Evening star., 1932-07-08

President Hoover is doomed to have
Congress on his hands, by every pres
ent indication. for some weeks to come.
When he vetoes the Wagner-Garner
relief bill, as he's expected to do, he
will by the same token invite House
and Senate to swelter on their job till
further notice Anxious as are mem
bers of both parties to get back to
their constituencies for reelection pur-
poses, they don't dare leave Washing
ton before the enactment of some kind
of relief program. Nobody Is happy
over the prospect. Collapse OF the
present bill means the formulation OF
an entirely new project. with all the
tedious rigmarole of hearings, debate,
conference and what-not. Politics will
intrude itself into the picture probably
more violently than ever, as the pot calls
the kettle black and chaos continues
to reign.
Leaving the merits or dement's of the
case entirely on one side, Speaker Gar
ner scored an undoubted personal trl-
umph in the House yesterday, when 1t
voted, 202 to l57, for the relief bill, OF
which the Democratic vice presidential
candidate is co-sponsor. The body over
which Cactus Jack" presides has
Democratic majority of only 10 or II.
He won out on the relief report by
majority of As To achieve such vic
tory meant that the Speaker had to
raid the Republican minority, and how
| successfully he did so the roll call tells.
To what extent Garner enhanced his
political prestige outside Of the House
by his final speech on the relief bills
behalf is another story. Republican
Representative Treadway's hint that the
Texan stopped to demagoguery Is being
echoed in good many quarters on
Capitol Hill When the mud-slinging
stage of the 1882 presidential campaign
srrives-and it won't be long now
Gamers threat of riots" unless relief
is voted. is likely to rise up to confound
MIN.
Practically all of the Washington
diplomatic corps, like Congress- is being
held fast here by events which make it
impracticable for them to quit their
posts for vacation pleasures. 1t is the
Geneva Disarmament and Lausanne
Reparations Conferences which chain
Ambassadors de Martino, Claudel,
Lindsay, Prittwitz, Debuchi, May ct al.
to their respective desks. Developments
at either or both of those long-drawn-
out European parleys may at any
moment take turn that would make 1t
of paramount importance to have direct
ambassadorial contact with the White
House and the State Department. 1t
is fairly open secret that keen dis
appointment was caused in the Wash
ington diplomatic circle by the failure
of both Chicago platforms to hold out
any encouragement on the debt ques-
tion. Wait till after election" Is now
the slogan.
No more smiling lame duck ever
quacked than Representative Ruth
Bryan Owen, Democrat, who recently
failed of denomination in her migrate
full Florida district. Mrs. Owen re-
turned to House duties in Washington
this week after period of journalistic
service at the Democratic convention
| in Chicago She has announced her
| intention of giving up her seat when
the present session adjourns, although
she'd be entitled to 1t until March 4,
! 1888. The lady from the Everglades.
who wasn't wet enough to suit her con-
| stituents, expects TO plunge into book
writing and lecturing for q livelihood.
course of addresses on public speak
ing, at Rollins College, in Florida, win
engage her first energies.
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Political d-timers, observing that Al
Smith says he's going to support "the
Democratic party" are reminded of
what "T. R." once said about his friend