The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-11

sternly hostile groups over one group, composed of Secre- tary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Herman Oliphant, his gener- al counsel, is for 1t. Virtually all the others are not.
 Considering that the bill orig mated with the Administration, this is Q unique and difficult situation. Some of the insiders who are on the Outs with the bill are even supplying brick-bats with which business Is assailing 1t.
 Their motives, however, are dif- ferent from those of bushes. What they want is the bill in it's original state-before 1t was gut- ted by the House Ways and Means Committee.
 Responsible Oliphant
 They place responsibility for the gutting at the doorstep of Herman Oliphant. The Ways and Means Committee, they say, adopted his suggestions almost in toto. Tn fact, he wrote the Committees report defending 1t.
 Apparently Oliphant overlooked loopholes in the bill which, his critics say, will involve the gov- ernment in hopeless litigation and prove to be tax leakages up to as much as $300,000000.
 As a substitute, critical inSid- CTS are urging the President to junk the present bill, but retain it's graduated corporation taxes and add . new surtax on undl- vided dividends.
 The Senate Finance Committee probably would jump at this, if the President said the word. Cuban Default
 It looks as If the Cuban Gov ernment had permanently de- faulted on the $4O,000,000 loan floated by the Chase National Bank for PresidSnt Machado.
 When registering its outstand- ing bond issues with the Securities and Exchange Commission recent ly, Cuba failed to list this issue. At first this was considered an oversight.
 But later Cuba filed @ summary of all its indebtedness. The Chase Bank loan again was omitted. Ap- parently the present government of Cuba does not consider it Q debt.
 NOTE-The loan was used to construct highway the length of the island. Machado's son-in- law was employed by the Chase National Bank at the time. This aroused much resentment in Cuba. First Lady
 Mrs. Roosevelt is the most so- cial-minded first lady ever to occupy the White House; that is, "social-minded" in her interest in problems of the masses, rather than in official entertaining.
 Many time the president has had to call upon Marguerite LeITand tO act as White House hostess because Mrs. Roosevelt was Off visiting subsistence hOmeSteadS, or Q school for the blind, or Investigating an un- fortunate labor situation.
 Some time ago textile labor circles received @ call to the effect that Mrs. Roosevelt was inter- ested in the progress of Q strike in q chain of mills near Warm Springs, Ga.
 Replying to the inquiry, labor officials informed Mrs. Roosevelt that the strike had been over many months. Victor in the strike had been 0. J. Galloway. owner of tho mills, close friend of the Roosevelts. He has been entertain ed by them many times.
 Mrs. Roosevelt conveyed her sympathy and expressed q desire to meet the textile workers if the opportunity presented. She was reminded of this when the Na- tional Women's Trade Union League of America held It's con- vention in Washington.
 So she invited Q group of southern delegates to be her guests at the White House during their stay in the capital.
 One On Father
 By strictly party vote the house had rejected Q republican motion to require Harry Hopkins to make public q secret report written by General Hugh S. John son severely criticizing tho ad- ministration of the WPA.
 Representative Charles l.. Gif- ford, Massachusetts republican chided his democratic colleagues on their reticence.
 You remind me-" he said, "Of the story about the young lady who anonymously advertised for Q mako hiking companion. After her nd had been running for several weeks, . friend asked her if she had received any answers.
 "'Oh, yes, about 1OO.'
 "WclI, who are they. Aren't you going Co let US know their names?'
 "'NO. It has already made an awful fuss. You see, father was one of the applicants"
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