S—— "Humanizing" the Majority S MAJORITY members of con- gress met on Jefferson island in Chesapeake bay with President Roosevelt, to have their relations with the chief execu- tive “humanized,” the belief in Wash- ington circles that the President is will- ing to accept a third term expanded to the greatest propor- tions ithasyetknown. The spark which touched off the lat- est cloakroom whis- 4 perings of a third President term was the dec- Roosevelt laration by Gov. George H. Earle of Pennsylvania that he would give ‘‘unqualified and final" support to a Roose- velt - for - President movement in 1940. Further reports had it that John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion and leader of the sit-down strikes that have swept the nation, was working toward the same end. The President has only indirectly disavowed such an ambition. said at his victory dinner: “My great ambition on January 20, 1941, is to turn over this desk and chair in the White House to my successor, whoever he may be, with the assurance that I am at the me time turning over to him as President a nation intact, a nation at peace, a nation prosperous . . .” * The ‘“‘humanizing’” on Jefferson island was interpreted as attempts to salvage the New Deal programs, which have been getting a mild kicking around in congress of late, through heart - to - heart talks between Mr. Roosevelt and his sup- porters in the Capitol. Several pieces of attempted leg- islation, most notably the Pres- ident's Supreme court bill, have apparently created a split between the conservatives and liberals in the Democratic party. The Presi- dent's continued silence throughout the C. 1. O. strikes has been a fac- tor, too. Democratic members of congress are puzzied to decide whether the President is unwitting- ly bringing about the split, or is doing so deliberately with an eye to freezing out the conservatives and creating a completely liberal party. They would also like to know whether he is silently supporting with which to hang himself. pn, States Patrol Strike Areas S NATIONAL guardsmen, or- dered out by Gov. Martin L. Davey, arrived on the scene to pro- tect the public peace in Ohio cities where C. 1. O. steel strikes have caused bloodshed and threatened more, violence dwindled, temporar- ily at least, to the throwing of a few stones and choice epithets. At Warren, troops dispersed pick- ets and allowed loyal workmen to move in and out of the Republic Steel plants. A general strike which the C. I. O. had ordered and claimed to be 40 to 70 per cen: ef- fective ‘was recalled after a day, with the threat, “The next time our men are called out, it will be on even a larger scale.” At Youngstown the strikers were celebrating the order by which sev- eral hundred state troops were forcing the four plants of Republic and. the Youngstown Sheet & Tube company to remain closed. Then Gov. Davey reversed his order, com- manding troops to keep the plants open. Shortly before the arrival of the the Apex Hosiery company plant at Philadelphia were forced to evacuate under a federal court evic- tion order. During the seven weeks the sit-downers had occupied the plant they had wrought damage to machinery and books totaling $3,000,- 000, according to company officials. aloe Nazi Fleet Moves on Valencia OR the second time Germany and Italy withdrew from the four-power non-intervention patrol of Spain, asserting that by this act their ‘freedom of action’ was re- stored. Hitler immediately ordered the strongest units of the Nazi fleet to Valencia, the loyalist capital, the while assuring Great Britain he would commit no rash act. Britain, in turn, let it be known through her ambassador at Berlin that she would regard any hostile act against the Spanish government ‘most seri- ously.” The reason for the Fascist nations’ withdrawal was that Great Britain and France had refused to join them in a naval demonstration at Valencia to protest the alleged loy- alist submarine attack against the German cruiser Leipzig on May 18. rebels, were assigned to patrol the eastern, or loyalist, coast of Spain under the four-power patrol agree- ment. Although they have quit co- operating with the patrol their ships remain in the patrolled waters. * Hopkins Slices WPA Rolls ORKS PROGRESS ADMINIS- TRATOR HARRY L. HOP- KINS is busy rimming 314,758 names off the WPA rolls, to shave the total to 1,655,477 by mid-July. The cut was to be effected “simply through not replacing men who found jobs in private industry’ and by combing the lists for ineligibles. WPA officials emphasized the need for economy by comparing the es- timated $2,175,000,000 spent in 1837 with the $1,500,000,000 approved by congress for relief in fiscal 1938. merlin Miss Perkins Names Three T Be federal government took a hand in the settlement of the dispute between John L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion and the big in- dependent steel companies, as the mediation board of three, appointed by Secretary of Labor Frances E. Perkins, sat in Cleveland to hear the cases of both sides. The government's move was prompted as ; the steel strikes, af- Secy. Perkins fecting plants in several states, threatened new out- breaks of violence which might be beyond the powers of local or even state governments to control. As the mediators began their task of effecting a compromise, a dozen persons had been killed in strike riots and scores more injured since the strike against Republic, Bethle- hem, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and Inland started May 28. Eighty- five thousand workers already had