Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1937 — Page 9
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1937 ~The Fight for Power in Washington
Presidency Expands Into New Fields, Seeks to Extend Orbit Still Farther
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can also dismiss in batches of hundreds of thousands. His control over stock exchanges is about as complete as he wants to make it. He can raise or lower tariffs by 50 per cent. He has shown that a few words from him can send stock or commodity markets up or down.
Congres has turned over to the President much of its power over the public purse. Roosevelt has bossed the spending or lending of about $15,000,000,000 on relief and recovery. » o n UT he has never made a bigger bid for power than in the present session of Congress. He has asked for: 1. Power to name five justices to the Supreme Court 2. Power to reorganize the Government, to control most functions of the independent regulatory commissions, to hire six administrative assistants, and control the controller general's office 3. Power {to appoint a board which would have power to fix hours of labor and wages up to 80 cents an hour or $1200 a year. 4. Power to establish a new AAA crop-control system. 5. Power to set up seven cheapelectricity = flood - control - conservation projects like TVA. Right up to the November day when he was elected, Roosevelt rode a great wave of protest against things as they were, against distribution of power as it was, There can be no question that he received a “mandate” in that election. But a mandate for what? And where do we go from here? n o 5
OUR “war correspondent” in Washington seeks only to present these essential facts: 1. Roosevelt, considering himself the representative and champion of a substantial majority of a citizenry to which he had made certain promises, advanced a bold reform program which he believed would serve the best interests of that citizenry—with special emphasis on the “one-third of our people ill fed, ill clothed, and ill housed.” The program was advanced with the customary Roosevelt self confidence, but in spots with an unaccustomed clumsiness. 2. The variegated forces of opposition have solidified grimly and effectively. The outstanding surface issues are the stoppage or continuance of the New Deal reform program and control of the Democratic Party in 1940. 3. Unless some unexpectedly decisive victories are won, the fight for power will continue through the 1938 Congressional campaigns and the Presidential election two years later.
OQOSEVELT'S enemies say that his program stirs up “class hatred.” His critics call him a brilliant rabble-rouser. Roosevelt thinks of himself as establishing a fair balance of power between privileged wealth and economic strength, and the underprivileged or average person. He also thinks he can make the capitalist system work without frequent dangerous breakdowns.
At any rate Roosevelt is the one big driving force for change. Roosevelt sometimes has seemed to abuse certain powers. Other powers, such as the drastic NRA licensing clause, he has failed to use. Up to now it has been commonly agreed that powers delegated to him by Congress usually have been necessary if the laws concerned were to function.
The degree to which Roosevelt has used his power well and wisely is controversial. It has been suggested that another Adminis tration with the New Deal's funds and powers would have taken less political advantage of them. That can’t be proved. Obviously the lump sum appropriations, the power to allocate money to communities, the appeal of money in the form of grants, higher wages or pensions, have been a huge political advantage and have been used to some degree as such even while the New Deal was saying they were merely essentials to recovery. » n »
LTHOUGH none of the big new spending agencies are headed by organization Democrats —vide Hopkins, Ickes, Tugwell, Wallace—state and local organizations often are controlled by Democratic politicians. No previous Administration ever brought as many party hacks into Washington jobs. Or so many able, high-grade, experienced public servants. Some disgraceful episodes appear in the record, such as the income tax cases against Huey Long's henchmen which were dropped when the henchmen promised Jim Farley to be good. Few if any urban political machines have been too rotten to stomach as long as they played ball, although Federal agents lately have been smashing at the Pendergast. machine in Kansas City. The Democratic National Committee has been selling lots of souvenir books to corporations at $250 apiece to evade a law against corporation contributions. No one boasts of the New Deal's judicial appointments. Patronage raids swept over some agencies and were blocked in others; many members of Congress still complain that Roosevelt has done poorly by “deserving Democrats.”
UT today Roosevelt—his program, Ris power, his alliance with an expanding, aggressive labor movement—is the real issue. The years have shown him to be a shrewd timer of punches, stubborn, fond ef himself and of applause—like other public men,
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| serenely confident in himself and | his public support, daring, ambitious to make a shining mark for himself in history and apparently impervious to worry. His huge election victory so surprised and elated him that he popped his amazing court plan— only to find today that it has been used to stymie him and as a signal for all enemies to leap upon him. The President has declared war to the hilt on the axiom that “That government governs best which governs least.” Instead, he seems to subscribe to a remark of his friend Felix Frankfurter: “To realize that there is a new economic order and to realize it passionately is the central equipment of modern statesmanship.” Many wish Roosevelt would realize it less passionately. And many exult.
TOMORROW-—The fight for power between Rovsevelt, Congress and the Democratic Party.
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SEEK VIEWS OF BANK CREDITORS ON SETTLEMENT
Lawyers in Fletcher American Case Ask Opinions; Hearing Continued.
Attorneys for liquidating trustees of the Fletcher American National Bank today began correspondence with large creditors of the defunct institution to learn their viewpoint regarding a proposed $325,000 settlement by bank directors. Hearing on the $325,000 confession of judgment cast was continued by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell until 2 p. m. Monday. Attorneys for a group of stockholders, who objected to the proposed settlement, rested their case yesterday, as did lawyers for the trustees and directors. Judge Baltzell said he would hear interrogatories, any additional evidence, testimony as to financial responsibility of the directors, and the written viewpoint of creditors at Monday's hearing. Throughout yesterday's session Judge Baltzell urged John Spahr, attorney for thes tockholders’ group and objector to the settlement, to bring out a basis for his charges that directors could settle “in excess of $10,000,000.”
Bans “Fishing Expedition”
“I'm not going to have a fishing expedition the rest of the summer on this,” the judge said. “Anything bearing on this may crop out in examination. We can't tell,” argued Mr. Spahr. “But you can’t try a law-suit that way,” replied the Judge. H. D. Spurgeon, accountant and stockholders’ witness, testified he had no recollection of one paragraph in the bill of exceptions filed by Mr. Spahr. It was upon Mr. Spurgeon’s accounting that the bill was alleged to have been filed against the $325,000 settlement. He said he understood Mr. Spahr had an affidavit bearing out charges in the paragraph. Mr. Spahr said he did not know whether he had an affidavit or not. The paragraph in question charged losses of $285,243.44 had been sustained through a bank loan to the Continental Optical Co., with an additional loss of $91,960.56 in transactions with another com- | pany. | Share-Holders' Share
| Otto J. Feucht, bank liquidating | trustee, testified that those who | hold approximately $5,600,000 in | participating certificates of the bank, may realize “approximately
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