The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-20
NEW DEAL
 IN WASHINGTON
Huey Has Slipped a Bit, But Still Carries a Sting F. R. Has Ace to Play Against Kingflsh U. S. Homestead Program in a Sad State.
By RODNEY BUTCHER Democrat Washington
 Correapondent

Washington, June 20.---TTuey Long will barnstofm the country this summer, drumming up con- verts for his share-th -the-wealth scheme.
 To let the country know just what this S5, 1000, 900 ,O0O scheme is, Long offered 1t in the senate, with old age pension, unemployment in- surance, and child welfare provi- sions, as substitute of Roose- vents security setup. To raise the money, the Kingfish would tax all fortunes over $i,000, 900 and limit individual fortunes to S6,00O, GOO or S6,000, 900 with levies ranging from l to 90 per cent. Republicans joined Democrats in shouting down the plan. tN
 The senator has been slipping bit lately--both as c national figure and among the friends and near friends he has in Washington.
 Success or failure of the speak ing tour will give Huey . better idea of his possibility as c presi- deptial candidate in 1938. Huey isn't saying anything about 1t, but his closest associates expect him to contest against Roosevelt in next years Democratic primaries, to make trouble even though he has no hope of nomination.
 Meanwhile, Roosevelt isn't wor- rying as much about Huey as he was at one time. Events have tended to isolate the Kingflsh as an individual phenomenon rather than dangerous leader of pop ular left wing movement.
 Gives F. R. an Ace Issue
 The supreme court MIRA deci. sion and subsequent events left Roosevelt with first lien on a rad teal issue which can be used to sour Huey's show and divert left wingers to the Roosevelt tent. And now, by an abortive All. buster designed to cmbarrass the administration, Huey has lost most of such sympathy as he had in the Senate.
 A group of progressive and Re- publican colleagues had been
 using or abetting the Kingfish In some cases, believing that the shrewd Huey, for all his faults, was often of value.
 But when Huey kept the Senate up all through the night he merely made everybody sore. Progresslves such as La Toilette of Wisconsin and Schwellenbach of Washington joined in the effort of administration leaders to black. jack him into submission with par. iiamentary weapons. They felt his filibuster, with the alleged purpose of bringing New Deal appointments under Senate control or to defeat the NRA bill, was 50 hopeless as to be without excuse. and blamed 1t on Longs egotism.
 Thus Huey's prestige as a dam gerous, effective demagog has dropped several notches. Huey's Props Fell Out 1 Huey's post -mortem story is that he would have been In DO.
 sition to lead Q filibuster from that Friday morning to Sunday, when MIRA would have expired, lf his support" hadn't failed him.
 Scnall of Minnesota had q speech read and was eventually stified, but Gore of oklahoma
 flor whose amendment Huey was supposedly filibustering--was talked out of helping Huey by Pat Harrison.
 Tydings of Maryland. whom Huey expected to filibuster pend ing the second speech to which Huey was entitled, just disap. peared.
 You can't say Huey is
 stepped" No one will be sur' prlscd if his importance as thorn in the administration's Hunks reaches new heights. Affidavits he presented to the Senate against Jim Farley were so sensational that only Q heavy administration majority and the anti.Huey feeling prevented an investigation.
 One Long Headache
 Headaches never stop for tho folks who now have tho messy Subsistence Homesteads program in charge. No more GTuBHink UtVW SVdh& h&NS eSSh received than the recent telegram | of q travelling inspector who found an Illinois project short on can didates for he homosteads. Tho wire said, In effect; "Would 1t be all right if we advertised for tonants?"
 No Gag for Admirals The case of Admiral Yates Stirling, who caused congres. sional commotion by his alleged implication in . newspaper article that other nations should gang together and war on Soviet Rus sia, led Senator Gerald P. Nye to ask the State Department if there W no regulations requiring generals and admirals to submit speeches and articles before de-'I livery or publication.
 The State Department, which sometimes gets rather sore over the degree to which it feels the navy dictates American foreign policy, enlightened him;
 Naval and military officers must submit such speeches or docu. ments to their superiors--AFTER | delivery or publication.