The Washington times., 1935-07-08
PLANS To TAKE
PROGRAM To
j. 8. VOTERS
Drive for New Deal Legislation
to Be Opened at Meeting
of Young Democrats
BY EARL GOODWIN
evelopments today indicated

Developments today indicated
that President Roosevelt will ad'
dress the national Auguts %.
when the national organization Of
Young Democrats will be in ses-
sion at Milwaukee.
The PRECEDENT has tentatively
accepted an invitation to speak at
the meeting and unless Congress
ties him up there is every chance
that this Milwaukee gathering Will
start him off on his program OF
taking the issues to the people"
right over the heads OF Congress.
Planning For Trip
In other words, if this Congress
does not expand to the New Deal
dimensions on such advanced leg
islation as the iva amendments
and the death sentence" in the
utility holding company Dill,
there will be another Roosevelt
doing just what the former RooSe-
welt did when Congress baked at
his meat inspection. pure food
and drug laws and his advanced
conservation program.
President Roosevelt IS now
apparently definitely engaged in
working up a Western trip in
which the Milwaukee date will
harmonic with his proposed
speech at Boulder Dam and at
the San Diego (CalifD exposition.
The Presidents advisers believe
he again will state the detectives
Of the New Deal; that he Will
thrown down defiant gauntlet
to the so-called power trust" and
that he will explain the detectives
of such social and labor legislation
as the Wagner bill. social secu-
rites measures and the Guttey
bill.
iva Battle Is On
The death sentence" clause in
the utility holding company regu-
lation bill is not the only power
fight. The New Deal has been
badly stymied in the House in
the matter of the iva amend
ments, which have been so badly
messed up in the House commit
tee that the Administration was
forced to permit the opposition
to report out it's own set OF
amendments, with the hope that
once in the open the Adminlstra-
ton could force change.
This, then, will eVentuate In
fight to kill off IVA. Power COM
panies are a unit in demanding
the death sentence on IVA, just
as the New Deal demands a death
sentence for certain large utility
holding companies.
It will end up in grand, final
last-ditch fight, which may knock
politics for a row Of power line
poles!
Political Shake-up Possible
It may result in a coalition be-
tween New Dealer Democrats and
liberal Western Republicans; in
fact, it has in it the makings OF
something brand new in politics.
The opposition to the New Deal
Is drumming up recruits to the
idea that the power plans Of the
Administration with respect to
the Tennessee Valley are social
istic and unconstitutional. The
IVA plans include four large
dams, primarily for the control
of navigation, but so arranged
that if a power market develops,
turbines can be installed, and the
ultimate amount of electric power
that could be developed down
there is around a million and a
half horsepower.
At present the Wilson Dam at
Muscle Shoals is the only power
dam operating and that isn't do
ing much more than half its pos
Sibilities.
Power Sales Halted
This dam furnished more
power than the local needs and
began to sell to outside towns
for their municipal plants. This
was challenged by private power
interests and Judge Grub. Fed
eral jurist in Alabama, stopped
the sale of surplus power in a
decision which is now being ap-
pealed. 1t is expected this ques-
tion eventually will be decided by
the Supreme Court of the United
States.
The IVA heads feel Congress
did not authorize the building of
four huge dams merely to back
up the waters for navigation pur-
poses. They hold that the intent
of Congress included permission
to develop power and to sell what
power is not needed in the vast
Tennesse River Valley.
Private power interests are
glad to see Judge Grubb's deci-
sion and are willing to go fur
Their. it is understood, and enter
politics to keep iva from eX-
panding further.
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