Show INSIDE STUFF II B PAUL AUL MALLON WASHINGTON April Every 20 thing is going to hi all right now Ben Smith and ond Dr Bragg are coming home That may not mean much to an outS out alder sider but the boys bos In Wall street will catch cotch on Me rs Smith and Bragg left the country ot at on opportune moment about two months Everything's s 's ago When senate All Right In stock market inWall in- in Wall Sali Street started st. looking for lor them the they had just set sail for fot Honolulu or Australia no one knows which They were beyond the reach of a which would have required them to testily testify about certain turns tures they had in aviation stocks They are also selecting an tune moment for their return The stock market investigation is over Only a few lew days alter after that news got out they notified friends tilly that they would be back in New York early in May C When these boys get bock beck to Wall Wallstreet Wallstreet street there will be something doing They are the most ferocIous of oil all the bulls and bears Their comrades in margins call them Pecks bad boys and ond the gold dust twins They won the latter title by betting right when we went off the gold standard A At t least they received Inner acclaim for having bet right although no one ever knows exactly where they stand or or even where they are arc They bob up in more unexpected places than Mrs Roosevelt They managed somehow Boys Work as to get on the in- in Bulls or Bears augural train from Equally Well New York to Washington They even managed to get a business appoIntment appointment ap- ap at the White House executive executive tive offices on one occasion They carry en an air of of knowing at least a afew afew few of the right people The only trouble about their return re- re turn is that no one can tell whether the market will go up or down They have worked both sides ot of the street with equal success C C C A. A slick lick scheme for boiling down the vet veterans veterans' rans' rans lists beat beatis is under serious serious' consideration by with au- au Full Publicity to carry to out their ideas Cut Vet List They would post the name of every veteran on the rolls in the ice of the city in in whIch he resIdes The The amount received by each veteran and the reasons reason would be posted alongside his name In that way each community would b be able to judge for i itself lf whether its u veterans were legitimately entitled entitled en- en titled to their disability and presumptive presumptive pre pre- allowances Sponsors of the plan believe belie it would result in 15 to 25 per cent of voluntary withdrawals from the rolls C C S The plan probably would be put into operation In a minute if it were not for congress Just now the administration is trying try try- lug ing to quIet down the wild horses horseson on the hill hilJ It does docs not want to do anything w which h 1 c h Scheme Hangs could be consid- consid Fire rending red ered a direct af- af Quiet Congress front alter after the theS S overriding ot of the presidents president's veto ol on veterans veterans' restora- restora There is no real basis for objection to the scheme however and jt it undoubtedly undoubtedly un- un will be put into operation so ner or later either alter after congress goes home or after the next elections As matters now stand the veterans veterans' administration keeps Its rolls to itself It will answer specific inquiries as asto as asto to whether a certain person is on the rolls but it does not like to C C C The presidents president's tough guy speech to congress and all the current bIckering bickering bick- bick ering about taxes silver r etc make it appear toot that the White House and congress are at swords swords' points That Is only on the surface On the inside the White House end and the congressmen are going to great lengths to k keep p from fighting each other The congressional leaders have been permitted to understand on the Q T. T that President Roosevelt will do everythIng he can canto to help Democratic get reelected He actually has planned to make a statement at atthe atthe the end of the sessIon congratulating congress on its w work rk There has been some sugg suggestion that he be iss issue e a public appeal before next November for election of a Democratic congress He probably will not g go that far not because of any personal feeling but because past experIence proves that presidents always ci- ci ways get in bed when they try to influence influence in- in fluence congressIonal elections V NOTES Congressman Blantons Blanton's against the press do not mean anything any any- thing lie Re has two buttons of off his vest and has has- had for tor fore Q e long time Newsmen g got t the lists of house signatures signatures signa- signa tures on discharge petitions from a couple ot of congressmen who went so far os as to hAve copies made segregating ing the signers by states state Blantons Blanton's attack on the newsmen newsmen was quickly repudiated by other members of the house who realized they had no rIght to conceal their signatures Reporters ways ot of getting getting get get- ting stories One day recently a newsman with better than average eyes stood in the pr press gallery ten feet above Vice President Garner and read a note Garner was writing to a senator Garner does doc not know yet how th the news about the n note te- te got O out t. t C 1034 for tor The Telegram |