The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-18
l . BEHIND 1 THE SCENESl WASHINGTON BY RODNEY DUTcHER-@ Waterbury Democrat Washington
 COrrespondent)
Kelly=Nash Machines Set back in Illinois SenatO= rial Primary Significant; But IncOnclusive as It Affects ROOseveIt'S POli= cal Fortunes

Washington April 18-Nomination of Congressman Scott Lucas in the Illinois Democratic Senatorial pri- mary was displeasing to Jim Far ley, encouraging to advocates of good government, disappointing to militant labor and inconclusive as it affected the political fortunes of MT. Roosevelt.
 Farley had insisted on backing the notorious Kelly-Nash machine of Chicago in its support to Mike Igoe, and Assistant Attorney Gen. eral Joe Keenan, one of Farley's generals, went out to make a speech at an Igoe dinner. Labor's Non- Partisan League also supported Igoe against Lucas, who last De- cember voted to recommit the wage-hour bill.
 Now New Dealer
 Lucas is no New Dealer and if he is elected, as seems likely, he will be more satisfactory to conserv- tives than is the incumbent Senator Dieterich, who could always be de- pended on by the administration. New Dealers less practical than MT. Farley, however, are glad the Kelly-Nash machine was licked and think the inference is that Roosevelt should be victorious any time he wants openly to appeal on behalf of clean candidate against a corrupt big city machine.
 Roosevelt himself kept hands
 off the Illinois primary and his
 relations with Governor HOrner,
 whose state machine put Lucas
 over, remain friendly and close.
 Further conclusions are difficult
 because a horde of Republicans,
 with no hot senatorial battle of
 their own, voted in the Demo-
 cratic primary-mostly for Lucas.
 Congressmen from other states are encouraged to note that all in- cumbent Congressmen from Illi- nois were nominated. There had been fear that voters, soured by depression, were likely to boot out an unduly large number of con- gressmen now sitting.
 Promotion Due?
 The next conspicuous promotion of a woman under this adminis- tration is likely to be that of Miss Marion J. Harron, only feminine member of the U. s. Board of Tax 1e ic hniyoo sidered for one of the two new federal judgeships in California which Congress is about to provide.
 Regarded as one of the ablest
 members of the tax board, Miss
 Harron is lawyer who has spe-
 cialized in corporation Organiza-
 ton and reorganization, banking,
 taxation, antitrust laws and oth-
 CT fields of finance. She practiced
 law for 10 years in Berkeley,
 Calif., and in New York city and was appointed to the board in July, 1886. Now she travels about the country sitting as a trial
 judge on taxpayer appeals from Bureau of Internal Revenue as- SeSsments.
 Facing a crowded calendar in New York recently, Miss Harron called in all the lawyers, asked how much time each would take and allotted the time so the law yers wouldn't have to hang around waiting unnecessarily. The calen- dar was finished in spectacularly fast time, partly because hearings ran past the dinner hour. Other board members, accustomed to fin ishing at 430 grumbled.
 Sugary Legislator
 Sweetest Congressman of the year is Charles A. Plumley of Yer mont, who not only has just sent a small package of Vermont maple sugar to each of the 530 members and to correspondents as well, bless his soul!-but accompanies the gifts with the message:
 Tt stands the undefeated, mdis- puted, unchallenged champion in it's class; the best in the world. Moreover, it is 100 per cent pure unadulterated, and the genuine article;-so also is my regard for you"
 Copyright, 1888, NEA Service, Incl