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W. PICKARD
| By EDWARD
EVOLT in congress against al
leged dictatorial attempts of the
administration reached a climax when
the house, by the decisive vote of 258
to 148, rejected the
“death sentence” In
the utility holding
companies bill as
passed by the senate
and demanded by the
President, The rec-
ord vote came on a
motion to substitute
the house bill placing
utility holding com-
panles under regula-
tion of the securities
Rep. and eschange com-
mission for the senate bill which pre-
scribed the dissolution of the holding
companies of more than first degree be-
ginning In 1940.
The adoption of this motion killed
the “death sentence.” After substl-
tuting the house bill for the senate
bill, the perfected measure was passed
by a vote of 322 to 81
Immediately after this action,
house voted
vestigation of alleged
both the supporters mnd the foes of
the utility measure. During the de-
bate on the bill it was frequently
charged that the capitol was swarm-
ing with utility company lobbyists, and
then came two serious accusations
against the other side lepresenta-
tive John H. Hoeppel of California,
Democrat, asserted an unnamed ad-
ministration lobbyist had offered to
get California’s relief allotment In-
creased if Hoeppel would vote for the
bill as the President wanted it, This
didn't greatly impress the house, but
later Representative Ralph O. Brew.
ster of Malne, Republican, charged
that Thomas G. Corcoran, a young
brain truster who is co-author of tne
administration bill, had threatened
cessation of construction of the $37.
000,000 Passamaquoddy dam project
in the congressman's district If
Brewster should vote against the
#death sentence.”
Mr, Brewster sald he did not be
leve the President was aware that
such tactics were being used by hls
alds or would countenince them, and
Rankin of Mississippl and Moran of
Maine defended Mr. Roosevelt. Bat
the President's contact man, Charles
West, and Postmaster General Far
ley’s lobbyist, Emil Hurja, had been
so active among the house members
that the resentment of the lawmakers
was aroused and they gladly directed
that the lobbying charges be Invest-
gated
Brewster
the
HAT would be the final fate of
the utility measure was doubtful
Benator Wheeler of Montana, after a
call at the White House, sald he was
confident a satisfactory bill would
come out of the conference, and if one
did not, the measure would be al
Jowed to die. In either case the war
on the holding companies is likely to
be made a major issue of the next
Presidential campalgn, and adminis
tration leaders are predicting that the
Democratic congressmen who dared
to vote against the “death sentence”
will be defeated at the polis. These
“doomed” men number 166, as against
131 Democrats who stood by the Presi
dent,
Republican leaders were Jubilant,
professing to see In the episode the
beginning of a real uprising against
the President and his New Dealers;
many neutral observers looked upon
it as only a battle between the two
lobbies In which the victory went to
the utilities lobby.
N THE battle between Senator Car.
ter Glass and Marriner 8. Eccles,
governor of the federal reserve board,
the former has, at this writing, scored
the most points. The
astute Virginian ex-
tracted from the Ee
clesCurrie banking
bill most of the radl
eal provisions that
would have led to gov.
ernment or public own
ership of the federal
reserve system, and,
indeed, practically re
wrote the measure.
Then his subcommit
tee handed it om to Sen. Glass
the senate banking and currency com
mittee, which promptly gave the bill
its approval, without a record vote,
and after making only two dinor
Governor Eccles and Secretary of
As passed by the house, the banking
bill would give autocratic powers over
the banking system to a politically
dominated federal reserve board; and
the party in power would have the au
thority to force the twelve reserve
banks to lend unlimited amounts to the
national treasury. Under the bill as
are to be appointed. for 14-year
and are to be discharged only
cause; chief officers of the reserve
are to be chosen by thelr direc
WEG a
tors, subject to reserve board approval,
for five-year periods, and the reserve
banks need not buy additional govern-
ment bonds unless they choose to do so.
NVESTIGATION of the administra-
tion of the Virgin islands by a sen-
ate committee was certain to be lively,
The very first witness heard, Charles
H. Gibson, was threatened with jail
by Secretary of the Interior Ickes for
removing official documents from the
files. Mr, Gibson, who was govern-
ment attorney for the Islands until
Ickes ousted him, had testified rather
vaguely against the regime of Gov.
Paul M. Pearson.
Gibson testified that Governor Pear-
son had exceeded his authority under
the law, was unpopular with a large
section of the population of the
islands, and was pot frank in his ad-
ministration. To support his testimony
Gibson Introduced several letters which
were the documents to which Ickes
alluded.
