The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-20
The last was what happened

The last was what happened in the filibuster.
 Repeatedly this session Huey has taken the floor and started a flood of rhetorical bombs. Each time he scared Democratic wheel-horses into compromise or surrender.
 And he almost did last week. After tieing up the Senate for the entire afternoon he proposed to quit if the leaders would agree to vote on the MIRA resolution next day. Senator Pat Harrison extremely gun-shy of Huey-- moved to accept.
 But the Progressives refused. "You started this they said. SssNow finish it." Jh To say that this startled Huey is to put it mildly.
 Blood Brotherhood
 The Kingflsh goes to great pains to claim political and ec- onomic blood od-brotherhood with the Progressives, and he is con- stantly strutting this before the galleries.
 Insiders have known for some time that the Progressives ac- tually did not trust Huey. But their open act of war served the first public notice of this. Or. as one of them, talking off the record, put 1t: we wanted to remove all doubt that the tail is not wagging the dog"
 The incident was not lost on the alleged Kingfish.'
 His first act after resting from the vocal marathon was to seek out the Progressives and com- plain about their unfriendliness. They offered no consolation. Alter Ego
 Secretary Harold Ickes' was parrying barrage of sharp questions. A reporter remarked: "Now Mir. Ickes, in your ca- pacity as Secretary of the Inter- for and not as PWA Admins. trator, how would you ."
 He got no further. Ickes lifted his hand for silence. Then rising from his chair he solemnly walked around it, reseated him. self and said:
 "Now go ahead with your question. I am in my other ca- pacity."
 New Policy
 Though not generally realized, the announced plans of the Rur- al Electrification Administration mark a distinct departure in New Deal policy. N < In it's other great electricity programs-the IVA, East Ten nessee; Grand Coulee, State of Washington; Fort Peck, Mon tana; Casper-Alcova, Wyoming; and Passamaqquaddy, Maine the Roosevelt regime is pushing projects in direct competition to private interests.
 In the case of the REA, how ever it is different.
 Morris l.. Cooke, brilliant head of the new agency, is going to great pains to emphasize that the government wants and hopes for the cooperation of private capital.
 That this invitation is not a mere gesture is evidenced by the following rules laid down by Cooke:
 1. That the REA's con- struction activities will be con- ditioned upon what private utilities will do in expanding their rural service. In other words if a private company in a certain area is willing to ex- pand it's rural lines the REA will Leep aloof from that area.
 2. That the REA will give first consideration to territory not now served by private interests with electricity, or not likely to be to any extent.
 8. That in financing rural identification developments the REA will loan, not grant the money. Cooke is firmly Op- posed to outright grants. holds that the activities of his agen- cy can best be promoted if conducted on a strictly busi- ness basis.
 Tho REA was allotted 3l00.- 00O.OO0 from the work-relief funds. According to government estimates only S0O,O00 out Of 6,o00,o0o farms in the country are electrified.