Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-11-27

lob and congressional candidates
were afraid the voters would critl-
ciZe them adversely if they >USpend-
ed operations in Washington. simply
To- chase out into the sticks 10 cleo
tioneer.
,. Anti-New Dealers Cine Demo-
cratic as we'll as the Republican
knd) have represented +. d. Il. as
a Would-be dictatOr: they wanted 10
give the impression that they dare
not leave him in Washington legis-
lativelv UnreStraucd. They may not
have believed il genuinely, but they
had to pretend that they did.
Pending Legislation
3. Although f. D. Il. said ne had
no new legislation 10 propose. there
nevertheless remained Il bit 0f pend
inc legislation to attend to. And some
.or it. like the WallCr-Logun bill, in
tended 10 modify the New Deals
agencies powers. was of 4 sort the
White House outSpOkenly didn't
like. Naturally the ant-NeW Deal
ers were desperately anxious 10 put
this stuff through At the present con-
grCSSional session. instead OF having
il 90 into the next one. when Il VII!
have to start again from scratch.
Well. then. congress did not adj
ioun. except for three days at
time. before election.
Shortly after election the subject
came up again. As previously OBJ
served. maybe f. d. f. personally
didn't care. Bat his New Deal fol-
lowing on Capitol Hill evidently did
Senator Alton W. Barklcy. Demo-
cratic manager in the upper house,
declared in favor Of Il sine die term
inatiOn OF the session. Congressman
John W. Mccormack of MaSsachu-
sets, lower house Democratic lead
er. introduced the outright adjourn
ment resolution in his chamber. IL
was beaten, as were all aware. or
course the Senate can't adjourn until
the House docs, too. So that ends
the controversy temporarily. II may
come up again.
However. the late vote was pref
tv decisiVe-19l to 148.
Of the l9l against adjournment.
a. were Democrats
There were a lot Of abSCntccS. 10
be sure. hit Congressman McCor-
mack himself says he thinks the tai
ly was a fair SamOing.
New Deal Setback?
WashngtCn'S Vcr~'ct is that the
result was New Deal administra-
ton setback. And il was the first
post-elect;on test. True. It's the old
congress that did the voting. Still.
the incoming ones personnel won't
be very different.
There's any amount Of chat rela-
tive to non-partiSan unity. As to
national defense nobody disputes
that it will prevail nearly 100 per
cent. minus only such clements as
Congressman Martin Dies anti
American investigating committee
thinks its uncovering-anG num-
erours observers venture the guess
that Martin believes himself to be
uncovering deal more Of them than
truly exist.
+ If we get into the World war Cor
wars) there's no argument; Ameri-
can solidarity will be superseded.
! There are obvious signs. though.
Of terrific opposition to what's seen
az a policy tending TO take us into
the conflict.
And domestic New Deal policies?
That anti-adjoumnment ballot does
not hint at unity on that issue.
/ Democratic-Republican inter-par-
tv unity doubtless was rather too
4 much to expect. But that non-ad-
iolrnment vote doesn't suggest much
\ Democratic intra-party unity, either
Prospects are that as heretofore.
we'll 90 on having New Deals on one
side and, on the other side, Repub-
licans and anti-NeW Deal Democrats
bucking them.
A party and a loyal opposition
rartv," as Wendell Willkie puts it.
Prudence is the offspring of wis
dom