Show THE DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY MERRY- ROUND MERRY ROUND GO GO ROUND I Trade Mark Drew Pearson and Robert S. S Allen Authors Author of Washington Round MerrY and More 1 oro Round Merry W WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-As As the gavels gaveL f fall u this noon in the house and senate two factors feature the third seventy-third congress One is the fact act that it is bewildered docile and ready to eat o out t of the presidents president's hand The other is Ls the fact that while a thousand and one changes have taken place in the policies policies poli poll cies des and personalities of the administrative end of the government the rows of seats on the floor of congress hold the same old faces clinging for forthe forthe forthe the most part to the same old policies which the New Dealer In the White House discarded long ago S Usually congress comes back from several months months' away from Washington loaded for bear and ra rant n to go It cuts out for Itself the role of chief rein check-rein on the president and keeps that role until the last rap of the gavel in the spring This is a system which under our government government government govern govern- ment of checks and balances is not so bad during during during dur dur- ing times of prosperity but at this session of congress it is going to be pretty well scrapped The rhe legislators may blow off oft occasional bursts of steam like the trial bombs which Missouri Senator Dave Reed echoed against the aluminum aluminum num nuin works of the House of Mellon last week but on the whole they are in a docile docHe frame of mind and ready to listen dutifully to the Great White Father S S S Look over the list of leaders of the c con congress can can- n- n gress and it is s easy to see why this is so Most of them specially the Democrats Democrats' have only a nebulous idea of what the New Deal Is all about Th They are out of place with the progressive young men around Roosevelt While stirring and momentous changes were taking place inthe inthe in inthe the administrative side of the New Deal DeaI they have been interested in politics and petty patronage patronage patronage pat pat- at home I THE SENATE Titular boss on the Democratic side Is bull bull- voiced trigger-tempered trigger conservative Joe Robinson Robinson Rob Rob- inson of Arkansas widely unpopular but holding holding holding hold hold- ing fast to his command through weight of tra tra- Between Joe and the New Deal there is little in common except the supreme court Joe is ambitious And he is giving iving the president per cent cooperation until the next supreme court vacancy occurs S. S S S The brains of the Democratic leadership Inthe inthe in inthe the senate is is' the party's patty's wiry witted nimble-witted whip whip Jimmy Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina He never loses his temper has sound political judgment is unassuming working hard-working and above all knows how to cooperate Although a staunch conservative it was to Byrne Byrnes that the president turned for the real command of the I admi administrations administration's program at the special session THE ROUSE lOUSE Over in the house titular Democratic chief chieftain tain fain is Speaker Henry T T. Rainey a veteran of 31 years' years service addicted to Jeffersonian democracy democracy democracy de de- de- de and Windsor ties In his hey day the New England born mid midwesterner westerner was a militant dissident Now loaded with the high honors of his coveted post he be is content to let others do the warring S S S Majority Floor Leader Joe Byrns tall taU gaunt like Rainey is another veteran with 26 years of congressional service Hardworking work Hard ing lug earnest Byrns is of distinct conservative bent Much of the new deal experimenting he privately dislikes But he is isa a regular and will willobey willobey willobey obey orders Robert L. L Doughton a North Carolina Carolina Caro Caro- lina ilna mountaineer and cattle raiser rIser served for 21 years as an inconspicuous member of the house and its ways and means committee Suddenly Suddenly Suddenly Sud Sud- denly Bob was pitch forked into the chairmanship and arid the cry went up Who is Doughton Daughton The answer came came when despite wide nation-wide agitation and enormous pressure within his own ranks Doughton grimly set his face against a sales tax He joined forces with the dynamic Republican progressive LaGuardia and together they killed it John McDuffie of Alabama young youngest t and ablest of the Democratic leaders is boxed into the innocuous chairmanship of the insular affairs affairs af at- fairs committee McDuffie made the mistake of being Garners Garner's candidate for the and after his defeat was promptly relegated to the background However when a really tough job of floor leading is to be done the party turns to him and he produces S S Bert t Snell of New York leader of the Republica Republican Re- Re Re Re- publican minority has never recovered from his party's smashing debacle in November 1932 He really believed Hoover would be reelected NO CORE COKE If these floor loor leaders had their way the session session ses- ses sion slon opening this noon would be long drawn out and thunderous with oratory But in comparison comparison com com- corn com parison with others sessions it will not There will be the usual appropriation bills sheared to suit the presidents president's wishes There will be tariff bargaining legislation tion strengthening strengthening strength strength- ening cuing of N R A labor provisions stock market curbs additional grants for relief and public works some som changes in banking legislation and possibly in the securities act All of which will be enacted with an obedient obedient obedient obedi obedi- ent eye on the White House For its occupant still has bas his apple in his hand band is munching it with great gusto and maybe there aint going to be no core Copyright use 1534 by br United Feature Inc |