Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-05-19
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A feeling of citation swept thru
Washington when the commutation
of sentence in the Hawaiian man
slaughter case was announced. This
satisfaction was Immediately tenn
pered by a wide demand that the
stigma" of ever one hours i'm
prisonment must be removed by
a full pardon for the defendants.
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Despite the doubts Of other
leaders Senator Charles L. Nc
Nary, assistant Republican leader
Of the Senate, renewed his predic-
ton that the session of Congress
would end before the national con-
ventions. He said he had not given
up hope of adjournment June u,
which is two days before the Re-
publican convention opens at Chi
cago. Possibility of a prolonged
tariff fight in connection with the
tax bill is giving concern to Sena-
tor McNary. Senator Joseph T..
Robinson, Democratic leader, how
ever, has indicated he is skeptical
whether the session can be ended
by the time the Republican conven-
ton meets. Senator McNary in
dicated he would endeavor to have
sessions three nights a week.
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The sensational run made by
Speaker John N. Garner at the pre-
%ferential primary election in Cali
fornia gave the Roosevelt Presi-
Dental boom a setback even more
serious than the sweeping victory
won by Ex-Governor Smith against
Governor Roosevelt in the Massa-
chusetts primaries. Friends of Mr..
Roosevelt ha-~ admitted as much.
In some quarters unfriendly to
Governor Roosevelt as a candidate
the prediction was ventured that
his defeat in California would prove
a death blow to his Presidential as
pirations. This view, however, is
not generally shared in Democratic
circles in this city.
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Alfred E. Smith, who selected
John ]. Raskob as his national
chairman when he was the Demo-
cratic Presidential candidate in
1928, has appealed to the party to.
rid itself of the financial obligation
to Mr.. Raskob, which the party
has incurred since its defeat of
four years ago. He based his ap-
peal on the ground not only that
the party justly should pay Mr..
Raskob the some $4,000 which it
still owes him, but that it would
free itself from obligation to any
one individual so that it might
be able to function as an untram-
meled organization. He said he
made no plea for Mr.. Raskob per-
sonally.
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Once more reversing itself. the
Senate Finance Committee voted in
the 81, 000 100000 tax bill tariff
duties not only on oil and coal, as
the House did, but on lumber and
copper. This was done over the
protests of Senator Pat Harrison,
Democrat, of Mississippi, and 9TH
err tariff opponents. Decision to
put in the tariff items was reach
ed after numerous votes and a
series of maneuvers which the OPP
ponents of tariffs called log roll
ing. Senator Wesley l.. Jones, Re-
publican, Of Washington, led the
fights for the tariff rates.
100000
More than five hours of debate
on a bill providing for government
operation of Muscle Shoals was in
sufficient for the House to reach a
vote. This debate consisted of num-
erous short speeches, usually of a
bitter nature, with proponents of
government operation and oppon-
ents about equally divided. The
measure, introduced by Represen-
tative Hill of Alabama, provides
for operation Of the power projects
by a Muscle Shoals Board composed
of three memers.
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! 1t is the money handout type
of legislation for special groups
that has contributed most heavily
to the tremendous cost of running
the Federal Government. It is the
futility of efforts to curb this
mounting cost by cutting off SUBJ