The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-08
ROOSEVELT HITS
 UNRULY CONGRESS
Attacks RebelIiOus Mem- bers for Misrepresenta.
 tion-Glass Target
BY LYLE 0. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent)

BY LYLE 0. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, Feb. S--(uP)-presi- dent Roosevelt attacked Q rebellious congress today on fronts defended largely by conservative members of his own party.
 MT. Roosevelt returned to the Works Progress Administration fight with request that congress imme- diately consider emergency appro- priation of another 9160,000, 900 which House and Senate only last month refused to provide.
 He denied the version of Sena- tor Garter Glass, D., Va, of events leading up to the nomination of Judge Floyd H. Roberts to the fed- eral bench and challenged consti- tutionality of the senatorial cour- tesy" rule whereby the nomination was rejected. MT. Roosevelt said he was inclined to think that fed- eral judgeships should not be in- cluded in senatorial patronage.
 Denounce Falschoods
 He denounced as deliberate mis- representation the version of his foreign policy given the press by unnamed members of the House and Senate and charged at least one legislator with deliberately lying
 He questioned the patriotism of the act of one or more additional enators-likewise nidentified-who gave the press erroneous reports of sale of aflti-aircraft equipment to Great Britain, thereby possibly re- vealing existence of secret Ameri- can weapons.
 The foreign policy dispute flared last week amid international excite- ment with reports the President had said our national defense line lay on the Rhine or in France. He called the report deliberate lie but was willing to close the book on that and related controversies if congress would.
 But the issue comes up this week when the senate military affairs committee again considers motions to make public testimony relating to cooperation extended by the admin istration to prospective French pur- chasers of new-type American fight ing planes.
 Other Issues Raised
 MT. Roosevelt raised the other Issues yesterday in Q message to con- greSs on relief and in his press conference.
 The message was c challenge to the congressional economy bloc led by Democrats in both houses which trimmed $lb0,000,000 from his Jan. request for $s7b, 100000 with which to aid the unemployed through June. He asked that congress im- mediately consider raising the ad- ditional sum and said human de- ceny" forbade reducing relief rolls this winter.
 From his press conference came c letter to Judge Roberts of the wes- tern Virginia federal district court whose nomination to that office the senate rejecetd by . vote of 72-to. Q. Roberts was defeated because Senators Glass and Harry ?. Byrd, D., va,, both informed the senate Judiciary committee that the nomin- ation was personally offensive or obnoxious to them.
 The President has two feasible alternatives now. He may leave the post vacant or he may sendup an- other nomination which is expected to be fully as offensive-if not more so-to Glass and Byrd as was that of Judge Roberts. His letetr ems phasized that no challenge was made against Roberts integrity or ability, but merely that he was oi- fensive to the senators in whose state the Job in question happened to lie.
 So the President indirectly gave the senate Q lecture on the preroga- tives of the executive to make nom. nations. He said Glass statement to the committee that he had failed to answer questions raised by the senator in respect to the nomination does mot square with the facts. Glass had written dee manding to know if Coy. James H. Price of Virginia-a New Dealer had been given veto powers over federal patronage from that state. Glass and Byrd are conservative anti-Now Dealers.
 Challenges Sen. Glass I Challenging Glass directly. MT. Roosevelt told Roberts that the sen- ator had stated that:
 "AS e matter of fact, the Presi- dent of tho United States did give to the governor of Virginia tho veto power over nominations made by the two Virginia United States sen- ators."
 The President added that he was sorry Glass had made such c state- fnent which "f can only excuse on the ground of anger or forgetful- ness"
 And he terseiy informed Roberts that neither of these statements Is true" in reviewing Glass charge that tho justice department intend- cd to ignore the Virginia senator's recommendations for the judicial post and that Gov. Price has been promised c veto over any nofnina- tions they made.
 Glass, after reading . copy of the letter, said it was "hardiy worth dis- eussing," but promised to comment, probably today, in the form of . statement and later from the senate floor. Byrd reserved comment.
 There's nothing in the (Rob- erts) letter." Glass said. You caii search in vain for any denial that he gave Price the veto power"
 What President Said
 Regarding c newspaper article Glass had sent to him which, MT. Roosevelt said, made the assufnp- ton" that the backing of dov. Price was necessary for c federal appoint ment in Virginia, tho President said in his letter to Roberts:
 .. This and similar stories are, of course, not worth answering or bothering about, for the very simple reason that no persoii-no