————————
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S leader
ship received its first Important set-
back when the senate, following sim-
flar action by the house, overrode his
d : veto of the independ-
ent offices appropria-
tion bill carrying the
veterans’ and federal
pay provisions. The
vote in the senate was
63 to 27, or three more
than the required two-
thirds. In the house
the vote was over-
whelming, 310 to 72, a
margin of 055 more
than the necessary
two-thirds
Roosevelt The bill 1s now a
law, and its passage is of high signifi-
cance, as it throws the budget esti-
mates out of kilter and adds greatly
to the tax burden of the people. But
of more importance is the evident fact
that the President has lost his firm
grip on congress. Fear of reprisals by
war veteran voters in the coming elec-
tions proved a greater fear with many
Democratic senators than the displeas-
ure of the President,
Restoring two-thirds of a 15 per cent
pay cut voted for a million govern-
ment employees, including military
and naval personnel, In the economy
act last summer, the bill also greatly
liberalizes compensation and pensions
to veterans of the World and Spanish-
American wars.
The bill will cost the government
an additional £210,000,000 annually,
It eliminates retroactively as of Feb-
ruary 1, 1034, one-third of the federal
employees’ pay cut and an additional
third on July 1. The cost to the gov-
ernment under the provision will be
$26,000,000 for the period from Febru.
ary 1 to July 1, and $126,000,000 an-
nually thereafter,
While the President by executive
order has restored many veterans to
the compensation and hospitalization
rolls, congress made mandatory awards
estimated to cost the government
about £84,000,000 annually and an ad-
ditional $21,000,000 for the rest of the
present fiscal year.
The increased amounts for govern-
ment workers and veterans will come
from the general revenues of the gov-
ernment,
President
FTER weeks of exhausting nego-
tiations the threatened strike in
the automoblle Industry was averted
when President Roosevelt secured an
agreement between executives and la-
bor leaders, Representation for all
employees In dealing with manage
ment was established, and safeguards
were extended to all unions against
Intimidation or Interference.
“It is my hope,” said the President,
“that this system may develop into a
kind of works council in Industry in
which all groups of employees, what-
ever may be their choice or organiza-
tion of form of representation, may
participate in joint conference with
their employers.”
He hailed this as basis for a more
comprehensive, adequate and equi
table system of relations than ever
has existed in a large Industry.
The agreement avolds the licensing
of the automobile industry, which labor
threatened to invoke if there was no
agreement. The American Federation
of Labor is not recognized as such by
industry except when its affiliates have
the necessary votes on the collective
bargaining committee,
One of the provisions of the agree
ment was that the NRA should set
up a board, responsible to the Presi
dent, to sit in Detroit and pass upon
all questions of representation, dis
charge, and discrimination. Decision
of the board Is to be final upon all con-
cerned. Three men will serve on the
board, one representing labor, one in-
dustry, the third being neutral,
EARY from the straln of close
application to the affairs of state,
President Roosevelt departed for a
short vacation aboard Vincent Astor's
yacht. He headed for the warm
climes of southern waters to fish and
relax for a week, It was an unpre
cedented move for the Executive to
leave Washington while congress is In
session, but with the same spirit of a
year ago when he set out on the same
yacht before taking the Presidential
reins, the President greeted his cronies
aboard ship and waved his hat to a
rousing farewell from the folks on the
dock at Jacksonville, Fla, where he
boarded the yacht.
With carefree happiness he posed
for the photographers and joshed the
newspaper men. He chatted eagerly
with his eldest son, James, who Joined
him here for the cruise.
For the next week or more, the
President will be fishing and swim
ming, away from the heavy cares of
office. He intends to return to Wash:
ington within the ten-day constitu.
tional limit required for consideration
of any legislation passed by congress,
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT Monday
called on congress to pass legls
lation with “teeth in It” for the con.
trol of the nation’s stock and com
modity exchanges.
He asked that the law be go severe
“that speculation, even as It exists to
day, will of necessity be drastically
curtalled.” His demand was made In
a letter to Senator Duncan U. Fletcher
(Dem., Fla.) and Representative Sam
Rayburn (Dem., Texas), chairmen of
the congressional committees which
are handling the pending stock ex-
change bills.
Charging the exchanges with organ-
izing one of the most determined lob-
bles which has fought any of his legls-
lation, the President sald that the
country would not be satisfied unless
the exchange control message 1s dras-
tic. People generally, the President
sald, blame the speculation on ex
changes for the 1929 artificial boom
and the resulting slump,
N THE foreword of his forthcoming
new book, “On Our Way,” President
Roosevelt says if his administration
“is a revolution, it Is a peaceful one,
achleved without violence, without the
overthrow of the purpose of estab
lished law and without the denial of
Just treatment to any individual or
clags."”
