Show own ra il 00 pt special to the park record washington D C april ath anybody who can guess what this congress Is going to do is entitled to some sort ot of a me medal at everything was moving along smoothly in the most moet statesmanlike effort on the part of leaders ot of both panics to straighten out the nations finances finance a when the most peculiar combination of f radicals of both parties mustered strength str strength enoth enough to smash the whole program in this curious group the leader wits was la of new york who calls calla himself a republican azg representative re senta tive doughton of north caroltin Carol tiB democrat representative byrns demo crat ot of tennessee and representative Rain seyer republican of iowa were among the mixed crowd that followed la guardias Guard las leadership lea dersh lp they definitely knocked kno acied the proposed propos cd sales tax into a cocked hat but more serious than that this breaking away from party control has had abad effect upon democratic political hopes what sort of a tax bill Is going to come out nobody now dares to predict with any attempt at accorn accuracy nor Is it possible to tell how governmental expenses are going to be redi re dind d president hoover in a public et sta mant recently pointed out that more onn ita on n one half of the governments annual costs or more than two billion dollars Is of such a character that it cannot be reduced it Is largely an inheritance of the great war through increases of payment on government obligations and the care of veterans and their famines families the president said eald in addition our army an and d navy costs about seven hundred million dollars we should not further reduce the strength of our defense that leaves only about one billion three hundred million of the budget figures within which economies can be effected and what will be done about that nobody knows just at the moment this Is written it looks as it if there were a strong likelihood of passage of a bill to distribute another two billion dollars or more to army veterans if such a bill Is passed it can be safely predicted the president will veto it and that the republican senators will muster enough strength to prevent it from being enacted over his bis veto the reconstruction finance corporation Is on its job and has authorized so far about of loans to banks backs and trust companies 18 buildings buil building dingi and loan associations 13 insurance companies 13 railroads 3 2 joint stock land banks 3 mortgage loan companies and one livestock credit association besides lending the secretary of agriculture 50 to be reloaded re loaned to farmers on crop security reports to the treasury indicate that the anti hoarding campaign has brought back into the banks about which had been held out of use those are indications that some of the things done in washington so tar far this year have been helpful but on the other hand there Is a very violent protest by bankers to senator glaws proposed amendment to the federal reserve act which they say would be deflationary and would put politicians in control ot of the banking system which Is the last thing that either the bankers or the public generally want 4 the strength which governor roose cooee velt of new york Is showing in the dem cratic primaries leads political observers here to the belief that he be will be nominated by the democratic national convention coen ven tion if not on the first hall ballot t th then on the second or third no ito one else who Is being talked of for the nomination Is 13 snowing showing any real strength speaker garner Is not cot talking personally about his presidential boom but Willi william lilliarn arn G me mc P io 1 torm 0 r secretary ot of the treasury W who h 00 V was a S an unsuccessful candidate lor for the nomination in 1924 and 1928 Is ac c promoting oamer Cl armer and may be alc 0 o r af t er enough n 0 u g h d delegates I 1 g tes tor for t the he beiran e n not t t to 0 no nominate m 1 n t h him lor for the prein i El id dency but pub possibly to make alra ee c in ith the roost ost eligible candidate tor the he vi vice es presidency ids ot of mr byj hoovers nobody familiar with the workings ot of political machinery lias has the slig zEt t a 11 1 though there are irresponsible people who still talk about drafting Cool loge u or nominating general dawes there Is much more it interest terest in informed po political M 1 circles as the conventions approach over the republican vloe vice presidential nomination mr curtis win will not run again he be says mr hoover la is credited to california so his running mate win will probably be picked at least as far east as the mississippi valley however the vice president will be a matter ol of compromise in the convention and it cannot be said or of anybody who Is now cow in the political limelight that he really wants it |