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BRISBANE THIS WEEK The First One Goes Looks Like War Don’t Stumble 400 Men, 400 Mice The death of Marshal Pilsudski, ruling power of Poland, takes from

that country a great man and an I , able patriot ReI mainlng in the I background, exerI vising power wlthI out display, MarI shal Pilsudski was I an absolute dictaI tor, and his death I is first among the I dictators developed I by the great war. The world may I learn from his goI ing what to expect when other dictators depart, one by

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one. What will Im* the destiny of Poland, with her strongest man gone? What, at a later time, will happen tn Italy, Germany, Russia. Turkey, as each loses the dictator that now takes the place of self-government and independent public thought? Italy calls out her "fourth class" fighting reserves and has 950,000 men ready to crush the king of Ethiopia, if crushing becomes “necessary." Note Mussolini warns other countries not to meddle and not to help Ethiopia. That looks a little like war. Warning to politicians and others: Don't stumble. In California. Herman Zeigler was putting 18i tame Hons through their paces. He cracked the whip; they obeyed. Jumping up on stools, sitting . up on their hind legs. “Mind over ' matter" was beautifully demonstrated. The lions acknowledged their master. Then, unfortunately, the lion tamer, | careless, stumbled over a stool, fell; instantly the Hons were upon him. forgettthg their fear of him. He had j stumbled and fallen —that was enough. ' There are among ns today, on and off the radio, some lion tamers, mak- * ing the American people sit up and Jump through hoops. Let them take ! care not to stumble. In China, a subterranean river flooded the Szechwan coal mine. Four j hundred miners were drowned. Old-fashioned Chinese used to forbid. and stilt abhor, any mine digging, “because it disturbs the earth dragon.* They will think the old earth dragon flooded the mine, ordered "the unseen river to enter. This drowning news Is leas exciting; to the average American thgn It would be to have the cook announce: “There were 400 mice drowned In the I ■ink." The rink Is near home. China is far off. Seventy-five fighting game cocks and 85 men were seised by state troopers ’ In a barn 15 miles out of Hammonton. • N. J. Brutality In men dies slowly. ‘ but rinks to lower levels with time. Kings of England once sat delighted I around the “cockpit." betting on their favorite*, reveling tn the extraordl- | nary courage of the game birds. Now cock fighters are driven to hiding In barns, police arrest them, magistrates fine them. Perhaps some day civilisation will feel about man-fights, on the battlefield, as It doe* now about cock-fights. Hitler continues his program on the “If yon do not like It. lump It.* plan. Washington protested feebly against Germany's discrimination In debt payments against this country. Germany tells ns to take what is given and be grateful, or make trade arrangements to suit Hitler. He hopes to counteract that boycott against German goods established here. r The former kaiser, reported seriously 111. la confined to bis bed. ordered to avoid all effort; a hard order for the “all highest• How such names as Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini must grate on the nerves of the aging Hohenmllern! He can sympathise with England's Henry 11. who, after defeat, turned his face to the wall, muttering “Shame on a beaten king.* and died. Mr. Morgentbau, secretary of the treasury, assures you that your American dollar is sound. which is comforting. Mr. Morgenthan knows a good deal about money. The British do not agree with him. and some British experts consider the dollar worth about 50 cents now and expect It to go lower. They will probably be disappointed. John D. Rockefeller's L Q. U. Is as good as gold, and this country Is the John D. Rockefeller among nations. A New England gathering approves birth control and sterilisation of the hopelessly insane and habitually criminal. with full dissemination of birth control information. The action was not taken by any “radicals,’* or other queer fauna but “by the New England Conference of Methodist Churches." That makes it news. The idea is gaining ground that the woman should have something to say about “another baby.* < Kias Faatwrwi Sj ndlcatw lac. *" WN’U Wrtic*. Octopus U*e* “Smoke Screen* One of the octopus' natural defense* Is a thick, viscous. Ink-black fluid which it injects Into the Water in vast clouds when attacked or disturbed. This is to confuse or blind Its MMinlm. but apparently the ster itself cm see Quite well through ths subMance with its great swMlks «r* ____ ffrrf Visitiag Sign ~ • urt *

