The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-11
A CONGRESS THAT NAUSEATEs

A CONGRESS Thai NAOSEAlES
The present Congress no doubt will go
down in history as being one of the most
expert and tireless of all time in the matter
of marching up the hill and down again.
Several times it has indicated signs of
returning sanity but has always suffered a
relapse, and when the spells" recur the
Congress always retreats from any position
taken which has been Indicative of spirit
Rof honest manlinesS and determination to-
peEform it's constitutional functions.
Fhe morning papers of this date inform
the country that yesterday, in considering
IVA legislation, the House backed down
from every positions previously taken on
this important piece of legislation and ser
vilely agreed to every demand of the Presi-
dent. Thus the House reverses itself as to
theAposition taken on the utilities bill and
makes it clear that it was either insincere
in its intention to do justice in that matter
or that it so fears the executive branch OF
the government that it cannot be induced
to stand by any position taken if that posi-
lion is assaulted by the man in the White
House and his bureaucrats.
~ The whole story of the present House
may be summed up in few sentences: It
is composed almost entirely of political &C
eidents-men swept into office on the tidal
wave of the Roosevelt election In an aver
age, election year, with the country normal
and sanity and common sense in the as
tendency among the voters, probably
mo more than ten per cent of the present
membership of the House could have been
elected. The membership of Congress SIM
ply lacks the brains, intelligence, charac-
ter, courage and American spirit of man.
hood that is necessary to the performance
of it's constitutional functions. 1t merely
takes the line of least resistance in all mat
tiers, which means taking orders from the
White House or from department bureau
Gratis. .
To prove that the foregoing is fair and
not unmerited criticism of the House, it is
only necessary to state fact that is as
plain as daylight in Washington, that is
%known to every newspaper correspondent
wand every observer of events in the cap1
tai; and this is that in spite of its limited
Intelligence, the membership of the House
viS sufficiently intelligent to know very well
that by far the greater part of the legisla-
ton so far enacted, and all of the legisla-
ton now pending, is unconstitutional. II
is also we'll known that majority of Con-
C&ress does not approve of the course OF
administration bosses, does not believe in
u the New Deal, and is heartily sick of the
whole mess. This majority lacks the man
hood and force of character necessary to
ii$9ise open rebellion against the asurping
executive department of the government.
m Another view of Washington observers
is that many of the political accidents ir
Congress are fully aware of the fact that
lightning will not strike them in the next
Campaign They do not expect to be re-
turned to. Congress; therefore, they are
1Hiaking hay while the sun shines, and are
more, susceptible to patronage deals and
peIitical influence than they would other
GFise be. 1t is in such conglomerate col
lection of third rate politicians that the
paid agents of the administration do THEN
'NVvork between the time when the House
has a spasm of repentance and forms {
good resolution and the time the next I'M
constitutional measure comes to. a yete.
But why continue the discussion of thu
subject? As the Charlotte Observer ha:
SO; pointedly summed up the matter, The
subject is nauseating. Excuse us while VIZ
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