Show I NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS 4 Written for The Telegram By Ray Tucker WASHINGTON Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt has finally determined that industry has gone on strike Inan Inan in inan an attempt to discredit him with the people and politicos politicos and and that he must fight back desperately More than ever before he will try to prove himself the master of supposedly hostile interests The constant layoff of workers was only the last straw In his brief confabs with utility men bankers and business le leaders ders during during during dur dur- ing his conciliatory mood he thought he detected signs that they were putting him on the spot He has told advisers that his visitors misinterpreted his statements to them represented him as backing down and sought to circulate t th that hat a t impression among Democratic conservatives on Capitol hill bill The strictures stricturE'S of men like Lewis Douglas Douglas and and the honors paid the latter by influential influential influential New York groups infuriated groups infuriated him It portends restoration to favor of the radicals radicals radicals-Oliphant Oliphant on taxes Ickes on power Hopkins Hopkinson on spending and relief It means an endless quarrel with congress especially the senate unless the politicos can be whipped into line by the fury of the denunciations of the strike The White House spokesmen Ickes and Jackson Jackson deliberately deliberately chose a time for their jeremiads when members were away on holiday holiday holiday holi holi- day and presumably more susceptible susceptible sus sus- to the home folks' folks tion Cloakroom on the senate side has become more vocal than ever ever- ever before It is in the upper upper upper up up- per chamber that Roosevel antl-Roosevel- expect to kill the major portions portions portions por por- of his legislative program even dt at t the risk of a party split The heaviest barrage will be di directed directed dl- dl against 1 the farm bill now in committee 2 any tax revision revision revision re re- re- re vision which seeks to modify rather rath rath- er than repeal the undistributed surplus levy 3 proposed cuts in such political appropriations as roads relief C C C camps The house despite the wage-hour wage re revolt revolt revolt re- re volt will trot along rather amiably amiably amiably amia amia- bly and its leaders will work workmore workmore workmore more faithfully and energetically for or the president In the senate the restless southern bloc has more power and the head men are less enthusiastic for the new deal deal deal-as as well as more adept at sabotaging it Vice President Garner fathers the prediction that it will be a along along along long and ana trying session session probably probably dragging out until June or July When such an astute student of senatorial minds and politics ventures yen ven tures turcs such a prophesy it means ven-l ven trouble for the No 1 I. man Henry Wallace has passed the quiet word to his field forces that at last he has wangled presidential permission to combat Harold Ickes' Ickes attempt to shift the forestry forestry for for- estry service from agriculture to interior Mr Wallace has tried to keep the row within the family but he suspects that his rival wasn't so particular about suppressing the dispute Few weeks ago he rushed to the White House and laid a provocative letter on F. F D. D Rs R.'s desk Written by a distinguished conservationist it accused Mr W. W of failing to oppose the other cabinet cabinet cab cab- inet met members member's grab it called upon the secretary of agriculture to show more spunk in the intradepartmental intradepartmental intradepartmental quarrel Just what the president told Mr Wallace isn't known but what the latter did furnishes the basis for a close guess He replied that Mr Roosevelt did not favor the tree treC transfer and had authorized him Mr Wallace Wallace Wallace Wal Wal- lace to notify the curious to that effect Immediate public effect was a report by Forester Silcox recommending more rather than less control of the woods by the D. D of A. A President Roosevelt and Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor tar Norris have mapped a strategic strategic stra stra- tra- tra campaign which may enable enable enable en en- able them to salvage portions of their original seven T V A pro pro- gram It doesn't please either man but both realize that the present legislative mood demands a compromise Ben Cohen is writing a new measure much milder than either the Norris bill in the senate or orthe orthe orthe the Mansfield proposal in the house It will be substituted for both of them at the proper time The president will devote himself to procuring passage in the lower chamber while the senator will handle the proposition down the corridor His colleagues usually accede to his wishes on this issue Senators Bone and will serve as the older mans man's lieu lieu- tenants Roughly the new scheme contemplates contemplates contemplates con con- templates a duplication of T V A AIn AIn Ain in several major valleys valleys valleys-proba- proba probably bly the Mississippi and the Mis Mis- Meanwhile the two power plotters will concentrate on purchase purchase purchase pur pur- chase or construction of municipal municipal municipal pal plants and transmission lines provided the supreme court does not intervene An adverse decision decision decision deci deci- sion there would cripple their hydroelectric hydroelectric hy hy- dreams Representative Albert Thomas has adorned the Congressional Record with a 1 New Years Year's greetIng greeting greeting greet greet- ing to his constituents that wont won't add to his popularity with fellow- fellow Texans on Capitol Hill HIlI The man from Houston informs the world that he copped one- one third of all the P PV W V A money distributed distributed dis dis- dis- dis in Texas for his district Though a first he claims to have wangled direct relief to totaling totaling totaling to- to for good old Harris Harris Har Har- ris county When the folks back home read the list they'll probably probably proba proba- bly by wonder winder how a freshman member member member mem mem- ber could obtain more funds than the vice president and other vet vet- erans Mr Thomas naively gives the answer Our friend and neighbor the honorable Jesse Jones is at all times eager to do something for our district He is never too busy to help and he knows how to get the job done Note The R F C chairman also hails from Hous Hous- ton Representative Maury Maverick Maverick Mayerick Maver Mayer ick yearns to become the first columnist columnist col col- col- col in the history of the Congressional Congressional Con Con- gressional Record And he lie Insists in insists insists in- in hes he's serious He has asked house editors if it they will permit him to insert his thoughts every day during a ses ses- sion He can of course make a speech a day or ask daily leave to extend his remarks but that smacks too much of ordinary pro pro- He wants the sante saie spot in each edition and a more distinctive distinctive distinctive dis dis- dis- dis head than day-by-day day oratory oratory ora era tory enjoys The political journalists are somewhat old fashioned however Somebody once sneaked a cut of ofa ofa ofa a cow into the Record and sometimES sometimE'S sometimes some some- times timE'S the copy is spicy but they draw the line at more modern in in- in Notes Friends of civilian conservation conservation conservation con con- corps organizing in congress congress congress con con- gress to resist cut in Senator Walsh announces announces announces an an- that senate naval committee committee com corn will tackle reform of promotion promotion promotion pro pro- motion system Brigadier Brigadier- General Jay L. L Benedict new su superintendent superintendent superintendent su- su of West Vest Point was wasa a a. lively up cut-up at the academy in his time England has five ton battleships under construction construction construction con con- and five more about to tobe tobe tobe be authorized U. U S. S will shape its naval expansion program in inline lIn line with foreign expansion Robert Fechner head of C C C says the boys are about 85 per percent percent percent cent prepared for military life Copyright 1938 for The Telegram |