The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-05-17


tary procedure and
for four years he was
s# Isl parliamentarian of the
lower house. His
plan is to rewrite rule
10 of the senate rules
to include the President and so pro-
tect him from unwarranted attacks
and ISLANDERS. That rule reads at
present:
mo senator in debate shall, direct
ly or indirectly, by any form of words
impute to another senator or to other
senator's any conduct or motive I'M
worthy. or unbecoming senator"
One of Longs favorite ways of
launching his diatribes is to rise to q
question of personal privilege, and
Clark proposes that in this respect the
senate rules be changed to conform
with those of the house. In that body
when a member feels he has been ag-
grieved ne must explain exactly how
he has been injured before he is per-
mitted to speak. The speaker decides
whether or not his injury is justified.
Senator Glass of Virginia has failed
at various times to silence the king
fish" and he, too, has plan he thinks
might help accomplish that end. He
recommends requirement that all
amendments offered to an appropria-
ton bill be germane. Such a require
ment would affect other senator's, but
Glass move admittedly is directed
against Long.
VUGOSLAVIA'S dictatorship will
be continued and enlarged, for
Premier Yevtitch's government party
won a sweeping victory at the polls;
this, despite the fact that the small
towns and villages of Croatia gave an
overwhelming vote for the opposition
leader, DIR. Vladimir Matchek.
TN THE name of 100000 Knights of
L Columbus, Martin FL. Carmody, SUI
preme knight of the order, has sent to
President Roosevelt a letter urging
American diplomatic Intervention on
behalf of Catholics in Mexico. The
matter has been up in congress at va
rious times but quite naturally the adj
ministration is hesitant about interfer-
ing in what Mexico considers domes-
tic affair.
CECRETARY ICKES' Department of
- the Interior has now been elevated
to the level of the State, Treasury and
Agriculture departments, for congress
has granted one of Harold's dearest
wishes and given him an undersecre-
tary, whose salary is to be $1O,OOO q
wear. This was a senate amendment to
the Interior department appropriation
bill, and was accepted by the house,
243 to 90, only after considerable pres
sure had been applied by the admins
tration. Many of the house Democrats
have asserted that Mr.. Ickes snubbed
them, and they would have liked moth
ing better than to administer a rebuke
to him by defeating the amendment,
but the party leaders drove them into
line.
DOLCE of Havana apparently are
L we'll on the way to solution of the
mystery of the fire which destroyed
the Ward liner MORO Castle, and other
recent marine disasters. They have ar
rested three men, all natives of Cata-
Ian province in Spain, and say that
they found on their persons letters of
instructions concerning the destruction
of the steamship Magallanes of the
Spanish line, which was soon due in
Havana. The documents, according to
the authorities, ordered the accused to
stake necessary action to precipitate
disaster similar to that of the MORO
Castle" The police say the prisoners
are well-known anarchists.
FOREIGN MINISTER PIERRE La
VAL of France and Ambassador
POtemkin of Russia finally fixed up
the mutual assistance pact between
the two countries in a way acceptable
to both and it was signed in Paris.
NJ. Laval then prepared to leave for
Moscow, planning to stop in Warsaw
en- route.
1t would seem that Laval had his
way with the treaty, for 1t subordi-
mates military action of the two powers
TO the procedure of the League of Ma
tons. to provisions of the Locarno
pact and also to the Franco-Polish alli-
ance.
TEXANS are going to have the OPP
portunity of deciding whether their
state shall remain dry or fall into line
with most other states and repeal the
prohibition law. The legislature has
voted to submit the question to popular
action.
Under the resolution adopted the
vote would be held next August "a.
Regulation would be left to the legis-
lature and at the general election In
1886. vote would be taken on man.
datory state monopoly over sales Of
hard liquor.
4 RIZONA'S victory over the govern
\ ment in the Parker dam case
ruled on by the Supreme court alarmed
the New Dealers for the safety of
some of their other big projects of the
same nature. The court decided that
Secretary Ickes. as public works adj
ministrator, was without authority to
dam navigable rivers unless specifically
ordered by congress and that the law
creating the PWA had not listed any
such specific projects as the Parker