Evening star., 1933-05-31
DOUGLAS IS CALLED
MORGAN ASSOCIATE
Ashurst Defends Budget Di-
rector From Attack
by Long.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Reports that Budget Director Lewis
W. Douglas Is being considered for Sec
retary of the Treasury in the event
william H. Woodin resigns, led to q
debate In the Senate yesterday, In
which Senator Huey Long, Democrat,
Of Louisiana, attacked Douglas, while
Senator Henry F. Ashurst, Democrat, Of
Arizona, defended the budget director.
There has been no hint Of an inmedi-
ate intention on the part of Mr. Woodin
to quit. ,...
Long touched of the debate by re-
ferring to published reports that
Woodin was about to be replaced by
the youthful budget director and for
mer member Of the House from Arizona.
The Louisianan contended the Doug
las family was "inextricably interviewer
with the Phelps-Dodge Corporation,
which he described as a Morgan af-
f1liate, and added:
IF we are going back to the house
Of Morgan for another Secretary of
the Treasury, we'd better keep the man
we've got now. In fact, prefer the man
we We gOt now.
Ashurst rose quickly to the defense
OF Douglas and his family, asserting
his record showed he was courageous,
honest and unsusceptible to influence.
1t would be astonishing news to me-"
Ashurst added. ''if Mr. Douglas had any
connection with a Morgan company.
But even If he were financially inter-
ested, Mr.. Morgan would be impotent
and powerleSs to influence that young
man."
Norris Praises Cox.
Before the debate ended Senator
Norris, Republican, Nebraska, remarked
that only the great Democratic
Ohio" had declined to accept stock
offered at bargain prices to a list Of
nationally prominent men, including
Woodin, by the Morgan house
: Although some newspaper dispatches
have named Cox as having refused to
accept the Morgan offer, Ferdinand
Pecora. counsel for the Senate Finance
Committee, said the Ohioan was not
the one man found by the inquiry to
have declined the bargain price offer.
Pecora has not yet named the man
concerned. g.
'Tt seems to me-" said Norris, ''that
II the disclosures Of this investigation
put the man out of Office who accepted,
the President might well put the man
in who refused to accept"
Declaring the country could have
no better man than Lewis Douglas"
as chief OF Federal finances, Ashurst
| told Norris Cox would be my Attorney
General II were Presidents
Long said he had no personal hos
tility toward Douglas, but attacked
his record In administering the economy
act.
He said Walter s. Douglas. whom he
described as an uncle of the budget
director, was director of the Phelps
Dodge Corporation, with extensive cop
per interests in Arizona, and that a
grandfather had been connected with
the corporation.
Both Quote Scripture.
1T is not only our duty to consent
but to advise the President" Long said
I'VE should tell the President to give
us chance to breathe, and not have
us put under the dictatorship of ont
member of the (Morgan) family for
while, and when We get rid of him put
US under the wing of another member
Of the family" - -,
who inherited Grandfather Douglas
- ->FSN " @AA VIC l A&Si SiRo-OO4BC SOl ROi
tion?" he asked Ashurst. -
Il do not know that Mr.. Douglas hae
any connection with the corporation,'
Ashurst said, but If he did there woulc
be nothing improper in it,
Il don't judge men by their relatives;
only by what they are," Ashurst went
on. II do not believe what you say"
Long quoted the Scriptures about q
mans interest being in his possessions
and also told Ashurst:
You don't have to eat a whole beef
to tell 1t Is tainted and you can't make
hen lay the egg Of a duck
Ashurst also quoted from the Scrip
lures, admonishing Long:
Thou must never bear false witness
against thy neighbor' It's wise to re-
member that as we 60 through nfe."
Ashurst said the Douglas name was
''revered in Arizona" and whatever
money was inherited from the family
fortunes was spent to build up the
estate and in other beneficial ways and
not in "riotous living"