Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-05

Until yesterdays White House agree
ment with House leaders, there were
unoficial hints that President Roose-
welt might assent to letting wealth.
tax legislation ride, for disposal at
q special session Of Congress In the
Fall. The idea would be for House and
Senate to wind up for the Summer with
passage of .the utility, T. ". A., A. A. A.
and banking bills, allowing August. Sep
TENDER and October to be devoted to
calm study of the tax program, with q
view to enactment, say, in November.
No signs are forthcoming ut the White
House that F. d. r. favors any such
schedule. All that can be cleaned about
executive Summer plans is that there
are none, and that none will be made
until Congress has definitely charted its
course. Mr. Roosevelt, despite the sings
and arrows of the recent past, bears up
good -humoredly. He Graves o respite
from the rigors Of Washington, political
and atmospheric, but physically and
temperamentally shows little or no trace
that they are proving irksome. His re-
cent "flilibuster" press conference, the
day after the House revolt on the utility
bill, found the President in gayest Of
spirits. He cut the figure Of man
in whose lexicon the word worry"
doesn't exist.
Discussion of the cause and effect Of
the administrators setback on holding
companies legislation is undated.
Politicians have decided that the true
inwardness of the episode lies In what
It represents with respect to the future.
They figure that it Is uncomfortable that
so large a number Of Democrats, facing
contests for reelection on another
Roosevelt ticket In 1896, would have
dared to oppose the President on one
of his pet measures If they were not
assured that the home folks sympathize
with such an attitude. The correspond
ing deduction that Roosevelt sentiment
IN the congressional districts Is slump
Ing makes many Republicans more than
content with the prospect that utility
control may turn up as paramount
issue next year. II it does, G. o. 2.
leaders radiate confidence, in light OF
late events at the Capitol, that they
can 90 to the country with winning
prospects.
washington international authorities
are keenly interested In Great brltaln .
reported effort to engineer an economic
blockade of Italy, to check Mussolinis
ardor for war against Abyssinia. AS the
proposed sanctions" would be instituted
under the League Covenant, the United
States would, Of course, not be bound by
them. Whether this country would join
in measures to prevent Italy from OBJ
tanning war supplies is highly prob
lematical. Soon after Japan embarked
upon her Manchurian adventure IN
1881 the League considered invoking
article 16, which provides for sane
lions against an aggressor nation, but
Great Britain was the chief stumbling
block which prevented such action. The
British argued ut Geneva that any eco
nomic blockade from which the United
States abstained would be ineffective.
In addition, there would be the constant
danger that attempts to interfere with
American shipping would almost Ger
tain1y provoke warlike complications.
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Postmaster General Farley and his
arch foe, Senator Huey Long, may ind
themselves holding forth In California
about the same time this Summer. The
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