June 27.
A virtual vote of "no confidence" itn President Hoover's much-debated Law Enforcement Commission took] place in the Senate to-lay when the Senate drastically trimmed the appropriation for the sham body to G.$50,000 in accordance with previously. announced views that the Commission's future work should be Festrieted to the subject of probibition alone.
"Some Senators had said thay they intended to seek reinstatement of the original much targer amount} designed to cover the completion of 'a survey of the whole field of law! enforcement, as desired by President but their efforts were furil word minority report on the London Naval Limitation Treaty, carrying the signatures of Senators Johnson, Moses, Robinson and Shipstead.
This report alleges that Mr. Mac-Dohald, Prime Minister of Great Britain had promised President Hoover that he would allow the United States to build a new "super-battleship."
It said that even were to junk five ships, the United States one and Japan one, the United States naval power would be inferior to that of Great Britain because of the larger post-Jutland ships Rodney and Nelson.
Although the numerical disparity would be removed, Great Britain would have an advantage of about 25,000 tons, nearly equivalent to another battleship, said he report.
The document cited 11 objections including the allegation that. the treaty abandons American naval policy of the past, that it fails to protect American commerce, that it destroys the five-tive-three ratio, that it does not give parity with Great Britain, and that it hamstrings the United States in the Pacific by an unjustified and unfair inevease of the Japanese ratio, Evidence just disclosed to the effect that there might be a possible delay in the ratification of the Lordon Naval Limitation Treaty the. special Senate session now: arranged 10 open on July 7 is expected to result in an appeal from Presi'ent Hoover to the people of the United States for pressure upon their representatives towards early "Persons close to the Administra. tion ave aware that the Pi ident considers such carly ratification essential from the standpoints both of fovéign velations and of domestic altairs.
President Hoover is known to be aware of the fact that in such matters, delay means a growth of opposition, More than a dozen naval Lord Passfield, proposed shortly to move in the House of Lords that it} }was desirable that a joint committee of both Houses be appointed to consider the reports for a closer] union in East Africa drawn the Hilton Young Commission and by Sir Samuel Wilson, together] with the statement of the conclu sions of His Majesty's Government, Jas announced on June 19.—Wirelese through Reuter, Berlin, June 26 the Reichstag to-day, Dr.
the Foreign Germany can base her} claim of colonial participation on would be dependence of the mandated territory. The proposals of the Britich Government will be examined by the Leagze of Nations before they are carried cut. We shall do. everything to prevent the farryi out of theca proposals."—Reuter.
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