Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-06-10

There has been so much loose
talk about the split in the Demo-
cratic party. as a result of the op-
position to the Presidents Supreme
Court reorganization plan, that some
superficial observers have come to
the conclusion that Mr.. Roosevelt
has lost his influence with Congress.
Nothing could be further from the
fact.
MI. Roosevelt, as head of his par
tys is still the highly-esteemed lead
er to whom Senators and Represent
atives of the majority look for guild
ance; and anything the President
wants which the legislative leaders
regard as reasonable or desirable, he
IA get. There is no "feud" be-
tween Congress and the President,
but on the contrary. Congress would
rather go along with Mr.. Roosevelt
than not.
What has actually occurred is that
while the Democratic members still
recognize and respect Mr.. Roosevelt
as their leader, they decline to let
him be boss" in matters which are
within the Constitutional preroga-
tive of Congress. They no longer ac-
cept orders for the enactment of new
laws without question or study, but
scrutinize every Administration pro-
posal with m%eticulous care. For it
must be admitted that the general
temperament of Congress is far less
liberal than is that of the New
Dealers who devise the new schemes
of economic and social reform for
which the President Is the spokes-
man.
Power for Executive Agencies
There is no great disagreement on
the desirability Of most of the New
Deal program which the President
still hopes to put through, If not at
next. This program includes many
of the emergency" devices, some of
which the Supreme Court declared
unconstitutional.
Increased power for Executive
agencies is essential to carrying out
the entire system of broad economic
planning to which the President is
committed. That means the delega-
ton of more legislative authority to
administrators, further ~ascendancy
of the Executive Branch over the
Legislative and the Judicial, and OF
the Federal government ove state
governments.
With such increased powers which
the President still hopes to have
granted by Congress, the control OF
industry and agriculture by govern
ment could be made effective. A part
of the broad plan upon which the
President is quite insistent is tc
make electric power cheaper and
more abundant. There Is no let-uI
in the pressure for improved hous-
ing for the poor by the aid of gov
eminent subsidies; for making farm
owners out of farm tenants, and fol
the shortening of working hours and
the increase of wages In industry
under government control.
detectives Desirable
The tendency In Congress is tc
regard most of those detectives as
desirable In themselves, but to fear
that the methods proposed to bring
them about will not be effective
There is a growing feeling thai
Uncle Sam has already bitten Of
all he a chew" in the laws already
on the statute books for the regula'
ton of labor relations. old age pen
sion, the stock markets, the public
utilities, and all the rest OF the reg
ulatory legislation.
Even many of the CongressionaI
liberals" think 1t would be wise to
walt until the new permanent bu'
reaus set up under those laws have
demonstrated whether this whole
nation can be effectively regulated
from Washington, before taking any