Evening star., 1933-06-09

Congressional ratification Of Mr..
RooSevelt'S plan Tor a partnership
between the Federal Government and
| private business was foregone conclu-
sion. The surprise was rather III the
character and the quality OF the pro-
testing minority. Huey Long eclipsed
all previous performances in his violent
excoriation of the control of industry
bill There was no surprise in that.
But the Louisiana Kingflsh did not
stand alone. Instead, he found himself
in strange company. Senator Bennett
Clark Of Missouri, OF distinguished
Democratic lineage and tradition.
whose father but narrowly missed the
presidency. was no less severe in his
denunciation and in his charge that the
bill did violence to every Democratic
principle and pledge. Following Long
and Clark came Senator FeSs OF Ohio.
whose Republicanism is OF the purest
water whose intellectual capacity Is
above reproach. DR.. Fess Is one college
professor at least who does not EN-
brace the Federal control Of industry
scheme with open arms He assailed
the bill as an infringement of our
liberties violative of our Constitution,
and as inviting disaster. Senator Reed
of Pennsylvania, Republican conServa-
tive, was in the same boat with Huey
Long, and Clark, and Fess on this issue.
Last but not least. the Idaho states
man. the great Borah. invoked Gods
pity upon those who must live under
the new regime-namely. Mr.. and Mrs.
American Citizen" Whatever history
may have to record with respect to the
consequences of this new deaP' for
business and industry. historians will
MT fail to note the dire prophecies of
doom and failure and tyranny INDUCED
in this week by conspicuous minority
in the halls OF Congress.
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Senator Bennett Clark, in support of
his motion to eliminate IN its entirety
title I OF the national industrial re-
covery act"-the control OF industry sec
tion-declared: Title 1 of this bill is
fiat, open and sweeping reputation
OF the platform declarations of 40 years.
1t is q reputation Of the last national
platform, of the State platform upon
which ran in Missouri and of the per-
sonal platform on which / was nomi-
mated. To the reputation of that doc
trine on which the antitrust laws were
based, to the reversal Of the whole
policy of our Government for nearly so
years, I find myself totally unable to
agree. To my mind it is rs revolution
in Russia The Clark motion was re-
jected 81 to 49
high light of Huey Longs philippe
against the bill was as follows Every
fault OF Socialism Is found in this bill,
without one OF its virtues. Every crime
OF monarchy is in here, without one
of the things that would give it credit
II Is a combination or everything that
is impracticable and impossible under
the Socialistic system, and everything
that has robbed us in disasters under
the monarchial system. 1t Is a COM
binatlon Of every evil that can pos
sibly be imagined, worse than anything
proposed under the Soviet, because In
this thing We go into the realms Of the
imaginary and the unknown. You do
not know what you are voting for. They
will have more monarchS and sub
monarchS, more dictatorS adminiStra
tors and supervisors set up over the
Sundry and various industries, so that
before we get through with the swine
industry they will have a chief super
visor over it, and then they will have
man to regulate the ordinary side
meat end of it, and one over the ham
industry end Of 1t. and then the mat
tress industry which uses the hair end
OF it. and the glue industry end Of 1t,
and the sausage industry end of it. We
will not be through with 1t then. We
will have % different codes to he writ
ten up to regulate that kind OF an in
dustry."
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A large grist Of Presidential appoint
ments long overdue reached the Sen
ate in two patches Thursday afternoon.
There was one Ambassador. four ENJOYS
extraordinary and ministers plenipoti-
ary dwo of them from Texas) twelve
| collectors of internal revenue, three COL
lectofs of customs, an Assistant Attor-
ney General, three Federal judges, two
Federal district attorneys and one
United States marshal. Walter H. New
ton Of Minnesota, Hoover secretary de-
MED Hoover appointment to the Fed
eral bench through failure of senatorial
confirmation at the last session, was