The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-06
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 DISPUTE STILL WORR|ESPARTY
BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

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 Washington, July 6.-UP) - The administrators con- gressional leaders seemed de- termined today to avoid in- vestigation of the Wallace Jones dispute which rapidly is widening from controversy over procurement of strategic materials to questions of government spending and postwar ideologies.
 Vice President Henry A. Wallace and Secretary of Commerce Jesse H. Jones specifically accuse each other of lying about the strategic materials procurement program.
 But their dispute reflects other major disagreements within the Democratic party in which conserva draw apart.
 Symptomatic of this intra-p party dissension is the proposal of Chair man Hatton w. Summers, D., Texas, of the House Judiciary Com mittee, of constitutional amend ment to permit Congress to over ride veto with simple instead of two-t thirds majority. Another IS the bill by Representative Sam Hobbs, D., Ala, to make it unlawful for the government - especially MT Roosevelt's executive branch - to employ any person who is or has been engaged in subversive activi- ties.
 The Jones' Wallace controversy took a new twist last night with Jones' charges and implications that Wallace's Board of Economic War fare was overly concerned with post war ideologies, and engaged in ill- planned, "hySterical' operations which wasted the taxpayers money.
 Walalce is out of town, but BEW Executive Director Milo Perkins re- piled immediately with a reitera- ton of Wallace's original complaint that Jones and the REC had failed dismally to build up government stockpiles authorized and directed by Congress IS months before Pearl Harbor." Specifically, he repeated that REC had fallen down in pro- Wallace's charge-denied by Jones curing quinine.
 He (Jones) though we were in comfortable inventory position, , said Perkins. This Rip avn Wrinkle approach to a commodity that means lite or death to our soldiers is simply incredible"
 Congressional Republicans are in favor ia congressional investiga- tion. Some of them argue that it is their public duty to discover which of these two highly-placed of ficials is right and to urge thatt he other one be fired. President Roose- welt could not fire Wallace, whom he Inland picked to be his vice presidential running mate, but he could remove the BEW chairman ship. Jones, of course, holds only appointive office from the PreSi- dent.
 Jones repeatedly demanded con- gresSional investigation last week although he did not press the matter was in the form of a report to in his latest public statement which the Senate appropriations commit tee with a covering letter to Chair man Garter Glass, D., Va.
 Republicans have offered investi- gation resolutions in both the House and Senate. But House Democra- tic leaders are understood to have passed word thatt he investigation, if any, should be made by the Sen- ate of which Wallace is the presid- ing officer. The House rules com- mittee, before which an inVestiga- ton resolution is pending, meets to- day but may ignore the Jones-Wal- lace braWl.
 Sen. H. Styles Bridges, R., N. H., who offered the Senate resolution, said he would seek consideration Of the matter when the Senate meets today.
 Here we have two officials" he said, lone saying one thing and one saying something else. The differences are serious and both can't be right. The one who's wrong ought to be fred
 But the bars appear already to be up against Bridges investigation. The resolution provided that the question of an investigation should be detremined by and the inquiry conducted by the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Sen. Robert R. Reynolds, D., N. C., frequent critic of the administration, is the chairman of the committee. But the Bridges resolution was sent, in- stead to the Banking and Currency Committee whose chairman, Senator Robert F. Wagner, D., N. Y, is notable New Dealer. Here is what Wagner says:
 There probably won't be any ln- vestigation. Many of the commit tee members do not think we should bring this dispute out in the open any further because of the need for preserving wartime unity. They feel it is just a personal TOW between individuals anyway. I don't think