Show 0 national topics interpreted by william bruckart washington one of the outstanding biens to be noted in t the h e washington minority political s I 1 11 t u awakes I 1 up tion these days Is 13 the renewed courage and strength being gathered by the minority there Is no longer any doubt about it the minority in the government consisting first of dyed in the wool republicans and second lyof old line democrats who cannot quite follow all items of the new deal have begun to pull back for the first time since president roosevelt came in there Is at least a real opposition party astute students of politics and government insist it is a most healthy sign and I 1 that it will make for better government er in the end there has been opposition to a great many of the roosevelt policies heretofore but a considerable portion tion of it has been just silent mumbling and grumbling most of them seemed to be afraid of the widely advertised roosevelt popularity throughout the country codil try mr air roosevelt Is popular more so perhaps I 1 than any president we have had in miny many years but the support so represented does not appear to run to all of his proposals it certainly does not apply in favor of 0 nil all of his subordinates the opposition now appears to have found out these facts and they are concentrating their attack I 1 noticed the first signs of it in debate in the house of representative aly s and in the senate where a desire aai was and la Is plainly evident to call a halt new deal plans are not being is swallowed allowed without mastication any more the diio most st important phase of the trend however appears to be in the tendency of the opposition to question tion continued enactment of every kind of legislation under the guise of emergency needs everything up to this time has been pushed through gh with a loud cry of emergency some of it if not most of I 1 it was emergency legislation but now everybody with a pet scheme Is rushing in with it as emergency legislation and it is an overworking of that word that has brought about concentration of the opposition forces according to the consensus abs that I 1 hake have been able to gather from what I 1 have been able to see it is a reenactment enactment re ot 61 the old ald story of giving the call calf too much rope it Is ell choking oking itself to death the importance of tills this trend perhaps Is best pointed out by the fact that there are dozens of units of tile the new deal setup that are predicated wholly on the fact act that they were proposed as a part of the general program for recovery I 1 think none can da doubt abt that the depression has presented an emergency just as great us as any arising under a war but when any war was concluded the emergency was over then and there and emergency legislation was neither passed by congress nor sustained in courts one might possibly conjecture a bit as to where the emergency ended in the fight to get the economic structure back on a prosperous tooting footing but the new developments certainly show a considerable sid erable number of leaders in congress and outside who are unwilling to have the emergency continue forever it might be natural to assume that the moi movement ement to halt enactment of eme emergency agency legislation had developed naturally from the tact fact that this Is an election year tor for the members of tile the house bouse and some 35 members of the se senate nate political analysts of long service and able judgment assure me however that this Is not the whole case they say that existence of a i campaign probably has strengthened the backbone ot of some of tile the opposition but that the trend more properly represents the divergence of thought in the two schools of students of government it if that be true as it appears to be then we may expect to see more and more assaults on the roosevelt po every time lie he slips with an error of judgment oi or on bad advice and he be Is human and those slips have and will come the 0 opposition iian can be counted on to make the most ot of it for example and as indicating hov the lineup Is changing attention neca need only be changing called to the op lineup position that has been encountered in the house bouse on new agricultural legislation mot most ot of these bills are designed to go further than the program laid down la in the agricultural adjustment act and to use compulsion rethe pres present ont new deal philosophy has baa been based on voluntary operation cooperation co from agrical ture itself there are halt a dozen or more pieces of legislation the nature of which need not be recounted here that would give the federal government added control of farm era affairs one ot of them tor for instance would give the secretary of agriculture authority L ut hority to tell a farmer what to do with the land taken I 1 out of production by his agreement i to limit acreage of cotton or wheat or corn corli or tobacco most alost observe ers here construe that legislation as giving the government absolute domination over the farmer and I 1 suspect that most farmers are not cot going to stand for that at any rate this and other proposals are moved forward because there Is an emergency but I 1 have seen signs of a reaction among the ke farmers they are signs that never fall representatives from agricultural areas have been getting mall mail from home and there are many of the house members who now insist it Is time to call a halt frankly I 1 hear frequent sharp declarations that the professors in the administration have gone far enough that moans means votes against again st the bills yet tet the professors are hard workers they never cease to turn out new plans and the proposals continue to flow from the white house to the capitol among tile the newer projects Is one that proposes to establish a set of government banks to aid what the promoters describe as the small business the plan contemplates creation of the regional banks much after the manner of the federal reserve bank with the treasury supplying plying the initiation capital to the extent of here again is an emergency measure it Is pointed out however that tile the protect project banking for Is designed for or industry permanency it is therefore a move by which the federal government through a stepchild step child would be put lato into the business of barkl banking Di for or industry and of cou course so once that happens the system will ban hang on and on it wll will hold bold so much commercial nurcill paper representing loans that there really will be no time when it can call quit and retire from business I 1 was talking with a rather well known senator about the plan the flip other day and he voiced his private objections most vigorously ile he suggested that there was grave danger of the industrial loan system being strongly influenced by politics and that this conditt condition on would surely lead to the making of loans im properly secured loans that no sound bank would dare make 1 I will tell you just how far that thing could go he added it could easily reach the point where it if a business man wanted to borrow money he would have to go into the bank on the arm of an office holder another piece of legislation that Is going to have rough sledding is the roosevelt tariff adjustment proposal it says on the face of the bill that it Is emergency legislation down in the text however there Is a provision that any of the international tariff agreements reached under provisions of the bill may be renewed and that they will continue in force as long as one nation or the other parties to the accord do not give notice of cancellation the opposition holds this to be a proposal tor for permanent legislation under the guise of emergency plans some of the few republicans left in the senate and house have been chiding the democratic leaders about the tariff proposals of the adminis cration because they would delegate to the president and the tariff com mission more authority to revise rates upward or downward than now exists the republicans are recalling to their democratic friends how the democrats fought against this idea when it was proposed by president coolidge officials of the department of agriculture ri admit little about reported criticism they re farmers belve they con oba object tend t that h a t cratl cism Is to be expected and that under tile the AAA plans being molded by administrator dais dails the organization and rules are to be kept flex flexible ibie I 1 u understand however hoever that there Is quite a bit of objection reaching the department about the tl necessity acs alty for farmers allowing government agents to examine their records the reports I 1 get are to the effect that since most of the facts have to be ba gathered by county representatives of the washington government many fa farmers amers do not like the idea of neighbors knowing all ab about on t their afra affairs irs I 1 have inquired around to find out whether there Is anyway any way that such a condition can be corrected and have found no answer except the statements of the high officials who argue that there Is little examination necessary the condition seems to be one that must be expected if the concerted effort contemplated by the AAA principles of crop control are to be effective the situation Is one that obviously and naturally develops as the government wades further find and further into private business most persons recall the circumstances that came with the inauguration of the income tax as a system of raising federal revenues business men objected vigorously to granting government agents the right to dig int into 0 their books and records records ie cords but their fight was to no avail 0 by western Nea newspaper paper union |