Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11

UNITED STATES-Responsive to a
letter addressed by President Hoover to
Representative Tilson, which letter Mr..
TuSon read to the House, with COM
rnent importing his belief that President
Hoover would veto the tariff bill should
1t be submitted to him for signature en-
bodying the items especially obnoxious
to him, on May the House voted down,
231 to 161, the Senate amendment pro-
posing the farm debenture plan, and by
236 to 154 voted down the Senate
amendment which would repeal the
Presidents power under the existing law
to change duties fixed by Congress.
On May the Senate, Al to 80, re-
Jected the nomination of Judge John j.
Parker to be associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court. Thirty
six years had gone by since similar Sen
ate action.
On May o the President nominated
Owen j. Roberts, distinguished Phila-
delphia lawyer, to fill the vacant seat.
On May an agreement under which
the debt of the Austrian government to
our Government Is to be funded over 40
years was signed at Washington. The
total principal is $24.000,o00.
The work is nearly completed of
dredging the Hudson for 80 miles below
Albany so as to provide channel at
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all the way up the Hudson to the State
Capital, deep enough to admit 80 per
cent OF ocean-going craft and making
OF Albany an ocean port. The dredging
has taken four years at a cost to the
Federal Government of $11 200 900. The
tremendous economic consequences to
be expected are too obvious to require
recital. No Winter obstruction to
trahc Gas hitherto to river steamers
fAys
Is expected for the future. With only
slight assistance from ice breakers, the
heavy tramps should maintain an open
channel. The distance from Albany to
open sea is 100 miles. The city has
already constructed on grand scale
TO deal with the new traffic in promise.
Similar work has secured similar adj
vantages to Portland Greg. Q13 miles
from the Pacific; Houston so miles
from the Gulf of Mexico; New Orleans
Clio miles from the mouth of the Mis-
sissippD, and Montreal. 1t is now pro-
posed to extend similar blessings to
Richmond, Va, by dredging the James.
Don't forget that from Albany to
Lake Ontario by the barge canal is only
100 miles and that the aggregate length
OF the Great Lakes is about half that
OF the Mediterranean.
NOTES-In June Iceland will cele-
brate the millennium Of its Althing, or
Parliament
On May 4, with the arrival at AL
gters Of President Doumergue of France,
there began a series of magnificent
celebrations of the one hundredth an
niversary of the establishment Of the
French colony Of Algeria.
The three-cornered Hungarian-Ru-
man1an- Czechoslovak controversy left
unsettled by the Hague conference, but
settlement Of which was necessary to
give full effect to the decisions of that
conference, has at last been settled in
a conference at Paris of representatives
OF the three powers. Each of those
powers claim moral victory" The
expression "optants' claims" already
has bank and sepulchral bouquet. The
little entente holds out the olive branch
to Hungary, and Premier Bethlen smiles
The millennium advances
apace.
After five weeks of hectic discussion,
the negotiations in London between
of the British and Egyp-
tian governments (the latter including
Nahas Pasha, the Egyptian premier)
ended on May in failure. The Egyp-
tians demanded more, especially as re-
CARDS the Sudan, than the British
government offered in their draft treaty
to Cairo last August; appar-
entity they even demanded restoration
Of Egyptian sovereignty over the STU
dan, and this q course could not be