The Washington times., 1930-12-13
La F0LLE TIE
RESOLUTION
FIGHT DUE
Administration Supporters
Forced to Side With Wealth
Or Aid of Human Suffering
By GEORGE R, HOLMES


A temporary truce prevailed to-
day between President Hoover
and the Republican leaders OF
the Senate, who are embittered
and deeply resentful over the
public dressing down Mr.. Hoover
handed them last Tuesday. A
Mr.. Hoover refrained from
issuing any further statement
criticising Congress for the man
ner in which it has dealt with
his recommendations on economic
LEGISLATION, although reports
filled the Capital that one was
in the making.
Rest On UItimatum
For their part, the Republican
leaders rested on their ulttmatum
to the White House that the
President need expect no defense
against Democratic attacks If he
continued to issue such state
ments without consulting them.
The truce, however, is believed
only temporary.
In all likelihood, the warfare
between the President and the
Republican leadership, by far the
most dramatic and significant
political development in months,
will flare forth again next week
when the Senate comes to con-
Sideration of the La Toilette
resolution.
Dynamite to Explode
There is political dynamite in
this. It was introduced few
hours after Mr.. Hoover issued his
now famous statement that Con-
gress was playing politics with
human misery" and seeking to
'raid the treasury and it has
been held off the floor ever since
only by the almost superhuman
efforts of Administration leaders.
Open consideration Of it, how
ever, is only a question Of time
and there will be some savage
debate over it. The resolution
says:
WnSEC4S AAAAAVMS Va HAAASAS-
can citizens are i'm destitute cir
cumstances due to unemplOy-
ment and face privatiOn and
suffering, and
Humanity Put First
''WhereaS the President of
the United States, in q public
statement, has indicated that
consideration for the, interests
Of income taxrayers neceSSi- -
tateS restriction on govern
mental relief measures neceS-
sary to aid the jobleSS and
their dependents, now there
fore
"Be it resolved. that It is the
sense of the Senate Of the
United States that the relief Of
human suffering in this emer.
gency would take precedence
over the consideration Of the
interests Of wealthy income
taxpayers"
Mr.. Hoover's friends feel that
this resolution is aimed directly
at him in a personal way and
are determined to beat it. Yet
they admit that the resolution is
framed in such a way that a good
many senators will hesitate to
vote against it. One G. o. P.
regular said:
Language SlumpS Him
III we vote against it, we are
put In the position Of consid.
ering the interests of wealthy
income taxpayers above hu-
man suffering I'd like to vote
against it, but IL / do / am
open to that sort Of attack"
A good many other Republicans
voiced the same sentiment. The
young senator from Wisconsin so
framed his resolution that it is
going to be difficult to get
around. And the Republicans, of
course, can expect no aid from
the Democrats on this particular
measure. Probably not a single
Democratic vote can be expected
against it.
Flood Gates Opened
Nevertheless, a determined ef-
fort is to be made to defeat it,
and some Republican voices will
be raised in the Presidents de-
tense that have been strangely
silent during this weeks spec
tacular assault on Mr.. Hoover.
The important point is, how
ever, that once its consideration
is begun it opens the flood gates
to a fresh and spectacular tor
rent Of oratory in the Senate
which can only accentuate and
emphasize the magnitude of the
Senate revolt against the White
House.