The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-15

I1OOU OUL A4C-A AAOOAA OAAN VA VA
 The ship operators, backed by Secretary Dan Roper and Senator Royal s. Copeland of New York, are trying to put through a bill that would throw the Treasury wide open to their demands. Sena- tor Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsyl- vania, with the support of the Post Office Department, has of- fered @ measure abolishing the ex- orbitant ocean-mail grants, sub- stituting instead @ moderate and carefully safeguarded ship subsidy plan.
 Copeland, by quick parliament ary strategy, got his bill reported to the senate. But progressives, both democratic and republican, have announced that if he ate tempts to secure enactment they will filibuster. Treasury Taffy
 And to emphasize their deter minatoin to end shipping raids on the treasury, the progressives struck the $28,000,000 item for arl- nual ocean mail payments under the existing contract system out of the Post Office appropriation bill.
 This maneuver put the ship operators, and their champions Roper and Copeland, in Q di- lemma. They have got to come to terms with the progressives-- or there will be no more treasury taffy.
 The shipping lobby, one of the most active fin the capital, has been moving heaven and earth behind the scenes in an effort to get the operators out of this hole. And few days ago Mcintyre brightly vOlun- teered Q solution to the Presi- dent.
 He proposed that Q rider be at- tached to the Second Deficiency Appropriatoin Bill, now in the senate, restoring the $28,000, 900 ocean mail item "for 9 temporary peri0d".
 NOTE-Close friend of Me- Intyre's is Jim Barnes, lobbyist for the ship owners association. Vice.President Garner
 Vice presidents of the United States usually are best known for their homespun qualities.
 Vice President Marshall, in Woodrow Wilson's day, became famous for his remark: WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS IS A GOOD FIVE-CENT CIGAR"
 Charlie Dawes was famous for his HELL N MARIA" pro- fanity. Charlie Curtis became famous as a diner-out, and Jack Garner probably will go down as the greatest poker player In the history of Capitol Hill.
 Jack is a member of the Boars' Club, where the stakes arc high and the sky is the limit. The mini mum pile of chips with which you can enter the game costs $500.
 At the end of one congressional season, Jack figured up in his little black book that $68,0O0 was still owed to him. All of it, inci- dentally, was paid, except for a few hundred owed by one man. Slightly Ahead
 By saving his winnings. and by careful investment in real estate, Jack Garner at one time just be- fore the depression was reputed to be worth a million dollars chiefly from poker.
 On the trip to the Philippines last autumn, Jack was engaged in a poker game when at mid- night Mrs. Garner tried to induce him to come to bed. But Jack was between $500 and 24OO in the hole. He refused.
 About 3 a. m., however, he came into his staterOOm.
 "EE0w much did you l0se?" Inc auired Mrs. Garner sleepily.
 "A hundred dollars"
 s"Go on hack there and win it back" said his wife.
 And he did.
 Allies
 Chief Justice Hughes ard Post- master General Jim Farley see eye to eye on one issue.
 This is not an April Fool story. Here are the facts:
 Early this session a bill was introduced to create two new federal iudgeships in the south-