Evening star., 1933-03-27

1HOpOSAS 70 CiOtHe ETeSlOcnV FtOOSc-
welt with full powers to negotiate and
foreign countries spring from the belief
that otherwise months, even years
might elapse before they could be put
into effect As covenants with other
governments. they would require. in the
ordinary course. to run the gauntlet of
senatorial confirmation under the Con-
stitution. The Senate Is traditionally
addicted to tearing treaties to pieces
before rAtifying them, and then some
times not ratifying them at all. In the
case of tariff treaties, delays, 1t Is felt,
would be unlimited. Members from
sections of the country which felt that
local interests were being sacrificed
would regard 1t incumbent upon them
to oppose and do their utmost to md
enough other Senators to join them to
prevent ratification by the necessary
two-thirds majority. For all these rea-
sons, it has been contemplated ever
since II was known that Roosevelt
WAYS and means would be sought to
empower the President to sign reciproc-
ity treaties and by that act have them
become law.
Guessing Is rampant in washington
as to how long Congress will remain in
session. It has been the White House
view that the business OF the special
session. despite the monumental legs-
lative program President Roosevelt has
dished up for consideration, might be
finished BY mid-May. Capitol Hill be-
gins to think that u an optimistic nope
Some authorities believe that Mid
summer u . better adjournment euess
Much depends on the course OF the
farm bill in the Senate, where 1t IS
due for much rougher going tnan II
experienced in the House last week
TO date F, D. r. has had such smooth
sailing with Congress that having 1t
on his hands has conjured up no ols-
agreeable emotions. Special sessions are
incalculable things, once they get gong
Herbert Hoover called the Seventy
second Congress into special session IN
1929, hoping for . short, snappy perloa
of action on farm relief, limited" tarin
revision, and then adjournment. It sat
for months and months, with the Haw-
ley.9moot act finally coming out OF the
hopper, together with the Federal
Farm Board.
IT'S beginning to be noticed by WISE
acres and insiders that Roosevelt pat
ronAge plums Of the frst megnltuoe
are being systematically withheld from
Democrats who ranked as Pre-c%9nven- owen
tion antt.Rooeevelt men. The Demo-
cratic woods are full OF men and women
who were hell-bent-for- Leather for the
ticket, once it was nominated, but
check-up of whose records indicates
that they were for almost anybody lor
President except the Governor OF New
York, These chickens are now coming
home to roost, with the result that
lot of worthless, who consider them
selves deserving. are likely to remain
outside the administration breastworks.
aenator Borah is going to have the
opportunity Of welcoming dlStank
kinsman when DR.. Hans Luther, the
new German Ambassador to the United
States. arrives in washington. Inc
senior Senator from Idaho traces his
lineage back to the family OF DR.. Mar
tin Luther, author Of the Reformation:
Indeed, some Of Big Bills political
pugnacity is sometimes ascribed to the
great German churchman who. IN MS
boiling indignation, Lutheran history e,sy
records, once threw an ink pot at the
devil while interned in the Wartburg
Castle, scene Of Waguerian musical
LEGENDS, Rotary clubs In the United
States will welcome the Hitlerite envoy
as q fellow member. DR.. Luther has
long been active in German Rotarian
circles. A wonderful Rotary story
comes from Shanghai. The local club
one day this Winter wanted to enter
tain George Bernard Shaw. then In port.
He declined curtly and was quoted as
having called Rotarians "overstuhed
monkeys who gather around q lunch
con table" When the Shanghai Rotary
president heard that, he said: "Quite
right, but there's always room for one
more. That's why we invited Shaw"
Visitors at his desk observe that
President Roosevelt has his big blotting
pad surrounded with neatly arranged
little memorandum blocks, each bearing
the printed name Of q member Of the
cabinet. r. D. r. calls them "chits. :"