Show INSIDE STUFF ON i POLITICS FINANCE Nobody Seems lo to Know What to lo Do in iii Panic W WASHINGTON ll By Paul Mallon lallon The house Is jumping around like liken n a chicken on hot tar The cloakroom political c l panic is worse than is apparent on the sur sun face Leaders of or both parties arc are sometimes helpless Garner and Snell have never seen anything like It in their long careers They do not know what to do Nobody else does does- One day the members vote an increase increase in crease of hundreds of millions of dollars dollars dol lars for tor widows and orphans pen pen- Then they strip the economy bill down to In between they direct the federal reserve to Inflate prices to the 1921 29 average at the same time tUnc cutting salaries Meanwhile the deficit in increases creases Whether the measures arc are good or bad the effect is to make the house home look ridiculous And it is ridiculous a a a Similar symptoms arc noticeable In Inthe Inthe inthe the senate It cannot be depended on onto onto onto to Increase economies economics materially There is stron strong sentiment now for taking the house bill and md letting it go goat goat ol at that Some advocate dropping the omnibus b bill Jl entirely It Is evident a majority favors some sort of ot a federal wage cut They will vill prevail In iii the end They may increase in crease the house figures but not ma a a t a aThe The tax bill showed somewhat the same situation Never was wag there more brazen rolling log for tariff Items Lobbyists thronged the corridors corri corn dors outside the finance committee room thicker than lies flies around the syrup pot Members of the thC committee were frankJ frankly disgusted with each other Some Soma said so publicly As presented to the senate the bill did not soak the rich or poor so much as the average man The wage earners whose incomes range between and a year bore the brunt of the Increases The stock exchange tax was doubled but the income tax of the average citizen was more than trebled That situation will unquestionably be rectified on the floor Prospects are still good for a fairly equitable bill in the end a a aThe The house hysteria is entirely non partisan One minute Republicans cans run out on Snell when he tries to block the Inflation bill The next the Democrats turn their backs backson on Garner when he tries to shave the veterans' veterans appropriations In Inthe Inthe Inthe the press gallery they tell you that whoever called it the house of or monkeys monkeys mon mono keys slandered the poor innocent monkeys Yet there are many men of courage and strength in the hou house e. e For individual intelligence intelli gence it measures above the average It is only when they get together that they swing by their tails Garner arner Raincy Rainey and Crisp lay low dur during n the shelling of or the economy bill bUt They did not once appear on the floor Garner nearly won wona a bet with Snell when they got most of the Republicans to bolt on the Goldsborough bill bUt The only reason he did not was that Snell withdrew withdrew with with- drew from the bet at the last moment Only 47 of his Republicans I remained by his side One was vas McFadden who worked with him like an old time old time pal All or nearly all has been forgiven McFadden by bythe bythe bythe the Republican leadership since last December when he accused the president of malfeasance In office oUke |