79 reported higher total wages. When
classified into 14 major groups only
the food group did not make an em-
ployment or pay roll gain.
CQ OAK the rich” forces were de-
feated Thursday when the sen-
ate rejected an amendment to the rey.
enue bill by Senator La Follette, Wis-
consin Republican, for a big Increase
in surtax rates,
The vote was 47 to 38. The party
lineup showed 25 Democrats, 10 Re
publicans and one Farmer.Laborite for
the amendment, with 30 Democrats
and 17 Republicans against it.
Estimated to produce $185,000,000
additional revenue, the La Follette
amendment called for a boost In the
normal income tax rate from 4 to 6
per cent, with surtaxes graduated up
to 71 per cent on net incomes in ex-
cess of $1,000,000,
0 PREVENT extreme demoraliza-
tion in the Industry and not to cre
ate an artificial shortage, is the Intent
of the production control proposals
submitted to the dalry industry by the
farm administration, administrators
asserted in an appeal for national sup.
port for the plan, The case for limit.
ing milk supplies was presented in a
series of articles prepared by the AAA,
Officials sald It would be easler for
them to let the dalry problem work it-
self out by natural processes, but ft
would mean starvation for the farmer.
They pointed out that the proposed
plan would affect some 4,500,000 farm
families, whose Income had been cut
In half during the depression and
whose products had been selling at 40
per cent below prewar “parity.”
It is proposed that dairymen limit
their output to conform wath sales
quotas to be allotted under the pro
gram. For their co-operation they
would be paid benefits derived from
collection of an estimated $165,000,000
In processing taxes, $15,000,000 of
which would be earmarked for even
distribution among three supplemental
relief plans, iovolving tuberculosis
eradication, purchase of surplus milk
to feed undernourished city children
and transfer of good cows to poor
farms,
HE house of representatives got
busy Wednesday, suspended its
rules and granted quick approval to
three important blils dealing with
widely divergent subjects. They were:
The administration sugar bill—sub-
Ject of heated controversy for months
~which slid through to final approval
without even a record vote. It In
cludes sugar as a basic commodity un-
der the AAA, quotas domestic pro-
duction of sugar beets and cane, and
gives Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
power to quota Imports of Cuban and
Insular sugar.
The so-called Johnson bill, prohibit.
ing foreign nations which are in de
fault on private or national obligations
in this country from floating thelr se-
curities in the American market. The
measure is the upshot of a senatorial
Investigation several years ago into
the nature of foreign borrowings In
the United States,
A resolution ordering a federal pow-
er commission Inquiry into rates
charged for electric energy by private
power companies throughout the coun-
try.
MMEDIATE comprehensive revision
of the national railway labor act
to expedite and enforce the settle
ment of disputes between the railroads
and thelr employees
and to safeguard the
right of collective
bargaining, was rec
ommended by Joseph
B. Eastman, federal
co-ordinator of trans-
portation, in a letter
to Representative Sam
Rayburn, chalrman of
the house interstate
commerce committee,
His outstanding rec.
J. B. Eastman dations were
these: .
The creation of a new national board
of adjustment, divided Into four inde
pendent parts, whose awards would be
enforceable in the courts,
The substitution of a new national
mediation board of three members for
the present board of mediation of five
members.
The Inclusion of all companies which
operate equipment or facilities or fur.
nish service included within the defint.
tion of the terms “railroad” and
“transportation” In the Interstate com-
merce act,
Provisions similar to those In the
temporary emergency rallroad trans
portation act of last year, Insuring
employees and managements In the
cholce of representatives to deal one
with the other” and providing ade
quate means for the enforcement of
these provisions,
The national adjustment board
would be divided into four independent
parts to adjust disputes.
A "SomuoN sénse recovery plan”
was lald before the country
Thursday by France's aged premier,
Gaston Doumergue,
The program, which
was officially approved
by a special council
of ministers at Elysee
palace, is comparable
in scope with Russia's
fiveyear plan and
America's NRA, It re
flects, however, the
typleal distrust of ex-
periments by the
French peasant. It Is
marked by the same
simplicity and ab. Gaston
sence of ballyhoo Doumergue
which has characterized all of “Gas
tounet’s” actions since the dramatic
February morning when he arrived in
the Civil war littered capital.