lost approximately $10,000,000 in wages, Charles P. Taft II, Cincinnati lawyer, son of the former Presi. dent and chief justice, and a mem- ber of the “brain trust” of Gover- mediation board. Appointed to sit with him were Lloyd K. Garrison, French Premier Quits ACED with one of those fins -cial crises all too frequent in recent French history, Premier Leon Blum asked the senate for powers which would make him financial dictator of France for about six weeks. He did not believe it possible to bring order into the treasury without 30 drastic a meas- ure. When it was refused he and the 20 membars of his cab- inet resigned. He had served 117 days of his second year as premier of France— something of a modern record. Pres- ident Albert Lebrun designated Ca- mille Chautemps, radical socialist and a former premier, to attempt the formation of a new cabinet. A suc- cessor to Blum was not immeadiately in sight. The Popular Front government was one of the bulwarks of leftist tendencies in Europe, as opposed to extreme Fascism, and openly ex- pressed its sympathy for the Spanish loyalists. Its passing is extremely important in international affairs. wen ne The Mail Must Go Through Premier Blum at Cleveland for six C. 1. O. leaders in the strike at Youngs- town and Warren, charging them with preventing delivery of United States mails to loyal em- ployees of the steel company plants there. Their names were not re- vealed. warrant was given by Attorney-Gen- eral Homer 8S. Cummings after he had looked over testimony at the senate post office committee's hear- ing. Charges have been made that C. I. O. leaders were censoring the mail in Ohio cities and refusing to permit delivery of parcel post pack- ages containing food, clothing and other “irregular' articles for work- ers in the plants. “All mail that the post office de- partment sees fit to attempt to deliver must be delivered,” said Cummings. This did not conflict with the post office department's refusal to deliver packages to the plants, but sought to prosecute per- sons who would prevent the delivery of mail the department had okayed. ow. Bilbao Falls at Last I ILBAO, capital of the Spanish loy- alists, fell before an attacking force for the first time in history: it had withstood many sieges dating from medieval ages. In the bombing and shelling which broke the “iron ring" of had so steadfastly maintained the city was literally torn to toll, which included many children, was enor mous. But as the Gen. Franco lantly, to take possession of the city for Gen. Francisco Franco, not a shot was fired. to the west. The Basques were es- timated to have used 75,000 men in defending Bilbao; 10,000 were either killed or wounded. ans A oun Louis Is Champ by K. O. JE LOUIS, the “Brown Bomber" from Detroit, became heavy- when he knocked out Champion James J. Braddock of New York 15-round bout at Chicago. Golden Gloves graduate came back to win after being knocked down himself in the first round. —_—. The Tax Parade and avoidance by wealthy citizens, thau was among the first to testify. He said the nation was losing hun- dreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue through such tactics. Then his under-secretary, Roswell Magill, suggested three changes in the pres- ent tax laws: That depletion reduc- tions be eliminated, that community- property provisions now in effect in some states be circumvented, and that higher levies be put upon the American-earned incomes of non- resident aliens. The first names mentioned in the hearings were connected with the practice of forming foreign corpora- tions to which individual incomes are transferred, a scheme which treas- ury officials said was usually within ‘‘the letter of the law.” Among the ‘By WILLIAM BRUC | NATIONAL PRESS BLDG Let Washington.—Two actions of sec- tions of the congress lately deserve more than ordi- Congress nary attention. Makes News One of these was probably as cou- rageous a position as any group of senators ever has taken. The other action—by majority of the house was shot through with the utmost cowardice and selfishness. Lately, a group of senators, near- ciary committee advising defeat of President Roosevelt's proposal to United States. In my time in Washington, I be- tion, there never has been a com- mittee action in the house or sen- leader of the dominant party, re- ceived such a castigation on a legis- lative proposal as was given Mr. Roosevelt by Democrats who con- stituted the majority of the senate judiciary committee. They did not mince words in any respect. What. ver may be the merit of Mr. Roos- evelt’s proposal to add six justices of his own choosing to the highest court, the majority report of the judiciary committee left no stone unturned in disclosing objections to the proposal as opponents of court reorganization scheme them. Almost on the same day senate Democrats were, in effect, breaking or revolting from the Pres- see majority in the house proposal for new taxes in the Dis- representatives and senators and their office staffs. They were brazen about it. They vole an income fax upon mittee in the house of the District of Columbia. The District mittee, examining the budget was confronted with sources of revenue in order that the District of Columbia might not get into debt. Among the taxes pro- posed was a tax on income of res- idents of the District of Columbia, which is synonymous with Wash- earnings here whether the person who earned the income was a resi dent of the capital city or not. could not take it. They voiced their objections openly and, being supe- rior in numbers