HUGH JOHNSON
new office of federal
relief administrator for New York
city. “Robble,” his ever present sec
retary, fended off the reporters for a
day, but let them in then, and to them
the general walled:
“I hate this thing! It isn't helping
anybody, anywhere. When the source
of money is cut off we'll be right back
where we started. It's disheartening
to sit here, knowing that when the
funds are gone, the jobs will be gone”
EN.
his
assumed
TTORNEY GENERAL CUMMINGS
announced that on July 20 a
school would be opened by his depart.
ment In Washington for the purpose of
training state, county and city police
in law enforcement theory and prac
tice. A twelve weeks’ course will be
given to selected officers, the instruc
tion being free.
EPUBLICAN senators were ad
vised that former President Her
bert Hoover will not be a candidate for
the Republican nomination in the Pres
idential race of 1830.
hey were advised
that Mr. Hoover would
make the formal an
nouncement some time
this summer. He Is
staying out, It was
sald, because he In-
tends to remain in pri
vate life and has
planned his future ca-
reer along that line,
For his active eritl
cisms of administra
tion policies the rea
son was given that, although he does
not “choose to run,” he thought the
party needed some sort of direction;
now that hls candidacy is shelved, it
is expected that his politieal utterances
will be clothed in less authority.
The informers, however, assured the
senators that Mr. Hoover would get
behind the party's candidate and enter
the campaign for him, and that he
thinks, with unification growing, the
lepublican prospects are looking
brighter day by day.
ORLD war veterans from both
the Allied and the Central pow-
ers met officially in Paris and debated
ways in which future wars may be
averted. They denounced as enemies
of their own countries those who
would seek to foment a new war, and
passed a resolution declaring: *“The
respect for treaties being the basis
of International relations, this confl-
dence can be durable only when Inter.
national accords and the resulting ob-
ligations are mutually and sincerely re-
spected.”
The meeting was held under the aus-
pices of Fidac. The American dele
gates Included 8. P. Balley, Winona,
Minn. ; Julian W. Thomas, Salt Lake
City; Bernhard Ragner, McKeesport,
Pa. and Harold L. Smith, Coatesville,
Pa
Herbert
Hoover
URR T. ANSELL, a young attorney
whose father, Gen, 8. T. Ansell,
is suing Senator Huey Long for libel,
was enraged when Long intruded on
his party at a Washington hotel and
took a swing at the Kingfish. One of
the senator's companions seized An-
gell's arm and the young man says
Long then ran away.
AVID LLOYD GEORGE, whose
New Deal program was not well
received by the British government,
has resumed active participation in
politics, “reluctantly,” but with ex-
pressed determination to “go on with
it” The little Welsh veteran states
man addressed the national conven.
tion of the peace and reconstruction
movement, and asseried the menace to
APAN'S beautiful Inland sea was
the scene of a terrible disaster that
cost 104 lives. The steamer Midor!
Mary, erowded with holiday passens
gers, collided with a freighter In the
foggy night and sank almost immedi
ately. Rescue boats picked up 91 of
the 100 passengers and 00 of the crew,
All the victims were Japanese,
.
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURR
WALLACE proclaimed the estab
lishment of an AAA adjustment pro-
gram for the 1085 rye crop which will
include benefit payments of amounts
not yet disclosed. Representatives
from 16 rye growing states met In
Washington to discuss the program
and outline plans for its operation,
Farmers from the principal wheat
producing states met with AAA offi
clals and gave their approval to a
tentative flexible plan for the payment
of benefits to wheat growers,
APT. ANTHONY EDEN, England's
journeyman trouble shooter, elec
trified the British Isles by announcing
that Great Britain had offered to give
Halle Selassie, emperor of Abyssinia,
a generous strip of British Somaliland
to replace territory acquired by Italy,
if the Itallan government would prom-
{se not to wage war against the domain
of Africa’s “Conquering Lion of
Judah.”
Nothing doing, sald Premier Musso.
inl, who has turned a deaf ear to
all Britain's proposals of an Italo-Ethl-
oplan compromise. He was reported
as Intending to go right ahead with
his plan of a four-years' war to effect
the complete pacification of the Afri
can empire, He Insists that there
must be more room in Africa for over-
populated Italy to expand.
