Carbon County news., 1937-09-10
CONGRESS ADJOURNS

The first session of the Seventyffth Congress ourn-
ed August 2 It will be known in congressional history
the session which failed to accomplish the many things
which cut out for it. This is said way of crit-
Perhaps rendered its greatest service to the
try in the things which it failed do Certainly this true
with respect to the socaed Supreme Court packing BILL
The significance of the record of this Congress date
however cannot be appreciated unless compare the po
ca situation of today with that of few brief months ago.
In November 1886 President Roosevelt carried every
state in the Union except Vermont and Maine The people
everywhere from the Atlantic to the Pacific from the gulf
to the Canadian border seemed to have rallied to him. Po
itcal writers told that of good feeling at
hand 1t seemed that because of this verdict of the people
at the polls another four years of New Deal legislation and
administration at hand The Presidents victory had
swept into Congress 331 Democrats out of possible 1885,
The Senate Democratic 76 to &c. Certainly the stage
at Washington seemed set for the carrying out Of the
pledges which President Roosevelt and the New Deal ora
tors had promised during the 1886 campaign
But spite of this elaborate stage setting Congress has
adjourned without passing single important recommen-
dation of President Roosevelt excepting the billion and al
half "relef appropriation bill The wages and hours bill
the bill for reorganzng the federal government the crop
insurance and crop control acsa of these went into the
discard True, few bills Of general Importance were pass
ed Congress enacted the law reducing interest payens
farm loans but did this the veto of the President
enacted too sugar law which the President expressed
dislike and another act which permits price fixing and
may nvaidate part Of trust laws of which
the President expressed public dsapprovaI though he
signed it.
The record of Congress indicated that the rubber stamp
for session at least had been los that the control of
the legislative body by the national administration had
slipped And the session which began with expressions Of
optimism and good will ended with bitter quarreling by
factionalsts in the dominant party.
In all fairness is must be said that great deal of this
change in conditions is due to the actions of Presdent
Roosevelt himself It February that he exploded
political bombshe by recommending the famous social
ed court packing bill From that time forward his control
of Congress began to relax is hardly necessary to
into details which already well known to the public
Suffice it to say that the court bill finally went down to
disastrous defeat The wheels of legislation which had been
cogged by the bitter court fight could not be cleared again.
The bitterness engendered remained to the end Mr. Roose
velt himself will take responsibility for thsn the eyes Of
the public because of his nsisence that the court bill be-
put ahead of everything else.
Just what the next session of Congress will bring no.
body of forete It is reported that there may
be special session before Congress January
But at any rate matter what happens situation will
call for great deal political fnesse than was used
in the first session. if the New Dealers to rehabtae
their legislative program before the 1888 congressional
elections.
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