The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-09

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Washington, July 9.-Presi-
Dental advisers admit off the
record, that the House of Rep
resentatives has them worried.
Its recent transition from COM
plete dociIity to truculent de-
fiance is one of the most signi-
ficant developments of the poll
teal year.
When the, legislative wheels
first began grinding, it was the
senate which was the "Peck's
bad boy" Of Capitol Hill. 1t
would be far from accurate to
say that the senate has now
been roped and hog-tied. But it
is a fact that since its early bel
ligerency on the Works-Re Relief
Bill, the senate has worked in
fairly close harmony with the
White House.
Z All Of the major "must" meas
ures-holding company. Wag-
nor labor disputes, social secur-
ity, MIRA and TVA-emerged
from the senate in forms satis-
factory to the president.
But the House, which started
as a lamb, is now a raging lion.
After Kidding the Holding Com
pany bill, 1t is threatening to
perform the same operation on
the IVA amendments.
Reasons
This development probably is
due to two factors:
FIRST, more than a fourth of
the members are newcomers
who won their seats chiefly as a
result of the overwhelming New
Deal landslide. A large proper
ton of these first-termers are
political accidents who will
disappear in next years ballot
ing. AMI they know it.
Obviously they can afford to-
be Indifferent to campaign
pledges and party loyalty. In
other words, figuring that they
have only a limited tenure Of
office, the boys are out to make
the most of it-for themselves.
SECOND, democratic floor
leadership is. the weakest and
secretly most hostile to the adj
nninistration- in recent congress
sional history.
Third Raters
It is an extraordinary fact, but
not one Of the top-rung demo-
cratic herd-riders is a strong
figure. Speaker Joe Byrnes, Act
ing Floor Leader John Taylor,
Chairman John O'Connor of the
Rules Committee, and Whip Pat
Boland, all are third-raters.
They owe their party emin-
ence to two things only-senior-
ity, plus the presidents failure
last December to back ADLER cam
didates for their posts.
Had he thrown his support to
the latter-as he was urgently
advised to dot Is likely that
a far different situation would
exist in the House to-day. With
hard-hitting leaders wholeheart-
edly supporting instead Of COW
ertly sabotaging him behind the
scenes, Roosevelt probably could
have won his major fights, in
GLIDING the death sentence"
clause in the Holding Company
Bill.
Bob LaFolIette
When "oId Bob" LaFollette
died In 1895, he had no notion
of the career In store for his
second. son, young Bob.
A veteran washington pho
tographer recalls that when In
Toilette posed for what was TO
be his last photograph, he said;
~ don't know what's to be.
come OF Bob. Phil IL district at.
torney already, but Rob--weli,
I'm afraid I've held him back
too much.
III have % lot him step out for
Three menlbs later he ala step
out. 10 became United. States
ont, lie became United States
senator ~ his fathers place.
Leaf.Haking
There n oas thing which
sticks IN the eFew Of Hustiing
Harry Hopkins aaa makes him
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