Evening star., 1937-07-23

the presidential nomination If the issue
Is sharply drawn between New Dealers
who favored the late and little lamented
legislation and Democrats who opposed
1t. All depends, OF course, on the sort of
peace now patched up. Should con-
serVatlve Democrats be dominantly
ranged against Rooseveltians three years
hence, Wheeler's chances would be less
ened, for he is too far to the left to ap-
peal to the groups antagonistic to the
New Deal on general grounds. As Jack
the Giant Killer, it would be unwise in
any event to leave Butte's favorite son
out OF account if there's to be sweeping
realignment of Democratic forces.
Although Pat Harrison didn't quite
make the grade in the razor edged con-
test for the majority leadership, he al
ready adorns an honored place at the
Capitol in the form of an oil portrait
Of himself hung in the Offices Of the Sec
retary Of the Senate, Col Edwin A. Hal
sey. 1t is the work of Mrs Hunter KIM
brough of Cleveland Park, Washington,
wife of an official of the Bituminous Coal
Commission and whose professional
name is Sara Pryor Dodge. A former
resident Of New York and Mississippi,
Mrs. kimbrough painted the Senator
as an act OF friendship and high regard.
He posed for her in his Senate Office. A
characteristic three-quarter likeness of
the colOrfu chairman of the Finance
Committee, the canvas is placed on the
walls OF Col. Halsey's sanactum directly
opposite an equally striking portrait of
Senator Joe Robinson, which was done
by other hands. Mrs. Kimbrough is of
distinguished artistic and political stock.
She studied painting under her late
father, William de Leftwich Dodge, a
noted American portraitist, and assisted
him in doing mural decorations for the
State Capitol at Albany. Her maternal
grandfather was Roger A. Pryor OF Vir-
ginia, a Confederate general and later
a member of Congress and justice of the
New York Supreme Court. Though pre-
occupied as housewife and mother. Mrs
Kimbrough remains active with her
brush.
Whether those two other highly con-
troversial proposals-the wages-and-
hours act and the Roosevelt reorganiza-
ton plan-Will come up for action now
or later, there is already foreShadoWed
for each of them species of opposition
little less bitter than the drive against
the court bill. Certainty on this score
makes it improbable that there will be
any attempt to seek final action on them,
or even protracted debate, until Con-
gress is back on the job next Fall or Win
ter. Having tasted blood in the court
set-to, Democrats who dislike certain
features of both measures are expected
to be less timid in opposing them.
It's being recalled that Senator Bark
ley was one of those who in 1923, with a
draft Coolidge movement in sight, sup
ported Senate resolution frowning on
the third-term idea. It was the identical
resolution passed by the House in 1875
to stop Grant third-term boom, and
deplores ANY departure from time-hon-
ored custom as unwise, unpatriotic and
fraught with peril to our free institu-
tions" Other New Dealers of today who
supported the resolution were Senators
La Toilette, Norris Pittman, Nicely, Hay
den, Harrison, Black, McKellar, Shep-
pard and Wagner.
(Copyright, 1879