By EDWARD W. PICKARD IFTY thousand dollars was appropri- ated by the house for investigation by the rules committee of lobbying for and against bills affecting utilities inter- ests, Representative Rankin of Mississippi declared that Repre- sentative O'Connor of New York, chairman of the committee, was unfit to conduct the inquiry because he was antagonistic to the administration, O'Connor, rising to reply, was given an ovation by the house, and promised the in- vestigation would be thorough and im- partial. Already the committee had begun its work, the first witness being Repre- sentative Brewster of Maine, who de- clared Thomas G, Corcoran, New Deal lawyer, had tried to force him to vote for the “death sentence” provision In the utilities bill by threats of stop- ping work on the Passamaquoddy projece. Corcoran was then put on the stand and denied the main features of Brewster's story, whereupon the Maine congressman shouted, “You're a lar.” Corcoran explained with facility his activities in behalf of the utilities measure. He sald he was assigned to help with the original drafting of the bill “through a direct request from the President.” Senators Wheeler and Ray- burn, he said, asked him to heip bring about passage of the bill The senate committee on audit and controls reported favorably on a reso- lution calling for a $30,000 appropria- tion to Investigate lobbying In connec tion with all legislation at this session, andl the resolution was adopted by the senate. T. G. Corcoran ERHAPS it was the summer heat in Washington; perhaps there was a lot of pressure from the direction of the White House. Anyhow, the back- bones of the house Democrats, recent- ly so stiff against “dictation” by the administration, weakened most notice ably when the house took up the re- drafting of the Tennessee Valley an- thority act. Nearly all the recent “rebels” among the Democrats fell Into line and the bill was shorn of every were approved: must sell power or chemicals at not less than cost after July 1, 1037. To let the TVA operate without ab- solute control by the comptroller gen- eral over its expenditures. paralleling existing private ones. To let the authority decide whether private interests may bulld dams or appurtenant works on the Tennessee river or tributaries. This victory greatly heartened the administration forces, and they pressed forward to try for another in the conference on the utilities bill. Also in the senate they carried on a deter- mined fight for the amendments broad- ening the powers of the AAA, Sena tors Borah and Byrd were the chief opponents of the New Dealers in this latter battle. NE of the hottest scraps of the year developed between Secretary of the Interior Ickes and Senator Tyd- ings of Maryland over the Inquiry into the administration of Gov. Paul M. Pearson in the Virgin Islands The secretary accused the senator of “white washing” a witness before the Tydings committee; and the senator retorted by advising the secretary to “confine yourself to | the duties for which B= p you have beon ap pointed” Both of 3e¢'y Ickes them were thoroughly angry and Tyd- ings in a letter accused Ickes of seek- ing “cheap publicity.” Federal Judge T. Webber Wilson of the Virgin islands had given testimony that exasperated Ickes and the sec retary demanded that the judge be re- moved from office for “official miscon- duct.” Then Ickes wrote to Tydings a letter carrying his charge of “white. washing” and saying of the judge's testimony: “There was no oross-ex- amination to test his truthfulness, and if any statement ever needed such a test, it was his” Judge Wilson had told the commit. tee that there had been “administra- tive Interference” with hls court and that Morris Ernst, counsel for the Qivil Liberties unton, while a guest of Governor Pearson, had threatened to put him “on the spot” in the press unless he granted a rehearing to a government employee a. of theft. Tydings accused Secretary Ickes of deceit upon the American peo- by stating in an Interior press release that Paul C. Yates, tive assistant of Pearson, 1 been discharged, when “you know wa 1 know that Mr. Yates had re signed five days before your press re- lease was issued.” O PROVIDE quick employment and end the dole, the entire four-billion- dollar works-rellef fund must be ex- pended within the next twelve months. Such was the flat statement of Presi dent Roosevelt to the state PWA direc- tors, who were gathered in Washington for a two day conference. After dis- cussing the old PWA program, the President sald: “You are now an im- portant part of an even greater effort— one to be made during the next year which will provide quick employment, 80 that we can attain, if possible, the goal we have set within this year 1935. Before the year is ended we will end the dole we have been paying to