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law that was unsatisfactory to No. If
Pennsylvania avenue in certain i'm
portant particulars.
Moreover, some of the pro-New Deal
solons, toward the sessions end, were
becoming presidentially troublesome
These were the inflationists. They are
New Dealers all right, but they want
to cheaper money; in other Words to
boost prices. There are folk who pro-
fit from sky-hooting prices, but they
are severe on others; on fixed incomes
like salaries, who see their living
costs sailing upward but who must
wait quite while before their sti-
ponds are likely to increase ."F. D."
is not altogether an anti-inflationist
but he objects to it at the present
juncture, and probably he objects tt
as much of it as the naturalization
lists desire. 1t. was greatly to his ad-
vantage to get. these "ultras'' home
before they had time to go completely
on the rampage.
The congressman also were, in a
furious rush to get back to their var
ious bailiwicks, to attend to their re-
nomination and reelection campaigns
Accordingly, all hands were crazy
for adjournment,
Why, then, talk of an extra session
Suppose
| Well, just now the country surely
does not care for one.
Business has looked forward to adj
journment as likely to be the signal
for speedy economic recovery If re-
! covery does follow quickly, there will
not, indeed, be a call for an extra SEES
sion. Everything, in that case, will be
lovely for the administration, for the
! country, for New Dealerishness in
generator every one except the Re-
publicans and for such anti-New Deal
Democrats as have been too hopeless
, ly "anti'.
But suppose there is not an imme-
diate revival
Suppose, instead, two or three big
railroad companies lapse into receiver
ships. Suppose a number of huge in
vestors in these lines securities begin
to lament, Gosh! ook what's liable
Ito happen to around 25 per cent Of
our assets'
Why in that event the country ma
to get to Washington in jig-time to
do something about it.
Not Eager For 1T.
The average congressman (repre-
sentative or expiring senator) will not
want to comes
He will wish, in the first place, to
be at home, electioneering
In the second place, he will not en-
joy being in Washington, forced to
vote, very conspicuously, upon pend
ing issues.
That is to say, the average politi-
clan will not like it. However, that is
mmatcrial. If called by the President
into special session, he will have to
do it, like it or not.
September?
Now, as to the administration?
This administration has a number
of policies that it honestly seeks to
because it really believes in them.
1t has not had a congressional
showdown, for the reason that it is a
New Deal Democratic administration
with many antiNew Deal Democrats
mot counting balance-of-power Re-
publicansl against it.
By an extra congressional session,
Just before the coming election( ses-
sion, with it's test votes in Septe1n-
Der and October, and its election in
Novemter), it can put it's respective
friends and enemies on the spot.
There is talk of an extra session in
November.
That is absurd.
If an extra congressional seasonal
session is called, it will be in Septem-
Der, when it will have some political
sense.