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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, AUGUST 22, 1929.
Legislative Session to Date Is Called a Very Fruitful One
By JOHN W. HAMMOND,
Atlanta Correspondent to Macon Telegraph
2—Some of the
1—Unveiling memorial bust of Hark Twain at Mono Lake In the Mali Sierras of California.
L300 Boy Scouts at the International Jamboree In Lapland cheering for the prince of \\ ules. J—Tht huge motor
■hip Britannic recently luilnched in Great Urituln for the Atlantic passenger service. ...
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Progress of Negotiations at
The Hague—Start of Zep
pelin for Tokyo.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
I NTERNATIONAL negotiations at
The Hague during the week reached
a point that virtually assured early
evacuation of the Rhineland by the
allies, and made It fairly certain that
Great Britain would have Its way In
the matter of the distribution of Ger
man reparations. Philip Snowden's ex-
| traordlnnrlly undiplomatic, not to suy
Insulting, language In characterizing
the arguments of M. Cheron, French
1 finance minister, as “ridiculous" and
, “grotesque" threatened at first to dis
rupt the proceedings. Snowden apol
ogized, though he and his government
stood firm In their position that the
reparations division In the Young plan
could not bo nceepted. Thereupon the
representatives of France, Belgium.
Italy and Japan began to figure out
methods of satisfying the English
realizing some sacrifices must he made
in order that the entire Young plan
should not be scrapped. They agreed,
however, to stand together and not to
make separate bargains or compro-
‘ ibises with the British. Mr. Snowden
Indicated he would accept an Increase
ductlon. Washington officials are
hopeful It will be possible to hold a
five-power naval conference for the
discussion of cruiser and auxiliary
ship tonnages reduction lute this year
or early In 1930.
This statement was given out fol
lowing a breakfast given by President
Hoover for the purpose of acquaint
ing members of the nnvnl general
board with the progress of the con
versations at London unci to afford an
opportunity for a round-table discus
sion of nil phases of the problem.
Mr. Stimson said that the President
and the State deportment expected the
fullest co-operation from the Navy de
partment experts In the campaign for
naval reduction and that the navy ex
perts’ views would be given careful
Ing extraordinary precautions and
making numerous arrests the police
suppressed the Intended demonstra
tions of the communists and nntlonal-
lsts. In the vanguard of the huge
parade was a group of New Yorkers
and Chicagoans who carried the Amer
ican flag.
Atlanta, Aug. 17.—The net result
at the close of this legislative weak
brings in it an answer to that ques
tion which has been uppermost in
enerally since Monday: Wid
there be an extra session?
While a week ago the indications
were that small hope existed of
ability to obviate one, there is at this
time no apparent reason which will
bo left to make one necessary.
While latter day Georgia history
carries no other record of the gener-
appropriaaion bill ever havin',
been killed in the House of Roprt-
tn.atives, as was the case Thursday
of this week, a study of legislative
history likewise docs not carry a rec
ord of any such accomplishment in
one day as that of the same House
Friday.
Many members rtow assert that
they recognize what proved to be
generalship of those gentlemen who
proposed the substitute for the gen
eral appropriation bill, based on the
Budget Commission recommenda
tions, and the final result which came
from it. That result was, in effect, to
has been created, it will tnerefore be
necessary for the senate to make tnat
corrective provision in the bill, plac
ing operation of the new law in
some department already in exist
ence.
Mr. Vandiver, commissioner of rev
enue, is seeking to have it placed in
his department. On the other hand,
some of the members of the gover
nor s special tax study commission
believe it should be placed in the de
partment of the state tax commis
sioner. Indications are that it will go
to one or the other of these.
There is, too, some discussion
lowed by future similar legi R ' a
Many of the tax reform p roKri
carying with it finally, if t h e ^
prove out, u complete repeal 0 f
present advulorem tux system.
Other mujor bills of what
commonly viewed as the adniinw
tion program, have not gone t
yet. The measure proposing ,.,n
I dation of the departments a ..,i
1 rcaus of government, ns set up
the Ivan Allen special commit
has not passed either branch, n or
the Key bill which seeks to co
date all of the numerous tax <,
ing agencies under one clearly
fined department, to be a State
Commission. Because of the
near approach to the end of t ; ,
sion neither of these have a
chunce of being reached now.