em- ployable persons during the last two years. In other words, we must give useful work to three and one-half mil lion people and I belleve we are going to do It “In order to do it, of course, we are faced by a problem of arithmetic which is comparatively simple. We have four billion dollars and three and one-half million people to put to work with it. That means we have to av- erage things up. It means that we have on the average about $1,140 per man year. “That has to include the cost of the material, so that the four billion dol- lars includes not only the amount we pay the men but also the cost of the material, It is a perfectly simple arithmetical problem-—we have to work out an average that will come within the sum of money divided by the num- ber of people we have to put to work. “You know, of course, that we have spent a great deal of money during the last two years, but we find now not only that there are additional funds at our disposal but also that the need of permanent work all over the United States 1s not yet ended. We find that the deeper we go Into it the more op- portunities we have to do constructive work In almost every community in the country.” TANDING atop a cannon, Benito Mussolinl told 15000 Black Shirt volunteers and the world as well that in the matter of Ethiopia "We have de. A cided upon a struggle in which we as = government and =a people will not turn back. The decision is irretrievable.” Unless Emperor Halle Selassie gets right down on his knees to II Duce, the war In his dominion : : will begin in Septem- ber when the rainy W. P. George season ends. No one expects the “king of kings” to submit tamely, so other nations are advising their nationals in Ethiopia to get out of the country. Willlam Perry George, the American charge d'affaires at Ad. dis Ababa, was authorized by the State department to advise American citizens to leave, or take whatever other steps he deemed necessary to protect their safety. Mr. George transmitted to the em- peror the rather curt reply of the American government to his majesty's appeal for aid In stopping Italy, Sec retary of State Hull, writing by au thority of the President, told the em peror the United States was “loath to believe” the two countries actually will engage In warfare as they are both signatories of the Kellogg pact. The note also pointed out that the arbitra. tion proceedings might arrive at a sat- isfactory decision. The chances that war might be averted by the arbitrators seemed slight. Those gentlemen met again at Scheveningen and thelr session was disrupted by the Italian representa- tives when a spokesman for Ethiopia set forth the fact that Ualual, scene of the bloody clash last December, i» well within the Ethiopian border. Emperor Halle Selassie made an- other attempt to get Internstional ae- tion by calling for a meeting of the League of Wations council to thresh out the dispute with Italy. At the same time the emperor appealed to the world for fair play and protested to five European powers against their re- fusal to permit the shipment of arms and munitions to Ethiopia. It was sald in Geneva the leagug council prob- dbly would be called into session with- in a few weeks. The protest about arms shipments was not likely to do Ethiopia any good. Indeed, it was sald Great Britain had provisionally joined the nations banning such transactions. IN®OLA TESLA, famed scientist, celebrated his seventy-ninth birth. day In New York city by giving out the news of three astonishing develop ments in the sciences. They are: A new method and apparatus for transmitting mechanical energy over any terrestial distance, Passage of an Induction current with a varying flux one way only through a circuit without use of a commutator. Proof, after observation of cosmic rays, that many of the propositions of relativity are false, OMPTROLLER GENERAL M'CARL doesn't care where the chips fall when he starts hewing. He has Just | given an opinion that ruins the Pres ident’s plan to require bidders on gow ernment contracts to bind themselves to abide by any future legislation pro viding for minimum wages and maxi mum hours of labor In employment on such contracts. A proviso to this ef- fect was being exacted of bidders, Mr, McCarl holds that the proviso may be viewed as a “request” only and a bid could mot be rejected be- cause the person making it refused to subscribe to this principle. The plan was advanced from the procurement division of the treasury, which proposed that the government replace the requirement for code com- pliance on all government bidders, knocked out when the recovery act was volded by the Supreme court. HOUGH the naval treaties of Washington and London have been abrogated by Japan, the American gov- ernment still keeps its eye on the max- imum permitted for our navy by 1942 and is