Evening star., 1938-09-25

tne Otner hand has strongly resisted all
appeals up to the present, insisting he
wishes to stand for reelection to the
Senate. Efforts may be made to have Gov
Lehman run again for Governor-but 1t
would put the White House in more or less
embarrassing position to go to the Governor
now and plead with him to take another
term.
Those Democratic Senators who opposed
the President on his court bill and other
measures have taken q new lease on life
since the failure of the White House
purge" They are less inclined than ever
TO take dictation from the inner New Deal
circle. No matter what may happen in the
House-and plenty may happen there-the
back bone Of the Senate has been consider
ably stlnened as result of the primaries.
II the President calls special session
this fall of the old Congress, it will be for
the particular purpose of getting Anal
action on his reorganization bill, according
to one Of the Democratic Senator'S That
Dill has passed the Senate. It might never
pass that body again, If it had to come up
as new measure. 1t was pigeon-holed by
OConnor of New York made his big fight
TO prevent its passage. The President, 1t
Is said, might be able to get the bill through
the House after the elections and before
the new Congress comes in.
Tax May Be Session Alibi.
Further appropriations for relief and
possibly tax legislation might be advanced
as reasons demanding a special session in
November and December The probab bill
Ties, however. are that the administration
Will find it more difficult to get the kind of
appropriations it demands through the
congress in the future. As for tax leqisla-
ton, members OF the Senate Finance Com
mlttee are confident that the President
Will never be able to obtain favorable action
on the proposals he has advanced in the
past for the undistributed profits tax and
the capital gains tax.
senator King of Utah, ranking Demo-
cratic member of the Finance Committee
after Chairman Pat Harrison, saws that
no extreme tax legislation can be nut
through. feel sure" He added, too. that
ne oeheVed reaction had arisen in the
country as well as in Congress against the
extreme policies" of the New Deal.
Ihls change in sentiment will deter the
extremists" said Senator King. There is
pretty solid hard-pan among the Amer
lean people. The genuine Democrats viii,
be more and more irssistent that they be
heard and Needed"
senator King predicted, too, there would
be fight against the blanket appropria-
tions of huge sums which have been made
IN recent years. All appropriations, he
SAID, would be scrutinized more carefully.
Foresees Spending Check.
congress will not be as yielding to the
Executive as it has been. We must cut
down expenditures BY the Government. We
have tapped all sources of revenue. The
people are loaded now with Federal and
State taxes that take 80 per cent of the
total income of the people 1t is no longer
possible for us to go on appropriating 10
or IL billion dollars a year, while we take
in taxes about 6 billion dollars. Onlv dis
astrous imitation could follow, If this kind
of thing continues"
senator King is member of the special
committee representing Congress and the
Executive which is studying monopoly"
and its tendencies in this country. He said
that he did not foresee any further lepisla-
ton "soon." The committee will not he
able to report to Congress until well after
the first Of the year, he predicted.
The makeup of the Senate Finance Com
mittee, which has to deal with the tax legis.
latlon is scarcely calculated to give the
President much hope of the kind of tax law
he desires. In addition to the chairman.
Pat Harrison of Mississippi, the Democratic
list of the committee includes King, George
OF Georgia, Walsh of Massachusetts. Bailey
OF North Carolina, Clark of Missouri. Byrd
OF Virginia, Lonnergan of Connecticut and
Gerry of Rhode Island, none of whom Is in
clined to 60 along with the President in his
tax proposals. The other Democratic mem
bers OF the committee, regarded as willing
to go the whole route for the President are
Barkley of Kentucky, the Senate leader;
Connally Of Texas, Guffey of PENNSYLVANIA.
Bulkley Of Ohio, Brown OF Michigan Her
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minority members Of the committee are La
Toilette Of Wisconsin, Progressive, and
likely to be with the President; Capper of
Kansas. Vandenberg Of Michigan, Town
send Of Delaware and Davis Of Pennsyl-
vania, all Republicans
Glass, Of Appropriations, Hostile.
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia is chair
man of the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee and he has no use for many of the
New Deal ideas about spending money.
Further, he has the backing of q number
OF other members of his committee in his
position.
Senator Bailey of North Carolina, an
antagonist of much Of the New Deal, is
in line for the chairmanship of the Senate
Committee on Commerce And 30 it goes
with other independent Senators
and Representatives holding important
chairmanships In both Houses. II the