Show 1 national topics interpreted by william bruckart washington Vas hington major party strategy in the present congressional sen attrial campaign C G 0 P has resolves itself hard task into it determined effort bythe by alie democrats to hold the two thirds majority they have in tile house of 0 representatives senta tives athes and an equally determined drive by the republican high command to ta break the strangle hold there of the new deal party the holding of this majority Is of vital importance to the democrats because with a two thirds vote they will be able in the next congress to continue ga g rule which was invoke invoked ed in the last congress and under which it was possible to pass administration measures with a minimum of debate and effort in the light of the outcome in the maine elections and in the face of the size of democratic votes in the primaries in a number of states regarded as rather safely republican before 1932 the G 0 P leadership apparently has a hard task ahead in the last congress the democrats had 31 0 members or 0 22 2 more than a two thirds majority and generally were able to command most of tile the five votes of the farmer fanner labor membership as well ns as the votes of several republicans from wisconsin and from one of the northwestern states assuming in a I 1 farmer armer labor membership in the nest dext house as groat great as that in the last the republicans would have to register a net gain of not less than thirty seats in order to break strangle hold even with such a pain gain the republicans would have to muster their full strength on every vote in order to prevent gag rule the democrats are certain to make substantial gains in the senate and they are by no means overlooking a single senatorial contest democratic loaders leaders in headquarters here have been mentally kicking themselves ever since the maine election that they did not put on a vigorous drive against senator frederick hale in that state they explain privately that they did not do so because they never lind had an idea there was a possibility ot of defeating mr hale because a hale in the senate seante has been maine bradl tradition ilion for generations they detected a flaw in their reasoning when mr hale came through with only a scant majority and this fact has caused them to redouble their e efforts f in other states and particularly in ohio where simeon D fess former chairman of the republican national committee Is up lip for reelection election re in maryland west virginia rhode island new jersey Misso missouri url indiana delaware Delawn re connecticut and michigan nor fire are they even overlooking that citadel of republicanism pennsylvania where david A reed need Is up for reelection the democrats now ha have e sixty members in the senate fo four r short bof of a two thirds majority and n they are anre confident that novem november c see this membership increased by a min minimum linum of 0 five or one more than a two thirds majority and when they get down to cases republican leaders so somewhat m mournfully urn admit privately that democratic expectations may be fulfilled A two thirds majority in ID tile the senate during the next two years Is highly important from the de democratic mo point of view because of the number of important treaties now pending or to be submitted to that body tor for ratification it Is no secret in political circles here in washington that the campaign strategy of talk of those at present Third party ln in command of the G 0 P does not meet with the full approval of some republicans who are arc offering for reelection election re I 1 have had several of if them tell me that their prospects fur victory would be materially enhanced d it if tile the republican high command stayed out of their states or districts these are men who heretofore have been regarded as the regular wing of the party but who hae bie the feeling which apparently patently ly Is becoming more and more widespread among the younger leaders that there must be a re organization of the republican party and a younger and more liberal leadership it if the party Is to regain its place in the american political sun 0 Mean meanwhile hile reports trickle into washington about a movement having its inception on the western prairies for the form formation aaion of a third party several conferences of progressive gres sive leaders already have been held beld and some of those who have participated tell me that the movement Is gaining steadily alt although bough it has had no publicity as yet those participating desire no fan fare as they do not believe tile time 19 ripe for the announcement and that certainly tho the nin movement not be brought into the open until arter after the november elections the fate of tile the pro progressive gres sive p party arty I 1 I 1 tn n wisconsin V in Is as organized liy by rob nob art t 1 SI I 1 ct ln follette tr jr and ills his brother can he be expected to have a n considerable bearing on the plans of those who are viewing the odd field to determine whether a sizeable public sentiment can be marshaled behind the third party movement many political strategists both in the national nation al capital and elsewhere believed and gave expression to their views at the time that senator la follette made a major political error when be came out openly for president roosevelt Roose veli in 1932 1032 this made certain that the democrats would carry wisconsin the state many regard as the birthplace of the republican party and it was equally certain that the astute james A parley farley as chairman of the democratic national I 1 committee would lose no feme in building up a formidable democratic organization through the power of patronage at his bis disposal as postmaster general the vote in the recent democratic primary indicated that lie he had done a rather thorough job but whether the la follette hold on the wisconsin electorate can be broken remains to be seen whatever the democratic majority may m ay be in the next nest senate the new dealers balers are would outdo certain to have kingfish two flies in the ointment w when h e n heretofore they have had only one mississippi Is sending to the senate its former governor theodore G bilbo to join louisianan Loui Louls lanns irrepressible huey P Kin kingfish glish long mr ellbo bilbo who became a newspaper clipper in washington under the new deal has promised his constituents that if they would send him to washington he would raise more ii I 1 than huey long lie he has set tor for himself a very sizeable job because admittedly sir mr long has raised more h 1 since he has been in tile the senate than was raised by even those two theretofore incomparable h 1 raisers cole blease of south carolina and tom heflin ot of alabama they constituted a real team from the south during their stay in the worlds greatest deliberative body but unquestionably long and bilbo will put their record to shame that Is it they team up together senator long has demonstrated during ills his brief stay in the senate that lie he likes to hold the center of the stage with a silent cast about to admire whether lie he will take kindly to another ill h I 1 raiser within ills his own party r ranks inks remains to be seen democratic leaders do not overtook overlook the possibility that if these two team together they might create a schism within It liin tile the party ranks senator long has far outstripped any of the new dealers in some of the proposals which he has made and mr bilbo apparently Is determined determine to keep pace with him if not surpass him there are several democratic senators who might conceivably go along with thorn them as they are not wholly satisfied satis Cod with what they regard as the conservative radicalism of the administration 0 a two pieces of legislation enacted by the last congress with a view to aiding the farmer due for seem destined for Scra scrap pHeap heap the scrap heap they are the bankhead compulsory cotton control law and the lempke frazier farm mortgage bill strangely enough it Is senator Bank bankhead bead of alabama author of the cotton law who leads the revolt against that measure which limited cotton production to ten million bales with each state allocated its respective share of this total it so happens that the total yield was only nine million bales a million less than permitted by statute but peculiarly enough sonic of the southern states had superb weather and raised more than they were permitted to raise under the allocation made by the agricultural adjustment administration there Is a penalty of 30 on every excess bale raised in any state and taken to market mr bankhead would have this tax waived setting up the argument that since only nine million bales I 1 in n till al are available it Is senseless to keep any of it off on the market in the face of a crop shortage the lempke frahler bill in the first test case brought in the courts before federal district judge IV cahan chestnut in baltimore has met the fate which its opponents predicted it would meet it has h IS been declared unconstitutional the purpose of tills this measure was to declare a moratorium on farm mortgages tor for a period of five years it will be recalled that this was one of the measures which was passed by tile the senate in the hectic closing hours of the last session and it Is no secret that many democrats voted for it in the belief that mr roosevelt would veto it find and that even if he did sign it which lie he did the courts would declare it invalid this was merely another one of df the many cases or of p passing the buck which are to be found in tile the annals of the con congress fesq mr roosevelt declined to take tile the huck blick so the holders of farm mortgages T ves were left only recourse to tile courts 0 western union |