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Ici CURRENT EVENTS DEMOCRATS ARE D ETER M IN ED TO PUSH ROOSEVELT TAX PLAN TO PASSAGE. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ©. W eM ern New»pep«r Union. EMOCRATIC congressmen started the week briskly determined to D push through the President’s ’’soak rich" tax bill at this session. Opposing them with equal de termination w ere a number of the hardest lig h tin g Republicans who Insist that con sideration of taxation be postponed u n til next winter and that meantime the question be studied carefully in connection with the budget for the next fiscal year. These Re Senator publicans are urgently Vandenberg calling for an early adjournment of congress. S e n a to r Hastings of Delaware has Introduced a resolution setting August 10 as the day for quitting and was trying to hare it brought up for consideration before passage of the tax measure. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, often mentioned as a Presidential possibility, also demanded postponement of the tax legislation until January, and he gave out a statement denouncing the administration’s plan as a “sterile po litical gesture" which would raise “only a little extra pocket change" and de clared that “we chatter of taxes in million» to offset known deficits in billions.” “The pending tax bill, as it is being developed,” said Senator Vandenberg, “will not produce appreciable revenue for Uncle Sam. It will not pay the President's deficit even for the period while the bill is under consideration. As a contribution to the public credit. It Is as grim a hoax as was ever per petrated on the country. As a ‘dis tributor of wealth’ it is a mere vagrant flirtation with this left wing idea.” Nevertheless, It appeared probable that the tax measure would be enacted before adjournment, for the adminis tration leaders had promised this to Senator La Follette and other "liber als,” and besides that, they have no desire to pass a taxation bill In a Presidential election year. As pro duced by the house ways and means committee after great travail the mea sure embodies an 87 per cent confisca tion of large fortunes and Increased levies on the rich which would produce perhaps $250,000,000 of additional an nual revenue. passed on to producers or consumers. One of the major purposes of the amendments was to close the courts, but the senate rejected this scheme by a vote of 41 to 23. As a result, the Iloosack Mills case, in which the Bos ton Circuit Court of Appeals held the AAA unconstitutional, will not be thrown out and the highest tribunal will have a chance to pass upon IL ENATOR GLASS scored Wa&lMJUjft&H perhaps the greatest victory In his long S public career when the senate, without a record vote, passed his draft of the 1035 banking act, re jecting t h e central bank features urged the by Gov. Marrlner S. Eccles of the federal reserve board and fa vored by the adminis tration. The doughty Virginian, who was once secretary of the treasury, had fought desperately a g a in s t the Eccles scheme and his triumph was de cisive. There was no demand for a roll call on the final vote, for the fate met by the proposers of various amend ments showed this procedure would be futile. Senator La Follette sought to strike out a provision permitting com mercial banks to underwrite securities and his proposal was beaten, 39 to 22. Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota, another radical Republican, offered the central bank plan of Rev. Charles E, Coughlin, radio priest, which would set up a government owned and wholly dominated system. It was voted down, 59 to 10. The senate bill was sent to confer ence, for the house passed the meas ure drawn up on the advice of Eccles and TugwelL P W N A G FOR HOUSE WEAR IN THE MORNING PATTEal« SS41 NATIONAL TOPICS INTERPRETED Witfdia/« Bluc/carf N A T IO N A L PRESS BLDG. Washington. — President Roosevelt has settled a controversy by the sim ple expedient of S ettle transferring two men C o n tro v ersy from responsible po sitions In the Virgin Islands to Jobs In Washington. He has taken Paul M. Pearson from the post of civil governor of the Virgin Islands and has made him assistant di rector of housing In the Interior de partment and has transferred Federal Director Judge T. Webber Wilson from his post in the Islands to the federal parole board here in Washington. Each man has accepted his new ap pointment and in so far as a current controversy is concerned, the book Is closed. It will be. recalled that Governor Pearson and Judge W’llson long have been at loggerheads over Virgin Island affairs. The