Evening star., 1933-02-13

Carter Glass friends have helped him
make up his mind that his place is in
the Senate and not in the Roosevelt
cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury
No formal declination of the President
elects proffer has yet been written out
but it will be forthcoming In plenty OF
time to permit Gov. Roosevelt to make
another selection. This observers be-
lief is that it will be Senator Hull. The
Tennessean is credited with a long,
cherished secret ambition to head the
Treasury. Senator Glass disappear
ance from the cabinet picture paves the
way for the entry Of his fellow Vtr-
ginian and Senate colleague, Claude
A. Swanson, now slated for the sec
retaryship of the Navy, and, Incl
dentally, for the appointment OF former
Gov. Harry F. Byrd to the vacant Old
Dominion senatorship.
While advanced age and. Indifferent
health are the factors finally urged
upon Senator Glass as reasons for not
assuming the burdens Of the Treasury
portfolio, the importance Of his remain
ing in Congress at this critical luncture
is by no means the least Of the con-
siderations that will dictate his decision.
Glass Is looked upon on all sides as
the Gibraltar of sound money on Capt.
tol Hill, against which inflationary
movements and the like will beat and
surge in vain. It's everybody's secret
that they will have to be faced and
fought ere many months. Senator
Glass is destined to be the captain-gen-
eral of the Roosevelt administration
forces which will be thrown against
them. In that capacity Glass will
probably be able to render the new
President even more yeoman service
than if the Virginian were chancellor
of the exchequer. Senator Glass, too,
ranks as a member of that clear-think-
ing and fact-facing school of states
manship which realizes that war-debt
revision is irresistibly on the way. Mr..
Roosevelt will want an influential
spokesman in Congress for his views on
that subject, too, and Glass Is expected
to be cast for the role when the time
comes.
Although Franklin Delano Roosevelt
peatedly that he wants all the presi-
dental power they can give him, and
isn't afraid of the consequences of using
1t, no one as yet seems authorized cate
gorically to commit the President-elect
to that effect. On the other hand, it
seems unlikely that Vice President-elect
Garner would go to the limits he has
gone for obtaining "dictatorial" powers
for the incoming Chief Executive with
out some kind Of a hunch that such
tactics are agreeable to F. D. r. The
Speaker to date IS unmoved by the
storm of criticism and hostility his
proposals have evoked. Even the terrific
onslaught just delivered against them
by the country's foremost Democratic
newspaper, the New York Times, leaves
Garner cold. In response to all argu-
ments, Jack says: Il know Congress,
and Congress won't make the cuts the
country needs"
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There's one distinguished member of
the press gallery Of Congress who doesn't
seem to BE- bit terrified by the fate
just meted OUT to David S. Barry, de-
posed Senate sergeant at arms. A scribe
who holds up the mirror of Washington
life daily to readers throughout the
country, he has just written in an article
published in popular periodical: When
Franklin Roosevelt becomes President
Vice President Garner will act as haison
officer between the President and Con-
gress. I do not know any other term
to apply to the link between the White
House and the Hill than 1iaison off,
cer,' which nine out of ten members of
Congress cannot pronounce"
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Another Roosevelt besides young
Teddy" away cut in the Philippines,
may be worrying whether his name will
keep his job for him. He's Nicholas
Roosevelt, United States Minister to
Hungary. President Hoover sent him to
the Budapest legation couple of years
ago, after the Filipinos objected to
"Nicks" appointment as vice governor
general at Manila. They didn't Like a
book he'd written about the Philippines
Minister Roosevelt IS q distant kinnnan
Of the President-elect, like the Theo-
dore Roosevelts. He, also like them, Is