WISCONSIN IN THE CAPITAL
Wisconsin in the Capital [By RADFORD E. MOBLEY] WASHINGTON, D. C—Sen. Bob La Folletre last week pulled his neatest maneuver since he forced the senate to consider and pas* the anti-third term...
...La Follette has asked the various relief agencies to keep tab on the situation in the state and be prepared to give aid if a drought occurs...
...Pressure groups...
...This amendment is unnecessary...
...Badger members thought of a drought relief fund to be ready in case of emergency and may ask such before the session ends if the situation warrants a request...
...The suggestions should be specific, and the cities should assume the war department already has full information on its general industrial mobilization possibilities...
...Gehrmann also appealed to Admiral William Leahy, a Badger appointee to Annapolis, who was "sympathetic" bu: could find no way to aid...
...Officials are »!'.'-ing to consider specific suggestions from cities as to how they might enter into the program to save time or money for the government, or increase efficiency...
...La Follette kept the bill constantly before the senate and waited...
...The final vote on the bill was 47 to 20...
...on the seaboard when it would be far wiser tc make these inland and permit the ocean yards to build the battleships to cruisers under the speedup program...
...A troubled Franklin...
...Earlier in the debate Wiley was the only outstanding failure in an effort to amend the bill at a time when La Follette was forced to compromise shrewdly to get the measure through...
...Victory came at a time when administration supporters were about ready to give up and local newspapers front-paged the "doom" of the measure...
...anxious to obtain airplane factories and training fields for their cities, can do little here at the moment, congressmen ai;.l army and navy officials declare...
...Sheboygan torney...
...Rep...
...Not even the votes of Vandenberg and Taft changed his mind, although his vote came in the W's after they had said yes...
...But Sen...
...Wiley will probably recall the promise of Sen...
...La Follette pinched himself...
...The suggestions will be considered on merit alone...
...Martin's browsing that led some weeks ago" to this government's concern over the position of Iceland and Greenland in the western hemisphere...
...erred here regarding Polish refue . . . Ro...
...Gehrmann specifically urged that the shipyards at Superior be reopened to build small craft for the navy, coast guard, and other federal units, such as was done during the preparation for the last war...
...Wis., Progressive...
...The impossible had been accomplished by a display of adroitness and tact a rather dull senac...
...Louis Maloney, Portgage comity Progressive chairman, talked politics with Sen...
...9 * * "Let us establish air bases as well as shipbuilding facilities, plane-part factories, and enlarge the now existing munitions plants in a section of the country ideally suited for it because it is far removed from possible attack," was the plea made to the House this week by Rep...
...Soon some of the conservatives began to suggest a few amendments and La Follette accepted them...
...The heart of the bill was still there...
...Action will bring relief to state employes paid in part with federal ffunds, who might otherwise be assessed back income tax...
...Now that new tax legislation is virtually certain, Sen...
...La Follette grinned and asked for a roll call...
...Wiley might have voted for the bill if Ins amendment had been accepted...
...La Foli' this week...
...Badger professor at Madison before the last war, now geographer for the library of congress, browsed about recently, discovered the interesting fact that Benjamin Franklin, "many-sided American polygon...
...Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin voted against his colleague on the labor spy bill until the last...
...La Follette said: "There is nothing in the bill which would prohibit this...
...La Follette refused to permit him to save face...
...La Follette is a member of the finance committee and has promised to cooperate in getting the legislation through...
...Lawrence Martin...
...David Rabinovitz...
...Even Sen...
...He wanted to state that the bill would not prohibit an employer from investigating the competency and loyalty to American ideals of a prospective employe...
...Striking economic waste was pictured by him in prescribing the drydock and yards at Superior, now a repair unit, and the idle expert shipbuilders now forced to turn to WPA...
...Vandenberg of Michigan and Taft of Ohio voted yes...
...infrequently sees...
...He won by more than two to one...
...Before long th<- ' was a feeling of good fell') -ship about this neat little mea ure they had all.helped crea < Sen...
...Horicon Republics i dc a House speech, last-lined with h.s burning question of the moment: Who is going to cooperate w»ith who tsic) and why...
...Badger congressmen are watching the rainfall situation in Wisconsin, informed that the moisture reserve is very low and crops must depend upon steady rainfalls throughout the growing season...
...McMinn, Superior, sought aid for s. builder...
...Charles Hawks...
...The senate voted down the Wiley proposal 32 to 29...
...The spy hunters tacked on a bit of fancy anti-Red trimming...
...Gehrmann charged that subsidies kept small craft buildin...
...seeing a balloon ascent, wrote in 1794 about "10.000 men descending from the clouds...
...It was Col...
...Wiley appealed thee for adoption on the ground that the amendment "would do no harm...
...Pat Harrison, chairman of the finance committee, that he would permit amendment to the next tax bill to protect Badger state employes faced with retroactive income tax assessments as a result of supreme court decisions...
...What was this prize amendment of the junior Badger senator...
...Gehrmann will keep trying and hopes the speed-up preparedness program will provide a "break...
...foresaw the coming of "parashooters...
...Col...
...He battled through his bill outlawing strike breakers f.nd labor spies In industrial plants...
...Bob La Folletre last week pulled his neatest maneuver since he forced the senate to consider and pas* the anti-third term resolution against Calvin Cool-idge...
...Gehrmann believes that the president has authority to grant subsidies to Great Lakes ship builders, although when he appealed to the president "he answered with a three-page letter saying nothing can be done...
...B. J. Gehrmann, Mellen...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 23
