| Show weekly news analysis white house congress hostility may mean 3rd ard party for 1940 by joseph W la bine EDITORS NOTE when opinions opinion 3 are re expressed in ia these columns they A are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of tin the newspaper congress few have been able to get along with it none have been be enable able to net along without it those executives who know how to work with it is most moss advantageously will find it the greatest support for the accomplishment of exec executive u processes process ei president will continue to be made and unmade in the actions of the senate the speaker was dignified sen elbert D thomas foe of proposed wagner act ame amendments nd ments supporter of sen robert roberi M lafal lettes civil libei liberties ties probe when such a consistent New lealer makes remarks like that on the senate floor colleagues know white house and congress are no longer on speaking terms senator thomas speech written at 3 a m on a sleepless night culminated a series of executive legislative rifts drifts that is alarming proponents ot of democratic batic peace appointments last summer president roosevelt named floyd roberts of virginia as federal district judge this was personally offensive and obnoxious to virginias sen carter glass and his colleague harry F byrd because it constitute 4 kj vt A ELBERT THOMAS few with it none without it ed an an effort to remove patronage from the hands of congress though the senate supported the byrd glass contention 72 to 9 it appeared president roosevelt was only beginning an effort to discredit his congressional toes foes by overriding over riding their nom inactions for choice political jobs As the rebels prepared to throw out ins allegedly red tinted thomas R amlie white house interstate ter state commerce commission nominee several other point ments were announced A slap at chios sen vie donahey was the naming of herschel W arant ohio states law school dean to the circuit court of appeals next came philadelphian Phila delphias francis biddle also named an appellate judge over objections of pennsylvanian Pennsyl devout new dealer sen joseph F gut guf fey this was also a blow at john lewis C 1 L 0 because the guffey nominee judge michael A of pittsburgh is an ardent pro lewis man in new york the president appointed a republican federal judge and in philadelphia he gave another judgeship to harry E kardoner Kal doner whose legal experience was limited before he joined the cabinet of ex gov george IL earle in 1934 these were but a few sample presidential appointments that ruffled congressional nerves legislation though democratic house bouse majority leaders have accepted a modified form of government reorganization defeated last year and though the presidents extra defense appropriation will probably pass white house con gress friendship ends there al AI ready eliminated is a apar appropriation opria tion for or TVA at gilberts ville ky the presidents Pres identa request for or a new hew start on Flo ship canal and the tidal project is doomed while a rebellious senate foreign affairs committee threatens to publicize all its future hearings as a brake on secret administration plans the export import bank has been restrained from making large credit loans to foreign nations this will forestall embarrassment over unofficial alliances li ances while social tys reserve fund is under fire because bacius e the U S borrows all r reserve 6 s erva funds the new 1 deals vast relief program is endangered dang ered by a growing congressional economy bloc the presidents demand for restoration of lopped off his bis deficiency relief appropriation is now sidetracked in favor of a long range welfare study virginias rep clifton A aj woodrum has haa asked a cut in next years relief budget to J half the presidents request and assignment of relief control to congressional hands but relief will probably be settled by adoption of the bill designed by south carolinas sen james F byrnes following last years senate inquiry miscellaneous anti white house sentiment took voice in continuation of the house committee to investigate un americanism under which texas martin dies received and a carte blanche to explode all the bombshells bomb shells he wished pending are impeachment proceedings against madame secretary of labor frances perkins charged with harboring alien harry bridges allegedly comm communistic west coast C 1 I 0 leader significance since the president and congress seem to be heading down opposite paths the best guess holds that mr roosevelt is delab N irately inviting a split in democratic ranks leading to formation of pi a third party tor for 1940 but labors nonpartisan league C 1 I 0 must be a bulwark of that party and the antic anti C 1 I 0 slur contained in judge Mus mannos rejection tails fails to jibe with these plans moreover most debated presidential appointments have been judicial practically valueless