Evening star., 1935-03-04
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

any tariff rate changes likely to affect
the wage scales of American workers.
This sounds like bid to induce Or
ganized labor, which has been riding
rather wide and handsome on Capitol
Hill, to get busy on tariff matters.
Conclusion of the recent reciprocity
treaty with Belgium seems to have
spurred the manufacturers into ac-
tivity. Iron, steel and cement pro-
ducers are registering alarm that Bel
gian competitive products will now
flood" the American market under
conditions highly disadvantageous to
home industries.
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Admiral Cary T. Grayson's acces-
sion to the Craftsmanship of the
American Red Cross will not inter-
fere with the continuance Of his
duties as president of the Gorgas
Memorial Institute of Tropical and
Preventive Medicine, which he has
headed since 1923. The purpose Of
the institute Is to promote the great
work of sanitation throughout the
tropical and semi-tropical countries of
the world, along the lines pursued
by Gen. Gorgas when he drove yellow
fever and malaria out of the Panama
Canal Zone. In the Spring of 1928
Congress authorized an annual ap-
preparation of $4,000 for mainte-
nance of the Gorgas Memorial Lab
oratory in the Republic of Panama.
A year later the government Of Pam
anna ceded to the Gorgas Memorial
Institute in perpetuity the handsome
laboratory building and the site on
which 1t stands.
Congress is once again flirting with
the ancient question of giving seats
on the floors of both House and
Senate to members of the cabinet, so
that they may be subjected, as they
are in nearly all countries with par
liamentary forms of government, to
direct interrogation on matters con.
nected with the executive depart.
ments. Representative Summers, DEM
ocrat of Texas, chairman Of the House
Judiciary Committee, says that the
committee will hold hearings on the
subject, which has been formally
brought to the front by Representa-
tive Harlan, Democrat, of Ohio. In
the past various Presidents and two
select committees Of Congress have
favored the project of establishing
such contact between the executive
and legislative branches of the Gov
ernment. A hardy opponent of the
idea Is veteran Republican Repre-.
sentative Treadway Of Massachusetts,,
who contends that Congress wants
no interference" with its work from
the other end of Pennsylvania avenue.
Others feel that If the system pre-.
vailed, such q legislative deadlock
as now exists would at least be of
less frequent occurrence, II not alto
gether preventable.
Jim Farley has adopted a dAuph-
ter. He's taken over the Democratic
Digest, former organ of the Woman,s
National Democratic Club, as the
official publication of the women,s
division Of the Democratic National
Committee. It's a healthy youngster
Of IL volumes Of age and appears
monthly. The arrangement looks
like the opening gun of the campaign
to keep the woman's vote safe for
Roosevelt In 1896.
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T. ". AS fight for its constitutional
life before the Supreme Court will
mainly and Jointly be in the hands
Of David E. Lilienthal. one of its di-
rectorial triumvirate, who is also gen.
eral counsel of the Authority, and
James Lawrence Fly, T. v. AS gen.
eral solicitor. Mr.. Fly figured promi-
nently in the recent Weirton Steel
CON-. r. A. litigation in the Della
ware Federal Court. He has to his
record several successful cases up-
holding emergency legislation.
(copyright. 1850