The French program Is based on
the theory that If the government puts
its own house In order and minds its
own business, industry will recover by
iteelf,
It all boils down to a question of re
storing confidence, but the methods
lald down for achleving this purpose
are nothing short of revolutionary for
France, The keystone in Doumergue's
edifice of recovery 1s the leveling of
government expenditures down to In
come, which means eliminating imme
diately the budget deficit of some
$270,000,000,
{GFNERAL JOHNSON sald at his
first press conference in six
weeks that he favored allowing the
licensing provision of the National Re
covery act to expire In June,
The general's attention was called
to a report that the President favored
extending the licensing arrangement,
which had not yet been invoked In a
single case, and he Indicated that he
would be at the service of the Pres!
dent for further discussion of the
matter, ‘
Inquiry In administration quarters
concerning the recent report of the
federal trade commission on the op-
eration of the steel code led to the In
formation that General Johnson would
reply to this report shortly, The gen-
eral is sald to hold views diametrical-
ly opposed to those of the trade com-
mission respecting the regulation and
supervision of business by the govern.
ment,
ACTING under the power delegated
to him by President Roosevelt
under an executive order, National
Recovery Administrator Johnson ap-
proved an amendment
to the bituminous coal
code imposing a five
day week of 35 hours
and revising its wage
scale upward, figured
on a $5 base with dif-
ferentials, on the en
tire bituminous coal
industry. The amend-
ment is subject to a
hearing on April 8
Authoritative sources
in Washington agreed
that the operators would accept the
amendment, at least until after the
hearing and that the threat of a strike
is avoided at least until after that
hearing by the action of the NRA head.
John I. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, issued a state
ment praising the action of the ad
ministration and promising the co-op-
eration of the union,
Gen. Johnson
HE liberal Spanish republic has
discarded one of the major pillars
upon which It was bulit, Marshaled by
the nominally moderate Radical party
that once was violently anti-clerieal,
the cortes In an uproarious session put
7.500 clergymen back on the payroll
of the state for life.
For three hours before passage of
the law, which directly violates article
26 of the republican constitution, Pre
mier Alejandro Lerroux's supporters
and the shrunken left opposition
hurled insults and waved fists at each
other. Left filibusterers were ready
with some 300 amendments, but the
gag rule was voted before a single one
was proposed,
Sm—
AMUEL INSULL, fugitive utility
magnate, has learned that Uncle
Sam has long arms, He thought him-
self safe aboard the chartered freight.
er, on which he escaped from Greece,
anchored at Istambul, but Uncle Sam's
long arm tagged him and he was ar.
rested by the Turkish authorities. The
council of ministers Immediately or
dered his extradition to the United
States. Two eminent Turkish lawyers
on behalf of Insull filed an appeal with
the extradition order,
was denied.
Unless the former utilities magnate
is able to perform some new wonder,
his year and a half flight almost half-
way around the world has
brought to an end,
OME
magnificent
history as the capital
witnessed one of the most
Essters In its
of Catholic
Easter ceremonies in St
cathedral were added this year,
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Washington.—~Congress is showing
every sign of wanting to be good boys
and girls and play
Now Ready ball with President
to Be Good Roosevelt, It ap-
peared when cone
gress decided to slap the President in
the face by overriding his veto of the
veterans’ compensation and govern
ment employees’ salary question, that
at last there was a definite far
reaching breach. Many persons here
thought the President had a recaleit-
rant bunch on his hands that
there would be plenty of trouble dur.
ing the Such Is
not the case, however, and, although
there will be differences arising,
remainder the will
few cases In which the wishes of the
President will be
garded,
The reason for this sudden change
Is simple. An election campalgn con-
fronts all of the members of the house
and 385 members of the senate, As the
thing has been explained to me by
numerous representatives and sena-
tors, they were In a political situation
where they felt they would rather slap
the President than the veterans, The
President can scold or spank them, it
Is explained, but the veterans have
votes that are a good deal rougher
than a spanking by the Chief Executive,
from the standpoint of politics. Now
that the potential candidates can
before the veterans of their respective
districts and point with pride or some.
thing to a vote to restore the
and
and
rest of the session,
of session
absolutely disre.
go
compen
sation, the campaigning members feel
they are sitting in a good seat.
are ready to be good,
I am told that Democratic
in the house and senate have had in-
numerable visits the vet vote
from members of their party who
wanted to assure the inistration
that they are “regular” and wil
stay that way. Having obtained what
they thought they had to have to In.
sure their re-election, they will now
vole according to direction once more.
