Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1931-11-19
Washington Snapshots
Taken by the Helms News Service

Although Congress does not con-
vene for four weeks, Capital Hill
is taking on new life of political
activity as Democrats, Republicans
and Progressives begin arriving to
formulate programs, advance poll
tical fortunes and to hold what
ever they now have. Most impor-
tant of the new arrivals is Senator
Norris, Republican, of Nebraska,
leader of the Progressive bloc IN
the Senate, who comes with pro-
posal for a SS,Oe0,60e,O00 appre-
priation for road building as a
means of helping employment, a
prediction that President Hoover
will be renominated by the Repub-
lieans and some satirieal comment
on President Hoover's --latest COM
mission"-the one on "Abysmal
ignorance.
100000
The Administration wants to
know what the Democrats plan to
do with the House of Representa-
tives. That it comedies they will
organize the legislative branch be-
comes more evident as Republi-
cans who held much of the power
in the last House are dropping in
to talk with John n. Garner, of
Texas, Democratic choice for the
Speakership. Among those who
are sounding out Garner on his
legislative program are Tilson, Of
Connecticut, and Smell, of New
York, Republican candidates for
the Speakership; Wood of Indiana,
chairman of the last House Ap-
preparations Committee; Parker, of
New York, who guided the Inter
state Commerce Committee, and
Underhill, of Massachusetts, head
of the Accounts group. Walter
Newton, one of President Hoover's
secretaries, also talked with Gar
ner.
100000
Democratic leaders in the East
who are opposing the Presidential
candidacy of Gov. Franklin D.
Roosevelt were warned of the pos
sibility of third-party movement
should they succeed in blocking the
New Yorker. The warning came
from Senator Wheeler, Democrat
of Montana, who was the Vice
candidate on a third
party ticket in 1924. Senator
Wheeler declared "the Democrats
can win with Roosevelt or lose
without him. and he predicted
that should a third-party ticket
go into the Presidential race next
year it would drain more votes
from the Democrats than from the
Republicans, as was demonstra-
ted when La Toilette ran in 1924"
100000
President Hoover's Armistice-
Day speech was surprising to
many because of the vigorous en-
phasis which he put upon the nee
essity of military preparedness.
Mr.. Hoover has been charged with
leaning toward pacifism and ideal
istic internationalism. A pacifist
could hardly use such words as
these: "Peace is the product Of
preparedness for defense, of patient
settlement of controversy and OF
the dynamic development of the
forces of good will. 1t is the re-
suit of the delicate balance of that
realism born of human experience
and of idealism born of the highest
of human aspirations for interna-
tionaI justice"
100000
In the most important reassign-
ment of warships since new OPP
Grating plan was put into effect
a year ago, the Navy Department
recently slated seventeen vessels
to be tied up at docks until further
notice. Two of the warships will
be placed permanently out of use,
but the others will be held in the
status of reserve commission. AL
though the departments announ-
cement avoided allusion to the mo-
tives and the implications of new
orders, they generally were con-
sidered to be the first step in the
Nays latest economy program The
tying up Of seventeen vessels
would permit an eventual decrease
in personnel Of nearly 1000 men
The possible operating economies
can be estimated on the basis Of
the fact that the annual appropri.
spark Of liberty that can O.