CONGRESS
flaming ruins.
the city before retreating.
Congress Session Ends
"THE Seventy - Fifth congress
brought its labors to a close and
adjourned, thanked by P ient
Roosevelt for the constructive legis-
lation it had enacted. In one
special and two regular sessions
this congress set a peace time rec-
ord by appropriating more than 20
billion dollars.
Almost at the last moment the
334 billion dpllar relief and
priming bill was enacted into law.
The house accepted a senate
amendment boosting the appropri-
ation for administrative expenses
of the Rural Electrification adminis-
tration from $500,000 to $750,000
Agreement reached on the
was
ate concurred in
the action of the house in k }
ing out $325,000 to purchase addi-
tional land for the Lake Tahoe Na-
tional park and $1,300,000 for for-
estry,
Both senate and house repassed
over the President's veto the bill
continuing the 3%: per cent interest
on Federal Land bank loans on farm
mortgages.
Scores of bills of varying degrees
of importance were lost in the con-
fusion of the of the
sion. Among the
bill when the
sen
last hours
them was
officers to tap wires to get evidence
of violations of law.
The relief and pump priming law
as enacted includes one billion 4
million dollars for the Works Pro
ress administration for a period o
eight months, beginning July 1; 17
ity administration; 75 million
lars for the National Youth admin-
the Public Works administration. It
authorizes the PWA to lend up to
400 million dollars from the sale of
loans. It increases the lending limit
of the United States Housing
thority for low cost housing from
500 million to 800 million dollars.
for additional “price adjustment’
subsidies to farmers.
i
Senators to Aid Van Nuys
REDERICK VAN NUYS,
senator from Indiana, is going to
ent because he was read out of the
Democratic
for opposing the Su-
preme court and
government reor-
ganization bills.
forward to support
him and will speak
in his campaign.
They are:
Bennett Champ
Clark, Missouri;
Burton K. Wheeler,
Montana; Josiah W.
Nebraska; Tom Connally, Texas;
Peter G. Gerry, Rhode Island; Mil-
lard E. Tydings, Maryland, and Guy
M. Gillette, Iowa.
Joining with them are two Repub-
lican senators, William E. Borah of
Idaho and Arthur H. Vandenburg of
Michigan.
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Wage Bill Now Law
AGE-HOUR legislation, key-
stone of the President's so-
cial reform program, was put
through congress in modified form
just before adjournment. The con-
ference committee compromise was
accepted by the house 200 to 89.
About half the Republican mem-
bers gave in and voted for the meas-
ure, but 48 of them and 41 Demo-
crats were recorded against it,
This act, approved by organized
ADJOURNS
generally opposed by big
1
40 cent minimum hourly wage and
a 40 hour maximum work week in |
interstate industries in seven years.
It will achieve the goal by easy
stages, beginning with a 25 cent
wage and a 44 hour week in affected
industries the t year and gradu- |
ating to 30 cents and 40 hours in
three years.
Thereafter quasi-publ
by a f
fix the 40-40 scal
Afrry
niormance
mi
conditions
istrator, will
and, In cf
the concession to
1, will exempt industries which
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Scales will Work an
1th . the
with major ne
can
economic
Child
prove the
urteen years
'T WICE in the last days o
sion John L. Lewis,
tain, virtually ordered con-
gress to pass the amendment to the
s+ Walsh-Healy govern
ment bill |
so corporations that
refused to
NLRB orders could
be blacklistéd. Both |
times Lewis was re- |
buffed when Speak- |
er Bankhead refused
to permit suspension |
> of the rules to bring |
9 4 the bill up in the |
x house. The rules
J. L. Lewis committee of the
house was overwhelmingly against
this action.
Lewis and some of his C. 1. O.
lieutenants had boldly marched into
the speaker's office to make their |
contracts
obey
vind
congressmen before him in the |
room, this arrogance arousing ex-
treme resentment. When he had |
turned down a second time
at the polls.
reprisal Calling re-
“The action of the rules commit-
“In a short time congress will ad-
journ, and many of the members
will return to their districts seeking
support as friends of labor. We
want to know how good a friend
they are before we give them our
support.”
