Evening star., 1933-12-19
c. D. ?. WILL AWAIT
DEMOCRATIC MOVE
Members in Congress Not
Expected to Open Attack
on Administration.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The Republicans in Congress are today
planning no concerted or party drive
upon the Roosevelt administration with
the opening of the session January 3.
They will wait rather for the issues to
be made by the Democrats themselves.
Their hope lies in Democratic diSsen-
sion if it will only materialize in suffi-
cient quantities
The Republican leaders are faced with
the fact that President Roosevelt con-
tinues to be greatly popular throughout
the country. Privately they admit it,
and the assertion is made by one Of
them that if Roosevelt came up for
election today he would receive more
votes than he did in 1882.
They are faced also with the fact
that if they are to undertake to tear
down and demolish the Roosevelt pro-
gram Of recovery they must have a
substitute to offer. And so far no Re-
publican substitute plan Of recovery has
yet been devised.
Sound Money" Slogan.
1t is true that some of the stand-pat
Republicans in Congress are demanding
that the G. o. P. adopt a sound
money" slogan. with return to the gold
standard an issue. But to many of
the Republicans from the West and
the Middle West, there seems to be no
appeal in such formula to the people
generally The country, they admit,
did not thrive in recent years when
such a monetary policy was followed
Furthermore, the man in the street has
ccme to believe that the gold standard
is Just something which the big bank
ers desire.
The issues to which the Republican
leaders are looking, rather, are the
huge expenditures Of public moneys,
made for the recovery program, and the
heavy taxation which the American
people must bear to meet these ex-
penditures When the tax burden
grows, then there will be, indeed, rum
bles of dlscontent and a chance for a
political upheaval
concerned. the Republicans have been
pleased with the attacls made by
Alfred E. Smith and his followers on
the Roosevelt policies They look to
see a number of conservative Democrats
in Congress lambaste the administra-
tion. And they look, too. for attacks
upon the President by the more radical
Democrats because he has not gone
far enough
Cooperation Seen.
Attacks will be made by Republicans
in Congress upon the monetary and
gold policy OF the President. Attacks
will be made by individual Repre-
sentatives and Senators on the Repub-
lican side against other policies of the
Of the N. R. A, the public works and
the civil works. But at present the
outlook admittedly is for the Republi-
cans to cooperate, generally speaking
with the administration in getting
through It's legislative program.
There is, OF course. the reservation
made by the Republican leaders that
they do not yet know what the Presi-
dents recommendations to Congress
will be, and until they have his pro-
posals they cannot definitely commit
themselves.
However, there will be Republicans
who will vote for additional appropria-
ti0nS for public works and civil works
and other forms Of relief There will be
Republicans who will support the
N. r. A, as well as Republicans who
will oppose it, When the silver ques.
ton comes up for consideration in Con-
gress as it now seems likely, the Re-
publicans will be found divided, with
a number of them supporting remoniti-
zation OF silver on the 16-to-1 basis
or some other ratio with gold. Some
of the Republicans may be unwilling
to go further on this silver question
than to support proposal for an in
ternational bi-metalic system of money
declaring that the United States should
not make the experiment all alone, but
should get Britain and France at least
into an agreement for bimetalism.
Representative Smell of New York
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