News Review of Current Events the World Over President Stirs Wrath by Calling Critics of AAA “Liars”— Senate Votes NRA Only Brief and Restricted Life. By EDWARD W. PICKARD c by Western Newspaper Unloa.

rpOint thousand farmers, gathered * from all parts of the country, invaded Washington and told President Roosevelt and Secretary Wallace that

they were enthusiastic believers in the efficiency of the AAA program and supporters of the amendments which the administration asks congress v to make in the agricultural adjustment act. Mr. Rbosevelt addressed, from the south portico of the White House, what he called a "surprise

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party." and prefaced his remarks with the statement that "a great many of the high and. mighty" have been deliberately tryingto mislead many people by “lying about the kind of a farm program tinder which this nation is operating.” He went on to deny emphatically that the government has "wastefnlly destroyed food in any form.” Next day many of the visiting farm era were in the senate gallery and heard Senator Daniel O. Hastings of Delaware, Republican, score the President for characterising critics of the AAA program as liars. The senator said: “In his radio speech of April 28, the President urged his audience to ‘feel free to criticise.’ He invites criticism and then shows that he ‘can't take IL’ We who have criticized the New Ih»al were earlier called *tories,‘ 'traitors.* *whlners,’ ‘chiselera,’ etc., but now we are called ‘liars,’ and everybody understands Just what that means, and it comes with little dignity from a man who holds the high position of President of the United States. “But I want to say that if this term Is applied to all of those persons who have criticised the New Deal, we have developed the greatest crop of 'liars' within the last six. months ever found In any country". Senator Hastings then introduced a resolution calling upon the secretary of agriculture to submit all correspondence between the department and the visiting farmers, together with any Instructions sent out to county agents with a view of producing the “spontaneous" visitation. Mr. Hastings also demanded to know bow the delegates were selected and what financial assistance “directly or indirectly” was extended to them by the agricultural officials. Over tn the house Representative Fish of New York started a lively debate on the same topic, and he was even more outspoken than Mr. Hastings, saying: “Confused and confounded by the marked swing away from the unsound and Socialistic New Deal policies, the President lost his head —and that 18 the mildest term that can be applied •—when he lied his critics liars.” There were plenty of defenders of the President and Secretary Wallace In both chambers. To the correspondents Mr. Wallace Insisted that the gathering of farmers was spontaneous. DV ADOPTING the resolution of Senator Bennett C. Clark of Missouri, Democrat, the senate gave the NRA life only until April l, 1938, and

considerably curtailed Its p'wvrs. The expressed wishes <>f<a!>e President and NRA Chairman Donald Rlchberg for a two year extension with enlarged powers were Ignored. The changes called for in the Clark resolution provide for prohibiting Inclusion of business firms engaged wholly in intra

state commerce under NRA codes or regulations; banning price fixing'except in mineral resource industries, and directing the President to revise all codes within thirty days to conform to the provisions of the resolution. Majority leaders tn the bouse were prepared to fight for the two year extension, but admitted the Clark resolution was likely to prevail there also. In that case, in the opinion of many observers, the NRA win be practically dead. While the senate was debating the matter. Mr. Rlchberg told a mass meeting of NRA workers that the Clark resolution was “complete folly." This aroused the Missourian to wrath. He called it "the mow brazen exhibition of Impudence on the part of a bureaucratic official which has fallen under my observation during my lifetime,' and next day. tn a set speech, he told bls fellow senators at length just what be thought of Mr. Rlchberg and “Ms ambition to be a Mussolini in , the United Staten.” Ao organization called the Industry and business committee for NRA extension was called into action, m were the farmers for AAA, and Its head. Ward Cheney, silk manufacturer. announced that a meeting of delegations of Industries would be held In Washington May 22. SENATOR HUEY LONG’S resolution for an investigation of Postmaster General Farley was rejected by a vote of 62 to 30, the “Kingfish” being the only Democrat recorded in favor of it Knowing the measure was lost. Long Indulged tn some characteristic language. “Go ahead and whitewash him.” he shouted. “But I warn yon 111 be at the next washing. You can no more make a man like him a pure man than you can make a rotten egg smell good and taste good. You are going to do this to save the Democratic party. Yes, you'll save the Demo iratic party. One mere salvation Mke ■

