Show INSIDE STUFF By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON Jan 5 In S-In In two years yeans President Roosevelt has quietly developed a very shrewd technique for handling congress It is something some some- thing like the one Aunt Sarah used on Pecks Peck's Bad Boy keeping l him m inthe in inthe the house to remove him from temp temp- ta tation tion The president has already started using it again on the new donal session You should see see the delicate White House touch behind two r recent cent moves Roose elt Gain regarding social re- re StroD Stronger er Hold I form 0 arm r m legislation On Congress and munitions In the first place Chairman Pat Harrison issued a Q call cal early carly i in November for lor his senate finance committee to meet here after Thanksgiving to take up unemployment ment insurance The meeting has not been held yet The reason publicly offered Is that the report of at Mr Roosevelt's cabinet committee was not r ready dy In time That is true but if you dig into It you will find that the cabinet committee has not tried to break any speed records records rec rec- in preparing its report Obviously Ob Ob- Ob vi Mr Roosevelt does docs not intend in in- tend to let congress play with that tha dangerous issue or any other until he is ready The president handed i out a lot o of unspecific orde orders in his open opening ing lug message but he will reserve specific clUe recommendations on the important important tant issues until later These specific playthings he will feed out one by one Thus attention and pre pressure ure will willbe be lie centered on them preventing pre CO conI congress con con- I gress from running off oU with them chan changing ing them or tiring of them Thus also Mr Roosevelt will always al at- ways be in control o of the legislative Program He will control what is ls t to be considered in 1 Roosevelt f Pr Proved congress by sub Shrewdness In ln milting only what wha Munitions Probe he wants considered consid ered from rom time to tl time mc A variation of that device dc was used J L Continued d on Pt Pale Paie e Two INSIDE STUFF Continued from tram Part Page One ne b by the White House in the munitions matter In that case Mr Roosevelt seized the brightest political toy of many a year a-year right out of or the hands of oC Chairman Nye of or the senate mu investigation committee As Nye Nyc was cas shaping it up the issue would have been public operation of munitions manufacturing Mr Roosevelt had other plans He practically filed Mr Nyes Nye's the storeroom when he advanced the trie substitute substitute sub proposal to limit the war profits of ot makers By such tactics Mr Roosevelt has been able to make himself the master moster mos mas ter of congress more effectively than any president before The congressmen do not like it any anymore anymore anymore more than young Pe Peck k did but there is Lc little that they can do about it except grumble to and they are doing that The main difficulty Is to that considerable considerable consid consid- erable confusion is caused at times and occasionally the congressional leaders look ridiculous They rarely know very far ahead what they arc are expected to do The They say or do things which they must retract or do over again when they get specific Newsmen wandering through the corridors of oC the house and senate office office of fice buildings during the last few days have faced a Arriving Inc Solons reversal of t the h c Hunt Reporters usual newspaper ne To Learn News processes Instead of or i n a t congressmen for lor news the congressmen congress men have been interviewing them for news The congressmen men right now do not know any more about what they are going to do this session than you do if you have read the papers daily That situation is expected to continue through this session as it did last seSsion ses se seS- seS sion Most of ot the reporters are making making mak mak- ing arrangements to cover congress mainly from the White House lowe as usual a There was considerable private criticism among senate Democrats because because be be- cause their floor loor leader Senator Robinson Robinson Rob Rob- inson remained at home in Arkansas so long He knew what he was doin doing doing- I It is customary for the leaders to tol assemble here about two weeks before before be be- I be-I fore ore the session opens in order to lay plans for it This Thus year Senator Robinson Rob inson irison came on the scene only a coupie couple cou cou- pIe of ot days before the opening gong If It he had been here a month ago UH there re is nothing he could have done except to find chairs in committee rooms for tor the boys who have b been n standing around Copyright 1935 for The Telegram |