Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-28
The Political Mill.
Administration TO Foce Its Hottest Debate
As Flynn Nomination Reaches Senote Floor

the 80 Republican Senators will
either cast their votes or be
paired" against Mr.. Flynn. It
has been rumored that Senator
LANCER OF North Dakota, Repub-
lican, may support the nomina-
ton, although he has said only
that he has not made up his
mind.
Holds no Office Now.
Mr., Flynn. long an important
figure in New Deal democratic
politics, has denuded himself en-
tirely Of political Offices. He has
quit the national Craftsmanship
OF the party. He has resigned
as New York'S male member of
the national committee. And he
has retired from the democratic
leadership in his home bailiwick,
the Bronx, where he first became
politically prominent. Should
the Senate finally reject his
nomination. he will for the time
being be we'll out of the political
picture.
President Roosevelt during his
10 years and more in the White
House, has been very successful
in having his major appoint
ments confirmed by the Senate.
The principal defeat he has had
in this field was when Senator
Carter Glass Of Virginia led a
fight against Floyd H. Roberts,
who had been appointed United
States district Judge for the
Western district Of Virginia. Mr..
Roberts was personally obnox-
ious" to Senator Glass, and the
Senate turned the nomination
down by a vote of 70 to 9 in
February, 1899.
None of Mr., Roosevelt's diplo-
matte appointees have been re-
lected in the past by the Senate,
although many of them had had
no more diplomatic experience
than Mr. Flynn-for example
former Gov. George Earle OF
Pennsylvania.
Envoy Reflections Rare.
1t has been rare in the last
half century to find the Senate
rejecting any diplomatic ap-
pointee, whoever the President
who sent in the nomination. 1t
has been considered a preroga-
tive OF a President to pick his
own representatives in foreign
countries, since he is charged,
as Chief Executive, with handling
all negotiations with foreign
countries.
Back in the days of Andrew
jackson, however, there was
bitter political fued between fac
tons in the Senate and President
jackson. The Senate, in 1881,
rejected the nomination of Mar
tin Van Buren, to be Minister to
England. Mr.. Van Buren,, who
later was to be Vice President and
President, had been Secretary of
State in the Jackson cabinet be-
fore he was appointed Minister
to England. He had gone to Eng
lad on an interim appointment
when the Senate rejected his
nomination with a vote of % to
%. John c. Calhoun was vice
president at the time, and ready
to cast his vote against. the nomi-
nation, although a tie vote de-
feated Van Buren,. Another ap-
pointee OF President Jackson,
made few years later to the
London post, also was rejected
that of Andrew Stevenson of
Virginia, speaker of the House.
An antagonistic Senate reject
ed six nominations made by An
drew johnson to the post of Min
lister to Austria in 1867; and
Murat Halstead, an editor from
the Ohio Valley, nominated by
President Harrison in 1889 to be
Minister to Germany, was re-
jected by the Senate of those
days. Mr.. Halstead had acquired
the dislike of the Senate by writ
ing articles charging the pur-
chase of certain Senate seats.