Evening star., 1939-12-12
The Political Mill
Agreement Of G. O. P. to Adjourn Politics
In Next Session Becomes More Remote

House, to investigate again and
report on the advisability of all the
recommendations that may be made
for national defense" said Mr.. Mar
ton. That committee did a good
job in the first session of this Con-
gress. We supported the appro-
prlatlons for national defense asked
by the President at that time. AL
except for the arming of Guam,
which seemed too far afield to us.
MIR. WadsWorth was at one time
chairman of the Senate Committee
on Military Affairs. He has always
kept up with national defense needs
and we have great confidence in his
judgment"
Sees Strong G. o. P. Sentiment.
The Republican leader of the
House is confident, he said, that
Massachusetts, his own State, will
be in the Republican column if a
national election were held today.
And, indeed, that all the New Eng
land States would be also. The war
situation abroad, he insisted, had
not changed the situation there.
The great majority of New Eng
landers want to keep this country
out of the foreign confict-but a
great many of them have their
doubts, in this regard, about the
Roosevelt administration. 1t is not
without significance that the Ameri-
can Ambassador to Great Britain,
newly returned to this country for
visit and to report on conditions
abroad, over the week end visited
Boston and delivered an address In
which he said that America must
stay out of this war. Although he
has been New Yorker for years,
Mr.. Kennedy came originally from
Boston.
The New Dealers have a problem
on their hands when the House gets
under way. On January the anti
lynching bill will be called up for
consideration. 1t is expected that
the measure will pass that body
as 1t has done before on several
occasions. The real problem de-
velops, however, after the measure
goes to the Senate, where it has
been blocked by celebrated filibus-
tiers. Back Of this measure stands
a large group Of Negro voters
many of them in politically strate-
gic States of the North and Middle
West. They intend, it is now re-
ported, to say to the New Dealers,
Get this measure through the Sem
ate or else" With an election COM
ing next fall these tactics may put
the New Dealers on the spot.
Bitter Struggle Foreseen.
Unless the Democratic Senators
from the South have changed their
attitude, any demand that the anti
lynching bill pass the Senate at the
coming session will bring on bitter
struggle-the kind of struggle that
will not make for speedy adjourn
ment Of Congress, nor for harmony
in the Democratic party.
Mr.. Martin has appointed a spe-
cial committee of 10 Republican
members Of the House to investi-
gate the effects on American pro-
ducers of the reciprocal trade agree
ments which have been entered into
by the Roosevelt administration.
Representative Allen T. Treadway of
Massachusetts, ranking Republican
member of the House Ways and
Means Committee. is chairman of
this committee. The trade treaties
have been under fire for many
months, and number of Demo-
Gratis as well as Republicans, in both
the House and Senate, have insisted
that the law authorizing the nego-
tiation of such agreements shall not
be extended.