The proofs of the foreword,
out by the publishers, the John
company, read:
“Some people have called our new
policy ‘fascism. It is not fascism
because its inspiration springs from
the mass of the people themselves
rather than from a class or a group
or a marching army. Moreover, it is
being achleved without a
fundamental republican method,
have kept the faith with, and in,
traditional political institutions,
“Some people have called It
munism’; It is not that, either. It Is
not a driving regimentation founded
upon the plans of a perpetuating di
rectorate which subordinates the mak.
ing of laws and the processes of the
courts to the orders of the executives,
Neither does It manifest itself In the
total elimination of any class or in the
abolition of private property.
“If 1t is a revolution, it is a peace
ful one, achieved without violence,
without the overthrow of the pur-
poses of established law and without
the denial of just treatment to any In-
dividual or class.”
change In
We
our
‘Com-
HARGES made by Dr. William A.
Wirt, superintendent of schools at
Gary, Ind, that some of President
Roosevelt's advisers wanted to lead
the government into
communism are to be
investigated by a com-
mittee of the house of
representatives, Doce.
tor Wirt will be called
before this committee
to name the man or
men who told him
that Presi Roose
velit is merely the
“Rere nsky of this rev.
: and that the
Dr. W. A Wirt within the
administration are seeking to foster
a revolution by prolonging misery and
destitution In this country.
Republican hotise
were determined that the inquiry will
not be confined to the Wirt allega-
tions alone, despite an apparent de.
sire on the part of Democratic lead
ers to narrow the investigation's scope,
Democratic members of the house
were making an effort to confine the
inquiry to the allegations made by the
Gary educator alone. Under pressure
from Republicans, however, it was
agreed by the Democratic leaders that
the men named by Doctor Wirt will
have to be called,
The entire matter is being treated
ns a joke by members of the so-catled
“brain trust,” They declare that Doe-
tor Wirt has been made the victim
of a practical joke by a mischievous
member of the radical group. There
were several different stories current
as to the origin of the Wirt allega-
tions, one version having it that the
Gary educator mistook a newspaper
man in New York for an official of the
administration.
dent
olution’
radicals
members of the
WENTY- five thousand school chil
dren In German cities will be sep
arated from their parents and sent to
the country for a year by order of the
Prussian state,
This Is in line with the Nazi policy
of “reconciliation of urban and rural
population” which will be fostered by
sending every town chlid to the coun
try for a year, The 25,000 will com:
pose the first trial bateh. The year in
the country will be financed partly by
the state of Prussia and partly by
school organizations.
BAck again at the scene of his trl.
umphs and his failure, after being
a fugitive for 18 months, Martin In.
sull, brother of Samuel Insull, Is in
Chicago to answer a charge of om.
bezziement from the treasury of the
Middle West Utilities,
Insuii arrived in Chicago--where he
had lived for more than 40 years—an
alien, technically excluded from the
United States but paroled to Lieuton
ant Johnson until the charges against
him are disposed of, His arrival ended
n sensational trip from Toronto, with
the most extraordinary entry of an
alien into the United Sinles ever re.
corded In the busy Detroit immigrn.
tion office,
HE number of individuals living on
farms reached a record peak of
32,500,000 on January 1.
The bureau of agricultural econom-
ics, In a new study of farm population,
attributed the increase principally to
an excess of births over deaths, since
more people left farms for cities, in
1033 In a continuation of the furm
exodus of the past decade, than went
from citles to farms. Persons wha
moved to farms last year were 041,000,
while 1,178000 moved away.
The farm-bound movement Involved
1,544,000 persons in 1032 while those
moving away numbered 1,011,000,
The bureau based its
data gathered on 146.817
parts oe the country.
estimates on
farms in all
NTU. of political unrest in Es.
tonia, Baltic nation of 1,121,000
inhabitants, have culminated in a die-
tatorship, according to advices from
Tallinn, the capital
Gen. Johan Laldoner, commander In
chief of the Estonian army, and
known as “Estonia's George Washing
ton,” has assumed supreme authority
with the agreement of the president
and parliament,
A COMPLETE shakeup In commer
cial alr lines, using the return of
the alr mall to private lines as a bait,
is being forced by Postmaster General
Farley. Thirty officials
in private aviation
companies must he
forced out of office,
the whole alr mal)
structure 8 to be re-
bulit, end all the old
companies carrying
malis must reorganize
if they nre
in federal alr mall
subsidies in the fu
ture,
Both Republl
can and Dem
Bross
wish to si
J. A. Farley
ocratic members
assailed the new order, denounce
ing the terms as too drastic,
Steps for the return of the
to private
diately by for bids on 15
routes, comprising 17.526 miles. None
of the companies which had their pre
vious will be al
lowed to bid unless they completely
reorganize and drop all officials sus
pected of fraud or collusion In past
bidding. The new bids will be for
three months only, but may be extend
ed for another six months If beces
sary. They are Intended to provide
private flying of the malls pending the
settlement of a8 permanent air mall
policy by cohgress,
A pew system for computing rates
which are to be paid for carrying the
mails was announced. The pew rates
will be based on the average load car
ried per mile over the route during
the month,
alr mail
lines were launched imme
advertising
contracts canceled
USTRIA'S new corporatis
tution, as published
government gazette,
dent powers similar to the
by the late Emperor Franz when
he ascended the throne after crushing
a republican revolution In 1548. The
president will rule through the con
stitution, but may change it whenever
se thin gency demands, The
consti sed on the prin
ciple that all power emanates from God
a#t to the DPreser
¢ consti
in the official
the Presi
we possessed
Rives
Jomo!
