The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-07-19

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Mr.. McCarl holds that the proviso
may be viewed as request" only
and a bid could not be rejected be-
cause the person making 1t refused to
subscribe to this principle.
The plan was advanced from the
procurement division of the treasury,
which proposed that the government
replace the requirement for code COM
pliance on all government bidders,
| knocked out when the recovery act
was voided by the Supreme court.
THROUGH the naval treaties OF
l. Washington and London have been
abrogated by Japan, the American gov
eminent still keeps Its eye on the max
imum permitted for our navy by 1912
and Is making a determined effort to
reach it, much to the delight of the
"big navy" men and to citizens gen.
orally who believe in adequate pre-
paredness.
Secretary Of the Navy Claude Swan
son has announced that ship con-
struction program has been decided
upon which calls for the construc-
ton Of IL destroyers and six sub
marines. These are in addition to the
Is destroyers and six submarines for
which bids have been advertised and
will be opened next month.
The airplane building program calls
for 555 new planes during the current
fiscal year. OF these, 2S2 will be re-
placement planes for those now in
service and 273 will be new craft. Two
airpIane carriers and six cruisers now
under construction and scheduled for
completion in 1887 are to house some
of the new planes.
FLOODS in several eastern states,
l. following torrential rains, took
about three score lives and did vast
property damage. The Finger lakes
and Catskill mountain regions in New
York suffered most severely. The
deaths there numbered forty, and thou
sands were rendered homeless. Gov.
Herbert Fl. Lehman announced an i'm
mediate ALLEGATION of 100000 for use
in rehabilitation.
NOBODY who knew Ray Long we'll
was surprised to hear that former
ly famous magazine editor had COM
mitted suicide at his California home.
In late years he had not been very
successful in business, his most recent
ventures being in the field of scenario
writing. He was not one to put up
with adversely very long, and it was
characteristic of him to take the easy
way out, of suicide.
CRITICS of the Presidents program
~ have made up their minds that he
is deliberately building up "crisis"
which will provide excuse for de-
mand for constitutional amendments
in the campaign of 1886. Their con-
viction was strengthened by Mr.. Roose.
velt's letter to Congressman Samuel
B. Hill, chairman of the interstate
commerce subcommittee, urging the
passage of the Guffey coal bill regard
less of doubts as to its constitution
ality.
President Roosevelt followed the sug-
gestion of Attorney General Cummings
that the legislation should be put
through congress because ''the situa-
ton is so urgent" and that the ques-
ton of constitutionality should be left
up to the courts.
The President, admitting that coal
mining is in itself an intrastate trans
action, nevertheless wrote that the
final test of the validity Of the Guffey
bill would depend upon whether pro-
duction conditions directly affect, pro-
mote, or obstruct interstate commerce.
The Supreme court, In the Schechtef
NRA case, quoted previous opinion
that mining, manufacturing, and other
forms of production were as local in
their character as the production Of
crops, and hence beyond the reach of
congress.
THE secretary of the treasury ap-
l. peared before the house ways and
means committee which was trying to
formulate the new tax bill wanted by
the administration, and declared that,
depending on the rates of taxation
s~I,A ~ t.,