Show national topics interpreted by william bruckart washington president Preal dent Roosevel ts determination to advise congress as it leaves for home after smart the current session politics of some of the things that he be wishes 8 to present for its consideration next be at january has injected a new dow factor actor into the forthcoming political campaigns most of the careful observers here think his maneuver was politically smart they take the view that he actually has presented to the country and the voters the general outline of his future legislative program in order that he can have something of a mandate given the representatives and senators who are chosen in this falls elections I 1 seen any signs yet that will indicate how the republicans and other anti roosevelt forces will attempt to meet this new factor but it Is quite apparent they will force debate upon many of the projects of the new deal that have already been enacted into law as well as ag the embryo plans contained in his late messages some leading thinkers around washington have suggested that mr roosevelt Is taking advantage of the natural attacks that will be promoted by the opposition in order to ascertain for himself whether he has gone far enough with his social reform movements it seems there can be no DO doubt that he will be in a position to know the temper of the country after the voters have heard beard his various new deal items discussed and it Is being suggested almost in the same breath that it if the voters strike down many of the administration wheel horses and those who have stood by the new deal the administration will not press some of bf the more far reaching social legislation that mr roosevelt mentioned in the series of messages lately sent to congress examining the proposals such as old age pensions unemployment insurance revision of principles relating to minimum wages to meet practical instead of theoretical conditions and several others one can hardly escape the conclusion that only the submission of 0 theta them at this time when they will become fodder for or campaign debate will trill enable the country to know its own mind in other words as I 1 see the picture it if the country as a whole wants such far reaching changes in its laws it will show it by sending proponents of such proposals to seats in congress I 1 have heard beard some discussion however to the effect that in taking the hold bold step of 0 giving congress advance information 0 his thoughts sir mr roosevelt was seeking at the same time to present a more complete picture of 0 his new deal by so doing of course he naturally can expect that proponents of 0 the reform ideas will have something more to use in advocating retention of the changes they will not be in the dark as to what the future holds many of thorn them will have added confidence especially it they have become a bit shaky about the course that the president Is following at any rate it 1 the democrats emerge from the fall all elections with anything like their present strength the congress that meets in january 1935 will be as tractable or more so than the present one anyone can see the president would be unable to put over his new deal without an obedient congress hence he be Is staking that need too by disclosing plans in advance a 0 it Is not too much to say that there has been a tremendous stiffening of backbone in con trouble gross gress in the last several weeks it brewing has been more pronounced noun DOU Deed ced I 1 believe than at any time since sir roosevelt took over the reins so there might possibly bo be some trouble brewing on capitol hill this condition Is regarded by some as being the more clearly discernible because the president frankly said he did not urge enactment of his proposals at tills till session there mere has been no secret about the fact around here that mr roosevelt wanted to get congress out of town at the earliest possible date I 1 have heard it suggested even that h he had hoped he be could get the leaders to bring about an adjournment before the allver question got out of hand but that do doire desire ire was lost if he entertained such hope uc he has had to swallow some silver legislation which it Is quite apparent he does not like Pol poetical I 1 expediency made it necessary no one here has been able to explain just why the stive rites have been able to muster so much strength there are ony only seven silver states and from the political standpoint it Is to be assumed that they cannot wield the power that Is inherent in ID legislation U on affecting the more populous areas but bui the silver bloc has persisted in its efforts has been recalcitrant in many ways and it never was licked completely As far as 1 1 I 1 am ain concerned I 1 cannot see where it is going to be of 0 any ally particular help but the silver advocates tell me I 1 am wrong and whatever else may be said bald their views forced mr bir roosevelt into a corner where lie he had to take a small dose of 0 silver medicine it was easy to bee a week or so ago that if the president had been able to off the a little longer he would have succeeded in getting an adjournment before he was wag compelled to agree that the count rys money sh should be backed by 25 per cent of silver coin or bullion financial sharps assure me that actually the legislation on sliver silver will do nothing more than raise the price temporarily to those who have silver to sell f senator boraas recent outbreak on the presidents proposal for authority to negotiate necip boraas bocal tariff agreements outbreak with forell sa nations is typical of of the dangers confronting the administration in a session where adjournment Is too long delayed senator korah borah though a republican and a member of the minority in congress has a strong following in congress and throughout the country when he arises in his place therefore and challenges the administration urges the country to return to constitutional government and says there Is a niche alongside of washington and lincoln tor for a brave leader to preserve a free government when senator boroh borah makes that challenge a good many persons are going to ask whither are we going the borah speech was such a ringing call for clear thinking that I 1 believe his concluding paragraphs are worthy of 0 recording for further dissemination we have had bad emergencies before have had more than one hour of peril the constitution has been sufficient and efficient in all instances and now of all times we should show our faith in and our devotion to our form of government now more than at any other time in our history we should by word and act demonstrate the faith which made this republic and which will preserve it in the midst of world turmoil washington pinned his faith to constitutional democracy that steadfast soul neier wavered never doubted in the midst of civil war lincoln declared that the government of the people for the people and by the people should not perish from the earth there Is a niche alongside of these two immortal defenders of free government for the brave american who in his place of power accepts the challenge of these apostles of terror and fanaticism of these enemies avowed enemies of rree free government and of personal liberty and against all comers declares his faith in the efficiency and the worth of the republican institutions and his determination to maintain and preserve them in all of their integrity at any cost and at all hazards it is to be noted that senator torah borah made no reference to any individual now entrusted with power ills challenge was to the new kew deal in its PD finety according to the opinions that I 1 have heard expressed from many directions I 1 have heard views that the borah speech probably would arouse more fright among opponents of the new deal than anything that yet has happened the inability of some government officials to c carry arry out assignments given them ding hits dent roosevelt as snag a result of overlap plus of f authority or assumption of power by others under the complexities of the present governmental ern mental setup has begun to attract attention there are numerous instances that can be cited but lately I 1 encountered one that appears to me to be typical mr roosevelt Koo sevelt brought J N dar ling alln who Is probably one of the great est cartoonists of our day to washing ton as chief of the biological survey mr Darll darling ng ghose signature dins ding Is known far and wide Is a zealot in his desire to restore game birds and animals to the numbers of earlier years the biological survey Is a unit of the department of agriculture funds with which mr darling was to acquire waste land timber swamps and swall swail were to come from the vast appropriation tion managed by secretary ickes iches of the department of the interior there was ws to have been and mr darling said when he came to washington that he believed a splendid job could be done with that sum tie ile proceeded upon recommendations of it a presidential commission to make plans for acquisition of the necessary lands and was moving at a steady pace when lot lol he learned that mr ickes ackes had declined to make the funds available as planned numerous conferences conference followed secretary wallace of the department of agriculture and mr darling were said to have figuratively wept on 01 each others shoulder they tried to lind find some borne way to got get the money trans berred so that the work could go BO on and I 1 understand did get made available from somewhere in the alie various alphabetical organizations in the meantime I 1 am told secretary ickes was determined to have his hip own inspection made of lands pro posed to bo be acquired notwithstanding the fact that mr roosevelt had named a commission for the specific pur purpose potI ot of locating the sites etc also la 10 the meantime it has been disclosed that the original has 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