Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-06-10

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would certainly appoint Robinson,
and getting it in print, were OPP
posed to the court plan more be-
cause they were against Roosevelt
than for any intrinsic merit in this
particular battle.
Now the point is of course that
Robinson has cherished the ambi-
ton to sit on the Supreme court
bench for nearly twenty years.
There is not a member of the sen
ate who does not know about it, not
because he talks about it all the
time, but because in such a long
period of time such an ambition
would naturally reach the ear of
every member of the upper house,
Robinson Popular
Now Robinson is a very popular
man among his colleagues, all mag
azine articles and general reports
to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Not that he has been particularly
misrepresented in either magazine
articles or gossip. He is hot tenn
pered. He would do almost anything
for the sake of the Democratic
party. He would sacrifice almost
any conviction if it seemed to inter-
fere with the chances of success of
his party, and he goes to what some
think r extremes in loyalty to
whoever is the party leader at the
time, whether it be Woodrow Will
son insisting on ratification of the
League of Nations treaty without
the dotting of an "i' or the cross
ing of a It," or whether it be Frank
lin D. Roosevelt insisting on six
young" justices for the Supreme
court.
But his colleagues understand
that. They are politicians too. They
know what the Democratic party
means to a man of Robinson's
age, who was raised in the South,
and who has seen local federal
officeholders appointed by an op-
position President during all his
adult life. So they do not let the
things that seem to offend some out
siders trouble them at all in ap-
praising Joe. Outside of these points,
which do not bother or even mysti-
fly them, they think Joe a grand
person. He is an old friend of most
of them, a co-worker, a pal, a hunt
ing companion, a golfing opponent
yes, even a drinking companion.]
So if the President throws kiu|
down, after all this build-up VI
has been fed to the neWspapersT~N
the Presidents enemies, the least
that can be said is that it will not
do the President any good.
Much Like Revolt
President Roosevelt is confronted
with the most difficult situation he
has yet encountered. 1t has all the
earmarks of a revolt. 1t may peter
out utterly, in fact, the reasonable
probability would seem to be that
it will. And it may turn into the sort
of mess that will continue to plague
the President as long as he re-
mains in the White House.
Senators and representatives are
insurging in every possible degree,
and. on every possible issue.
1t began with the government re-
organization proposal. This was
something to give every member of
the senate and house pause.
There was not a vote in either
house which was not slightly or
importantly influenced by personal
friends and lieutenants scattered
through the government depart
ments and bureaus-any or all of
whom might be put at the mercy of
the White House in the cours of the
reorganization.
The insurgence became positively
eruptive after the President asked
congress to surrender it's control
over, appropriations by permitting
him to cut any one of them fifteen
per cent in his discretion. This fol-
lowed the proposal to enlarge the
Supreme court, which has received
plenty of public attention, and does
not need any diagraming.
So there is bad feeling, among
members of his own party, toward
the President all over Capitol Hill
Pass Up Big Guns
1t is notorious how such senators
as David I. Walsh of Massachusetts,
Royal S. Copeland of New York,
Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, and
Vic Donahey of Ohio have been by
passed on many appointments on
which senators would normally be
consulted.
Two preliminary moves figured as
weather vanes to indicate h o w
things were shaping. A house COM
mittee voted five to four to cut
relief expenditures from a billion
and a half to a billion fiat. This
challenged not only the Presidents
views as to what should be ap-
propriated for relief but his own
economy plan-to cut fifteen per
cent from such appropriations as he
might choose.
More important, because m o r e
votes were involved, was the action
of the house in voting 1884 to 7, on
a roll call, to extend the CCC camps