Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-26

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Mr.. Dies latest e cou,u r,n,o,n
retort was to
recommend that Ickes and Hop
kins and Miss Perkins resign from
Office for the good Of the country.
Mr.. Dies recently has been re-elect-
ed to Congress. None of the New
Dealers he now seeks to remove
from Office have been elected to any,
thing. They are appointees.
There is no way of compelling an
appointive officer to leave his Office
that is, for a Congressman to COM
pei such action-without the adop-
ton of impeachment proceedings.
Mr.. Dies has not yet gone to the
length of proposing impeachment Of
any of his present targets. But he
may. His committee will submit
report to the House when that body
meets in January, in all probability.
This report may turn out to be
humdinger-undoubtedly will If the
New Dealers continue to lambaste
the committee and its chairman as
they have in the past.
Sheppard Harries Hopkins.
Another Texan who has caused
the New Dealers great deal of an
guish, although they have not un-
limbered against him as they have
against Dies, is Senator Morris
Sheppard. Senator Sheppard heads
the special Senate committee set up
to investigate campaign expendi-
lures and the use of influence" in
elections The Sheppard committee
started out by charging that the w.
P. A. was being used to bolster the
candidacy of Senator Alben w.
Barley of Kentucky in his primary
race against Gov. Happy" Chand-
Ter. 1t has clashed repeatedly with
Mr.. Hopkins, w. P. A. administra-
tor, over charges of political activity
by the w. P. A., not only in Ken
lucky but in Pennsylvania and other
States. AS fast as Mr.. Hopkins is
sued denials that any of the charges
were incorrect, the committee came
right back with assertions that the
charges were true.
For one reason or another the
President did not turn lose on the
Sheppard Committee, although Mr..
Hopkins is now reported to be the
Presidents alter ego-certainly his
choice for the Democratic presiden-
tial nomination in 1910. Much will
depend, perhaps, on the report
which the Senate Committee on
Campaign Activities makes to the
Senate next January. If the COM
mittee takes Mr.. Hopkins for ride
not to mention the Presidents
own particular majority leader of
the Senate, Mr.. Barkley-the Presi-
dent may have something to say
about this congressional committee,
too. And about another Texan.
Yet Senator Sheppard has been a
100 per cent Roosevelt supporter
ever since the President came into
office.
Barrage Withheld.
The Senator from Texas, how
ever, has not been able to stomach
what the w. P. A. organization has
been doing in elections-not the en-
tire organization, perhaps, but GER
tainly some of its component parts.
Mr.. Sheppard and his committee
might have knocked the whole thing
higher than a kite by the simple
expedient of doing what Represen-
tative Dies has done with his COM
mittee by holding public hearings.
That, at least, the Sheppard Com
mittee has spared Mr.. Hopkins and
the administration. He might have
had difficulty, it is said, getting
some witnesses to go on the stand
to testify-that at least is one rea-
son given fEr not holding public
hearings. On the other hand it is
probable plenty of witnesses would
have been forthcoming.
Next Tuesday the Sheppard Com
mittee, composed of Senators Walsh
of Massachusetts,, O'Mahoney of
Wyoming, White of Maine and La
Toilette of Wisconsin, is to meet
here, probably to consider what kind
of a report to submit to the Senate.
It may soft pedal, if it wishes, what
its investigators turned up during
the campaign. If it does soft pedal,
it will be surprising reversal of
form on the part of the committee,
which did not hesitate to criticise
and differ with Secretary Morgen-
thau of the Treasury Department
and other administration officials,
as we'll as Mr.. Hopkins, over politi-
cal activities of their Subordinates.
If the committee majority agrees on
fairly stid report, it is expected
that the Republican member, Sena-
tor White, will sign the report and
not attempt a separate and more
scathing report of his own. What
Senator La Toilette will do re-
mains to be seen.
There is plenty of political dyna-
mite in the reports of these two
congressional committees, the Dies
Committee and the Sheppard Com
mittee. Unless good many Demo-
Gratis in high places are entirely
wrong the President is now looking
to Harry Hopkins as a possible sue
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Dealer best equipped to carry on
the Roosevelt policies. They are
convinced that the President wishes
to have Mr.. Hopkins made men,
Der of his cabinet, so that he may
be built up for the presidential NOM
ination in 1910. Mr.. Hopkins, it Is
rumored, may be given either the
post Of Secretary of Commerce or
Of Postmaster General, depending
upon whether Secretary Roper or
Postmaster General Farley retires
and which retires first.
If the Senate committee comes
along with a report that takes Mr..
Hopkins for a first class ride, what
kind of preparation will that be for
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