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BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
A Baby Grows Up
Senate’s Good New*
Five Little Girls
$1,880,000,000
Fifty-three years ago a good Amer¬
ican mother, weak, hut happy, received
In her arms a small baby, with pink
face and little hair. That baby now
lives in the White House, face bronzed
by ocean air, hair thick at fifty-three
years of age.
The baby has grown to be Franklin
I>. Roosevelt, President of the United
States.
One hundred and twenty five million
Americans are grateful to his mother,
who, happily, has lived to see her son
move up, from the cradle In which she
first placed him, to earth’s most im¬
portant place among men.
Congratulations and thanks, first of
all, to President Roosevelt’s mother;
good wishes, congratulations and a
long II e to President Roosevelt.
The people of the United States are
to be congratulated that by the de¬
cision of the senate they will not be
pushed into t(ie back door of the
League of Nations through the World
court.
Mr. Hull, secretary of state, wanted
the United States to go Into the World
court and submit Important matters
affecting this country to foreign judges
appointed by nations that have swin¬
dled this country out of ten thousand
million dollars. Why, In heaven’s
name?
Those marvelous Canadian babies,
the Dionne quintuplets, eight months
old, are healthy, happy, each one a
separate little lady of Intense individ¬
uality. All pretty, all intelligent, with
good foreheads, well-shaped heads.
What a wonderful family! It seems
almost a pity that they cannot remain
babies, now, and above, through all
eternity.
The house of representatives, 829 to
78, gives the President four thousand
eight hundred and eighty million dol¬
lars, to be spent in accordance with
his best Judgment to fight depression
and unemployment.
In early days the little, "small
change" eighty million dollars, tacked
on at the end of the large figure, would
have astounded the country, for In
those days millions were respectable
units. Now our government unit Is the
billion—one thousand millions. When
will the trillion start lt^ areer? The
printing press could bring It.
Not content with being reduced from
a great empire to a small "backyard”
by the last Hapsburg, Austria thinks
It wants another emperor and Prince
Starhemberg will say when little Prince
Otto shall mount the throne. That
will mean unhappiness, eventually for
the young prince, and a good actor
spoiled for Hollywood.
Gen. William Mitchell, commander
of all our flying force In the big war,
knows more about national defense
than anybody In this country. He
writes to a friend seventy years old, as
follows:
"During your lifetime have come the
electric telegraph und telephone, the
gasoline engine with Its accompani¬
ment of automotive vehicles, the air¬
plane and submarine. The world Is
now only one-sixth as large as when
you appeared. If this development
goes on, It is difficult to say what may
take place In the next seventy years.
Will the biological supremacy of the
yellow races dominate, or will the mili¬
tary supremacy, so far, of the white
race be able to maintain our culture
end standards? The world Is growing
so small and so Increasingly popu¬
lated that one or the other will un¬
doubtedly become master."
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, whose fa¬
ther collected pictures and other works
of art, has decided to sell six pic¬
tures. The price asked Is said to be
»1,500.000. The older J. P. Morgan
evidently bought good pictures. Two
of the six pictures, already sold to the
Metropolitan museum, are a portrait
of “Anne of Austria," by Peter Paul
Rubens, and an altar piece by Filippo
LIppl. Nobody knows how much was
paid originally for either picture.
A rare ten-dollar gold piece, that
sold at auction for $580, might offer a
suggestion for goverymenr profit. At
that rate, our $8,000,000,000 worth of
gold could be changed into $400,000,-
000.000 worth, nearly all profit. Who
could contradict the government If If
said that was the value?
Industrialists rhat put 25.000.000 au¬
tomobiles on the roads in this country
helped their government last year.
The federal tax on gasoline alone paid
more than $170,000,000.
Col. Roscoe Turner, who does all
sorts of things with airplanes, plans
n real flight around the earth. 25.000
miles, following the equaror all the
way. starting at Panama.
This will be tne first real "around
the world" flight, the others having
been flights around the northern end
of the world, a flight that grows
smaller as you go farther north-
Equatorial heat will not bother Colonel
Turner. In a plane you can pick out
the altitude and the temperature that
you want.
©, Kin* Features Syndicate, Id*.
WN'U Servlc*.
PISS II REVIEW
ICKES ASKS GRAND JURY TO
INVESTIGATE CHARGES OF
GRAFT IN PWA FUNDS
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
©, Western Newspaper Union.
