, 1935-06-20
WASHINGTON
BY Ray Tucker

By Ray Tucker
Tomahawk-Tammany and RooSe-
Welt administration are heading to-
ward a war which may mark a ma
ior development in American poll
tics. It will not be the FIRST time
a democratic president has fought
the Tiger, but this conflict could up
set calculations for 1886. An arm
ed truce Is now IN effect. Tam
many has not forgiven MI. Farley
for robbing 1t OF the m~ayoralty. Its
bigwigs have no sympathy with the
New Deals larger aims. Its dis
trict leaders are getting no patron
age worth talking about.
You can find the key at Washing
ton. Two important Tammany men
are completely off the reservation.
One is Senator Copeland the other
Chairman O'Connor has pigeon
powerful house rules committee.
Doctor Copeland has voted against
almost every Roosevelt measure. He
vows he will run on an anti Roose-
velt ticket next year II necessary.
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holed or held up several must
measures wanted by the white house
II is clear where these two think
their political bread is buttered.
This quarrel has the makin's Of a
first class scrap OF nationwide sig
~nificance. Unless tho Great White
Father and the Great White Braves
make friendly faces before long. New
York'S AZ electoral votes will stand
III jeopardy next year. Tammany has
used the tomahaWk effectively be-
fore.
Morals - There Is a joker In the
anti-smuggling measure which the
house passed with hySterical speed
at the urging OF bright young treas
ury experts. Diplomats at the state
department smoker at its attempt
70 purify the al and d%iscreetly dis
own II.
The bill authorizes the president
TO extend the zone for search and
seizure OF foreign SmugglerS from a
12-mile To a 62-mile limit. But Il
exempts from its application those
nations mostly Europeon powers
- with which We have liquor treaties.
Thus 1t is aimed directly at certain
South American countries whose ma
tionals are suspected Of running In
good liquor at cheap prices. IL
threatens the friendly relations
which Secretary Hull sought TO es-
tablish al the MonteVideo confer
ence.
II also permits the arrest OF Am
erican smugglers caught I'D foreign
waters provided foreign nations re-
turn the compliment. There Is an
other catch here. We must negoti-
ate express agreements with other
powers before that provision can be-
come effective. State department
emiSsaries doubt that this urge 10
reform the worlds morals will get us
anywhere. Japan is still marching
into China.
Purist - Don't look for any reduc-
tion Of liquor taxes at this session.
Secretary Morgenthau viii not listen
10 such suggestions despite the ar
gument that they will cut the cost
of liquor and reduce Bookkeeping.
President Roosevelt stands squarely
behind him - so far.
Mr.. MOrgenthau believes a tax cut
would amount to a surrender TO the
bootleggers. He thinks he can drive
them out OF business through ID
fOrcement. He Is pressing them by
land and sea and his head bulges
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day. He viii not compromise unless
Boss Roosevelt forces him TO do
SO.
Though the public may not realize
II. MI. Morgenthau Is the political
puriSt OF the cabinet. There are no
half tones in his public life. A
thing is right or wrong, black or
white. 10 him. He wears a blue suit
DAY in and day out. Only the pres
ident can make him change his
policies or his clothes.
Sharpened - About 1900 clerks
will carry on under the new NRA.
! Their chief job will be TO compile
| statistics and reports which may
later afford some assistance in shap-
ing UP a new scheme for regulating
interstate business. The central sta
tiStical bureau Will cooperate with
the MIRA crew In gathering informa-
ton as 10 business conditions and
percentages.
Opponents contend that passage
OF the de-horned NRA rs merely a
face-saving device a move TO
make the country believe that con-
gress and the president have not
been completely mopped Up by the
supreme court.
The federal trade board comes into
its own. The antitrust laws have
had their teeth sharpened. Big bust
ness lawyers r advising clients to
watch their step in making trade
agreements.
Permanent - Joe" Kennedy has