Mussolini has threatened to “remem-
ber” the nations which have offered to
furnish Abyssinia with arms, and they
have withdrawn or modified their of
fers, The African emperor pleaded:
“If we are in the right and If civil
lized nations are unable to prevent
this war, at least do not deny us the
means of defending ourselves”
The British parliament was no bet-
than was Italy, and the colonial secre.
tary, son of former Prime Minister
MacDonald, had a hard time explain.
ing It.
Then Italy heard that the British
government was considering a proposal
to invite other nations to Join in an
economic blockade of Italy to check
her aggression on Ethopia. Rome was
astonished by this report but didn't
seem In the least alarmed. Neither
were the Italians frightened when they
learned officially that Ethiopia had
asked the United States to study means
of persuading Italy to respect the Kel-
logg pact outlawing war. The em-
peror himself made the appeal to W,
Perry George, charge d'affaires at
Addis Ababa.
AES CITROEN, famous for
years as “the Henry Ford of
France” because he bullt most of that
country's low cost motor cars, Is dead
And probably he was bappy to pass
on, for his vast enterprises had col-
lapsed and his once huge fortune was
gone,
HE federal government began a
new fiscal year with intentions of
spending more money than in any pre
vious year of peace, Mr. Roosevelt an-
nounced that he would spend $8520.
000,000, of which $4.582,000,000 wiil go
for “recovery and rellel.,” He expects
the treasury to collect $3.001,000,000,
No, It doesn't add up. The deficit for
the new fiscal year will be $4,528,000
000, it is estimated,
The fiscal year just passed came to
an end with the public debt at a new
peace-time peak of $28.065,000.000, still
some shy of the $31.000000,000 the
President estimated 8 year ago. To
finance the pew budget, he had count.
ed in part upon the §500.000000 ex.
tension of “nuisance™ taxes Just
passed by congress, but not upon the
tax-the-rich program which the New
Dealers hope to jockey through some
time In August. Estimates have it
that this will net another $340,000,000,
The expenditure for the past year Is
only $7,258,000,000 instead of $8071.
000,000 forecast at the start of the
year. The deficit was $3472.347,000 |
instead of the proposed $4,85060,000.000,
If the expenditures outlined In the
1036 budget reach the estimated total,
the public debt on July 1 next year
would stand at $34,.230,000,000, i
During the next year the President
expects to spend $4.850.000000 for re
lief and for the employment of 8.500.
000 idle workers, A general upswing
in business wouid Improve the revenue
expected by the treasury, The Presi.
dent counted on $3,711,000,000 coming
in during the 1035 fiscal year. Re
ceipts proved to be $3,785,000,000,
HE week's peak In erime was
reached when Detroit police found
Howard Carter Dickinson, prominent
New York attorney and nephew of
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, |
lying dead io a ditch beside a lonely
Rouge park road with a bullet through |
his head and another through his chest,
Dickinson, a law associate of
Charles Evans Hughes, Jr, had been |
in Detroit on business of the $40,000.
000 estate of the late Willlam HH.
Yawkey. Apparently, he had driven
to Rouge park while on a drinking
party after business hours. His com
panlons on the ride, who were William
Schweitzer, Detroit underworld char.
acter, and three burlesque-show girls,
all of whom he had picked up at his
hotel in the motor city, fled the scene
and were traced to Fort Wayne, Ind,
where they were arrested.
ted the murder to
Sweitzer admitted
Their loot was $134.
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Is Perfect Timepiece
A clock which will be more ac
the earth itself, which
will become the world’s standard
time, which will be 80 perfect that
aothing else but a similar ¢lock ean
check it, has been for some time un-
der observation at the national
laboratory at Teddington,
England,
Astronomers have long sought na
dmekeeper independent of both the
earth's motion and of gravity, and |
this seems the fulfillment of thelr |
dream, for it need only be kept at |
exactly the same temperature to
keep perfect time,
In appearance the clock is like a
coffin, but Inside this wooden box is
a metal rod, mounted on Insulating
material and surrounded by a vacu-
um, that vibrates in its own natural
period which nothing except a
change of temperature can effect,
To prevent any passage of heat
across the vacuum, water Is kept
flowing outside it at an even tem-
perature
Second signals can be taken from
this super-nccurate that
when transmitted to a special chron-
ograph can be
made to within one fivethousandth
of a second,
clock, so
time-observations
v
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