Show THE DAILY WASHINGTON WASHINGTON I Round Merry nd 1 Trade Math Marl MarkBy By DREW V PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN V WASHINGTON A A neat plan has been worked out to kick genial J. J Crawford Biggs Bigg up upstairs upstairs upstairs up- up stairs and out of the important all-important job as solicitor solicitor tor tar general of the justice department The plan is to make him judge of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia where he will no longer have to present delicate questions questions ques ques- of or new deal constitutionality before the supreme court The difficulty is however that no vacancy now exists on the court of appeals bench To remedy this a bill has been introduced creating another judgeship This in turn has run afoul of Texas' Texas Representative Tom Blanton who says with says with some justice that justice that no new judges judges' are needed that making a place for Biggs is pure extravagance and that once a judgeship is created it will never be abolished So far Tom has been ada ada- mant But immediately after he expressed his opposition Mrs Blanton was invited to lunch at the White House Another Manchuria Behind Italy's present present- troop movements against Abyssinia is one of the worst diplomatic diplomatic diplomatic diplo diplo- matic deals in recent European dickering Many people have ha guessed it but substantiating evidence evidence evidence evi evi- dence is contained in the secret files of the state department When the first skirmish occurred between Italian and Abyssinian troops Mussolini roared Mussolini roared that Italy was in the Hie right Witnesses report however his troops fired first and they were on Abyssinian soil These were the reports re received received received re- re at the league of nations from neutral officers who were on the spot However when Abyssinia endeavored to place her dispute before the council of the league it was subtly made known that France would vote against her This perhaps was to tobe tobe tobe be expected in view of the Mussolini Laval-Mussolini con con- cord But in addition to this it was made known that Great Britain would vote against her In other words the French and Br British tish had agreed that since there were no no more colonies to be doled out to Italy Italy except except at their expense Mussolini was to expand at the expense of the only independent country in Africa So knowing the dice were loaded Abyssinia did not place her dispute before the council Abyssinia can trace its independence back to B. B C. C earlier than any country in Europe Emperor Haile Selassie claims descent from Solomon and the queen of Sheba New Visitation Father Coughlin is reported to be planning another barrage of telegrams on congress This time the radio priests priest's influence will win be exerted in behalf of two farm relief bills now gathering dust in committee pigeonholes The measures are the the- Lemke Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage refinancing refinancing ing bill and the Thomas Massingale agricultural agricultural agricultural tural cost of production guarantee bill The administration is opposed to both on the ground round that they are inflationary If the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House has its way they will never emerge from the senate and house hous agricultural committees to which they were referred But it is pOSsIble possible possible pos pos- sible that the administration will not have its way Th The reason is the Farmers' Farmers union plus Father Coughlin The farm organization is sponsoring both measures and has an aggressive lobb lobby at work behind the scenes trying to force action To aid it in blasting open the legislative doors the union has sought and obtained the powerful support of Cou He has agreed to campaign campaign campaign cam cam- for the bills in his Sunday afternoon radio talks If it H becomes necessary he may call for another deluge delue of telegrams When he asked for such a demonstration against the world court the result was messages in 24 hours Politically President Roosevelt considers the theN theN N R A issue so dynamite loaded that he does not want to go into the 1936 campaign saddled with sole responsibility for its record during the next two years This explains the vagueness vagueness vagueness vague vague- ness and ambiguity of his message message message-in in which the only definite recommendation was the suggestion suggestion suggestion tion that the N R A be he continued for another two years Aside from this Roosevelt dumped the whole problem in the lap of congress This fact is realized fully on Capitol hilL The result is going to be a fierce struggle particularly particularly particularly par par- in the senate where a large bloc is fully convinced that the blue eagle should be killed and will leave no stone unturned to bring that about Outside of congress it is not generally generally gener goner ally known that no le legislation is necessary to kill the N R A. A All that is necessary to accomplish accomplish push this is to prevent action until June 16 when the existing act automatically expires Copyright 1 1935 3 by United Syndicate In Inc |