Show Brit charts washington digest wisdom of cons li lu lion Is seen in i revolt of house on spending not politics alone involved in congress opposition to presidents SICIl spending ding policy response to will of people tit at last reflected in Al Members embers 1 action by WILLIAM BRUCKART service national Natio nall press illda washington 1 D 0 washington the constitution of the united states that document that has served us so well not with standing the ratzing razzing given it by enlightened thinkers of recent years s ays in article 1 that all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representatives it further says with an emphasis that no moneys shall bo be drawn from the he t treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law there Is of course nothing at all now flow in the above paragraph it Is important however to remember those provisions of the basic law of our notion nation for in them again we see wisdom and a rather clear understanding of what happened lust just before congress adjourned its first session it Is as though the authors of the constitution were laying a prophecy when one considers the recent revolt of tile the house of representatives senta tives against president roose volts spending lending program and by the way during the debates on this program it become became known us as tho the program among those terrible people who opposed ita it I 1 assume that throughout the land there was much talk about the revolt against the presidents policies for current spending os as being purely politics I 1 have heard from many sections of the country and the story was the some same politics that Is only partly true obviously tile the house members had their weather eye on the political aftermath of what they were doing when they refused even to give consideration to mr Roosevel ts spending lending plan that originally involved more than they considered politics too when they refused to debate the merits of the housing bill although I 1 believe they should have debated that thing in order that tile the country could know that it would have cost coat several billion dollars of taxpayers money before it is flin allt wound up GO CO years hence not politics alone moved house to oppose president the refusal of the house members mein bers to do the bidding of the chief executive must be examined in something moro more than lust a political light how evoi ever because of the two provisions of the constitution that I 1 quoted it must be recalled that the authors of the constitution contrived to build a national legislative body with a 0 dual purpose 1 to represent the union of states which Is accomplished through the senate and 2 to represent the individual citizens which Is accomplished through the house of representatives the house therefore Is held to be the body more responsive to individual thinking among the people and to react more quickly to changes in public sentiment that matter of having taxation originate in the house therefore is seen to be an attempt to reflect jn in the ale legislative acts the willingness or unwillingness of the people to stand for taxes since the house members must stand tor for election each two years again when the constitution sold said that appropriations had to be enacted as law before money Is paid out of the treasury there was a patent curb on w wild ild and profligate spending the house being closer to the people first felt the call of the people for government spending and responded since the senators too are elected by direct vote of the people they also heard the siren call and voted out money with the greatest of case but the house led themay th the eway way lately however there has been a change in that individual thinking the majority of the people have begun to wonder where all of this spending was going to end they began to wonder how the national debt now well above would ever be paid they smelled fresh taxes the senate heard but failed to heed this new call senators chiseled and nibbled at curtailment but they did not put their mind to the busin business essof of cutting expenditures tures it was the house that led the way again and as I 1 said earlier they acted definitely by refusing even to debate the two cornerstone ner stone blus bills the spend spending ing lend ing bill and the housing bill action of house reflects will of people on spending it Is made to appear therefore that the concept of the constitutions authors was correct they felt that the house would hear from home as we say these days and the house hs has heard politics alone was vas not responsible except insofar as politics represents the shifts in position that statesmen must take to meet the changes in public sentiment the tha bulk of the people it seems have suddenly awakened to the fact that something must be done about the continued spree upon which the federal government has been engaged aged in the last five ir eix ys the refusal of the house to act can not bo be catalogued cataloguer catalo gued otherwise than as reflecting the will of the people for the politician who knows his onions seldom Is seen going in the wrong direction if the votes of his constituents aro are concerned whether tile ho economy wave th that at swept through tho the house in the last few weeks of a session that Is destined to be historically important will be maintained in the next session of the seventy sixth congress of course Is a matter of conjecture it Is to be noted that primaries for nominations come along early next spring ond and summer following those primaries in natural sequence ore are tile the november elections if the mem bers bera of the house and senate who have balked at running the federal government further into debt take tile the same position in tile the session starting next january then I 1 ani in to the opinion that our cur not nation I 1 on will be on the way out of its troubles I 1 always hedge statements about congress however because politicians will sometimes place party above principle they rn might ight deem it necessary to buy a few votes with taxpayers money in advance of the primaries next year whether the representatives and senators have such ideas in mind or not I 1 wish the voters would put ev cv cry one of them on the spot by demanding to know whether they are going to let tills this nation go any further into debt the debt now is so largo large that each of us Is going to pay and pay and pay in taxes and after wo we have passed on our children and theirs will pay congress failed to see that money was properly spent 1 I always have opposed congressional action that delegates power settled on the congress by tile the constitution ution in these columns there has never been any deviation from that conviction since 1033 there has been a constant trend in the wrong powers been given the president time after time particularly has this been true in the matter of handling money congress obeyed the dictates of 0 the constitution by appropriating the money but it did not do that which thero there certainly is a 0 duty to do namely see that the money la Is spent properly in an examination of the latest spend ing lend ing scheme put tor for word ward by the president and rudely shattered by the house therefore it strikes me that another device to get more power away from congress was being proposed in the first place there was little if any hope that recovery could come out of tile the program we have seen only slightly different schemes flop annu ally for or several years further these plans that are temporarily out of the window appeared to me to be a trick to evade tho the low law in that the financing was to be done dona without consideration of the national budget and finances none of these new debts would show in the budget the program resembled a road that is cut around the edge of a town to avoid the business section a by pass i respecting the merit of the spend ing lending bill itself there Is little in my opinion to warrant its adoption in plain language the proposal would have socialized credit in the united santes State sand and I 1 can not bell believe leve that the united states la is ready to take up state socialism after the manner of mussolini or heitur presidents hints sound like dihe admission of failure the smashing of the administrations scheme of course did haves have its political repercussions and mr roosevelt feeling the toe of a stiff boot as he obviously did feel such a political blow will be carrying his case to the people soon he said in a press conference one day that uie the people were entitled to know who was responsible meaning the congress lie he also suggested that the people ought to know in advance why there would be more unemployment and why there would be new taxes to pay tor for relief AU of which sounds rather like an admission of failure that is to say these schemes of spending of pump priming of creating new and greater debt au all have failed in returning the country to anything like a normal condition we have nothing to show for something like ODO so expended excepting tho the bonds of the united states government that are outstanding new dealers however are still battling I 1 noted one of them said the other day that an extra session of congress in Novem november bor of this your year was surely a necessity that proposal will bear watching I 1 have talked with many many leaders in congress men of long epperle experience ace and understanding and noni nona of them believes tn lin extra session to be necessary released by western newspaper New paper unon |