to those who be- lieved that income in the District of Columbia shouid be taxed, they forced the tax bill back to the District of Columbia committee for revision. Indeed, they went further. The line of criticism of an income tax that would touch the sacred salaries of congressmen and sen- in a tax bill that would increase is a fact that few members of the house and a very number of senators have bought residences in Washington. They usually live in apartments or that congress is in session. Conse- quently, a real estate tax will not concern most of the representatives and senators. » . The indictment brought against the Président’s court plan by the senate judiciary Court Plan committee was Report quite unusual in many respects. In the first instance, it was ap- proximately fifteen thousand words in length; being in that regard prob- ably the longest and most com- prehensive analysis that any con- gressional committee ever has made of a piece of legislation. Cer- tainly, it is the most extensive ex- amination to be included in a com- mittee report in the last quarter of a century. Every argument advanced by the administration in support of the plan was picked to pieces and held up to public gaze; every possible reason for expansion of the court by the addition of six new justices was scrutinized and denounced and, then, the committee put forth some of its own ideas. “It applies force to the judiciary,” the committee said in a sentence that constituted one paragraph and The bill was found by the seven Democrats and three Republicans who constituted a majority of the senate judiciary committee, to be ‘“a needless, futile and utterly dan- gerous abandonment of constitution al principle.” It charged that the “American system’ of independ- ence of the courts would be violated and that if the bill were to be en- acted into law, “political control” over the judiciary branch of the government would pass into the hands of the President. With the presentation of this ter- rific attack on the bill to the senate, a second unusual circumstance de- veloped. Those Democrats who were opposed to the President's proposal decided to go about the job of fighting the measure on the floor in a manner seldom seen in the congress, These opponents from the Democratic ranks got together and chose Senator Wheeler of Montana as leader of the Democratic oppo- sition to the Democratic Presi- dent's court revision program. They gave him full authority to act, in- cluding the selection of a steering committee, a committee on strat- egy, to aid him. Thus, in the senate now we have three major leaders. Senator Wheel- er will speak for the court opposi- tion; Senator Robinson of Arkansas { as the leader of the Democratic party in the senate will lead the fight for passage of the court bill; | and Senator McNary of Oregon will | head up the Republicans as usual. Since all of the Republicans and | Independents excepting only Senator | La Follette, Progressive, of Wis- consin, are opposed to the court revision plan, Senator McNary and | Senator Wheeler are working hand in glove against the regular Demo- cratic line-up headed by Senator tobinson, It appears that the President is going to be badly defeated on this legislation, but it is too Mr. Roosevelt is | a powerful figure and he has politi- cal knowledge that must be de- scribed as remarkable. He has with him in the senate some exceedingly | able political strategists. It is thus | a battle of wits. Mr. Roosevelt has said several times that he will accept no com- promises. There is a very definite | feeling at the Capitol, however, that he President will be glad to have a compromise if he can get one | and save the bill from complete | wreckage. On the other hand, Sen- | ator Wheeler and his strategy committee have announced in no uncertain terms that they will de- { feat the bill or any compromise that is offered. Time alone can answer { the question of what will come out of the President's proposal. At this writing, the odds certainly are against the President on proposition, | piece of | early to be sure action, tioned earlier, calls to mind the investigation by Hunt Tax Evaders mittee that is now under way. This committee, made up of five repre- sentatives and five senators has be- payers avoid taxes: or reduce the amounts they would otherwise have to pay by various trick schemes. The committee has been given fifty thousand dollars with which to make the investigation and it is re- ceiving able assistance from Under Secretary Roswell Magill and other Treasury experts on taxation. Contrary to the outlook when Mr. Roosevelt released a vicious attack on tax dodgers and tax avoiders, this committee is getting down to real business and there is reason to believe it will be able to recommend to congress changes in the law that will stop some of the schemes and tricks to which large taxpayers have resorted. I have sat in on a number of the hearings thus far, including the opening session when Secretary Morgenthau made the opening state- ment and disclosed to the satisfac- tion of everyone that he was not conversant with the problem at hand. Like the President, Mr. Mor- genthau attempted to place the tax problem confronting the govern- ment on moral grounds. His state- ment did not click with the com- mittee at all. With two or three ex- ceptions, the committee members question of law and Senator Pat Harrison, Democrat of Mississippi, vice chairman, said that there was quilt of oldentime popular The lives “Grandmoth- Made of to piece. 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