Show 0 at 0 national topics interpreted by william bruckart Brud cart national press building washington D C IN washington ashington it appears that atlist at list all of those questions as to whether the national indus up to trial le ie covery act Is supreme court institutional are go ing to be answered by the supreme court of the united states that Is they will be answered by a supreme court decision unless the moving spirits in decide again to dodge the issue as they once have hane done sometime ago W E belcher an alabama lumberman ran afoul of a national recovery administration code rul rut ng and he was promptly prosecuted lower lover courts decided adversely to the g vern ment however and the lawyers decided to appeal they want ed a supreme court decision but before the cise reached the stage of argument before the highest court in the land the department of justice suddenly withdrew tl e petition and a an bounced its refusal to prosecute mr belcher any furt curtier ier there immediately in was as set up a fir pir fl fling ing cry accusing cuIng ac the and the department of justice of being afraid of a constitutional test legal brains of the department of justice stood pat and offered no explanation but brain tr usters let it be known that they preferred to avoid a test at this time because of the imminent espira tion of the industrial recovery act they pointed out that the law expires lune 16 and that congress Is now en in cons de ration of a revision the implication was that the be lieveld a test in the belcher case was a waste of time and money because of the probability that a supreme court decision would not be handed down until after the present law was no longer operative now however the authorities think they have found the right kind of a case for a constitutional test they have haie announced they will fight to have the act declared constitutional in a case tn in which the live poultry market of brooklyn N Y Is accused of violating the poultry code so instead of trying out the cons titu question on boards the brain tr usters are seeking a decision on the hen the whole situation Is regarded by observers as being much confused and no one seems to know exactly what Is behind the sudden reversal of position on the part of and the depart ment of justice lawyers except a good many folks think the could not stand the gaff of countrywide editorial criticism it Is true that after aban dorment of the belcher case was an bounced nearly every important met ro politan newspaper in the country printed editorial comment about the action and little of it was favorable to the examined from this viewpoint then are some who believe the administration was goaded into a constitutional of politically the department of jus tices cices determination to avoid a test in the belcher case already is having repercussions barbs and backbiting are coming not alone from republican an but from among democrats in congress as well senator hastings a delaware Pe republican publican and senator dark clark a missouri democrat joined in an effort to have attorney general cummings reverse his position and urged upon the head of the depart ment went of justice the necessity for clar ideation of legal questions involved the administrations position also has drawn fire from republican leader snell in the houe and there are in that body also certain of the so called progressives who have charged that president roose poosevelt veIt Is unwilling to face the music in the belcher case economically the decision to refrain from pressing the belcher case for final adjudication by the supreme court has caused a wave of uncertain ty to permeate the business structure what the end Is going to be even donald number one man in has avoided saying since he has not enunciated policies his dubor donates are afraid to move consequently accord according ln to some of the let now coln out ut from the NIZA to business interests the whole question of codes and their enforcement frankly can be said to be up in the air it if the can be said to be up in the air the agricultural adjustment ad ministration can be AAA in said to be a rudder trouble less ship P there Is no longer any doubt that AAA policy Is confused not to say floun dering about in helpless fashion it has reached the stage where delaga eions and individuals are arriving in increasing numbers to wait on the doorstep of secretary NV wallace allace and administrator davis for advice as to what the program Is it ought to be said just here that mr wallace and mr davis are show ing signs of irritation and that Is al ways significant it was only the other day that a group of farm organization leaders came in to washington to tell mr wallace how the department of agriculture must do something to en able farmers in the areas that were drouth stricken to plant crops they pointed out the necessity for quick ac lon tion because crops must be planted within the next few weeks they did not stop there however but added points of crItIc criticism IW about AAA policy this so irked mr wallace that he an bounced abruptly that the interview was closed the secretary wis was quoted by mem bers of the delegation as having in quiren whether the roosebelt Roos Roo eielt adminis had not done more tor for farmers than any previous administration lie ile was reported also to have said he did not like the attitude or the spirit v which the visitors displayed in their comer conner with him the result was that the farm leaders went ably flom the vast building housing the department of agriculture with a deel gedly bad taste in their mouths and the bredle tion Is heard frequently now that these men will cause much trouble for mr wallace hereafter by telling their sto ries ties among the home folks I 1 thiril it Is generally conceded that economical and political leal numskulls may be found in positions of res ability among farm organizations but after all they serve as something of a leadership for groups that speak for agriculture and when air wallace be comes angered by their criticism of his administration serious trouble for him lies not so far ahead such circum stances as the one just mentioned ally are accepted as indicating a thin skin slin on the pirt of a public official and that cond tion is nearly al N ays fatal it ruined herbert hoover around the halls of congress also there Is increasing criticism 0 of mr wallace and it Is of criticism criticise Critic ise a character to under wallace mine him it if it con finues finhen W hen such stalwart democrats as senator george of georgia describes a cabinet officer as being unfit for the office he holds the situation as regards that individual necessarily becomes precarious tha th controversies that are centering around secretary wallace naturally are having their reaction on his leg legis 1 I s dative proposals it Is my understand ing that considerable difficulty diff culty Is faced by the amendments to the adjustment act which the secretary desires to have passed at this session of congress these amendments are described by the secretary as being designed to strengthen the adjustment act and ac ae cord the AAA more power in enforce ment it seems however a certain bloc in congress holds the conviction that there Is already su guff dent frelent power in mr wallace s hands and those mem bers are growing resentful toward proposals delegating more authority to him the recent house cleaning which re suited in elimination of certain of the brain tr usters in the department of agriculture and its stepchild the AAA had a wholesome effect on relation ship between the department of agri culture and congress as a whole yet in some quarters it appears the house cleaning did not remove all of the stigma with which oppositionists have stained the administrations farm poll cles with ye reference ference to the houseclean house clean ing it should be said just here that another move Is in the making prof rexford guy tugwell the present un secretary der of agriculture Is slated to be dehorned insofar as farm ery policies are concerned when pres ident roosevelt gets his hands on the five billion voted in the public works relief bill professor tugwell will be given charge of something like nine hundred millions to spend in a way that Is variously described as eclen tine his job will be to sort out lands that are productive from those that are mediocre ocre or without value at all in agriculture and to find uses for those which should not be used as farm lands IN 10 I 1 believe it Is not too much to say that conditions in the and AAA have added to the honeymoon general uncertainty Is s ended concerning the leal teal and economic outlook of the administration in this connection it should be mentioned that the it republicans are showing signs of life for instance republican leader snell took a shot at president roosevelt the other day that indicates a forthcoming deluge of criticism of him personally for the first time since he entered the white house the volume of mall mail being received on capitol hill tells its story as well members of the house and senate are beginning to inquire of each other what their political course should be in view of the type of inquiries that are now being rec received elved through many months the personal charm of the president has seemed to prevent expressions of a critical na ture and certainly has held off corn coin plaints from the business section of the country certainly those who have money invested were not being told about future plans it seems now how ever that the honeymoon tor for which mr roosevelt asked has ended and that henceforth it will be a battle of realities the most direct attack upon the president and upon the new deal came from representative james wads worth a new york republican mr wadsworth stressed uncertainty in fact he called it one of the three or four major evils of the tion US western newspaper unload |