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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
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IN THE MORNING
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NATIONAL TOPICS INTERPRETED
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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
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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
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C W estern Newspaper Union.
COOLING