Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-09-23


from any previous records, and it
becomes obvious that Mr.. Boland
has something.
Which makes his recent state
ment about next session more inn
portant. What Mr.. Boland said was
that the Norris seven TWAS bill
(eight if you add in the modifica-
tons of the present TVA) would be
stripped of all its phases concern
ing power before passage next ses-
sion.
Now President Roosevelt very
definitely wants power included in
the seven TWAS legislation. So does
Senator George w. Norris, daddy of
the original IVA. So do all the New
Dealers. All of which spells out
that there will be real fight on an
unexpected front in the next ses-
sion, to be added to those already
on the sure list-taxes, wages and
hours regulation, and, unless Mr..
Roosevelt is kidding the legislators,
Supreme court enlargement again.
1t was right after adjournment of
the last session-the only one so far
since March 4, 1888, when any inn
partial referee would not give all
the rounds to Mr.. Roosevelt-that
Attorney General Homer S. Cum
mings took the public into his conf
dence on this-holding that the SUI
preme court issue must be settled
and settled right,
Listening In
Now, of course, all the senators
and representatives, whether at
home or taking a holiday, are en-
gagged in their normal between-ses-
sions function of holding their ears
to the ground. They are busy find
ing out what is the safest thing for
them to do in the next session.
At this stage, Mr.. Boland, Demo-
cratic whip of the house, takes
public stand against the President
and the New Deal on an issue which
most observers and members of
congress thought was going to slide
through next session without real
struggle.
Mr.. Boland proved himself an &C
curate judge Of what is the shrewd
thing to do in politics in 1880, and
has demonstrated it several times
since.
In 1880 there was a vacancy in
the Scranton, Pennsylvania, congress
sional district Largely hard coal
mining district, it should, on. cold
logic, be wet. Henry H. Curran,
president of the Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment, was in
terested. He sent this writer down
there to investigate.
1t developed that no one of the
candidates for the Republican nom
ination was really wet politically.
The Republican leaders thought it
was not safe-thought the dry senti-
ment still too strong. Over in the
Democratic primary, generally re-
garded as futile because the district
was so strongly Republican, Pat b.
land was running as a wringing wet
against a dry. This writer urged
support of Boland as the only
chance.
But little later Boland decided
to enter the Republican primary as
we'll as the Democratic The Penn
sylvania law permitted that at the
time, though it has since been
changed. He won both primaries!
And has been reelected three times
since! He has something.
Looks Like Surrender
Foreshadowing events in the next
session of congress, particularly as
to the cleavage between President
Roosevelt and the New Dealers, on
the one hand, and the conservatives
on the other, the surrender of the
President in signing the sugar bill
cannot be exaggerated.
Bitterly as President Roosevelt
objected to this bill, as expressed
not only in private conversations
but in writing, there is just one ex-
PLANTATION for the signature. Had he
vetoed it, it would have been nee
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congress to pass some substitute,
as the present quota law expires on
December 81 The President had no
particular objection to the extra SEES
sion. In fact, he was undecided for
some time whether he would call
one, entirely irrespective of the SUI
gar situation.
But he was finally convinced that
not all the strength the administra-
ton could bring to bear would re-
suit in passing the kind of sugar
bill he wanted even if he vetoed
the present bill and called an extra
session.
Most convincing on this was Vice.
President John Nance Garner.
All Know Story
The Importance of all this now is
that every member of both house
and senate knows the whole story.
They know, in effect, that the Presi-
dent was badly beaten on two issues
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