“I-IoNEST HAROLD” Ickes has
-*■ -*■ been subjected to lots of abuse
; by congressmen and others, but he does
! not intend to let anything be put over
on tin* Public Works
administration, of
which lie is the admin¬
istrator. At his re¬
quest a special grand
jury has been sum-
m o n e d to meet in
Washington on Feb-
uary (i to inquire into
Charges of graft in
the PWA. Assistant
United States Attor¬
ney John W. Fihell.v
has the matter in
hand for the government and will
present first testimony concerning
the $ 4 , 000,000 canal project in Texas.
It was asserted that the contract
for this project was withdrawn
after Mr. Ickes’ Investigators had un¬
covered evidence that there was a huge
conspiracy to defraud the United
States. Eight or ten persons, includ¬
ing federal officials, are said to be in¬
volved. Mr. Ickes himself said:
"The Public Works administration in¬
vestigation division has made a long
and careful study of the Texas project
upon the direction of the administrator
(Ickes) and presented to the proper
! prosecuting officials of the government
! a full report for such action as they
j deem This proper Texas to take.”
case may consume sev¬
eral weeks, and afterward the grand
jury is expected to investigate some
other projects and also charges of
! fraud in the War department.
| URING the debate In the house on
an administration hill to Increase
by $9,000,000,000 the amount of long¬
term securities the treasury cun issue,
Representative Reed of New York quot-
j ed Secretary Morgenthau as saying that
the treasury could not finance the work
relief program unless congress broad¬
ened its bond-issuing authority. So the
house passed the measure at once.
The hill, prepared by the Treasury
department, places the administration
squarely against Inflation, it provides
authority to raise money necessary for
the public works, social security and
similar measures, meet federal deficits,
and might even be used to provide
funds for payment of the soldiers’
bonus.
Under provisions of the measure
there would be ten-year bonds in
amounts as small as $25, and as ex¬
plained tiy the Treasury department,
would be sold below par. There would
be no interest, but each six months
the bonds would appreciate In value at
the rate of 2Vfe per cent, plus com¬
pounded earnings.
Huge sums are Involved: first, the
creation of a revolving bond authoriza¬
tion fund of $2,500,000,000; and sec¬
ond, the consolidation of the two pres¬
ent revolving funds of $10,000,000,000
each Into a joint $20,000,000,000 fund
for bills, certificates and notes.
VA/^IEN’ ** 000,1*00,000 the senate work passes the $4,-
relief measure,
as it certainly will after all the ora-
4 ors get through, there need be no
fussing us to who is to administer the
huge fund. President Roosevelt him¬
self, according in an authority high in
administration circles, will undertake
that Job and will allocate the money
to the various agencies as he sees fit.
There will be no new set-up tor this
purpose, unless it may be a small group
of advisors selected by Mr. Roosevelt.
These may be members of the cabinet
or technical experts—more likely the
latter. This Information was given
the senate finance committee as it be¬
gan consideration of the bill, and was
designed to quiet some of the opposi¬
tion and also to curb the ambition of
certain gentlemen who had hoped to
handle the $4,(XX>,0tX»,IXKl it did not,
however, silence those senators of both
parties who still contend that too much
power Is given the President when he
is handed such a vast sum to dis¬
pose of as he pleases.
As passed by the house by a huge
majority and under "gag rule” the bill
appropriates, in addition to the $4.-
000,000,000 for the President's work
relief program, $8S0.000,000 for imme¬
diate relief expenditure. And that is
the way It will go through the senate.
"pilF A Crowds Hauptmann Jam the Flemingtnn trial grinds on.
court¬
house each day in the hope wit¬
nessing something “sensatioral.” there
are the usual clashes between attorneys
for the state and for the defense, the
prisoner continues to maintain his
composure under the terrific pressure
to which he has been subjected, ana
except for the prominence of Colonel
Lindbergh, the case has been about on
a par with the usual murder trial.
New developments which he has as¬
sured the press will be "a big sur¬
prise” to Bruno Hauptmann have been
promised by David T. Wilentz, New
Jersey attorney general. The exact na¬
ture of this Information has not been
divulged, but is expected to be intro¬
duced soon.
The state has built up a good case in
the opinion of most of those who have
been following the trial. Every kind
of evidence except that of eye wit-
I nesses and fingerprints has been Intro¬
duced, and the defense will have to
I overcome the weight of this testi¬ the
mony if Hauptmann is to escape
electric choir In Trenton. Meanwhile
Attorney Edward J. Reilly, famous
I New York criminal lawyer, is saying
little, and preparing one of his famous
| surprises, or at least so some believe.
