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RECOVERY ACTS tOE OF ROOSEVELT a. a HIT BY C G. G 0 O. O P. P t. t r-r r kl Abuse of Power Selected by Republicans for CamBi Campaign Campaign Cam- Cam Bi- Bi Slogan t J By LYLE C. C WILSON United d Press Fresl Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON ASHINGTON June 24 24 ChaIr Chair Chair- man nan Dickinson of the senate senale Republican lican campaign committee opened the for the n next congress congressional ion ion- al 1 elections today with the declaration declara declara- tion n that President dent Roosevelt's emergency emergency emer emer- gency gency ncy program was breaking down ft own weight tWe We are going into the campaign en the Issue of abuse of power Dickinson Dick Dick- inson iDon told the United Press It n has become evident by this time that it impossible for any man toi to i administer the tremendous powers demanded de de- de- de by br President Roosevelt and conferred upon him by congress KIt It is apparent that the Roosevelt program can not be administered It Itis is 5 too vast to be controlled CAMPAIGN TO START Dickinson and House Republican Leader Snell arranged at a luncheon conference y yesterday to begin preparations prepa prepa- rations for the congressional campaign cam carn- early next month Dickinson will return to Washington from a tt aNew New England vacation trip on July 6 and nd expects to bring the house and j Senate enate ate Republican campaign committees commit commIt- t tees tee es together immediately thereafter All i All of the house and third one-third of the senate must be elected next year The he c present senate lineup Is 59 36 crat 36 Republicans and one Farmer- Farmer Laborite There are Democrats 1 7 Republicans five Labor Farmer Ites in the house and one one seat scat is vacant va va- va- va cant Seventeen 14 Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic and one Labor Farmer-Labor seat inthe Inthe in inthe the senate are at stake In 1934 PRO m IGNORED Dickinson concedes the Republicans eMS cans will have to fight light hard to win back some measure of numerical effectiveness ef ef- ef- ef on Capitol hill He and his hL i c colleagues arc are discarding at ai the outset the Issue of prohibition It is out of politics j Dickinson said i recalling that his own state of Iowa Iowah h had d voted for repeal of the eighteenth amendment Expounding his contention that the Roosevelt program is too complex tobe tobe to tobe be administered effectively Dickinson Dickin Dickin- son IOn contIn continued ed V We h have ve already sharp conflict between the tariff policies of ot Secret Secretary Secre Secre- t lazy tary ry of State Hull as he expounded t them in iIi London and the protective policies inherent in the farm relief relie bill and the national recovery act o Either international trade is so Important important im Jm- Im- Im to us that we must adopt the thelow low tariff plans of f the secretary ort orthe or orthe t the domestic market is paramount and we must maintain the protectionist program which i is the kernel of ot ther the r recovery overy and farm act acts The cabinet itself is split on that Issue Obvious Obvious- ly both policies can not b e carried ou out l have been tests of th administrations administration's administrations administration's ad ad- ministrations ministration's ability to administer its program Th The first backfire was wason wason on 1 pensions in administration of the act ct to maintain government credit The second was was' on government re re- re- re organization A VING PROBLEM The De Democrats promised to save io with a reorganization plan pIan and congress gave gave- Mr Roosevelt I the authority to do doit it Finally as congress was about to we were offered a economy and d from that sum was haved by agreement to postpone economies ol in agricultural extension work pork The third backlash against the thep p presidents president's ident's efforts to carry out ut his program came camo on the tariff with S Secretary Hull preaching one policy and the farm bill and recovery act demanding a different one t 4 I |