| Show I f I I i 1 STUFF I Politics AND Finance i t f ht per Syndicate WASHINGTON By Paul Mallon All AU these squeals you OU hear bear from house Republicans about Democratic control are entirely true In the days of the minority had more rights than It has been riven given lately Not only is freedom free free- dom of speech curtailed but no one is permitted to even surest suggest an amendment amend ment meat from the th floor Since March 4 not a single Important I tant tint bill has been riven given normal house consideration On only one occasion the the home home- loan mortgage bill did bill-did did the Democrats permit the Republicans to offer amendments The usual procedure Is for the college college col col- col lege lee professors to get the legislation in shape e offstage They hand it to the leaders and the leaders jam It through the house as Is 9 e 0 a aNo No one is objecting very ery ly lYe Even the Republicans will tell you behind their hands that they are screaming creaming only to make a record of They realize it would be dangerous dangerous dan dan- to let Jet the house vote on all the pet theories of members as riders to the administration bills This is no notime notime time tim for lor rocking the boat Also the party in power has the responsibility re re- r for legislation It will be beheld beheld held accountable by the electorate o e o Speaker no not fit in with the role of czar He is a liberal at heart and h has s against the rules he is now defending He is isa isa a mild-mannered mild man who has no fire f f of voice or eye When asked about the strict rule on bill he replied the truth securities in a bI hearted bIghearted hearted w way y Well we let the Ret Republicans talk for or five fiske hou hours What do they want v i. i r 0 0 e. e 4 You Yon never hear much much- nt nowadays clay bout about the R p lt th ire r-ire are doln doing plenty plent S The Snells 15 and ancl Mc- Mc are privately ly playing along with the western Progressives wherever wherever f ever they c can n. n They hope some day the lost sheep M stray back into the fold Wadsworth i is II keeping Continued on Pa Page Face e Two to IN INSIDE INSIDES SID E TUFF STUFF S Continued Prom From Fate pue On One Jarly quiet but he be Is Snella Snells right right- arm In the house These boys bos are completely snubbing the old Hoover crowd which Is II workIng work work- In Ing in the opposite direction trying to bounce the Progressives Progressive through Republican federal associates It looks very much as if there e will willbe III be a a. fight eventually between these two wines for control of or the party Ca Secretary Ex Mills is the only go go- between playing with both wings The congressional crowd would like to have him with them but are willIng will will- Ing lag to let the Walter Browns Doaks et al aI go The Mills Mills' light fight against Inflation In was WiS not exactly a success but buthe buthe buthe he scored at a big private dinner party here recently His speech Impressed Impressed Im Im- Im pressed the politicians of both par ties lies Offstage he is the most active living Republican The Republicans ans started to set up tIp a I powerful opposition publicity outfit here but decided against it There were two reasons this is s a bad time for lor opposition Patriotism Patriot Patriot- ism sm demands support for Mr Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's economic proposals or silence as far as possible AI Also Alo o you cannot start powerful ity without with out money Raskob- Raskob wrote Raskob-wrote wrote checks for tor forthe the he Democratic publicity setup after alter Al Smiths Smith's defeat It plenty No Republican has either the inclination in or the check book to play angel now a a aA A certain cerain ain woman secretary Jo to o a a Democratic congressional leader Isone is isone isone one o of the leading lobbyists against the army armi cuts She is the wife wic of ot an army aviator and does not care for tor the bill reducIng reducing ing Lag flight pay and the furloughing of officers at half pay She is telling all alland alland alland and sundry the injustices of the legis legis- lation but cannot win over o her own congressman He Ht will vo vote for the bill The boys in the know are arc tic ic about the United States States- chamber of commerce following Mr Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's advice and increasing salaries alarie Some industrialists in the audience privately suggested it is too early to act yet They thought if it prices prices' continued con con- to improve during the next 30 o 60 days they might do something that line along It Is whispered d on n the the best bed authorIty author author- ty Ity that the confidential figures of or he the budget bureau originally failed to 0 Include the June 15 war debts p pay y meats ments Our officials apparently thought the they would not nd receive the mone money x A AH AU that was as changed chanced Just Jast before Premier MacDonald arrived Budget calculations since then have been made with the expectations that hat the payments will be received Lord Snowden former chancellor Is s understood io have