The Washington times., 1935-01-28
NEW DEALERS
FACE REVOLT
At CAPITOL
Democratic Split on First
Big Measure Bodies III
For Administration
By FRANKLIN G. sARTWELL

ny FRANKLIN u. SAM WE'LL
Advance ideas Of the Admins
tration for an easy control Of the
predominantly Democratic Con-
greSs have received several rude
shocks which, it was admitted
today, are causing grave concern
in the higher Administration cir
cleS and among the leaders of
the Senate and House.
The "revolt" broke out in the
House much earlier than had
been anticipated and it has be-
come of such serious nature
that the Administration cannot
laugh it off" as it would like
to do.
Spreads to Senate
The difficulties Of the Admins
tration in the new Congress have
not been confined to the House,
however. They have spread to
the Senate and that body is now
looked to to furnish the bulk of
opposition to many measures
which the White House had been
led to believe would slide through
both houses without serious inter.
ference.
Opposition which has devel-
oped in both houses to particu-
lar Administration measures IS
vi AH C11f u
strong to block final enactment
Of those measures. But it is
sufficiently strong to interfere
seriously with the well-oiled ma
chinery which the Administration
contemplated would be able to
get its bills through the new and
untried Congress.
Bankhead'S Illness Hurts
The new leadership Of the
House already has encountered
troubles which had not been an.
ticipated. Speaker Ryrns is pre-.
siding carefully on the rostrum,
but the floor leader, Representa-
tive Bankhead, is in a hospital.
The new leadership already is
suffering from his absence.
Representative John j. O'Con-
nor, the new chairman of the all.
important Rules Committee, who
had been expected to rule that
group with a fist Of iron, even if
he had to conceal it in a velvet
glove, has found his control chal.
lenged and is not so happy in the
post as he thought he would be.
The Rules Committee broke
loose from Administration domina-
tlon last week on the big work re-
lief bill. The leadership couldn't
get the rule that it wanted. It
had to be satisfied with a much
more liberal rule than it origi-
nally proposed.
Bill Fought on Floor
And then, after the same bill
came up on the floor, there was
unexpected opposition to some Of
its proviSions-most of it from the
Democratic side of the aisle. This,
OF course, developed after mem.
hers of the Appropriation Com
mittee, at least some of them, had
shown a decided tendency to kick
over the traces on certain prori-
sions of the bill.
Although the measure has not
yet been brought up in the Senate
or even considered in the Senate
committee, there are indications
that some of the Senators (not
all on the Republican side) are
prepared to demand drastic re-
vision of the measure.
These troubles wouldn't be con.
sidered as serious if they came
later in the Congress. But they
are arising on the first major
Administration measure submitted
to the new body.
1t is feared that some of the
new members, and there are
many, are yielding to the bland
tshments of forces antagonistic to
the Administration. Admittedly
1t will be more difficult for the
Administration to lure them back
to the straight and narrow path
than it would have been to keep
them on it if their feet had been
set in the right direction earlier.