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Great Floods in China
POURING through broken dikes,
the waters of the Yellow river
inundated many hundreds of square
miles in central China. In the first
two or three days of the great flood
it was estimated 150,000 Chinese
were drowned and several times as
many rendered homeless. Millions
of others were threatened by the
swirling waters. The fate of thou-
sands of Japanese soldiers in the
area was not known but it was
thought many of them must have
perished.
Far from the war and flood fronts,
the Shanghai municipal council of-
ficially declared cholera to be epi-
demic in Shanghai. In the city's
hospitals there were 123 cases, 73
of them originating in foreign-ad-
ministered areas.
In the Yangtze river valley Japa-
nese continued their drive by land
and by gunboat against Hankow.
Finland Pays
J ERO JARNFELT, minister from
4 Finland, appeared in the state
department on June 15 and proudly
announced that Finland was paying
its debt installment due that day
and had deposited $161,935 with the
federal reserve bank in New York.
John Pelenyi, Hungarian minister,
announced his government had paid
1 per cent on account against its
post-war debt.
The defaulting nations were, as
usual: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Es-
tonia, France, Great Britain, Italy,
Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ruma-
nia and Jugo-Slavia.
John Roosevelt Weds
IN A little old stone church at Na-
hant, Mass., John Roosevelt,
youngest son of President and Mrs.
Roosevelt, and Anne Lindsay Clark
were made man and wife, After
the ceremony there was a recep-
tion in the old Nahant club, and the
young couple then started on a
honeymoon trip to Bermuda. There
they were to stay at the estate of
Vincent Astor.
Railway Aid Postponed
WHEN
te an
the
up
not
leaders of sen-
made
the
}.} their
1.
lat-
ouse
minds to adjourn congress
er than June 15, they went to the
White House and told the Presi-
dent the proposed legislation to ex-
pedite the reorganization of rail-
roads woul to be postponed
to the next session. They agreed,
however, to put through two other
railway measures. One permits
RFC loans to railroads without in-
terstate commerce commissi
tification. The other establishes a
special unemployment Insurance
system for rail workers.
n cer-
Healing Party Rifts
*HOUGH it was believed Tommy
Corcoran his “eliminating
committee” would continue the ef-
forts to “‘purge’” the Democratic
party of opponents
of administration
policies, the Presi-
dent himself under-
took to repair some
in the
For in-
: invited
Senator Gillette, vic
in the
mary, to tu
House wi
took
ate lun
er and, according to
I action against
x3
and
of the breaks
party ranks.
stance he
tor
r coats,
hann taoat) Gov, Lehman
eon togeth-
reports,
nomina-
ould be
2 yet
» has not liked
A CCORDING to the monthly bul-
a letin f } f 1 reserve
depres-
United
n y other industrial
the world.
nufacture
other countries was |
wever
of war materi-
ointed
the prin-
one of
cipal supports t usiness activity,
ir es showing al-
m as poor results as in the Unit-
other industries
Japan's Demands Rejected
MERICAN warships will remain
in the Yangtze river and will go
to any place where Americans are
in danger. This despite the de-
mands of Japan.
Naval officials of
Japan asked that all
foreign warships
leave the Yangtze
river area between
Wuhu and Kiukiang
because the invad-
ers were about to
start an offensive
toward Hankow,
provisional Chinese
capital. But Admi-
ral Harry E. Yarnell,
commander of the
United States Asiatic fleet, rejected
the demand sharply. Further-
more, he at once planned an in-
spection trip up the Yangtze and
through the war zone, and he did
not ask Japan's permission.
These three “principles” of Amer-
Admiral
Harry Yarnell
nell in his note to the Japanese:
on the Yangtze, and will proceed to
any place where Americans are in
danger.
change the color of its warships,
which are painted white, to conform
to any color scheme suggested by
the Japanese.
The United States does not regard
the warning of Japanese naval of-
ficials relative to the Yangtze as re-
lieving the Japanese “in the slight-
est degree’ of responsibility for
damage or injury to United States
warships.
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Eight Army Fivers Die
IGHT army sirmen from Cha-
nute field in Illinois were caught
in a storm, lost one wing of their
big bomber and crashed in a
field near Delavan, Ill. All of
were killed and the tanks
flame. Three of the victims
commissioned officers.
