Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09

, Of diplomatic relations with Russia and
that 1t will have enough support from
! the Liberal Left to make good on the
above. But 1t seems most unlikely that
| it will attempt out-and-out Socialistic
| legislation, except, possibly, nationalist
other storyD The indication is that it
will move warily in the field of do
nestle legislation, remembering that
only by good luck of distribution did
it achieve a plurality In the Commons
and that it lacks much of majority
of the popular suffrages, conciliating
confidence, having an eye to the goal
of majority in the next House Of
! Commons; in which event, an out-and-
out rip-snorting Socialist program or
not-probably not.
| I must invite particular attention to
| the Liberal showing. To be sure, 1t
fell considerably short of the hopes OF
Lloyd George and Sir Herbert Samuel
but Lord Birkenhead's merry gibe was
| far wide of the mark, namely, that
never was a political party so laxative
| at its own funeral"
| CHINA-On June l the body of Sun
Vat Sen wonderfully embalmed; It's
said decay need not be feared inside
! 1000 years. was conveyed with cere-
monial pomp from Peiping along the
magnificent new memorial highway
eight miles to its mausoleum on Purple
Mountain, overlooking the Yangtsze.
The great powers we're all numerouSly
represented, especially Japan, 10 distin-
guished Japanese attending. dressed to
the hilt
On June / Feng Yu Hsiang sent a
telegram to Marking making the Singu-
| lar proposal that to avert civil strife,
| he himself, Gen. HSi-Shan, governor of
Shansi (the model governor) and the
entire "Soong dynasty relinquish all
their posts and dignities and go into
voluntary exile from China, pledging
themselves to remain in exile for an
agreed term of years. BY the "Soong
dynasty" he meant T. v. Soong, finance
minister in the Marking government;
! Chang Kai-Shek, head of the Marking
!, government, married to sister of
Soong, and H. H. Kung, minister of
commerce in the Marking government,
married to sister of Soong. Another
sister of Soong is Nine. Sun Vat Sen,
widow of the hero.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
On June the House passed, 271 to 104
with only slight changes from the form
| in which it passed the Senate, the
combination bill providing for CEN
SuS in 1880 and for reapportionment of
the House. The bill is now in confer
ence. There had been danger of its
| defeat in the House because of two pro-
posed amendments of opposite bouquet,
one to exclude aliens from the census
count on which representation should
| be based, the other to exclude persons
legally entitled to the vote, but prac-
| tically diSfranchised q. E., Southern Ne
| groesD, from such count. After bitter
debate both amendments were thrown
| out.
The conferees of House and Senate
| reached agreement on the Farm Board
| bill after eliminating che debentWe
| plan, which the Senate voted into it.
The House has ratified the agreement
Brig. Gen. Herbert M. Lord, u. S. A.
retired has retired as director of the
budget, an Office he had held with
| conspicuous success since 1922
DR.. Hubert Work has resigned as
chairman of the Republican national
| committee.
THE EXPERTS CoMMITTEE.-On
| June 4 the last obstacle to completion
Of an agreement which all members
of the experts copmittee dealing with
the German reparations problem) would
sign fell with acceptance by the Belgian
| members, on behalf of their govern
ment, of a proposal from the German
| government of a Belgio-G German nego-
tiation, to begin Immediately, looking
to settlement of the veXed question in
the German marks foisted on Belgium
| by the German invaders lin which Ger
man marks were destined to become
worthless The committees report
recommends that It's proposals shall
not become effective n Tor to success
full issue Of this negotiation. The Ger