Evening star., 1939-09-29
Glass Reconciliation
With President Due
To Neutrality Issue
Senator Greeted Warmly
When He Coils After
Speech to Congress
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
A dramatic story of the reconcile
alton between President Roosevelt
and Senator Glass of Virginia was
told on good authority yesterday
as the elderly Senator made good
progress in his fight against an
attack of bronchitis.
Senator Glass, vigorous critic
OF the Presidents spending policies
and his unsuccessful effort to re-
organize the Supreme Court, re-
garded Mr.. Roosevelt's appeal to
Congress last week for repeal of the
arms embargo as the best speech
he ever made.
When the 81-year-old legislator
went to see the Chief Executive a
few hours after that address was
delivered, it was said reliably that
Mr.. Roosevelt slapped him on the
back and exclaimed:
well, it took a war to get us to-
gether again. I hope it will take
an earthquake to separate us!"
They talked about revision of the
neutrality law, question on which,
generally speaking, they saw eye to
eye. And they discussed the Sena-
tors contention that the Virginia
State government should keep its
hands out of Federal affairs and
the Federal Government hands off
the Richmond regime.
Differed on Other Issues, Too.
Differences over national questions
had not been the only reason for
strained relations between the Presi-
dent and the plain-spoken Senator,
although Senator Glass himself had
said on several occasions that he
would not blame Mr.. Roosevelt if he
never spoke to him after his de-
nunciation of the court reorganiza-
ton bill.
The President had made an ap-
pointment to the Federal judiciary
In Virginia which both the Senator
and his colleague, Senator Byrd,
considered slap in the face and an
act of presidential friendliness to-
ward Gov. James H. Price, whose
political followers are rivals of Sem
ator Byrd's supporters.
Shortly before Senator Glass re-
cent visit to the White House, the
President took steps to end the feel
ing that grew out of this dispute
He inquired, through others, whether
Senator Glass would object to the
appointment of James E. Heath
prominent attorney, to be port col
lector for Virginia. Mr.. Heath
though a strong supporter of the
administration, was also an old and
stanch friend of the Senator's
Senator Glass sent back word read
lily that the appointment would not
be Objectionable to him.
RoOsevelts Send Flowers.
When word spread in the Capitol
Wednesday that Senator Glass was
i'll, Mr.. and Mrs. Roosevelt were the
first to send flowers to his hotel
apartment. A personal message ac-
companied the bouquet.
Senator Glass, who was Secretary
of the Treasury in the Wilson ad-
ministration. is known as one of the
Senate's foremost debaters. In one
of the speeches for which he is
famous, delivered in 1923 in behalf
of an adjustment of the British
war debt to this country. he asked
what would have become Of Brit
ain if the United States had not
gone to her assistance in the world
conflict, and answered his own
question:
The same thing would have be-
come of her as later would have be-
come OF us. She and We would
have been the prey of an autocratie
barbarian power"
Whether the Senator's voice vii,
be raised in the coming Senate de-
bate over repeal of the arms en-
barge is uncertain. His secretary
said today that the congestion in hi;
bronchial tubes had disappeared anc
that his temperature had returned
to normal.