advised his sue suc successor cessor celSor Austin Chamberlain to include in in- elude clude debt p payment in the British budget Britain's Britain Inside hope of evading evad evade In tug ing payment is not robust a The Japs are arc getting too clever eleser for heir own good Nobody in jn the state department here a fooled at t the by byplay by plaY It was all a apro prearranged prearranged pre pre- arranged oriental trial balloon First the Manchuk o foreign minister minis minis- iter ter er vigorously announced the open door loor policy would not be followed in that hat part of China Tokio cupped its ears to get the world reaction It came swiftly London Paris and Washington said nothing officially but roared underneath Thereupon the Japs immediately I denied the assertion of ot the foreign minister in They said aid he was only fooling The open door will wille b be e preserved a Where they made their big mist mistake ke was vas in planning such an absurd strategy strat- strat egy gy egy It exposed their whole hole position For or months they have b been beating their heir breasts breasts' from Geneva to Tokio nd back again claiming was an independent state They denied denle de do- riled nied ardently that they had seized the terrItory and created a a puppet state They forgot all that when they undertook un undertook undertook to guarantee the open door a. a a When a relative of one of Mr Hoovers Hoo Hoovers Hoover's vers ver's secretaries died last week Pres Pres- dent Roosevelt unostentatiously sent flowers 1 Congressman Shoemakers Shoemakers Shoemaker's Shoemakers Shoemaker's Shoe Shoe- makers maker's charges against the the federal federal judge rudge in Minnesota i were ere accurately stated to the house he has hasa a good goodIm im- im case but you probably will hear tear little more about jt it Making charges harges and proving them are two iwo different things southern A Democratic Demo Demo- cratic congressman made a trip through Michigan last week and returned returned re- re turned with private assurances to the leaders that the he country is per percent er cent for tor Roosevelt A 1 Republican senator clai claims s the tone of ot his mail mall maillas has las changed recently and that he is receiving many letters letters' from the farm belt less enthusiastic about the president president dent than 2 t few weeks back You Youcan Youcan can an take your choice b but bitt t probably iL a. as usual the truth is somewhere midway midway mid mid- way between NEW NEWYORK YORK By JaDi Jamrs New York banks have bavo confidential from front England that feeling over ver there Is extremely bitter blUer against the he United States Our failure to pay British holders holden of American bonds In Ingold Ingold gold old was an excuse for th the outburst of emotion The British are convinced that the depreciated dollar depreciated dollar Is ii 1 a threat to their actual economic existence because of or Its effect on their trade rade Mr Roosevelt's Roosevelt suggestion for a a. tariff truce truce- until the world economic conference Is II not not expected expected to get rd of- of tidal British approval Important p po- po and financial Interests Interest there favor avor an aggressive trade war as their only salvation The Anglo Argentine trade arrement agree arre agreement ment Is II extremely significant from this Ibis angle Britain decided at the Ot Ot- taw awa conference that she would h ld onto her supremacy In Jn Argentina n D no matter what It cost are philosophic about the growth of of commercial and financial rel relations editions between the United States State and Canada They figure that physical proximity makes that Inevitable But hey Intend to use ule Argentina as asa a a s abase base for a vigorous campaign to take bite our South American business away rom us byway of compensation They figure fleure that Argentina will eventually dominate the southern louthern continent British Investments In Argentina are at present about five times as am I great as am ours Gun They own all the Ar A Argentine gentine railroads Our capital Interest Inter Inter- est uta there are Arc chiefly In small tr trUon traction ira trac lion tion telephone and meat packing concer con con- cerns On the other hand the best beat estimates esti elt mates mate say lay that our Investments In C Canada are aro now f Barter than n En- En 1 glands gland It Is b hard bard to ret get the ex exact figures because of ot devious devices employed by American capital to duck the Canadian Income tax a a e a eFrench French full busted fashions In Jn Argentina Argentina Ar Ar- gentina have taken the play away from Crom American manufacturers Our models are too slim for tor the South American figure while French standard standard stand stand- ard fashions fit without alterations a a. a One reason why the British are nrc so o frantic on the trail of stabilization is 15 because the gain of the pound against the dollar adds tremendously to the burden of their heavy funded debt Its It's a question how v much more the British commercial taxpayers can stand The publicized stabilization fund will have to buy more French bonds in the