ike an em “fr
tution will be ba
-ify contr it one, which
says all
people,
power e i % from
jut the people, nevertheless, w
given an opportunity to express thelr
opinion at the polls whenever the gov
ernment thinks this advisable. Popu-
lar initiative, however, is barred and
the people will not have constitu
tional rights to elect thelr own govern
ment. All legislation must be Initiated
by the government, which will be ad-
vised but not controlled by four con
sultative bodies,
These will be the state council of 40
to 50 members appointed by the presi.
dent: the federal cultural council, con
sisting of representatives of churches,
religious societies and schools; the
federal economic council, chosen from
business, industrial, agricultural and
financial circles, and the provincial
council, consisting of governors and
finance ministers of the various prov-
inces,
ETENTION of the restrictions im
posed on immigration by the pres
ent laws was recommended by a com-
mittee of 48 men and women appointed
several months ago by Secretary Per
kins to study the problem.
Only minor relaxations were sug
gested. The committee urged proper
provision for reuniting families separ
ated by immigration and providing
asylum for refugees from racial and
political persecution within the immi-
gration quotas, =
Relentless war on aliens who com
mit crimes and on the racketeer and
gangster was recommended.
The committee proposed, however,
that provision be made so illegal en-
trants who have proved themselves de
sirable citizens could legalize their res.
idence. It opposed deportation of
aliens brought to this country as chil
dren but who have never qualified for
citizenship,
PLAN for the complete freedom
of the Philippines in 1945 or soon
thereafter was written upon the
statute books when President Roose
velt signed the MeDuffle-Tidings bill,
The Philippine legislature must ac
cept the measure hy Getober 1. Rep
resentatives from the islands present
in Washington declared that it would
he accepted by the legisiature on
May 1
“I'his Is a great day for you and for
me.” the President told President
Manuel kL. Quezon of the Philippine
senate, adding tant If Invited he
would attend the Inaugural ceremo
nies of the new republic ten to twelve
years hence,
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Washington.—One of the outstand-
ing signs to be noted in the Washing-
ton political situa.
Wakes Up
tion these days is
Minority the renewed courage
and strength being
gathered by the minority. There is no
longer any doubt about it. The
minority in the government, consist
ing, first, of dyed-in-the- Repub
leans and, secondly, of old line Demo-
crats who cannot quite follow all
items of the New Deal have begun to
pull back. For the first time since
President Roosevelt came in, there is
at least a real “opposition party.” As
tute students of politics and govern-
ment insist it Is a most healthy sign
and that it will make for better govern.
ment in the end,
There has been opposition to a great
many of the Roosevelt policies here.
tofore, but a considerable portion of
it has been just silent mumbling and
grumbling, Most of them seemed to
be afraid of the widely-advertised
Roosevelt popularity thro the
country. Mr. Roosevelt is popular,
perhaps, than any President
had in many ye
represented does
to all
not apply in
OrAiabp, The
wool
ughout
we have
of hi a
pear to run
certainly
proposals,
Aosies
TOR
vor of
of his st “oppo.
DOW |
facis
ing their attack
I noticed the first
bate in the
and in
house of representative
where a desire
and Is, plainly evident to call a halt
New Deal plans are not being
lowed without mastication any more.
The the
trend, however, the
tendency of the opposition to question
continued enactment of kind of
legislation under the guise of emer-
gency Everything up to this
time has been push wed through with a
loud cry of “emergency of it,
if not most of m WEE emery ency legis.
lation, jut now everybody with a
pet scheme is rushing in with
“emergency” ion, and It Is an
overworking word that has
brought about concentration of the op
position forces, the con
sensus that I ha able to gather,
From what 1 have been able to see, it
is a reenactment of the old story of
giving rope; it is
choking itself to death
The Importance of this per.
haps, in best pointed out by the fact
there are dorens of units of the
Deal setup that predic
oily on the fact that they were pro.
posed as a part of general pro-
gram for recovery. 1 think none can
doubt timat the has
sented an emergency as great as
any arising under s ar. ut
any war was conciud
wus and there, and
the senate was,
swale
most important phase of
appears to be in
every
needs,
Rome
according to
ve been
the ealf too much
trend,
1
are ated
depression pre.
when
sie regency
emer.
passed
CONrts,
over, then
cy legislation was
One might possibly conjecture a bit as
ended in the
nic structure
but the
developments certainly show a
number of leaders In
congress and outside who are unwiil-
ing to have the emergency continge
forever.