from a political viewpoint but party smashing need follow no definite course damaged feelings could easily be patched up in time tor for a third party campaign it in 1940 or 1944 judiciary A rare privilege ligi Is that of the U S president who can appoint tour four supreme court judges already franklin roosevelt has named hugo black stanley reed and felix frankfurter liberals like himself next will come appointment of a new liberal to succeed liberal justice louis J brandeis retired at full pay to delphis fellow jews and enjoy old age expected is an appointment from the middle west now represented only by minnesotan Min pierce butler since many plainsmen plainsman plains men felt short changed last december when mr roosevelt appointed justice frankfurter an easterner a middle west appointment is considered incumbent para pan america protesting mexican expropriation of american owned oil lands secretary of state cordell hull has demanded compensation meanwhile a false belief has arisen in mexico city that president roosevelt sympathizes path izes with the revolutionary regime of president lazaro cardenas far from sympathetic mr roosevelt recently called mexican ambassador dr don francisco castillo najera to the white house tor for a seminar on international good taste the lesson that sovereign mexico can expropriate but must also make compensation As senor najera carried this protest home U S oil men were heartened into offering president cardenas a settlement proposal oil lands would be returned title and profits then divided on a 50 50 basis between government and oil companies but news from mexico city made it clear this offer would be rejected in addition to a agreement signed last december to barter oil tor for german machinery president cardenas has haas just announced two new barter contracts involving approximately in mexican oil and nazi kanii manufactured protects that senor cardenas is smugly satisfied with his progress was evidenced by the remark of his chief political aid luis rodriguez made ja P 1 W t t PRESIDENT CARDENAS he set see an example lor for cuba to visiting col fulgencio batista cuban strong man achen when the president found the foreign companies refusing to obey the governments ern ments orders in court he gave the stern order to expropriate the oil companies we show it to you as an authentic victory of the revolution as an example to you iou whether strong man batista would accept the example remains to be seen but mexico already has one latin american ally in this pleasant game traveling through bolivia correspondent john T whitaker of the chicago daily news found that nations oil dealings make medicos cos expropriations look like childs play specific e example x was bolivian seizure of in standard oil properties early in 1937 on a trumped up fraud charge agriculture introduced in senate and house respectively by north dakotas sen lynn J frazier and rep william lemke the domestic allotment agriculture plan would set minimum domestic prices on 50 major farm crops guaranteeing producers cost of production plus 10 per cent profit surpluses would be dumped on the world market for whatever they would bring though boasting big support in rural areas cost of production legislation has few friends in the U S agricultural department up before the senate agriculture committee secretary henry A wallace urged biegon holing tor for the frazier lemke measure on two counts 1 U S farmers are sick and tired of having a new farm bill coming on them in the late winter or spring and being faced with a new set of rules 2 cost ot of production is impractical mr wallace pointed out that the domestic allotment plan is based on three false assumptions the assumptions and refutations reputations i 1 the public would maintain consumption to the contrary mr wallace predicted bootlegging of farm products at below cost of pro prices as the least consumption problem more likely as happened during during depressions depth when purchasing power dropped to new lows low consumption would drop 2 faran partners ers would not greatly increase production minus strings now attached by AAA the domestic allotment plan would place no barrier on production probably in the wallace opinion causing a terrific increase 3 the surpluses could be easily sold abroad contrariwise mr wallace points out that foreign markets are already glutted a statement borne out by current export difficulties what export at world prices would amount to he says Is subsidy tor for the foreign consumer the substitute offered by mr wallace is increased benefit payments to U S farmers under the present AAA probably coming from processing taxes since other farm economists maintain processing taxes would ultimately slap back at the consumer it remains tor for congress to decide which is the lesser of two evils religion last august president roosevelt proposed the intergovernmental refugee committee which subsequently