Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-06-17
THE NATIONAL
GOVERNMENT
BY PAUL JOHN KvALE, M. C.

BY PAUL JOHN KvALE, M. C.
The present week comes to close
with little of unusual Importance to
report. The Senate worked largely
in committee and was in session only
for brief intervals. The House, on
the other hand, held relatively long
sessions, converting early and remain
ing late. The proposed legislation
to curb tax dodgers held the spot
light briefly and occaSioned some
bitter debate. Finally late in the
week legislation providing for joint
select committee of the House and
Senate to investigate tax lodging
became law.
The delay in the House was caused
by the insistence of members that
two amendments be incorporated in
the enabling legislation as originally
proposed-both providing check on
publicity. One amendment would
prevent any subcommittee of the in
vestigating body from making public
the names of alleged tax dodgers eX-
cept through action of the entire
group. The other would prevent the
treasury department from holding
open hearings throughout the coun-
try on tax lodging cases. The Sen
ate accepted the House amendments
Thursday and the President signed
the measure Friday.
AS this is written the most dis
cussed news in the Capital is the
published announcement this morn
ing that Vice President Garner has
decided to take his long-awaited and
well-deServed fishing trip vacation
on his home grounds at Uvalde,
Texas. AS was to be expected, some
of the more imaginative and vicious
critics of the administration sought
to interpret the departure of the Vice
President while the Congress is still
in session as bearing out long whiS-
pered rumorS that all was not har-
monious between the Number One
and Number Two men of the ma
tional government. However, anyone
who saw the immensely popular Gar
ner emerge from the White House, all
smiles, announcing that his boss"
had just given him permission to go
fishing, knows that there is no lack
of harmony in new deal high places.
AS a matter of fact, the decision of
Vice President Garner to go off on
holiday at this time, with the good
wishes of his boss" has convinced
most observers, including this writer,
that the President and administra-
ton leaders generally are satisfied
that the new deal program as pro-
jected by Mr. Roosevelt is now really
sin the bag"
The report of the Senate Judiciary
Committee on the Presidents bill to
increase the membership of the SUI
preme Court will be submitted dur
ing the coming week, probably on
Monday. The report will be adverse
of course, and its effect will be to
place the bill on the Senate calendar
with a committee recommendation
that it do not pass. AS soon as it
reaches the calendar any member
may move that it be considered by
unanimous consent or by a vote of
the Senate 1t is understood that
administration leaders are prepared
to call the bill up a week after it
has been reported.
If they do not take this action OPP
ponents of the bill may move for
consideration. Such a move would
insure action this session but few
observers doubt that the administra-
ton leaders will make the necessary
move because they are anxious to
see the important legislation disposed
of at this session and are convinced
that they have the votes necessary
to insure its enactment into law.
The increase in labor troubles dur
ing the week is receiving the careful
attention of the administration but
it is known that the situation is not
being viewed with any particular de-
gree of alarm. An early adjustment
of differences is looked for in the
steel industry and the present I'M
rest seems destined to hasten passage
of the Black-Connery minimum wage
law. Lie law, Wy liiC way, ID ca
pected by administration leaders to
accomplish much in the way of check
ing unrest among the men and women
who labor.
Despite Senator Copeland's pro-
posal for a broad Senate investiga-
ton of industrial unrest, there is not
likely to be any such investigation
at this time. It is felt by administra-
ton leaders who are in position to
know, that such an investigation would
do more harm than good at this time,
and they feel certain that relative
calm will prevail on the industrial
front much sooner than most OBJ
servers expect.
The House Agriculture Committee
held open hearings on bill extend
ing the operation of the Federal Sur
plus Commodities CORPORATION until