Show I TOE THE DAILY Y WASHINGTON Round Merry Round MerrY S Mark MarkBy MarkBy By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN V WASHINGTON WASHINGTON- f- f Railroad interests have good reason for being so so jittery about Senator Burton K Wheelers Wheeler's impending chairmanship of th the senate senateS Interstate Commerce committee Their fears that he will give them plenty of heartaches are sell grounded The militant wing left-wing Montanan already is secretly at work on a breath He is preparing a bill to be introduced as soon as the new senate gets down to business providing for ownership o of the railroads under undera a nt corporation similar to the theT theT theT T V A. A Wheeler is too realistic a politician to be believe believe believe be- be lieve that the measure has hns a chance of passage at present But Buthe he plans to hold thorough public hearings and start his agitation Government ownership is Inevitable he says A UA number of the systems already are arc in hock to the government through the R F C C. Senatorial Race Horse Hiram Johnson much-loved much senatorial war warhorse warhorse warhorse horse has arrived from California California straining for forthe forthe forthe the senate to get under way His trouble accord according according ac ac- ac- ac cord cording n to Mrs Johnson is that he was vas nominated nominated nominated nomi nomi- by all tickets had no campaigning to do She observes You cant can't ti tie the legs of a race horse and then bri bring g him out to watch the others race He goes crazy v Note On the day Johnson Johnso a arrived alved here a telegram from the secretary o o. state of California informed him that his ills total vote was the biggest the state ever polled for one senator Two Dates 1919 Newton 1919 Newton D. D Baker secretary of war submitted a report to President Woodrow Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- Vilson son recommending that a government corporation corporation corpora corpora- tion be created to manufacture and sell to farmers fertilizer to be produced at Mu Muscle cle Shoals 1934 Newton 1934 Newton D. D Baker counsel with James M. M Beck for Edison Electric Institute bitter foe of new deal water power policies writes a brief declaring unconstitutional the Tennessee Valley authority a government corporation corporation corporation cor cor- empowered by congress to sell Muscle Shoals power and fertilizer Wall Vall Street War far WarThe WarThe The Securities Exchange commission is preparing preparing preparing pre pre- paring a report for congress which when published published published pub pub- will be a real weapon for the Wall Vall Street faction now struggling to rid the stock exchange of its its' House of Morgan domination Under the stock exchange control act the theS S SE E C is s directed to report to congress on the rules and election methods of stock sto-ek exchanges The findings on the New York exchange it is whispered are hot and blistering Its election system according to the S SEe SEC E C report operates this way The administration in power selects five of its number to pick a nominating committee This This' committee commit ee in turn chooses a slate of of of- of There is no alternative ticket Exchange members vote either for those hand picked for them or they dont don't vote at all By this rotten borough system it is claimed that the Morgans have been able to keep pom Jom- pompous om- om Old laId Richard Whitney as president of the e exchange change despite strong opposition That the exchange rulers ruler see the handwriting handwriting handwriting ing on the wall wan and are trying to stave off federal federal federal fed fed- eral intervention is indicated ed by y their action last week in naming two dissenters on the 1935 nominating committee But the maneuver failed to placate the opposition Inside word is that it refuses to be IDe satisfied with v the sop of a amir mir minority representation on the nominating committee committee com corn demands not merely a house cle cleaning of incumbent officials but liberalization of the ele election tion system Canny Move love Wily Vily Senator Charley McNary is back on the job quietly pull pulling ng wires behind the scenes Throughout Senator Bill Borah's recent uproar over house cleaning the G. G O. O P. P hi high h command McNary said nothing But while Borah was shouting the Republican floor leader acted i Without any blare blare of trumpets he appointed North Dakotas Dakota's dashing insurgent Republican Gerald P P. Nye Nyc as chairman of the Republican committee e on committees This body is a powerful powerful powerful pow pow- erful party agency It decides committee as as- as And the chairman has a determining ing voice in the selections With Nye Nyc at its head it is certain that the Progressives will get th the pickings the Tories the leavings The full fuU significance of McNary's canny move is indicated b by the fact Nyes Nye's new post formerly was held by Pennsylvania's Old Guard Senator e-Senator David Reed This is the first time in the thc history of the G G. G O. O P. P that a liberal has held the chairmanship S Prize for the most courteous gesture in the rec recent nt congressional campaign is voted to Connecticut's Con- Con defeated old guard Republican Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Walcott When he heard that Senator Pat Harrison was coming corning into the state to campaign for his Democratic opponent Walcott wired in inviting inviting inviting in- in Pat to stay at his home during the visit Harrison declined but told about the invitation in m his speeches United Feature Syndicate e Inc Lao r to |