The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-05
SEVERE TESTS
FACED BY F. R.
SECOND YEAR
Shipping Congressmen to
Make "Going" Harder
for Administration
TARIFF POWERS VIII
MAKE STIFF ISSUE
BY c. c. NICOLET
United Press Staff Correspondent

| United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Mar. 5. CUP
President Roosevelt moves in the
second year of his administration
with his leadership, political and
economic facing serious tests.
The dark economic despair that
surrounded his inauguration a
year ago yesterday has given way
to a brighter outlook and renewed
confidence. simultaneously and
inevitably, the bipartisan support
of a year ago has given way to
shipping with a growing congress
sional tendency to kick over the
traces. This is due partly to the
oncoming November elections and
partly to the natural act that re-
newal of confidence elections and
partly to the natural fact that re-
newal of confidence reduces the
willingness of political and eco
nomic individualists to sacrifice
their own desires for the sake OF
unified movement.
Congress will give the White
House plenty of trouble in the
next month or two, and crowns,
doubt exists in Washington tina"
the administration can achieve its
goa! of adjournment by May l.
Injection of the tariff issue by
the president against the advic :
of congressional leaders has
opened to senators and represen-
tatives one of the topics on which,
in the past, they have been in
clined to talk longest and loud
est. A personal appeal by the
president may win what he wants,
but it is doubtful whether without
such an appeal the tariff bill can
be passed as he wants it.
Mr.. Roosevelt however, won
enthusiastic support for his tariff
policy in a report issued last
night by the commercial policy
committee of the Foreign Policy
association and the World Peace
Foundation.
The stock market control bill is
another measure which isn't
showing any signs of going
through congress on creased
skids. Unexpectedly strong oppo-
sition has developed. The United
States Chamber of Commerce
Joined in the fight last night with
a sharp attack charging the bill
to be deflationary. The measure
would apply an impossible de,
gree" of regulation to credit
agencies and business enterprises,
the chamber asserted.
Another hurdle for the White
House lies in the independent OF,
fees bill, with its veterans aid
provisions. Both the senate and
the house want to give the veter-
ans vastly increased benefits over
the compromise accepted by the
administration.
The airmail situation also pro-
vides administration opponents
with effective talking material.
The Wagner bill to increase the
power of the national labor board
and virtually to outlaw company
unions has attracted bitter resent
ment from conservatives. The ad-
ministration thus far has avoided
indicating whether it favors the
measure. But unless a test of the
NRA's powers under the labor
protective clause is decided speed
lily by the courts in favor of the
government, there will be vital
need for drastic legislative
strengthening of the labor clause.
Turning from the directly po-
litical to the economic tests ahead
the most important hurdle may
be taken successfully this week at
the MIRA code revision confer
ences. Everyone agrees that the
codes need revision, that neces-
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