elected american george rublee its chairman after almost six months of disheartening effort mr rublee handed banded the comm committee lifee his resignation and the net result of an almost single handed battle the result A temporary pl plan anfor or taking care of germanys germanas Germ anys unwanted jews wheedled from fuehrer hii hitler points 1 german jews could return to their jobs until the committee solves its problem 2 young german germa i n jews can emigrate provided they arrange to finance later emigration of kinsmen 3 older jews would be protected until emigration is completed 4 emigrating jews could borrow from a trust fund people arrested dro dr logan clendening Clenden mg nationally known physician for wielding an ax on a air coal compressor in st louis because it interfered with his efforts to work discovered in pennsylvanian Pennsyl executive mansion by miss dorothy james 23 year old first arst lady and daughter of gov arthur H james mice whom she described as just like pets expected conferences between homer martin C I 1 0 s bad boy head of the united automobile workers and officials of the american federation of labor looking to U A W s entrance into A F of L international intentionally or otherwise U S secretary of state cordell hull stepped to a microphone the night before congress went to work on president Roosevel ts enlarged defense program by the time he left the world had learned how americas no I 1 diplomat and tradesman feels about war he sympathizes with the white house after offering the standard defense argument that it is a nations sacred duty to arm when the specter of a major war haunts the world mr hull staged two surprises the first unusual tor for a diplomat lomat was a rejection of proposals that the U S cau call a disarmament conference next surprise was a common explanation that arms conferences mean nothing when the basic causes underlying war are economic these he said must be wiped out as a prerequisite father of the governments current reciprocal trade program and an outspoken opponent of the german barter trade plan see se PAN AMERICA cordell hull may have been hinting tor for a U S lead in plans to settle the worlds ills via the economic conference route since this could only mean appeasement pea as practiced by brit ish prime minister neville cham bellain berl ber aln lain most observers ob servera thought mr hull was not advocating an econom lc conference but was instead advertising ver the merits of reci reciprocal bocal trade treaties as a cure asia three hundred miles southwest of hong kong and directly in britaina Brit Brita ains inos communication path ties lies tiny but important hainan island generally considered within frances sphere ot of influence what both france and britain have long feared is japanese seizure of hainan despite a 1937 agreement that tokyo would stay out so long as france blocked traffic to china via french indochina indo china but japan has now violated that agreement occupying hainan on a temporary basis so long as military necessity demands demand most observers tear fear that military necessity will demand permanent occupation significant is the tact fact that aaa has just rejected japans all a S dor to paris I 1 still more sip sig is the one tho two three sequence in which hannans Hainan Hai nans fa occupation followed Barce lonas fall just as cantons occupation last september followed the munich settlement each time democracies capitulate in the west tokyo capitalizes on hitler musso lint triumphs to nip at the franco british far eastern position in typical japanese fashion hil hai nans occupation is a pokerfaced poker faced self righteous trick that dares britain france and the U S to retaliate tal ta liate late by chinese who see their W ar AN F W Z Z generalissimo KAI SUM hainan was only the beginning nation tailing failing apart bit by bit the move Is greeted with mixed emotion the hoped for consequence Is 1 a lifting of frances ban on arms arm shipments through indochina indo china but from his headquarters in tar far western chinese geil generalissimo ca hiang K ek mourned hannans Hai nans tall fall I 1 ginning of japanese domination in the pacific predicting heavy con sequences for the U S france and britain general chiang not only saw broken communication lines between hong kong singapore and australia but also a threat to U S and british naval bases at hawaii and singapore miscellany announced by secretary of the treasury henry 0 profit since january 3 30 1934 tor for the highly secret PAO stabilization fund e adopted by indias andias national congress a resolution to withdraw from the league of nations re keason ason the league has tailed failed to carry out its punitive powers and 4 in 1181 1 disregarded the ie indian nation in dealing w wi ales tine e drifted farther north than any aa vessel this century the soviet icebreaker sedoff approximate 10 location miles from the north vol PO |
