The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-28
Liberal and Conservative
Legislation Clash to
Be Avoided.
ACT AS CoNCILIATOR
Both Groups Expected
to Agree Before Taking
Views to New President.
BY RAY TUCKER
Times STAFF Writer

welt was represented today as hav-
ing developed a plan whereby he
hopes to avoid personal participa-
ton in prospective clashes over
policy between liberals and con-
servatives in his own party.
Following conferences with Sen
ator Burton K. Wheeler (Mont)
and Senator James F. Byrnes IS.
c., representing the progressive and
conservative wings, respectively, it
is understood Mr.. Roosevelt expects
both groups to reconcile their diff
fering points of vieew on legislation,
before bringing it to him for his
consideration.
So far as he can prevent it, he
will not become involved in their
chickering's. He will serve as con-
ciliator rather than participant in
the game.
But it is believed his sympathies
will lean toward the liberal side, as
expressed during the campaign on
such problems as power, railroads,
relief and economic rehabilitation.
Puil FacLlOnS IOgetner
The President-elect spent a great
deal of time with both men, pre-
paratory to taking up questions of
legislative program and possibly
cabinet appointments with leaders
and others he will meet during the
coming week.
Byrnes travelled with Mr.. Roose-
welt a great deal during the cam
paign, and apparently has made
great impression on the next PreSi-
dent.
Senator Wheeler was a Roosevelt
man from the start, and helped to
round up both delegates and votes
in the west.
The Roosevelt Wheeler Byrnes
powwow, as well as the outcome,
threw great deal of light on the
situation confronting the President
elect.
For weeks there has been specu-
lation as to how he will handle him
self when the Young Baruch-
Richie group may seek to pull him
one way, and the Norris Wheeler
Costigan faction may urge him to
adopt their ideas on major prob
lens.
What Roosevelt hopes to do, for
political and policy reasons, is to
help himself by drawing them to-
gether rather than antagonizing
either element.
Agriculture Is First Worry
Bread-and- butter questions will
supplant the broader problem of
legislative policy during the coming
week. Mr.. Roosevelt got a taste of
the details when he discussed the
budget and fiscal affairs with
Byrnes, together with farm legisla-
ton and government reorganization.
Professor Raymond /. Moley of Co
lumbia university, Roosevelt's adj
wiser and recognized liberal in
academic circles, sat in on the con-
ference.
Agriculture obviously has become
one of the President-elects first
worries.
In an effort to restore buying
power for industrial products, he
will devote his first efforts in the
White House to reviving semi
prosperity among the farmers.
Saturday, he told representatives
of the National Grange to assemble
representative farm groups, agree
on farm. relief legislation, and have
1t ready for him on March 4.
Talk Farm Secretaries
During the coming week he will
talk with prospective secretaries of
agriculture in the form of Henry A.
Wallace of Iowa, M. L. Wilson of
Montana and Henry Morgenthau
OF New York.
Wallace is the son of Henry c.
Wallace, who served as secretary of
\ agriculture in Harding's cabinet He
supported Roosevelt in the cam
lbaign, as both he and his father
were bitter enemies of Hoover.
Wallace may be labeled as the
progressiveS candidate. He has ia
vored the McNary- Haugen bill, but
is not for RooSeveltS domestic al
lotment plan. He is keen student,
and one of the few western men
who recognize. the Importance of
tariffs and debts on the farmers
problem.
Wilson runs the Fairway farms in
Montana that are owned by the
Rockefeller interests. He is a great
advocate Of the theory that large
scale farming produces economies.
which enables the farmer to make
money even at low prices.
Conferences on Today
Whereas, Wallace is a clustered
figure, and not especially qualified for
cooperating around cabinet table
Wilson is the -of-the- world
type.
Mr.. Roosevelt also will confer to-
day with Joseph T. Robinson, SEN
ate leader; Representative Carr
Vinumn. chairman of the house ma
val affairs committee; big Jim"
Farley and Frank A. Walker. treas
urer of the national committee.
Except for Robinson and Vinson
who will discuss legislative and
financial questions, the other visitors
come in more or less of a social ca
pacity.