The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-02-27
q. d. r. Asks Help
OF New Deal Critic
Wants Senator Glass To Help Him
Get Big Work Relief
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CASTER There are three major diff
ferences between the president and
influential groups in both houses OF
congress, without counting the bon
us Legislation which has not yet
come to a head.
Those major matters which are
going to call for all the tact, politi-
cal skill and firmness which the
president possesses, do not include
the numerous minor and morgan
lied expressions of discomfort. Those
may all be swept aside and forgot
ten if the outcome Of the major
items discloses that Mr.. Roosevelt
still retains control of the federal
government in most Of it's branches.
If his program and his policies In
respect to any one of the disputed
matters should be overthrown, his
prestige would be somewhat inn
paired.
That is why the president has call
led upon the most vigorous and re-
SPECIFIED Democrat in either house,
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, to
come to his aid in this crisis. Sena-
tor Glass has been more open IN
criticism of the New Deal than any
other Democrat, almost as vigorous
as any Republican.
Senator Glass scoffed at MIRA
when it was instituted, refused to
sign the newspaper code on behalf
of his two Lynchburg papers, or to
L f1xY AIn p1I1o Torln nNnof ffdns
he had refused MIR. Roosevelts re-
quest to become secretary Of the
treasury, the post he held in the
latter years of the Wilson admins
tration, because he could not see
eye to eye with the president ON fin
ancial policies. He has been out
spoken in opposition to numerous
administration projects, in the last
congress as well as this one.
Appeal To Glass
It came as a surprise to Washing
ton, therefore, when news leaked
out that the president had person
ally telephoned to Senator Glass
for aid in getting the work relief"
out of committee in the precise
form in which it went in. That is
the $4,880, 00O, 900 bill to take all en-
poyable persons off the dole and
put them on public works at an ave-
rage wage of $50 a month. Harry
Hopkins reports that about 2A mil
lions of men have already been so
shifted. A fairly complete program
to do the same for another mil
lion is said to be ready to start on
whenever congress acts.
The opposition on Capitol Hill is
to the $50 wage. The presidents
view is that the whole scheme would
be scuttled if the demand for the
prevailing rate of wages" were
complied with. Arrayed against
him are the influences of organized
labor and of the business organiza-
tions who are opposed to any ex-
tension of public works, but think
the straight dole is preferable. The
appeal to Senator Glass was an ap-
peal to save the entire project.
Pensions and Banking
Next in Immediate Importance In
the presidents mind, is the cornLli-
tcated Old Age Pension, Unemploy-
ment Insurance measure. It Is
hardly expected that he can count
on Senator GLASS; help in this. The
whole thing is conceded to be a
muddle. The plan as presented to
congress is regarded as half-baked
and it looks now as if all the influ-
ence the president can bring to bear
will not get it through congress in
anything like its present form, if
at all.
Nobody on Capitol Hill under
stands the pension bill yet, and few
at the other end Of Pennsylvania
avenue. The reason for its haSty
introduction, it now becomes clear,
was to head off what seemed like
even wilder proposals, such as the
Townsend Plan; but congress has
refused to be stampeded into hasty
action on this measure.
| OF even greater consequence is
| the new banking bill, drawn up by