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Show UINTAH Bruckart's Washington Digest RECORD Legislation Passed by House, Bill Would Allow Courts to. Review Decisions and Findings of Nations FARM MORTGAGES. Little Dictators. By WILLIAM BRUCKART Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. I sat in the gallery of the house of representatives one afternoon recently. There was as much confusion as ever on the floor of the house. Members were engaged in debate, and there was a great hubbub. Finally, the voice of the speaker of the house came clearly through the loud speaker system, It said: The question is, shall the bill pass?" There was more com' motion, but above the dm someone was heard to say: I demand the yeas and nays." A roll call was ordered. It brought 279 yeas and 97 nays. So the bill was passed by the house. In relating those details, I merely wanted to set the stage to tell the story of a most important vote and the passage of a most important bill in the house of representatives. The bill bears the number of H. R. 6324. I doubt that many of the several thousand gallery occupants that aft-- , ernoon recognized the importance of the scene then taking place. For on that occasion, the house was taking a long step toward restoration of democratic processes in govern ment. The bill under consideration and which was passed that day had come to be known as the Logan-Walte- r bill. As briefly as may be, we can describe it as a bill to allow the courts to examine the decisions, de terminations, rulings or opinions of men and women in places of official responsibility from whom hitherto there has been nb appeal. Moreover, the bill would allow private citizens the right of appeal for con sideration of the facts, as well as the law, involved in any matter that had come to any one of these hundreds of little dictators otherwise known as bureaucrats in the course of their administrative job. IVNU Ideals of Woodrow Wilson Contained in This Legislation In short, I must recall the famous statement of the late President Woodrow Wilson respecting some phases of government administration when he said The individual . . . should find justice against the government, itself It is applicable to what H R. 6324 is designed to do enable the private citizens to protect themselves by seeking redress in the courts if they believe they have been wronged by some agency of the federal government which has acted as prosecutor, judge and jury. As the number of federal agencies have grown up bureaus, boards, commissions, a veritable alphabet soup in recent years the abuses sought to be reached by the Logan-Waltbill have multiplied many fold. Now, the reason that I called attention to the scene in the house and the vote favoring the bill was because I have seldom seen so many government lobbyists scurrying around the Capitol. I believe the days when President Roosevelt was attempting to pack the Supreme court with s'x additional judges was the only period m the last few years when more government bureaucrats were to be found around the halls of the Capitol building. Why? It is clear that the bulk of those men d'd not want the bill to pass for the simple reason that it took away some of their pow'er. Under its terms, they can make their unwise or biased rulings to their hearts content, but the citizen who gets it in the neck can turn to the courts for justice. That is, the citizen can turn to the courts if the senate approves the bill. er Nation s Little Dictators Dislike Tone of Bill The house vote of not The house actually voted its convictions. It broke away from the sneers and the threats and personal pressure even over the stated objection of President Roosevelt and it passed a bill that was as distasteful as quinine to the hundred Little dictators. If amendments are needed, if changes will improve it, they ought to be made, but the public as a whole ought to push the senate into action before adjournment After the house action on the bill, the political columnist, Mark Sullivan, printed a decision by a court in Germany. It read, in part: Todays constitution is dominated by the principle of political leadership. The courts have, therefore, no right to decide upon the legal 279 to 97 is to be taken lightly. LOGAN-HALTr- R BILL Passed recently by tho house of representatives and pending before the senate, the Logan-Walte- r bill, which allows the courts to examine tho decisions of various governmental bureaus, is vital gislation, according to William Diuckart. If the bill is passed by the senate and signed by tho President, age titles like the National Labor Relations board will have the ir findings subject to review by regular U. S. courts. 1 Embroider lioua,,,.. On Your Beds Blockade Wall Disrupted by Invasion of Norway U. S. Bureaus Subject to Check Under Logan-Walte- r mSIN validity of political acts of the administration." The quotation struck me as being especially important to this discussion because of remarks made on the floor of the house, during the debate of the Logan-Waltbill, by Hatton W. Sumners, the Texas Democrat. Judge Sumners is chairman of the important committee on the judiciary. In the course of his support of the bill. Judge Sumners said: Operating the machinery of government are nearly a million people. Of that million, there is only one who has been elected by the people, and that is the President The President cannot know who these million people are. He cannot know what they are doing with the gov- - Baldish Ed ONeal, president of the American Farm Bureau federation, has let the cat out