“SOMETHING went wrong with the
steering apparatus." That seems
to he the only explanation for the trag¬
edy that overtook the Ward liner Mo¬
hawk off the New Jersey coast and
that cost (he lives of 15 of the vessel's
passengers and 31 members of the
crew. In no other way could anyone
account for the weird fact that the Mo¬
hawk, a fast ship, was rammed by the
freighter Talisman when both were out¬
bound from New York and the Mohawk
had started several hours before the
Talisman. The liner had hove to below
Ambrose Light to calibrate its compass;
then, as she was under way again and
passing the freighter she slteered
sharply to port and ran directly across
the Talisman’s bow, was rammed and
sank within half an hour. Both ships
sent out SOS calls at once and the
Mohawk’s life boats were promptly
launched. The survivors were picked
up by two other liners, and the bodies
of most of those killed were gathered
up by coast guard vessels.
An investigation of the tragedy was
started promptly on orders of Joseph
Weaver, chief of the federal bureau
of navigation. Another federal inquiry
also got under way at the offices of
United States Attorney Martin Conboy,
where the Talisman crew was ques¬
tioned.
"pHAT serio-comic “civil war” in
A Huey Long's domain is becoming
more serious than comical and almost
any day may develop into real war¬
fare. It was cen
tered for the present
at the state capital.
Two hundred armed
men, directed by lead
ers of the Square
Deal association,
seized tiie parish court
house in East Baton
Rouge and held it un¬
til assured that one of
their friends who had
been arrested was re¬ Huey Long
leased. They then
dispersed with a warning from one
John Appel to “be sure you have
enough ammunition and lie ready for
tiie call at any time.”
The Klngfish was in New Orleans at
the time, but lie hastened to Baton
Rouge while Governor Allen called out
some troops and proclaimed partial
martial law in tiie capital. Huey im¬
mediately ordered the recently ap¬
pointed Judge J. D. Womack to
start an investigation of what he de¬
scribed as a plot to murder him, in
which “four sheriffs and a district at¬
torney” were Involved. Tiie senator
declared:
“We picked up two men, one of them
was going to drive tiie murder car. It
was all fixed up. He was going to
block my car on the highway between
here and New Orleans, make it slop
and force me in the ditch, and then 14
or 10 were going to come along in an¬
other car and kill me.
"We found nil the stuff in the fel¬
low’s car. There was sheriff’s equip¬
ment, and everything."
Maybe Huey was right, for one Sid¬
ney Songy testified at the Inquiry that
he had been given a gun, ammunition
and gas bombs to kill the senator.
Long blamed the Standard Oil com¬
pany for the armed assembly of his
enemies in Baton Rouge and said that
unless the company stopped tiie "vio¬
lence’’ his compromise with it over
the 5-eent oil refinery tax would be
called off.
Despite this warning another armed
group of Square Dealers gathered at
the Baton Rouge air field; but some¬
one betrayed them and a detachment
of the National Guard advanced on
them in battle array. The sight of
machine guns was enough for the
citizenry: they surrendered, were dis¬
armed, placed under technical arrest
and permitted to go home.
POSSIBILITY * ian government of a to move make by the protec¬ Ital-
a
torate out of Ethiopia was seen by
European statesmen. Exploitation of
the announcement of
the slaying of a
French Somaliland ad¬
ministrator and !X>
French Somaliland em¬
ployees and Somalis
was said to Indicate
that a movement was
on for Italy to take
over the mountainous
African kingdom to re¬
store order. The con¬
Premier sent of France and
Mussolini Great Britain to the
plan has been obtained,
it was reported.
A number of recent developments
point toward some action by tiie Ital¬
ian government Premier Mussolini
recently took over the office of min¬
ister of colonies; Gen. Emilio de Bono,
former minister of colonies, was
named high commissioner of Italian
East Africa; military roads have been
constructed through Italian Ssxxliland
to the Ethiopian frontier; and the
Italians have recently taken over a
bigger share in the operation of the
Djibouti and Addis Abbaka railway.
