, 1935-01-31

WASHINGTON
Nv George Durno
Pressure - The beauty Of Pres
ident Roosevelt's e4.s00.O00.p 900 works
relief bill from a political Etnnd-
point Is that Il win give him q
splendid blackjack to WELD on con-
gresS I'm connection with oil suisse
quent legislation. This, Of course.
on the assumption the senate let's
IL stand In anything like the form
IL passed the house.
~ FDR can put his signature on
q measure giving him the complete
say as 20 how and where this huge
sum shall be spent II won't be long
before The has the boys from Capt.
toll Hill beggiEK at his back door.
Does any given state want might
lily to get q cut Of 10 for use back
home, the president can look
blandly at ths senator's and con-
gressmen from that state and ask
How are you going to vote ON
such-and-such = bill2"
None-This gilI be a more effect
I've way Of keeping potential recall
citrants In line than the methods
employed last year. "a story comes
from the inside about a cabinet
meeting back in 1884 when the bonus
question was up. IL Is not vouched
for Al authentic. wen though nm
official tells Il.
At that time President Roosevelt
is supposed 10 have informed his
official family that the bonus MUST
be beaten. He suggested that GER
tainly each OF his cabinet aides. be-
cause Of their departmental activ-
tiles. could bring influence 10 bear
on certain members OF congress.
Thereupon FDR Is said to have call
ed the roll.
Seven gave names OF men ON the
hill they thought they could handle
but when the names OF Secretary
or Interior Ickes. Secretary Of Agri-
culture Wallace and Madame Sec
Rotary Of Labor Perkins were called,
the answer In each instance. was:
mo one"
Lady-And leave n To Alice Long
worth 10 make the most caustic
snapper IN connection with the
works relief bin. Apparently still
Of republican charges that the dem
ocrats the last election by ju-
dicious use CT relief money, Prin-
cess Alice noted tartly 90 a recent
social gathering:
The American people certainly do
stay bought"
incidentally. the daughter o. the
original Roosevelt was all worked
mp over the gold clause case pend
In before the supreme court. She
was certain that nc last the high
tribunal was going 20 apply the
brakes TO the New Deal. A man who
followed the arguments before the
court closely ~tnereupun told her
at length Why he thought the gov
eminent would be upheld and
thereafter Mrs. Longworth's evening
wasn't 50 happy.
Rescindcd -- 10 develops that one
AAAEBA tMAAN WHITES ~ AAN NMAHM~
mann trial was able 70 testify only
after long distance wires between
New Jersey and Washington hum
med. q cabinet meeting was inter-
rupted and President Roosevelt
made a final decision
The witness was Frank Wilson,
special agent for the Bureau or In
ternal Revenue. While waiting In
Pennington 10 testify. Wilson was
ordered TO another use in a far
away state
Governor A. Harry Moore. OF
NJ. j., callec Washington. The cab
met was In session. Presidential
Secretary Marvin Mcintyre shot IN
q note. Discussion ON the impend-
ing works program wa interrupted
while FDR told Secretary Morgcn-
thau to rescind Wilson's travelling
orders until he had testified In the
Lindbersh KIDNAPPING case.
Query - Governor w. I. Myers,
of the Farm Credit Administration,
and Aubrey Williams. assistant ad-
ministrator OF Federal Emergency
Relief, were guests nc the same func-
ton the other night.
Myers was extolling the former as
q good credit risk. He said that
B2A per cent or all the loans made
by the Farm Administration were
being repaid.
well how GO you account for the
fact that there are 500 200 more
farmers On relief rolls this year
than last2" asked williams.
P. O. - Spokesman for postal en-
ployes are shaking their heads dole
fully over Postmaster General FAR
leyis claim OF a profit last year and
the house appropriations commit
tees subsequent action In Topping
more than q million dollars from the
Budget Bureaus estimate for the
Post Office Department. They pre-
dict IL win mean more men out Of
Jobs In q service that doesn't seem