Show T THE E DAILY DAnY WASHINGTON Round Merry Round Merry Merry-Go- Trade M rK By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Legislative Legislative history to be made made on Capitol hill during the next six months will be written chiefly by the senate In this thick carpeted arena will be unfolded the real drama and color of the session Unhampered by gag rules no longer subdued subdued subdued sub sub- dued by by- bythe the desperate economic depression which two years ears ago awed it into submission and manned by a record number of aggressive independent fighters the new senate w will be bethe bethe bethe the scene of ot fierce and momentous battles And the probability is that these battles will not be so much between Republicans and Democrats Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- but between right and left groups within the administration itself That probability lity is the most significant thing about the coming session It is indicative of the fight that may come throughout the nation It is the reason why conservative business business business busi busi- ness once supremely critical o of Roosevelt now is more friendly It is the big question mark of the new deal Can the president cope with elements clements within with- with tin in the country and within congress which are arc much more radical than he ever thought of being To many once shocked by Roosevelt's left of oC center policy he is now considered the real bulwark o of ot more conservative interests Terrific Test The president as so often demonstrated Isa Isa is isa a master politician a genius m in n handling men But never has he met a test as rigorous as that which confronts him in the senate IOn J I JOn On one hand he lie faces abo about t 20 Progressives men of accomplished strategy of great courage with determination to shape a legislative course more liberal than the new deal To them party labels mean little There are almost as many Republicans in this group as Democrats On the other hand Roosevelt faces about 25 wool the conservatives men thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- out of step his pol policies cies men who would wreck the new deal if they could To them also party arty labels mean little Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Glass of Virginia Byrd from the same state McAdoo of California all California all Democrats Democrats- are more virulent in criticising certain new deal aspects than many Republicans In between these two sits a much larger group of about 40 senators most of them read ready to go whichever way the president points It Itis Itis Itis is upon them he must chiefly lean Senate Leaders His senate Democratic leadership is of pronounced pronounced pro pro- flounced old guard complexion Floor Leader Joe Robinson has captained the Democratic side of the senate for seven years ears and his high-handed high boorish manners aroused such resentment that there was open talk two years ago of ousting him Since then Joe has climbed off his high horse has soft-pedaled soft his underlying conservatism The Arkansan is no liberal but he does the presidentS bidding Pat Harrison chairman of the finance committee committee com corn is s a close friend of Barney Baruch and has a hard time keeping step with the new deal With the treasury treasur planning to submit a program program program pro pro- gram of drastic tax revision Pat may find himself himself himself him him- self going in the opposite direction Jimmy Byrnes a first term South Carolinian holds no major comm committee chairmanship but buthe buthe buthe he is the presidents president's personal liaison man Byrnes is no new dealer but the president has no abler supporter on Capitol h hill hilK lL Left Wingers But the eyes eres of the public the attention of the senate itself will not be on these leaders The focus will be on the potent and tumultuous left wing group In it are some of the ablest and most spectacular member members the of senate Bronson Cutting Republican Mexico returns to the senate despite the fact that he was bitterly opposed b by the president whom he helped elect His Ihs legislative plans will give Roosevelt many unhappy hours Burton K IC Wheeler of Montana begins his third term under the Democratic label but with no obligations to an administration which did not lift Hit a finger in er for h him m. m William Ed Edgar ar Borah has an additional grudge against Roosevelt other than mere poli poli- cies Jim Farle Farley has determined to defeat Borah when hen he comes up for reelection in 1936 Huey Long dictator of Louisiana as aspirant irant lo to the presidency and a far wilier operator than generally given credit will return to Washington Washing Washing- ton with red in his Jus eye over the administrations administration's efforts to en ensnarl snarl Hueys Huey's cohorts in tax cases Homer Bone almost more Socialist than Democrat comes fresh iron a tremendous power fight victory in Washington Mrs Hattie Caraway of Arkansas who al although although al- al though no vigorous crusader votes more consistently consistently con con- for wing left policies than almost any man in the senate Hiram Johnson of California who despite a great personal affection for the president does docs not hesitate to battle with him on matters mallers of policy Bennett Clark of Missouri who despite a wool the Democratic background is one of the keenest and most forthright liberals in the senate Bob who although only 40 years old begins his th tenth year as senator with a record for vigorous and consistent r radicalism All thc these e plus many others otherl from the rebel rebel- lious IOUS Norris of Nebraska to the quiet Costigan of Colorado will make the seventy fourth fourth senate en sen- nate n- n ate one of the m most st interesting in decades 1035 b pei Inc |