Show SID E I IN STUFF Politics and Finance C Copyright McClure Newspaper Syndicate WASHINGTON B By Paul Mallon Treasury Secretary Mills lilIs privately his statisticians to choose a aock aock aock ock bottom basis for lor the new trea- trea STY ury estimates Ills purpose is to dEs lose fully funy the simultaneous need for economies and revision of to balance next years year budget These figures will contain the first act aa air news for the Democrats sl since 1 icy won iron the election They will be to accept full responsibility r balancing balancing- the next budget That be a harder job than you now alize It may bring a coalition set set- p It nearer 4 f I The administration will tr try to drop dropic drope ic e idea of exiting gracefully in favor tavor before March 4 Mr Hoover has decided against it I e has so informed his associates ere confidentially Governor Go Roose Roose- cit has passed down similar word to lose tose in a position to speak for him That means unless bu business iness men in- in st the swap will not occur before le e time appointed If business delands delands de de- lands ands the change it may yet be ar ar- a a a Senator Borah is laying low He a revolution at the polls but c did not expect it in his own state Results there threw cold water on one onic ic e c various plans he was ready to for or at the coming short session hat means his driving force for or in- in and war debt settlement will vill willan willIn In an at half speed or less H He will feed on small potatoes rath rath- r than the usual Idaho whoppers a a. a T His tactics are furnishing a cue for II 11 returning Republicans They arc lying nothing about it publicly but attitude is Well you Demo Demo- rats rals won the government Until you ike ke it dont don't ask us what to do a a That underlying feeling will un- un dominate the short sea ses- on Ion Republicans will undertake very ery me Itle on ou their own initiative Re- Re will be thrown fully on onIC onie ie IC Democrats even before they ame ome m in That means all legislation possible Continued on Page Two 10 I INSIDE STUFF Politics Politic Finance Continued train nom rage raco One Ond will be put off until a special session of the tho new congress in the spring Such a n special session is almost a certainty Governor Roosevelt hanot has ha not yet intimated to his Washington connections whether he wants it Buthe But Bu the situation will prevent his exercising ing lag much choice in the matter Congress has so much business pending that much will be left over at the end of the short hort session Tax revision war debts government reorganizatIon reorganization reorganization re re- re- re organization and other pressing malters matters mat mal cannot be delayed until the nex next regular session in 1933 0 0 A well known mouthpiece for tor PresIdent President Pres Fees ident Hoover looked at the election result as follows If U George Washington or Abraham Lincoln had run ran In Mr 1 Hoovers Hoover's place the result would not have been dlf ferent You Just cannot conduct a campaign like ours when corn Is sell seU tag for tor 7 cents and wheat for 40 cents It was wu hopeless from th the tho start tart W We won wen a lot of votes with our campaign n. n When we first went went into Into such states state as 35 Ohio and Minnesota I no one was for us We knew what was coming and we are not a bit surprised A lot of ot our people wanted th the president to come out for tor beer at th the last In my ray opinion we would have hav won no votes by that action I II think we did the best we wo could under the circumstances and I havno have hav no re regrets S 0 Merchants locally took swift advantage advantage ad ad- vantage of the Roosevelt victory in cheerful advertising New pep slogans gans gaas ans were spread everywhere to help generate a better feeling O 0 K America Lets Let's Go Boy Wasn't That Tha Thata a 1 Depression and similar ideas S 00 Usual bitterness was entirely absent from the highest administration administration ad ad- ministration circles here after the battie bat bat- tie tle was was' over A genuine desire to be helpful toward economic recovery was everywhere expressed The campaigning campaigning cam cant cabinet was ws especially expressive expressive ex- ex ex cx- privately in this regard Also the White House attaches 00 The biggest administration exodus from Washington u March l 4 will me conducted by the Smoot satellites The defeated Utah senator has obtained more mort Jobs in the government for tor natives of his 1115 state than any other official The whisper Is la that they will be among the first to go when the new Democratic regime comes in Senator McNary of or Oregon came back to Washington a week before belore anyone knew he was here He was working privately to push through h the Chinese wheat deal Announcement of its consummation consummation con con- summation Is due duc from the JR n. 