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1t looked as if this pleasant work
ing agreement was upset the other
Gay when the House directed its Rules
Committee to find out If agents Of
the President offered any favor or
disfavor to Democratic Congressman
for their votes on the holding COM
pany bill.
HoDeper, you may relar and rest
assured that tradition is not being
cast to the minds. Some OF the
Democratic Congressmen are get
ting tired and tussy, but they haze
not reached the stage tohere they
DiH do any important tdttling.
whether or not there is any ground
tor it.
You cannot expect them to line up
outside the Rules Committee today on
any proposition like that.
Stress Puzzles Every One.
What threw every one of was the
stress given to an assertion by Repre-
sentative Brewster that a presidential
agent threatened to stop a relief
rroject in his district unless Brewster
voted the way the President wanted.
This has been denied by the agent.
Thomas Corcoran).
Mr.. Brewster's statement does not
place him exactly in the category Of
a preacher In the first place. he IS
Republican. In the second. an
overlooked portion Of his statement
gave the reason behind it quite fully.
He said he wds making the
charge because he did not ,Ddnt
anything to happen to interrupt
the relief project. Thus stop work
on the experimental, if not pision-
ary, project for any legitimate
reason.
So the least that can be said Of
Mr.. Brewster was that he was a
preacher with a logical purpose.
But the charge was subject to such
serious interpretations that it caught
the House leadership OF guard. An
investigation had to be ordered for
face-saving purposes, if no other.
Capitol Hill Gossip.
Now, . lot of Congressman are con-
firmed gossips. They buzz stories
around among themselves and do not
always get their facts straight. II
you listen to them now. you will hear
that a vacant judgeship in Far
Western State may have been offered
to one Representative. who accepted;
that a new judgeship in Midwestern
State is supposed to have been sug-
gested to another Representative, who
rejected it.
Then there is the secondhand
tale of still another ,Uho felt that
t,Do banks in his district might be
closed if he poted the ,Drong iody.
There are good reasons for believ-
ing that the aforementioned Repre-
sentative will get the Far Western
judgeship, but whether 1t has any
thing to do with the holding COM
pany vote is another matter.
There seems to be no substantive
basis for the other two rumors. All in
all the yarns do not sound logical. A
is high offer for one vote;
also, bank examinations are presumed
to be on a non-political basis.
Tax Plan Languishes.
No one in Congress has been able to
get up much steam for President
indescribable new tax plan,
except Senator La Toilette. The Pres
ident has announced that he wants
action at this session, but, as all Con-
gressmen point out among themselves,
he did not say positively.
There is no question that the
Ways and Means Committee tOould
lay the plan on the first Dacant
shelf he could find, ,oere it not TOR
the Jact that q certain promise has
been made to La Toilette. This
promise is only that the committee
,0iH take up the question at this
session and endeapor to settle it.
Few insiders would be surprised If
the committee discovered about two
weeks hence that the matter is too
big to be handled so expeditiously.
There is a strong chance that a sud-
den adjournment of Congress may be
effected when all other pending busi-
ness is cleared up.
Brown Digs Up Data.
The man behind the interrogators
in the Virgin Islands investigation Is
former Director Brown of the Bureau
of Efficiency. For two months prior
to the present inquiry Brown has been
conferring from time to time with
senatorial Investigators. He has sup
piled much data hostile to Gov. Pear
son, who is an old political enemy of
his.
A leading utility lobbyist met q
Government lobbyist in the Capitol
corridor few days ago. The Gov
eminent man ironically congratulated
the utilities agent on his victory, say
ing: you utilities certainly turned
the heat on our Congressman, didn't
you?"
The utility lobbyist ardently denied
this, and also suggested as sly dig,
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