The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-18
FALL ELECTIONS
BRING WORRIES
TOLEGISLATORS
Roosevelt Moves to UnraVeI
TangIe, Help Re- Elect
Democrats.
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times Special Writer.


WASHINGTON, April 19.-The
November elections hang like a
shadow over the Capital.
They caused the legislative tangle
in which congress and the President
are now involved. and they cOmpli-
cate the difficulties of unraveling it.
Not only must the Presidnet
straighten out the situation in ac-
cordance with the principles of his
recovery programs. He also must
straighten 1t out IN a way that will
permit his recalcitrant Democratic
congressman to come back to Wash
ington next year. He can not afford
to have his ma jority weakened, par
ticularly in the house Of representa-
tives.
Most Of these recalcitrants had
no premonition Of the political diff
Culties in which they nov find
themselves when they embarked on
their infationary petition signing
careers.
Rule May BE Changed
Most of them. if they could do so
in absolute secrecy, would probably
vote today to make the petition rule
more drastic. AS it stands, l45
signers may bring a measure out Of
committee and force it to a vote on
the floor of the house. Under Re
publican rule it took majority Of
the membership, 2l8 signers, and a
quiet change back to this figure is
likely at the next session.
Politically, petitions for this and
that seemed a clever device for cleo
ton year as long as signers' names
remained secret and petitions got
nowhere in particular. Now that
signers' names are being printed, the
situation is different.
1t at once becomes pc infully nee
essary to choose between backing
good campaign measures which APP
peal to the home constituencies and
standing firmly behind the Presi-
dent, a position which is more eX-
pedient this year than in any re-
cent campaign.
That is why the tough guy" in the
White House is patiently listening
to advocates of silver legislation,
farm debt-floating legislation, and
closed bank deposits legislation and
saying little for time.
Cotton Bill Ready
The new cotton control bill fin
ishes its journey through the legis-
lative mill in time for the spring
planting.
When the President signs the
bill the agricultural adjustment ed
ministration will start administer
ing crop production plan it did
not originate and did not advocate.
Almost simultaneously. 1t probably
will find that a much less drastic
crop production plan of its own
devising has been rejected by the
industry for which it was proposed.
Southern cotton farmers asked
for the new control plan in poll
conducted by AAA DaHymen APP
parently have rejected a milk con-
troll plan laid before them at a
series Of conferences during the
past month. Final returns will be
received this week when AAA men
who conducted the conferences re-
port here.
AAA, which studied more than
hundred different plans for aid
ing dairymen before proposing the
one under discussion, probably will
dip into its bag of tricks and quill
out another if it finds sentiment
overwhelmingly against its first
choice. The administration feels
strongly that something must be
done about milk
Dairy Problems Studied
Dairymen produced 800 quarts of
milk year for each person in the
United States in 1929 and 406 quarts
a year in 1882. At the same time.
the income of dairy farmers dropped
from ST, 100000 in 1929 to 1885, :
100000 in 1882 And while this was
taking place. milk distributors made
profits. in some cases. of 80 per cent,
according to Agriculture Secretary
Henry A. Wallace.
The AAA program advanced to-
day on two other fronts.
The recent break in grain markets