Evening star., 1938-11-11
Roosevelt Sees
No Threat 10
Liberalism
Reporters Statement
About Opposition
Brings ChuckIe
BY the Associated Press.

o5 lde AeeCCldtcQ HIeSS.
President Roosevelt said TODAY he
did not believe the results of Tues
days elections constituted any threat
to the continuation of liberal gov
ernment."
At his press conference, Mr.. Roose-
welt declared he thought the election
returns were all right.
A questioner, referring to the
Presidents speech on Friday before
the elections, asked Mr.. Roosevelt
whether he believed the outcome of
the voting, which resulted in heavy
Democratic losses and Republican
gains, constituted a threat to the
continuation of liberal govern
ment."
The President replied that he Ger
tainly did not think so.
Refrains From Interpretation.
He refrained, however, from giving
any policy Interpretation of the vote.
He was asked whether he believed
the heavy balloting for Senator
Wagner, Democrat, of New York
was tantamount to an Endorsement
OF the Wagner Labor Relations Act.
That, he remarked, was an impos-
sible question to answer, but added
that he thought the voters of the
State had given Senator Wagner
nearly half million majority be-
cause they liked the Senator S record.
At the same time, he predicted
that he would not encounter what
one of his questioners called "coali-
ton opposition"-presumably the
combining of Republican and anti
New Deal Democrats against ad-
ministration proposals to Congress.
He expressed the belief his con-
gressional program would be accord
ed about the same reception as
before.
Mr.. Roosevelt chuckled heartily
when the reporter questioning him
on this point said bluntly he be-
lieved there would be such opposi-
ton.
(The reporter was Raymond
Brandt, Washington correspond
end of the st. Louis Post-Dis-
patchD
The press conference followed by
a few hours the Presidents return
from Hyde Park, N. Y, where he
voted Tuesday. 1t touched on many
subjects, but frequently Mr.. Roose-
welt said he had little or no com.
ment to make. He declined to dis
cuss reports that Argentina was
gravely disturbed over the possibility
of subsidized exports of American
wheat to Brazil.
He referred to the State Depart
ment request for comment on the
anti-Jewish campaign in Germany,
and said he had not yet read the
British White paper, issued last
Tuesday, on Britain's new policy in
Palestine.
The President told reporters he
would remain in Washington until
around November 20 or 81, when
he will leave for Warm Springs,
Ga.
Will Discuss Policies.
Afternoon appointments with the
cabinet and Representative Ray
burn, Democrat, of Texas, House
floor leader, gave him an oppor-
tunity to discuss policies in general
and the 1889 Congressional situation
in particular.
The President and his advisers
will have to decide within a few
weeks whether to try to push
through a heavy legislative program
despite reduced Democratic ranks or
to confine the session largely to
smoothing out New Deal laws now
on the books.
Mr.. Roosevelt returned here last
night to find that even the final re-
turns in two close Senate races Of
fered the administration but
modicum of cheer.
Although Senators Van Nuys of
Indiana and Gillette of Iowa appar-
enly had bested Republican opposi-
ton, both men have been allied with
the independent Democrats often
critical of the New Deal PROPOSE
Furthermore, Indiana Republica6
were demanding a recount of the
Van Nuys vote.
3-to-1 Margin in Senate.
These unofficial results pegged the
Republican capture OF Democratic
Senate seats at eight. The Demo-
Gratis will have exactly a 3-to-1 mar
gin in the next Senate-69 seats
against % for the Republicans
There also are two Farmer-Labor-
ties. one Progressive and one Inde-
pendent.
In the House, with only the seat
300 Ell EC,1unM pona A17l