of the bag on the real reason for his opposition to the hotly debated reorganization of the farm credit administration. n It came out during a talk with Secretary Henry Wallace. ONeal is one of the loudest critics of Wallaces sweeping reforms, which are aimed at stopping the alarming increase of FCA foreclosures. ONeal fought the appointment of A. C. Black, strong New Dealer, as new head of the agency, and explains that Wallaces policies wall result in loose and unsound" credit. But in his private talk with Wallace, ONeal gave an entirely different reason. Pattern 6656 Ed, said Wallace, you cant get me to believe that you are sinm true Colon. cerely opposed to liberalization of A SPREAD, style, of sprays of varied fio the FCA. You know as well as I ers, can be yours with ease-t- m, do that it was absolutely necessary. We simply had to do something to bouquets are all in the Place them in a wrea if you prefer. Pattern 6658 coil man-to-ma- Map shows blockade system built by the allies against Nazi Germany before Adolf Hitler boldly struck away a part of that barrier by his blitzkrieg in Norway and Denmark. Note how few passageways existed in the economic blockade wall built by the allies. simp6-stitche- tains a transfer pattern of 18 txfs ranging from 6 by 6 inches 1 by 2 inches; illustrations stitches; color schemes; mater als needed. Send order to: U. S. Notables See Senators Open 40 Campaign Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept Eighth Ave. New Tort 82 Enclose tern No Name Address 15 cents in coins for Pat How George Came to Get Ilis Face Slapped HATTON W. private citizen . resist." SUMNERS "The . has no power to emmental powers entrusted to them. They make the rules that have the force of law; they construe the rules; they enforce the rules. When one of these people goes to an ordinary private citizen, he goes possessed of all the powers that a kmg ever had. This private citizen may be 2,000 miles away from Washington. He has no power to resist, practically speaking, the mandate of an agent of these bureaus We have got to make it possible for a citizen to resort to the only place under Anglo-Saxo- n systems of government that an aggrieved person can come to, and that is the courts." The dumb blonde on a coirtq ramble had been paying a g deal more attention to her sh ED ONEAL boy companion than to the fre'i 'Mr. Secretary, I was forced to spring scenery. Entwining oppose you. arm with his, she gushed stop those farm foreclosures. As George, I think youre wonder the representative of many desti- full tute farmers in the South and West, Thank you, Mary, ansuerei how can you consistently protest And I third George slowly. against this relief for them? youre ditto. The dumb blonde pondered ov5 Well, Mr. Secretary, replied ONeal with a grin, I was forced this. Before long they came upo to oppose you. You see, several old Jollop, the farmer, who '. hundred of my members have good tending his pigs. She took In Among the 33,000 baseball fans on hand to see President Roosevelt serve his seventh term as official opener jobs in the FCA, and they were aside and said: Tell me, Mr. Jol of the Washington Senators American league campaign W'ere (bottom row, left to right) Vice President John afraid they would be fired m the re- lop, what does ditto mean? Nance Garner, Sen. Charles L. McNary of Oregon, Sen. Tom Connally of Texas and Sen. Alben W. This man Black has Jollop thought for a moirer Barkley of organization. them scared. Hes a tough guy, then said, You see that pig ove Kentucky. Opening day saw the Boston Red Sox beat the Washington Senators 1 to 0. Note The New York Farm buthere by the fence? Yes. reau, strongest state unu in ONeals Bric-aBra- c Guns Man a Well, then, that other pig nes organization, threatened to with draw if he didnt support the Gil- to it. That one is ditto to lette bill to take the FCA out of first one. h Metal Feeds German With i Judge Sumners Statement Outlines General Situation Judge Sumners put his finger on the spot He told exactly what the situation Is. But the judge did not go quite far enough. In my opinion. When It was popular to pass must" bills that were drawn by braintrust-ers- , professors and theorists, a few years ago, congress passed those bills. Congress added to, expanded and exaggerated the powers of the bureaucrats. It has created such things as the National Labor Relations board, the Federal Trade commission, the Agricultural Adjustment administration, the wage-hou- r division of the department of labor, the Securities and Exchange commission and scores of others. Indeed, it willingly handed over to all manner of persons the powers to do the very things that Judge Sumners pointed out should never be done under democratic processes. I wish there were more space available that I could give samples of how some of these agencies have used the powers given them by a formerly subservient congress. They can be summarized only in this space by showing that, for example, a citizen is accused of having failed to comply with a certain regulation which is just like a law. The bureau or board having charge of administering that law calls the citizen to account. The federal investigator inquires into the situation, makes a report of the facts" as he sees them. The board may or may not accept those facts. If it accepts them, as it usually docs, it makes them its own findings. Under many present laws, no court can review those facts. It can receive the case to see whether the board has applied the law properly or not. But the finding of facts" must remain forever in the