War in Ethiopia would involve con¬
siderable expense due to the rugged
nature of the country, and this is seen
by some as a reason why the Italian
government lias not acted sooner. The
Ethiopian emperor has been buying
all the arms and munitions he can,
It has been reported, in preparation for
the impending trouble.
j /~\NE of the American navy's best ad-
! v-r ministrators and most famous
fighters disappeared from tiie scene ,
with the death of Admiral Robert Ed- j
ward Coontz at Bremerton, Wash., aft-
er two months of illness. He was sev- j
enty years old and on the retired list. ;
Admiral Coontz was active in tiie navy lie j
1 for 47 years and during that time
served as commandant of midshipmen
! at Annapolis, governor of Guam, cora-
| mandant of the Fifth Puget naval Sound district. navy yard For
and of the
four years after tiie World war lie was ;
chief of operations. Ilis policy was ex- j
pressed in the phrase “An American
navy second to none.”
ADMINISTRATION forces using
A steam roller tactics crushed all
opposition to jam the President’s
$4,800,000,000 relief program through
the house. Efforts to
fight the grant of such
unprecedented author- j
ity to the President
were unavailing as the
White House cracked
the whip over revolt¬
ing representatives. Fi¬
nal vote on the meas¬
ure was 328 to 78.
The vote climaxed a
furious eight-hour the de j j
President bate on measure
Roosevelt Members attempted to
attach amendments j
which would protect private industry
from government projects which might
be launched under the relief plan.
When this failed they endeavored to
allocate the money for specific pur¬
poses.
When tiie debate had reached its
height, tiie President sent a message
; to tiie house declaring it would be
impossible to segregate items for which
the money would lie expended, hut that
the huge outlay of sums would be de-
j voted to public projects and that after
the immediate crisis of unemployment !
had passed it was his hope that the !
country could set aside $500,000,000 a
year for tiie “national plan."
The White House message was the
signal for the Democratic majority to
push the message across with little
change from its original form. On tne
final vote 2(5 Republicans voted for
the bill. Seven Progressives and three
Farmer-Laborltes also registered af¬
firmative votes. Ten Democrats, five i
from Georgia, three from Virginia, and
two from Indiana, voted with the oppo¬
sition.
Because of the gag rule adopted by ;
the house, only amendments offered ;
by the appropriations committee could
be considered in vital sections of the
measure. Such minor amendments as
were decided upon went through with¬
out serious opposition.
One of the amendments striking out
a list of projects that might he includ¬
ed In spending the $4,000,000,000 and
leaving the vast sum to be used for
“federalor nonfederal projects”actually
broadened the powers of tiie President.
The $800,000,000 will be used at the
President’s discretion for relief pur¬
poses while the program is being put
into effect.
Another amendment struck out a
subsection which gave the President
authority to postpone the end of any
existing government agency. 'Phis was
a move to satisfy certain Democrats
who were opposed to Secretary Ickes,
and his PWA program which expires
in June. Another clause granting au¬
thority to the President to acquire
personal property by the power of
eminent domain was also removed, as
was the section granting the Chief
Executive the power to impose two
years’ imprisonment on any violator.
The only other amendment which suc¬
ceeded in passage was one which pro¬
vided that an accounting be made for
all moneys spent
Minority Leader Snell attacked the
bill, declaring that the money involved
amounted to one-eighth of the national
income, and that the house was enti¬
tled to know what the money was
for. Later in conceding tiie minority’s
defeat he said that if the opposition
was free to speak its mind, the hill
would be defeated two to one, but that
under the executive lash, there was no
chance of defeating it.
A Decommendations that Amer-
'-lea’s air defense facilities be great¬
ly Increased will be made by President
Roosevelt in a special message soon to
be sent to congress, It has been indi¬
cated by those close to the adminis¬
tration. Construction of a series of air
bases for the United States, the addi¬
tion of 4,(XX) planes to the service, and
building a huge dirigible will be among
the projects which the President ap¬
proves.
The proposed construction is in ac¬
cord with a report just made by the
special aviation commission. It is the
purpose of the commission to lease the
dirigible to a commercial firm as a sis¬
ter ship to the Graf Zeppelin which will
start regular transatlantic service with¬
in a few weeks.
J JAPAN’S rota, warned foreign Soviet minister, Russia Koki Hi-
that she
should stop fortifying the Siberian
frontier north of Manchukuo if friend¬
ly relations are to be continued be¬
tween tiie two countries. His remarks,
made in an address before the impe¬
rial diet, had special significance in
view of reports that Japanese troops
are Invading Chahar province to pre¬
vent Sovietization of that region.
