Evening star., 1926-03-28
Current News Events
Summary of Important National, Foreign
and Local Affairs Specially Arranged
for the Convenience of Students.

that the American people had Il right
to know the facts about Europe, ana
that Mr. Houghton's views, as eX-
pressed in the press, were correct
The Senate's investigation of the
tariff commission started last week
with two of the commission former
chairmen on the stand. DR. frank
w. Taussig. first chairman OF that
body. declared recent appointments
to the commission have been made
without regard to ability, tfalnlpi5
or oDen mindedness; that the hex
ible provisions Of the tariff law We're
serving no useful purpose ana lhal
the commission should be non-par-
tisan rather than bipartisan or
partisan. Another chairman of the
commission, Thomas w. Page, tolI
the committee that the flexible tarlh
provisions of the law should be re-
neaIed He insisted that the pres
ence of these provisions was a con
stant menace to business, when dld
not know when a change in the tarlh
duties might be initiated
On Tuesday the House is expected
to act on five articles of impeach-
ment against Federal Judge GeofEe
w. English of the Eastern Illinois
Judiciary Committee last week. The
articles charge abuse of power, I'M
proper conduct, corruption ana Tyr
amy. The Judiciary committee also
submitted a minority report Whlch
held that the evidence on when lhe
charges are based is insufficient.
Political.
James ]. Davis, Secretary of Labor,
has declined to enter the race IN
Pennsylvania for the sovernorshlp
of that State, preferring, he says 10
remain in the cabinet at Washington.
II was earlv taught i'll the school" he
said. A'of sticking to the job and re-
specting ones chief. The President
has expressed to me his sincere graft
fCation with my services and his WISE
that | remain with him in his caDl.
net One can receive no greater rec
ognftion."
Another woman has entered race
for the United States Senate-MisSi
Florence Allen, a justice of the Su-
preme Court of Ohio, the only woman
member of such a court in the United
States. She will oppose, 1t is stated,
Senator Frank B. Willis, who Is up
for reelection to the Senate this Fail.
flee in the Spring primaries. In ad-
ditlon to Justice Aliens fight for the
Senate nomination. another woman,
Mrs Evelyn Frances Snow, has Ell
tered the guh arnatorial race in Ohio.
Her oniv other State office was a
place on the State board of motion
picture censorship. Sixteen women
are running for places in the lower
house of the State Legislature in
Illinois: Iowa has one woman Candi-
date for the State Legislature; Ne
braslla two. and Indiana six.
Senator Peter Norbeck of South
Dakota won the Republican nomina-
,tion for United States Senate to sue
ceed himself in the South Dakota
primaries held last week. Senator
NOrbeck came to the Senate in 1920,
after serving . term as governor Of
his State. Before entering politics he
was a Well driller
Economic.
The question of war debts continues
to disturb foreign capitals, while
Washington declines to change its
policy. Winston Churchill, chancellor
of the British exchequer, and Phillip
Snowden, former chancellor, attacked
the debt settlements in the House of
Commons last week and declared that
the United States was responsible for
the debt difficulties by refusing to can
eel foreign obligations. The attacks
only drew a smile from Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon, who reiterated
his former statements that such a
thing as debt cancellation was i'm
practicable SO far as this country is
concerned or fair to American bond
holders. Senator Smoot, addressing
the Senate, defended the Italian debt
settlement. He asked the Senators
not to make "a political foot ball out
Of the debt settlements"
Secretary Of Commerce Hoover
sounded a real appeal and painted a
graphic picture of the automobile
traffic problem when he opened the
annual sessions last week of the Ma
tional Conference on Street and High
way Safety. He estimated there are
more than 5000 persons now living
who would have been dead except for
the heroic measures taken last year
by bodies allied with the conference to
protect human life and property. He
outlined the purpose of the conference
as being an effort to devise and recon-
mend measures which will reduce the
accidents in this country, which ac-
counted for the death Of %, 900 persons
last year and the injury Of approx
mately 100000.
While the new revenue law was ex-
pected to reduce tax receipts mate
rally, the Treasury has estimates
that receipts for March will be S435,-
000, 900 under the new law. This is an
increase of about S25 900 900 over the
receipts estimated some time ago
March receipts last year weres S441,-
s000, 900.