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July 19, 1930

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TREATY VOTE TODAY LIKELY; NIGHT SESSION ENDS AT 11, AFTER FOES TALK 12 HOURS; END IS 'NEAR,' HALE ADMITS And Reed, Forecasting Victory, Drops Plan to Sit All Night. QUORUM IS MAINTAINED Pact Adherents Cease Defense to Let Opposition Wear Itself Out. MOSES ASSAILS PRESIDENT Calls Stimson 'Laird of Stanmore' in Charging 'Affront'to Senate by Executive. Opposition Seems Disheartened. Quorum Holds on Second Test. Battle Enters Its Final Phase. "Filibuster" and "Gag" Charges. Johnson Offers Reservation. Moses Rails at 'Garrote Shadow.' "Too Early and Too Late to Ratify" Sees Geneva Formula Redrawn. Declares No Treaty Necessary. Charges Affront to the Senators.

By Special to The New York Times

Ed on Sen Moses' statement that he will resign from Repub Sen Campaign Com if colleagues really want him to

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WALKER ORDERS AN INQUIRY ON GRAFT IN CITY BUREAUS; GIVES HIGGINS WIDE POWER; HEARINGS TO START AT ONCE Appeals Board Permits and Pier Leases Will Be Sifted First. OTHER OFFICES FACE ACTION Tenement, Fire and Building Departments Included in Scope of Investigation. ALL AIDES TO BE WARNED Hand of Roosevelt Seen in Mayor's Plan to Lecture His Cabinet Publicly Monday. Thorough Inquiries Promised. Public Hearings Planned. Feared Whitewash Charge. WIDE CITY INQUIRY ORDERED BY MAYOR Magistrate Scandals Recalled. Mayor Long Under Fire. MOVE TO BLOCK INQUIRY SEEN. Both Parties Keenly Interested In Walker's Plan to Lecture Aides.

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Mayor Walker orders investigation of granting of permits

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Notable Deaths

Robert Stout

1930Robert Stout, Scottish-New Zealand politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1844)[†]

Sir Robert Stout was a New Zealand politician who was the 13th premier of New Zealand on two occasions in the late 19th century, and later Chief Justice of New Zealand. He was the only person to hold both these offices. He was noted for his support of liberal causes such as women's suffrage, and for his strong belief that philosophy and theory should always triumph over political expediency.