Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
BY HENRY w. BUM.

TINE following is brief summary
of the most important news of
the world for the seven days
ended March IS:
BRITISH EMPEROR March IL a
Conservative amendment to the govern
ment's coal bill was passed, 282 to 274,
the Conservatives and Liberals combin-
ing. A clause of the bill proposed a
general levy on coal mined, to provide
a subsidy for coal export. The amend
ment proposed elimination of this
clause. Mr.. Baldwin, leader of the OPP
position, now asked the premier, Mr..
Macdonald, whether he proposed to pro-
coed with the bill. This was the same
as asking whether he considered the
governments defeat on the amendment
equivalent to a vote Of censure and
would, therefore, resign. To which Mr..
Macdonald replied:
II am amazed at the question. The
right honorable gentleman will have an
opportunity, two days from now, to
move a vote OF censure. shall be very
glad to accommodate him by suggesting
that he make his vote of censure gen.
eral, and we will accept the decision.
But so far as the provision of the coal
bill which has just been defeated Is con-
cerned, it was an optional clause in the
measure. No essential change has been
made, so the government will ask the
House to 60 on with its work"
The government won by comfortable
majoritieS in ensuing votes on provisions
of the bill.
Having no desire to overthrow the
government at the present time only
wishing to keep 1t worried and to dis
credit 1t in detail, Mr.. Baldwin did not
take up the premier's challenge, but on
March 10 he moved a resolution of
censure against the government as re-
sponsible for existing trade uncertainty
and consequent depression, In that the
chancellor OF the exchequer refused to
disclose In advance Of his budget Ito be
presented in mid-ApriD what he pro-
safeguarding" duties, Chancellor
Snowden, in fine fettle, pointed ont
that only per cent of British were
employed in industries protected by the
| duties in question, and continued:
There are three main causes of the
present abnormal unemployment for
none of which the government is re-
sponsible. First, the overproduction Of
primary commodities. Second, the
American crash. Third, the late gov
eminent, which in five years inaction
damned up the process Of postwar
reconstruction"
The resolution was defeated, s0s to
| 235.
The world will watch with great in
terest the process Of the campaign of
civil disobedience proclaimed by
Mafatma Gandhi in India. It will be
recalled how In 1922, the Mahatma, in
vested by the Indian National Congress
with full powers to that end, launched
| a campaign of ''non-violent resistance u
which manifested itself by way of an
economic boycott on British goods and
| in non-participation In the Indian gov
eminent service, in the legislative coun-
ellis, and in the courts Ohe popular
name for the movement being mon
cooperation how, on March 10, 1922
the Mahatma was planted In quod by
the British government authorities and
how the movement languiShed and
| lapsed, the Mahatma Every well treated)
being released after about two years
| Conditions today seem rather less IA
yorable to success than those OF two
wears ago. The old alliance between
MoslemS and Hindus (due to the Brit
| ish attitude toward Turkey no longer
exists, its cause having vanished; the
memory of the Amritsar affair has
dimmed; economic conditions have bet
tered.
THE new campaign was formally opened
nv Candhi on the 18th at Ahmadabad
whence he led forth little army o
followers for q march to the Gulf o.
Cambay. It Is proposed to challenge thu
government home at Baroda, en- route
BY manufacturing salt In defiance OF TIT