record. They are accepted as true, regardless of how crooked, how stupid or how wreaking with Injustice they may be. The bill passed by the house, and now up to the senate, will let the courts of justice see tho'e facts. Whether the senate will pass the bill Is, as I have said, a matter of some conjecture. The senate ought to pass it There probably is need for some amendments. The bill is far from pci feet. It has some great gaping holes in it. But the principle is one of great importance to all persons who believe that the courts wire established to insure justiee for all and that no liw ought to be enacted which would hind over Ju t3ici.il power into the hinds of individuals who can do ns tiny like without fear of a spanking from our federal court sjstcm. Plan Wallaces control and restore the old pound of flesh mortgage policies which previously prevailed. INDIGESTION the Heart may affect hi Gas trapped in the stomach or pillet may Passport Fingerprints. the heart At the first bird of fl. The war in Europe has put a bandamart men and women depend on Beil an Tabt a w gas free No laxative but made of the age on the thumb of a certain state vet acting medicines known for and indigestion. W FikhT DOSE doesw t prove B ana better p'j" department official in Washington. buttle to us and receive DOUBLE Money back. Twenty times a day he removes the bandage and uses that valuable thumb in the departments official A Working Day business. Life is a short day; but it is James E. McKenna, of the passday. Activity may e port division, validates every pass- working to evil; but inactivity cannot port issued for travel to Europe by led to good. Hannah Moore pressing his right thumb on an Ink pad, then stamping the fingerprint in two places on the passport one print on the picture of the applicant, and one on the facing page. His fingerprint is on file in every , U. S. consulate abroad, and through it U. S. consuls can establish the Read This Important Message! validity of every passport. Do you dread those trying 62)? Are you getting moody, crank? The application must first be NERVOUS? Do you fear hot flashes, " t-the t?? vT N It division chief, passed upon by ening dizzy spells? Are you y IVLibit tions other women get? THEN Mrs. Ruth B. Shipley, but Mrs. Ship-le1 hese symptoms often result from lj who is a neat and comely young functional disorders. So start today and $ famous Lydia E. Pinkbam s Vegetable l widow, prefers not to press her finpound. For over 60 years pinkhamit ger on the ink pads. pound has helped hundreds of thouw grateful women to go Bmiling thru w To a Insure clear print on every A man with a platform is John Pinkhams has hepd calm jj nerves and lessen annoying femsis Vause of Beautaukus, N. C., whose passport, McKenna keeps the thumb tional irregularities. One of the name is spelled wrong In the ad. protected with a rubber bandage. (ue woman a tooics. Try ttf His offer appeared in the Raleigh He removes it only when there is Old metal isnt junk in Germany. It helps imperative necessity. provide the sinews of News and Observer, owned by Joswar for the glory of the fatheiland. Pictured at top are German citizens This is the phrase governing IsDaily Growth ambassador to MexDaniels, ephus turning in old iron, copper, brass, lead to a clearing house. Below: ico. Vause says his platform consuance of passports to Europe. Since I dont think much of a r The same metal after it has been transformed into g the war of sists an agricultural allotment shells. began, Americans have who is not wiser today tha Hitler himself set good example by donating the bronze doors of the administered by farmers for been forbidden to travel to Europe was yesterday. Lincoln. plan new chancellery to the cause. for any ordinary purposes. Passfarmers. ports were called in, and are not reissued unless Mrs. Shipley gives the nod of approval and Mr. McKenna Salt Lakes NEWEST H0m gives the stamp. It was not a nod but a negative shake of the head which Mrs. Ship-le- y gave to an American dowager recently who wanted to go to France. The woman had lived in France, and had cabled servants to ship her belongings to this country. So she came to the state department and requested a passport to France, for the imperative necesf H sity of bringing back her pet dog ' z The passport was not approved and Mr. McKenna did not remove the bandage from his thumb. I c b Willi "I1 Iri V. os, , y, f. A death-dealin- Oxygen Tent Saves Chimpanzee Patient Economic Acc Vj" ti m American Royalty. Jay Newlin is a worker on Secretary Henry Wallaces Pioneer-Iii-Brefarm near Grimes, Iowa, and when Grand Duke Otto von Haps burg visited the place recently, New V i ii d Baboo, three- - tar old chimpanzee, pu lured with his owner, I d Mrass-burin a Miami, 1 la., hospital, wlnrc tile clump batlh d for lus life against double pmumoma lie is Miown just three days uflcr emerging from an oxvgen tent. Baboo was given the same treatment accorded humans stricken with the same Illness. g, Economic trouble shooter for Germany, I)r. Gerhardt Westrkk studies the background of the country where he will employ his genius for the fatherland. He is charged by Hitler with improving commercial tics. In acted as his guide. Afterwards friends asked Newlin what he thought of the royal guest, who had been visiting at the farm. Oh, I guess hes a nice young fellow, said Newlin, but the only that cuts royalty any ice with me Is in cattle and corn, Hofei TEMPLE SQUARE Opposite Mnrmoit Tfp' EIOULT EECOMMNntu If at- Rates $1 50 to $300 mark of distinction this beautiful ,n,JcWk funfst c. ju.i n |