Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1943-12-10
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these lines appear in print. num-
Der OF senator's and representatives
will be going through one of the
most nervous nail.hiting periods
they have ever experienced.
When the antisubsidy bill passed
the house with such an overWhelm.
Ing majority-enongh, II the vote
held. to pass 1t over the Presidents
Iveto-a lot of congressman were be-
Ginning to worry. They were won
dering: II the measure really does
become law, will the ghost which the
President has coniured up really
walk?
Imitation Is that ghost.
Nobody wants imitation.
Memories are long enough to re.
member how short the long green
shrank after the last war, Suppose
there came to pass what all the high.
brows and the low-broWs were pre-.
dieting would. that II you lifted the
lid just a beetle. 1t might blow
off, members Of congress had begun
to ask themselves.
The memory OF the boys selling
apples. the memory Of mortgages
foreclosing. the memory Of Mister,
have-you-got-a-dime?" began to stir
In many a dormant corner.
Strange Phenomenon
1t was a strange but not an I'M
accustomed phenomenon. The phe-
nomenon Of the congressman torn
between what the particular group
which dominated his constituency
wanted and what he felt honestly
and sincerely was the best thing for
them In the long run. That doubt
began to stir. IT was an interesting
thing to pass through the halls of
the Capitol and OF the House and
Senate Office buildings and talk to
these men. You could almost see
the spectre rising behind them. The
spectre Of imitation pointing its fin
ger at them.
Whenever you run into someone
whose business 1t is to feel the pulse
Of congress, you get the same reac-
tion have just pictured. Members
OF congress are worried. They don't
want to be hlsmsdu .nn,A.action. -
Ana that 1880 Al this tllo'
ment, when the fate Of the Commod-
ity Credit corporation (which nearly
everybody wants. would seem to be
sealed by the triumph Of the anti
subsidy provision, such fate may not
be so certain.
When this subsidy fight started,
] wrote in this column that the adj
ministration realized 1t had one of
the hardest fights it ever had ahead
That there seemed to be absolutely
no compromise In sight
The other day, man, wise In
the ways OF congress and beholden
to no party and, SO far as know
in the years have known him, new
er a prepayment Of any measure (his
business Is to be neutraU. said to
me: wait and see. somebody like |
Senator Taft will come out with a
compromise. 1
Wen, have waited and perhaps I
by the time you read this you will
also have read that somebody like
Senator Taft" has produced the
compromise.
II not, the administration SO.
called bold the line" policy viii bite
the dust,
See how the congress has struck
at almost every brick In that wall.
Treasury Department
The treasury said: you must tax
the spending money out Of the peck
cts or you'll have imitation The con-
gress passed tax bill that would
raise about a fifth Of what the adj
ministraton said was necessary.
This disregard of treasury's advice
was due only In part to a lack Of
respect for Secretary Morgenthau's
tax theories. And everybody blames
the President for that He doesn't