Russian fortifications in the Far
East, particularly of the strategic cross¬
ings of the Amur river, are becoming
increasingly irksome to the Japanese
army in Manchukuo. Other projects to
which Japan is objecting are double¬
tracking of the Trans-Siberian railway
to Vladivostok and remodeling of the
strong fortifications of that Pacific
port.
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bmckart
National Press Building Washington, D. C.
Washington.—At last after years of
talking, a social security program is
before congress.
Social And now that it is
Security before congress
there is a brand new
outburst of talk, because it seems the
"social securers” never can agree
among themselves. The result is that
leadership in the house and in the
senate is trying vainly to follow ad¬
ministration instructions, and lias run
afoul of all kinds of difficulties. The
end is not yet, but it is safe to say
without fear of any necessity for re¬
traction that the social security pro¬
gram will not go back to President
Roosevelt as a law In the form it was
presented as an administration bill.
I find everywhere among those not
charged with responsibility for the so¬
cial security legislation that there is
much confusion and lack of under¬
standing as to what the President has
proposed. It is easily understood. Any
time that it requires thirty thousand
words to explain a piece of legisla¬
tion obviously that legislation must
be complex. To comprehend what the
length of Mr. Roosevelt’s social se¬
curity message Is, it is only neces¬
sary, I think, to remind readers that
the message with its explanation of
the legislation would fill approximate¬
ly thirty-five columns of an ordinary
newspaper. Many persons naturally
will fall asleep before they wade
through that much material.
But, let us attempt to summarize
the social security bill. It provides,
first, for a national system of com¬
pulsory contributory old age insur¬
ance; second, it authorizes appropria¬
tions to be used as federal subsidies
(plain gifts) to the individual states
to help them pension tiie aged who
cannot be brought under an insur¬
ance system predicated upon tiieir
service in commerce and industry and,
third, a voluntary system of old age
annuities is set up.
The system of compulsory contribu¬
tory old age insurance is designed to
protect those who are no longer able
to work but who have done their turn
on the payrolls of industry. An old
age fund is set up in the Treasury
of the United States. Initially, the
money comes from the Treasury but
thereafter there is a tax operating
on payrolls of all those who employ
workers in numbers exceeding four.
Tliis tax will start January 1, 1937, at
a rate of 1 per cent. It is increased to
2 per cent as of January 1, 1492; 3
per cent as of January 1, 1947; 4 per
cent as of January 1, 1952, and 5 per
cent after January 1, 1957. The em¬
ployer pays the tax but he collects
half of It by a deduction from the
payroll of the Individual worker.
The age of sixty-five years is fixed
as the time when a worker shall re¬
tire and receive this pension. The pen¬
sioner can receive as much as $30 a
month. If the individual dies before
retirement, his dependents receive
back the amount paid in in his behalf.
As a part of the old age pension
system tiie legislation sets tip an old
age fund in which workers may pur¬
chase an annuity but they never may
acquire more than a total of $9,000
maturity value—the ultimate amount
—from which their Income may be in¬
creased.
Then there is the much discussed
unemployment insurance. This also is
predicated upon a tax on Industrial
payrolls but it is a state proposition.
That is, the federal government Is at¬
tempting to encourage individual
states to enact legislation which will
protect the worker in periods sucli as
that through which we have passed
since 1929. In other words, this phase
of the legislation is designed to cause
workers and their employers to lay
aside a certain percentage of their
income while they are employed, to lie
used when times are hard.
There are countless subdivisions in
the bill, none of which are simple,
that seek to protect the many who for
one reason or another do not qualify
under the general terms of the legisla¬
tion. For instance, aid to dependent
children Is provided. Federal health
subsidies—a kind of health insurance
—is proposed. Maternal aid is ar¬
ranged. and extraordinary cases are
covered, such as aid to crippled chil¬
dren. There are other subdivisions
much too intricate to analyze here
for the reason that their application
is decidedly limited. The drafters of
the legislation sought to cover all.
Whether they have done so can be
determined only after the legislation
has been in operation some years.