battle was bitter. It came to a head when Paul Yates, executive assistant to the governor and a former Washington corre spondent, resigned his Job and came back here with a bag full of charges against his former chief. The Yates allegations ranged all the way from minor charges of poor judgment to gross accusations. He succeeded In A R T IA L investigation of the milk getting a senate committee Investiga Industry by the iederal trade com tion and It was at that time that the mission was said to have revealed de Pearson-Wilson feud flared so openly plorable conditions and the adminis that administration officials here were tration asked for $200,000 to continue dragged In and the whole scope of the inquiry. The senate committee in differences aired. considering the deficiency appropria As a matter of fact there Is every tion bill cut out that item altogether, reason to believe that Governor Pear but when the measure came before the son was far from a successful execu senate Duffy of Wisconsin moved an tive In the islands. amendment adding the sum asked. A ft The President stayed outside of er a hot debate this was approved by a the row until In the course of the vote of 51 to 18 and the bill was the» senate inquiry Senator Tydlngs, a passed. Maryland Democrat and usually an antl-Roosevelt Democrar. received a H A T was in the cigar box letter from Mr. Ickes, Mr. Ickes ac wrapped in a newspaper? That cused the investigating chairman with having whitewashed a witness whose is what Senator Hugo Black, chairman of the senate lobby committee, want testimony was all anti-Ickes and anti- ed to know. Before Pearson. The senator flared op In a the committee f o r big way at that letter. Ills reply Is questioning was John likely to become a classic In official He did not mince W. Carpenter of Dall correspondence. as, president of the his words. A fter voicing his general Texas P o w e r a n d conception of the attitude exhibited by Light company. He ad Mr. Ickes and accusing him of at mitted freely that he tempting to Interfere In the investiga and other utility men tion, Senator Tydlngs Informed the In had hotel conferences, terior secretary that he may as well EEDY teachers and students are dinners and a trip attempt to run the Department of the to get financial help from the down Chesapeake bay Interior and let the senators run the Works Progress administration accord He used Just about those with congressmen dur senate. ing to plans being perfected by Dr. L. Senator Black ing the fight over the words. R. Alderman. The two chief points in Wheeler-Itayburn bill, and Jhat he That was the signal for Mr. Roose his program are: Establishment of summer schools for himself had centered his efforts on velt ro take a hand. It was easy to 1,200 teachers who were among those Texas congressmen. But of the mys see that a few outbursts of that kind who taught reading and writing to terious box he could or would tell and Mr. Ickes might have found him nothing. Black probed and probed, self in a splendid position to resign 500,000 Illiterates last year. from the cabineL So the President Jobs to be provided for 125,000 col and finally asked: lege students during the coming school “Do you still say that In the morn got the feudists Into his office, singly year. ing (of the day before the vote on the of course, and when those conferences Twenty-five summer schools will be utilities bill ‘death sentence’) you were over the senate Investigation Into conducted, the sessions lasting six didn't give a congressman a box the Virgin Island situation was sus pended for two weeks. The transfer weeks, and the teachers attending wrapped up In a newspaper?” of Governor Pearson and Judge Wilson them will be paid from $15 to $18 a Carpenter replied quietly: “I don’t week out of the work relief funds. think I did, unless it was a few ci resulted. These teachers will be taught to teach gars." adults in the falL One might properly Inquire why all Senate and house conferees met to Alderman said he already had sent consider the utility control bill, but of this agitation has occurred about out field agents to aid in setting up there were small signs that they could the Virgin Islands. courses at New York university, Ohio get together, and one session ended W h y the They are many hun- State university, Purdue university. abruptly in a real row. Two admin A g it a t ion? dreds of miles from Olivet college (Michigan), University istration lobbyists, Benjamin Cohen Washington. They lie of Wisconsin, University of Chicago and Dozier A. De Vane, were brought In the Caribbean sea, considerably out and University