Show special to the park record WAS washington D C march with tile the major financial measures lor for the casing up of credit and the relief of business out of the way congress and the adm administration I 1 are getting down to their regular business of playing politics there may be r some ome excitement here yet and there win 11 be it if the present plans of the house majority are carried out speaker garner gamer has already promised a tight fight on president hoovers plan to consolidate a number of detached government bureaus in the tha interest of economy mr air garner colls calls the presidents plan perhaps that may have been merely an expression of peevishness because the president beat the democratic cr a tic leaders to it by a couple ot of days A program ol of consolidation had been under careful preparation for a good while tout but before it could be made public the recommendation came from the white house and once more the administration istrati 0 n had stolen the spotlight that tha t starts a fight in vv which aich each party will try to prove that its pet method of retrenchment Is better than the other aid aldos S the argument will be hot and lively lively and full of statements statement and speeches carefully prepared tor for use iff in t the h P presidential residential lal campaign but out of ith it there ere seems a hope that there will actually be a reduction in government costs aw 01 aw one of the big fights betge I 1 capitol H hill III and the white house wl ba over the democratic proposal to consolidate the army and navy under one war secretary army men oppose it unless they can run the combined services navy meni men oppose it tor for the same reason the president and his advisers are said to be against tt it but it has been made an official policy of the democratic majority which e h intends to to shove the bill through the house as speedily as possible and to use every effort to get the senate to agree to it the army and the N navy ivy were adain admin as a unit in fix the first few years of the united states but since 1798 1793 the they y h have a ve been operated separately there I 1 Is no possible way therefore to tell whether rl combined operation of all our for forces c es under a single cabinet head would be more or less efficient in these tunes times that gives everybody a chance to argue on either side without danger of anyone proving him wrong and into the debate there la is likely to be interjected the third group which has been trying to divide control still further by setting up tile the military and naval air services as a third arm with its own secretary in the cabinet theres going to be a lot ot of fighting talk spilled over this i 40 signs are multiplying that we shall have a general sales tax of some sort fort before congress gets through I 1 40 W 10 it begins to look as it if the wet dry iss issue e will loom big in ili the democratic convention convention next june official party leadership in the national committee Is wet and the wets are not going to let a dry candidate be nominated let alone EL a daiy diy platform be adopted without making a fight governor roosevelt ot of new york Is regarded as a moderate wet al AI smith Is an outstanding dripping 1 wet wetness Is the principal basis of the appeal of governor ritchie of maryland baker has not committed himself irrevocably on either side and most of 0 the other men being talked of as possible nominees of the democrats are rather noncommittal non committal hoping that the matter will not become an issue speaker john M N garner however is regarded as politically dry and the dry leaders are just as determined as the wets to make no compromise on the question of prohibition in the convention 11 garner will have a lot of delegates in the convention and h he has the powerful support of W R hearst and his chain of twenty seven dally daily newspapers new support lor for garner has come from an unexpected source which suggests that a strong dry element has picked him as its standard bearer this new support of garner Is voiced by W 0 mcadoo who was president wilsons Wll Wil sons secretary of the treasury and married eleanor wilson mcadoo Is a decided and uncompromising dry moreover he was beaten out of the nomination in 1024 1924 by the efforts of al smith and hed like to keep mr smith and his friends out of it this year mr garner gamer chasn t said as yet how lie he likes this volunteer teer offer of support from mr mcadoo who Is not at all popular with the official party leadership althou although he has a large following in the ranks anyway n ry its a fresh complication which should make inake the democratic conven convention convente tl a even more livelier than had bad been anticipated 1 |