Show STUFF F F Fc f r B By PAUL M MALLON LLON 1 WASHINGTON Feb 1 You I-You You cannot can not beat this administration for smart politics 1 Just when all aU possible tricks seem to have been tried along comes Mr Roosevelt with a new one r f The latest is the unprecedented manner in which he submitted the stock market and communications Issues to congress Instead of sending a I message making specific recommendations recommendations for legislation as all aU presidents presidents dents have done he merely slipped an envelope elope under the door of several several several sev sev- eral congressional committees The envelope contained recommendations no not from him but from two boards he to study the stock market and ind n communications problems He said absolute absolute- New Pol Politics t cs ly nothing about II Shown By what he wanted or Administration how when or orf f where he wanted It k r Concerning the communications report re re- report re- re port he advised the congressional committeemen to come up and see him at the proper time That was wasU Ill U U. U UBy By y refraining from specific recommendations Jn the president also refrains refrains re ye- trains from taking a chance on getling get get- ling Ung his fingers burned about such d doubtful Ideas S 0 t The method seems to be bethe the third phase of f his his' well conceived plan for controlling congress ss C. C The first phase was his opening message to the session Instead of ol submitting the customary legislative program r gram he offered some Orne Ideas about what a great thing It was that they viere were all pals together Then when he Opposition x r really e a 1 II 1 y wanted to s some me specific leg leg- JC Catch h Up later he hey hel y l sent up a fast mes mes- saFe lage demanding action on It It and only it t tat at at once Witness the money bill billand and nd th the supplemental relief relict bills The idea has worked brilliantly It If a lull full legislative program lm had b been n submitted 1 at the opening of the Continued on Page O Two INSIDE INS INS' D E STUFF Continued nom irom PAre page One Ona session time would have been offered offered of of- for formation of ot the usual opposition opposition op op- position blocs As it Is the opposition cannot get get- started i By By- feeding out his re recommendations tons from time to time Ume he controls even Ven the subject to be discussed In congress The same day the stock market and communications letters were left under under un un- der des the door the president sent a n message message mes mes- sage in the customary official l chan chan- nel nd He asked for more for the relief program He left no doubt about what he wanted done on that question a a a aNew New Yorkers who knew Mr Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt veil well at Albany are arc amazed at athis athis his bis skill in such matters They point out that he ho did not Real Smartness handle the legisla- legisla Is Displayed ture th the press and By Roosevelt the OPP opposition 0 sit ion party with such cleverness as he has exhibited since he came to Washington There Th re are two answers to that One is that Mr Roosevelt knew much more about the inside of ot national political political po po- machinery when he came to Washington than he knew about the state political machinery even when he left Albany He w was here for eight years during the Wilson regime observing and learning The answer specifically applicable to the congressional angle is that he hehu has hu had the wholehearted confidence of three or four very smart veteran legislators Vice President Garner Senators Byrnes and Pat Harrison Congressman Congress Congress- man Rayburn as well as the nominal leaders have been of valuable assist ance The house leaders have been working work work- ing lag close to the presidential program They have already passed four of the nine regular appropriation bills Those Thos nine arc are about the only bills which must be passed before adjourn adjourn- ment Speaker Rainey has bas already sent out word that the house will clear up its business shortly and start star howling for action from the senate It will take three day recesses anc ard center the attention of the country on the laggardness of the senate With such pressure the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House figures it will get rid of con con- easily by April 1 gross gress NOTES It is a tribute to the army that Administrator Hopkins is looking for army officers to fill C W WA A posts The army array men have been notably free from graft suspicions in all their work with Muscle M Shoals rivers and harbors etc However someone In or near the war department must have leaked to Wall street on that announcement recommending purchase of more army planes Aviation manufacturing ing stocks started going up 24 hours before the announcement came out Curtiss Wright Curtiss-Wright Wright rose from 47 to 75 and then fell ba back k to 54 in the two two- ho hour market boils r market session Saturday y before th the announcement was made Many country banks are asking their New York advisers how to invest invest in in- vest their deposits It is the first time in years that these banks have bave had new money for investment It seems t to to-be to be another result of the new gov gov- eminent expenditures a a aA A small northern Virginia new pa per published an editorial last we week k demanding that Senator Carter Glass Class resign and let someone represent VIr Vir- in the senate who will support the president Several papers reI reprinted re s-c. I printed the editorial Glass Glass' will no nobe not be influenced by such an attack except ex cx- possibly adversely Copyright 1934 by Paul Mallon I |