Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-28

wholly Objectionable to the admins
tration and was promptly vetoed, part
ly because it granted compensation for
disabilities not incurred in active serv-
ice and partly because it went beyond
the financial necessities of the Situa-
ton" The House sustained the veto,
but the Senate repasSed the bill with
some amendments. These were re-
jected by the Representatives, and a
measure fairly acceptable to the ad-
ministration was passed and signed. 1t
inaugurated vast pension system for
all partly or wholly disabled veterans
not already receiving compensation, nc
matter what their illness or when con-
tracted Soon after the enactment OF
this law the President put into effect
the consolidation of the three bureaus
that had been in charge of veterans
of all wars and appointed Gen. Frank
T. Hines as chief.
Some of the recommendations of the
Wickersham Law Enforcement Com
mission were adopted by Congress, the
most important being the transfer OF
the Prohibition Bureau from the Treas
ury to the Department of Justice. The
change was made on July /. Col. Amos
w. w. Woodcock took command of the
new bureau, and former Commissioner
James NJ. DOran was made head of a
new industrial alcohol bureau under
the Treasury Department.
When william Howard Taft resigned
as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
on February 3, only five days before
his death, President Hoover immediate
ly named Charles Evans Hughes to sue
coed him. The appointment was con-
f1rmed by the Senate with &c votes in
opposition. Then Associate Justice Ed
ward Terry Sanford passed away, and
Mr.. Hoover picked Federal Judge John
j. Parker of North Carolina to fill the
vacancy. Labor and colored organiza-
tons rose in opposition, and the Senate
rejected the nomination by a vote of
Al to SO. The President then named
owen ]. Roberts for the place, and
he was accepted.
Prohibition and the Election.
Prohibition as a political issue in
creased in importance as the months
passed. A poll conducted by the Lit
erary Digest indicated that the coun-
try was largely in favor of repeal Of
the eighteenth amendment or at least
of modification of the enforcement law.
The liquor question was great factor
in the prediction campaign in many
States and had a decided effect on the
results when the people went to the
polls on November 4. The voters of
Illinois, Rhode Island and Massachu-
sets in a referendum were against pro-
hibition by large majorities.
The election turned out to be very
much Of a landslide for the Democratic
party. The Republican majorities in
both Senate and House were almost
wiped out for the next Congress, and
many States and cities elected Demo-
cratic officials to replace Republicans.
With large appropriations available,
the Farm Board worked for the relief
of agriculture by promoting and flnanc-
ing various co-operativeS; and later In
the year undertook, with some success,
to stabilize the price of wheat, which
had fallen rapidly in all world markets.
In this latter operation the board was
forced to accumulate something like
100 000, 900 bushels of wheat, the future
disposal Of which was an unsolved
problem.
Diplomatic Posts Filled.
Among the diplomatic appointments
by the President were Ralph H. Booth
Minister to Denmark; Fred M. Dear
ing, Ambassador to Peru; John N.
WHY'S, Ambassador to Poland; Han
ford w. MacNider, Minister to Can
ada; w. Cameron Forbes, Ambassador
to Japan; w. M. Jardine, Minister to
Egypt; Herman Bernstein, Minister to
Albania; Nicholas Roosevelt, Minister
to Hungary, and J. Reuben Clark, jr,
Ambassador to Mexico.
Taking of the fifteenth decennial
census began on April 2. The final
figures, announced in November, gave
the population of the United States
as 122,775,046. The increase for the
decade was about 1871 per cent.
On November 20, President Hoover
appointed william N. Doak of Virginia,
Secretary of Labor, to succeed James
j. Davis, who had been elected Senator
from Pennsylvania.