It might be natural to assume that
the movement to halt enactment of
emergency legislation had developed
naturally from the fact that this is
an election year for the 435 members
of the house and some 35 members of
the senate. Political analysts of long
service and able judgment assure me,
however, that this is not the whole
case, They say that existence of a
campaign probably has strengthened
the backbone of some of the opposi-
tion but that the trend more properly
represents the divergence of thought
in the two schools of students of gov-
ernment. If that be true, as it ap-
pears to be, then we may expect to see
more and more assanits on the Roose.
velt position. Every time he slips
with an error of judgment or on bad
advice—and he is human and those
slips have and will come-—the oppo.
gition can be counted on to make the
most of it.
emergency
the econ
* * =»
For example, and as indicating how
the lineup is changing, attention need
only be called to the
opposition that has
Lineup been encountered in
the house on new
agricultural legislation, Most of these
bills are designed to go further than
the program lald down in the agricul-
tural adjustment act, and to use coms
puision where the present New Deal
philosophy has been based on volun.
tary co-operation from agriculture,
itself. There are half a dozen or more
pieces of legislation, the nature of
which need not be recounted here, that
would give the federal government
added control of farmers’ affairs, One
of them, for Instance, would give the
secretary of agriculture authority to
tell a farmer what to do with the
land taken out of production by his
agreement to limit acreage of cotton,
or wheat, or corn, or tobacco, Most
observers here construe that legisla.
tion as giving the government absolute
domination over the farmer, and 1 sus.
pect that most farmers are not going
to stand for that,
At any rate, this and other proposals
are moved forward because there is
Changing
an “emergency.” jut I have scon
signs of a reaction among the farmers,
They are signs that never fail, lep-
resentatives from agricultural areas
have been getting mall from home
there are many of the house members
who now insist it is time to
halt. Frankly, I hear frequent sharp
declarations that the professors in the
administration have
That means votes against the
gone
bills,
They never cease to
plans, and the
flow from the
Capitol,
one that proposes to establis
government banks to ald what
promoters describe as the small busi-
Ness,
of the
turn
proposals
White House to
out
with the treasury supplying the
capital to the extent of
O00, 000,
Here, agaln, is
ure, It is
Banking for
Industry
the fod
ime when it can qu
business,
well
the
I was talking vith a rather
known senator about the
voiced his private
sug-
danger
being
objections most
that
of the Ind
strongly
vigorously. He
there was grave
istrial loan
influenced by po
i8 Con
system
lities and
dition surely woul
ins |
that no s«
“1 will tell you just how
£0." he added.
the point
“It could
reach where, If a
mney,
to go Into the bank
on the arm of an office holder.
And this senator Is a Democrat, a
member of the senate for years! The
incident Is related here, however, be-
shows the
have
“
line of cleavage
that has developed. It
indeed, that no longer Is
being put th rough gress
Cause the strats on want
Anoth
going ave ro
demonstrates,
con
Roosevelt tariff a
It SAYS On the face
emergency
text, however, th
legislation
ere is
the Internationa
n or the ol
give
The
for
under the guise
Some of the few Repub!
the senate and house have e been chid-
tariff proposals of the administration
because they would delegate to
President and the tariff
more authority to revise rates upward
or downward than now exists he
Republicans are recalling to
Democratic friends how the Democrats
commission
those Presidents Included
tional agreements with
vision idea. Quite a humorous situa-
tion has developed as a resuit,
little about
criticism
ceive,
culture admit
they
Farmers They
Object
cone
to be expected and
that, under the AAA plans being
molded by Administrator Davis, the
organization and rules are to be kept
flexible. I understand, however, that
there is quite a bit of ohiection reach.
ing the department about the neces-
sity for farmers allowing government
agents to examine their records. The
reports I get are to the effect that
gince most of the facts have to be
gathered by county representatives of
the Washington government, many
farmers do not like the idea of neigh-
bors knowing all about their affairs,
I have inquired around to find out
whether there is any way that such
a condition can be corrected and have
found no answer, except the states
ments of the high officials who argue
that there is little examination neces.
sary. The condition seems to be one
that must be expected if the concerted
effort contemplated by the AAA prin.
ciples of crop control are to be effec
tive,
The situation Is one that obviously
and naturally develops as the govern.
ment wades further and further into
private business. Most persons recall
the circumstances that came with the
inauguration of the income tax as a
system of raising federal revenues,
Business men objected vigorously to
granting government agents the right
to dig Inte their books and records,
but their fight was to no avail
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