On the whole, though, wh
about the size of the exemptions put i'' ews ^ be completed result to
on in the House before the Key bill I the session has been really a
passed. It was made $30,COO a year | ru 'Tul one, and, if the major m|
on all businesses, and complete ex- * els wb * cb now remain only for
emption of agricultural produce, io
the latter there is no objection at all
found, but there is found some dis
position to question the advisability
of the $30,000 exemp.ion as being too
high, on the ground that it will be
too great a limitation on the numeri
cal sources from which the tax would
come,and therefore will act as a con-
P REMIER MUSSOLINI of Italy Is
putting Into effect the Fascist pol
icy of splitting up estates that have
been lying untilled und turning them
over for cultivation by small farm
ers. The other day the feudal estates
of the Doria family, comprising 2,500
ncrei, were thus divided among pens-
nnls In a picturesque ceremony nt
Roccngorga. The laud was separated
Into 230 parcels and the division made
prevent passage of a largely over- 1 siderable reduction of the revenue to
lapping appropriation bill, until a i be obtained. On that there is some
substantial revenue measure could be . talk of placing the general exemp-
enacted. It wus primarily that effort | ^' on $12,000 a year, as it was first
which, also in effect, served to force j fixei1 b Y the house when the original
back into consideration the Key gross bil1 was first amended. If this should
consideration. He denied that nny : py lottery. The proprietor of the es-
rlft 1ms developed between the nnvy ^ tales, I’rince Flllpo Doria Pamplilll.
sales tax bill, which the House pass
ed Friday and that action was quick
ly followed by the very members who
the day before seemed to be blocking
the money sheet, asking on Friday
the unanimous consent of the House
to proceed at once to a vote and pass
be done in the senate that feature
undoubtedly would go to a confer
ence for adjustment.
In respect to highway legislation, a
good deal of it has passed one house
or the other. The major pieces of
highway legislation through both
the appropriations bill just as it was 1 bouses are tbe six, cents gasoline tax
genernl bonrd and the civilians on the
question of Just how fnr this country
should go In reducing Its navy,
P RESIDENT HOOVER Is taking
action In nccord with Ills pre-elec
tion statements in which he declared
for complete co-ordination of the
work of improving Inlnml waterways
for navigation, lrrlgntlon, flood con
trol und power development. He an
nounces that Ms administration nnd
the officials of California have reached
an agreement for the appointment of
gets partial Indemnity, and the peas
ants are bound to Improve the land
and to assist In the genernl work of
reclaiming the district, which Is in the
1’ontlne murshes. „*i>. ,
worked out in committee of the
whole House. All thought of the suj-
stitute measure then had been dis
carded even by its proponents.
Just what this means, according to
explanations since offered, is that the
S PAIN Is not nearly so subservient
t
to Its dictator ns Is Italy to Mus
solini. This was evidenced by the ac
tion of the general labor union con
gress in session In Madrid In flatly
rejecting the government’s Invitation
to send five representatives to the na-
j tionnl assembly and Issuing a maul-
a Joint commission to determine the , fest0 to the Spanish people strongly
policies to be pursued In such devel- I lUtac , klng tl)e dictatorship of Gen.
opment in California. Another Joint ( 1>rlra0 de Ki ve ra. The new constltu-
of $9,520,000 per annum _ta the British
! share and the Tour powers named got
commission will work out the prob
lems presented by the proposed con
struction of a bridge across San Fran
cisco bay.
together $4,7(50,000 of tills, but Italy
refused to make further contribution
and Snowden repented Ills ultimatum.
It seemed likely t.he Young plan inso
far us Germany Is concerned would be
accepted and that the allies would
postpone the distribution of the rep
arations among themselves until aft
er the meeting of the League of Na
tions assembly lute In September.
Meanwhile the English may be In
duced to ntinte something of their
demands, think the French.
Thomas \V. Lament, the American
bunker who helped devise the Young
plan, admitted in London that he had
been asked to go to The Hague to aid
in the financial deliberations, but said
he lmd decided it wus wiser for him
to stay away.
H AVING made the return trip from
Lakehurst to Frledrlchshafen In
O NE of the next steps for the sta
bilization of agriculture by the
fast time and without any difficulties,
the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin
wus refueled and continued on its
projected flight around the world. It
carried 01 persons, 20 of whom were
1 passengers, und was equipped with
rides and emergency food supplies In
case of a forced Inndlng. The next
stopping place was to be Tokyo, and
this second leg of the trip was con
sidered to he the most perilous for
the huge airship. The route laid out
would take it across Russia. Siberia,
the Sen of Okhotsk and Snglmllen.
