Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-07-13
IonvenlIon ,parked
By Barkley's Keynote
Assault on Congress
BY Don S. Worren
Stor StoH Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, July ia
slambang attack on the perform
ance of the Eightieth Congress
where housing, health and educa-
ton measures were made a flock
Of gone geese" has established
Kentucky's Senator Alben Barley
as the chief spark in this conven-
ton.
Keynoter of the convention, he
pulled out all Of his noted oratorical
stops as he made a fighting attack
on the Republican legislative per-
Torrance.
Like all keynoters, he upheld the
program Of his own party and found
sad fault with opposition. But he
went on to praise the spirit of the
Roosevelt New Deal and the man
ner in which it has been carried on
in more recent years under the Tru-
man regime.
Throws Record at COP.
And from his vantage point as
Senate Democratic leader through
the long years of the New Deal and
since then in the past two years of
Republican congressional control, he
perhaps was more specific than
most keynoters. While he used a
lot OF broad terms and quoted from
the Bible and other classic texts, he
made the most of throwing the
Eightieth Congress record into the
teeth of the Republicans.
He won a lot of cheers for some
Of his attacks. Some honest-sound-
ing boos for the Republicans for
things for which he denounced them
also were heard.
Senator Barley accused House
Republican leaders of an attempted
sabotage" of the European Recov-
cry Program, in their moves to
slash by 26 per cent the appropria-
tons for motivating the Marshall
Plan.
THE Republican platform I'M
doubtedly attempts to repudiate the
efforts of this wrecking crew in one
of the branches of Congress-" he
told the cheering Democratic dele
gates. But If they are successful,
will the new administration repudi-
ate their efforts in the coming ses-
sions of Congress and during the
four-year period covered by the law
which Congress overwhelmingly
adopted"
Credit TO Vandenberg.
Senator Barley went out of his
way, as a keynoter, to give credit
to Republican Chairmen Vanden-
berg and Eaton of the Senate and
House Foreign Relations Commit
tees, and to other members of Con-
gress, for their solid support of the
bipartisan foreign policy program.
He "rejoiced In these contributions. u
But he made a special attack on
the obstinate obstruction" on the
part of responsible men, in Congress,
indicating House leaders. One of
these was Chairman Taber of the
House Appropriations Committee.
Mr.. Barley protested the efforts
OF 1.-The Republican leaders of the
House, and their allies, to white
away the recovery program until
1t should become a mere shadow of
its original self, and descend to the
level of a mere relief measure"
Major Attack in Housing.
The lack of -fedged housing
measure was his first major attack,
as he listed several items in the
gone goose" category. y
While the past Congress was strug-
Cling with its eleventh-hour prob
lens of then unfinished business,
Senator Barley said, word came
from Philadelphia where Republican
platform makers were then in ses-
sion. demanding that some sort OF
housing bill" be passed.
Mr.. Barley said this was to be
Anything with the word house in
it."
Congress passed a housing bill but
left out all public housing provi-
sions, such as those approved by
the Senate in the Wagner
Ellender bill.
where Is the housing legisla-
tion?" Senator Barley bitterly
asked. cit is not on the statutes. 1t
furnishes no roof over the veterans
workers and farmers. 1t is just an
other gone goose"
He found among other gone
geese in addition to housing, health
and education aides, the failure OF
the past Congress to extend the
social security program, to adopt 9
higher minimum wage, to take
major steps against the rising In.
fiation.
He also struck out hard at the
Republican controlled decision linn
iting the time and the scope of the
extension of the reciprocal trade
agreements. He deplored this as
Grundyism, in an attack on the
former Senator from Pennsylvania
a leader in Republican Pennsylvania
political controls.
Senator Barley tied Mr.. Grundy
into the 1880 Smoot- HaWley Tariff
Act, reciting his former leadership
with the Pennsylvania Manufac-
turers' Association. and suggested
that the Mr.. Grundy had had a
hand in the selection OF Representa-
tive Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania to
be the new chairman of the Repub-
lican National Committee. This
seems to be the first installment OF
the payoff," said Mr.. Barley.
Taking another cut at "Grundy-
ISM" he quoted Mr. Scott as having
said. in 1943, 1T is time for the
Republicans to take over. We are
the best stock. We are the people
who represent the real grit, brains
and backbone of America"
He turned this into a statement
that the new Republican chairman
insists that it must be a govern
ment of the best people. b. the best
people and for the best people"
Senator Barley saw in this re-
sureence of the Hamiltonian doc
trine. only the rich. the well-edu-
Gated and the well-born" were quail
flied to participate in government
and he came up with this jingle:
All hail the power Of Grundy's
name,
Let candidates PROSTATE fall.
Bring forth the Republican dia-