of California. The into the executive session by Senators of the usual pathway of ships; they other training schools have not been Wheeler and Barkley and though Rep are populated by about 22,000 Indi selected. resentative George Huddleston pro viduals, 95 per cent of whom are tested, their continned presence was negroes and may generally be de LONG the line of providing help insisted upon. Whereupon the fiery scribed as a “backward" place. for white collar workers. Harry Alabama congressman and his fellows They may have some military and L. Hopkins appointed four technical from the house walked out and broke naval value. That has never been assistants to direct the employment up the meeting. Cohen is generally fully demonstrated. But the fact re of painters, musicians, writers and given credit for writing the measure mains they are possessions of the actors. They are: Nikolai Sokoloff and Wheeelr has said he knows all United States and if our government Is for music, Hallie Flanagan for the about IL to be their protector, it Is responsible theater, Holger Cahill for painters and for a sane administration of their sculptors, and Henry G. Alseberg for RAY SILVER, who throughout affairs. writers. The Washington fight may have had most of his life was active in the With $300,000.000 available for the its start in the Virgin Islands, but It interests of agriculture, died quite sud estimated 750,000 white collar people denly at his home In Martinsburg, W. has progressed beyond that point and on relief, scores of surveys, censuses, Va., at the age of sixty-five years. Is a domestic battle now. it Is safe traffic studies, and similar projects Among the offices he held at various to say that for 18 years, which Is the bave been provided for those with no times were president of the United time the Islands have been under particular skilL States Grain Market corporation of United States rule, there has been a Chicago; president of the Inwood dire need for a plan of government PPONENTS of the AAA amend Fruit Growers’ co-operative corpora suited to those people. Each year con ments designed to strengthen the tion; president Berkeley Fruit Grow gress has been appropriating thou powers of Secretary of Agriculture ers; head of the Easters’ Credit asso sands o f dollars for the Islnnd govern Wallace decided to let the basic’ act ciation; director United Growers of ment and each year there has been go up to the Supreme court, so the ad America, head of the Federated Grow miserably little In the way of improve ministration bill was passed by the ers Credit association; member of the ment to showf for these funds. senate with only 15 adverse votes. National Bureau of Economic Re-, Almost as frequently ns congress has Both Republican and conservative search, member of the commission ap appropriated money It has made Democratic foes of the AAA are con pointed by President T aft to study changes In the administration meth fident that the Supreme court will hold tariff relations to the wool Industry, ods In use there. There has never the basic act unconstitutional and an member of the farm bureau federation been a long term program laid out and visiting Europe In 1924, and a mem early test Is assured by a senate there has been nothing whatsoever amendment permitting suits to recover ber of the commission investigating done showing the sympathy of a so- national unemploymenL processing taxes that have not been called Intellectual people as we claim O Thursday, August 8, 1935 TIMES, WILLAMINA. OREGON Page 2 W A S H IN G T O N . D .C . to be for those downtrodden masses that populate the Virgin Islands. All of this, it seems to me, shows the woeful need for careful considera tion of that situation. It seem* to me equally apparent that as long as con gress keeps meddling In and as long ns politicians from the mainland are sent there purely on a political basis we will continue to have a pack of trouble bundled up In those Virgin Islands. Several attempts have been made to work out a governmental system worth j while but the politicians are not among those who will let plums escai*. It Is certain, therefore, that the Pearson- Wllson-Ickes-Tydlngs battle royal Is an outcropping of what amounts to a festering sore In American govern mental policy. I f congress continues In session past August 15. and It Is now apparent that It may run to Sep- Long Session icmber 1, it will have Severe S tra in been >“ «• «-"Ion 225 days, some two weeks longer than the average of the so-called long sessions of congress. Prior to adoption of the “lame duck” amendment which did away with ses sions of unequal