Evening star., 1935-05-20
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Administrationists have never had
any question that there would be SEN
ate votes enough to sustain bonus
veto by a satisfactory margin. II
there were any qualns on that score,
Roosevelt leaders are convinced that
the Presidents dramatic decision to
beard the bonus lions in their den
through personal appearance at the
Capitol would decide the issue in his
favor beyond all peradventure Of
doubt. 1t Is expected that F. D. RS
precedent t-shattering procedure will
even have the effect of materially
reducing the House majority ready to
override his veto of the Patman bill.
There is, Of course, no hope, short
Of a miracle. that the lower branch
will sustain him. The President de-
termined to put all the punch in his
vocabulary into his message of disap-
proval, and pronouncement destined
to take historic rank among execu-
tive papers is foreshadowed by those
who have been familiar with Mr..
Roosevelt's mental processes on the
subject. His fighting blood was
aroused by suggestions that he wouldn't
be particularly distressed If his veto
were oyerridden. He decided to hit
that myth, and hit it hard. AS big
business is so largely anti-bonus, poll
ticians predict that the President will
60 far toward rehabilitating himself
with the United States Chamber Of
Commerce element by coming down
on Patmanism like a ton of brick.
When Vice President Garner pre-
sented his fellow Texan, Representa-
tive Wright Patman, author of the
bonus bill, with the pen with which
the v. P. signed it somebody asked
Mr.. Patman whether be also craved
as souvenir the peii with which
President Roosevelt would veto the
ill-starred measure. The veterans
redoubtable protagonist indicated in
picturesque language that the utensil
to be used at the White House would
have no attraction for him whatever
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Apropos the spending orgy at
Washington, just inaugurated by the
ALLEGATION Of the first billion dollars
Of the work-relief fund, Senator Gore,
Democrat, of Oklahoma, is credited
with a story about a venerable Dixie
Negro who was once asked what sc
pluribus unum" on the silver dollar
signifies. 1T means" the old fellow
replied, "plenty more where that
came from"
Donald r. Richberg's intention to
retire from the Craftsmanship of the
National Recovery Administration
after June 16, no matter to what ex-
tent Congress or the Supreme Court
strips the Blue Eagle of its feathers,
revives reports of plans to appoint
him to the Supreme Court some day.
Early In N. r. AS career, and before
they were at daggers drawn, it was
no other than Gen. johnson himself,
in q Labor day speech at Chicago,
who publicly anointed Richberg as
ideal timber for the highest judicial
tribunal in the land. Mr.. Richberg,
who came into the New Deal mainly
on his record as . legal advocate of
organized labor, especially the rail-
road brotherhoods, has acquired a
national reputation since 1888, and
when he again hangs out his shingle
in private practice he's sure speedily
to become one of the country's class
A earners at the bar.
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Even when Nelson T. johnson,
United States able Minister to China,
is raised to the rank Of Ambassador,
he seems doomed to remain a COM
muter between his official domicile
at Peiping and Nanking, the distant
capital of Nationalist China. Although
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