nflagrations on Int, Et Dualle Recoming Catastrophic Madrid "Apr. 19, forest tres on Int. El Dualle, have spread to the neighbour: nue mountains and. villages, have assumed catastrophic proportions.
Farms are being swallowed up by the blazing inferno, which thwarts all attempts to check it.
The inhabitants in the path of the fire are retreating in haste, leaving behind their belongings.
Traffic on the Washington, Apr. 19.
President Herbert: Hoover to-day again indicated his desire to smash the precedent of the "spoils system" in American polities under which parly workers are repaid with [government appointments.
The President served notice upon leaders of the party that candidates for appointive positions in future must stand the rigid scrutiny of the Public before their names will be srernmted to the Senate by Mr. Hoover for confirmation. Candi-
@ates also must submit to an investigation, if one is desired, by officials of ' the Department' Justice before their appointment, Also the names of the sponsors of any candidate for a position. will be published when tke name of [candidate is submitted to the upper house for its approval.
Mr, Hoover's action was into preted ty politicians og part of the natural evel ment away fre which has prevailed in the Ameri political structure since before ths Civil War.
It wax explained that, while party patronage will continue, the Pre lent's action sacans that the best talent of the ruling party will be chosen and that services to the party will not be a controlling: factor in the making of patronage appointments, The Congressmen'y Junket senator Coleman Ju Bleae, Democrat, of South Carotina, announced his intention to seek an investigation of Congressional Avinking during the recent "junket" to Panama made by a nui 5 Congressmen and their fan the U. 8. 8. Ancon, Senator Please said the "people of the Ni fare' entitled to know what Congressmen drank on this trip and how much they drank." want to s6¢ the prohibition Jaws enforced equally for everyone county the ime tithe Und} Congress: and UR poor anit The ju Senate cent committee of the eid it investigation of the affairs of My. Andrew Mellon, the Secretary of the Trea sury, with a view to determining: his fitness for his Cabinet post.
Senator Davis A. Reed, Republica of Pittsburgh, Pa, delivered ths committee a letter from the Sects tary of the Treasury showing that Mr, Mellon held stocks in many cor poralions but that he resigned alt his offices before he became a meni= bee of the Cabinet. The committe will determine whether the Secre= und the President now in the open there was considerable gossip ae to agricultural congressmen, inelul 4 Senator MeNary of Oregon, the sas and the farm bloc members the House of Representatives ture commit airman of the Howe agri conceded, will be to make passage of a satisfactory farm relief even more di It, which may prone the present special session of the Congress.—United Press,
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