length, the shorter Just exactly right for * Good sessions of congress averaged about I Morning of household chorea. As 170 days. The longer terms were cheerful as the chirp of the first around 213 days before flnnl adjourn robin, and as necessary as your next ment was taken. Thus, the current breath. Is thia cool, adorable, simple session stands In a fair way to be froefc. i f you like this young, dainty among the list of hardy sessions. kind of dress that looks so Inviting All of which Is by way of saying across the breakfast table, by all that rtie current session of congress means make it of sheer swIss or has worn down its members both dimity and decorate It with contrast physically and mentally to an extent ing ruffles; if It’s destined for a life quite unusual. 1 was talking a few of “hard labor,” choose a sturdier Printed cotton and col days ago with a veteran senator, a material. man who has served almost 25 years ored ric-rac braid makes a sensible in the upper house of congress, lie Is and colorful substitute for the ruf known as a physically strong Indi fles. In one morning you can run vidual and usually lasts very well up enough of them to last all sum through rtie work that plies up before mer. senators and representatives. I Inquired Pattern 2241 ts available in sizes of him concerning the general health 14. 16, 18. 20, 32. 34. 36. 38. 40 and of congress and his reply waa: 42. Size 10 takes 3 yards 3? Inch “I regret to say we are Just a hunch fabric. Illustrated atep-by-atep tew of debilitated old men. Incapable of ing Instructions Included. Send F IF T E E N C ENTS (15c) In doing the Job that ts expected of ns and everyone Is hoping agntnst hope coins or stamps (coins preferred) W rite plainly that we can live through this work and for this pattern. name, address and style number. BE this heat.” As a result of that converstaioq the SURE T O STA TE SIZE. Address orders to Sewing Circle thought came to me that here was an answer to the oft repeated declaration Pattern Department, 243 West Sev that members of congress fall to earn enteenth Street, New York. their salaries of $10,(MW per year. I have observed congressional proceed ON THE FLY PAPER ings almost a score of years and It is my mature conviction that few times Manager— Where Is the Ilkm an In that period has congress failed to Fly? earn Its bb I l Fat Lady— He got into an argu e e e ment with his wife and she swatted There Is another reason why con him.—Answers Magazine. gressional sessions should not run so long and should not Numeration W h e n Solons be carried on In the “Remember," suld the earnest A r e T ire d Intense heat of a counselor, “that the bairs of your Washington summer. bead are numbered.” One condition nearly always has ob “That's not so Important In case tained near the close of a long ses of a crime wove,” said Cactus Joe, slon. As the days drag by, persons “ns to remember that every $20 bill with axes to grind and Individual In is numbered.” terests to serve have a way of digging up questionable bills that theretofore Couldn’t Hide It had been side-tracked and assumed to “The worst of Augustus Is that be be dead. With resistance low, the average senator or representative 1» looks such a fool." “ Yes, It's dreadful when they look unable to fight off legislation which he knows to be bad with the same spirit It as w ell."— London T lt-B lts . that accompanied his activities earllei In the session. Likewise, be Is unable to battle as successfully as before for legislation which he knows to be good. This condition opens the way for a revival of lobbies. They are back In Washington In numbers now despite the disclosures being made by the two congressional committees that are In vestigating the lobbies that operated to defeat, temi>orarily at least, the legis lation killing utility holding com panles. One would have assumed Justly with the Investigations under way after the utility legislation was passed that lobbyists and self-serving representatives would have been frightened away from Washington Such was not the case. They are here In such numbers that some observer« believe Mr. Roosevelt has made a mis take In demanding that congress stay until It has enacted the share-the wealth-tax bill and the legislation which will prohibit lawsuits against the government for damages resulting from abrogation of the promise In gov ernment bonds to pay them In gold. My. Roosevelt Is Insisting on these laws. He will get them. But In the opinion of many authorities he stands a fair chance also of getting some other legislation which he may not wanL . C W estern Newspaper Union. COOLING
