The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-12-02
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.r,ib Congress Is Balky
Washington-aThe best laid plans
Of mice and mem, will 20 off at a
tangent, it seems. even when one po-
litical party is Numerically in SUI,
preme control al, the national gov
eminent. President roosevelt call,
ed congress in to extra session with
very definite detectives outlined,
and he repeated, them in his regular
message on the state of the Union.
He wanted crop control legislation
for relief of agriculture and he
wanted wages and hours controlled
by federal statute for the relief OF
labor. But CONGRESS- 8. or q part Of
"a has Turned mt 70 be 2 a balky
mule It has one foot out Of the
trace, 81 already and the driver is
having a IL lot 81 trouble to keep the
animal hitchedl. t' .E3l,3 .sE'5i!3s' 57 2ss
The ABOVE 40 9iii b ~; ' way, vsa OF saving
that 1 scores # Democratoc members
81 The house and many senators
With seats on the ma ma iority side have
come hack from 4 summer on the
hustings Quite convinced that it IS
not popular with the voters to be d
rubber stamp. I do not mean by
that statement that the President
has lost control Of his party ma
chineryyz,' " or 81 that he can not crack
the whip and get things done; ]
mean W. that instead Of having d few
recca1citraaInts /, within his own party
to deal with. he now has many, and
members t,e1, Z Of congress- are about like
coyotes-their- courage increases as
their number increases Di.s Ia
q: might be 3 mentioned III passing
that al least haH 4 dozen Demo-.
cratic members 81 the House have
come back from home With plans to
nm for their I pmarty's nomination to
the senate next year. The reason
given bv those Nth whom I have
taxed IS almost the same III each
instance The incumbent senator
Who Is eup, for reelection has been
xoorrn,,ch rofs i New Dealer. "Our
rsorle are ISSiline tor sornethins BE-
adeS rubher stSmns.s sTkee .potea-
t,oI .anatorial candidates have rec
crde showing- onnosition to the Pres
ident "a some vitally important New
neaI noltcdes wfiIe s1uuortin9 him
whole-heartetily IA other phases Of
IA. rrorr.m " 80
M one can say how lar this
movement Nm eet but anyone Who
IL, o,.ervsN crr .0u,r,ss,ses perform In
Gther cases Nhere the President was
n his secont, term can not dismiss
ythe circumstances. as without sisnif-
-icance n Is the usual practice for
.,sahoe. members ae 4 Of tho house and
sara+e - .tick : lose to the Presi-
.1snt =. Inartv leader. Ia his first
tsrT,- h ecanse they must seek re.
s,sct,o,, nth his m,p,poartto % But now
MANY Of them regard President
poocevelt as through and they are
etartinr early to make their record
Took mod I'd the voters whom thEy
Viii canvass next wear. =
These few paragraphs above must
serve Ito introduce evidepH pf 2
much deeper fact Insman5 Ampoft
ant places and among many power
full orr INFLUENTIAL men in congress
one .lhSars frequent references san0
observations to this effect: II Mr..
ROOSEVELT is going to retain his con-
troleMsthe party and seafxyytAyQueh
On the propositions witch heiwfh
make from time to time. he must
cast, ay1ae a part. at least OF his
radiSal advisers and the schemes
they concoct.
80 Different Now
AS & RELATED, the Pfealef1t1 GU