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By WILLIAM BRUC
NATIONAL FRE Bi
WASHINGTON.—The most impor-
throughout
Relief—
Politics use of relief funds
for political
poses. It is not only the most im-
portant news at this time, but has
been the most important and will
continue to be the most important
for weeks to come. This be-
cause the amount of money involved
is vast and the number of
possible to be by that
money 1s so great
high and the unscrupulous are go-
ing to play for them to the limit
r capacity. 1 think that per-
haps the corruption of the Harding
ition with its shan
850
voles
influenced
The stakes are
of their «
administr:
was perhaps
money involv
of private
certainly, no votes I
through no fault of their own
themselves destitute
3
the late Thomas Walsh,
Democratic
It was
Montana
conducted the earnest fight to purge
the try of
time. And now
senator who
the crooks at tl
at the senate again
ash of New Deal
On
three
There can be no
ministration
Roosevelt spoke not a
half of use of funds
for the removal of
he praised his relief adn
Harry Hopkins, for publicly backing
Representative Wearin, the New
because
word in be-
for relief
1
politics
nation in Jowa. Mr. Wearin was
well licked by Senator Gillette, an
old line Democrat. Nor did the Pres-
ident tell the senate publicly that he
favored a curb on the
money. Quite the contrary. Wheth-
er the President urged them to do
80 or not, his board of strategy (the
new name for the brain trust) put
the steam on and made enough sen-
to curb politics to insure defeat.
They even forced Senator Barkley
vor of the use of money in any way
the relief overseers want to use it—
and Senator Barkley is seeking re-
nomination in his native Kentucky.
So, no credit for the move to draw
back the curtain can possibly be
the President's advisors or strate-
gists.
* * *
No credit for bringing the situa-
tion to the attention of the country
can go to the
Dodged house of repre-
in House
sentatives. It did
not even consider
any restrictions on the use of the
money when the bill was up for
passage there. The leadership in
the house is controlled by Mr.
Roosevelt, but even then it was sur-
prising to see such upstanding,
square-shooting men like Speaker
Bankhead and Majority Leader Ray-
burn of Texas sidle around the hot
spot. Sdm Rayburn is one of the
really splendid men in the house of
representatives, but he dodged on
this thing and it is not com-
mendable.
i Then, where must credit be giv-
en? Why did the senate finally take
the bit in its teeth and set machin-
ery in motion for putting out the fire
| before adjournment? The answer is
that the people ‘back home,” and
that means largely in smaller towns
and in the country, finally caught
up with the fact that they are being
victimized. They let their feelings
become known, and with them near-
ly every newspaper in the country
| eriticized the senate until the sen-
SLAC PY ep
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atorial ears must have burned to a
crisp. Anyway, it brought action
and for that the country ought to be
thankful.
It might be well to review the sen-
ate action when it ran away from
an honest job on the relief appropri-
ment by Senator Hatch, Democrat,
New was to prevent
r political pur-
expedient of
al who had
second,
by Sena-
whic
s WIL
Republi-
ired a
on
as
oncerned,
Oo =
2 a
ee" oe
The Folks
‘Back Home’
are seeking house
s against New
are finding strong
organizations against them
n favor of the New Deal candi-
date. And the full import of that
strength comes to mind quickly
Deal
aspirants
son will give up in order to have
food.
Senator Tydings of Maryland is
the sponsor of the move to clean
up the mess in relief. Of course,
Senator Tydings, while a staunch
seldom has done any-
thing to cause the New Dealers hap-
piness; on the contrary, he was
marked for “liquidation” long, long
ago. It is much better that an out-
standing Democrat should have pro-
posed the investigation than to have
Had a Republican intro-
the resolution, the thing
purely. But it would have been a
move calculated to demonstrate the
genuineness of the New Deal if some
Roosevelt 100 per center would have
brought up the proposition.
There is a great opportunity for
this new senate committee to serve
the country well. It can, and should,
£0 into every report its investiga-
taxpayers’ money is being employed
to influence elections. It has an out-
standing piece upon which tc work,
at the very start. Did not Mr. Hop-
kins horn into the Iowa primary?
And everywhere there was the ques-
tion whether the WPA and other re-
lief workers in Iowa would not con-
behalf of Mr. Wearin as an “or-
der” for them to support the same
man.
But more important than Mr.
Hopkins, this investigation—if it is
seriously made-—can point the tre-
mendous fallacy and danger of re-
lief being administered from Wash.
ington instead of from the states
and the counties where the money
is spent. If the country is made
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