FOLLOWING NEWS AT THE CAPITAL
Mobley, Radford E.
Following News At the Capital Hoover's Speechifying Russian Recognition New V. R. R. Head Senator in Rum Mixup. By RADFORD E. MOBLEY WASHINGTON, D. C—Tl. ; y expects the reaction to P it...
...Jones Involved in Trial FROM Seattle little news of the cur ous manner in which .Wesley, Jones has become involved in a rum conspiracy trial has seeped yvrough to the states east of the Mississippi...
...ed precedents with disastrous effect i the Republican regulars, and some pr fess to see 1930 as one of those years...
...ers because of the tariff, no such thi...
...a Dakota farmer can ship 1 | flax to New York and undersell imp...
...Washington is not regarded as hoi, ing...
...They ar& Reps...
...Yet two weeks have elapsed witho action...
...ted for one route and two for the oti cr...
...ordinarily, much hope for a De:1 ocrat of whatever ability...
...gress is not being discounted...
...companies, is being awaited with k; interest here...
...Admission that hv-# a doubtful state has recently been broadcast by Mark Sullivan, one of the more expert of the tossers of the Presidential Medicine ball...
...The result of the numer"> conferences be.rind the scenes, in ; effort to "take care'' of disgrunt...
...Hoover that it buried its most famous modern leader, Senator Simmons, in the debris of the landslide...
...North Carolina has just turned so radically from Mr...
...One thing that a good many wes ern members of congress want explai' ed to them when congress reconvert is why the much-heralded tariff on f...
...is not effective...
...Senator Burton Wheeler's statement on his return from that court, try that it is silly and unprofitable to defer recognition further was not unexpected...
...In Ohio a wet Democratic senatorial candidate is pressing the issue hard upon the dry incumbent, Senator McCul-loch, a far from formidable opponent under any conditions...
...Johnson...
...Instead of withholding Young's resignation to give Piatt time to withdraw gracefully, however, the almost formal statement came from the White House that "legal difficulties" in Meyer's way would be removed...
...The significant fact that Ohio is the first on the itinerary appears to confirm growing reports of Republican distress, in that quarter...
...Sentiment Growing SENTIMENT for recognition of Soviet Russia gains ground surely among the political leaders of the . country...
...R: Burtness...
...In occasto" years, however, the minority has smas...
...Miller and Hadley...
...In Massachusetts the chief political issue apparently is a contest in wet content between the two major parties...
...Both are New Yorkers and Meyer consequently could not be named with Piatt on the board...
...Vice Governor Piatt, a board member or fair ability and with a record of hard work behind him, was railroaded into a private job to make room for Meyer...
...The strong intimation that Senator Barkley of Kentucky feels the same way was a surprise, however...
...For one thing, it ls regarded as no sign that the ineptitude of Mr...
...Since it is estimated th | a score or more western votes were pi" stmded to the Smoot-Hawley bill flax and its possibility as an itv-tr producer for the farmer, this co is naturally causing deep rescr.i * * * Air Contracts Held I'p POSTMASTER GENERAL WA -BROWN is taking ever, more tiv: than it was predicted he won: take, in awarding the contracts for t'-two new transcontinental lines...
...and that, any way, he is only going to state his justification of the works of his administration...
...One of them...
...Hoover's advisers is decreasing, that he selected Ohio, Massachusetts, and North Carolina in which to deliver the highly publicized addresses...
...Of all the larger eastern papers papers, only The Baltimore Sun...
...all either chairmen or members of high-" important house committees...
...Piatt resigned two days later and that afternoon Meyer was appointed...
...nt pre-election development of the year...
...Few persons here, however, underestimate the Importance of these developments...
...An Amateurish Appointment NOMINATION of Eugene Meyer to be head of the federal reserve as Roy A. Young's successor has met general approval, but an interesting fight will develop when his name is submitted to the senate in December...
...y expects the reaction to P it Hoover's' four-sided , r speechifying to be the most gig...
...cally...
...It is generally expected that Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico |riil recommend recognition in strong tefcrrts when in turn arrives here from a Trip to that country...
...And there are not many of these observers who are willing to forecast any very favorable reception of them over the country as a whole...
...which assigned a special correspondent to the trial, has carried adequate stories...
...as a "radical" under ordinary cireu'.i stances, took advantage of a lunchfs engagement with Chairman Legge the farm board this week, to place case before him...
...North Dakota, not regard...
...It is hardly to be c pected that the board can do much the matter, however, and it is expec: a lively Issue will be made of the • effectiveness ofxthe flax tariff this w j ter...
...As a r suit of his requirement of six monti 250 miles, night flying for a compai to qualify, only one bid was subm...
...i is happening...
...Although the latter will not definitely commit himself on the matter, his obvious admiration of certain features of the Soviet regime left no other inference...
...More interesting than the appointment, however, was the amazingly amateurish manner in which it was made possible...
...Each of the speeches, on the other hand, is calculated to aid weak spots in senatorial and congressional candidacies for November, It is conceded...
...Although Jones himself is not a candidate this year, the effect of the trial evidence on yie candidacies of three prominent dry members of con...
...Despite the fact that, theorv...
...The president's advisers" contend that this makes no difference, that he is aiming at the country over the radio and does not care what his local reception is...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 41
