Show Critics Assail President for His Moderation By BYRON PRICE Chief of Bureau the Associated Press Washington Contrary to most expectations President resident Roosevelt is encountering his lis first real congressional Si- Si tion ion not from those who fear he may maybe maybe maye be e going too jar far ar in precedent breaking break breakS ing but from rom those who think he is not ot going far enough The loudest complaint relates to toIs his Is attitude altitude toward inflation on and his refusal to support the outright currency currency cur- cur rency expansion proposals advocated by y so many congressmen He is criticized d too for his ion to a direct price fixing provision In n the farm bill because his mortgage mortgage mort mort- gage age bills do not nol scale seale interest rates down own as far as some farm organizations ions want on the score that his banking banking bank- bank ing ng bill and its administration by bythe bythe the ic treasury do not take broad enough nough control over state banks WHAT QUARRELS QUARREL'S ABOUT It is argued by some that he should include in his program a plan to guarantee guar guar- antee bank deposits that he has been too oo hesitant about supporting organized organ organ- zed labors labor's thirty hour w week k bill that hat he has disappointed silver relief advocates by refusing to come out for or free silver In foreign affairs as soon as he invited invited in in- the heads of the more ous us powers to confer here he was criticized for not having extended that lat leadership to all the nations of th he the world Then when he included in n the invitation the half halt hundred countries with which the United States tales maintains diplomatic relations a demand arose that Russia also be consulted All along the line the attack has been led most vigorously by those usually identified with the radical elements of ot American politics Summed up the indictment is that he e is too conservative ON X TIlE THE OTHER SIDE It is true that some including t the e titular Republican leaders have complained com com- that he is too radical This complaint however has been discounted discounted dis dis- counted largely on the score of a natural natural nat- nat ural ral partisanship and its ts effect on Congressional action has been ble le The effect of the other ther accusation is not negligible The complainants are re mostly men of Mr Roosevelt's Roosevelt Rooseveltown own wn party part or else Republican Insurgents gents who supported him hini for dent ent As a result Democratic control in both senate and house is more and more mor troubled by internal strife strife strife-al- al alays ways ays a dangerous thing There is unusual food for thought in n the refusal of the house Democratic caucus to bind itself on oria ona a rule which would ke keep p inflationary and other radical legislation legIslation frowned frowned on by byle bythe bythe the le administration administration locked locked up in committee QUESTIONS ARISE Two questions questions' now arise Is this congress after alter all ali a great deal cal more radical radicals or progressive whichever term you prefer than prefer than Li IS Mr Roosevelt Roosevell Will he hc be obliged in the thc end to depend on or the votes of the conservative conservative conserva tive ve Republican n wing to stave of off legislation he dislikes Only the events vents themselves can supply the answer |