Evening star., 1939-07-19
Neutrality
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for Congress to reconvene, next
January.
Should such crisis arise, he said,
Mr.. Roosevelt will have to" call the
legislators back for special session
on neutrality.
A great deal of time last night,
Mr.. Early said, was spent on dis
cussion about how the neutrality
measure could be brought before the
Senate.
After the decision to postpone 1t
until the next session, he continued,
Senator Barkley tried to do little
horse trading urging that the ST.
800,000000 lending bill be expedited
since the neutrality scrap was out
of the way. But he said he didn't
know whether Senator Barkley had
succeeded with the trade.
Passage Highly Desirable"
Mr.. Early answered yes to a
question whether the lending bill
was in the highly desirable" class
Because Senator Barkley and Vice
President Garner remained at the
White House after the conference
ended. Mr.. Early said, Mr. Roose-
welt did not retire until the early
morning hours The President slept
late and made his first appointment
for today at noon.
President Roosevelt is planning to
leave Washington either early to-
morrow afternoon or tomorrow
night for his home at Hyde Park.
N. Y. Unless he changes his plans
in the meantime, he will be back in
Washington Monday morning.
The final decision to abandon
efforts to revise the neutrality law
at this session was said to have been
brought about by an informal poll of
those present at last nights confer
ence, taken by Vice President Garner
Two Statements Issued.
The upshot of the long discussion
was that two statements were pen
ciled out, agreed to by the conferees,
and given to Stephen Early, White
House secretary.
Coming out of the front White
House door about 1870 pm, Mr..
Early told large group of reporters:
Boys, I've got the whole story here"
Many followed him to the executive
offices, where he read the state
ments.
The first said:
Senator Barkley said the con-
sensus of opinion on the part of those
members of the Senate was that no
action on neutrality legislation can
be obtained in the Senate at the
present session and that a majority
of the Senate would concur in this
view.
Senator McNary expressed the
same belief.
They agreed that a majority of
the Senate would consider neutrality
legislation at the beginning of the
next session."
The second said:
The President and the Secre-
tary of State maintained the definite
position that failure by the Senate
to take action now would weaken
the leadership Of the United States
in exercising its potent influence in
the cause of preserving peace among
other nations in the event of a new
crisis in Europe between now and
next January.
Responsibility on Senate.
The President was represented by
some of those present as being par
tlcularly anxious that the respon-
sibility for failure to act-a failure
which he contended would tie this
country's hands if war broke out in
Europe-be placed squarely on the
Senate.
This was reported to have pro-
voked bristling exchange with
Senator Borah, in which the Idaho
veteran, sitting directly opposite
the President, was quoted as say
ing:
"Of course, the responsibility
must rest upon the Senate. Where
else could it rest? 1t is perfectly
proper that it should be there. We
are not operating under Hitler"
In a sharp exchange of views
with Senator Borah, one conferee
said, the President declared the
Senator might have his opinions,
but that he, the President, had
facts.
At one point, accounts of the
meeting continued, Vice President
Garner turned to Mr.. Roosevelt and
said:
You had just as we'll be candid
about this, captain, you haven't got
the votes"
Mr.. Garner then asked Senator
Barkley if he thought the admin
istration controlled sufficient votes
to discharge the Foreign Relations
Committee from consideration of
the neutrality legislation and bring
it directly to the floor. Senator
Barkley replied that in his opinion
it did not, and cited results of q
poll he had taken in the afternoon.
Sees Chance of War.
Senator McNary and Senator Aus
tin, who was present also, agreed with
the Barley summarization, and Mr..
Garner then asked Senator Borah
if he believed there was possibil-
ity that the administration could
upset the 12-to-11 vote by which the
Foreign Relations Committee de-