* » *
I have been unable to compute tiie
;ost of this legislation to the federal
and state govern-
Counting ment and no one, of
the Co** course, can approxi¬
mate the expense it
will be to industry. It is one of those
things so far reaching in its effect as
to make utterly impossible advance
calculations of the cost in dollars and
cents. Suffice it to say that all through
the bill as it now wends its way
through legislative channels are fre¬
quent paragraphs where money either
is appropriated or authorized to be
appropriated in the future. One wag
covered the money phases of the bill
the other day with a remark that it
was not unlike the conversations be¬
tween Amos and Andy, the radio come-
dians, for there is Hve million, thro
million, million and twenty million, through seventy-ei^J tiie list"
so on
constitute Yet it is the not difficulties the money in phases that!
the legjg.
lation as the leaders in congress
them. The bill sets up an i D .|
tricate which system of admiuistratioal farl
against even the present
flung insignificance. list of New Deal agencies palej|
into
First, there is the ponderous created! organi-l
zatiou for administration to be
here in Washington. Beneath than
there are state organizations in every!
state, regional and county organizal bu-|
tions and even city administrative
reaus. I imagination think it takes no stretch! huw|
of the to foresee
many the workers plain will chores be necessary of keeping to do| J
just th«|
record of all the individuals on
government payrolls, federal and state!
for administration of this legislation.
Here in Washington, board, we will have «f| a|
social insurance a group
three members, and serving receiving for $10,000 yearsj a|
year each six adminis!
The federal emergency relief
trator will have with duties the social to perform insurance! inf
conjunction The!
board as well as apart from it.
secretary of labor Is given jurisdiction
over some phases of the administration
and the with public conduct health of service the health! ig|
charged
insurance phases.
This is not charged all. The with secretary the manage! of th«|
treasury is
ment and investment of all of the! itl
monies under the various funds and
is he who must see that tiny arefl
properly disbursed.
* * *
In congress, considerable chairmen! jealousyl
has arisen among committee
Jealousy party wheel-horse!
and those who would
Aroused enjoy being atlmin-l
istration spokesmen!
Some of them, it hardly need lie said!
believe their political salvation lies in[
following the administration blindly
and in addition there who is another seg-J
ment of legislators keep thein
eyes on the historical significance ofl
passing events. This group wants tof
have a leading part in enactment ofl
the social security legislation hecauseJ
it must be said, undertaken this is the at greatest time] off
nil experiments any
by the American government. Fron
lobby conversation it is perfectly evi,
dent that there are many men in the
house and senate who would be willing!
to retire to whatever rewards tiieir po!
litical service has given them only to|
become known as the father of th»|
social security legislation.
eral This humorous condition circumstances. has precipitated Sena-I sev-|
tor Wagner of New York sponsored! ltep-1
the legislation in the senate and
resentative Lewis of Maryland pro-1
posed It in the house. Senator Wag!
ner’s committee arranged to start heat!
ings on a stated date in the senate and!
that denly. date No was announced had the rather Wagner! sud-|
sooner announced!
committee hearings been
than Representative Doughton ot North!
Carolina scheduled similar hearings!
before his ways He and means the hearings committee one! J
in the house. set rivalry!
day ahead of the senate and fhe
between the two for headline the least, «it-| &|
nesses has been, to say
source of many jokes.
* * *
Some weeks ago I reported to y° u I
that there were rumblings of ditficul-1
Trouble ties President’s ahead for gigantic! ttiej
Ahead Public works P^f
gram, as his new ex¬
periment in recovery efforts is de-1
scribed. He asked congress for a lump I
sum of $4,800,000,000 with which to re-1
vive the heavy industries and other I
lines of commercial endeavor that they I
may absorb some of those unemployed j
now on relief roils. It will be remem¬
bered that in his annual message w I
congress federal aid tie said the destitute with emphasis must stop-1 t! ia f|
to was»|
that the giving of relief directly
state responsibility. the I
The first hitch encountered by
administration the public works wheel-horses bill through in emigres S l| idi [1 l>| 5 1
developed in the house when tie’ ^ ea I
ers, the anxious White House to pass dictated, the legislation sought a 'j
special rule which limited debate to
couple of hours and made it aim 05 j
impossible for individual member? I
amend Democrats the bill. all of Several the Republican scores °-| J
and I
balked. For several days the bom-
leaders fought gallantly to keep I
stubborn opposition from runnings" • I
with things, but the defection? large! fr<l I
the Democratic ranks became so (Tered-1
that a compromise had to he ,,
It was accepted and the [,v m.oa |
critics and Democratic opponent
successfully squelched. again | j
One result of the near revolt
the house Democratic leadership
the exposition of feeling Department against o * ^
retary Ickes of the ^
Interior who also carries the
public works administrator and oi
ministrator. A lot of Decbocrats _
like Mr. Ickes for what they call “
political aloofness. Apparently - ’
not yielded to their demands
patronage appointments and f,a ’ t
seeking elective offices hem 1
men
that plum as bait to v'oters.
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