The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-01-02
Many Questions
Talked At Capitol
Everybody At Washington, D. C.
Wonders '"What Comes
Next?'

| WASHINGTON, Dec. 81 Look
| ing ahead to the New Year is the
principal pastime in Washington
just now. Everybody S asking:
what comes next?"
The new congress is beginning to
shape up. The efforts of Vice
President Garner to make Sam
Rayburn speaker have failed. The
President preferred Rayburn to Joe
Byrns of Tennessee, but didn't say
so loud enough, so Joe gets it. The
big fight in the house Democratic
caucus will be a three -cornered one,
between Representative James NJ.
Mad of Buffalo, N. Y, William B.
Bankhead of Jasper, Ala. and John
w. Mccormack of Dorchester, Mass,
for the floor leadership.
Senator Wright Patman Of Texas,
the big bonus man, has been count
ing noses and reports enough votes
for the immediate cashing of the
adjusted compensation certificates
to pass the bonus appropriation over
a presidential Veto. Administration
has thrown up it's hands, and is try
ing to work out some method of
distinguishing veterans who are Gin
actual need" from those who don't
need the money but who would Like
to have it. The hope is to get con-
gress to accept some bonus scheme
which will only cost the taxpayers
about five hundred million dollars,
instead of the two thousand mil
lion the full payment would come
to.
Those War Profits
Smart politics" is what the folks
on Capitol hill call the presidents
proposal to submit law prohibit
ing profits from war. It is pointed
out that the senators who have
been getting the most credit out of
the exposures" of wartime profits
made by the senate Investigating
committee are both Republicans,
Nye of North Dakota, and Vanden-
berg of Michigan. This is a Demo-
cratic administration so why should
Republicans be allowed to get away
with anything?
What the president has done is
to haul out the blue prints of a plan
which has been kicking around
Washington since the Wilson adj
minitration, providing that in time
of war everything, not only soldiers,
must be subject to draft-capita!,
| factories, farms, mines and all of
the nations activities. Marital law,
in effect, for the entire populace If
we ever get into another scrap
Bernard M. Baruch, head of the
war industrial board in the Great
war, originated the plan. Presidents
Wilson, Harding and Coolidge
warmly Endorsed it and President
Hoover actually had the bills drawn
ready to offer to congress, just
about the time his congress ran
out on him. How much farther the
present plan will go nobody knows
yet. The biggest profits made by
American industry in the last war
We're made from selling supplies to
the Allies before we got into it.
The president has brought Cen
eral Hugh johnson back into the
picture, as the man to put over the
new anti-war profits scheme. Wash
ington will be more picturesque WITH
the general back here.
National housekeeping
Coming to the front is a gigantic
project, based on the report Of the
National Resources Board, for
| spending upward of 100 billion dol
lars over period Of years in such
things as Strengthening and clean
ing up rivers, eliminating soil eros
ion, developing every possible horse
power of all the nations waterways,
taking over all so-called marginal
and submarginal agricultural land,
conserving mineral resources and in
general giving the whole United
States thorough house cleaning.
Just how far the administration
will get behind the idea, in urging
it upon congress. is still uncertain,
but Harold Ickes, secretary of the
Interior, is chairman of the group
that advocates it, Frances Perkins,
Secretary of Labor, gleefully pre-
diets that it twill give everybody a
job for Is years." and the secretary
of war, agriculture and commerce