| Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE V 'SV 'V - " A 'S' SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 23 1838 Stumbling Co V r ? V 7 Capital Trend Aids Utahn’s Court Chance: r StephensFaces Opposition of Ickes Corcoran h'iv HARRY ? I 'fa (( tfWjiiiittfb'iim Ititn' t 1 sv i 3T I r ! t if YJBiKsj n 0(PWM ijtWiU 7 )S M iKoRMSl fKMili yy I! 4' (I ii Us WiJhHIVi wKfc 0© ii WASHINGTON Dec 2f-T- he election last November manifestly made a deeper Impressioh on President Roosevelt than he has been willing in so many words to admit That ise evident from what is going on at the White House right now and what has been developing there Doesn’t in recent weeks Warned that! he Thoma Corcoran would have a stormy session of conlike Stephens for court choice gress on his hands unless he altered some of his past practices the president has been reshaping things with a view to warding off part of the strife that undoubtedly would have developed had the administration Ignored the November warning and plunged ahead along old and now familiar lines 20-Ye- ar It is equally true the president reshaping his official family to bring close to him men of unaues-tlone- d new deal sympathies Such Foreign Purchases men are moving in to replace old line Democrats who while they 41 Per Cent have been loyal have all too frebeen out of sympathy with Less Than Year Ago quently one or another of the startling Roosevelt policies Such men have been Attorney General Cummlng WASHINGTON Dec 2 trade experts of the agrlcul and Secretary of Commerce Roper There are others who on one preture department reported Saturday text or another may find It expedithat this season’s foreign purchases ent during the approaching months to retire from public life ostensibly of American cotton— long this No 1 farm export commodity to concentrate their attention on their affairs— the old stock —were the smallest in 20 years and excuseprivate that while often amusing 41 per cent less than a year ago y Not since 1918 when the World yet never can be denied war reduced Europe’s consumption Legislative Assurance Of cotton have exports been as low Aside from change! In office on ‘ of the most revolutionary change 1821000 Bales Sold assurthus announced was far the Since the season began on August ance by the president bimseU that 1 foreign sales totaled 1821000 bales compared with 8077000 for from now on legislation will be written in congress and not at the the corresponding period last Unless there is a substantial White House or in the department or in other administrative agencies increase during the next few months That is an innovation For it is well —which the trade experts do not ex known that since 1933 practically season the ending pect— exports for next August may not exceed 4200 every important measure com000 bales compared with normal ex- mended to congresa by President Roosevelt was written “down town" ports of about 6750000 bales was the presidential okeh and Department officials said this de- then given sent to congress with the presicrease was complicating an already dential request more or less bluntly acute cotton surplus situation expressed that it be passed about Used As Collateral as submitted These were known Mors than 11000000 bales of cotton as the president’s "must” bill The for which there is no immediate several farm bills all were drafted market have been put up by grow- by Secretary Wallace and his A A A ers as collateral for goyernment assistants and nearly every on went to the "hlil” with the wish loans Officials said that although pro coming either from the department ducers had reduced their production or from the White House that it be from about 19000000 bales last year enacted about a submitted The so- - j to about 12000000 this year new dal security bill the sundry relief appropriations labor bills govern--' surplus would be added to an at-- ' ment reorganization court reorready record supply They estimated that by August the surplus ganization monetary legislation and a whole long list all went to might reach the 15000000-bal- e congress in bill form accompanying mark or immediately following presidential messages Will Be Changed All this i to be changed and v wisely It Is contrary to the spirit of the constitution and it la a practice that has increasingly aroused an- tagonlsm in the senate and house WASHINGTON Dec- - 24 CTI-- Tbe of representatives which alone are federal trade commission accused 19 producers of hardwood charcoal charged with formulating legislation The presidential function un- Saturday of price