Evening star., 1933-09-29
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

All indications point to an atmos-
phere of sweet reasonableness at next
weeks American Legion Convention IN
Chicago, as far as the ancient issue
of the cash bonus is concerned. Forty
four out of the Legion's 49 (State) de-
partments are opposed to any renewal
Of the demand for immediate payment
of the bonus. The Legion definitely
refuses to 60 along with other vet
Grams organizations which want to re-
peal the economy act, with Its net cut
Of 1914, 900 In veterans grants. The
Legions position Is that less than half
of the economy reductions affects its
particular interests or policies, while
the entire cut affects other veteran
groups. This situation arises from the
fact that the economy act and its reg
ulations provide for Spanish American
war reductions Of $63,OoO,0 900. disabil-
ity allowance reductions Of 10000, 900
and Civil War reduction Of $4,000, 900,
making q total of $16l ,000. 900. All Of
these are items that do not concern
the World War veterans who conSti-
tute the Legion.
If President Roosevelt finally decides
to 60 to Chicago next week and see
the Century Of Progress Exposition 1t
will be because of his ardent desire
to keep a promise to the late Mayor
Tony Cermak The pledge was given
at the time of r. D. RS nomination
at Chicago in July, 1882, and renewed
in Florida last Winter. The President,
apart from all this, is anxious to look
the Middle West in the eye and by
personal contact get the feel" Of its
attitude toward current events at
Washington. Roosevelt stock u high
out there and the President is as
sured of a tumultuous reception II he
finally determines to visit the Lake
Michigan metropolis. He's sure to recall
both in his private and public ut
the other Chicago Worlds Fair. In
1893, to which his father was accredited
as New York State commissioner.
kH
Jim Watson's recent Chicago speech
f1aying the Roosevelt administration
sounds like the end Of the moratorium
on non-psrtisanship which the new
deal has enjoyed so far. The former
Indiana Senator has no Official position
In the Republican party, but he is one
of its recognized elder statesmen, and
his blast may well be an omen Of the
attitude the G. o. p. as an organiza-
ton is preparing to adopt for the 1884
congressional campaign and later.
Watson's onslaught against N. r. A.
and correlated matters is in tune with
the broadside which another Repub-
lican ex-senator Jim-Representative
Wadsworth Of New York-delivered the
other day. Evidence thus accumulates
that the political opposition Is coming
to life again and will be doing business
as usual, In due course, with Back to
the Constitution" as its battle cry.
Democratic leaders have always recog-
nized that the honeymoon was bound
to end some day, and that sooner or
later the fur would hy in the same old
the signal for the fireworks to begin.
It may be his bid for party leadership
or the Republican national chairman
ship Former Senator (now Represent
ative) Wadaworth Of New York has re-
Gently been talking In the same terms
as Watson.
BY request, there are herewith enum-
Grated the IA emergency relief admin
istrations engaged in execution Of the
Roosevelt recovery program. In the
order and under the titles listed in the
lately published supplement to the Con-
gressional Directory they are as fol-
lows: Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton. Federal Home Loan Bank Board,
Tennessee Valley Authority, Farm
Credit Administration. Federal Emer-
gency Administration Of Public Works,
Central Statistical Board, ONCE of
Federal Co-ordinator of Transporta-
ton, Science Advisory Board, Federal
Emergency Relief Administrati ton,
Emergency Conservation Work, Nation
al Recovery Administration, Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation, Ma
tional Labor Board and the Executive
Council. For some reason, the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Administration is not
listed as an emergency relief organ
ization, but merely as a division Of the
Dam xtrnnt of Agriculture