Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-08-20

lette. The idea of course was that
if La Toilette had obtained enough
electoral votes, the election would
have been thrown into the house OF
representatives.
In those days it would have been
the old house, not the newly elected
one, which would then ballot for
President, with every state having
just one vote, and the majority of
it's delegation in the house de-
termining how that vote should be
cast Which would have worked
some queer inequities. For example,
although Coolidge carried New
York by 1863, 1000, had the election
been thrown in the house, New
York would have voted for Davis!
A majority of it's delegation was
Democratic.
Now it is the new house which
has this power, under the new
amendment to the Constitution,
eliminating lame duck sessions of
congress. And in all human prob
ability, no matter whether the
house is Democratic or Republican,
this curious method Of electing by
states, with each state having only
one vote, would probably give the
Democrats the victory this time if
the election should be thrown there.
Sure Delegations
For instance Landon could carry
New York by a million, but not
pull through a majority of the
house delegation. Twenty five
states is a majority. The Demo-
Gratis, counting New York due to
this popularity of New York's. con-
gressional districts, start off with
10 sure delegations. The Republi-
cans have only ten fairly sure dele
cations, and one even of them, Or
egon, is a bit wobbly.
So if, along in October, the Dem
ocrats should become frightened
that Gov. ALI M. Landon might win
a majority of the electoral votes,
they would be employing rather
shrewd strategy if they could ac-
complish what they failed to do in
house by diverting Democratic in
dividual votes from Roosevelt to
Lemke in order to divert electoral
votes from Landon to Lenke.
None of this is at all likely. It
is almost impossible for Lemke to
carry more than a handful of cleo
toral votes. This writer would be
surprised if he even carried North
Dakota, his own state and his best
chance. And this writer in 1924
conceded Wisconsin and North Da-
kota to La Toilette, thus erring on
North Dakota. He claimed Iowa,
Nebraska, South Dakota and other
radical states predicted for the La
Toilette column by so many OBJ
servers, for Coolidge.
The Importance of the Lernke
vote, which is apt to be very large
indeed-La Toilette carried the city
of Cleveland, and Lennke will poll
a huge vote there's that it will
divert normally Roosevelt votes
away from Roosevelt, and thus en-
able Landon to carry some states
in which he otherwise might not
have had a chance. The same
thing that piled up the Coolidge
majorities in 1924. Except that it
is not apt to be anything like as
striking as that.
New Dealers Cocky
New Dealers are much more
cocky about the Wagner labor re-
lations board since some recent
decisions, particularly that affect
ing the Associated Press. Up to
the last few days the private opin-
ion of the best lawyers advising
the administra had been that
the whole national labor relations
board would be knocked out, or, at
the very best, would be restricted
to very few industries. These
would be the industries directly en-
gagged in interstate commerce
but-of course, excluding the rail-
roads and other common carriers,
which are specifically exempted
from the boards jurisdiction.
So that the prospect was not very
ambitious, to say the least.
But now comes a circuit court of
appeals, with only the Supreme
Court of the United States able to
override it, with an opinion, which
opens the door to a long vista of
opportunities into which the labor
board may be able to inject itself
Most lines Of business, lawyers
studying this opinion point out,
have some bureau, branch or di-
vision which would bring that par
ticular unit under the jurisdiction
of the labor board. For example,
it is pretty well conceded by now
that manufacturing business does
not come within it's domain. But
the shipping department of that
factory, in the light of the APP.
decision, does!
Also it's travelling statesmen, if
they cross state lines. Possibly it's
advertising department, etc.
So that, while great many lines
/. of business will be able to dodge
jurisdiction, many of those which
are successful will find they have
some appendage which will tend to