Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-08-22

AMENDMENT INDEFINITE
COUNT ON WEST AND SOUTH
Congress moved steadily toward
adjournment last week and it won't
be long now before the people will
be reading summaries Of the legisla'
ton passed by the sol0ns, who have
succeeded In enacting statutes that
are much more important than many
people believe. In fact, the average
citizen Is apt to lose sight Of what
has been done in the furore created
by disagreements between the two
houses and becomes lost In some
thing Of a mystic maze as he tries to
follow the course of legislation from
day to day.
For this reason when the legisla-
tors finally leave the capital and go
home the people OF the nation will
be able to deliberately assess the
fruit Of their long session. We will
not attempt to list the acts that have
come through at this time, reserving
such a review for a week after the
Congress has ceased its labors and
no danger OF further upsets exist
for the program under consideration.
Contrary to thought In some sec.
tons the President has managed to
get most of what he wanted, al
though, at this writing, several con-
troversial issues remain In the bal.
ance. The only major defeat record
ed on final vote was the refusal OF
the Senate to adopt the World Court
protocols. On the bonus issue the
Chief Executive managed to turn a
practical defeat into a semblance of
victory by his personal appearance
before the Senate, which upheld his
veto. and the plain terms Of mis- veto
holding company bill the President
turned victory into apparent defeat
by strenuous insisteDce upon Senate
~phraseology, when, as a matter of
fact, the House measure gave him
about everything that he asked for
in his annual message. "the abolition
Of the evil features of holding com
panies."
The reversal sustained when the
Supreme Court, by unanimous vote,
declared the MIRA unconstitutional
was brought back to mind by the de-
mand of Former President Herbert
Hoover, in Chicago, that the Presi.
dent disclose his full purposes" in
regard to amending the Constitution.
Asserting that primary rights OF the
people" have been trampled upon
through the invasion Of States
rights and the bestowal OF d~ictat0rial
powers upon the President and that
the Courts have called a halt" the
Californian demanded "the specific
words of the exact amendment" be-
fore this session Of Congress ends.
The outright speech Of Mr.. Hoover
led many politicians to believe that
he was beginning a determined drive
to capture the nomination Of the Re
publican party and to face Mr.. ROos-
evelt at the polls next year, hoping
to wipe out the defeat that he sui
fered in 1882.
Interest attaches to the poll OF
2,400 Republican county chairmen,
800 city leaders and 500 young Re-
p%ublicans' taken by Robert H. Lucus
former executive director Of the par
TVS national committee, who recent
ly assailed wall street. domination
Of party affairs. MI. Lucus reports
that of 1896 votes for first choice
as Presidential candidate, Senator
Borah led with PAT, Frank Knox
came next with 1877, and others fol,
lowed: Governor Landon 1877, Senat'
or Vandenberg 81, former Governor
Lowden SO, former President Hoover
SO. Theodore Roosevelt Al. Ogden
mills 40, Representative Fish 33, Sen,
ator Dickinson % and Representa-
tive Wadsworth II.
Obviously, the campaign thai
would be vaged by MI. Borah would
not be anything like that undertaken
for example, by Mr.. Hoover. So wide
ly apart are these Republicans that
no platform written could be stretch
ed to include seats for both, al
though, in no event, do we think thai
Senator Borah will stray from the
Republican reservation. Moreover
the attack that would be directed al
the Roosevelt administration, while
c~entering on the alleged abuse OF the
Constitutional, would be from entire
ly different angles, aimed to capture
divergent groups Of voters.
The talk in the capital is that the
President will answe Mr.. Hoover
among other things, IN his trip FROM
Washington to the exposition at SaI
Diego, and at this writing, the date
of the journey is indefinite, with the
chances that It will begin mex
month. Present plans arc subject t
change, although two speeches are
reasonably certain, one at Boulder
Dam and another at San Diego, will
an exposition Of the power program
for the first and nothing slated fol
the other. Other addresses will bt
made and you car take 1t for granted
that a major effort will discuss thu
farm program that Is counted upor
by Democrats s~trategists to play
big part In holding Roosevelt votes.