this and the Democratic party Is through." The senate then passed the Norris amendments to the Tennessee Valley Authority act, increasing the TVA‘s bonding authorization from fifty to one hundred million dollars and protecting Its electric power activities from court interference. Next on the senate program was the Wagner" lalwr relations board bill which its author declared was “responsive to the ominous industrial disturbances of last summer when blood ran freely tn the streets and martial law was In the offing." After several amendments designed to limit the power the measure Inferentially gives the American Federation of Labor had been rejected, the bill was shoved through by a vote of 63 to 12. D URAL electrification admlnlstra- ** tion. one of the new divisions of the works relief program, was established by President Roosevelt in an

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new unit as “to Initiate, formulate, administer afid supervise a program of approved projects with respect to the generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energj In rural areas" The order permits th* administrator to acquire by purchase or by the power of eminent domain any real property or any interest therein and Improve, develop, grant, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any such property. SENATOR M’CARREN of Nevada, self-appointed champion of organized labor, declared he would fight against a wage scale tentatively drafted by officials of the four billion works relief program. It was reported that under this plan wage rates in the new works program would be In general about 30 per cent lower than the prevailing hourly rates for construction Jobs, and Mr. McCarren said It would “tear down the wage scale of the country." The plan, it was said, had not been submitted to the President. CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL L. IGOE of Illinois was appointed United States district attorney for Chicago and immediately confirmed by the senate —and tbu4 Senator James Hamilton Lewis scored one on Secretary of the Interior Ickes, who had hoped for the naming of a man of his own choosing so as to strengthen his position In Chicago politics. Mr. Igoe temporarily lost his standing in the Democratic party when he sought the Illinois gubernatorial nomination which went to Judge Horner; but through the good offices of Senator he was restored and was elected congressman-at-large last fall DY A vote of about 2 to 1 the strlking workers in the Toledo Chevrolet plant decided to accept a’ compromise offer that bad been fixed up by federal labor committeemen. A. F. of I* leaders, company officials and federal mediators It was expected that this would result in the return to wort of 35.000 men Id Toledo and other motor car manufacturing centers. The strike In Toledo was engineered by the local union and really was not in accord with A. F. of L. plans. DENNIS CHAVEZ who contended that be really defeated Bronson M. Cutting in the electlor of a United States senator from New Mexico last

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year, now has Mr Cutting's seat In the senate. Following the senator’s death it- an airplane crash. Mr Cbaver was appointeu by Got. Clyde Tlnglej to fill the vacancy. H» will noid office unti the next general ele< tlon io November 1936. when a succes aor will be elected and that b likely to

be Mr Chavez again. The new eenator. she is the bead of the Democratic party in New Mexico. was born in that state 47 years ago. While serving as a senate clerk be attendee Georgetown university lav school and after returning to Albuquerque to practice law he was elected to the state iegi* iture. in 1930 . he was elected New Mexico's one repreeentative In the national bouse and was re-elected in 1932. He resigned in 1934 to oppose Cuttlrr in the senatorial race and was defeated by about 1.000 votes piEBRE iJkVAL, French foreign * minister, held important conversations in Moscow with Dictator Stalin .and other high Soviet officials, and the result, aecnr g to a joint eommu niQue, is that France and Russia will unite in an effort to bring Germany and Poland into a general pact of nonaggression t<» nsure peace In eastern Europe. Both governments will open diplomatic negotiations to this end. The eomnm tque declared that neither country will allow Its “means of national defense to weaken in the slightest degree,” although preservation of the peace is a primary duty of both countries. *

executive order, and Morris L. Cooke, a Philadelphia engineer, was appointed to be Its chief. The sum of $75,000 was allotted for its administrative expenses, and allocations are to be made later for authorized individual projects. The executive order described the duties and functions of the

