| Show y Round Merry Merry Go Go Round nd Tr Trad de Mark MarkBy By DREW PE PEARSON end and ROBERT BERT ALLEN W WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Senator Senator Joe R Robinson's Robinsons solemn sol sol- mn announcement ent th that the he w would td-s td seek ek a change in senate rules next session seSSion to put an en end to one- one man filibusters i is one of the h best jokes of the season Nothing will come of the threat threat and and no one knows that better than Joe He also knows the reason why Joe and the rest of the southern southern- southern senators senators are arc violently opposed to tol the enactment of an anti- anti lynching law And the only thing that bars the way enactment of such a law lawis is the power to talk it to death in the senate Once that right were done away away with or restricted restricted restricted re re- re- re an act would be inscribed on the statute books in short shore order A two-thirds two vote is necessary necessary to change a as a's s 's senate nate rule So regardless of ot h how w much they v would o d like e to jam a gag down Huey Longs Long's tireless t eless throat the s southern senators will never meddle with the rule of unlimited debate as f federal dl law on oo lynching mh Son Song Missouri's Senator Clark and Interiors Interior's Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary Ickes once ronce heartily disliked each other One good thing the soviet embassy has done has been to dispel that antipathy thy Both were at the embassy seated with other guests after the caviar and vodka listening to a a. a soviet soprano who trilled in a way that hurt the ears cars of the senator from Missouri H He glanced cautiously Sly about the room saw his enemy nemy Ickes with arms arias folded and a scowl scowl- on his face He too thoroughly disliked the thes s songbird Ickes turned his head at that moment caught Clarks Clark's s. s eye turned away then looked back and winked Clark who was seated where his wife couldn't see see him winked back and grinned When the musicale was over Clark went up to Ickes who put out his bis hand Im glad to see we have mutual tastes in music mus music c said the senator from Missouri Missour Right said the secretary of the interior Since that time they have been beert warm f friends Spanked Only a few insiders know how seriously the recent bill strengthening and extending the po powers ers of the T V A A- clipp clipped d the critical claws of Comptroller General J. J R R. McCarl McCarI Under the original T V A act the he had authority authority authority author author- ity to hold up contracting bids audit accounts and file reports to congress wit without first giving T V A an opportunity to see them McCarl hostile to the great power project used this authority to snipe at T V A. A He object objected objected ob ob- ob- ob l to bids compiled a list of exceptions to expenditures which expenditures which mysteriously got into the hands of T V A foes before being sent to congress and and kept a staff of 15 investigators in Knoxville Knox- Knox vile ville at t a a cost acost cost of a year year which which the T 1 V A Ahad Ahad had to pa pay The agents occupied themselves with countin counting count count- in ing the number of cows purchased to milk i for for T T V A c construction camps camps and h how hr w nl many ny workers paid admissions to T V A movie shows On one occasion the agents by mistake counted the ushers and filed a report charging the T V A with mismanagement The ew statute puts an end md to these tactics McCarl is still empowered to audit T V A ac ac- ac counts But quietly slipped into the act are three provisions 1 Barring Barring- him from holding up bids 2 requiring him to bear the costs of his cow and movie audience checkers and d 3 spec specifically directing that before submitting gan an auditing report he must turn it over the e T TV XV V A and include as an official part of pt the document the T V A rebuttal For McCarl there ther is an added bitterness In these provisions because in t tile the e bill as reported out by the house bouse military IY affairs affairs' committee his control oyer over T V A finances finances' was greatly enhanced enhanced enhanced en en- and arid he saw himself about to become the real ruler of the project Instead as the bill fi finally passed he was was- stripped of most of the powers h he once had Russian Expert Rotund Robert Kelley ardent baiter and for ten years chief of the state departments department's Russian division division- has been trying desperately desper cly clyto to visit Moscow The nearest he has ever been to the soviet capital was was was' when he was military observer in Latvia later consul in Calcutta He has advised his state department chiefs against Russian relations and the fact that he has never never been there has been a definite handicap So last summer Kelley KeIley finally decided to visit tl the e land on Wl which ch pe he e- e ewas was supposed t to tobe be e a specialist But Bu just as he was about t to td leave came the impasse over debts forcing him to I cancel the trip This summer Ke lie again set out but jo io learn something something something some some- thing first hand Russia This time came the crisis over propaganda Again Kelley did not sail He was the original rigin l author of ot Roosevelt's stinging blast to the soviet Wisely he figured h he would not be welcome in ih Moscow The number of relief c cie clients ts to be engaged in composing the Guide Bo Book Boole k of America is More than half will be leg men digging up material about 2000 will do the actual writing The book will be in five or six volumes I fI Much las lias been heard of ot the cattle slaughtered last summer and distributed in cans to persons on relief But little has bas been said of of the goats Since even relief clients prefer not to cat at goat meat it has been sent to needy needy Turtle mountain mounta Indians in South Dakota To four Indian Indian Indian In In- dian reservations in that state federal surplus I relief has las just shipped 30 pounds of ot canned beef st stew w and hamburger S S S Many government nt workers tried trie l to wangle travel allowance to take them out of ot town over overLabor overLabor overLabor Labor day They were ref refused used Copyright 1935 by United Feature Syndicate Inc |
