| Show Merry Merry-Go Round Merry Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN Trade Trado Mark V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON White House Secretary ta y Marvin 1 McIntyre I is essaying a new nev role Not only is he handling the presidents president's appointments appointments appointments appoint appoint- ments as s always alway but now also has voluntarily assigned himself the job of adviser on shipping legislation This question is the most strife ridden one of th the congressional session The ship operators backed by Secretary Dan Roper and Senator Royal S. S Copeland of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York are trying to put through a bill that would throw the treasury wide open to their demands Senator Joseph F. F Guffey of Pennsylvania with the support of the postoffice department has offered a a. a measure abolishing the exorbitant ocean ocean- mail grants substituting instead d a a- amod m moderate moderate mod mod- d- d erate and carefully safeguarded ship subsidy plan Copeland by quick parliamentary strategy got his bill reported to the senate But progressives progressives progressives both Democratic and Republican have announced announced announced an an- that if he attempts to s secure cure enactment enactment enactment enact enact- ment they will filibuster And to emphasize their determination to end shipping raids on the treasury the progressives struck the item for annual ocean mail payments under the existing contract system system tem tern out of the postoffice appropriation bill This maneuver put the ship operators and their champions Roper and Copeland in a di di- di lemma f They have got to come to terms with the progressives progressives- or r there will be n no more more- treasury taffy Th The shipping lobby one of the most active in the capital has been moving heaven and earth behind the scenes in an effort to get the operators out of this hole And a few days ago McIntyre brightly volunteered a solution to the president 1 He proposed that a rider be attached to the second deficiency appropriation bill now in the senate restoring the ocean mail item for a temporary period Note Close Note Close friend of McIntyre's is Jim Barnes lobbyist for the association Vice President Garner Vi Vice e presidents of the United States usually are best known for their homespun qualities Vice President Marshall 1 in Woodrow Wilson's Wilsons Wilsons Wilson's Wil Wil- sons son's day became famous for his remark What this country needs is a good cent five i cent e-cent cigar Charlie Dawes Davies was famous for his Hell n n Maria profanity Charlie Curtis became famous famous' as a out diner-out and Jack Garner probably will vill go down as the greatest poker player in m the history of Capitol hill hiU Jack is a member of the Boars Boars' club where the stakes are high and the sky is the limit The minimum pile of chips with which you can enter a game costs At the end of one congressional season Jack figured up in his little black book that was still owed to him All of it incidentally was paid except for a 3 few hundred owed by byone byone byone one man By saving his winnings and by careful investment in investment investment in- in vestment in real estate Jack Garner at one onetime onetime onetime time just before the depression was reputed to tobe tobe tobe be worth a million dollars dollars chiefly chiefly from poker On the trip to the Philippines last autumn Jack was engaged in a poker game ame when at midnight Mrs Garner tried to induce him to come to bed But Jack was between and in the hole He refused About 3 a. a m. m however he came into his stateroom How much did you lose inquired Mrs Garner sleepily A itA hundred dollars Go on back there and win it back wife And he did Allies AHles Chief Justice Hughes and Postmaster General Gen Gen- eral cral Jim Farley Parley see e eye ere e to eye on on one issue This is not an April Fool story Here are the facts Early this session a bill was introduced to create two new fed federal ral judgeships in the southern south south- em ern New York district to relieve overburdened courts in that area The measure had the warm backing of the bar and the courts It was all set for passage when suddenly Senator Royal S. S Copeland claimed that the bill was personally obnoxious to him In keeping with unwritten senate law the New York senators senator's senators senator's senators senator's sena sena- tors tor's wishes were deferred to and the measure was tossed into the waste basket Not many remembered it but last year Copeland introduced a similar bill bilI And that was why this new bill was personally ious bus It involved New v York patronage and Jim Parley Farley had not consulted him But several hours after the carnation wearing wearing wearing wear wear- ing New Yorker had scuttled the bill Chief Justice Hughes made a speech before the American Amen Ameri can Law Institute in which he spoke of the urgent need of relieving congested court calen calen- dars There are still some sore spots he added 4 and where delays are most serious they are due due to a failure to provide an adequate supply of judges to attend to the work of the courts That is notably the case in th the southern distrIct district district dis dis- dis- dis of New Nw York The judicial conference has repeatedly recommended that additional judges be provided 1036 1936 b by 1 United a Inc IC 4 |