Doctor EeUener, cotiiiminder of the
Graf Zeppelin, has been granted a pat
ent on it rigid dirigible with separate
gas cells, like the one he Is flying
around the earth, liy the United States
patent office. The patent, applied for
1 In 1922, has been assigned to the
, Frledrlchshafen Zeppelin company.
federal farm hoard will be the cre
ation of a wool marketing agency. A
conference of representatives of pro
ducers’ co-operative wool marketing
associations und producer-owned ware
house associations will be held In Chi
cago some time In October, Chairman
Alexander Lcgge, of the bonrd, an
nounced. At this conference definite
plans will be evolved for n > national
co-operative wool sales agency, to In
clude In Its membership nil of the va-
rlous types of co-operatives now en-
gnged In handling the commodity.
Julius Barnes, William M. Jardlne,
former secretary of agriculture, and
other prominent men. have begun the
formation of a Mg fruit nnd vegetable
marketing corporation, but Mr. I.cgge
said Its plan of organization bad not
yet been approved by the bonrd. The
corporation Is to have a capital of
$50,000,000, nnd In Its Initial work
will be with 00 subsidiary eo-opern
tlves In 25 states.
I tlon, suys the manifesto, would estah-
I lish “Asiatic absolutism” in Spain,
I wreck all progress and return the
■ country to the tyranny of Clmrles'.V,
In comment the dictator suld: "The
! dictatorship Is not losing Its serenity
und Is continuing to he assured of sup
port by the larger part of public opin
ion. I will not nhnndon power until
I am sure of giving the country an
ample juridical base to support the
new regime.” . ...,.
T HOSE persistent revolutionists In
Vel
and the Taylor-Neill law carrying a
map defining the state system.
The six cent gasoline tax law car
ries an allocation to counties of one
cent a gallon, to educational equali
zation one cent a gallon double the
most conservative allocation of the 1 former allocation), and four cents to
state’s 1930 and 1931 revenue which tbe state roads - Tbe senate has put
the appropriations committee could I 011 what is . termed a saving clause,
possibly have worked out, and yet I which P rovided in event of whether
which went around a million and a | tlle eoanty allocation or the school
half a year at least over the then : allocalion bt ‘ in K held illegal by the
prospective revenue, found upon pas- ' tourts > other distribution be made of
sage of the sales tax bill the I tbat * ,art of tbe funds. In other
with which the appropriations as 1 wolds ’ if the cent to schools be il-
process of minor adjustments
tween the two branches are all in
eil out, as it seems they will bn
final net result of the 1929 se ,
will undoubtedly be quite a con
ous legislative success.
666
is a Prescription fur
Cold*, Grippe, Flu, Dem
Biliou* Fever and Mali...
It is the most speedy remedy know
STATE BUDGET BILL IS
GIVEN BIG MAJORf
J^OUIS BLEltlOT, tbe French pilot
’enezuela got hold of nn old Her
mnn steamer nnd to the number of 400
landed under cover of darkness nnd
attacked the important city of Cu-
niann. The government forces defend
ed the place vigorously nnd repulsed
the nttnekers, though their command
er, Gen. Emilio Fernandez, was killed.
The ensunltles were heavy und the
fight lasted four hours, coming to an
end when a government airplane ap
peared nnd attacked the rebels with
machine gun fire und bombs. Presi
dent Gomez was not unduly alarmed
but scut three vessels loaded with
C ONSIDERABLE fun has been
poked by the unthinking nt the
proposals to reform the calendar. But
the nntionnl committee on calendar
simplification has just reported to
Secretary of State Stimson that there
Is nation-wide Interest nnd widespread
approval of the plan. The report,
made by Chairman George Eastman,
the camera manufacturer, is intended
for Mr. Stlmson’s use in preparing n
reply to nn Inquiry’ from the leugue
of nations, which contemplates calling
an International calendar conference
if enough nations ngree to participate.
“The Inconveniences which the pres
ent calendar’s defects Impose," says
the report, “have multiplied with the
progress of civilization, nnd conspic
uously so during the rapid economic
expansion of the last hundred yeurs.
They are being felt more and more.
A defect which has grown to be a cause
of very serious Inconvenience Is the
splitting of weeks nt the beginning
nnd end of months nnd years. The
lack of comparability between cor
responding divisions of the year, par
ticularly ns to the months. Is one of
the most serious Inconveniences. It
makes inaccurate nnd deceptive n
most Important Instrument used by nil
the organized agencies of civilization
to measure progress ami control their
activities—1. e.: statistical data.”
who made the first flight across
the English channel, has perfected de
signs for a new type of airplane that
can he automatically converted Into
a lifeboat In case of a forced landing
at sea, and he says that It will carry
: passengers between Purls and New
I York In 24 hours.
j Future traffic between the contl
( nents will be carried on In neither Zep-
j pellus nor hydroplanes, hut In large j
land planes, according to the Frencli-
| man, who Is at present collaborating
j with the Armstrong company of the
United States for the establishment of
a regulnr air line between Gotham
1 and Paris. The Armstrong concern
, already has begun tbe construction of
a scries of ocean airports stretching
1 across the Atlantic, concerning which
much has been printed heretofore.
troops to try to capture the “pirate” i
steamer. j CTRLET car strikers of New Orleans
^ and their sympathizers stormed
the city ball and beat up Acting Mayor
Wnlmsley and four councilman and
then engaged In n general fight with
made could be paid. In other words,
the membership generally concedes
now that there will be no deficit but
what now is a bring-over deficit will
be liquidated.
