Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-09-09
three-year period during which the
quota system should prevail.

tWO 1llOilCIIS VI IllC Till " yCaA' AAA
short, as Senator Harrison and his
friends viewed the situation, it was
not a compromise at all, but the
winning of all they contended, for the
first 26 months of the laws life,
with chance to win everything
also for even the remaining 10
months.
Vice President Garner doesn't
talk very much, but he knew what
the President had been saying and
how the President felt. Also he
knew the temper of congress during
those last few days. And he knew
the extreme probability was that, If
the President should receive that
bill on Friday night he would veto
it. In that event, Mr.. Garner fig
ured, there was little doubt as to
what would happen-congress would
rush the bill through over the Presi-
dents veto.
This would have been another set
back for the Presidents prestige. 1t
is the kind of thing that a good
party man does not like. Garner
is above everything else good
party man. Whether he sympathizes
with the Presidents ideas or not has
nothing to do with the case, in most
instances. The paramount motive
with Garner always is that the DEM
ocratic party must be supreme
must continue to present as solid
a front as possible to the foe.
So smart Cactus Jack" decided
to give the President breathing
spell to cool off. The President of
course would know that congress
had passed the bill in the form he
did not want. Secretary of the In
terror Harold L. Ickes could be de-
pended on to rush to the Chief Ex-
ecutive with little oil for the fire
even if no one else carried the bad
news. But the President could not
veto the bill without having the bill
to veto, and Garner saw to it that
the White House did not get the doc
ument.
AS matter of fact, if the Presi-
dent had vetoed the bill when Gar
ner let him have it, assuming the
veto message was dashed off with
in five minutes of receipt, the mes
senger with the veto message would
have had to hurry to get to the CAPT
tol before the final gavel. And at
that stage Garner could probably
have gaveled his way to adjourn
ment without most Of the senators
knowing what the message from
the President" was all about.
Fight Only Beginning
President Roosevelt's legislative
program for the congress, as out
lined in g conference with senate
and house leaders on June S, is very
interesting reading now, but it
would have been rash prophet in
deed who would have dared predict
any such percentage of failure as
actually developed.
Not that this means permanent
failure. Many of the things that
were caught in the stampede for
adjournment or went over for other
sound reasons may be enacted next
year. Only two defeats seem sure.
One was actual enlargement of the
Supreme court. The other was re-
organization of the federal depart
ments and bureaus.
The President has not given up on
either Of these. Actually in the SUI
preme court case he has won,
though he is not claiming victory.
He has the substance, but he want
ed terribly to have the technical
knockout, shadowy as such VIC
tory might possibly have proved.
On government reorganization, as
predicted in these dispatches many
times, he can have great deal
when congress finally gets around
to voting on the bill-but not the
things he particularly wants, not
ably executive control over such in
dependent commissions as inter-
state commerce and federal trade.
Wages and hours regulation will
of course go through next session,
but the chances are now that the
bill even then will be much more
moderate than the President
wished. The little sawmill and fac
tory owners of the South have felt
their oats, so to speak, and will be
even more outspoken from now on
about things they do not like.
Crop control was not mentioned at
the June S conference. 1t really
was on the agenda all the time, but
intended by the White House to
come after the bill enlarging the
Supreme court had passed. Obvi-
ously the only satisfactory plan for
contracts not to grow crops with
Individual farmers would not pass
the hurdles set up in the old AAA
decision until the court was
changed. But the probability now
is there will be sufficient change on
the court before any such measures
can be gotten through the next ses-
sion to assure fair promise that
this legislation will be upheld.
Indeed the President for quite a
time was for holding back the wages
and hours legislation until the court
bill had become law.