Show THE DAILY V WASHINGTON AS INGTON Round Merry 1 Trade Trad e Mark MarkBy MarkBy By DREW V PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Probably Probably the most moss most important important tant job tackled by the president during his Hyde Park rest was an inventory of the whys and wherefores of his trouble with the senate Roosevelt and his inner council finally have become profoundly disturbed over the situation And well they may be More than one president has come to grief through warring with an irate senate At stake is not only Roosevelt's work relief program but buthis buthis buthis his social-security social measures plus the banking and holdin holding corporation bills The president went to a good deal of ot trouble before leaving Washington to get some frank and realistic information as to the causes for his senatorial troubles And the consensus of views he took away with him to mull over were 1 That I.-That That he is urgently in need of more reliable reliable reli reli- able and comprehensive information of what is going on in congress ss He is now dependent practically entirely on oh the Democratic floor leaders who at heart are none too friendly to his legislative program 2 That 2 That something must be done about Huey Hucy Long He has Senators Joe Robinson and Pat Harrison titular floor leaders very much on the defensive and no rio one else has dared tackle him As a result Huey Hucy has a free hand handin handin in warring on White House le legislation 3 That That the president must not hesitate to fight openly and vigorously for his measures Unless he does so the senate will vill wrest control of ot congress from him and the chances are he will never regain it il Roosevelt was reported to be strongly im impressed impressed impressed im- im pressed by these sug suggestions To at least one of his spoken plain-spoken conferees he indicated that it was the first time he had received such ad ad- ad vice What he has decided to do now remains to be seen P W nr V A Oddities The New Deals Deal's struggle for lor economic recovery recovery recovery ery has resulted in many strange incarnations Here are a few projects on the P W N V A list listA A swimming pool for elephants for lor San Francisco's Francisco's Francisco's Fran Fran- cisco's zoo Collection of caterpillar eggs for feeding to a parasite in order to train it to eradicate cater cater- pillars Digging for buried treasure in New Jersey Cultivation of the yucca plant Destruction of grasshoppers Makin Making theatrical drops out of bed ticking for for a P PV V W A drama project in New York City Manufacture of tobo toboggans gans On a Limb Huey Long has administration masterminds almost talking to themselves in the senate regarding re regarding re- re garding his resolution to investigate Big Jim Farley They dont don't know which way to turn They have the votes in the postoffice committee to to which his resolution is referred referred to to bring out an adverse report rl But if this is done Huey would raise the tile hue and cry that the administration feared to face a probe Furthermore there is serious doubt whether the committee could make its negative vote stick in the senate Republicans and progressives would vote as a bloc for an investigation and there are enough re regular ular Democrats such as Massachusetts' Massachusetts David I. I Walsh privately peeved at Farley Fancy to make it ita ita ita a close count The alternative to suppressing the probe probe- allowing it to proceed seems proceed seems too disastrous for forthe forthe forthe the to ponder Huey has amply demonstrated that in such sucha a proceeding he is practically p irrepressible He He would use the hearings as a sounding board to launch a terrific tirade at the entire tion Farley would just be an incident to the Kin Kingfish fish 1933 UJ by United Syndicate In Inc |