April 25,i<J**
Diet The Diet had yesterday its first meeting after Easter during
which the 296 decrees issued by the President during the recess of
Ghe forme- Diet and. those issued between the two Diets were read.
These decrees will be worked out by committees before the voting of
the Diet on them. The next meeting of the Diet will be held on the
15th of May by which time the budget will be already analysed by the
Committee. The Socialists presented yesterday a motion for establishing
a Bill obliging the Government to publish in the Official Gazette all
decisions of the Diet . This motion is caused by the fact that the
Government has not published the cancellation of the press decree by
the Dist and thus the Decree remained in force despite the cancdllation.
The national Democrats presented three motions: the efirst proposes to
establish a Constitutional Tribunal to establish where laws passed
by the legislature and orders of the Government are in compliance with
the Constitution. The two other motions aim to attck the Government,they
are a motion of a bill not permitting the Government to deprive of
liberty officers without acts of accusations, then a demand to present
a report on all additional expenses spent in 1927-1928.
The Budget Committee ?rorked on the budget of the Ministry of
Commerce and Industry, The Minister spoke of the competitions' between
nations for the ednquest of markets for coal. He said that the Polish
production though continuously increasing reqched only 93$ of the pre
war outputo The Minister spoke very much of Gdynia and the endeavors to
create the Polish merchant marine. Deputy Diamamd protested against the
evaluation of customs stating tk It unnecessarily spoiled Poland*s
relations with neighbours. There were also protests against the continuous
increase of prices not accompanied by an increase of wages.
The Diet decided to make the Government show special help to the
Ukrainian districts damaged by last year's floods.
Government. Marshal Pilsudski is much better. He will probably take a
short leave after he leaves the hospital.
Mr.Zaleski received yesterday Mr.Davlla,the Rumanian minister.
Mr.Patek passes though Warsaw returning from his leave spent
in Riviera.
Mr.Bogomoloff returns to Warsaw during the present week.
Finan ces The Anerican Bankers leave Warsaw today. It is rumoured that
Krakow would like to contract a loan of 4 million dollars. The amount and
the terms of the big investment loan would be determined after the
isit of American experts arriving here in early May/
Mr.Dewey is visiting Vilno.
Cardinal Kakowski leaves Warsaw ,he will visit London ,Paris -and Rome.
The visits to Earis and London are bisits to Msgrs. Dubois and Burne who
have been in Poland before,
**adio Program stations will be established in Lodz and Bydgoszcz.
telephone A telephone station for automatic connections is being
built in Warsaw.
The Catholic Agency protests against sending a Polish Charge d'affaires
to Mexico stating that the Catholic Poland should not maintain relations
with a country persecuting the Catholic religiono
Havy The pleasure boat "Jadwiga" ordered by the Polish Government
at the Palmers Work in England is already ready,the second "Wanda" will
be ready within the Summer.
USA Proposal. Mr.Stronski states today that both the American and French
proposal are too indefinite.