future i if it Is to operate France has no wish to export more gold to England There is Js a limit to how far the British can safely invest in v vest st In French credit which credit which will be another handicap In the exchange struggle Stabilization operations have actually actually ac ac- ac been called off until until the the dollar begins to settle a bit of its own accord ac accord ac- ac cord Getting trapped in a short position po pa- on pounds against the natural tide L is too big a risk for the British exchequer er to swallow a a a aThe The o official I American adviser to the French foreign office Is Leon Lean Fleischman formerly connected with the New York World One f of his functions Is to translate French official of communications Into language appropriate to American psychology Insiders here say that his role Is bigger big ger than It looks looks that that he may fit Into the picture as s e Morgan did in Persia had bad nothing to do with the announcement about French propaganda prop prop- Aranda In the United States Neither did any French official of importance It appears to have been Issued through one who who Is if described de do- scribed by Americans who know him himas as a sort of French Buey Long a a a Colonel Sherrill of Sherrill-of of parade fame ameis' ameis ame Is is' concerned concerned- with the organization of the bus people of the country The inland transportation interests using the highways led feel that the Interests using r rails have aroused public opinion ion unfairly against them In some states the railroad lobbies have been highly effective A united front on the tha part of all alt the interests concerned could make a pretty good showing for far their case cose Matters have not ot yet come far farenough farenough enough to indicate establishment of ot a headquarters Beer Is credited by Jo at analysts with an Important share In lii the better better- seasonal ban improvement ment In car car- loadings last month a aa Many leading New Yorkers wish that hat the president would urge the states tates publicly to step on the gas for repeal They contend that resulting tax ax revenue would enable the government govern ment to amortize reconstruction and relief relIct expenditures In Jn a v very cry few years a aa The Harriman tangle grows seri serio ous our Steps to withdraw the interests of the Liberty National National on on n the ground that the merger was based on will misrepresentation will probably prevent F. F C. C loan even against liquId assets Nobody knows what the would have left 1 If the Liberty's Lib Lib- erty's assets were withdrawn j s' s France according to l Informed ob oh- observers observers servers Is add adding In to her h r gold rold store In anticipation n of of's a run on the franc c. c Seven Seve and and a half haIt tons of or gold cald were sent recently by airplanes from rom Am Ams Ams- to Paris a a a Friends of at Judge Gerard believe that hat the only post that would interest him would be bc Germany but those close to the administration do not think there is any likelihood of of his being offered it James G. G MacDonald MacDon MacDon- aId ald chairman of the Foreign Policy association may be selected for this gravely important post postS S a Prophets Prophet here are looking loCking to see lee Hitter Hitler shortly Involved in an unemployment mess men of or astronomic proper lions lons It hump Imay may finish him a a a aThe The c Soviets have ve ve put onto their state and collective farms great drafts of their heir ablest people from the factories schools and armies For or the next two years they will organize food tf nr t V Workers of ot this this caliber have never before been seen ceen in the rural dis dis- An early spring 1 and improved technique have put the planting many millions of acres ahead of last year National sowing is organized competitively much as was was the handling of at American supplies at the French ports during the war The e Volga mid Ta Tar Tar- ar republic has won the award for first fint finishing their sowing quota They threw a grand grand' celebration Rigid rationing of ot food in the cities has las met the severe shortage caused by y extravagant ind industrial expansion Spring dairy products have bettered conditions and morale Higher quality Ity ty and yield per acre rather than Increased increased in In- creased acreage is the objective The crisis may be met successfully Curtiss P DaUth Dali Ball the presidents president's son son- law has formed stock exchange n has s a firm irm under the name nazme of Curtiss Dall DaU Co CoWall Wall WalI street veterans refer to the he firm as Babies Just Babies Standard Oil of at New Jersey Jersey aRock a Rock Rockefeller elder company company will will shortly move its ts sales sales' offices to Rockefeller Cen Cen- one way way of ot getting ten ants The purchasing power of ot the doUar lar In terms of ch cheese ese shrunk by 40 per cent its Us partly in in- and partly beer beerA A tock stock market marcet market mar- mar ket veteran was was asked how how how-he he was making out In the new bull movement His response was Well Vell at least I I owe leSSo less |