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P VERY ONE who knew anything about the matter knew long ago that the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion" were a fraud, and now a Swiss court has declared them “false and obvious plagiarism" and fined two Swiss Nazis for circulating them. The court said it was definitely established that the protocols were copied or plagiarized from Maurice Joly*B “Dialogues in Hell,” which appeared In 1864 and was a vile attack on the despotism of Napoleon 111. The object of the suit, brought by Jewish leaders in Switzerland, was to vindicate world Jewry by proving the falsity of the protocols which professional anti-Semites everywhere had been using to excite hostility against Jews. Rear admiral richard eveLYN BYRD and members of his South Polar expedition came sailing home at last on their ship Bear of R Oakland and were given the warmest kind of a welcome in Washington by President Roosevelt. Secretary of the Navy Swanson, ' other officials and a host of their relations ' I'll antl P ersonal friends. Kr* gjal The admiral and Mrs. Byrti speiit a ni B ht * n HftlftftQ the White House. . . , , „ Then he was joined by Admiral Byrd biß mother> Elea . nor Bolling Byrd, and his four children. and the family party left for the Byrd home at Winchester, Va. The Bear of Oakland and the Jacob Ruppert. supply ship of the expedition, departed from the Washington navy yard for Boston, the admiral planning to board the Ruppert en route. Admiral Byrd has plenty of work ahead, with the mass of data gathered tn the Antarctic, a book to be written and a lecture tour to be made, but his plans for the Immediate future were uncertain. ETHIOPIA’S government renewed Its demand that arbitrators be named to settle the disputes between that country and Italy, as provided In a treaty, and Great Britain and France were reported to be trying earnestly to persuade Italy to a peaceful course. Unless settlement of all differences is assured at the League of Nations council meeting May 20. or if more Italian troops are sent to the Ethiopian border, Emperor Haile Selassie will mobilize his warriors. Foreign residents of Addis Ababa said they were ignorant of any w«r preparations by Ethiopia, and that there had been no troops or munitions concentrations or censorship on travel This contradicted a story tn a Rome newspaper to the effect that great quantities of munitions had been shipped into Ethiopia and were being concentrated, along with thousands of troops, near the borders of Italian Somaliland and Eritrea, Premier Mussolini, in a speech in the Italian senate, warned all other nations not to interfere In the Italo-Ethl-opian quarrel, declaring that no nation but Italy “can be the judge in this most delicate matter.”- He denied that Great Britain and France had taken diplomatic steps to avert the threatened conflict and said those nations need not fear that Italy would be weakened In Europe by the sending of thousands of troops to Africa. "We shall maintain under arms for all the time necessary,” he declared, “the three classes of Wil, 1913 and t 1914. Moreover, another class, that of 1912, is In reserve and ready.” RIGID censorship, such as would be imposed in war time, shrouded the American fleet’s tactical operations in the Pacific, but was relaxed enough

for the announcement of two unfortunate occurrences. While de stroyers were leading larger vessels through an “enemy" network of submarines the Lea smashed into the Slcard, tearing a big bole in her side. Richard Chadwick, second class gunner's mate on the Slcard. was killed and three other men were slightly in-

jured. official records stated. Lieut. Mathias B. Wyatt of San Diego, a graduate of the naval academy, was piloting one of eighteen fighting planes which took off from the aircraft carrier Saratoga 200 miles east of Honolulu to ward off an attack of “enemy” submarines. His plane was caught in the slipstream from another and fell Into water three miles deep. No trace of him or his ship was found. In connection with the maneuvers the greatest Interest was in the mass flight of forty-three planes from the Pearl Harbor naval base westward, presumably to Midway islands. They were under the command of Commander E W. Tod. U. S. K, and for the tiate being all that the public was permitted to know was that they reached their secret destination safely and were “executing their missions.” One report was that rhe planes made one stop en route and that forty-one of them finished the flight together, two arriving later. • eiMPLICATIGNS in the already precarious European situation were expected to result from the death of Marshal Josef I’ilsidski the virtual dictator of Poland. The “father of his country" succumbed to cancer of the stomach In Warsaw and his death was • greet shock to the Poles for the serious nature of his affliction had been concealed from th* public. The marthai's heart was interred at Vllna and hi* brain wa* given to science, according to bis request: but his body was buried In the cathedral of Rawel castle at Oakew beside those of King John Sobirozl. Thaddeus Kosciunko and ethers of Poland’s great men. PltamWd held only the office of minister of war. but was the real ruler of **y*a-Wi grasAaev*. i row tathra •• to bls racewMor. The government announced ft would continue to function as though Pilsud ski were alive. The authority of the dfetator It Mid. has pare* I to bls life tong friend*. President Ignsee Mos riekl. Premier Slawek. Foreign Minis ter Reek and Geo. Edward Ryd* Smlgbly.

