The Washington times., 1937-08-23
SPEAKING TOUR
PLAN IS STUDIED
BY ROOSEVELT.
President May Carry
Fight to the Voters
By GEORGE DURNO

GN.S0. President Roosevelt will
decide in the next 80 days whether
he will take the New Deals case to
the country during the Congress
sional recess in a limited number
of carefully spotted speeches.
His political advisers agreed to-
day it would be vital decision. II
he takes to the road again he will
be appealing to the voters in direct
opposition to the alliance Of Demo
cratic senators and representatives
that blocked the bulk of his pro-
gram in the session just ended.
Special Session?
Informed sources believed that
should Mr.. Roosevelt make a mod
fled speaking swing in October he
would call Congress back in special
session in November and demand
action on crop control, hours and
wages and government reorgani-
cation.
At the moment, the President
has not finally made up his mind,
it was understood. The decision
probably will be made in Hyde
Park where he plans to retire the
end of this week for a stay OF some
duration.
Mr.! Roosevelt already has one
speaking engagement arranged
that Enthusiastically will find him
tearing into his political opposl-
ton, both within and without his
own party.
On September II, which is Con-
stitution Day, he will deliver an
address from Washington over a
national radio hook-up. The Good
Neighbor League, which func-
toned in his reelection campaign,
is organizing dinners throughout
the country for the sole purpose
of listening to this speech.
ISSUE ON SUGAR
The Presidents action on the
sugar quota bill may give a hint
of his ultimate determination.
Four Cabinet officers and the gov.
errors of Hawaii and Puerto Rico
oppose the manner in which Con-
gress drew this measure in its
dying hours.
Existing quotas under the Jones
CoStigan act expire December 81,
1887. Should Mr.. Roosevelt veto
the bill now before him on the
ground it discriminates unduly
against Hawaii and Puerto Rico,
it would strengthen the belief he
has special session in mind.
Otherwise, American sugar beet
growers would be at the mercy of
Cuban importations under a
preferential tariff from December
81 until the regular January Ses-
sion of Congress could get around
to remedying the situation.
Any call of a special session,
close advisers intimated, would be
predicated on the need of crop
control legislation before January.
This would involve making the
farms vocal in demand for early
action restoring basic principles
of the old AAA. Some of the
Presidents aides are urging that
he best could arouse this demand
with some well-timed speeches.
OTHER MEASURES
But a special session would be
expected also to take up the wage
hour bill that a determined bloc
of Southern Democrats smothered
in the House Rules Committee,
Government reorganization which
died in the Senate and other fea-
lures of the Roosevelt program.
The schism in the Democratic
party, as a result of the Supreme
Court fight, and other issues OF
the session just closed, already is
deep. Presidential decision to once
more take his case direct to the
country at the expense Of Senators
and representatives who blocked
him would be an historic one. One
third of the Senate and the entire
House membership is up for re-