Abstract

Editorial Paragraphs

The chief news development of the first few days of the U.S. Senate's inquiry into the activities of army official VVilliam B. Shearer at the naval limitation conference at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1927 was a disclosure that in addition to anti-disarmament propaganda American shipbuilders had spent $143,000 in the U.S. in lobbying for the Jones-White merchant-marine act. More time for tariff debate has been demanded at Washington, so the Senate is meeting at eleven o'clock instead of at noon, with the possibility of night sessions looming in the offing. In view of the fact that income-tax returns from hundreds of corporations have been called for, ostensibly to enable the Senate to learn how far the corporations are likely to be affected by the new schedules, there seems to be no good reason why the debate should not run on indefinitely.