TRirunrivmAT tq TRIFLES By ELMO SCOTT WATSON “BROTHER CHARLEY” WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT had been elected President. His good friend. Theodore Roosevelt, who had picked the secretary of war for his successor, made certain his nomination and helped; steer him safely througn the campaign, was naturally very much pleased. Naturally, aiso, he expected a word of thanks. He got it, but it was In this form: “I owe a great deal to you, Theodore, and I want to take this opportunity of saying so.” Then, disregarding T. R.*s modest disclaimer, the President-elect continued “Yes, tn thinking over the whole campaign, I am bound to say that I owe my election more to you than to anybody else, except my brother Charley." Haire you ever had cold water dashed unexpectedly in your face? Then you know how Theodore Roosevelt felt in that Jtnatant. In a llaslt ne saw forward through the next lour years—to the influence of "Brother Charley” and other conservative Republicans over the new President, his departure from : liberal Roosevelt ideas and his shelving of Roosevelt friends. So Theodore Roosevelt took a sore and foreboding neart with him when he went to Africa to hunt lions. That brief conversation in the White House had been the first rift in a famous j friendship. . Affairs turned out just as Roosevelt had expected them to. lyhen he came back from the Jungles he Jjjnounced bis support of Governor for the Republican nomination forF’resident. Taft was surprised and hurt’ and grieved. The rift became a gulf between the two men. It resulted ] In the formation of the Progressive party, the defeat of Taft for re-election and a Democratic President in the White House for the next eight years. • • • Ic—sso,ooo IT’S just a little piece of colored pa- * pet;, less than an inch square, and ; gummed on the back. It may cost its first purchaser only a few cents but if it happens to be the only one of its kind in existence it’s worth SIO,OOO or more. ~ Back in 1846, Postmaster Worcester Webster of Boscawen. N. H., needed stamps. He decided he would make * some of his own. In those days, postmasters did. The United States government didn’t begin to exercise its monopoly on the business until a year later. So Postmaster Webster had printed on little, oblong, pale-blue-colored pieces of paper the words “Paid 5 cents.” One of them was bought by a Boscawen citizen and pasted on an envelope addressed to ‘‘Miss Achsah P. French, care of Theodore French, Esq., Concord, N. H.” That envelope, bearing the postmaster's notation, “Boscawen, N. H. Dec. 13.” was sold a few years ago for $10,137.13, It is now owned by Arthur Hind, the Utica (N. Y.) multimillionaire stamp collector, and is valued at $25,000. The rarest stamp in the world, which Mr. Hind also owns, is the one-cent British Guiana stamp issued in that South American English colony in 1856. It Is printed on dark magenta-hued paper and bears a wood-cut of a ship, taken from the head of the shipping column of the colony’s “Official Gazette." The man who found it. while searching through some old family letters, sold It for several dollars to a friend, who held it for ten years before a London stamp dealer gave him $125 tor it, Mr. Hind bought it from a French stamp .ollector for $32,500. It is now valued at $50,000. DIXIE ' BACK In the early days of the republic when a host of steamboats plied the Mississippi, the boatmen, when in New Orleans, did most of their banking at the Basque des Citoyens. This institution issued bank notes printed in English on one side and in French on the other. Its ten-dollar note bore the word "DIX" (ten) fainted in large letters. So the boatmen spoke of It colloquially as a "dix." and New Orleans be came the town where they got the "dises" or “dixies." They carried the use of the word north with them and soon the entire South came to be known as the “dixie country.” Then In 1850 Daniel Decatur Emmett. an actor and originator of “ne gro minstrel performances,” wrote a song about “de land ob cotton —Dixie land.” It was first sung by Bryant's minstrels at Mechanic’s hail In New York city, but the South, the real “Dixieland.” immediately took it up as its own. Two years later, to Its rollicking strains, men In gray rode forth to “live and die for Dixie.’’ It helped Inspire them to such feats of valor as the world had never seen before and It buoyed them up in those dark days when the “Lost Cause” was slowly but surely being borne down by the sheer weight of superior numbers. Today that tune still has the power to thrill the hearts of a reunited nation as no other tune has—this song which takes its name from the Mississippi steamboat men’s familiar term tor a piece of money! c Wmecrn Newspaper Union. Fi»h Duck Devour Trout The American merganser, called fish duck, is the scourge of trout streams during the winter time. When the lakes are frozen over the fast flowing trout streams are about the only open water these birds can find as feeding grounds with the result that tbejrlive almost entirely on trout Aristocrat* Had Poorest Teeth It has been found that the upper claws of ancient civilization on the Nile river suffered more from dental defects than did the peasant classes.