Then, when they start speech making
In their home balliwick, they will talk
loudly and long about supporting the
President in and in the
next, if it be lo a strongly organized
veterans’ area, they wiil shout about
their friendship for the former sol-
diers, sailors and marines. From
which it ought to be apparent that the
whole thing was just a part of the
great game of politics,
+ . *
They
leaders
since
adm
again
one speech
could not have
President by them-
and that fact
Just Playing gave the Republicans
Politics an opportunity to
play polities as well,
Democratic bolters
the
BOIVeR,
chance to embarrass the
They nudged the Demo-
crates from every angle to override the
If one looks back over the
during the Coolidge and
played,
5
vannl Bosco, humble Turin priest,
Easter also ended the holy year pro
claimed by the pontiff In commemora-
tion of the nineteenth century of the
crucifixion. Eighty thousand people
pressed Inside St
bolting Republicans and so-called pro-
gressives in votes that were embarrass
ing to the President.
As an matter of fact, there still Is
some doubt in the minds of many ob-
servers here whether Mr, Roosevelt
He
crowded Into 8t Peter's
Among the crowds were 100,000 on
pilgrimages from many different coun
tries,
HE Civil
the regular budget of the government,
But I cannot help re-
calling that there are two budgets,
now. One of them Is the regular bud-
get and the other, many time larger,
division of the Federal Emergency
Relief administration,
Under this title it will use some
£600,000,000 remaining from its recent
grant of $050,000,000 for the year 1035
to provide relief for states, which are
in turn to pass the money along to
cities and counties,
For a month district agents have
been working to perfect the machine
ery for the change.
Meanwhile, administration officials
made it clear that industry was not
expected to take up the whole slack
of unemployment, absorbing the for.
mer CWA workers, In a day,
EPRESENTATIVES of the flour
milling industry decided to op-
erate without a code of fair competi.
tion, Thelr rejection of the NRA and
AAA marks the first refusal of an en.
tire Industry to accept the adminis
tration's recovery plans. The decision
to go shead without NRA affiliation
came after nearly nine months of
fruitless negotiations with the NRA
and AAA officials,
Government officials were represent.
ed ns considering a legal test if the
millers do not reopen negotiations,
There was some talk that the millers
might be put under a license
The millers contend that the code
offered would have brought ruin to
the Industry and would have forced
up prices of flour beyond the ability
of consnmers to pay,
® by Western Nowspaoer Union.
least some of those Democrats, who
broke with the President on the ques-
tion, are asking why the government
while it expands and “throws money
away like water” from the emergency
budget. It does cause one to pause
and think about it
In other words, the thought of those
men ig: why Is It such a erime to
spend about one-fourth of a billion
dollars the way congressmen want to
spend it when the administration is
spending some five or Nx billions the
way it wants to spend that tre
mendous sum,
Further, I gannot help recalling
that, when the economy act was passed
during the extra session last spring,
I reported to you that the curtail
ment of expenditures for veterans and
for several other purposes under the
regular budget, was to be short-lived,
I sald at that time that it would be
given back In pleces. Two acts of con-
gress since have restored a total of
75 per cent of the amount taken away
from the veterans, and the last act
of congress restored one-third of 15
per cent pay cut to the government
workers and will give them another
one-third beginning July 1.
