FOLLOWING NEWS AT THE CAPITAL
Mobley, Radford E.
Following News At the Capital Need Organization A Whitewash Job Man in Green Hat Bonner's Statement By RADFORD E. MOBLET WASHINGTON, D. C—Fmally forced to take recognition of the acute...
...official, that the shale oil resources of the United States were graV ually being turned over for private exploitation...
...A national organization similar to that set...
...It is already indicated that it would be more proper for congress to look into these very serious charga6...
...S. D...
...If the administration is luck-as in 1921...
...STIMSON'S ERROR The Hoover administration found itself in a muddle last week over it attitude toward the Brazilian revolu -tion...
...No sooner than the White Hous ordered an embargo on arms sales t the rebels, the government was over thrown and the revolutionaries cam into power...
...legislation during the past congress...
...The administration's chief handicap in the work is lack of an established federal organization to meet such emergencies...
...After this first finger-burning episode, however...
...THE Oil CHARGES The department of justice last week did a neat whitewashing job of the department of the interior, exoneratin^lt of any blame in connection with^B...
...Thus the government to which the United States was lending a hand passed from the picture...
...Several bills creating unemployment bureaus and outlining a relief program weTe offered in the last session of congress...
...The burden will rest, of course, with the states and individual communities, and the publicity as to how many jot* have been provided will come from Washington...
...DEFENDS HOOVER The National Popular Govemmen...
...There has been so much) token money piled on that 22 foot foundation that it takes all the solid property of the people to keep the mass from tumbling over and that is the cause r •' the vast sums of interest money that I being paid out bj •'-<• peop'f.—R...
...This view is taken r spite of the fact that congress has ap propriated funds for development of th same stream...
...If It isn't, it : going to have to shoulder a jot c criticism for failing to pass adequE...
...up in 1921 has been established...
...It states that the administration ha "evaded and mutilated" every proviso of the federal Water Power act...
...charges of Ralph Kelley, resigned TR-partment...
...Following News At the Capital Need Organization A Whitewash Job Man in Green Hat Bonner's Statement By RADFORD E. MOBLET WASHINGTON, D. C—Fmally forced to take recognition of the acute unemployment condition, especially in the industrial centers of the country, the administration has undertaken a relief program to carry over the thousands of jobless until spring...
...The American ambassador, scenting danger in the situation, wired Washington to be careful in dealing with the new leaders, pointing out that they were responsible men...
...There is consxierab...
...As a consequeno Great Britain and other nations may g< the jump on the United States in «= = tablishing favorable commercial rel* Hons with Brazil...
...President Hoover has declared emphatically that he will not call a special session of congTess to appropriate additional funds for public buildings and highways, the chipf method advanced for creating new Jobs...
...the trouble may dissipat--within a few months...
...however, that the Virginia star commission waived Its jurisdiction h. the case some time before Bonner's statement was made...
...Oct, ST.]—Although I: not from Missouri...
...It builds up its caste support the charge...
...I "have yet to b-showtt that W. H. Harvey and Willis-" Jennings Bryan were wrong back tn th -90's on the silver issue...
...Th most recent instance is the Mitchs ruling, in which the department of justice assumes that a Virginia stream wit important, power resources is non-nav: gable and therefore not subject to lea eral jurisdiction...
...new government...
...said tie licensing of power sites should be left f> the state of Virginia...
...For one department to whitewash another in the same administration is to be expected, in view of what has occurred in the past...
...An investigatie:-shows...
...F. E. Bonner, the commission's hand-picked executive secretarv...
...League in a statement here recectl flatly charges that the Hoover admtr.-istration is trying to wreck federal control over public utilities engaging in interstate operation...
...In a series of articles the Capitol bootlegger concludes that four out of five congressmen drink, and that violation of the liquor laws under the tol dome is an everyday occurreiBi Leading officials here, including th-distriet attorney who prosecuted th-' Man in the Green Hat, confirm h. statement to a great extent...
...At that...
...time, however, the administration was too busy denying that anything was wrong to give consideration to such legislation...
...The responsibility for this rests squarely with the White House...
...Secretary Stimson is going very slowly in recognizing th...
...Pontl...
...At that tira -all the world's gold if cast into a bloci would have been a 22 foot cube—rather a small amount for three and a half billion people to use for a medium of exchange...
...BOOTLEGGER TO CONGRESS Washington is being stirred by a prohibition expose by the "Man in the Green Hat," alleged bootlegger to congress, in which he discusses his ten-year commercial activities on Capitol Hill...
...Whethrr Senator Nye and members of the public lands committee In the senate, famous for prying into the Teapot Dome steal, wiil consider this sufficient, remains to be seen...
...gossip here over the incident in vitas a specialist in South American si-fairs...
...The ruling implies tha congress can spend money to deve!*-' the stream but the power commispir-cannot prevent the power trust frc-putting in power plants wherever i: wants to...
...THINKS BRYAN WAS RIGHT [Nemo...
Vol. 1 • November 1930 • No. 48