It was these two questions, and
these two only, which threatened an
extra session. So far as the House is
concerned they have both been Solv
ed.
*Those measures now are in the
Senate, and Monday morning the ap
propriations committee in that body-
will take up its work on the general
money bill. It is Chairman Redwine’s
purposes, he states to get the com
mittee work completed in the short
est possible time, and to report the
bill back to the Senate for final ac
tion by Wednesday, and if it is’found
possible before that time.
At the same time the Finance
Committee will be called by Chair
man Lankford Monday to tuke up
and digest the gross sales tax as sent
over by the House. Indications are
now that this bill will be reported to
the Senate Tuesday.
So far as could be learned Satur
day there is prospect of little differ
ences of opinion on these major meas
ures. There is some talk of an effort
in the Senate to reduce the appro
priations to all A. & M. schools to
the original figure of former years
that is $15,000 each, and yet the pos
sibility that such a cut might bring
confusion with the majority member
ship of the house may cause some
form of harmonizing plan to work
out. A few major changes made in
the house in its work on the money
bill are expected to find restoration
legal, that shall go into the general !
treasury. If the cent to counties be
held illegal it shall revert to the
state highways.
Another piece of highway legisla
tion through both branches is the
provision that in any case where a
county or a municipality refuse to
pay the gasoline tax as required by
law that county shall not participate
in the distribution of the fiuida Al
located to counties.
The Traylor-Neill may law is in
compliance with the suggestion
made by the chief of the federal bu-
reau of roads; that is a stabilizator | ‘ ,ays aK ° tbe ^ ey bl11
of the state system, and legalizator
of what are state highways. It re-es
tablished that mileage knocked out
Atlunta, Aug. 16.—Displaying
complete change of front, the hoa
passed thegeneral appropriation
and the Key gross sales tax mea:
both of which had been defeated
the first ballot. Favorable action
the two bills, house leaders
went far toward clearing the a
spher of suspense that has pervadi
legislative chambers for the
few days.
The budget measure, turned do-
Thursday by seven votes and
considered Friday, was held over
til the afternoon session to pern
passage of the sales tax bill,
was declared by its sponsors to
the principal means at hand
meeting appropriations for the
two years’. The Key bill was appr
ed by 115 to 66 after three hours'
bate, while the aproprlations
went through, 148 to 22, in ex:
the same form as it was voted di
Thuisday. It calls for a total ex;
diture of approximately $12,500,1
for each of the years 1930 1931
The fact that the sales tax mi
ure had been rejected previously
the house gave rise Friday to a
plicated parliamentary situai
when discussion reopened, bur:
first consideration of the issue
was repi
by a measure known as the l’eter
substitute, which also was
down and later reconsidered.
S ECRETARY OF STATE STIMSON
announces that President Hoover
i Is highly plensed with the progress
made In negotiations between the
: United States and Great Britain on
v the question of naval armament re.
DBACE negotiations nt Munehouli be-
1 tween the Chinese nnd Russians
ware broken off, according to rather
indefinite dispatches from the Orient,
und tbe Manchurian situation again be
came threatening. Tokyo reports said
there had been n skirmish on the
heights west of Munehouli nnd that
three Russian gunboats had landed
troops In three Chinese villages on
the Amur river. Store Soviet citizens
were arrested In Manchuria nnd some
of them deported, and In Harbin the
Russian White Guards were believed
to be organizing nn antl-Jewish po
grom. The Chinese government sent
word to Moscow that It would bo
forced to take retaliatory meusures
unless It received assurances that the
Soviet firing at Sulfen would not he
repeated. The Soviet government an
nounced the formation of a “far east
ern" nrmy in view of the threatening
conditions on the frontier.
the police In the course of which four
men were shot. The nttnek was made
while 200 union men were meeting
with the council to demand the con
tinuance of bus nud jitney cub opera
tion.
