Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-06
HOOVER WILL ASK
CONGRESS TO DROP
POLITICS IN CRISIS
Appeal for Full Cooperation
Expected When Session
Convenes December 7.
DEATH OF WURZBACH
DOOMS G. O. P. POWER
Party Chief Believes Debt Holiday
and Proposed Banking Laws
Will Be Enacted,
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

President Hoover is expected to call
upon Congress to put aside partisan
politics and to legislate for the benefit
of the whole country in the economic
crisis that exists, when that body meets
December Z.
The President is expected to take such
q step particularly in view OF the fact
that the Republican party has lost even
a paper majority in the House OF Repre-
sentatives and that the organization OF
the House control of legislation will be
in the hands of the Democrats in that
body.
There must. be some measure of CO.
operation between the Congress and the
President if legislation needed by the
country is to be put through at the
coming session. A coalition govern
ment," in the meaning Of the term in
Great Britain, seems neither likely nor
possible here.
1t is not likely the President would
attempt to form such a government OF
that the Demo Gratis would accept such
q proposal. Within few months both
the political parties will be herd at 1t,
seeking to win national election.
Hoover Asked for Proposals.
The sudden death of Representative
Wurzbach of the fourteenth Texas dis
trict last night, unless 1t is Offset by the
death of a Democrat before Congress
meets, seems to assure Democratic
ma jority in the House. Furthermore,
T. would appear that the chances OF
electing Republican IN Wurzbach's
plcce ere not bright, even when spe-
cial eaction is he'd.
T-mocrats in Washington today and
T., portion t. know the probable at
tt';'e Of the party in thu House on
l~q.~' alton during the coming session,
dared that it WIS first the duty Of
t. -ore@:+ent of tire United Ststes to
s'.'-.-it his recommended rs for lsgis-
II N II TIE Congress.
"Iv,.en that has been DONE" said one
Z -7o-rct high. In the party councils,
"Shse Democrats of the House win be
II position to determine what meas
ur-B they should support as beneficial
to the country.
Insists Hoover Cooperate.
eff there is to be cooperation be-
tween the Congress and the President"
he added, then the cooperation will
not come entirely from the Democrats
of the House The President must be
Gratis. If he undertakes to oppose a
measure merely because it is advanced
by a Democrat in the House or the
Senate, then it is quite likely that the
Democrats will cast Cooperation to the
winds SO far as the administration
measures are concerned. 1t takes two
to cooperate"
Getting down to details of legislation,
this Democrat expressed the opinion
bA F<,-k IA he
part of the Democrats to prevent the
necessary legislation to make the
Hoover one-year holiday on repara-
tions and intergovernmental debts eff
fective.
IT Go not expect Mr.. Garner, who
will be the Speaker when the Demo-
Gratis organize the House. he said, cal
though he would not give President
Hoover his advance support for that
measure last June, to oppose this leg
islation when it comes up in the House.
Mr.. Gamers attitude was that the
President should go ahead himself with
such a proposal to the nations without
calling in the party leaders in Con-
greSs, II he believed 1t to be necessary.
that If President Hoover considered the
opinion of the Congress necessary. a
special session should have been called
Tariff Revision Unlikely.
THE Presidents suggestions for legis-
lation to help the country in the present
depression by amendments of the bank
ing laws, made to the congressional
leaders on october Z last, are net likely
either to meet Democratic opposition
in the main. There may be details to
be worked out, however"
No general revision" of the tariff
laws, it was predicted, would be under
taken by the House Democrats, nct-
withstanding the control of the House
and its Ways and Means Committee b.
the Democrats.
Bills or joint resolutions attacking
certain schedules of the Hawley-Sm
tariff act, however probably will be
brought before the House by the Demo-
Gratis and efforts made to pass them
This was the course pursued by the
Democrats when they took charge OF
the House in 1911, after the Payne Aid
rich Republican tariff law had been en-
acted.
Horizontal Cuts Possible.
Another proposal which the Demo
Gratis are considering Is a bill for
horizontal reduction of tariff duties
excluding the agricultural schedule from
the cut. Such reduction might be 10
20 or even 25 per cent. The Demo
Gratis insist, however, that such meas
ure could not be considered genera
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