The Washington times., 1935-01-03
BASIC POLICIES
DRAFTED FOR
CONGRESS
Callers Banned at White House
As Executive Works Hard
on Document
BY EARL GOODWIN

STSSlQeIlL HOOSGV61L SWepI bue
calendar clear at the White
House today, denied himself to
all callers, and remained in his
study in the mansion, going over
the message which he intends to
deliver in person to the Seventy
fourth Congress at about 1890
tomorrow.
The message will be about
1000 words long, according to
present indications. It will be
completed late today, say White
House spokesmen.
Uses MeticulOus Care
President Roosevelt has built
I'D the message in sections, and
today is engaged chiefly in fit
ting these parts together into one
narrative. He is using meticulous
care. as to the phraseology, the
logic, the rhetoric, and the con-
tent-more care than on any
other document from his hands
since he has been in the White
House.
The President dictates to his
Stenographers, Miss Marguerite
lie Hand and Miss Grace Tully,
and then edits their notes, do
ing what his assistant secretary,
Stephen Early, terms a good
piece of editing"
He has arrived at today'S con-
centration of effort after having
spent several months in prepara-
tion. He has talked to every i'm
portant member of his Admins
tration, including Cabinet officers,
Congressional leaders, and emer-
gency organization chiefs. In ad-
dition he has combed the country
for business and financial lead
ers, as we'll as experts in social
and sociological matters.
Basic Policies Mapped
There is no doubt that the doc
ument he will present tomorrow
will be the elimination of a great
deal of thought and will represent
the deepest truths in the Roo~e-
veltian philosophy concerning the
next step in the New Deal.
The Administration has every
right to believe that the election
which chose the Seventy-fourth
Congress with its great Demo.
cratic majority was complete
Endorsement of the New Deal.
There has been no such con-
gressional strength behind a
President in half a century. at
least. For that reason it is be-
lieved that what President Roose-
welt asks in his message tomor-
row will be granted.
Many details of the New Deal
have been carried out by execu-
tive order and by the fiat of
alphabetical bureaus, under the
authority granted the executive
departments in the laws Of the
recovery and reform program.
Now many of these emergency
organizations are about to end.
New laws and new appropriations
will be needed. a circumstance
sure to lead to fireworks and
noisy debate.
What will become of the policy
of handing out millions of dollars
of Federal money to the hungry
and destitute? What will happen
to the AAA, that vast authority
which has been endeavoring to
codify for farmers the law of sup
ply and demand? When will the
flow of PWA millions from the
Treasury be stopped? What about
the Blue Eagle? Will the budget
be balanced?
will the President go to the
right or left; is he turning conSer-
vative? If he is conservative, how
about his promise to hammer
down electric power rates by a
greater policy of Government
owned plants like those in the
Tennessee Valley?
OF Vital Interest
These are questions of vital in
terest to Congress and to the mil
lions Of people who sent this Con-
greSS to the Hill. Many Of them
will be answered tomorrow in a
broad way and more specifically
when subsequent messages go to
the Capitol.
The first view of the budget,
that almost immeasurable book of
figures which will be laid before
both Houses soon, will give the
key to the question of the Federal
taxes. There Is a rumor, possibly
based on the wish, that the Presi-
dent will lean toward a balanced
budget.
President Roosevelt has sue
cessfully stopped authoritative in
formation from leaking out from
his inner councils, and the mes
Sages to Congress will be news
in every respect. But by process
of putting two and two together,
there is a general feeling that
the Federal Government will con.
tinue to expend vast sums for
relief, but that there will be a
chance for those on relief to
work for this money.