P'EDERAL Judge Morris In Wllmlng-
'T'HE tenth annlversnry of the Wei
mar constitution of tbe German
republic was celebrated with great en
thusiasm in Berlin, und by dint of tak-
ton, Del., banded down a judgment
ngalnst the Radio Corporation of
Americn in a suit over patent rights
Two of the beneficiaries are Francis
W. Dunmore, a government employee
In the bureau of standards, Washing
ton, D. C., and Perclvnl D. Lowell a
former bureau of standards employee
nnd nt present employed by a radio
manufacturing company. The Dubll
ier Condenser corporation of New
York Is the third beneficiary.
According to William Dataller of
the condenser corporation the suit
will affect every manufacturer nmk-
in the Senate as, for instance, the
heavy reduction made in the fund for
operation of the state oil inspection
department, which was reduced
about $21,000. Arguments since have
been advanced to show that this will
most likely mean a considerable loss
m income to both the highway fund
und the school equalization fund. An
other cut made by the house was
$50,000 in maintenance fund of the
bureau of markets, or just one-half
of the amount which the original bill
carried. Indications are that this will
be restored by the senate at least in
major part. Similar action is expect
ed in the matter of the maintenance
fund for the printing department and
for the geological department.
In respect to the sales
which is to be the
by the supreme court last year, and
also provides the method by which
counties may have aditional mileage
certified into the state system in
stead of leaving certification of addi
tional mileage, as under the old law,
in the absolute control of the High
way Board.
Another highway bill is the one
which prohibits counties of the state
having to match federal and state
funds in order to get highway con
struction through the counties of
the state system. This, it was
Several members raised die
Friday that the entire procedure
resuming debate on the Key bill
out of order, but Speaker Ru;
ruled that the Peterson measure
become the original bill by virtue
the reconsideration, and that tin
plan in turn was a substitute for
Peterson proposal.
Representative Key’s bill, as
adopted, provides for levy of a
of one-half mill on manufactun
one mill on gross retail sales and
receipts of wholesale merchant-
mills on public amusements and
brought out, is to prevent continua
tion of the unimproved links through j md ' s on public utilities. The or:,
the smaller or poorer counties, and to P rovision for an annual exempt
make provision that will require | $12,000 was amended to nia ’ €
completion of continuous state roads ^sure $30,000. The mileage pcae
regardless of ability of counties to i scribed is Practically the same
participate under the old plan.
Two other bills of importance
which have gone through the senate
but not in the house yet, are the
Platt bill by his own substitute
which revamps important features
of highway department organization
and the Mathews bill, which adds
features to the Platt bill and clarifies
the present highway organization
laws.
tax bill,
major revenue
producer as well as the source of
emergency revenue, there are to be
some necessary changes. As it passed
the house bill provides that it shall
Ing radio sets with electric light sock- i he operated through the “state tax
et attachment nnd will involve al j commission. That was a contemnla-
least $20,900,000 In back royalties. t iv e provision. No such
In respect to future tax reform the
passage by hoth Houses of the Boy
kin statutory income tax bill will
class as one of these. This provides
for payment to the state of an
amount of income tax collected in
the state by the federal government
and carries exemptions to the feder
al law. «
' The Lankford constitutional
amendment authorizing an income
tax known as a net income tax, has
passed the Senate and is in the
House. w
The gross sales tax, which is limit-
that offered by Representative
tower, Upson, to amend the bill
it first came up for floor di.-cu:
Two other amendments by R e P re
tative Davis, Mitchell, exemp
fertilizers and livestock from the
were adopted.
Other exemptions include
products sold directly by the pr
er, insurance companies already
ing a premium tax, mutual
banks, charitable organizations
ternal and benefit societies and
non-profit organizations.
Another substitute offered
Representative Logan, Bank
to impose a “luxury tax.” R
for a 10 per cent levy on soft
candy, cosmetics, chewing gw"'
arms, fishing tackle and all
amusements, but was voted do* 11
acclamation. No ballot was taken
the Peterson plan, which P r °P°'_
two per cent tax on public a" 11
as adoption of the Key bill aU ' 1 _
ically eliminated the former i' iea
TRAVl
ed to Dec. 31, 1931, and is but a tern- j THE RIGHT WAV TO
porary measure, also is the class of , i, by train. The safest. Most
tax reform legislation. It will be a i fortable. Most reliable. Costs
commission
test of raising revenue from a new! Inquire of Ticket Agents reg'
aid
rs of trial j greatly reduced fares lor
Lvill 1,0 fnl. I CnilTllPDM BATT.WAY -* S
field and, if its two years
work out, it undoubtedly will be fol- * ioUTHERN RAILWAY