Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-03-03
WASHINGTON
SNAPSHOTS
by the Helms News Service

lD~ItdlUltoos DtilaloI Opldls bSpHo
lican of Idaho, and Fess, Republi-
can of Ohio, faced each other for
almost three hours in the Senate
over the bill providing direct Fed
eral aid for the jobless. Exchang-
ing a flow of sarcasm and caustic
remarks, they created a scene un-
precedented in recent years in that
usually quiet and dignified cham
Der. AS the battle of words pro-
crossed, rounds Of applause and de-
risive laughter came from the gal
%leries, which at one time so n
gered Senator Fees that he charg-
ed, in effect, that once the Federal
Government commenced feeding the
kind of people seated in the gal
ieries here would be no end to
their demands and no means of sat
isfying them. "A government which
will not protect those who protect
it." Numbered Mr.. Borah, SIS fly
ing a flag which is a dirty rag, con-
Eliminating the air in which it
flies"
"If we leave this relief problem
in the hands of the politicians" Mr..
Fess %retorted, "God help America"
Senator Fees became so ardent in
his assault on the Federal relief
measure that he split a knuckle of
his hand rapping the top of his
desk. For the next ten minutes he
stood with the bleeding hand wrap
ped in a handkerchief.
100000
AT the instance of President Hoo
yer, the legislative wheels were set
in motion to bring about early en-
actment of an emergency banking
measure of major Importance,
which is expected to effect a large
expansion of currency and credit.
The bill, which was agreed to in a
series of conferences between the
President and leaders in Congress,
is intended to broaden the redis-
count privilege in the Federal Re-
serve system and to enlarge the
supply of free gold in that system
by permitting, as a temporary mat
ter, the issue of bond-secured cur-
rency.
100000
The Smith, Roosevelt pre-conven-
ton fight gained intensity, with
Governor Franklin ID. Roosevelt's
managers here accusing Democra-
tic national headquarters of back
ing the stop Roosevelt movement
and his opponents claiming respon-
sibleassurances that Alfred E-Smith
would not recede from his position
as a receptive candidate for the
Presidential nomination. Jouette
Shouse, chairman of the execu-
tive committee Of the Democratic
National Committee, stood his
ground in appealing for the cleo
ton of u~npledged delegates to the
national convention in the face of
a violent protest from Roosevelt
leaders here and about the country
that the attitude definitely showed
the hand of national headquarters
in the effort to prevent Governor
Roosevelt from being nominated.
100000
Upon the wan faces of Republi-
cans a broad smile has appeared.
This phenomenon is quite unlike
previous endeavors to force a smile.
1t is difficult to be joyous over the
prospects of something called the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton or balancing the budget"
But the prospect of an old-fash-
Toned Democratic convention fight
is different. 1t is tangible, familiar,
all abloom with Republican hopes.
Add the well-known penchant of
Democrats never to abandon a
fight they have begun till there is
a heavy casualty list, and the rea-
son for the Republican smile is
evident.
100000
Senator Norris of Nebraska pre-
dicted here that the Democratic
party would 'make a fool of it.
SELF" and said that Alfred E.
Smiths statement regarding the
Presidential nomination was the
beginning Of what may be the par
tvs defeat in an otherwise "cinch'
election. "The Democratic party has
a remarkable record for making a
fool of itself at a crucial time when
it has the world by the tail and a
downhill pull" he said. at is ex-
pected to repeat its usual perform
ance. This is truly a Democratic
year and the election would be a
cinch for the Democrats if they
could be harmonious"
100000
Alfred E. Smiths campaign
brown derby, as a symbol, will be
Ia years old this year. Mr.. Smith
settled the question in an argument
with a friend who insisted that, if
Mr.. Smith had been nominated for
President when the late Bourke
Cochran placed his name before
the San Francisco convention in
1920, his campaign would have
been a failure because he had not
then begun to wear a brown der
by. mo; you're wrong" Mr.. Smith
said. II remember very we'll that |