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Washington.—On June 16, 1934, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Demo-

cratic leader, rose in his place in the sedate and presented for the Congres-

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slonal Record a summary of accomplishments of the first regular session of congress under the New Deal. The vast amount of legislation enacted was analyzed and Its importance to the country set forth. The one thing that was lacking in that summary was any reference to the Herculean effort of Senator Robinson. He took no credit for himself although it was everywhere realized that Senator Robinson had been the key man In accomplishing that great amount of work. Congress still will be in session on June 16, 1935. Senator Robinson, of course, will not present a summary of legislative enactments b\ the current session until the closing day—and your guess is as good as mine as to when that will be. But after virtually five months of the current session, observers cannot help looking back to see what has been done. Comparisons can hardly be avoided. We find from the records at the Capitol that a total of fifty laws of a public character, have completed passage through congress and have received Presidential consideration. That number appears large—an average of ten pieces of legislation a month —but when the “nature of the bills themselves is examined, a contrary conclusion must be reached. I have reported to you heretofore some details of how congress has been balky. Undeniably, there has been stalling and delays accountable only In politics. There have been controversies over entirely minor and Inconsequential matters. Individual representatives and senators having no claims to leadership either from ability or seniority have been able to block enactments in a fashion almost unknown except where congress has been at loggerheads with the Chief Executive. Through all of these, I think it is fair to say that Senator Robinson has been the most vigorous fighter in behalf of the ‘ New Deal of any maintains a position of prominence in the present administration. Instead of receiving credit, pats on the back, as he did a year ago, the Arkansas senator has been receiving some wholly unwarranted kicks In the pants. If there is to be a goat in congress through the failure of some of the highly controversial New Deal legislation it is liable to be Joe Robinson. If such is the result. It will demonstrate better than anything else the ingratitude of politics because*observers agree that except for Senator Robinson the senate would be out of hand and President Roosevelt really would have a serious problem as regards the enactment of his program. It is my own belief that Senator Robinson deserves all of the acclaim which the New Dealers can heap upon him instead of criticism that Is cropping up here and there. Senator Robinson’s job has been made much more difficult than a renate leader's job ought to be by constant messing from brain trust quarters. By the same token Senator McNary, of Oregon, who carries the title of Republican leader, has had numerous opportunities to give prominence to Republican doctri er. But Senator McNary has been just as quiet as Senator Robinson has been active. .• * • So, when it is shown that only four important pieces of legislation have

passed congress this session the blame, if fiere be blame, must be attributed

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not to the Democratic leadership, but to an undercurrent of objection to New Deal principles. The house under the speakership of Representative Byrns of Tennessee has performed as the house usually does where there is a preponderant majority by one party. It has obeyed Presidential instructions and has put through bills about as the White House desired. The obstacle has been the senate and in all probability it will continue to be troublesome ground for the administration. Borrowing the favorite phrase of a one-time Democratic candidate for President, “Let us look at the record.” Up to the present four bills of national scope have passed. The five billion dollar works relief legislation was passed after a delay of two months; legislation extending the life of the Reconstruction Finance corporation was not controversial and-was passed almost by unanimous vote, and the additional appropriation of $1,750,060,* 000 for the Home Owners Loan corporation brought little objection in its course through congress. The other national piece of legislation that has been finished is the soldiers' bonus, a measure highly objectionable to the President and therefore, after all, not completed legislation. With regard to the other bills that have passed, none of them can be said to be of consequence. They are designated as public laws, distinguishing them from purely private bills of limited effect Naturally, they did not provoke controversy. But awaiting action we find such legislation as the proposal to extend the life of the National Recovery administration, the so-called social security bill, revision of the agricultural adjustment act to strengthen the hand of the Department of Agriculture, and the bitterly fought Roosevelt-Eccles banking reform measure. When action will come on any of these is highly' problematical. It is also a matter of pure guesswork to predict In what form these measures will emerge from the CapitoL .Each of the four bills of national scope that is pending involves principle! of a character that may precipitate a deadlock at any time. The senate in times past has been known to