fixing conspiracies der the constitution is to submit ' to suppress competition same aurecommendations the by commission these said proThe conducers made about 70 per cent of the thority it isorupforto senators and committees of concountry’ output of hardwood char- gressmen coal which was used mainly as fuel gress to draft bills and it Is tha Atao named respondent were two function of house and senate to conHard- sider amend and when satisfied to corporation nonproduedng wood Charcoal company Memphis pass the bills submitted— but subby committees— not by tha Tenn and Manufacturers Charcoal mitted House White In announcing this the which Pa Bradford company commission alleged were organized return to the old time policy the to act as exclusive sales agents for president at one stroke has allayed' much congressional criticism all but two of the producers Hardwood Charcoal company the Supreme Court complaint said is the sales agent It will not be long before the Tennessee for the respondent’ Products corporation Nashville president fills the vacancy on the Forest Products Chemical company supreme court According to the and Crossett Chemical very best authority he had decided Memphis ' to promote Justice Harold M Stecompany Crossett Ark Each of these companies it was phens of Utah now on the U S alleged sells its output at cost to coyrt of appeals in Washington Hardwood Charcoal company The D C This is not the choice the latter "fixes the resale prices and president might have made a year each receives its proportionate share ago but there ape very many arguments in favor of Stephens that proof the profits of and bears do nbt equally apply to others con-portionate share of the cost of main sidered for this high honor Geotabling its sales agency” graphically Stephens Is the one out- standing man offered by tlje west now represented on the suHere’s Something New not preme court Justice Stephens Is far more conservative Democrat In Hitchhiking than some others whose names have been mentioned he is not an absoBIRMINGHAM Ala Dec 24 A woman driver figured some- lute new dealer But he is able and his ability is widely recognized Hit thing was wrong when a driverless automobile bumped her car gently appointment would not change the present complexion of the court from the rear Sbe investigated found she wee and above all taking the political driving aHandem with the second viewpoint Stephens could be readily car’s bumpers hooked to her auto confirmed by the senate and Immediately deduced she had Thomas Corcoran and Secretary want Justice picked up the1 hitchhiker while Harold Ickesdon’t on the supreme placed Stephens downtown parking She drove to a parking lot had bench they want a man whose the caboose unhooked and told po- views of the constitution and of lice Pretty soon E E DeWitt presidential powers go along with reported his car stolen Police did their own ideas they don’t want a a little deducing and sent him to conservative they don’t want Stethe parking lot He found his car phens They prefer Felix Frankfurter and are diligently working to dissuade the president from apStephens in the hope that Railway Moves Against pointing if the Utah jurist is passed over Frankfurter may get the appointOil Union Strikers ment The president’s decision will not be Jong delayed It is natural TULSA Okla Dec 24 UD--Tbe St Louts --San Francisco railroad that a president and especially one filed an application in federal court who' had the sour experience Mr here Saturday for a temporary re- Roosevelt had with the Black apstraining order against the Oil pointment should want his apWorkers’ union to prevent inter pointee to the supreme court conference with movement of ship- firmed Without fight His latest ments in and out of the strike- appointment Stanley Reed was the Peteroleum very reverse of his first and Reed bound was promptly confirmed Justice corporation refinery Federal Judge Franklin E Henna-me- Stephens could be as readily confirmed But if Corcoran and Secreinformed N K Cruce City chief counsel for the tary Ickes influence the president railroad ha would bear the applies there is every prospect of a nasty ’ tlon Tuesday morning fight j Cotton Exports to Drop A Low k( tin )iti itttnilfci jjfoKVi rsyiMi (Hr 1' 11 BROWN Ptv i t j J Tribune Washington Bureau sea-ao- 7 h'tUfi- - CM ml rYJ cm Wi7i tYei tM ©000?© r ” '’ (IJiTr © " fc II n© r :li 1 JTvtsIfsMlv l lHl ($ 1 :n© ib i" ii - f '?t- - t a 8(tllli- 'J 4 (3 o 7 Board rn3JC 4s y ?m ''ttiiniKisfftpfe r-- O (liiHl1 O IJJtiactio 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