There Ia trouble brewing for Presi.
dent Roosevelt in another politieal di.
rection, It is not a
More Trouble direct result of te
Brewing overriding of in
voto, That fact does
appear to have accentuated the aim.
culties, however, according to most of
my informants. The question that is
before the administration and lenders
of the Democratic party Is: what is
the attitude to be toward the progres.
sives and other Insurgents. It is
known, of course, that there are mem.
bers of the house and senate, elected
18 Democrats, who have no more fight
to call themselves Democrats
of the radical group of
minority can elalm to be
They ape Insurgents.
other proper
do not and will
any for
time,
than
somes
There is
Inbel., They have
not hitehed to
length of
stand
program any great
President Roosevelt and
Farley know full well
crats must have
called progressives and
in some parts of the country,
especially the Middle
jut administration cannot
ie
true in
the
Democrats fallen
who have
Deal. If It snubs them, *it
that Is never
Younger group
credit for the
good
of Democrats
smashing victory
polities,
their clamoring for recognition,
floats the forms
faces of numerous powerful men who
broke away from Hoover
ported the Roosevelt candidacy,
path, however,
i
Roosevelt blessing already has
Hiram
was elected as
bestowed upon Senator
son, a Calife
28 Hepul
yruafan, who
liean but whe
Roosevelt's cand ]
eon Is up for electi
the hand, there
La Follette, of Wisconsin
was a liberal all
ported Mr. Roosevelt
Hoover, ut Young
such blessing from the admis
Indeed, “Big Jim"
intimated that he
other
the way.
ular Democrat, And so it
* » »
ROCs,
When President Roosevelt
nounced settlement of the
roversy
the
Real Neutral *™
adjudicate the questions, every
would select a representative of
third man being neutral. The
ural conclusion that the
member of the board would have no
was
was much surprise, therefore,
he named Dr. Leo Wolman, of Colum-
bia university, New York, as the nen-
tral member.
around Washington, the appointment
of Doctor Wolman was a bit disap-
pointing to those who wanted a real
neutral to sit as 8 member of the
board, Frankly, the President did not
meet legitimate expectations in the
Wolman appointment, except, of
course, among those who sympathized
wholly with labor's contention in the
controversy,
Doctor Wolman's knowledge of la-
bor questions cannot be denied. He
has demonstrated his abliity and his
capacity to understand the problems.
The objection that I hear, however,
does not run to that phase of his
ability. Doctor Wolmman has been as-
sociated directly or Indirectly with
William Green, president of the Amer.
ican Federation of Labor, for many
years. However he may desire to be
impartial, however basically honest he
is, the thought In many places In
Washington Is that Doctor Wolman
cannot be neutral as that word is ac
cepted by the general public. He is
human and he has sentiment. Those
two factors make It appear to many
observers that the settlement of the
automobile-labor controversy amounts
to nothing more than a postponement.
It will flare up again, but probably
will not take place until after the mid-
die of June when the President will
not have a law in effect that will per.
mit him to license the industry.
CI
The week's best laugh: Federal
Home Loan board regulations require
that applicants for loans submit with
their applications, first, a “close up”
photograph of the property and, sec-
ond, a "street scene” that will show a
little of adioining property. These
photographs have the purpose and the
value, of course, of providing a gen-
eral knowledge of where the money
goes,
But the headquarters office of the
loan system was not quite prepared
for two photographs which it received
in connection with one application that
came from a colored man In a little
southern town. In complying with the
requirement that a “close up” photo.
graph be submitted, the applicant
overlooked the fact that it was of the
property and sent In a picture of hime
self, a photograph that disclosed the
wrinkles and gray hair of his age as
well as two exceptionally large eyes
For the street scene, the applicant had
himself photographed In his best bib
and tucker, namely, his lodge uniform,
And he was riding a bicycle along the
street.
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Electricity in Human
Body a Potent Force
That human beings are really elee-
tric batteries, discharging BOTS.
times as much as a half a volt of
current, is suggested by Prof. Fred
Vies of France. By attaching elec.
trodes, worn by different people, to a
delicate recording apparatus, he was
able to get the voltage emitted by
each, and to note the personal
changes In electrical characteristics,
A person in perfect health generates
the most current, but even that falis
off in gloomy weather: il
health Is always the
Bame way.
Dr. George
while
indicated In
Crile of the Cleveland
cline, in a speech bearing i
to Professor Vies' finding
the theory, backed by
his own, that the
mind Is an
that current for this
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