The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-02-09
pruckarfs Washington Digest
Genuine Strain Being Placed Upon
Administration Control of Senate
Presidents Appointments to Public Office Upsetting
to Some Followers; Roper Virtually Forced Out as
Secretary of Commerce to Make Room for Hopkins
BY WILLIAM BRUCKART
National Press Bldg, Washington, DC.

WNU Service. National Pr
wAsHINGTON. - Presiden
pooseyelt,s followers in the senate
- the United States are finding !
srcreasingly difficult these days tt
.+av off of a hot seat. Indeed, If
read the signs rightly, they are get
tine rather restive and there is {
Genuine strain being placed upor
ths administration control in that
h,dv Of congress. Whereas, it ap-
n,ared . month ago that the anti.
. ,minisration senator's would breas
cit Of control only on major issues
4 now seems that here is a rea
Great OF danger to the President or
n.,nm. as well as major, questions
The new. developments have come
a a are continuing to come, from
q ,at some believe to be an unwise
r..,rse on the Presidents part In
q. matter Of nominations to public
& lice = appointments that must
h We approval of the senate. Wheth-
e the President is to blame, per-
Tally, for placing these distasteful
mines In the mouths Of senator's
or whether, as heretofore, the con-
d ion results from the activities OF
the "inner circle" the effect Is the
same. It is q very real problem for
the administration advisors to pom
der, and it is entirely possible that
Mr.. Roosevelt will get a slap in the
face by senate rejection of some of
the nominees for judgeships and
other public offices. It is just pos
tble that some senators will gag at
swallowing several of the names. II
that happens, what will be left Mr..
Rooeevelts mastery Of the senate
thereafter win be meaningless.
Observers here In Washington
heard many private remarks Of q
very uncomplimentary character
hst fall when Mr.. Roosevelt named
Gov. James ". Alfred Of Texas to q
federal judgeship. It was so plainly
political that some individuals who
ere very close to Mr.. Roosevelt were
disguised. They did not speak out
then, but they are holder now.
Shortly thereafter, Mr.. Roosevelt
named Floyd Roberts to a federal
judgship In Virginia: Now, appar-
emily, Mr.. Roberts Is about as well
equipped to be q Judge as I would
bell we are to believe the public
statements Of Senators Carter Glass
and Harry Byrd, both Democrats
and both acquainted with the life
and record Of Judge Roberts.
Roper Virtually Forced Out
A. Secretary Of Commerce
Subsequently, Daniel G. Roper
was virtually forced out as secre-
tary Of commerce In order to make
room for removal of Professional
Believer Harry Hopkins to a cabinet
JOB. Hopkins thereby was taken out
Of the line Of red hot fire about
bis spending policies. Homer s.
Cummings quit as attorney general
and Frank Murphy, Michigan's
anne duck governor, was given the
post. {
Former Senator James p. Pope
who was licked in the Idaho Demo-
cratic primaries was named to the
directorate Of the Tennessee VAL
ey authority from which DR.. Ar
thur Morgan was so unceremon-
lousy dismissed. Rumor has it
tnat former Sen. Fred II. Brown,
lame duck New Hampshire Demo-
crat. IS to be given the juicy Job
OF comptroller general Of the Unit
co States as soon as it Is evident
tnat congress will not vote abolition
Of the general accounting office.
Hep. T. Allan Goldsborough of
Maryland lately has been named a
FEDERAL Judge for the District of
Columbia. It will be recalled that
" was Mr.. Goldsborough who in
M1eo President Roosevelt into
Maryland last summer in the at
Tempt to purge Sen. Willard Tyd-
mes from the Democratic ranks. In
ascs. 1t was at Denton, Nd, Mr..
.Golosoorough's home town.. that
.ne President made his most vfc-I
.ous attack on Tydings and denv-
ssed his eulogy Of praise for David
'. Lewis IN the senatorial primaries.
mere have been other appoint
menus mixed In here and there.
svlne important, some just run-of-
~ mine Jobs, and they have not
u.es unanimity. Even the selection
u Professor Felix Frankfurter as a
;usslce OF the Supreme court Of the
uin1eo States did not arouse en-
snuSlasm among the senator's who
,ooeo approval Of the nomination.
:, personally, heard several sena-
.ors remark that the Frankfurter
81 atment was 50 much better
aa e' mat OF Hugo Black, a year
se so, mat 1t was refreshing to vote
~. o.. him. Yet, they added a qualifi-
Sat,on. Justice Frankfurter has
otalns' fine mind-but he is look
A. upon as the father of so much of
the e view Deal that his presence on
s s.e highest court appeared none
too pleasing.
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