WISCONSIN IN THE CAPITAL

Mobley, Radford E.

Wisconsin in the Capital [By RADFORD E. MOBLEY] WASHINGTON, D. C.—Mired down in house politics at present, the farm debt adjustment bill last week was heard before the senate agriculture...

...The Badger congressmen are putting in their licks...
...Soviet Approval of Norway Blitzkrieg (From "Unity" Magazine) THE Moscow Izvcstia approves the German Invasion of Denmark and Norway, and declares that Germany was "forced to take this action in self-defense...
...There is alsj weight in the division's argument that It bound morally and legally not to disrupt the industry to the injury of some of its parts...
...Farley is grinning about now is renewed talk that he may get a place on the Democratic national ticket this year...
...Sen...
...Midland apparently has a belief at direct odds w'ith the division's examiner, who takes transportation differentials into consideration in fixing the price...
...This was true during the wage-hour and the Walter-Logan bill roll calls...
...terrible...
...La Follette was away on official business for several weeks at the beginning of the session, but scarcely anything happened during that period...
...Farley still apparently believes that the president will decline the nomination for a third term, even if he waits until convention time to declare himself...
...The measure has been in the house agriculture committee for weeks...
...Out of the forest products laboratory appropriation to $632,500, more than $30,000 below the present year, will spread the work at Madison thinner during the next fiscal period, although no essential functions are expected to be dropped, officials say here...
...Notes: Republican State Chairman F. L. Gul-lickson...
...Stephen Bolles is trying to make up to Washington residents for voting to impose a sales tax on them...
...The ICC for years has maintained an unbalanced freight rate structure discriminating against certain parts of the country simply because it was there historically when the ICC look over supervision...
...Gehrmann, has returned after the sudden death of his father...
...Frequently few house members have studied a question thoroughly before voting...
...West Salem, conferred with Chairman John Hamilton here this week...
...The Badger records are made for the voters to see on the major questions before the present session...
...Johns finds that the dairying state* lost business when they pushed up the oleo tax to the point that the retailers couldn't pay it and non-dairying...
...Rep...
...The house provided $600,000 and the seriate raised the amount to $665,000, virtually what the budget approved...
...Even Progressives Hull and Gehr-mann helped to slap down the president's civil aeornautics reorganization plan...
...La Follette's office has been assisting the Midland Co-operative Wholesale, which sells coal to many Badger coal co-ops, in getting its views presented to the bituminous coal division of the interior department, now about to fix the nation's coal prices...
...Robert North, Superior, secretary to Rep...
...Sen...
...Appleton Republican, investigating the affect of state trade barriers on unemployment, finds that state taxes on goods ot other states, like high foreign tariffs, tend to destroy trade...
...There the Democrats pay lip service to its merits but are peculiarly inactive about reporting it out...
...Fact remains that the work of this laboratory, which pays for itself many times in benefits to industry, will be curtailed...
...The Democrats are anxious to make an issue over the charge that the Republicans stymied tiie measure...
...This week he called the capital a filthy firetrap...
...Rep...
...High hopes were held a few weeks ago for this measure, sponsored by Sens...
...The present figure is an exact compromise, apparently the conferee group's idea of being scientific about the matter...
...Talk of Rep...
...Some feel politics enters the picture again...
...What Mr...
...The way the mice arc attacking the cats thee days, not to speak of the lambs attacking th« wolves, is certainly something...
...Both Badger senators have been above average in punctuality this session...
...Everybody knows the powerful eastern carriers dominated during the early days but this is no reason what they did was wise...
...There is some justice in its contention that the division seeks to freeze a previously rigged system to protect mines and carriers which couldn't stand alone...
...Midland raises a question which shoots through not only the coal price controversy but also the transportation costs of the nation...
...La Follette and Wheeler, but the controversy which broke out over shift of the farm credit administration to the agriculture department, 75 per cent a political fight in a campaign year, has lessened prospects for the bill's passage before adjournment...
...Farley lieutenants say he is in position to demand the vice-presidential nomination and that his chances for getting the main prize are next to Roosevelt's...
...Alexander Wiley, more cautious about senate absences since the criticism of last year, has accepted an invitation to speak before the Norwegians at Stoughton May 17...
...Postmaster General James A. Farley will be In a gay and confident mood when he comes to Milwaukee this week to visit with the Badger postmasters...
...He has just held a rousing political meeting with the Democratic organization in Cincinnati and on Sunday afternoon in Detroit is the principal speaker in Detroit celebrating the Negro Exposition progress...
...By strange caprice the house conservative Democrats have lined up with the Republicans to embarrass the white house as much as possible during the remaining weeks of the session...
...states retaliated by going into l-tvj business themselves...
...Joseph K Davies, Badger assistant to Secretary of State Hull, had a "grand visit" to Madison and appreciated the manner in which the "home folks'* treated him...
...Wisconsin in the Capital [By RADFORD E. MOBLEY] WASHINGTON, D. C.—Mired down in house politics at present, the farm debt adjustment bill last week was heard before the senate agriculture committee where rest its chances for action at this congress...
...Frank Keefe't running for the senate is revived...
...Farmers Union leaders were here to appear before the senate committee to urge passage before adjournment but chances are less than even...
...Midland is anxious to have a price-at-mine, letting transportation costs take care of themselves...
...Joshua Johns...

Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 20


 
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