making a determined effort to reach it, much to the delight of the “big navy” men and to citizens gen- erally who believe In adequate pre- paredness, Secretary of the Navy Claude Swan- son has announced that a ship con- struction program has been decided upon which calls for the construe tion of 12 destroyers and six sub- marines. These are in addition to the 15 destroyers and six submarines for which bids have been advertised and will be opened next month. The alrplane building program calls for 500 new planes during the current fiscal year, Of these, 282 will be re placement planes for those now In service and 273 will be new craft. Two alrplane carriers and six cruisers now under construction and scheduled for completion In 1037 are to house some of the new planes, LOODS in several eastern states, following torrential rains, took about three score lives and did vast property damage. The Finger lakes and Catskill mountain regions in New York suffered most severely. The deaths there numbered forty, and thou- sands were rendered homeless. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman announced an im- mediate allocation of $300,000 for use in rehabilitation. I oBopY who knew Ray Long well wis surprised to hear that former ly famous magazine editor had com- mitted suicide at his California home. In late years he had not been very successful In business, his most recent ventures being In the field of scenario writing. He was not one to put up with adversity very long, and It was characteristic of him to take the easy way out, of suicide. RITICS of the President's program have made up thelr minds that he is deliberately buliding up a “ecrisis® which will provide excuse for a de mand for constitutional amendments in the campaign of 1836. Thelr con- viction was strengthened by Mr. Roose- velt's letter to Congressman Samuel B. HI, chalrman of the Interstate commerce subcommittee, urging the passage of the Guffey coal bill regard- less of doubts as to its constitution ality. President Roosevelt followed the sug- gestion of Attorney General Commings that the legislation should be put through congress because “the situs- tion is so urgent” and that the ques tion of constitutionality should be left up to the couria The President, admitting that coal mining is in itself an intrastate trans. action, nevertheless wrote that the final test of the validity of the Guffey bill would depend upon whether pro- duction conditions directly affect, pro- mote, or obstruct Interstate commerce. The Supreme court, In the Schechter NRA case, quoted a previous opinion that mining, manufacturing, and other forms of production were as local in their character as the production of crops, and hence beyond the reach of congress, "F2E secretary of the treasury ap- peared befome the house ways and means committee which was trying to formulate the new tax bill wanted by the administration, and declared that, depending on the rates of taxation adopted, the measure might bring In as much as $1,000000000 a year or as little as $118,000,000 annually. As the representative of the administra. tion, the young secretary declined to advise as to the rates, though the Re publican members of the committee tried to pin him down to detalls. The includes taxation of inheritances and gifts, higher surtaxes on million dollar incomes and graduated Income taxes on corporations, i Senator Charles L. McNary of Ore | gon, Republican leader, predicted that | congress either would recess and re- | convene In the ‘fall or would put off | enactment of the tax bill until the ses | sion beginning January 8 next, UR army lost an able and distin. | guished officer In the death Gen, Stuart Helntzelman at feu Conttion Duty to Wage common house fly to typhold fly entomologist, The name, tame. The fly house fly,” I= is accepted as dangerous Insect It is. the common flies that homes and kitchens carry bacte which can Infect human beings w to typhoid. fly were a creature difficult stroy, ple to make any effort to reduce pumber could properly be criminal neglect. As it Is easy matter to do away with this neglect becomes an evidence ignorance It is the duty now occurrence of flies upon his premise As Doctor Howard says, It longer difficult rid a house flies, A reliable fly killer sprayed in a fine mist Is the effectly of flies Is to and other insects, PIGS THRIVE ON BANANAS nena There's a faster way of produce ing hams and bacon than feeding pigs all the corn they will eat. “Glve them some bananas,” says Hawall producers, As In other parts of the United States, the agricultural experiment station is an important feature in the territory of Hawall, Prof, I. A. Henke, animal husbandman of the University of Hawall, has just an- nounced the results of a banana dlet for pigs. 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