Show y j 9 7 t 1 i i aj washington Washing tom president roosevelt has baa told congress that Alint he wants it to finish its la expect bors bora and adjourn long session in short ader order ile he hns figured that about three months ought to give the ahe members sufficient lelent time ilme to mull over the problems that confront them aad th that a t buiey then should ret return urn too to thell their several seve ial homes buethe but the president Is doomed to disappointment if U he sincerely belie believes vei that he can get congress out of the capitol by the end of march the athe best guess right now la Is that congress con giess will be in session ai at least four our months and it to la well within the range of possibilities that it will remain in session almost to the time of the national conventions there are a number of factors factors that malce make realization of the dents early adjournment wish im m possible of realization probably the most influential of these Is 19 the fact that this Is 4 a campaign year rT artery ery member of the house and ana one third of the senate alo along with mr roosevelt himself are affected by the election date and politics must have its turn every four years this same condition obtains and every four years politicians do about tile same came in furtherance of their own political interests the buckl bulk of the legislation to be considered has its poll political tinge politics even creep into the annual appropriation bills and usually the result Is a swelling of the totals in order bider that some gears of individual political machines maybe may be oiled just a bit for sr smooth running la the campaign while the appropriation bills bill sare are important from a political standpoint theli their weight in this illis sess session on of congress sinks rather below par p r because there are such things aaflie as the bonus for the world war veterans the townsend aldage old age debs pension lon plan various barlou s newdell new deal reform men measures and such replacement legislation as may be aie necessary since the supreme court kicked over new deal propositions lili like ethe the agricultural adjustment act with its processing taxes and sundry other schemes however the roosevelt leaders in congress may desire to act the lie machinery of cant be iran only tso so fast in au an election year one of 0 the chief reasons why a congressional congre session ln in an election year drags on seek A longer than usual publicity is 3 because lo calise of the publicity value the sessions havenor have for individual representatives and iena senators tors members of congress a hundred year sago I 1 ago th that atthe the chambers of the house I 1 and t senate constituted asplen lena did soun ding boards for f or the th its political views there has been increasing use of this po na ai the years have gone by until now the older members of the house and senate have become very adept in capitalizing on this factor it takes no stretch of the imagination to discover that asen a senator ator or representative speak speaking log from the floor of his respective chamber gets much more publicity than his opponent back home who talks only as a private citizen it la is perfectly natural therefore that lint those members seeking re reelection election want to take full advantage of ati the 11 1 P publicity vehicle available to them in washington the tha uso use of this publicity weapon Is available to opponents of tilo tho new deal as well as to its supporters c rs lethe approaching election may be expected to knit the house democrats more closely into annl a fied front for the november Nove Nov niber Omber election elect lon the same condition Is is not liot true irue in the senate in that body there are a number of old line democrats who do not lot like the new deal and who are going to utilize every available fo opportunity to q make their record as democrats is as complete ns as it la Is possible to do before they must speak to the home folks in person it is obvious that such met men as senator carter glass of virginia cannot desert the democratic ticket and run for reelection election re independent ly so it Is tobe expected that men of this type will establish for them selves a outline of their political beliefs as democrats while distinguishing their position from that known as the new deal they must look to the future when according to all indications they feel the party machinery will again be controlled by the Jeffers jeffersonian onlan type df p f democrat instead of by the reform democrat headed by men and women with the new deal k 1 an additional factor operating overeating in a the senate nafe Is the presence of two republican fresl two riuo mo more rc dentral possible bill factors ties in n the per tons in of if senator william E norah borah of idaho and arthur 11 of 0 michigan Jia senator borah Is actively keel peeking keeling ing pledged delegates to the republican national convention senator says lie he Is nota not B candidate X but the well known bee la Is buzzing around and there tire are wany many observers who think that senator vanden her berg 9 Is hoping that in case of a convention stalemate the assembled delegates may riot hot and turn to him us 08 tile the nominee such a condition means as it has meant before that these two iwo men will desire to see all of tile the political issues is s ired aired in congressional debates it Is only natural and logical as welt well that tile the republican minority in the house holise and senate will seek to foment as much debate as aa possible in order to obtain a record of what the party thinks or proposes to do it if returned to power in all respects tile the session will be the most political therefore since sir roosevelt took office ills ajia presidential message on the state of the un union lon already aar eady Is being kicked back and forth and picked to pieces in the preliminary campaign gunfire 0 0 i in an earlier letter jt I reported to you concerning the guest question lon of a neutrality policy congress and declared at al may stall that time that lt it was the most important item to come before the current session it remains so 1 I believe the situation la Is even more delicate than in my earlier analysis of this problem and it may well be that congress will stall along in reaching a decision on this policy in order to give foreign developments an opportunity to manifest themselves further the administration apparently to Is willing to let congress work out the legislation without much interference but the leaders realize that a decision will fie be difficult as long as foreign maneuvers continue to present an al most dally change in the scenery reference Is made to tile the neutral neutra tty ity question here because it Is one of the things entering into tile the combination that will cause a longer session than the president wishes there seems to bena be no doubt that passage e of a bill topa to pay the soldiers bonus at an early date will be accomplished complis hed in this seaf session lion like alse there is hardly the shadow of ti 6 do doubt abt that if congress passes such leils legislation lation andalft an and dAft mr vetoes it the bill will be passed over tho the veto it Is A a campaign year ai and it Is not a good time for politicians to antagonize an organization ditl with the vast membership of the american legion or the other groups of ex service nieu men this legislation will not contribute much to the length of the sess session loll but in all such cases representatives representative i anif and senators must make their speeches and be on record as aa to why they voted for or against a bill the townsend plan cannot got get anywhere to in the current session in all probability also the current session of congress will bo be called upon to waiting meet some decisions lems la resulting from adverse d decisions 1 by the supreme court of the united states tile the court has before it any number num berof of cases involving iol vinje new deal policies including such as the AAA the TVA with its tennessee valley power yardstick the attempt to regulate wages and hours of labor under the guffey coal bail known L nowa as the wild little WA and a half dozen other policy propositions it seems unlikely uh lIkely although no one can guess that all of these measures will be held constitutional it if any are areli held eld invalid naturally the president will ask congress to draft new legislation As a sample of the political aspect of the current session one can cite the furor that was waa stirred uv up when Tres president Ident roosevelt delivered his bla Ines sage on the state of the union to ft a night session of congress except for one instance presidents always have delivered or sent their message to congress at noon of a day after the session has had two or three meetings mr roosevelt chose to get his message to congress congre sg on the very first day of the current session but in order to do it and allow for consummation of the usual routine odthe of the opening day it was wag Lec necessary essary to hold a joint session at night t the white house announcement of this decision immediately precipitated a biting demand from henry X P fletcher republican national chairman mr air pletcher fletcher th charged arged that the presidents speech wa waa s being delivered out ou of b hours ours and was being bro broadcast adrast to potentially the greatest radio audience ever io to listen to a presidential dentini message or of kind th the broadcasting st companies must fiust agree to allocate time for the republicans to answer at it the chairman risser asserted ted that the message was reduced to the icom mou level of a political speech and so he demard adfor ed for abe opposition the right to analyze it from the opposition 0 standpoint through the si same ime num behof of radio stations and to po potentially en the same 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