The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-25
TAX PROPOSALS
 HOT CONTROVERSY
FDR Adopts Strategy of Silence in Meeting COn-
 gressiOnal Rebellion
By LYLE 0. WILSON

United Press Stan COrrespOndent)
 Washington, March 25 - (UP0- President Roosevelt has adopted the strategy of silence in meeting congressional rebellion against New Deal domestic policies but evidently is planning @ veto counter-a attack buttressed with appeals to public opinion.
 The uprising against the admin istration is gaining heat and mo- mentum although the 78th con- gress elected last November is dem- onstrating its determination to fight the war to a victorious end.
 Hottest controversy centers on tax proposals at which the administra- ton balks on grounds that it would forgive large sums to the wealthy Mir. Roosevelt contends that the Ruml pay-as-yOu-go plan immedi- ately would cost the treasury large sums but treasury experts do not appear to support that contention.
 There is no modern precedent for congress- angry drive to abrogate MT. Roosevelts limit of $25. .000, less taxes, on salaries. The house ap- proved and sent to the senate late yesterday a conference report on the bill to repeal the presidents order and forbidding him to reduce wages or salaries below the highest levels reached between January and September IS, l942. The form ality of senate approval of the con- ference report Is necessary before 1t can 90 to the White House.
 President Roosevelt scarcely can defend his position with veto. The nulliflcation of the salary limit ex- ecutive order is attached as e rider to the administrators bill to in- crease the national debt limit from $l25. .000. .000. 900 to $2l0,O00. .OO0, 900. The debt now is SIS. $40, 100000 and there would not be time to rein- troduce the debt bill and get 1t through congress before the existing limit is reached.
 Congress enthusiastically approv- ed the administrations bill to ex- tend lend-lease authority for an- other year. There also are indica- tons of widening support for ad- ministration foreign policies in gen. eral.
 Another bright spot for the ad- ministration is in the War Labor B0afd where Congress of Industrial Organizations and American Fed- eration of Labor representatives evidently are willing to go along with existing wage ceilings until John L. Lewis &2-a-day raise de- mand for the United Mine Workers can be rejected.
 Similarly confronting to Mr. Roosevelt is congress quick willing ness to vote him all the money he needs to prosecute the war.
 But congress is swinging for the presidential chin on domestic issues and White House appointments. House Democrats were quick to pre- vent Representative Vito Marcan. t0niO. American-Laborite. N. Y., from being rewarded with a seat on the judiciary committee for political services rendered and expected in New York.
 The senate forced withdrawal of MT. Roo6evelt's nomination of former National Committee Chair man Edward J. Flynn to be niinis- ter to Australia.
 The senate judiciary committee apparently has blocked Mir. Roose- velt's nomination of James V. Ale lard to the federal circuit bench. Alfred. an effective Texas New Dealer. resigned as Q federal dls- trict judge last year to run ufi- successfully for the senate.
 Senate and house legislative cal- endars bristle with bills distaEteful to the administration, all or any of which have good chances of enact- fnent.