The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-11-29


election f D r. himself remarked
that he had no new legislation TO
ask for at present. This generally
vas interpreted as an expression
IF something more than a willing
ness on his part TO nave the two
houses on Capitol Hill quit busi-
less for 1910, and go home,
Ordinarily they'd have been glad
10 DO It, to enable such OF them as
we're up for reelection tall the
representatives and one-third Of
the senators) to beat 1t TO their
respective bailiwicks. to spell bind
their various constituencies
Why they chose otherwise In
the current instance Is well known
There were two main reasons and
possibly third supplementary
one. OF minor consequences.
/. There was considerable talk
% the effect that there exists to-
lay a world emergency which
makes 1t imperative for our ma
ional legislature to remain ever
astingly on. the job. and congress
sional candidates we're afraid the
voters would criticize them ad-
versely If they suspended opera
tons in Washington. simply to
chase out into the sticks 10 cleo
doneer.
2 Anti-New Dealers 1.-THE Demo-
cratic as we'll as the Republican
Sind) have represented F. D r.
As a would-be dictator: they want
ID to give the impression that they
1arent leave him in Washington
legislatively unrestraIned They
may not have believed 1t genuine
ly but they had to pretend that
they did
Pending Legislation
3 Although F. D r. said ne had
40 new legislation to propose, there
nevertheless remained bit OF
pending legislation to attend to
And some of it, like the Walter
Logan bill, intended to modify the
New Deals agencies powers. was
If a sort the White House out.
Ipokenly didn't like. Naturally the
inti-New Dealers were desperately
Inxious to put this stuff through
It the present congressional ses-
sion, instead of having II go oVt
into the next one. when 1t wi
have to start again from scratch
Well, then, congress did not ad
journ, except for three days at 3
time, before election.
Shortly after election the subject
came up again AS previously OBJ
served. maybe F D r. personally
didn't care But his New Deal fol
lowing on Capitol Hill evidently
did Senator Alben w Barley
Democratic manager in the upper
house, declared in favor OF, a. sine
die termination OF the session Con
gresham John w. Mccormack OF
Massachusetts,. lower house Demo
cratic leader. introduced the out
right adjournment resolution in his
chamber. 1t was beaten, as we're
all aware. OF course the senate
can't adjourn until the house does.
too. So that ends the controversy
temporarily. 1t may come up
again.
However. the late vote was pref
ty decisive 1911 to l4S.
Ot the 191 against adjournment,
"A were Democrats.
There were a lot OF absentees, to
be sure, but Congressman McCor-
mack himself says he thinks the
tally was a fair sampling.
New Deal Setback:
Washington's verdict is that the
result was a New Deal admins
tration setback. And 1t was the
first post-election test. True, It's
the old congress. that did the vot-
ing. STILL the incoming ones per-
sonnet 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 elements as
Congressman Martin Dies anti
American investigating committee
thinks it's uncovering and num-
erous observers venture the guess
that Martin believes himself to be
uncovering deal more Of them