New Britain herald., 1929-12-31
HOOVER WORRIED
 BY l930 OUTLOOK
Domestic Troubles Loom Ahead as Second Year Approaches

'nOuSn 10 rcNcal that ne mas tractious Congress on his hands. And next spring and summer the congressional elections will be held with every indication that an even more obstcperous Congress will be chosen.
 Congress has been the source Of most of the worries which Presi- dent Hoover has struggled with in his first year. Succumbing to the wilcs of Senator Borah in a per suasivc moment, Mir. Hoover. while still presidential candidate. promised if elected to call an extra session Of Congress to deal with farm relief.
 Tho session met the second month Mir. Hoover was President and from that time his major diff ticultics began. Industrial interests demanded some tariff increases in as much as agriculture was 10 be helped at tho special session. Mir. Hoover agreed that some industries in special need of additional tariff protection should be helped. But ho did not specify details. The House ways and means commit ice drafted a tariff revision bill which granted hundreds of in crcascs and provoked strong dis sent from the farm belt Re- publiCans.
 Farm Relief Victory
 Meantime Congress had been working on the farm relief bill. The Senate. over the Presidents protest, added the farm debenture plan Of relief to the Administra- ton bill The house refused to ac cept it enabling Mr. Hoover to come out victorious after much grum- bling in the Senate.
 The house followed this up by passing the tariff bill within few days without any detailed consd- cration of it's provisions on the floor. Democrats laid down heavy barrage Of criticism. Re- publican insurgents in the Senate supported them. The senate finance committee made some changes in the House bill. But in the absence of any direct word as to whether Mir. Hoover favored wholesale re- vision as the House had under taken, the senate committee did not attempt to eliminate the numerous increase wholesale.
 As the year closed Inc senate was still wrestling with the bill, sealing it down on various items through the coalition of Democrats and Republican insurgents. The flexible tariff prov ision which MT Hoover specially wanted to retain was stricken out by the senate.
 Meantime Senator Hiram Bins- ham, Hcpn., Conn.,. was discovered having put an agent Of tho Con- nccticut manufacturers' association on the government payroll and taken him as his secretary into secret sessions of the Senate finance committee while rates were being revised. Bingham was censured by formal vote of the Sen ate for this deception.
 Lobbying Probe
 The incident led to senate in >cstigation of lobbying which un covered all manner of alleged use of influence and brought into the foreground the picturesque and aged lobbyist, Joseph E. Grundy, head of the Pennsylvania Manu- facturers' committee, who was castigated by senators after he said that senators from what he called "backward states should talk 'durned small"
 To the consternation of these out ragged senators. Grundy was ap- pointed by Governor Fisher as a senator from Pennsylvania after William S. Ware was unseatcd. It is no daring prediction to say that in the campaign next summer the Democrats will attempt 10 make the Republican party answer for Grundy all through the west He promises 10 become political issue of first rank --thc symbol Of eastern industrial EcpubiCanism as against the rival western agri- culture viewpoint. II is an issue which Mr. Hoover will have 10 con- tend with just as William Howard Taft had to contend with it fol- ! lowing the enactment Of the Payne | Aldrich tariff bill which aroused | the west as the present one is doing.
 Fuel was added to the shoulder ing resentment in the west against | ;,J i11 lN1 l,\,l inc reference of Senator Moses 10 . western insurgents as sons Of the l wild jaCkass.' This uttcranCe, l made at q dinner of New England | business men here, was greeted l throughout the west as a con- tcmrtuous reference. It has done l much 10 arouse feeling of hostil- | ity In a section of the party which | has always been inconstant in it's | devotion.
 Stock Market Sequel Except for his experiences with , congress which have not been | happy on the whole, President | Hoover found his job very much 1 like the executive work he has al ways done. Only now it is on greater scale. When the stock mar llct decline caused apprehension in the business world, Mr. Hoover moved with quick. bold strategy and summoned a series of business conferences here which included practically all key men in American industry. These conferences dis closed building programs totalling perhaps ten billion dollars for the coming year and extracted promises from industrialists not to cut wages and from labor not 10 start strikes for higher wages. They stimulated nation- wide optimism and kept