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C shortly It is another a of of- those things held up on account of the elec clec- tion NEW NEWYORK YORK By James McMullin Already there arc are rumbling at Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- headquarters of a 3 sectional battle for the plums of victory The southern and western representatives of the party working here are arc trying to stake out claims against what they fear will be a preponderance of eastern east east- ern and ern-and and especially New York York ence The battle will center first around cabinet selections It is worth noting that this is the first national Democratic victory since the civil war var except for the three party year of 1912 In which the electoral votes of ot the solid south were not necessary to success Southern participants who have worked here are arc frankly apprehensive that they will not have as firm a seat in the saddle as they would normally ex expect expect expect from a Democratic win Signs Signa are arc that their apprehensions may be justified 00 a 0 The New York angle is shown up acutely in preliminary cabin cabinet t discussions dis dis- dis going on around headquarters ers Candidates favored for orno no lets less than han five of the ten posts hail from this his state The list includes John W W. Davis Norman Davis or Frank Polk for or secretary of ot stat state All are arc New Yorkers although the first named mi might ht technically qualify as a West Virginian Owen Young for secre tary ary of the treasury Jim Farley Parley for postmaster general Jesse Straus for secretary of commerce and Frances Perkins for tor secretary of at labor These may work out quite differently differS differ in order to avoid geographical offense The state job is almost cerain certain lain ain to go to one of the three named Young may be offered the treasury post jost but is 15 unlikely to accept Melvin Traylor of Illinois is s rated as more probable Carter Glass of Virginia Virginias is s widely accepted as a possibility ex ex- ept for tor his h health alt Sectional problems will wiIt also worry New Yorkers in connection with the headships of important senate com corn Western radicals who supported supported supported sup sup- ported Roosevelt arc are figured to have no chance at the cabinet but can present a strong case for retention of their jobs as committee chairmen Three of the important committees committees commit commit- tees ees are arc of ot concern here Hiram Johnson is head of or the commerce committee com corn Norris of judiciary and andLa LaFollette La LaFollette Follette of manufactures Their normal normal nor nor- mal successors in a party shift would be Fletcher of Florida Ashurst of Arizona and Ellison Smith of South Carolina These men are distinguished distinguished distin distin- by party regularity at least and they are not apt to yield their prerogatives tives lightly Joe Robinson of Arkansas Arkansas Demo Demo Demo- cratic senate leader leader holds holds the key t to this his problem The word is active here that he has promised to support the Republican insurgents New Yorkers York York- ers rs will keep his job in the new v senate sen sea ate from front being all beer and skittles S 0 The Sao Paulo revolution in Brazil is by no means finally squelched Hos Hos- s were postponed on account of ofa a busted treasury but the rebels willbe will willbe be at it again if they can raise the necessary funds Argentina and Uruguay are arc In favor fa favor fa- fa avor a- a vor of ot the Paulistas but advised them themo to tolay o lay low until times are better If the he rebels ever win a battle in the field recognition from train the thc so south th willbe will wille be e prompt President Vargas Vargas' own province of Rio Grande do Sul SuI would be delighted delight- delight ed d to join the separatist movement if Sao Paulo did not riot insist on hogging the he show A working agreement may yet be reached in which cas case you mi might ht have the odd spectacle of a president pres pres- ident dent siding with secession 0 0 Meanwhile the Sao Paulo coffee surplus is piling up Experts here estimate estimate es- es there will be enough coffee on hand and by n next May to take care of at the worlds world's demands for five tive years I a The economists economists' round robin in favor favor fa vor of lower tariffs gave Professor Bonbright of Columbia some embar embarrassing rassing assing moments Bonbright got a number of colleagues from other universities uni to join in with the under standing landing that the statement was not noto nott notto t to- to tobe o be used for political purposes Af Af- ter er the thc signatures were obtained Bon Bon- right bright turned it over to the Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt Progressive lea league cue with the implied im im- im plied stipulation that hat the gin gle would not be played up Whereupon Whereupon Where Where- upon the league made a whooping campaign document out of it The joke was that nearly half of the he signers were supporting Hoover They decided not to express their annoyance publicly because the least said aid the soonest mended |