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act with utmost speed and it is possible the differences over the legislation outlined above may be adjusted so that an early adjournment will result The prospects, nevertheless, are entirely to the contrary. Indeed, it appears that congress is due to get a taste of Washington summer heat * * * I am indebted to attaches of the . senate for the following compilation _ . . of public laws, the Legislation passage of which is Completed finally completed: To extend the Reconstruction Finance corporation. Independent oSices appropriation. The “Baby Bond" act An act granting authority to the Missouri state highway department to build a bridge across Eleven Points river. An act granting th« State of Oklahoma authority to build a bridge over the Arkansas river. ‘ An act permitting the laying of pipe lines across an avenue in the District of Columbia. An act extending the time of commencing a bridge across the Waccamaw river in South Carolina. An act legalizing the “Union Street Bridge” across the Dan river at Danville, Va. An act authorizing the States of Washington and Idaho to build a bridge across Snake river. An act to extend the time of commencing a bridge across the St. Lawrence near Alexandria Bay, N. Y. An act providing cropproduction loans to farmers. An act postponing the effective date of certain air-mall contract restrictions. An act extending time for construction of a bridge across the Missouri river near St. Charles, Mo. An act prohibiting interstate shipment of “hot” oil In violation of state law’s and regulations. An act extending the time for commencing a bridge over the Ohio river between Rockport, Ind., and Owensboro, Ky. An act for the transfer of certain lands in Mississippi to the War department for military purposes. An act permitting the State of Indiana to build "a bridge across the Wabash river at. Lafayette An act to amend the criminal code of the District of Columbia. An act adding rice to the basic commodities under the agricultural adjustment act The first deficiency appropriation act, supplying additional funds to various governmental agencies. Regular appropriation aet for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce and Labor. An act authorizing the War and Navy departments to lend equipment for the national jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America. An act to facilitate the removal of dangerous and unsafe buildings in the District of Columbia. An act to amend the District, of Columbia law relative to the condemnation of unsanitary buildings. An act to provide for settlement of estates of absentees and absconders in the District of Columbia. An act td change the name of Leffler place to Second place in the District of Columbia. ' An act Incorporating Trihlty college of Washington. War department appropriation act. An act establishing a special claims commission for settlement of claims between the United States and Mexico. An act authorizing the Presidtat to present distinguished flying crosses to Air Marshal Balbo and General Pellegrini of Italy. An act authorizing acquisition of certain lands in the District of Columbia. A minor amendment to the merchant marine bill of 1920 relating to transfer of goods from railroad cars, boats and motor vehicles. An act authorizing the Department of Labor to continue to make special statistical studies. An act extending the time for commencing a bridge across the Ohio river at Cairo, 111. An act to authorize the Navy department to proceed with construction of certain public works In various yards. An act providing so: aviation cadets in the naval reserves and marine reserves. Ah act authorizing the adjustment of contracts for the sale of timber in the national forests. An act authorizing purchase of land for a post office building In Jonesboro, Ark. ‘ Pink slip publicity repeal. Affecting income tax returns. i . An act amending the code relative to the manner In which property may be sold under court orders. An act authorizing certain officers of the and marine corps to administer oaths. An act permitting personnel of the navy and marine corps to wear miniature facsimiles of medals awarded them. An act authorizing certain naval officers to administer oaths. An act permitting the construction of an oil pipe line in the District of Columbia. An act authorizing the secretary of the navy to relinquish assessments for a water main at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. An act authorizing the secretary of the navy to aceept for the government a certain strip of land in South Carolina. An act authorizing the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the anniversary of the founding of the city of Hudson, N. Y. An act to promote safety on public highways in the District of Columbia . by providing financial responsibility for owners and operators of motor vehicles. • WMttra Union.