The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-30

question as to the blow the Presi- dent received with collapse of the court plan is not one of degree but of duration.
 No one questions seriously the fact that his prestige has had terrific sock and thHt his control over Congress is temporarily gone. The question is whether he will be able to regain command.
 Wage.Hour Test
 The first early important test of the extent to which Roosevelt's strength Is shattered will come in the administration attempt to get a much stronger wage-hour law than the emasculated version of its bill reported out by the senate labor committee.
 Whatever happens to that one after Congress adjourns, the President will have the Washing ton sounding board all to himself and may De expected to make a "ilrcsidc chat" and other speeches in an effort to build up his prcs- tigc and power by January. Hos tile members of Congress will be at home, bearing any brunt of these speeches that there may be.
 Whether or not the conservative Senate coalition can tie him up at the next session, Congress will re. turn to find him fighting, and all New Deal legislative proposals not passed at this session will still be before It.
 COrcOran Answers
 The opposition, busily attempt- ing to nall down It's court victory so that Roosevelt can be stymied from now on, Is making a special drive against some of Roosevelt's young aides-notably Tom Corcoran and Ben Cohen, to whom he assigns his hardest jobs.
 Thus Senator Burt Wheeler of Montana, who fought for the holding company act with Corcor- an and Cohen ever at his side after they had drafted the meas urc, has spread the story that CorcOran had warned him ad- minlStration forces would beat him on the court fight, using the same tactics CorcoFan had learned from him In the holding company fight.
 Shown newspaper story in which Wheeler appeared to boast that he had won the court fight with few tricks Corcoran had never learned about, young Cor coran, speaking for publication probably the first time since he came to Washington under Hoover. retorted
 "Is he taking credit for Joe Robinson's death? That's the only trick know of that beat the court bill"
 British View
 The Landmark, British monthly magazine of the conservative Eng lish-Speaking Union, somehow fail- ed to get excited over our court iight--or even the c. I. O. It says:
 Ut has been said that America follows Britain about Q generation behind In political development, and the working out of the so- called Supreme Court crisis seems to offer an interesting example of this. The parellel Is -. the weaklng of the powers of the House of Lords to defeat legisla- tion by the popular chamber"
 It is then recalled that the Su- preme Court, like the House of Lords. had been accused of de- stroying progressive" legislation and that MT. Asquith had demand ed and obtained promise from the King to pack" the House of Lords. Then the Landmark finds another parallel"
 "Mr. John Lewis Is making the fight for trade union recognition that was made and won in Eng land q couple of generations ago and demanding status for or- ganlZed labor which Is conceded here as a matter of coursc."
 The American president of the English Speaking Union is John W. Davis, counsel for the Morgans and crusader for conservative causes.