| Show THE TIlE DAILY WASHINGTON Round Merry nd Trade Mark MarkBy MarkBy By DREW PEARSON EARSON and ROBERT ALLEN V WASHINGTON Bruce WASHINGTON Bruce Kremer genial elephantine dc- dc ele eIe- national ex-national committeeman from Mont Montana Mon Mon- t tana na has added another luscious plum to his elongated list of lobbying connections He has become the representative of or the Dollar shipping shipping ship ship- ping interests Despite his friendship with Homer Cummings and Daniel Calhoun Roper however he has not succeeded in preventing the shipping board from pocketing the salaries of Robert and Stanley Stanley Stan Stan- Stanley ley Dollar DolIar Their pay of each as executives of ot the American mail line together with large fees from other Dollar DolIar subsidiaries has been kept until they pay up back interest on ships purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased from the government The shipping board unconcernedly deducts their pa pay from the check which Jim Farley is supposed to send the Dollars for carrying mail Parliamentary Shutout Mark up a a. a complete rout for the senates senate's would-be would of the N R A A. The administration retired them with no hits no runs no errors The shutout is the slickest job of parliamentary strong-arming strong to the credit credi of the White House in this session of con congress ress When the move for the investigation was first launched it looked like a sure winner To begin with it was a double attack One resolution offered jointly by North Dakotas Dakota's Dakotas Dakota's Dakotas Dakota's Da Da- Da- Da kotas kota's Republican Jerry Nye Nyc and Nevadas Nevada's Democratic Pat McCarran called for an inquiry by the senate commerce committee Head Hea i of this body is New Yorks York's carnation- carnation wearing Royal S. S Copeland cool toward the administration ad administration administration ad- ad ministration and cooler toward the N R A A. A He was all aU set for a thorough probe The second resolution was sponsored by Utah's old guard Democratic William King and provided for a probe by the judiciary committee commit commit- tee of or which King and Bill Borah a bitter bitterN N R A foe are members This trick was performed by having the theN N Nye Nye-McCarran McCarran e resolution referred to the f fi finance finance fi- fi nance committee safely committee safely and by Mississippi's loyal White House order Pat Harrison Under Pats Pat's deft manipulations the resolution resolution resolution tion underwent a vital reorientation He wrote in a that the investigation be undertaken by his committee This means in effect there will be no investigation The committee will hold hearin hearings s but under Pats Pat's tutelage it will hardly scratch the surface Postal Jim Parley Farley has evolved a unique way of housecleaning Republicans from his postal ser ser- vice His inspectors have been extremely busy of late examining the accounts of postmasters un under under under un- un der civil service who cannot be removed except for cause As a result many of oC these these especially especially of Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican vintage vintage are are receiving n notice of dismissal dismissal dis dis- missal on the pretext that their accounts are arc slovenly or a few dollars short Many new Democratic appointees on the other other oth- oth er cr hand have been found short considerable amounts without getting the ax Two Fronts It is not often that a man has to go before congress and defend both his own qualities for office and a major piece of legislation which he has written but that thai thatis is the fate awaiting Marriner S. S Eccles governor of the federal reserve bank His name is up for confirmation by the senate sen sen- ate Simultaneously his bill paving the wa way for a central bank is before the senate And Carter Glass dyspeptic chairman of the banking banking banking bank bank- ing subcommittee which has three questions before it doesn't like either Carter wants to call caIl Eccles before his subcommittee subcommittee subcommittee sub sub- committee and put him through all the pa paces paces- es- es both on his personal qualifications and on the bill he is sponsoring The administration tion is trying try ing to get Eccles' Eccles confirmation out of the he way wax first then go to bat on the banking bill bIB If it does however it is sure to arouse the fighting fury of the choleric Vir Virginian Brother Statues The only blood relatives among the capitols capitol's collection of bronze and marble statues are McDowell McDowell Mc Mc- Dowell and Greenway The Kentucky surgeon surgeon sur sur- surgeon geon Ephraim McDowell McDow elI who died more than thana a hundred years ago was v the great grandfather of General John Campbell Greenway of Arizona Arizona Anzona Ari Ari- zona whose widow is Arizona's sole representative tive in congress The army clings to its polo The pending war var department appropriation bill provides for encouraging of the breeding of horses suitable suitable suitable suit suit- able for the army S The item of the social security bill providing for instruction in in maternal care and child health is in jeopardy and may be excluded from the theA bill A A. A E. E Chaffee reading clerk of or the house Amuses amuses himself when the debate is dull by turning turning turn turn- ing mg the pa pages es of a scrapbook in which are pasted cartoons of rookie members of congress Holding Holding Hold Hold- ing mg the bo book k out of or sight behind the reading dc caricature he tO catch lh the resemblance in the thc C 1035 b br United Feature Syndicate Inc |
